I use AMD GPUs.

And then the wave exploded into a fireball.

Frankly, being taken for $100 on a phone is probably a lot better than putting your life savings into one of Trump’s memecoins or Truth Social, which some people did.

My impression is that Trump mostly just licenses his name to these ventures for a payment and isn’t affiliated with them otherwise. I don’t think that he likely cares much what happens to the phone buyers or sellers. He’s made his money either way.

EDIT: Yeah:

https://www.trump.com/lifestyle/trump-mobile

Trump Mobile, its products and services are not designed, developed, manufactured, distributed or sold by The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals. T1 Mobile LLC uses the Trump name and trademark pursuant to the terms of a limited license agreement which may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.

It’s some third-party fly-by-night organization doing the actual deal.

Truth Social?

Patrick Lynett, a USC civil engineering professor, said when it comes to natural disasters, training people how to react is important, and one way to do that is through digital work like the simulation and video game he created that depicts what happened.

I think that if you’re in a boat right next to the initiation of a 328-foot-high megatsunami, going 1,578 feet up a rock cliff, as the video portrays in the game, you’re probably just pretty much boned.

EDIT: Not nearly as big, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam

The Vajont Dam as seen from the village of Longarone in 2005, showing roughly the top 60–70 m (200–230 ft) of concrete. The wall of water that overtopped the dam by 250 m (820 ft)[1] and destroyed this village and all nearby villages on 9 October 1963 would have obscured virtually all of the blue sky in this photo.[4]

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1eb406f1-849d-4e96-b89a-78f9ace2911f.jpeg

Like, someone standing there and looking up at that wave is just pretty much boned.

“The inability to access the content of encrypted communications constitutes a major obstacle for the work of the justice system and intelligence services,” the delegation wrote, framing end-to-end encryption as a problem to be solved rather than a protection to be preserved.

Senator Cédric Perrin, who chairs the foreign affairs committee and sits on the intelligence delegation, has been pushing this fight for over a year. During debate on a narcotrafic bill, he secured an amendment that would have forced messaging platforms to “implement the necessary technical measures in order to allow intelligence services to access the intelligible content of communications and data passing through them.”

I mean, I can send a GPG-encrypted message over a messaging platform and you can recover it if you want even if that platform’s native encryption is backdoored, but you’re still just looking at an end-to-end encrypted message.

$ gpg -q --quick-gen-key tal@lemmy.today
About to create a key for:
    "tal@lemmy.today"

Continue? (Y/n) y

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world:

$ gpg -q --quick-gen-key doctor.doom@headquarters.latveria
About to create a key for:
    "doctor.doom@headquarters.latveria"

Continue? (Y/n) y

$ gpg -a --export doctor.doom@headquarters.latveria >doctor-doom.public-key.asc

Back at tal’s computer:

$ gpg --import <doctor-doom.public-key.asc
$ echo "Hey, Doctor Doom!  The time is right to initiate our secret plan!" >message.txt
$ gpg -a -r doctor.doom@headquarters.latveria -u tal@lemmy.today -e message.txt
$ cat message.txt.asc
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hF4DjahcIPqAf9cSAQdA/itkkQNubd3l6V1Rs1c00Z4zDquk9PrK1Z65VzNogzsw
8ypbEn0B145fyyfyeAc8r72J51qJbcTXVGQkb9JWXoLMh/irZZkYrUbuaBXephsm
0oQBqv6JgWc8kpeFKSihu69EXG/kEcHpOyCBb2nGOerHM1VzERdTdcfkgEQQYfYF
sPXVfRxGgJbGtkoyRGDGZCEnOpGDsQSCX8I8KkUfPALAqhBSmYbAa5lg0jWNiAQL
J4rrXGQiVCPC5Dr45KIEswddFI1oGhqZo16SgEGILcTiY4gN6yI=
=4RyB
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

tal sends the message to Doctor Doom over the backdoored messaging system. French intelligence watches closely. They break the platform-native encryption, but all they can see is the above text.

On Dr. Doom’s computer:

$ gpg -d message.txt.asc 
gpg: encrypted with cv25519 key, ID 8DA85C20FA807FD7, created 2026-05-10
      "doctor.doom@headquarters.latveria"
Hey, Doctor Doom!  The time is right to initiate our secret plan!
$

I remember reading, a while back, that something like 15% of Taiwan’s total electrical power usage goes to chip fabs.

What I read was saying that TSMC probably has a ton of room for electricity optimization, but it’s just not worth it. Like, what I was reading was talking about how they never shut off machines, even if they aren’t making chips, because just introducing temperature variations is enough to add more variables that might screw up yield rates.

Desktop PC with a lotta hard drives in it and big fans that don’t have to spin fast and make a lot of noise.

I use a USB DAS JBOD enclosure with fans, which is also an option if you have a mini-PC and just want a bunch of drive space.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCDDGHMJ

This particular enclosure has physical buttons that lock in place so that the power state is restored on power loss, something that (to my surprise) a number of USB DAS enclosures apparently don’t do.

