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I don't have a YouTube account, and have no interest in getting one. I hid shorts with this browser add-on: https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts

You’re not wrong that you’re not safe posting on Reddit, but if this case is any indication you’re not any less safe posting in Reddit than any other site, including Lemmy. You can choose the location (and thus legal jurisdiction) of your home instance, but yeah, in general, I think that people need to be aware that server operators on the Threadiverse are probably not going to fight legal battles on your behalf. We had someone ask about turning over IP addresses to law enforcement a while back on lemmy.today. The lemmy.today server admin gave what I’d call probably a pretty accurate answer. lemmy.today/post/7255213 How will Lemmy Today handle IP subpoenas? Lemmy instances are run by volunteers who wants to see a social media network without big tech. I dont think you can trust any of those volunteers, including this one, to not comply with law enforcement. Thats not why we are running instances. Its about providing a platform without tracking, ads and algorithms for talking to other people and having a good time. Hope that makes sense. Use a VPN if you have a reason to. :) It linked to a similar question for lemmy.dbzer0.com: How will dbzer0 handle IP subpoenas? Don’t know man. I’m not making enough in donations to pay for the server costs, never mind hiring lawyers. I’ll deal with this when I have to 😅 There are platforms more-aimed at providing harder pseudonymity. I’d put Hyphanet fairly high on the list of “a pain in the ass to track a poster down due to technical barriers” list (though that comes with very real performance and latency and suchlike costs).

Donenfeld, the WireGuard developer, told TechCrunch in an email: “If there were a critical vulnerability to fix right now — there isn’t! I just mean hypothetically — then users would be totally exposed.”

Well, the Windows users would. I assume that they’d still release builds for the other platforms.

Without looking at the protocol at all, I generally think that blockchain stuff is a solution in search of a problem, but distributed storage might be used to make the system resistant to traffic analysis, the way Hyphanet does.

looks at GitHub repo

Session Router (formerly Lokinet) is an onion routing IP network built on Session Service Nodes

If it’s doing onion routing, then it probably is intended to be resistant to traffic analysis.

*searches* As of Christmas, several months back: https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy2025 >Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing >Hopefully in 2026 we'll see X2 Elite support morph into a more formidable contender for Linux use but as it stands now the Linux support and performance is better off with AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptop options.

For those who, like myself, have never heard of Session prior to now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(software)

Session is an Australian, currently Switzerland-based, cross-platform end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application emphasizing user confidentiality and anonymity. Developed and maintained by the non-profit The Session Technology Foundation,[3] it employs a blockchain-based decentralized network for transmission. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, including various media types such as files, voice notes, images, and videos.[4]

Session provides applications for various platforms, such as macOS, Windows, and Linux, along with mobile clients available on both iOS and Android.

but it was far less convenient to navigate unfamiliar places without a Siri-enabled smart phone

I use OSMAnd and download and render my maps locally.

I just have my browser set up to delete all cookies whenever I close it. You want to set a cookie, knock yourself out, website. (I do also have various things that block some, but if more people just had "delete cookies at browser close" as default, that'd be a big deal.)

Someone else in another comment linked to a memory comparison between desktop environments, and there KDE Plasma used the most memory, with GNOME in second place, but I think that the broader point here is that on Windows, you have one basic graphical shell that basically all desktop users are expected to have running. It’s not completely impossible to hack up a Windows environment to avoid doing so, but it’s a highly nonstandard configuration, and stuff is going to break.

Linux has a much broader range of options available, and those are first-class citizens. Some of them are considerably lighter on resource usage than others.

A lot of users aren’t going to cobble together their own ideal environment the way I do, but there are “presets” of packages that are aimed specifically at being light on resource usage. XFCE has historically been one example; they were slow to move to Wayland, but it looks like they’re doing it now. One doesn’t have the sort of “the OS vendor is giving you one monolithic blob that you need to run” the way you do on Windows.

