Kind of nuts how the reaction to being empathetic about everything is leading to the extremely antisocial reaction of empathising about nothing and treating empathy as a weakness
Interesting how that happened

@mint the funny thing is Hetzner used to take them seriously now they just go "here's what we legally have to send you" they even say "don't bother sending a response" I think the BSI just annoys them with every little thing possible because I guess they have nothing better to do

@bajax open DNS resolvers are massive abuse vectors, since UDP is stateless you can just fake the origin of a DNS request and bombard anyone you want with nonsense responses. It's called reflection or amplification and it's a common DDOS vector

@lain the unemployed

@mischievoustomato bro do you need that many tabs jfc

@mischievoustomato apparently chrome can just pretend it's an mp4, lmao. It's not supposed to be supported
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21192713/how-to-playback-mkv-video-in-web-browser

@mischievoustomato browsers have never supported mkv
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Formats/Video_codecs

Hetzner emails me almost once a week about the German authorities complaining about my open DNS resolver. It's just really annoying

Some of you are alright don't come to the goon cave tomorrow

This is just 90% talking about troubleshooting because I did not feel like writing anything else https://blog.froth.zone/sam/blogust-xxviii-a-premonition-of-a-storm-of-writing

@fwc @benis_redux @wertimer @i @mint Depends on your use case?
Gaming? Absolutely, the 9070 XT is basically a 5070 Ti but cheaper (if either are available for MSRP yet)
GPGPU? If whatever you're using supports ROCm, it's probably fine for normal use cases. Otherwise many things (like most ML/AI stuff) are still exclusively CUDA.

No idea about the more middle range stuff

@mint @benis_redux @wertimer @i some 4060 Tis, Nvidia sold 8 GB 4060 Tis because they love product segmentation
The 6070 will probably still have 8-12 GB of VRAM in the era where 16 is barely enough (t. has 16 GB GPU) because Nvidia just does not care since all of their money is in the data centre

@benis_redux @sam THIS GUY

@benis_redux The funny thing is the best EVs are in China because China actually cared about them beyond wanking about the environment but they're illegal to bring into countries like the US.

IMO the concept is fine it's held back by battery technology that sucks. Lithium-Ion batteries are better than what came before but they're still degrading bombs that lose a third of their capacity when cold. Nothing about how the actual solution to pollution caused by EVs is having fewer cars full stop needed here

@benis_redux EVs are an actual thing unlike AGI

@wertimer @benis_redux time travel back to like 10 years ago and start working on LLMs

@benis_redux I hate that you're right

@bajax to Steve and Bill's credit, what they helped work on made money. Even Thiel and Musk made money because PayPal, despite all its faults, makes money. AI does not make anyone who makes it money except Nvidia.

I seriously cannot tell if listening to Altman talk if he is smart enough to lie, is surrounded by sycophants that never tell him bad things, or he is just that stupid

@benis_redux the gay tech bro mafia needs to be stopped