Leonardo DiCaprio (51), whose girlfriend is 27.

I’m a little grossed out on a personal level (as someone who is “only” 40) at being in a relationship with someone that’s 27. To me we’d be culturally different enough that it would probably bother me.

Though that’s probably less of a factor when the culture you’ve been in for decades is the Hollywood lifestyle, unlike the average person who predominantly hangs around with people close to themselves in ages.

But come The fuck on. The reality is that they’re both consenting adults and can do whatever the hell they want.

Fucking a 14 year old is not even in the same universe as fucking a 27 year old. What are you smoking?

DiCaprio clearly finds women in their mid 20s attractive. Newsflash: most 51 year olds will be attracted to an attractive 27 year old.

I’ve never quite understood the anger at DiCaprio over this. Women in their mid 20s are not children. They have brains. They are more than capable of consenting. Neither are doing anything wrong.

Good sausage. Nice house.

It’s worth noting that Pressman wasn’t alone in this, he had approval, it was just kept hushed.

I’m going to do something a little different from the rest of the comments here and think about it from a strategic realpolitik perspective: the Federation played an absolute blinder with the phased cloak device. It was a genuine strategic and political masterstroke.

They knew the Romulans, who they signed a treaty with not to develop cloaking technology in exchange for peace, were becoming emboldened and expansionist… they were gearing to break the peace anyway. They knew the Romulans, in their arrogance, thought the treaty held them back. That their agreement to peace was a mistake, and that their empire was suffering because of it.

So the Federation says yes, develop this cloaking tech that is vastly beyond anything the Romulans (or Klingons) have.

The Romulans see it, and they can’t believe it. They can’t believe how woefully outmatched they are.

Suddenly it dawns upon them that breaking the Treaty of Algeron is something they really don’t want to do, and that confrontation is not in their interest.

The Federation then says, so how about this treaty, eh? Should we scrap it, slap this phased cloak on all of our ships, then go to war? Or should we bin this cloak and both agree stick to the treaty? Put yourself in the Romulans’ shoes… what would you do when you’re faced with that choice? The Federation have just given a clear demonstration of their technical prowess… would you want to go up against that? The Romulans had no real choice but to tuck their tail between their legs and put out a statement saying they’re committed to the treaty.

Both parties silently agree that the event didn’t happen. But the Federation comes out of it top dog. Their enemy has been put in their place and knows that a war would not go well for them.

I don’t really think it’s the same.

Micron just became like Samsung. Samsung also doesn’t have a consumer DIY market brand. Companies like Kingston or G.Skill can still buy Samsung/SK-Hynix/Micron’s RAM, there’s been no actual reduction in supply.

If Intel did the same as Micron did, it’d be more like third parties could sell the consumer stuff under their own names (say, the Corsair 5 XYZ), and Intel only sold Xeons directly.

The anger for the RAM shortage should squarely be on OpenAI - they’re the ones who bought 40% of the world’s RAM supply (and not even from Micron, mind you, just Samsung and SK-Hynix) and kicked off panic buying. Maybe throw Nvidia in there for handing them the money to do it.

I don’t like the killing of Crucial, fuck Micron for that, but OpenAI is who triggered the RAM shortage, and Micron is actually the least to blame of the big 3 RAM manufacturers for the issues we’re having.

OpenAI abruptly bought 40% of global supply, and announced it.

Other companies found out about it when OpenAI announced and thought holy shit, if we hadn’t heard of this massive deal, what else haven’t we heard of?!, and so they started panic buying.

On top of that, because of US tariffs and trade restrictions, the Chinese “B-tier” memory companies, who usually buy old machines from the big 3 (SK-Hynix, Samsung, Micron) and sell this lower spec RAM at lower margins, didn’t buy up these machines as much as they usually do. They weren’t sure they’d be able to make a profit given their lower margins, should tariffs suddenly change again or other restrictions get put in place.

On the one hand, I actually think this is a very good thing. Social media is especially damaging to children.

However:

The government says platforms must take “reasonable steps” to keep kids off their sites and use age assurance technologies, such as uploading official ID or facial/voice recognition, but they haven’t specified what technology platforms should use.

I hope the law stipulates that Meta is not allowed to keep this data, or use it for any purpose other than the verification itself. Not for training, not for building a profile on someone, nothing. Unfortunately the article doesn’t elaborate on that.

If they’re allowed to keep that data, then that needs to be addressed immediately. It’d be all kinds of fucked up.

There’s probably a distinction between a Meta account and a Facebook account.

