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New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech

  • Money shot:

    Zooming back out, we think the overall picture is clear. NVIDIA has downsized essentially all of its gaming GPUs in terms of relative configuration compared to each generation’s flagship. All of the lines go down. The chart from earlier had a lot of words to say one thing: Line go down = bad. We don’t want the line to go down. We want the line to stay the same or go up.

    The 80 class is now in line with former 70 class GPUs and the 70 Ti/Super class is now in line with former 60 Ti class territory. The last 60 class card was configured like a 50-class of yore.

    For Nvidia gaming is now just an annoying side project that they have to keep up with to maintain their Plan B scenario. They are a highly sophisticated organization, somewhere in their internal analysis there is a scenario that covers a significant decline in "AI" GPU revenues.

  • X leaker Jukanlosreve claims in his recent post that Qualcomm and Samsung are separately developing custom RISC-V cores to reduce their ARM licensing costs.

    We need more detailed confirmation on this, but it is not at all surprising. It's that Masayoshi Son magic touch that gave us Adam Neumann and WeWork.

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  • Not a fan of MKBHD, but I could totally see Pixels coming out on top.

  • For example, when testing every single X870/X870E motherboard, we found that about half of the 21 boards tested worked with DDR5-8000, while the rest were unstable or simply failed to boot.

    This is brutal. I am happy that I have no plans to upgrade till at least Zen 6 (and probably the next AMD GPU generation; this may be my first AMD GPU since my family switched from S3 ViRGE to Riva TNT a quarter of a century ago).

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  • I actually do use USB cable transfer, I didn't realize mainline Galaxy phones have USB 3.0 (I use the A series).

    You learn something new every day. :)

  • Are there any phones that don't use USB 2.0? It seems to be a universal cost management choice.

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    I traveled the world with a dozen camera smartphones. Which one took the best travel photos?

  • Sure, and people like quick solutions to problems and largely don’t think about long-term consequences. And then they’re all “surprised pikachu” when that thing inevitably morphs into something they don’t like.

    Again, that's on the given members of a society. Surveillance and blocking social are not inherently (in a physical sense) good or bad. These are social tools that can be used for good (and sometimes must be used to protect the lives of your fellow citizens) or can be used for bad.

    This is a bit of a hyperbolic example, but let's say you have a CSAM-focused social network, even without an imminent danger to society it is reasonable to block such a social network if it's hosted in another jurisdiction.

    In the US, we have a concept of an “enemy of the state,”

    American concepts of "enemy of the state" and "imminent danger" don't map one to one in the global context.

    A country (Albania or otherwise) has the right to counteract influence for foreign nationals/entities on their political process. But that's just one example.

    There is also the FB and genocidal Myanmar and more recently FB and Ethiopia.

    A media org is committed to journalism and communicating accurate information and good faith debate. These are not the priorities of Chines social networks (subject to control of the CCP) or Americans social network (subject to control of local oligarchs and criminal groups).

    I think we've had a good discussion and it's clear we have our own perspectives.

    At this point, I am just trying to point out that there nuances to my OP and it's not a matter of merely supporting government censorship. The world is a complex place and absolutes are not a viable approach.

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  • This is a massive issue for the !hardware@lemmy.world community.

    There needs to be scheduled posting functionality in the mainline webUI. Mobile app support would also help (unless some apps already support this, Voyager does not?).

    From what I understand you need to host Lemmy Schedule, while I have the skills to do so, this is not something I want to do just for scheduled posting functionality.

  • I didn't realize ProArt series also including gaming hardware.

    Asus' brand portfolio is such a mess.

    Really nice monitor with great functionality and a nice design. I would personally go for 1440 since 4K is pain to run in graphically intensive games, but that's a personal preference.

  • Here is a Pentium 1 60 MHz you lazy commoner. Be happy that I am willing to show such charity!

  • IBM makes tape drives for itself and the LTO consortium in Tucson, Arizona, so there are no Trump tariffs applying to them, only to whatever foreign-made components IBM might be importing.

    That's the "beauty" of the situation, even US manufactured hardware tech is going to be hit because of the components.

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  • Something along the lines of being able to access seeders for dead torrents on your tracker from other trackers (with some sort of accounting for economy).

  • If you give the government a new power, they will abuse it, it’s just a matter of time. ... because the government perpetually expands the scope of whatever powers we grant it.

    I don't believe in treating the government as a black box. If what you're saying is true, then that's a reflection of society. You want a government that has the capability to implement surveillance and ban social networks when the situation calls for it. In the global context, there will be such situations. And you need to have a political and social system that limits such powers when they are not needed anymore.

    A specific individual or a group of individuals cannot independently collaborate to implement counter intelligence policies to identify traitors who are providing location data for missile strikes and helping kill your fellow citizens who are fighting for your safety on the front-lines. The government must have deep surveillance capabilities in such a situation.