You could try reducing the fan speed. That might be okay, if the hardware doesn’t actually need the cooling. If the BIOS has fan curves, go fiddle with that. If it doesn’t, dedicated fan controllers do exist.

If the server is a standard ATX motherboard and if your rack has vertical space, you can also probably get a new ATX case of whatever sort you want, preferably taller, and get something with larger, slower fans and transplant the hardware. A lot of rack servers are vertically-cramped to let a datacenter put as many in a rack as possible, so you get stuff like 1U machines with those dinky 30mm fans. In general, the larger the fan, the less noise per airflow.

searches

https://www.amazon.com/RackChoice-Mini-ITX-Rackmount-Chassis-Standard/dp/B0D296DVD8

I’ve never used that, but it’s a 3U and has three 120mm fans.

If you don’t care about cost, there are also sound-isolated racks. These have some sort of sound-blocking material like plywood on the outside and sound-absorbing foam on the inside. I have been interested in these in the past, because I would like one, but everything I’ve seen has been absolutely obscenely-priced, probably because datacenters don’t care about noise, and few people are running racks in homes or offices. I doubt that the people that sell them get much volume.

EDIT: Example sound-isolated rack:

https://tripplite.eaton.com/smartrack-quiet-server-rack-18u-sound-suppression~SRQ18U

I’m pretty sure that most developers that use web UIs do so for portability.

There are non-Web-based cross-platform GUI toolkits, like Java’s Swing.

As to why cross-platform desktop toolkits haven’t really caught on…I’d say that it’s because there are things that you can’t really abstract all that well. There are ways that a well-written MacOS app should function, ways that a well-written Windows app should function, ways that a well-written GTK app should function, and so forth.

EDIT:

I dread writing any native GUI that I got desperate enough to try writing a TUI but that’s unbelievably worse!

Honestly, the same is true of TUIs, too. Like, MS-DOS/Windows TUI conventions and Unix TUI conventions aren’t really the same. Like, in a typical Unix TUI program, I expect “q” probably quits. At text prompts, I expect that I probably have readline support and likely the vi/emacs key support there. It probably defaults to white-on-black. In an MS-DOS TUI program, Escape probably exits, and I’m probably using white-on-blue. I’m probably using Code Page 437 box-drawing characters.

EDIT2: ncdu on Unix:

WordPerfect for DOS:

I don’t think I’d say “inevitable”. Possible, maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet

The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests. “Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it”, wrote the Economist weekly in 2010, arguing it could soon splinter along geographic and commercial boundaries.[1] The Chinese government erected the “Great Firewall” for political reasons, and Russia has enacted the Sovereign Internet Law that allows it to partition itself from the rest of the Internet.[2][3] Other nations, such as the US and Australia, have discussed plans to create a similar firewall to block child pornography or weapon-making instructions.[1]

Clyde Wayne Crews, a researcher at the Cato Institute, first used the term in 2001 to describe his concept of “parallel Internets that would be run as distinct, private, and autonomous universes.”[4] The concept itself dates back at least to pair of articles in the journal Science and at the International Conference on Information Systems by Marshall van Alstyne and Erik Brynjolfsson in 1996 and 1997.[5][6] They argued that it the Internet and related technologies “have the potential to fragment interaction and divide groups by leading people to spend more time on special interests and by screening out less preferred contact.” They dubbed this effect “cyberbalkanization” and developed a set of formal measures.[7]

Crews used the term in a positive sense, but more recent writers, like Scott Malcomson, a fellow in New America’s International Security program, use the term pejoratively to describe a growing threat to the internet’s status as a globe-spanning network of networks.[8]

Virtually all of these are temporary moratoriums, most-likely to let the city examine impact of some proposed development and gather feedback.

There are three permanent bans in force:

• Pemberton Township, New Jersey (27k people)

• Warrenton, Virginia, specific 42-acre area (10k people)

• Weaverville, North Carolina (4.5k people)

St. Charles, Missouri is also listed as permanent, but the text says that there is a temporary moratorium with a proposed permanent ban.

Note that this and most of the others do not appear to be specific to anything AI-related; this is all data centers.

One other note: One of the first conversations on here I had was when Ada, the lemmy.blahaj.zone admin, was talking to some gay guy in some Middle Eastern country where content related to homosexuality were banned. The lemmy.blahaj.zone instance was blocked at his country’s network, but he could view the text content from any other home instance (since any accessible home instance on the Threadiverse itself intrinsically basically acts as a proxy for the content on other instances). I remember pointing out that he could tunnel via SSH. His problem was that he couldn’t view images, since the images were hosted on the lemmy.blahaj.zone server, but these days, some lemmy home instances (including my home instance, lemmy.today) automatically locally proxy images posted elsewhere to hide the IP address of their users, so he wouldn’t even have that problem now.

However, such efforts are technically flawed because the only reliable method for identifying VPN protocol signatures is deep packet inspection at the network level, which the EPRS paper doesn’t mention.

