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byv1
@04:11PM
(#65962956)
Attached to: 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night
The latest news I've read on these is they generate milliwatts in square meters of space, and are about as useful as those "nuclear batteries" people were scamming around (again...) recently.
The only application for tech with that low of a power return is satellites?
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byv1
11:29AM
(#65944318)
Attached to: Anthropic's AI Keeps Passing Its Own Company's Job Interview
Anyone familiar with AI is painfully aware that AI models are ONLY good at what they're trained to do. If you train it to pass your interview, then of course it's going to be very good at that. But as soon as you take a step or two away from what it's been training on, it will be anywhere from bad to horrible. And what's worse, they often have an absurdly high level of confidence in their wrong answers when you go off training.
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byKhyber
2026 @06:27PM
(#65940684)
Attached to: Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says
California has a water surplus ON THE SURFACE.
Now let me tell you about under the Mojave Desert and Colorado desert, where the water table is dropping because rainfall can't replenish what's being pumped up.
And if you don't believe me, you can go to 34.835594 -116.206203 and check the measurement wells for yourself in the Mojave. I'm there every other week.
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byv1
@08:21AM
(#65936788)
Attached to: Rackspace Customers Grapple With 'Devastating' Email Hosting Price Hike
that's what I'm assuming. Their recent hike from $10 to $12 seemed entirely reasonable. And then this HUGE hike they just pulled off is just off the charts.
I gave up hosting my own mailserver a few years ago due to the obsessive mail server security hikes that basically made it impossible to host my own mailserver at my own house anymore. RBLs, certificates, etc. So I just gave up and went to Rackspace because their prices were reasonable. $10 a month for basically just an email is a bit high, but reasonable. And now i have to change again.
I've had my own email domain for decades, and I have NO intention of changing my address to a Gmail. But I only have a few weeks to hunt around, make a choice, and make the change. It's likely they'll be getting a month of their blood money from me before I can get my exit plan figured out.
Like you, I'm assuming they're doing the collosal hike to get out of the consumer email business. When I did a text chat with them the rep flat out refused to acknowledge that I was a private individual and not a company. Even after I'd told him several times that I was an individual with a personal domain, he still continued to talk with me about "your company". So I have to assume they've been told to ignore anything the customer says and treat everyone like a company / business. If you're not a business, they no longer want you as a customer, you're not made of money.
Their service has been good, it's a shame they don't want to do business with us anymore. Who's a good alternative for "the common man"? I'm looking for 2-3 email addresses, with capabiity of handling hundreds of aliases. (used for controlling spam and tracking places I sign up for / sources of spam and marketing emails for easy disconnection)
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byv1
@10:22PM
(#65932254)
Attached to: How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain?
We don't know enough about how the brain works (at a higher level) so we can't make something that WORKS like the brain. The best we can do is make something that BEHAVES like a brain.
LLMs and other AI implementations can be thought of as "brain emulators". They're trying to achieve similar behaviors any way they can. Our current technology could be looked at as "serial", where as brains work almost exclusively in parallel. It's still possible to build a neural network that works like a brain at a low level, but it's hideously inefficient and has absolutely no organized higher functions, so there are almost no practical applications for that approach.
The brain is the result of millions of years of random mutations being selected for what produces the best results. There was never any plan, no design, no intent. And we're trying to plan and design for specific intent. That approach will never produce a working brain. We'll continue to get better at emulating a brain, but we're never going to design one, because it can't BE designed.
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byKhyber
2026 @12:12AM
(#65925524)
Attached to: Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public
Perfect for the current generations.
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byKhyber
2026 @08:47AM
(#65910129)
Attached to: Power Bank Feature Creep is Out of Control
Only shit leds use phosphors now days. We use slices of synthetic garnet in modern leds for white light generation.
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byKhyber
2026 @02:39PM
(#65908499)
Attached to: Polymarket Refuses To Pay Bets That US Would 'Invade' Venezuela
Trump clearly stated in press conferences that it was for oil.
Fits your definition (which you clearly do not understand, you must have faiked middle school,) very well.
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byKhyber
2026 @02:35PM
(#65908489)
Attached to: Polymarket Refuses To Pay Bets That US Would 'Invade' Venezuela
Conquest, do you understand what it means you stupid GED holding fuckwit?
Capturing a leader (legit or not) is a fucking conquest.
Now I dont know if I'd consider fucking your mother a conquest since she readily gives it up, but many lonely men would consider it so.
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byKhyber
2026 @02:32PM
(#65908477)
Attached to: Polymarket Refuses To Pay Bets That US Would 'Invade' Venezuela
a raid is a type of invasion you fuckwit
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byKhyber
2026 @01:09AM
(#65907179)
Attached to: Nvidia's New G-Sync Pulsar Monitors Target Motion Blur at the Human Retina Level
"but I've never heard of anyone willingly playing modern games on such a relic."
1600x1200 is just fine for a gaming resolution. A good 75Hz Trinitron will slap any 144Hz monitor at whatever native resolution it displays.
And the color gamut and contrast at high motion is practically untouchable.
The only reason I have an LCD now is because I have devices that actually do 4K (microscope) so the screen got an upgrade. This large workbench feels wide open without that 21" beast sitting there.
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byKhyber
025 @08:59AM
(#65887909)
Attached to: Breach Forces Ubisoft to Take 'Rainbow Six Siege' Offline
Given their DRM is constantly hacked, I'll go with cheap on security.
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byKhyber
2025 @10:14AM
(#65884503)
Attached to: Toll Roads Are Spreading in America
Oh look another pedophile supporter.
What's up faggot?
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byv1
@09:20AM
(#65877203)
Attached to: China Bans E-commerce Platforms From Forcing Lowest Prices or Abusing Algorithms
In some ways China has much better consumer-protection laws than the USA. Big business over there doesn't have nearly as much control over legislation and government operations.
It's rather ironic that our basis of government, originally intended for personal freedom, has been so heavily leveraged by big business that it can block the majority of common-sense limitations on market control.
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byv1
@08:22AM
(#65868743)
Attached to: Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
What shocks me here is how long it took to become such a popular thing? Parking domains isn't that expensive, but certainly isn't free, especially in large numbers. The people doing the parking are basically squatting on property they speculate will have value down the road. They may as well collect a little "rent" on them while they squat?
I can remember when "domain tasting" first became a thing, I looked at it and thought, "This is a TERRIBLE idea, it's going to make it more expensive for people to start up their own web site and 'interesting' domains are going to be unobtainable by the average person just because some squatter thinks they're parked on gold." No random person is going to pay thousands of dollars for a domain name they fancy just for a hobby, so it's just going to stifle small private sites.
I don't know how it currently works, but back when it started you could "taste" a domain for months almost for free, and there was nothing stopping you from "tasting" it again the instant your current taste expired, So you could squat domains for an unlimited time almost for free. "gee, nobody would ever abuse that!"
Though now with the explosion of TLDs, it's widened the market so far that the squatters are finding it hard to cover all the bases. Raise their rent! (and make the price go up exponentially to KEEP it parked) Watch the squatters scurry away like the cockroaches they are!
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