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mindcrash

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About mindcrash

formerly in tech (various roles), early retired, still loves tech; hates nonsense; political orphan; neurodivergent, trying to adapt stoicism in a world gone insane.

Key philosophy about tech: "A two-bladed sword is neither inherently evil nor good; its moral alignment depends entirely on how it is used and by whom"

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48890279

    Jurassic Park was the first movie I saw as a twelve year old boy at the cinema, and it not only made me a huge fan of the series but as a boy I was really into dinosaurs and it was…

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    Comment #48836122

    Closing inactive accounts in the EU is due to (interpretation of) certain provisions set in the GDPR (e.g. article 5 - https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/ ) and Sony is not alone, man…

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    Comment #48830903

    Pi ( https://pi.dev ), a TUI based harness, lets you easily cycle through all configured models through the keybindings CTRL+P (forward) and SHIFT+CTRL+P (backwards). Personally us…

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    Comment #48830840

    Direct link to Github repo: https://github.com/cameronapak/dotflowy/

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    Comment #48803616

    I really don't see how Google will make Samsung and the big Chinese Android phone manufacturers (Xiaomi, OnePlus, ...) put this crap on their own custom Android distributions, espe…

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    Comment #48688518

    First it was Search (mostly Google), then Social (mostly Facebook) now AI turning the global internet into their own unregulated playground due to pay to play on US soil. All of wh…

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    Comment #48686512

    incus config is your friend There's a entire section about allocating GPUs to containers or VMs here: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/device... You can do the…

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    Comment #48686128

    46, and due to extreme mental health problems catalyzed by my previous employer I have been on disability benefits - or as I like to call it "early retirement" - since about a year…

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    Comment #48686030

    > I'll keep a small Proxmox host around for experimenting with new kernel features (Intel GVT-g / SR-IOV graphics) and old operating systems like Windows XP or anything else that n…

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    Comment #48633197

    Microsoft has already started. Copilot is now sitting behind a forced full browser window login popup. And I do really mean forced popup, because all default functionality - which …

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    Comment #48598172

    "This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account"

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    Comment #48574539

    The TS made a typo, it's actually located here: https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/nanogram-pi

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    Comment #48543483

    > "The game changer is the unified 128 GB memory. That is the path Apple took years ago. Instead of separate memory for the CPU and GPU" Not really a game changer as AMD already ha…

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    Comment #48475547

    Ungoogled Chromium ( https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ ) will 99.9% likely patch MV2 back in if they remove it (as there's already support and they will never remove it) and Un…

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    Comment #48400027

    > incidentally connected to star wars I wouldn't call it incidentally. It's actually a very important story. It tells the tale about the early days of the Rebellion and how they sn…

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    Comment #48356611

    Lemonade, in particular if you are running AMD hardware due to extra optimization (Ryzen AI series CPUs with integrated NPU and/or Radeon GPUs): https://lemonade-server.ai/

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    Comment #48334442

    Why do people keep comparing Apples to Bananas (pun intended)? To be clear: These two are based on completely different system architectures. Ofcourse performance is different, and…

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    Comment #48256047

    It's part of Vanguard. As Vanguard hooks itself into the Windows kernel through a low level (ring 0) system driver and all partitions except the system / UEFI service partition are…

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    Comment #47909123

    EU architecture and implementation (including code) here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

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    Comment #47833796

    In fact, a lot of companies throughout Europe do. Either through a fuel card (when leasing a car) or a travel allowance (which can either be used for gas or public transport). Some…

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    Comment #47752492

    > Is there any way to reach a human at X? They do read the appeals. I know this because I was falsely permanently suspended, without lawful reasons and without prior notice, with a…

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    Comment #47553635

    Indeed. Most neurodivergents I know in my country are on government benefits because they are unable to work -- or rather "incompatible with the modern workplace", because they can…

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    Comment #47501115

    > And all this assuming this doesn't turn into WWIII. If Trump is truely insane and his plan "to bomb the living shit out of Iran's energy infrastructure" includes the Bushehr NPP,…

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    Comment #46826474

    Nvidia's infrastructure is somehow whitelisted. They support pretty much every game with invasive kernel level anti cheat, at least those from Microsoft / Xbox Game Studios (notabl…