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CanadaPlus, to technology in Foxconn and Nvidia are building 'AI factories' to accelerate self-driving cars | TechCrunch

So can someone explain what an AI factory is, from an engineering perspective? The fact there’s competition to build them suggests it’s not just a marketing term, but I can’t find a clear answer with a quick search.

Butterbee,
@Butterbee@beehaw.org avatar

I can only imagine these are just crypto mining farms, but instead of running mining they train ai models

CanadaPlus,

I mean, isn’t that just a normal datacenter, then? Those already exist, and Foxconn at least probably owns some.

Butterbee,
@Butterbee@beehaw.org avatar

Yes, but probably more video card focused than running the biggest epyc or xeon processors.

agressivelyPassive,

It’s just a marketing term.

CanadaPlus,

Yep, just looked into Dojo. They don’t use the same term at all. -1 to the journalist for making it sound like an industry standard thing.

TWeaK, to privacy in Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology'

By that reasoning, every personal data collecting business is a surveillance technology. Not that I disagree, mind.

Polar, to privacy in Encrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service | TechCrunch

This company can’t stop starting new projects and putting their current ones on the back burner. Their services are all spread out between multiple operating systems. Want proton drive app? Better use Windows. Want the new proton mail app? Better use iOS. Want anything? Better not use Linux.

sloppy_diffuser,

Yeah, its super annoying.

Port forwarding with the VPN on Linux was an adventure because all the docs are outdated and I had to scour github issues for how to do it.

Android mail app becomes super slower over time. No snooze. Wish it could do POP3/IMAP for send/receive from other accounts like my school one. Can’t delete aliases I made before proton pass aliases came out.

No contact syncing as a bi-directional provider with Android.

Someone recently added Proton Drive to rclone if you want to sync in Linux. Worked for my small test but I’ve since moved to Backblaze for my backend storage while waiting for a solution and it works really well for less than a $1 a month.

getBoolean, to gaming in Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware | TechCrunch

is this the one that had the malware patched in the fan servers they shutdown?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

I don't think Modern Warfare 2 ever had fan servers. It's the one that infamously had a "boycott" over the lack of dedicated servers (which is different than private servers) because it was all peer to peer multiplayer.

PrinzKasper,
@PrinzKasper@kbin.social avatar

MW2 had many iterations of fan servers. It started with alterIWnet, and ended with IW4X, which was recently shut down by Activision with a cease and desist. Fan modded versions of the game with dedicated servers and a server browser, with known security vulnerabilities like this one already patched out. Thanks to Activision, there's now no way to safely play this game anymore.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

Oh, that's cool. Cool that the alternate networks ever existed, I mean. Not cool that they got shut down, but this is from the same people who shut down vanilla WoW to sell it back to you again.

WowMyNameIsUnique,

Seems like it, yep. RIP IW4X. I didn’t even know it existed!

espiritu_p, to gaming in Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware | TechCrunch

Snow Crash anyone?

TSG_Asmodeus,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

“I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.”

Die4Ever, to technology in Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators

This stuff is funny, but that’s the problem, Redditors love funny events like The Snap, and they love drama and controversy

You can see it’s not hurting Reddit at all maybe even helping them

blackout.photon-reddit.com

The real solution is to share links to Lemmy communities as replacements and just leave Reddit, turn off whatever auto moderation tools they have and just let the place burn, or maybe even worse be overly strict on moderation lol

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