I mean, it's probably a good idea to have them higher, given that if someone wants to use it with some typical out-of-the-box desktop settings, that's not unreasonable, but while I haven't looked at the Ubuntu installer for a while, I strongly suspect that it permits you to do a minimal install, and that all the software in the Debian family is also there, so you can do a lightweight desktop based on Ubuntu. My current desktop environment has sway, blueman-applet, waybar, and swaync-client running. I'm sure that you could replicate the same thing on an Ubuntu box. Sway is the big one there, at an RSS of 189MB (mostly 148MB of which is shared, probably essentially all use of shared libraries). That's the basic "desktop graphical environment" memory cost. I use foot as a terminal (not in daemon mode, which would shrink memory further, though be less-amenable to use of multiple cores). That presently has 40 MB RSS, 33 of which are shared. It's running tmux, at 16MB RSS, 4 of which are shared. GNU screen, which I've also used and could get by on, would be lighter, but it has an annoying patch that causes it to take a bit before terminating. Almost the only other graphical app I ever have active is Firefox, which is presently at an RSS of 887.1, of which 315MB is shared. That can change, based on what Firefox has open, but I think that use of a web browser is pretty much the norm everwhere, and if anything, the Firefox family is probably on the lighter side in 2026 compared to the main alternative of the Chrome family. I'm pretty sure that one could run that same setup pretty comfortably on a computer from the late 1990s, especially if you have SSD swap available to handle any spikes in memory usage. Firefox would feel sluggish, but if you're talking memory usage...*shrugs* I've used an i3/Xorg-based variant of that on an eeePC that had 2GB of memory that I used mostly as a web-browser plus terminal thin client to a "real machine" to see if I could, did that for an extended period of time. Browser could feel sluggish on some websites, but other than that...*shrugs*. Now, if you want to be, I don't know, playing some big 3D video game, then *that* is going to crank up the requirements on hardware. But that's going to be imposed by the game. It's not overhead from your basic graphical environment. I'd also be pretty confident that you could replicate that setup using the same packages on any Debian-family system, and probably on pretty much any major Linux distro with a bit of tweaking to the installed packages.

Lithium ion batteries are far cheaper now at a consuner level than they were thirty years back.

I were on the hunt for a software forge with public hosting and I was worried about policies changing down the line, I’d probably take a look at GNU Savannah. That’s not especially blingy and it’s restricted to GPL-compatible stuff, but I have a pretty solid level of trust for the FSF.

Thanks for the opt-out link.

Neural net computation has predictable access patterns, so instead of using the thing as a random access memory with latency incurred by waiting for the bit you want to get around to you, I expect that you you can load the memory appropriately such that you always have the appropriate bit showing up at the time you need it. I’d guess that it probably needs something like the ability to buffer a small amount of data to get and keep multiple coils in synch due to thermal expansion. The Hacker’s Jargon File has an anecdote about doing something akin to that with core memory, “The Story of Mel”. www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/pt03.html

Creating workable consumer-grade alternatives I think that this is intended not to replace DIMMs in PCs, but to replace HBM for AI use. If you’re doing neural net computation, you have very predictable access patterns, so you can store your edge weights such that the desired data is showing up at just the right time.

checks The 5700X3D looks like it goes for about $350 on eBay. The 5800X3D looks like about $450.

This isn’t a huge increase. It’s not on the order of what just happened with RAM. According to a report from Digitimes Asia (quoting Nikkei), HDD contract prices jumped roughly 4% quarter over quarter in Q4 2025.

Could just put Kodi or similar on an HTPC.

I’d also note that OP only created their account a day ago.

I wonder how much exact duplication each process has? www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/…/ksm.html Kernel Samepage Merging KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y, added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.32. See mm/ksm.c for its implementation, and lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and lwn.net/Articles/330589/ KSM was originally developed for use with KVM (where it was known as Kernel Shared Memory), to fit more virtual machines into physical memory, by sharing the data common between them. But it can be useful to any application which generates many instances of the same data. The KSM daemon ksmd periodically scans those areas of user memory which have been registered with it, looking for pages of identical content which can be replaced by a single write-protected page (which is automatically copied if a process later wants to update its content). The amount of pages that KSM daemon scans in a single pass and the time between the passes are configured using sysfs interface KSM only operates on those areas of address space which an application has advised to be likely candidates for merging, by using the madvise(2) system call: int madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE)

I mostly use terminal-based software on Linux. I think that the only programs I use much that embed a web browser are: Firefox Steam Some games that are Web-based and which I only run one of at once (Neo Scavenger, some RPGMaker-based games, probably some others).

I’ve also noticed that is you want a chest smaller than DDD, it’s almost impossible with some models — unless you specify that they are a gymnast. That’s also another point of present generative AI image weakness — humans have an intuitive understanding of relative terms and can iterate on them. So, it’s pretty easy for me to point at an image and ask a human artist to “make the character’s breasts larger” or “make the character’s breasts smaller”. A human artist can look at an image, form a mental model of the image, and produce a new image in their head relative to the existing one by using my relative terms “larger” and “smaller”. But we haven’t trained an understanding of relative relationships into diffusion models today, and doing so would probably require a more sophisticated — maybe vastly more sophisticated — process. “Larger” and “smaller” aren’t really usable as things stand today. Because breast size is something that people often want to muck with, people have trained models on a static list of danbooru tags for breast sizes, and models trained on those can use them as inputs, but even then, it’s a relatively-limited capability. And for most other properties of a character or thing, even that’s not available. For models which support it, prompt term weighting can sometimes provide a very limited analog to this. Instead of saying “make the image less scary”, maybe I “decrease the weight of the token ‘scary’ by 0.1”. But that doesn’t work with all relationships, and the outcome isn’t always fantastic even then.

