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but for a TV, I just want a dumb screen that I can hook an HDMI cable to and run off a computer.

Look into Digital Signage displays. You pay a brickload more money but get (much) higher quality in return.

The GPU alone has a TDP of 700W, together with everything else (CPU, RAM, storage, fans) you're looking at 1500W+. Depending on the country, that may be enough to saturate your home's electricity uplink...

It's not a matter of the Chinese being incompetent, it's a matter of the buyer demanding the lowest price possible and/or not paying attention to what they receive.

The point of enshittification is that decent products are slowly being priced out of the reach of normal humans, and eventually out of the hands of the general public, even the affluent ones.

It would be rather like driving schools mandating that all drivers can strip an engine before they're allowed to drive?

It took decades of manufacturers ramping up reliability to the point that driving schools didn't teach you how to change spark plugs, oil swaps and how to change a tire on the road side. I did my license around 2010 in Germany and changing a tire plus how to check for oil and coolant levels was part of the curriculum.

And similarly, AI has to go through that "ripening" as well before it can be trusted. At the moment, there is no solution even found on how to prevent hallucinations or in-band signalling attacks, much less actually validated at scale.

I'm really looking forward to the day the chinese finally start manufacturing memory and GPUs. We desperately need more competition in this area to collapse hardware prices and make local AI models viable.

Yeah and if the quality of that memory is like Chinese steel (which is called "chinesium" for a reason), eventually all we'll get is enshittification. Premium binned memory or ECC is for the rich and the rich only, and the rest of us has to pray their memory won't bitflip while something important is stored there.

The claim is we will restrict/license/outlaw xyz for the kids, but really, a data-drive approach would have focused on different things entirely (eg additional behavioral health services for kids, suicide prevention etc)

Well, most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians instead, so that's some data as well.

The only reason why the US is so extremely lax on firearms is because people keep blathering on about how guns are the last line of defense against a tyrannical government - and yet, what do the most rabid of these people do? Vote in and defend a literal tyrant.

The problem with Oracle is how much utterly and directly depends on them. They still are the authoritative source on "what is Java" and stuff like SAP directly depends on Java and in many cases Oracle Database (the supported alternatives are AFAIK IBM's mainframe stuff and MS SQL, but I only ever saw Oracle whenever I had the misfortune of having to dig into SAP).

If Oracle goes down, a lot of businesses are going to be in a lot of trouble, and there will be a lot of fighting over the scraps.

In Germany, the rise in "youth porn" material has been attributed to such kinds of cases where youth send intimate pictures to each other [1].

Our legal systems are not built to deal with that mess, and it may hang around your neck for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, the law is very explicit, leaving barely any avenue for the courts to drag us out of the mess, and politicians - even if they are actually interested in the topic in the first place - won't touch that area with a ten foot pole for fear of getting blamed a pedophile themselves.

[1] https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/KI-treibt-Jugendporno-Fallzahle...

PHP 8 is good too. Lots of syntactic sugar to make your life so, so much easier.

There is very little interest in Wordpress

I'd disagree here. Still 41% of all sites use Wordpress [1]... and that means a lot of targets, and a lot of ways to target them. Your good ole' deface/ransomware extortion scheme, leaking data supposed to be confidential (such as account lists), trusted spreaders for exploits, or the latest hit, bets on "prediction markets" that have some Wordpress site set as oracle. People are willing to screw around with airport weather stations to manipulate bets [2], it's not that much of a stretch to assume such incentives would also apply for website hackers.

[1] https://www.wpzoom.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/23/europe/france-weather-sen...

This switched to "neutral" without addressing the underlying issue, seemingly just to satisfy some users asking for parity with Chrome out of a convenience argument.

Well... millions of Chrome users played guinea pigs for WebUSB and the security issues proved to be theoretical in the end, while (particularly in the Arduino/ESP32 community) more and more people were pissed off at the lack of these features in Firefox.

It is a poor idea to use blockchain for government registries. If you want transparency, simply publish signed daily updates and that's enough.

A blockchain is essentially that, just with the daily update that's being signed also including the signature and hash of the previous day.

Blockchain as a technology is actually useful here. It does not mean automatically that blocks have to be mined by third parties, although pseudocurrencies have gone that route for decentralization reasons.

echo " │ Qbix Server v" . QBIX_SERVER_VERSION . str_repeat(' ', 22 - strlen(QBIX_SERVER_VERSION)) . "│\n";

Instead of this str_repeat, use str_pad [1].

I assume this is highly AI generated based on the emoji and the typical structure of README.md? At the very least have it break apart WebServer.php, this is insanely too long, and what's it with all the static stuff?

And the Revolt driver [2] is missing a composer.json with the required dependency, and the code would benefit from a use statement instead of 5 fully qualified references.

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php

[2] https://github.com/Qbix/webserver/blob/main/src/Q/Evented/Re...

Latency for interaction with AI?

It's not just AI. Video streaming or game streaming both depend on close proximity to the end user, alone because the data volume would completely overwhelm backhaul links... that's why Youtube, Netflix and a lot of CDNs all have colo facilities close to major population centers and their regionally dominant ISPs.

It can be significantly cheaper to pay colo fees at an ISP' s data center than to pay interconnection fees for bulk transfers.

With 13+ years ROI (electricity is not free) is this really beneficial?

Regenerative and solar electricity is free, and regen braking additionally saves wear and tear on brake pads.

The real benefit I think is when stuff like tax codes, carbon credits and government subsidies come into play and ROI goes down significantly.

Or when the next war hits and diesel actually hits and bypasses the 2.50€/l mark.

Latency.

