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New comment by downrightmike in "Flock CEO: People Don't Dislike Us, They Dislike Trump"

downrightmike — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:39:21 +0000

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-trac...

New comment by downrightmike in "Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly"

downrightmike — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:48:46 +0000

Gotta move money into the bubble while they can

New comment by downrightmike in "Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly"

downrightmike — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:48:12 +0000

Its pretty good about taking powerpoints and turning them into HTML

New comment by downrightmike in "SpaceX Shares Stumble in Nasdaq-100 Debut"

downrightmike — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:45:06 +0000

Also the massive valuation is seen by other capable countries and competition will be fierce. You can't continue to push your operations that aren't profitable without the government propping it up.

Other countries are already willing to foot that bill in batteries, EV, Photovoltaic, chips etc. And they have a big interest in controlling the space over their heads.

I don't think begin first here was defensible to begin with. There's a reason that the tax payers foot the bill from the start of the industry to today.

New comment by downrightmike in "A teen social media ban is an admission of utter failure to govern online spaces"

downrightmike — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:39:52 +0000

And the online spaces are paying millions for legislation to push the burden on to OS makers.

New comment by downrightmike in "Node.js is fighting a flood of AI-generated security reports"

downrightmike — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:43:47 +0000

Time Microsoft spent some time on this. It has too many holes for how much of the internet it runs. Shameful they let it get this bad

New comment by downrightmike in "Win11 identifier used to track perp after MSFT shared info with FBI"

downrightmike — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:41:37 +0000

GDID stands for Global Device Identifier; it's a unique identifier assigned to every Windows install that tracks device-specific telemetry. It's the reason why sometimes changing a major component in your PC can revoke your Windows license. Anyhow, the court documents from the case reveal that Stokes used Windows, from which investigators were able to link his physical hardware to specific internet activity and locations.

New comment by downrightmike in "It's true – AI will replace _most_ software engineers"

downrightmike — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:37:16 +0000

AI is just a tool. A power saw lets carpenters build more easily and so does AI, until you have to pay the real price of it and then its a 747 that hardly anyone can afford.

New comment by downrightmike in "DOE emergency orders let PJM curtail data centers during the July heat wave"

downrightmike — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:19:47 +0000

The article image is bleak, why would they cram those data centers right next to a cozy neighborhood?

Dystopian cyberpunk energy

New comment by downrightmike in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

downrightmike — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:26:26 +0000

There is no next xbox. They are killing the brand while they wait for ARM to get better

New comment by downrightmike in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

downrightmike — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:24:35 +0000

Sure, but they keep raising the price of everything. And in a world where ram and STORAGE are at a multiple premium, deleting high density discs is completely outside of reality

New comment by downrightmike in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

downrightmike — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:01 +0000

VCs need to sit on ice for a few more years if they dont want it to pop

New comment by downrightmike in "OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’"

downrightmike — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:53:16 +0000

Then local companies spring up and fill the void.

New comment by downrightmike in "New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview"

downrightmike — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:31:15 +0000

Not really special, which was the point, its a general model. This is really good marketing as all other LLMs are able to do the same work.

New comment by downrightmike in "My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?"

downrightmike — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:56:58 +0000

People like to eat, if they don't, there is no government

New comment by downrightmike in "OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’"

downrightmike — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:35:30 +0000

We really need to go back to the 95% tax system on these giant corps

New comment by downrightmike in "NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation?"

downrightmike — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:34:59 +0000

Its called downgrade attacks, they are very bad, and they are caused by weak standards still being used. 3DES shouldn't be used anymore, but it is in the list of an acceptable cipher, so there goes the security out the window.

New comment by downrightmike in "US is working on ban targeting Chinese energy inverters, sources say"

downrightmike — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:31:12 +0000

And what was found? was it enabled? was it in the spec sheet when they bought it?

Was it an actual backdoor? Or an intended service config?

New comment by downrightmike in "Steam Machine in the hands of a console sicko"

downrightmike — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:14:05 +0000

Given what Sony is doing, I don't see playstation continuing. Steam has them beat and xbox is dead

New comment by downrightmike in "ShareChat, India's Meta Rival, Plans $400M IPO Next Year"

downrightmike — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:13:14 +0000

Good luck everyone!