There are also things that present-day generative AI is not very good at in existing fields, and I’m not sure how easy it will be to address some of those. So, take the furry artist. It looks like she made a single digitally-painted portrait of a tiger in a suit, a character that she invented. That’s something that probably isn’t all that hard to do with present-day generative AI. But try using existing generative AI to create several different views of the same invented character, presented consistently, and that’s a weak point.

4chan’s position is that they aren’t doimg business in the UK, which is why they’re disregarding the UK regulator’s fines. The UK might be able to block them, but probably not get the US to enforce rulings against them. In the same way, lemmy.today is doing business in the EU. Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people.

Note that the issue only affects websites in EU legal jurisdiction. From the US legal standpoint means doing business in the EU. The body text has the qualification, but the headline does not. The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated content. “in the entirety of the EU” That’s kinda clickbaity.

Micron is one of the “Big Three” DRAM manufacturers. Crucial is their “sell directly to consumers” brand. netvaluator.com/…/top-10-ram-manufacturers-by-mar… Micron Technology stands as the third giant, with a market share close to 20%, or about 23 billion USD in DRAM revenue. Unlike Samsung and SK Hynix, Micron is headquartered in the United States, making it a critical supplier for Western markets. Its product portfolio covers both DRAM and NAND, giving it broader exposure to the memory industry. The company’s consumer-facing Crucial brand is well recognized among PC builders and gamers worldwide. Micron also plays a vital role in supplying DRAM for servers and AI, competing directly in the HBM space. Its strategy focuses on quality, diversification, and maintaining a stable supply chain for North America and Europe. As the only American giant, Micron is strategically important in the geopolitical landscape of semiconductors.

for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers Lenovo is stockpiling memory to try to make it through the RAM winter. tomshardware.com/…/lenovo-stockpiles-ram-as-price… Lenovo stockpiles RAM as prices skyrocket, reportedly has enough inventory to last through 2026 — memory stock claimed to be 50% higher than usual to fight pricing shock Lenovo is playing it smart and buying up as much memory inventory as it can I don’t think that Lenovo is getting special deals with memory makers either, or they wouldn’t need to stockpile.

Serial compute isn’t doing the double-every-18-months-in-speed since something like the early 2000s. Unlike with serial compute, not all problems can be solved, run faster, with parallel compute. But at some point, unless we figure out some sort of new way to play with physics, we pretty much have to move to parallel compute where we can if we want much more performance.

Damn, that was the only brand of RAM without LEDs and racing stripes on it hits Google Shopping www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/…/333745.html Aside from being a black circuit board rather than green, that doesn’t look especially blinged up.

The Brits are still doing a penny!

Also, I can’t wait to buy up used RAM for pennys when the bubble pops. The memory that manufacturers are producing is HBM; they’re transitioning facilities to producing HBM. HBM won’t be in DIMM form factor — you can’t just stick it into the slots on a PC motherboard. That being said, the hardware in question will probably hit the used market at some point. You might be able to get used Nvidia Blackwells. tomshardware.com/…/nvidia-announces-blackwell-ult… Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra B300 —1.5X faster than B200 with 288GB HBM3e and 15 PFLOPS dense FP4 Those things have 1.4kW TDP. There may be a lot of those things floating around, and if people have enough power and cooling to run those things in their home, maybe they can use repurpose them for something else.

I read an article yesterday that Samsung’s memory division wasn’t even willing to let Samsung’s own cell phone division lock in any long-term memory buying agreement with them, which the cell ohone division hsd been trying to do. Too much money in selling HBM memory for parallel compute to datacenters. reuters.com/…/ai-frenzy-is-driving-new-global-sup… Some 6,000 miles away in California, Paul Coronado said monthly sales at his company, Caramon, which sells recycled low-end memory chips pulled from decommissioned data-center servers, have surged since September. Almost all its products are now bought by Hong Kong-based intermediaries who resell them to Chinese clients, he said. “We were doing about $500,000 a month,” he said. “Now it’s $800,000 to $900,000.” I threw away a bunch of large-capacity DDR4 DIMMs last year, figured that theyld be useless in the future. Kind of wish I hadn’t, now. Reusing old DIMMs is probably the only source of supply that can be ramped up in the near term.

Why? I mean, they aren’t compelled to manufacture DIMMs. Right now, there is a window in time where there are companies willing to pay tons of money for HBM memory, more than most people and companies are for DIMMs. It’d be crazy for memory manufacturers not to make HBM if they have the capacity to do so, if they’re doing way better by doing so.