I mean, you can tunnel whatever over whatever. You can tunnel a VPN over anything else that’s encrypted, so unless you also want to ban SSH and HTTPS connections and suchlike (well, okay, for UDP-based VPNs, you’d probably prefer something UDP-based, but I think that the point stands), you’re going to have trouble, say, blocking OpenVPN connections.

Tor exists for the explicit purpose of not being blocked.

Maybe you could try to characterize VPN traffic and do traffic analysis without being able to look inside the encrypted payload, say “VPN traffic tends to look like this”, but again, it’s not that hard to add noise to the signal.

And you don’t even mostly need a full-on VPN for most of this, since it’s mostly just people trying to access Web services.

Get yourself any Linux system in some less-restrictive location (which I’ll call server) running OpenSSH. SSH into it from client like so:

[tal@client ~] $ ssh server -N -D127.0.0.1:1080

On the client, install the Proxy Toggle Firefox plugin. Set it to use localhost, port 1080 as a SOCKS5 proxy. Click the toolbar button to toggle on proxy use. Now all your browser traffic is coming from that remote server. All a network provider can see is an SSH connection. Click again, and you’re back to normal mode.

But tal, that’s complicated. Some people won’t know how to use SSH.

So is virtually everything that a computer does. Raytracing. Image composition. Decoding discrete cosine transformation encodings. Rendering real-time video game worlds. If there’s a need, someone goes out and writes software that makes it easy for the end user. And if you create a situation where there is an unlimited quantity of stuff that a lot of end users want access to behind a wall which someone can make a one-click program to bypass, it’s probably a reasonably safe bet that that those one-click programs are going to show up.

There is no loophole that can be trivially closed here. It’s a fundamental limitation — if users are going to be able to send traffic that you cannot inspect the inside of — and avoiding that would mean encryption spanning your borders being disallowed, which you probably do not want — then they can appear to be coming from wherever in the outside world they want.

And plenty of people pointed out that this was a problem before age-verification stuff was put into force. This isn’t a situation where one just does the thing and there are a few lingering minor issues to iron out. It’s fundamental to the concept of doing age verification.

But voters don’t want their kids seeing porn.

Well, frankly, if said kids have Internet access and they want to see porn, they probably are going to be able to see porn or otherwise enjoy use of the least-restrictive set of rules out there. That’s part of having a world-spanning network where people can communicate with each other. There is going to be blasphemy and pornography and political extremism and stuff saying that Santa Claus doesn’t exist out there. Some of that is going to be material that doesn’t conform to the set of social norms where you live and will conform to social norms elsewhere in the world. I don’t personally see that as all that catastrophic.

Some languages apparently don’t have countable nouns.

Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier (see Chinese classifier) to add numerals and other quantifiers.

Could be that the artist speaks one of those.

EDIT: And not all languages have the definite/indefinite article distinction in English. I’ve seen some Russian-language speakers in particular have trouble with that.

EDIT2: It sounds like the artist was born in Russia prior to emigrating to the US, so I’d guess that he might speak Russian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_(cartoonist)

Shen (also known as Shenanigansen) is the pen name of cartoonist Andrew Tsyaston, the creator of the comic series Owlturd, Shen Comix, and Bluechair, and the co-creator of Live with Yourself!.

Born: Andrew Tsyaston February 1, 1992 (age 34)

Shen emigrated from Europe to the United States with his family in 1999.[3][4]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Shen

Shen (aka Shenanigansen / Andrew Tsyaston) is an Russian-born American webcomic creator.

So he’s probably been speaking English for a long time, though he would probably have been speaking Russian until he was seven.

EDIT3: I’m not gonna try to track down the exact date of publication, but the earliest copy Tineye has seen is from 2020, so I doubt that it’s a really old comic from when he was a lot younger.

EDIT4: It’s a modified version of the original comic, so the text isn’t from the original artist:

https://x.com/shenanigansen/status/1280119418496921600

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a85692c7-62e0-4b22-a733-62ba4a02b54b.jpeg

I think that this is the audio being referred to:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4r9ZnBycQ

I’d like to have standardized LFP battery form factors and BMS interfaces. I’m not really enthusiastic about everyone rolling their own battery form factor for a given product that isn’t going to be available forever, even if it can save a bit of space. That battery is going to degrade over time, and unless I’m going to throw the product out soon, at some point I may want to replace the battery.

We had this solved with traditional cells (AA, AAA, C, D, etc).

On eBay, I see two listings from scalpers already up for $230 and $319.

EDIT: Oh, there are a ton more, most about $210 into the three hundreds. Just only had two come up at the top. Search for “steam controller 2026” and you’ll see a bunch.

I thought that this was pretty cool — the second post that Valve put up on the Steam Controller 2.0, the one after the release announcement, was distributing the CAD files to permit people/companies to make mods for the controller, 3D print alternate cases or things like that.

My past experience with game controllers has been buying an ever-more-exotic collection of security bits to be able to open them because the vendors that make them don’t want users poking around inside them.