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Re:Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:17PM (#50247374)
It amazes me if organizations are migrating from a closed source solution like Microsoft that they don't take that same budget and start supporting these projects with developers internally or funding externally.
It amazes me if organizations are migrating from a closed source solution like Microsoft that they don't take that same budget and start supporting these projects with developers internally or funding externally.
There needs to be more general understanding of energy density and scalability, which is why I don't think we'll get away from fossil fuels without nuclear or fusion.
In order for renewables like solar and wind energy to truly take the burden off a grid, we have to have large capacity energy storage solutions that balance the grid over a 8+ hour period. That way we can handle peak demand of the grid during high load which often happens when there's little light and on hot days when the wind doesn't generate nearly as much electricity.
Re:OpenSSH 10.6 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:45PM (#49983842)
" * We have seen a number of cases where a security bug identified * by AI tools is subsequently independently discovered by a * different researcher. This suggests that adversaries who do not * report bugs to OSS projects are likely to be able to discover * these bugs too. Given this, the OpenSSH team will, for now, be * making more frequent releases to get bugfixes into users' hands * more quickly rather than batching them until the next planned * release."
Re:Google ending ChromeOS support two years early on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:56PM (#49903036)
Yeah, but why can't this be just stock part of Android? We should not need a separate OS or device to have this kind of experience.
Re:Google ending ChromeOS support two years early on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:04PM (#49895651)
There's simply no real reason that a mobile device can't function as a desktop from a technical level either in software or hardware. Simply dock your phone or it could be even wireless. Boom! Go from mobile experience to desktop experience. It seems they want to cram the mobile experience into a traditional desktop environment that is mouse and keyboard driven with windows paradigm. IOS and Android have not embraced desktop paradigm. We simply need a unified SDK to support both experiences and the store downloads the appropriate assets. We're beginning to see somewhat of these concepts with foldables phone coming into the market.
Re:Ask HN: What do you expect from the next 5 years of AI? on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:07PM (#49803563)
I predict it will be regulated in the west, with approved models only to the public. Corporate and verified individuals only for the high-end level models. Most likely the end of open source competitive models. Not sure what the east will do.
Re:Newfound 'Baby' Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:37AM (#49740585)
Sad to see they don't have an actual picture.
Does it have Intel Arc support?
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:19PM (#49634501)
If that's the case, then why do we go to work on a computer instead of a phone? Oh, wait. A screen. A mouse, a keyboard. Really, if they wanted to, you could simply dock your phone and have that experience if the company was willing to put in the time.
I'm not dreading increasing AI. I firmly believe that LLMs in their current form cannot even achieve AGI. We need to break past barriers like not thinking in tokens and a model having a sense of prediction semi independent of its output.

Truly, even with the current level of AI, we should be concerned how people should learn. This is true of adults, but incredibly important for children. Should we become dependent on these tools to the point where we feel like we can't achieve our day-to-day work?

Re:An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:36PM (#49457369)
I know I'm worried when they're going to start mandating client-side scanning of 3D prints.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-cali...

Why do models need to even "think"/recompute in tokens?
I find this kind of free-phasing completely ridiculous. Just ask anyone that's had a kidney transfer that did not work out. I'm pretty sure they considered a failure, not just a disappointment.
It was not my intent to undercut cryptography as a field or in its use. Consider client side scanning for photos before they're encrypted and uploaded to the cloud. I see no difference AI's future. Content, maybe encrypted, but a form of client-side scanning, or the model itself, will report users.
Encryption or not, if it's on somebody else's server, it isn't yours. I don't believe Google has my best interest.
Re:Pixel Watch 5 adds a feature Apple Watch desperately needs on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:14AM (#49281739)
If only I didn't have to give my health data to Google or Apple, but keep it locally on my phone and export it.
Re:16GB EGPU for AI Inference, $699 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:12AM (#49281729)
You're better off with a single card, like intel arc pro b70 with 32 gigabytes of VRAM unless you need something external. You're going to lose quite a bit of performance over thunderbolt. However, Nvidia still is king for its ecosystem.
Re:Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:03AM (#49258597)
I tend to value person-to-person interaction. I've received a lot of purely automated responses, which shows low value to me as a person, and ultimately the project. I'm not disagreeing that code matters, but we're losing person-to-person discourse and the community that comes with it.

Thinking it through a little bit is probably coming from having bounties on a few issues that might be contributing to my negative experience.

Re:Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:48AM (#49256751)
It can be very exhausting to receive a lot of PRs. especially when they're LLMs. We have to read what people don't often even read themselves. They're often very wordy. Then it hurts all the more when it's wrong.
Re:Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700? on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:36PM (#49223943)
You say that as it's in the past, have you moved on to something else?
I don't understand why apps need to know anything about a specific age. If we have to go down this road, which I really don't, why can't we just simply have verification whether or not an age fits within a range better yet a category. Yes, age can still be inferred, for example, under 21 or over 21.
I appreciate your reply. So its value really comes down to the cost and not really its openness. You might be thinking, well, it's because it's open that I can have such a low cost, but that's not really what the user thinks when looking at the web page.
It's got the word 'open' everywhere, yet it doesn't show any documentation about self-hosting. Functionally, it might as well be closed-sourced sass using PaddleOCR-VL.
Re:New US homeownership measure puts people first on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:44PM (#48998794)
For context, mine are close to 3 grand a year. For plot, just big enough to fit the home and a little yard in town
Re:New US homeownership measure puts people first on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:42PM (#48998769)
> I really don't feel great how people in high density housing subsidize home ownership costs for the people in the burbs.

That's a good point, and it's why I qualified my statement by saying under a certain income. You say high density as if it's a bad thing.

Re:New US homeownership measure puts people first on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:55AM (#48994012)
Get rid of property tax or somebody below a certain income.

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