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Then what is the point of what the OP is saying? How is Mastodon any different? If anything it looks like it’s worse because ICE just have a basic link to their website and it’s done.

What’s stopping ICE from verifying on Mastodon?

Does Mastodon even have the verification feature?

Stock price wise the company is clearly worth more because it’s selling more and making massive amounts of money and by massive I mean they’re printing money right now

The other part is that the 3 major players SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron have basically said they don’t want to oversupply the market and when the AI bubble pops have memory prices go through the floor again, so they are treating this as if it’s a bubble and in a few years time the demand will subside, so they are not blowing up all their capital to expand as quickly as possible

“This follows reports earlier this month that the price for DRAM sticks of memory for desktop computers had increased by over 170% year on year. Mostly driven by the high demand for building new AI-focused data centers, memory makers aren’t planning to increase production either, on the off chance the demand dries up.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-raises-memory-chip-prices-by-up-to-60-percent-since-september-according-to-reports-ai-data-center-build-out-strangles-supply

I saw Samsung may already be in the process of building a new fab but i cbf looking up further, basically looks like higher memory prices, for longer, with no oversupply glut with cheap prices once the bubble pops like in the past :(

i did the google take out and then just a regular drag and drop, everything went fine but all my screenshots had no dates in the metadata by the looks so it put them all on a single date which caused immich to stop loading properly

just once it did I went through and deleted all my old screenshots and now it’s all good again :)

afaik MariaDB is the open source version of MySQL

seems like so far things are going well, businesses spend more on ads on google 🙃

Google, for now, is still laughing its way to the bank. The search giant is putting advertisers’ ads within or directly above and below AI Overviews themselves. As Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview last year, “If you put content and links within AI Overviews, they get higher clickthrough rates than if you put it outside of AI Overviews.” Organic links are pushed down.

Even in 2024, market research company SparkToro’s study of searchers found “almost 30 percent of all clicks go to platforms Google owns.” For every 1,000 Google searches in the United States, 360 clicks go to a non-Google-owned, non-Google-ad-paying property. With the rise of AI Overview, Google’s share can only have grown, while everyone else’s has shrunk.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/opinion_column_google_ai_ads/

I believe maps and youtube were money losers for google for a very long time but the goal was to keep people within the google ecosystem where they can extract money from users in other ways

The ‘quiet part out loud’ isn’t being used how it should be

Microsoft appears to genuinely believe that AI features are what customers want even if they don’t directly ask for it, nobody asked for Google’s AI feature but it’s hugely popular, people freakin love it (except here on Lemmy of course where it’s the devil), Google see that users are staying on their site longer and not clicking through to sites as much which is a win for them and a win for users

A real quiet part out loud would be ‘Microsoft knows its users don’t like its AI features but don’t care because Windows isn’t a money maker for them compared to Microsoft Copilot 365’

JFC a positive post on tech and 3/3 posts bitching about techbros, AI and gaza somehow ?? 🫥

In terms of heat, what kind of room do you have it in? Somewhere with good natural airflow, or away in a closet somewhere?

Just on floor in garage upside down so the laptop air vents face up, nothing special at all but main thing not in my office heating up the joint 🥲

I actually wonder if RISC-V might overtake ARM in the linux world, the chinese are throwing a lot at it and I’ve seen very little out of ARM, I expected Linux to go the way of Apple where x86 is phased out and ARM is phased in because who wouldn’t like a lower power, cheaper CPU? or like wayland overtaking X.org but I just don’t see any great leap by desktops or laptops towards it, x86 has remained solidly in place outside of Pi like devices

Unfortunately I made the mistake of not backing it up, and when the external drive died I lost my data

😢 yeah good point, I’ll look at getting it to backup my main 2tb

You’re based in Brissy or further north in Qld, right? What kind of thermals does your system have, and what’s the room it lives in like?

Logan city! Was going to take a picture but it’s just a bunch of cables running along the side of my garage, the NBN conveniently comes into it far away from everything (I assume the only other front of house option (the kitchen) was out of consideration) can’t really say what temperature, it would def be mostly ambient temperature with a bit of extra heat coming from the solar battery when it’s charging but for the most part prob ambient outside temp

The laptop itself looks to sit around 50 degrees most of the time but this is pretty low power:

afaik the temperature being hot isn’t an issue, computer components (and most components in most things) prefer a stable high temperature 24x7 over going cold then hot all the time.

