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New comment by tencentshill in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

tencentshill — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:20:47 +0000

There was no lobbying involved. This was unilateral action without congress. Not an actual law.

New comment by tencentshill in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

tencentshill — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:23:46 +0000

Well they fired most of the leadership already, so it's a pretty blank slate.

New comment by tencentshill in "Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share"

tencentshill — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:16:24 +0000

More like 99% of it. But either way, perfect is the enemy of good.

New comment by tencentshill in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

tencentshill — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:19:57 +0000

That's actually a workaround to make a Windows Steam console for your TV. Replace the explorer.exe shell with steam.exe --bigpicture.

New comment by tencentshill in "Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM"

tencentshill — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:11:30 +0000

It sends a network ping. Every mouse movement and click is tracked, even if not sent. Sometimes a random UI element freezes, but when I unplug the ethernet, it pops up instantly.

New comment by tencentshill in "Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy"

tencentshill — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:21:35 +0000

Flock camera in every board room in America, where most crime occurs.

New comment by tencentshill in "Epic Games' new vibe-coded launcher is 46% faster than Steam"

tencentshill — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:26:20 +0000

The steam client has always been a bit clunky, that's not the issue. They don't seem to be able to understand that.

New comment by tencentshill in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

tencentshill — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:17:55 +0000

Scarily enough, money isn't his main motivation. He willingly destroyed tesla sales for politics.

New comment by tencentshill in "Apple HomeView"

tencentshill — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:16:00 +0000

I now see they do offer a direct PoE adapter. "Power Mount PoE Wired" $130

New comment by tencentshill in "Trezor Wallets Also Compromised with Implants"

tencentshill — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:10:07 +0000

Turns out all that silly security and paperwork banks go through has a purpose! But at least every crypto customer knows the risks right?

New comment by tencentshill in "Apple HomeView"

tencentshill — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:29:01 +0000

How does the wallmount work? It's powered by a USB C port on the back, is there even a wiring standard for in-wall 20W USB? It would need something like this to function on an existing PoE network. https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uacc-adapter-poe-usbc but it only goes up to 10W. Can it even use the wired networking half of such a setup?

New comment by tencentshill in "Apple HomeView"

tencentshill — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:15:19 +0000

That's exactly why it needs to be Apple. You can lock this thing down to your LAN and firewall everything off and it will still function. Try that with any google device.

New comment by tencentshill in "Apple HomeView"

tencentshill — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:56:44 +0000

It was heavily rumoured. Maybe they disabled it after the negative reactions to the Apple Watch always listening feature. Can't have too many issues at once.

New comment by tencentshill in "Samsung to cut smartphone production by 30%"

tencentshill — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:24:12 +0000

Amazing, they'll cannibalize their own phone production to sell to hyperscalars instead. How are we supposed to consume the AI slop if we don't have the devices in the first place?

New comment by tencentshill in "Poverty Changes Your Mind-Set (2018)"

tencentshill — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:43:48 +0000

It's amazing how much has changed since this was written. Assuming McDonalds was cheap, driving 30 minutes away was an inconsequential expense.

New comment by tencentshill in "Getty Images is filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy"

tencentshill — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:49:35 +0000

I wonder what happened in their CEO's head when they typed in their first Dall-E image prompt.

New comment by tencentshill in "ATF ends suppressor and short-barreled rifle registration requirements"

tencentshill — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:07:05 +0000

I did wonder why project 2025 didn't target the ATF very much. They must understand their ideas are unpopular and still fear a truly well armed populace.

New comment by tencentshill in "Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making"

tencentshill — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:52:38 +0000

But what about when the government's AI skills amount to: "is this DEI, only answer yes or no"

New comment by tencentshill in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

tencentshill — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:17:30 +0000

https://climate.uchicago.edu/news/trumps-e-p-a-has-put-a-val...

The EPAs defense:

https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...

New comment by tencentshill in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

tencentshill — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:15:15 +0000

Their investors expect true better-than-human intelligence. There's only about 30% of the entire US economy invested in that expectation right now.