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multiplewolves

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1/6th scale figures and minis; tech

  • SODIMM-to-DIMM adapters offer a workaround for DDR5 price hikes

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  • I bought a little 32 GB kit (x2 16GB) of DDR4 in February for ~$56; It is now $193.82, or about three and a half times the earlier price, so I’m going to have to agree with you that it isn’t really better (and may actually be worse for DDR5). I bought a refurb laptop this autumn with DDR5 RAM because it cost only slightly more than the individual kit would have been (and it came with a TB SSD and reasonable CPU, but has on-board graphics).

    If SODIMM were much cheaper, it might be worth the performance degradation to use an adapter, but as it stands, I don’t think it is. If it comes down to what’s available to someone on an individual basis, it could be a good option.

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  • I think they may benefit from relaxing their hardware requirements across the board in a cost of living crisis. The CPU list — no rules to determine if your CPU is valid, there’s just a list of acceptable ones — is particularly hostile imo.

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  • There was an older senior engineer at a company I used to work for who insisted on referring to non-technical staff as “business critters”, and it made everything he said sound sarcastic and condescending.

    So I do get where you’re coming from.

    While I shorten Microsoft to avoid algorithmic and AI attention, I can see how it may detract from my comment. It isn’t a “20-year-old meme that was only leveraged by teenagers when WinXP was retired” — it may seem that way to you, but everyone I know in tech types it for the aforementioned reasons and because it’s faster.

    Microsoft has proven repeatedly that they are a hostile, monopolistic force in the tech sphere, actively and successfully lobbying to retain their stranglehold on desktop and productivity markets. They support genocide and silence internal opposition at all costs. It is not an argument in poor faith to point that out. They are motivated solely by money and always have been. They are not a good entity in the tech space for anyone who prioritizes user experience, privacy, non-violence, security, and accessibility.

    While I appreciate your input, and will strongly consider limiting my use of that abbreviation in “mixed” tech spaces, I cannot and will not pretend that Microsoft deserves better.

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  • OP has indicated they’re hostile to advice, which is unfortunate since, assuming a person insists on keeping Windows, they need to switch to Win 11 for best security practice.

    Your advice is good. I hope they read it.

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  • I replied in earnest and was thanked with an immediate downvote. Your response is the right one: This is a technology space, let’s support contributions that keep that in mind. This was a dull read expressing nothing but a backwards mentality.

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  • I get the frustration, but at this point, Windows 10 is no longer supported and the push to get people off of it is partially related to the inevitable flood of hacking that follows an OS deprecation. Vulnerabilities are immediately exploitable for any user still on the old OS.

    Microsoft is indeed evil, and Windows 11 sucks, but running an unsupported OS carries real risk. I agree that there should be some way to finalize the decision to keep using it and to waive liability for Microsoft, but of course they’re motivated to get you to switch. There are means of bypassing the hardware requirements. There are also some very well-supported and user-friendly Linux options.

    Win 10 is ten years old. It’s time to let it go.

  • What does Oracle actually do? Take other businesses' data hostage for profit | Good Work [11:47]

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  • I can chime in here with “my former employer hired a full-time lawyer after being sued by Oracle over something trivial”. Company of less than 200. They settled and they still have at least one permanent legal staffer.

  • 'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web

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  • An interesting but frustrating read. I agree with the complaints, but lament the lack of concrete plans to fix any of it. One wonders if we’re all waiting for someone else to create the vision.

  • The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street

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  • Edit: here’s one: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf

    I think they threw it behind a login wall because it was getting hit so hard.

    Original url: https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf

    All instances of the link in public either reroute to the main NANDA page or have been replaced by the access form to request access to the research.

    I think that lead author Aditya Challapally may still have an industry job and I wonder if his employer (M$) objected.

  • Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

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  • It isn’t totally false; the claim that the use of the generic masculine is the result of or may have been informed by sexism is based on the fact that it hasn’t always been that way.

    Here is a more nuanced and better take:

    The generic masculine in modern English is a recent development, as you noted: English used the non-gendered "they" for groups of people and hypothetical/non-specific individuals until prescriptive efforts arose to make it more like Latin. (You can find lots of traces of these prescriptive efforts in modern English: "don't split infinitives" and "don't strand prepositions" are similar rules imposed to make English more like Latin, which are still taught in schools but most people don't really follow.)

    Source

  • Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users

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  • Mattel partnered with Adobe to use supposedly copyright-cleared AI-generated imagery for the backgrounds in some of their collector edition Barbie boxes last year.

    They were spanked so hard by the collecting community over it that they followed a now-deleted suggestion from one Redditor to start explicitly crediting the packaging designer on each information page for new collector releases.

    Mattel has a strange history with balancing what the people want with what their shareholders want.

    Edited to correct word choice

  • A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man

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  • From NPR:

    …using several AI tools, Wales' husband and Yentzer managed to create a convincing video using about a 4.5-minute-video of Pelkey, his funeral photo and a script that Wales prepared

    Emphasis mine.

  • A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man

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  • This was not testimony. It was part of the victim impact statement and was scripted by his sister. AI was only used to recreate the voice and visage. I am usually a fan of 404 Media, but that should be explicitly stated.

    The use of the word “testimony” is not entirely accurate in the sense that that term is used in court.

  • A new 3-D display lets you reach in and touch virtual objects

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  • Reminds me of this research from a few years ago, though the technical aspects of that are hard to find online. It seems much less interactive than this, but contains some precursor concepts about manipulating a shared projection of a physical object.

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  • Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy

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  • security researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that implementing so-called "lawful" backdoors is inherently flawed as such vulnerabilities would inevitably be discovered, accessed, and exploited by cybercriminals and black-hat hackers.

    Yes, that. Every time this comes up, it requires a rehashing of just how dramatically bad it is as a practice. There’s no such thing as a “back door only for the good guys”

    Notably, the European Commission makes no mention of new partnership initiatives with the United States.

    Probably wise.

  • Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy

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  • Nailed it. This platform needs awards.

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