MHLoppy

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Fedia.io celebrates We Love The King Day

 

Saying the plight of white South African farmers affected him on a deeply personal level, President Donald Trump issued a statement Thursday in which he shared his own experiences as a victim of white genocide. “I’ve kept quiet about my past out of a fear that I could still be persecuted, but I too know what it’s like to live under a Black president who wants to see your entire race destroyed,” said Trump, adding that he had narrowly survived the attempt to eradicate white people and their culture by hiding for months in his 126-room Palm Beach resort. [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I've recently had trouble using aussie.zone (lemmy) from fedia - is it possible that was accidental collateral damage somehow?

https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=fedia.io&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone&from=now-7d&to=now

 

Senior citizens are targeted by a wide variety of scams, but this is the most heartless, scummy con we’ve heard about yet: Scammers tricked this elderly woman into buying the Cleveland Browns. [...]

 

The United Nations has cautioned that there may soon be no new phrases left to distract from what is happening in Gaza, with thesauruses across the globe stretched to breaking point.

“Terms such as ‘military presence’, ‘voluntary immigration’ and ‘bombs are falling’ have done a lot of heavy lifting since the ‘conflict’ started. But as reporting on the ‘humanitarian crisis,’ continues, people may be looking for new terms,” a UN spokesperson explained. [...]

 

In this video, we'll talk about NVIDIA's last several months of pressure to talk about DLSS more frequently in reviews, plus MFG 4X pressure from the company. NVIDIA has repeatedly made comments to GN that interviews, technical discussion, and access to engineers unrelated to MFG 4X and DLSS are made possible by talking about MFG 4X and DLSS. NVIDIA has explicitly stated that this type of content is made "possible" by benchmarking MFG 4X in reviews specifically, despite us separately and independently covering it in other videos, and has made repeated attempts to get multiplied framerate numbers into its benchmark charts. We will not play those games. In the time since, NVIDIA has offered certain unqualified media outlets access to drivers which actual qualified reviewers do not have access to, but allegedly only under the premise of publishing "previews" of the RTX 5060 in advance of its launch. Some outlets were given access to drivers specifically to publish what we believe are puff pieces and marketing while reviewers were blocked.


Related coverage from Hardware Unboxed: YouTube (also available in written form: TechSpot)

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago

I know a lot of people won't read the content, so to quote an important bit:

While admittedly we have to cherry-pick examples where the B580 can beat the 8GB 5060 Ti, it is insane that such examples even exist. Under no circumstances should a new RTX 5060-class GPU priced around $400 end up slower than the B580.

It makes the title feel a bit sensationalist, as bad as a US$400 8GB GPU is

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh hey, you got unbanned 👀

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

because ABC and Guardian want everything to be part of a live blog apparently

ABC tends to release a standalone article later (which they have now for this), but I think the live blog thing is supposed to capture the feeling of watching the news unfold on TV except in written form ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the atrocious webp format

I continue to be confused by the level of widespread hate WebP still gets. It's old enough to be widely (albeit not universally) supported in software like web browsers, but new enough to provide similar-or-better (usually better) lossless compression than PNG (21,578 bytes for the original image) and typically better lossy compression than JPEG at comparable perceived quality, especially for the types of images typically shared on the internet (rather than say, images saved directly from a DLSR camera). It's why servers bother to re-encode JPEG images to WebP for delivery - they wouldn't bother wasting the compute time to re-compress if it wasn't generally worth doing.

I can understand it if we were, say, 10-15 years ago when the format was still not super widely supported yet, but that's basically where we are with JPEG XL and AVIF support right now too. If one of these two had exactly the level of support that WebP does right now then yes, of course we should probably use one of them instead - but we're not there yet. Until we are, WebP often has the best compromise between compatibility and compression efficiency as far as image formats go, and that's why a lot of sites do this re-compression thing using WebP. I gave some examples using digital art (one of the things I was compressing a lot at the time) a year ago in a related discussion: https://lemmy.world/post/6665251/4462007

A news website local to me recently-ish started choosing to deliver AVIF-compressed (or probably re-compressed) images the same way a lot of sites currently do it for WebP because my browser supports AVIF, so at least we are starting to see a token amount of uptake on the next-gen formats in the wild.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

The vibe of just friends chilling and playing games is a lot of what I loved about Myth </3

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

The comment I specifically replied to was about how the Greens aren't a single issue party, hence my confusion 😅

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Did you misread or misunderstand the article?!? That is literally ruled out as part of its opening salvo

 

The Greens’ federal election result has been widely condemned as a “disaster”.

The party has been all but wiped out in the House of Representatives. It has lost three of its four members, including leader Adam Bandt, who has just conceded his once safe seat of Melbourne. This leaves the Brisbane electorate of Ryan as the Greens’ only remaining seat in the lower house.

Yet the tired explanations being rolled out – the party is too extreme, too obstructionist, too distant from a mythical single-issue environmentalist past – misidentify the party’s dilemmas.

And they overlook the fact the Greens’ influence will be greater in the new parliament, at least in the Senate.


(The author seems to be in a pretty unique position to comment, given that they literally wrote a PhD thesis on the Greens a few years ago)

 

In short:

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's defection to the Liberal Party has been criticised by some insiders as an attempt to assist the party's conservative wing.

But she says the Liberal Party needs strong people "more than ever" in the wake of its election loss.

What's next?

The Liberal Party is expected to meet at 10am on Tuesday in Canberra to elect a leader of the opposition and a deputy.

 

Whale vocalizations, or “whale songs,” have long fascinated biologists and nature lovers alike, but while it’s been theorized that the hauntingly beautiful “music” some whales produce aids in sexual selection, there hasn’t been a clear consensus as to its purpose. Well, all of that just changed, as marine biologists have revealed that whale songs are the whale equivalent of online hate speech.

 

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Promising to lift export controls on AI chips if they received the rare first-edition trading card in return, U.S. trade negotiators reportedly offered China access to advanced semiconductors Tuesday in exchange for a holographic Charizard. “We’ll give you state-of-the-art Nvidia GPUs if you give us a PSA 10 Gem Mint holographic Charizard,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said to a Chinese trade representative, later explaining to reporters that the Trump administration hoped to shore up America’s complete set of the original 151 and was willing to part with its most sophisticated machine-learning processors to achieve that goal.

 

LNP Senator James McGrath has weighed in on the upcoming Liberal leadership ballot, saying he is “cautiously optimistic” of Harold Holt’s chances of being returned from the dead and clinching the top spot.

“I think it’s a little bit premature to be making predictions about who might be the next Liberal Leader when we don’t know yet if Harold Holt will be returning to the party and throwing his hat in the ring. We need to consider all possibilities and we can’t start rushing to any fairyland judgements,” McGrath said.

 

Fresh from his election victory, the prime minister takes on the Greens for blocking key policies in the Senate, singling out one MP who lost his seat at the election.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fair point hahaha

 

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

This has individual versions for each of the four EN branches (plus a version from pre-Justice), which I thought was extra neat 📸

edit: lord almighty this one's thumbnail didn't even work on .world

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw an unconfirmed rumor floating around (which I didn't look into but which I imagine could maybe be done semi-done using like LinkedIn and that sort of thing?) that a significant amount of the GPU driver team was laid off in one of the prior culls, with the rumor implicitly saying that was why the driver overhead thing didn't really get addressed.

Kinda worried about long-term support on the driver front if the company as a whole is still generally struggling, especially with that unconfirmed rumor which may or may not be substantially true in mind X_X

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