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87 votes
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Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X
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Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico
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ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
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Is Nebula worth it?
Is anyone here using https://nebula.tv? Multiple creators I watch are on there, and I'm considering getting a subscription, but I'm just not sure if it's really worth it. Most channels on there...
Is anyone here using https://nebula.tv? Multiple creators I watch are on there, and I'm considering getting a subscription, but I'm just not sure if it's really worth it. Most channels on there don't seem to upload any exclusive content, so I'll basically just get the same videos but for $5/month instead of for free. I've also heard that the app and UX isn't that great.
People who use the service, what makes it worth it for you? Is it just a way to support the creators more?
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ProtonMail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
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UK becomes first country to outlaw easily guessable default passwords on connected devices
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US Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages
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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
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Baltimore high school athletic director used AI to create fake racist audio of principal: Police
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A lawsuit argues Meta is required by law to let you control your own feed
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‘TunnelVision’ attack leaves nearly all VPNs vulnerable to spying
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Standard Notes and Proton are joining forces
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Reddit shares soar 14% after company reports revenue pop in debut earnings report
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AT&T announces $7 monthly add-on fee for “Turbo” 5G speeds
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Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along
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Bitwarden transitions from Manifest V2 to V3
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Colorado lawmakers approve broad, nation-leading Right to Repair law
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Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to strengthen the world’s most popular large language models
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Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze?
Fellow PC builders, here's a fun one for you. I took some "old" and no-longer-used PC parts and built my sister-in-law a gaming PC for her and her stepdaughter to use. It was a Christmas gift so...
Fellow PC builders, here's a fun one for you.
I took some "old" and no-longer-used PC parts and built my sister-in-law a gaming PC for her and her stepdaughter to use. It was a Christmas gift so the stepdaughter could play the Sims.
She has called me three times to tell me it's completely frozen - like hard locked, dead freeze, screen is displaying the last frame it was on but you can't interact with the PC in any way until you reset it with the power button.
She let it sit for an hour before she gave up. Two times this happened while stepdaughter was playing the Sims 4 and once it happened while my brother-in-law was watching YouTube videos.
Obviously, I went through the usual things you'd think in this situation and I had her bring the PC over so I could do some digging. Fully expecting to find a hardware issue, I tried the following:
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I ran the Sims while also watching multiple YouTube videos in the background. Couldn't replicate the issue after about two hours.
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I obviously checked the temperatures while gaming and YouTubing, checked the usual performance metrics and everything was great.
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Ran OTTC stress tests - all of them. Under heavy loads, this thing was doing fine. Even at 100% utilization, the memory, graphics card, and cpu were fine. Did a power test too, fine. Did a "combined" stress test and all was fine.
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Ran mem86, no issues with the memory, no bad sectors or errors.
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Played Skyrim on ultra for several hours. This was a really fun way to troubleshoot.
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Checked the event log from the day she had freezes. I can see where the event happened because leading up to the unexpected "power off" event, there were a ton of events related to various processes timing out. Seems like it was unable to connect with services and run certain background processes while it was frozen? I didn't see anything that really stood out to me as being a possible cause except...
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in the event viewer, there were a few events related to Microsoft family safety. I set this up at the request of SIL so stepdaughter wouldn't get into anything she shouldn't. In the Event Viewer, it seems like maybe it wasn't verifying something correctly or didn't have permissions it needed? Upon Googling, I found some other folks with this error but I couldn't find anything about whether it caused freezing or not. Seems like one of the many events that just gives a warning but doesn't have any effect. One guy who had this issue had his computer freeze but disabling the family safety entirely did nothing. People in the comments thought it probably wasn't related. I also found another event that Google wasn't very helpful with. Might have been related to sound card but my sound card drivers are up to date and again, I have not been able to replicate the issue even when gaming and watching videos, so I don't know if it's related.
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I ran the Windows System Files Checker and found no issues related to my Windows install.
I can't figure out why this would be happening only at her house. She says it froze after one hour of use every time. This brings me to the title of this post. My SIL moved into a really old house with sketchy wiring. My FIL told her the wiring is so bad that she needs to get it fixed immediately or risk a fire, so she's working on that. This house has a butler stairway, asbestos, and plaster/lathe walls if that tells you what we're dealing with here. This is the ONLY thing I can think of that would possibly be different between the two setups and maybe explain the freezing, but it just seems so unlikely to me that this is the cause.
Help?
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US v. Google: As landmark 'monopoly power' trial closes, here's what to look for
21 votes -
It's not just TikTok. ByteDance has a variety of apps that could also be banned.
21 votes -
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
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Generative AI for Krita
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The surprising reason few Americans are getting chips jobs now
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Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted
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Was there a trojan horse hidden in Section 230 all along that could enable adversarial interoperability?
16 votes -
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men
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Case before Norway's Supreme Court claims that depriving sex offender of a Snapchat account is unlawful under the European Convention on Human Rights
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Hallucination-free RAG: Making LLMs safe for healthcare
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OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography
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Microsoft readies new AI model to compete with Google, OpenAI
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Funding shortfall for new tech endangers rural cell service, US FCC says
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Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for Atari 2600
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From Tildes to Reddit to Mastodon - the current state of "Text Rich" social networks on the Interwebs
The nature of social networks is very dynamic in nature. About two decades ago, who would have thought that the leading "text rich" social network sites like Tildes, Mastodon, etc. would be so...
The nature of social networks is very dynamic in nature. About two decades ago, who would have thought that the leading "text rich" social network sites like Tildes, Mastodon, etc. would be so popular today? Especially when Reddit had just taken some some baby steps and was mostly considered the hipster's town square sometime in late 2000s. What do you think will happen by the next decade?
By "text rich" I mean networks where textual content is of the primary focus, other media formats like images and videos are usually secondary. Even with Reddit's flashy new interface and all, their main focus is still on text content which is good. I think one great thing about this kind of content is that it is refreshingly creative and original, and gives you an opportunity to have intellectually fulfilling discussions - which is quite rare on other kinds of networks.
Summarily, below is a brief list of such networks which are doing a fabulous job in letting us exchange ideas and share useful information:
- Tildes.net
- Old Reddit
- lobste.rs
- news.ycombinator.com
- slashdot.org
- mastodon.social
- Discuit
- hubski.com
- metafilter.com
Feel free to suggest more, we need more of them!
7 votes -
Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app
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The Intel NUC replacement is here! GEEKOM MiniAir 12 review
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Telegram creator on Elon Musk, resisting FBI attacks, and getting mugged in California
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Meet Sparkles
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Confused about headphone impedance
I have a guitar multi effects that has a headphone out with 47Ω I want a budget somewhat neutral headphone to use with it and I am getting confused with the answers I found so far. The AKG K240...
I have a guitar multi effects that has a headphone out with 47Ω
I want a budget somewhat neutral headphone to use with it and I am getting confused with the answers I found so far.
The AKG K240 mk2 (55Ω) seems to be a popular choice with people who own another multi effects (HX Stomp) with a different impedance (I think it's 12Ω).
This headphone is within my budget, but it seems too close to the 47 output of my multifx.
Will I have a problem with this?
I read somewhere that the headphone impedance should be much bigger than the output impedance, but another text I read somewhere explained that they should match closely.
I'm really confused about this.
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Emoji history: The missing years
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AI video throwdown: OpenAI’s Sora vs. Runway and Pika
3 votes