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  • Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

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  • I'm not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.

    And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.

    That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.

  • I Miss Native Email

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  • This was the major reason for me not to consider Proton (before the CEO was a dick online). Besides, what good is encryption if every service sends them unencrypted mails anyway? I now went with mailbox.org and it has been great with Thunderbird on PC and Android.

  • What's New with Firefox 142

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  • Make your New Tab feel like home

    Me switching it to about:blank as the first thing after installing firefox since forever: Okay, thanks!

  • Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

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  • I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new "open-source" driver only supports the RTX cards.

  • Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

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  • Nope, 900 and 1000 series have little hope of being properly supported. They require signed firmware which seems to be problem and are not new enough for the "open-source" solution from Nvidia for new cards.

  • Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work?

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  • Hm from reading more on it, I think it has more to do with droughts in the area. That is why they build the desalination plant in the first place. I assume using the residual energy of the saline gradient (+ the boost from the brine) to generate new freshwater is better than further draining the naturally occuring freshwater. But still just a guess.

  • Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work?

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  • Definitely not shitting on the tech, it's a really cool concept and definitely useful. I just wish news outlets would have asked how the cycle is beneficial. I don't doubt that it is, but I don't get it.

  • Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work?

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  • I mean the part in the picture is clear to me. But if we assume freshwater is freely available, why would they want to power a desalination plant with the generated power? Basically you can trade freshwater (or salinity gradient generally) for power or power for freshwater. But in a simple loop you'd only lose both over time due to inefficiency.

  • Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work?

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  • I did not quite get how it's a good idea tbh. They need freshwater to dilute the saltwater/brine. And they use it to separate the brine from saltwater to make freshwater? That's definitely an energy negative cycle. So what's the benefit? Is this more energy efficient then cleaning waste water into freshwater?

  • Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report

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  • Did they forget about the time a Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed his plane to commit suicide?

  • European Commission slams US censorship attacks on EU tech laws as ‘nonsense’

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  • It's always slam-a-clock somewhere 😎

  • “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

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  • As of a few weeks ago, a lot of ChatGpt logs got leaked via search indexing. So privacy was never really a concern for OpenAI, let's be real.

    And it doesn't matter what they think what type of platform they run. Altman himself talks about it replacing therapy and how it can do everything. So in a reasonable world he'd have ungodly, personal liability for this shit. But let's see were it will go.

  • “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

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  • And that human would go to jail

  • Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

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  • Welp I guess Android and iOS are becoming more alike. Just not in the direction I'd have liked.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • Well, Wikipedia describes it sufficiently vague: "a database is an organized collection of data". But is a linked list on its own a database? I'd say the blockchain itself is the data structure but any software using it is most likely a database.

  • Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

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  • Will just F-Droid have to do this or any app developer? If it's the latter, I guess might as well go with an unofficial OS...

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • Good summary, a few additions from my side:

    • Being public is not required. E.g. banks could form an internal block chain shared only with other banks.
    • Blockchains are a database. An immutable and usually distributed database.

  • EXPOSING The Billion Dollar SECRET VPN Companies Are Hiding

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  • You just move your trust from your ISP to the VPN.

  • Cartographers!

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  • One of those happy 1307 here. But I'm surprised street complete isn't shown.