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My late-2008-vintage, head-bunting, household deity. His favorite activities include lording over everyone, reminding us he deserves cheese, and weighting-down laps for extended periods of time. He had to go get his vaccinations this last weekend, and has finally forgiven me.

this thread is absolutely adorable 💜

Harvey is enjoying the SoCal weather's return to form this week.

I got this off eBay. Mostly as a joke.
Well they're here and making a stack on my desk. I got a bonus 8th one too!
 
However I can't currently power them all. I don't have enough power cables.
So I purchased these along with some 18awg wire (collectively the ATVs draw 0.4 amps from the wall).
Going to create the most cursed power cable of all time. Probably going to make a rackmount shelf for them all too (that's why I got the C14 connector, for my PDU)

Avata 2
 

Finally got my Astro A10 headset that was on backorder since 2 months ago.
I love it, totally worth the wait.
 

Mobo: Rog Strix z790-e Gaming
CPU: i7 13700k
Ram: Corsair vengeance DDR5 16x2
All Samsung m.2 storage 500mb (for OS), two 2tb drives for games
GPU: MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super
 
Loved having enough space to put some Lego flair inside the case (not to worry, I didn't cover up any of the slots exposing the heat sink for the GPU)

Peak agrarian style these days
 

Cool PC. I like the silver cases, but I kept thinking of two things.
 
This would be an instant red flag to me, if my hypothetical husband said something like that and gave me no explanations. And I wouldn't do the same to him if I was married.
 
And complaining about a computer taking up space when the table is full of random items 🤔 reminded me of this lol

 
 
Sorry.

After years of circling it like a cat hot porridge: 3D-printer. A week ago to be exact but got it today.
 
Sovol SV07 Plus.

I have to say, I am disappointed. I excepted to spent at least couple days troubleshooting and tweaking and it was just going through the manual and the bloody thing just works. Just a bit G-code tweaking so the homing doesn't go haywire after the print head stucks to the print.
 
Good thing everything else took a while.
Decided to not spend 80€ or something for ready made drybox because "saving" money and just DIY that thing:

Costed probably more than 80€ if you include getting Zigbee based smart home hub and climate sensor for it just to escape the horrors that would have become from me trying to make a hole to read some digital thermo-humidity-meter (just look at that beautiful smearing of silicon to make a casket for the lid). But it will hold a lot of filaments and good 12% humidity with only metering consuming power, 2x1kg of reusable silica gel bags should be enough for a long time and when they stop, just few times few minutes in microwave.
At least the concrete block was cheaper than I expected.
 
Now just need to figure out how I could connect to the fluidd/mainsail with phone remotely. Was kind of hoping NordVPN's Meshnet would do it but of course it doesn't support Android phones jumping to the local network through Windows.

received my hdmi switch in the morning, hooked it up just now. As my monitor only 1 hdmi port and vga quality is not the best (as we obviously know), this was my best resort. It came at a good price of Rs.340 (4$) including shipping.

Bro that's sick. I only find rusty prebuilts with bullet holes in them 🤪

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6 Pack kirby vacuum bags

Picked up this deepcool LD360 to replace my 3 year old gammaxx L360. tore whole system apart as it was overdue a clean. cooler was nice and easy to install, but i have to wait until a female to female 5v rgb adapter arrives to get my other 10 fans lit up.
 
Managed to clean up wiring alot in the front of the case so wires are more hidden, will be finilasing cable management tomorrow when adapter turns up.
 
now i just need to find a decent gen 4 nvme to finish setup.....

Oh well, there goes my plan of escaping south america in a rowboat to become a McDonalds cashier in the USA. Dammit.
Then it's not like a huuuuge problem. I still think it's a pretty shitty move to take advantage of desperate teens looking for a job and siphon their biometrics out in exchange for what, a minimum wage? not worth it imo. But the same could apply to banks, and uhh... phones? yeah, users hand out their fingerprints to Google and Apple in exchange for a new shiny slab, I dunno, still looks like a pretty bad deal to me.

Summary
 A US state government has proposed a law requiring retroactively that generative AI models have their training data sources disclosed. 
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
 This is nothing but good IMO. If we start requiring AI models to disclose what data they have ingested, we will have better quality models that can be checked against biases, and highlight which models are likely to result in output being lawsuit bait from purposely scraping/ripping commercial websites of non-free UGC material and other UGC sources. 
 
What I predict, is that if it does become law, commercial use of AI (eg ChatGPT) might slow down because the need to disclose will reveal which models have ingested copyrighted material should the output of an AI be claimed to be plagiarized of a copyrighted work. Can't use the defense of "well ChatGPT created it", when ChatGPT might have actually used the copyrighted work in it's training. Visual and Musical Artists will have a field day should it be revealed that their works were used to train a model and are being commercially used to replicate their styles.
 
What I don't see happening is any actual abandoning or shutdown of commercial generative AI use. They'll just change their TOS to put the liability on the end user for checking.
 
*UGC = User Generated Content, where the website is merely the publisher, not the owner. Think DeviantArt and Reddit.
 
Sources
 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-a-public-database-of-all-ai-training-material/ 
https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-introduces-groundbreaking-bill-to-create-ai-transparency-between-creators-and-companies
https://schiff.house.gov/imo/media/doc/the_generative_ai_copyright_disclosure_act.pdf

Minecraft Java Edition

let me translate that for you:
 
apple has stopped binding components to devices by serial number, using some false pretense about calibration profiles to avoid facing regulatory backlash for actively blocking any sort of repairability of their devices.
 
you cannot get legitimate parts to repair apple devices without agreeing to horrendous agreements designed to put repair shops out of business.
 
on top of that, the stolen phones argument is complete BS here. no one is stealing phones to harvest their battery and display.

Boo only for iphone…

Summary
Apple are going to be making changes the the parts calibration servers so that if you swap parts between apple devices they can still fetch their respective calibration profiles from apples servers so long as the past is not coming from a stolen device. 
 
My thoughts
This seems like a readable tradeoff to ensure the value of stealing a phone is not increased. But still letting people with legitimate parts use these to repair other phones. 
 
Sources
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/04/apple-to-expand-repair-options-with-support-for-used-genuine-parts/

Summary
 
Probably to make people less likely to install alternate app stores, Apple is now approving emulators on their App Store.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Seems like only a good thing as an iPhone owner. That said, interesting timing with Nintendo just winning that take down case on the switch emulator. 
 
I can see why they did it for sure-- emulators are THE category that might temp me to use an alternate app store.
 
Sources
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122341/apple-app-store-game-emulators-super-apps

“nationwide” “FCC”
Just a note, as of now it’s only ISPs with more than 100,000 customers. My ISP still doesn’t have to have any speed information on their site. 

OK, here's mine...
 
On the left is:
Hyte Y60 with display
13900K
64 GB DDR5
16 TB Hard drive
10 TB Hard drive
512 NVMe SSD for OS
Three 2 TB NVMe SSD's
One 1 TB NVMe SSD for downloading Linux ISO's
MSI Ventus 4070 Ti super
LianLi Galahad AIO cooler plus three extra fans
 
On the right is:
Jonsbo N2 White
13700K
32 GB DDR5
Five 18 TB WD Red's
Two 2 TB WD Blue NVMe SSD's
512 WD Blue for OS
 
In the middle is the Samsung 49" Neo G9
 
And, don't believe what you see, there' plenty of airflow in that Hyte Y60...