    It's the personal responsibility of every citizen to contribute to a functioning government system. If it doesn't function well, that's on the individuals that make up society. Blanket bans on government surveillance or control external social media is not a viable approach in our world (not just in Ukraine).

    In the US context (I've lived there, but I am of course more knowledgeable on Eastern Europe), I would argue that continued renewal of the Patriot act (if it even was needed initially, but one can argue after 9/11 there was a period of shock and fear for Americans) is a reflection of the failures of the US political system. Specifically the lack of competitive elections beyond two parties. This is on some level the responsibility of US citizens and not a "black box" model of government.

    I understand the need for certain policy changes during wartime. When Russia started its aggressions (arguably, long before Crimea), I can understand a temporary ban on Russian propaganda, because it’s an active war. Maybe it doesn’t include fighting yet, but it does have a credible threat of devolving into that. So I support temporary restrictions while an imminent, credible threat exists or the country is currently at war.

    It's not that simple though. One could frame pre-invasion (i.e. pre Feb 2014 when they invaded Crimea) restrictions on russian social media and services as government overreach. On the other hand, one could frame it as a forward looking government initiative attempting to protect the lives of its citizens. We currently have the benefit of hindsight, so it's easy to see which approach is correct, but that's not the case in the moment.

    As I mentioned in my OP, I don't know much about Albanian politics. What I do know is that you don't need an imminent threat of a physical invasion to limit the influence of much larger countries on your political environment. I do not support having local politics being subject to unaccountable (see Facebook and Rohingya genocide), callous operators; doesn't matter if they are based in the US or China.

    I am not that knowledge on China, but I do know how russia operates. Similar to what you mentioned, I think TikTok operates much closer to the VK/Odnoklassniki models used by the russians. You don't want the CCP promoting political movements that they have bribed or see as being more beneficial to their interests. You want politics and political messaging to be accountable to the people who live in your country. I will point out that pre-invasion (2014), the russians very much used soft power from their internet services/social media/TV channels to influence politics within Ukraine. That's unacceptable and has lead to large scale deaths, destruction and misery.

    Perhaps dealing with an invasion for a decade plus made me a bit paranoid, but I do support the government being able to regulate the ability of foreign social media/services to influence local politics and spread misinformation and propaganda.

    As I mentioned earlier, it's not all black and white. There are legitimate cases (even without an imminent invasion) where you need to have a measure of control over foreign influence, be it American-style Zuckerburg enabling genocide in Mynmar or Chinese influence campaigns. I don't see this as being supportive of a Chinese-style total censorship model.

  • This might be nonsense to you, but it's possible that I have much more experience with what we are discussing than you do and my perspective actually has some nuance (which admittedly I never clarified in my OP).

    See the following reply in this thread:

    https://lemmy.world/post/27885728/16300020

  • I would argue your approach is narrow both in terms of pragmatic realities and broad social changes in the information age.

    I mentioned earlier in this thread how I am from Ukraine and how I of course support our government banning russian social media and internet services in 2014. It's good to talk about "government not forcing people to be better of" and so on, but when your family is forced to leave their city and sell their homes at 10% of market value due to an invasion from a large, aggressive and genocidal neighbour (that uses langauge as a key element of their imperialist policies), you start taking a more sober look at such matters. Mind you, I am talking about Donbas in 2014, not the full scale invasion in 22.

    Not saying you're American, but I would often hear similar polemics when I lived in the US; didn't find them in the least convincing. It was clear that supporters of such polemics never really encountered any difficult situations that would test their commitment (and understanding) of their claimed beliefs. Some life experience outside of Ukraine (i.e. unrelated to invasions) also contributed to this perspective. Unfortunately, it's not a black and white type topic as far as I am concerned.

    The above mentioned points refer to real world examples. I would argue there are also more abstract arguments for my point of view.

    We are currently going through massive social change due to the development of information and communication technology. We don't yet know what the best practices are with respect to managing the externalities of the modern ICT landscape.

    In 1890, much of the world was still ruled by kings and emperors. In many cases they were positioned literally as god's messengers to humanity. In retrospect, it was clear that the imperial/colonialist model was not going to survive contact with modernity (industrialization, commoners learning to read, rise of easily accessible political messaging) and that new models had to take their place.

    One could argue that the same is true of current attitudes towards information technology. It's possible that the drivers that led to rapid ICT growth (e.g. US service providers not being responsible for the content on their platforms) also resulted in certain social externalities that at the end of the day will need to be accounted for (one example would be FB's callousness and contribution to the Rohingya genocide).

    I am not arguing for Chinese-style total control of the internet, but perhaps the optimal approach lies somewhere in the middle between US-style "no responsibility for anything" approach and excessive Chinese governmental paternalism.

    Just some thoughts, I know I come off as condescending, but it is honestly not my intention.

  • I get that, I am saying in an optimal world. Like if Europe happened to give a grant for independent European-hosted social networks.

  • That's a big ask though, such displays are extremely expensive and there is not enough scale for VR.

  • Notification/warning that an executable was downloaded from the internet.

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