Well, decimated means “reduced by one tenth” so I guess technically he was probably correct.

Do you need medical assistance?

It doesn’t. If you’re doing anything in a web browser you’re going to need that much RAM for a reasonable experience no matter what DE you’re using. Ubuntu are just trying to set more realistic expectations.

They’re basically saying “Our software doesn’t need more RAM, but most of what you run on it does, so this is a more realistic expectation for what will make for a good experience.”

This $1tn valuation is based almost entirely on what they think Grok is worth. Whether or not markets agree will be a big test of how much gas is left in the AI tank.

Trump has flirted with a withdrawal in the past and has successfully pressured NATO members to increase their defense ⁠spending.

That’s a really weird way to describe that. He was successful in convincing everyone that the US is no longer a reliable ally, and well on its way to becoming an enemy. Is that what we’re defining as “successful” now?

Fuck it, why not? Everything else this administration does is a joke.

A little of both. I think it’s good for software to be customizable, but layering on plugins often tends to lead to instability or other issues, so the ideal for me is where the program does 90% or more of what I want out of the box, and plugins fill the gaps.

Projected by a company that makes RAM and wants to juice their stock price.

It’s cost cutting. They’re burning cash faster than they can raise it.

Micron make RAM. I don’t think we should give any more credence to their claims than we do to Elon’s. Their goal here is to pump their share price, nothing more.

If I remember right, wasn’t shutting down Sora one of Ed’s signs of the apocalypse?

They’re not.

I want to be clear; they want to and expect to make money from this. But they have no plan for how to.

Right now absolutely no one in the data centre industry can figure out the math for how to make a profit. But because everyone else is building data centres, they’re all just assuming that someone else has figured it out and they don’t want to miss the boat.

Yes, but you see Leviticus is from the old covenant and none of that applies anymore, because the blood of Christ washed away the original sin so now humanity no longer has to follow those rituals.

Except the part about gay people being bad. That part still applies even though nothing else does. Because… Reasons. Yeah. That makes sense, right?

After everything my wife has told me about the Sikhs she serves with, I’ll honestly be happy if the US kicks them all out; if it comes down to a war between Canada and the US, the last thing I want is for our troops to be going up against some of the most relentlessly committed, brave and selfless soldiers you could ever hope to meet. The US military will be weaker without them, and at this point that’s a good thing.

Jesus fucking Christ.

OK little Timmy, today we’re going to learn that sometimes people express things in their “inner voice”, but they don’t share those things in their “outer voice”.

And sometimes, later, they might share those “inner voice” thoughts with other people in an environment where it’s safe to do. But it doesn’t mean they have to express those inner voice thoughts to the person that they were thinking them about?

Does that help you understand better? Would youv maybe like a juice box and a lie down to think about it?

These are the exact same people who cheer when Hegseth says that women shouldn’t be in the military.

This is how they see women in uniform; as sex objects. As a fetish. Not as people who put a lot of hard work into doing a really hard job.

Americans will worship the ground a soldier works on, to a degree that absolutely sickens me (and I’m in a military family), but only as long as that soldier is male. The moment a woman picks up a rifle, she’s a pin up, nothing more.

Even better than that is Siteground’s absolutely abysmal support system.

In order to access support they force you to type your question into their chatbot first. This is not optional. It’s the only way to get support.

Fools that we are, we actually tried the solution the chatbot offered. This resulted in a good amount of time wasted looking for settings that didn’t exist, because the solution was total bullshit. They claim they’ve customized this thing to give helpful outputs, but it’s clearly just ChatGPT with a custom prompt.

When we finally spoke to an agent I pointed this out and they responded with the stock “You should always double check the output of AI” line.

DOUBLE CHECK WITH WHOM, YOU MOUTH BREATHING MORON? THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL FUCKING SUPPORT CHANNEL. YOU LITERALLY DIDN’T GIVE ME ACCESS TO ANY OTHER KIND OF SUPPORT UNTIL I USED THE CHATBOT FIRST, SO WHERE IN THE ACTUAL FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DOUBLE CHECK THE OUTPUT?

Is it with a customer service agent? Is that what you’re saying?! That I should ignore whatever it tells me, wait until I can talk to a representative and then do whatever they say instead? Because if that’s the case, WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU FORCING EVERYONE TO TALK TO THE BOT FIRST??!!!

Absolutely fucking asinine idiocy. Anyway, don’t use Siteground, they fucking suck.

Hey, I’m not saying that like it’s a bad thing.

Depends. They might have broken in without her password. For all we know her pin was “1234”. They might have pulled files directly from the hardware without logging in at all. Or they might have just used her biometrics, which is legal in most jurisdictions.

That last one is really important to understand. Courts have generally ruled that refusing to give up a password falls under the fifth amendment right against self incrimination, because it’s considered a form of speech. But biometric data is not speech, and can be obtained via a warrant. So if the cops are allowed to press your fingertip to an ink pad and then a piece of paper, they can also press your fingertip to the sensor on your phone. By the same token they can point the phone camera at your face, just like they can point a camera at you when they book you. It’s all just biometrics, which aren’t protected in the same way. (Yes, its a little more complicated than that, legally speaking, but that’s basically how it’s been argued in court, and many courts have agreed).

And once either of those actions happens to coincidentally unlock your phone, they have free reign to search the contents and even remove your passwords entirely for their future convenience. That all falls under the standard search and seizure provisions.