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New comment by bslaq in "AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America"

bslaq — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:15:33 +0000

As much as I dislike the police and the government in general I don’t think the police cares much about that.

New comment by bslaq in "AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:12:11 +0000

>And guess which neighborhoods have the most cameras?

The ones with highest amount of crime?

But it could also be the opposite: the neighbourhoods of the well off, who are willing to pay for this kind of service.

I really don't know, since both options seem likely.

New comment by bslaq in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:07:47 +0000

I don’t think it’s possible to find computers selling today with one of those.

New comment by bslaq in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:53:16 +0000

…HDDs?

New comment by bslaq in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:42:54 +0000

You would be hard-pressed today to find computers with less than 8 GB of RAM. 300 MB is 3.66% of 8 GB of RAM. Which, again, is absolutely nothing.

Okay, let's assume you have a computer with 4 GB of RAM. Still 7.32%. That is low.

New comment by bslaq in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:41:13 +0000

Paying for RAM and having it sit around doing nothing is stupid.

New comment by bslaq in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:45:10 +0000

300 MB is 1.25% of my RAM. An application using 1.25% of my RAM seems reasonable.

New comment by bslaq in "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:39:42 +0000

The problem is this is Finland and whatever the secretary of energy of the USA says is completely irrelevant.

New comment by bslaq in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:38:51 +0000

Spotify search, which is the default, has been broken since May (according to bug reports) and the developer says he doesn't intend to fix it.

New comment by bslaq in "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"

bslaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:14:15 +0000

Posting a comment doubting the ROI of a public investment is not “authoritarian populism”. If anything, democracy needs more of it.

New comment by bslaq in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

bslaq — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:22:06 +0000

The degradation started when they began looking at the Accept HTTP header to see if you were clicking a direct link to an image so they could show you a page full of ads instead of just the image. And that happened well before that bloke sold the site.

New comment by bslaq in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

bslaq — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:20:31 +0000

This will work as well as the Reddit revolts.