For me it was about solving problems and building things, and I get to do that more now than before, and without all the literal typing.

The problem at least I have is... when something goes wrong, often enough even you as the original author / LLM slave-driver have no idea what is going on where, and completely forget trying to dig into someone else's pile of vibe-coded garbage. For every single problem you now are completely beholden to the AI agent.

Ain't no one got the money to afford the real thing, and influencers keep throwing the real thing into our faces.

So you release it as open weights which is a win-win. Global adoption of the model and you get to give the American AI companies a kick in the nuts because you know they will never release open weights apart from highly quantised crippled shit.

And on top of that, it's a perfect opportunity to include poisoned training data or excluding it. You know, omitting anything about Tiananmen Square, China's genocides against Uyghurs and Tibetans, or including texts propagandizing for the "reunification" (aka, annexation) of Taiwan.

And everyone who builds something like an interactive chatbot based on such "open weights" models now has a subtle chance of the answer being ideologically poisoned by the CCP.

We need actual open source, not "open weights" scam.

What aren't you doing that everyone else is doing?

Seems to be the fact that there's no advertising, tracking or other SDKs and the entire JS is contained in two files.

Any drill nowadays would have a clutch. Use it, so it limits the torque.

The problem is, unless it's an actual torque wrench these clutches are allll over the place. There's a reason they give only some arbitrary scale, and often enough they're so unreliable that the same electric screwdriver / drill will produce different torques for the same setting depending on the battery SoC, the power setting and the cleanliness of the thread in the wood.

I've found the most reliable way for IKEA furniture is to use an electric screwdriver for the bulk of the work and use a manual screwdriver for the final 1-2 turns. Everything else is just asking for trouble, especially the screw "overshooting" because the particle density at one hole is randomly (markedly) less than at the hole you calibrated the screwdriver with.

and if you're using an assembly driver or not

Not a good idea on modern Ikea furniture that's basically engineered wood and cardboard. Way too easy to strip out the threads.

Apparently there used to be a built in estimator in the checkout process [1]. I member having seen that somewhere as well, but it's been ages since I ordered online from Ikea, I always go in person to stuff myself full of hotdogs and meatballs LOL

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TaskRabbit/comments/13dm7lu/comment...

People chronically underestimate how difficult it is to get enough conventional explosive on target to sink a major naval vessel, even ignoring the extensive active defenses.

American ships, certainly. Russian ships? Oh boy. The Ukrainians, a country with no navy to speak of, sunk the Russian flagship Moskva to widespread memefied acclaim, a bunch of other Black Sea assets and are now taking potshots at the shadow fleet.

This is the "condom" you are talking about, just a small dongle.

That only works when both sides speak proper USB-C PD and not "5V or some weird-ass proprietary stuff over D+/D-".

The thing with PCs is... they are open. Open means piracy and more importantly it means cheats.

A console is a far easier thing to defend against cheaters than a PC - absent true hardware vulnerabilities (which become more and more expensive, now that stuff like voltage glitching, clock cutting and whatnot is all known and accounted for), you are basically limited to botted input and AI-assistance based on what can be seen on the screen.

There's a tangential problem - companies do not want trainees or juniors any more, they (usually) cost more money than they bring in for half a decade if you don't fraudulently bill your customers... something the "consulting" industry is infamous for. And when the juniors got enough experience to be considered intermediate or senior, they jump ship to get a larger pay rise, leaving you with the need to hire another senior.

The entire economy is broken due to the focus on short term quarterly result instead of the health of a company in 5, 10 or even 20 years.

Companies can grow organically.

Yes they can, but unless you strike luck, they take many years, often decades of work to grow to a level where you can retire and enjoy the money.

With FIRE and similar concepts being pushed around everywhere, and the plight of the masses to keep their jobs and homes, I see where that desire for "make money fast" comes from. And from a game theory mindset - it's not wrong. (That is also a bit related to the explosion of gambling and gambling-alike stuff such as "prediction markets"...)

Heck, there's even non-profits.

Non-profits often enough run on conditions bordering on (self-)exploitation.

Probably because of stock options. Assuming the bubble bursts after the vesting period, they stand to make a looooooot of money on paper.

I think the core issue here is trust. You should never trust random people on the internet anyway. But before LLMs, there was this base thing: creating a proper PR with proper descriptions would require at least some human time, so it would keep trolls and low quality submissions out. Or at least you could easily filter them out within a couple of seconds. So even if a new person came in, you could trust that this person would have at least spent a couple of hours on that. And then it was probably worth taking a closer look at it.

Ding ding ding. This is my biggest gripe with AI. Even the SEO blogspam, the fluff in front of every recipe, yarnwork or DIY instruction, it all was clearly written by a human. Someone had invested time (and money) in getting something in front of my eyes.

But now, it's all just slop. Everywhere. And hell I'm tired because the onslaught breaks my trust filters.

Maybe I think this is an age thing. Boomers? They trust everything written down somewhere. No matter what, and no matter if they didn't spend half my childhood to "never trust what people write on the Internet", and now they fall for scams left and right. My generation as said grew up with this "never trust, always verify" thing. And the younger generation? They DGAF about anything any more, all they care about is trying to survive.

And b), the teaching, aka “How do we teach new people?”: previously, there was this balance aka “the junior does some pretty mundane tasks, but for this the senior reviews it together with him and helps him to grow”.

GOD YES YES YES THIS x1000.

There is barely anything more rewarding than teaching someone something, to watch the other person grow - and eventually surpassing your own abilities. That is when you know you did right and well. My wife is the best example, she started out at "can you help me with Excel", and these days, she pulls off stuff that would make more than a few finance people blush.