Old Androids Never Die, They Just Have A Few Screws Loose
Twitter has been acquired by a billionaire centrist, who many right-wingers think will "clean up" the place. Good for them, I say. The quicker people come to realize that social media run by the wealthy and corporations is by definition going to be a propaganda center, the better. When Elon Musk first tried to purchase […]
It strikes me as downright tragic that this decentralized wonder of the world is now largely operating on computers owned by a handful of mega corporations. If one of the primary AWS regions go down, seemingly half the internet is offline along with it. This is not what DARPA designed! Source: Why we're leaving the […]
G4 did not fail. Comcast failed G4. G4 returned last year after disappearing for nearly a decade Source: Comcast is shutting down its gamer-centric G4 channel, again
I think it's only fair to call me an X apologist. I get incredibly frustrated when people talk about dropping support for X11. I fight back against the notion that some day X11 will be dead and unmaintained, a curiosity of a time before. I've spoken to people in my circles at-length about the accessibility […]
Oh don't mind me, I'm just dicking around with Stable Diffusion and getting it to generate a Death Stranding 2 cast pulled directly out of my butt This AI is simply amazing - turning out fully-rendered realistic 3D artwork off nothing but my laptop's NVidia GPU, based on prompting. And it KNOWS things, like what […]
Genshin Impact is a huge money-maker, but their kernel-based anticheat system has a vulnerability that's being used to spread malware. Taking the game down, especially right after a new release with added playable characters would cost Hoyoverse millions of dollars, and Microsoft has not revoked the certificate for the kernel anti-cheat driver. When corporations weigh […]
Ubuntu 22.04 runs on Steam Deck fairly well right off the USB. Booting from the drive and getting to a desktop is no big deal, and the "Try Ubuntu" desktop mode starts up and runs. The things that seem to work were: The graphics stack - video is accelerated properly, and the GPU seems active. […]
Turns out, tech corporations produce MORE pollution from banking and investments than they do from operating their business. The Carbon Bankroll is a new study from the Climate Safe Lending Network, the Outdoor Policy Outfit, and BankFWD that attempts to quantify the banking industry's role in contributing to carbo... Source: Study: Big Tech companies produce […]
When you're right, you're right: There are not enough shoes in the universe to respond to this correctly. Source: On Bush's Freudian Confession - by Caitlin Johnstone