Okay, fine. Ben Eater’s 8-bit breadboard computer is the fastest fully-trustworthy computer you can build, with which you can write your own C compiler to bootstrap Linux on your old Opteron server.

Fun fact: an Asus KGPE-D16 flashed with Libreboot and populated with two Opteron 63XX chips is, as far as I can tell, the fastest fully-trustworthy computer you can buy.

The undocumented immigrants aka the “criminals”

Optimistic. I interpreted it as depicting straight-up convict leasing.

An entire article and thread and so far not even a single mention of RepRap? Being able to print the motors was like the single biggest hurdle left for that project!

IIRC, the last time I used a new install of LO for the first time, it asked me which interface I preferred instead of defaulting to the old one.

I don’t like the guy’s breathless over-enthusiasm, but NetworkChuck has a video on how to integrate LLM-based voice assistants with HomeAssistant using Whisper and Ollama.

Does anyone really think he did it by accident due to sheer incompetence, as opposed to on purpose as a component of some kind of crime (fraud, money laundering, etc.)?

A C compiler in two weeks is a difficult, but doable, grad school class project (especially if you use lex and yacc instead of hand-coding the parser). And I guarantee 80 hours of grad student time costs less than $20k.

Frankly, I’m not impressed with the presentation in your anecdote at all.

I understand they say the modified ads are offensive, but it’s still kind of annoying that the article doesn’t include any side-by-side comparisons so we can see how bad it actually is.

Also, after getting blown off by their bullshit “highest internal team,” the developer needs to escalate to their legal department by suing for defamation.

I typically sort by “top six hours” and I’m barely aware of the problem OP is talking about. So yeah, it seems like downvoting works.

Sounds to me like the other effective remedy for you would be changing instances. Downvotes exist for a good reason and disabling them is harmful.

How can I ever thank ya?

(Seriously though that is actually the brand and capacity I need to match my existing array, although a red instead of a blue would be ideal.)

One HDD, please

Which is why using it should be considered harmful and everyone should say “Free Software” instead.

No, realistically what we’re looking at is a full ban on 3D printing as a whole because anything the printer does “might” be a gun part.

And then shortly after, a ban on property rights as a whole, because anything you own with a circuit board or a stepper motor in it “might” be modified to create an illegal 3D printer.

…And even then, they’re leveraging the open source under the hood. Even your locked-down Bambu piece of shit uses slicing software based on Slic3r.

I don’t see how this can be regulated.

That’s the neat part: it can’t. Which means attempting to do so anyway basically abolishes all property rights.

And thus the true purpose of the legislation is revealed.

It is nothing less than, I say without exaggeration, a war on property rights as a whole.

That was way more accurate and intelligent than this. Like orders of magnitude.

peertube… maybe with torrents?

That’s already how it works.

There are so many people who worry about Peertube’s viability because of bandwidth costs – or straight-up claim it’s impossible – because they don’t realize it’s already a solved problem.