Under normal circumstances I wouldn't expect any privacy between processes on a desktop OS under the same UID.

If you use Chrome's password manager on Windows your password database is unlocked with your password upon login and is available to every process you run.

There's only so much you can do, as an app, to protect against OS deficiencies.

The desktop app on Windows is a sacrifice of security for convenience.

That's what they said about Internet Explorer right up until the moment where Microsoft wanted everyone to switch to Edge. Not only could you suddenly uninstall it, but it even started uninstalling itself!

Funny how that happens

I don't know if they're conflating rendering with display or just assuming those GPU are at max TDP 24/7, but they're way off on actual energy consumption.

There seems to be a lot of recent articles attacking datacenters, particularly those involved in LLM "ai" work. This feels like one of those articles.

I'm not saying we shouldn't keep them in check, but I also don't like being manipulated by "grass roots initiative" marketing companies, particularly on Lemmy.

Unfortunately they've recently stopped doing this. It was a great way to stick it to the man though

Using the max power use of a video card to math this is ridiculous. It's not at full TDP pushing this content. They aren't playing max FPS 3D raytraced gaming, they're playing videos.

It's one thing to make a tool accomplish a task.

It's another thing to beat the engineers until grandma can operate the tool.

I didn't like the guy either, and found it funny that his own bullshit killed him in the end, but he did add "value".

We did fine without it for a very long time. We still do with a lot of software. It's called voluntarily submitting a bug report and/or core dump.

The problem with Windows Updates is that they force new 'features' on you along with the patches.

With Linux you get to choose how bleeding edge you want to be, and can generally avoid the monetization crap.

His point wasn't to find a CPU, it was to make a political post in a tech community.

Spot on. The availability of CSAM was overblown by a well funded special interest group (Exodus Cry). The articles about it were pretty much ghost written by them.

When you're the biggest company in porn you've got a target on your back. In my opinion they removed all user content to avoid even the appearance of supporting CSAM, not because they were guilty of anything.

PornHub has been very open about normalizing healthy sexuality for years, while also providing interesting data access for both scientists and the general public.

"Exodus Cry is an American Christian non-profit advocacy organization seeking the abolition of the legal commercial sex industry, including pornography, strip clubs, and sex work, as well as illegal sex trafficking.[2] It has been described by the New York Daily News,[3] TheWrap,[4] and others as anti-LGBT, with ties to the anti-abortion movement.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

I think it's more likely that someone is trying to keep competitors from mining it for a short term advantage

TeamViewer sold out long ago, formed a new company (AnyDeak), fooled us all, sold out again, and there's still people trying to use the same business plan.

There's zero money being spent on security, this is pure profit extraction.

It is opt in. someone didn't read.

Do you really think the concerns about encampments are all from rent seeking landlords?

Here in Minneapolis it's the number of murders, gang violence (territory), rape, and human trafficking.

Second tier issues are overdoses, fires, sanitation (which doesn't sound like much until you see the people with fingers and toes rotting off), and crime rates increasing as they try to make enough money to feed their drug habits.

It's a very complex issue. Much more complex than "the landlords are upset people aren't paying rent".

Software radios can do many things that are against the rules, the governing bodies only care about how they're actually being used for the most part.

Also, the measurements are over time. It's possible to exceed the total allowed in short bursts.

It's called preaching to the choir. We are not your target audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas

Shocking that the ex reddit crowd doesn't want to call out Google for adding "diverse" to everyone's queries, no matter the results.

/s

They're just bad at rotating stock 🤣

There are other protocols on the internet you know..