redcalcium

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[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This time it may actually work though. All they need to do is just showing you constant ads in the extra attached screen based on contents currently shown on the tv as well as your profile data (that you voluntarily submit during registration). They already got your credit card so if you violate their term and causing them to lose advertising money, they'll just charge the tv cost to your CC (or send it to collection if the charge bounce).

Also, internet advertising was not as advanced as today. These days those ads companies can figure out how to make money just by collecting your online and media consumption habits. Something as intrusive as a tv with capability to inspect what displayed on screen will certainly worth a lot of money to the advertisers. And this tv actually have a camera and microphone too! An ideal customer data mining device.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit will mess up again, and when they do, those fresh batch of refugees will find plenty of alternatives to choose from thanks to the current batch of refugees accelerating developments of various Reddit alternatives.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

How can Apple got this wrong? Pretty much all meteorological data are sourced from the same set of weather forecasting data produced from running weather simulations on weather agencies supercomputers using satellites and ground observation data. The forecasting models will pretty much produce almost similar results when fed with the same data, which is why weather reports are usually pretty similar even though they're produced by different weather agencies.

Does Apple actually run their own weather simulations here? Probably for their hyper local next-hour weather prediction feature? Or could it be that Apple is using some "AI" for their weather forecasting and the AI conjured some number out of its ass instead of running full physics simulation?

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not just similar, it IS the Sync for Reddit with the Reddit part gutted off. Looking at the version number in the screenshot, the last version of Sync for Reddit was also v23. Which means it's going to be perfect.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One common criticism for this open source driver is with how Nvidia moves most of functionalities previously implemented in the driver into the (giant) firmware blob. The (thinner) driver is open sourced, but the giant firmware blob is basically a proprietary black box, so Nvidia can claim that their driver is open source while keeping their GPU as closed as before.

Not just Nvidia that's doing this though. Qualcomm has been doing this for a long time on their ARM SoC.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a haptic suit that promises to "incorporate some exclusive sensations never felt before."

People are going to use it for porns, aren't they? Hentai game developers on Steam are going to go full throttle with it.

My body is ready

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the discovery of intelligent life outside earth will cause existential crisis to a lot of people, and some of them would turn to (new?) religions to cope.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few years ago, when the only award available was gold, I used to occasionally buy gold to award comments I really like. Back then buying gold was the only monetization in reddit so it was pretty well received. I stopped doing that around the time they implemented coins and ramping up ads.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spez is following twitter's playbook down to the letter. Aren't twitter just starting to enable revenue sharing program with their most popular users?

It's true. I ended up creating an ssh tunnel using autossh to a bastion server to escape the awfulness, but don't tell the IT department I did that.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Microsoft is probably considering to release an enterprise Linux product right now. Perhaps called Windows Subsystem for Enterprise Linux.

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