I have experience in KDE being a bit buggy too. It’s kinda crazy how powerful it is, but I guess more “moving parts” means more breakage.

After a while, I moved away from KDE.

In fairness, it’s been more stable for me than Windows.

I haven’t used KDE Plasma since Plasma 6 came out, though. I’ve heard people say it’s a lot less janky, so maybe my experience is no longer the case. Nowadays the only interaction I have with KDE is the 0.1% of the time my steam deck spends in desktop mode while I’m updating stardew valley mods.

OpenAI bought 40% of the world’s DRAM.

They bought them as whole wafers (not finished chips!) from SK Hynix and Samsung.

Then they put them in a warehouse

All of that is confirmed, btw. The part below is my speculation:

To me, that reads as if they’re using VC money to drive up RAM prices, hoping that their competitors (who are catching up) can’t buy more RAM.

It’s so anticompetitive it’s unbelievable. And of course, normal buyers are the most fucked over.

Indeed.

I have a model running locally on my NAS that does image recognition for photos in my Immich app (think Google Photos, but private). It does a decent job and runs well on AMD integrated graphics on a Ryzen 5 3400G. I just search for [daughter’s name], and there she is.

I use Firefox’s translation feature (that also runs locally and can run on low end hardware).

My sister is blind and uses an AI assisted screen reader that works way better than what she was using before.

The issue isn’t AI/machine learning in itself, it’s this tech bro arms race. It’s them manipulating models to push agendas. It’s them shoehorning an LLM into every fucking Google query. It’s them telling companies they can fire all their staff and rely on LLMs.

A decent chunk of that is due to DDR4 production shutting down. If you look to the past you can see that DDR3 prices rose a while after the introduction of DDR4 too. In fact it got more expensive than DDR4, before vanishing completely.

Another thing driving up prices is tariffs and trade restrictions - usually when the main players like Micron, SK Hynix, or Samsung want to stop selling certain chips (say, DRAM at a certain binned frequency), they sell to Chinese manufacturers who are willing to sell slightly lower quality NAND for a lower profit margin.

But that’s not happening - the Chinese companies aren’t buying up the machines like they used to, because a tariff could easily wipe out their margins. It’s not worth the risk.

Add AI to that (not that many are using DDR4), and it makes a bad situation worse.

The AI aspect may get better soon, but the top two won’t. I don’t think you’ll be able to get new DDR4 for a good price at any point going ahead. Your best bet is to buy used if you see a reasonable deal.

God forbid someone who’s made their life tech is very excited that Torvalds has come to visit them and turned out to be a really nice guy.

Torvalds will probably be the highlight guest of his entire career, and he knows it. Of course that’s enormously exciting.

You know the silly stuff at the start was actually Torvald’s idea, right?

Linus (Sebastian) spoke about how he didn’t even get the reference but Linus (Torvalds) prompted him to go and watch Highlander (“there can only be one!!”)

You should’ve kept watching it. There’s some good stuff there.

Phones have been doing a lot of post-processing for a long time.

Tbh, most phone cameras would look crap without it. It’s something of a miracle what they can achieve with a tiny sensor and a tiny fixed lens.

I actually liked that Archer was so often out of his depth and had to put on a false confidence. It’d be weird if Starfleet just immediately hit the ground running with an absolute heavyweight of a captain like Picard or something.

I feel like it was a purposeful character choice to have him bumbling around, not really sure what the fuck he was doing, but having to act as if he did for the sake of the crew.

He’s meant to be somewhat bad at his job, and regularly confidently incorrect.

For most it absolutely is viable.

Linux is great for the average person, great for experts.

It’s the “pro-sumer” people that struggle most often. They’re the ones who know windows pretty well, know what apps they want to install, and have became used to the quirks of windows. They struggle to adapt.

Most people use their laptops for web browsing, YouTube, Spotify, and basic document editing. They’d be fine with Linux. They just don’t use it because laptops are sold with Windows.

Love this.

The more I’m hearing about the Pebble Time 2, the more I’m liking it and looking forward to my delivery.

But fuck the 30 day warranty. Stuff sold in the UK is usually 6 years of cover (albeit only 5 for Scotland). 30 days is actually pathetic.

Zorin is FOSS.

The fact that there’s a pro version where you can pay for support does not break the GPL licence.

FOSS does not mean everything must be free of charge. It just means the user can access the source code and modify/share it if they wish.

What a bizarre qualifier.

You may as well complain about a kitchen by saying “but can it roast my turkey without using that oven?”

Of course it needs some form of translation layer or emulator in order to run programs from other OSes.

So it doesn’t then. Cool.