I think a mini-pc is a pretty solid choice regardless, I’ve had a 1ru rack server that was loud as fuck, fkin like 10 40mm fans! absolutely not worth it, and have friends who keep their servers/even old desktop PC’s running 24x7 in their bedrooms, these things are heat generators and in brissie if you don’t have a good aircon/airflow your room will got hot as shit and the fans will increase in speed so it’ll be either noisy and hot or both

100%, thinkcentres are the most well supported of the major brands iirc

the battery is a nice little in built UPS feature, bit underrated if you get a second hand laptop with a working battery

So after months of dealing with problems trying to get the stuff I want to host working on my Raspberry Pi and Synology

I take it ARM still not there package wise? Sucks to hear, I was really hoping we’d be further along by now

i just use a second hand laptop I got from “hock and go” down on gold coast, it has an ethernet port :O AMD stuff, I always generally stick with AMD for graphics as a lot of people complain about nvidia on linux, when I was in the store looking at them all did some pretty extensive searching on network driver compatibility, it has been a complete bitch in the past to deal with (ESPECIALLY wifi drivers), it seems to be a bit better these days

got it home, stuck a 2tb sata ssd in it, installed just regular ubuntu 24.04 lts, works well, i have the desktop version installed but 99% of the time I’m just sshing in

use it for immich and qbittorrent and a few other things

Works well enough for me, even though this might be the highest idle cpu usage I’ve ever seen (it’s not a fast cpu):

Btop: https://files.ikt.id.au/6c8kwp.png

My other servers are idling at like 0.1:

Htop: https://files.ikt.id.au/4uvrht.png

But I haven’t noticed any issues outside of immich taking longer if I go like, recheck all photos or starting up services, not a problem for me

was interested in this as well: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/934940

Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive HDD 24TB US$309.02 (~A$478.61) / 28TB US$353.02 (~A$546.76) Delivered @ B&H Photo Video

But haven’t dealt with USB attached storage before, I assume it would be fine but I’ll wait till I’m a bit closer running out of space

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2       1.8T  164G  1.6T  10% /
/dev/sda1       1.1G  6.2M  1.1G   1% /boot/efi

there’s no banning or blocking of social media sites

if you’re talking about the government blocklist which blocks like child abuse and terrorist websites at an ISP DNS level then yeah it would work, but it’s completely unrelated to the under 16 social media ban

amazing work!

No, it’s account based, in a lot of cases changing your DNS won’t change the server you end up with at Youtubes or whoever

Age-restricted platforms are expected to take reasonable steps to:

• find existing accounts held by under-16s, and deactivate or remove those accounts

• prevent under-16s from opening new accounts

• prevent workarounds that may allow under-16s to bypass the restrictions

• have processes to correct errors if someone is mistakenly missed by or included in the restrictions, so no one’s account is removed unfairly.

Does every Australian now have to prove their age to use social media?

For example, if someone has had an account since Facebook started in Australia in 2006, Meta could reasonably assume they are older than 16 so no further check is needed.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/faqs

Platforms then use a variety of signal’s to detect if someone is under 16:

DNS has nothing to do with it

How are they going to enforce any of that on a company with no office in Australia? Answer: They can’t.

Then how am I still able to access youtube, facebook and all the others without needing to give them my ID?

You think youtube and facebook don’t have offices in Australia?

That’s a lot of text just to say “I’m an idiot who loves bending over for the government”.

I’m simply telling you what the government is telling social media companies that allow Australian users to create accounts on their websites

You can change your DNS all you want mate, I’m just saying it won’t make a difference

Then how am I still able to access youtube, facebook and all the others without needing to give them my ID?

DNS translates domains like youtube.com into IP’s like 1.1.1.1, this has no bearing when you make a social media account in Australia:

It’s not a ban, it’s a delay to having accounts.

This means there will be no penalties for under-16s who access an age-restricted social media platform, or for their parents or carers. However, age-restricted social media platforms may face penalties if they don’t take reasonable steps to prevent under-16s from having accounts.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions

As of 10 December 2025, Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X and YouTube are required to take reasonable steps to prevent Australians under 16 from having accounts on their platforms.

If you have an australian account registered with those websites and they suspect you are under 16 you will have to verify your id

As explained here the platforms will need to check:

https://aussie.zone/post/27246692/20254931

How can under-16s be stopped from finding a way around the age restrictions?

Platforms may assess age-related signals which can help work out if someone is under 16. These signals can include:

how long an account has been active

whether the account holder interacts with content targeted at children under 16

analysis of the language level and style used by the account holder and the people they interact with

visual checks, such as facial age analysis of the account holder’s photos and videos

audio analysis, such as age estimation of the voice of the account holder

activity patterns consistent with school schedules

connections with other users who appear to be under 16

membership in youth-focused groups, forums or communities.

Platforms may also use location-based signals which can help work out if an account holder usually lives in Australia and could be using a VPN to pretend they don’t. These signals can include:

IP address(es)

GPS or other location services

device language and time settings

a device identifier

an Australian phone number

app store or operating system or account settings

photos, tags, connections, engagement or activity.

Evidence of these age and location signals is expected to trigger the age assurance process, or review of an account if it has already been checked.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/faqs

On top of this there are plenty of services that block VPN’s, most famously Netflix.

So yeah, changing one aspect of your account while leaving all the others won’t get around the ban

Edit: Nice alt accounts, loser.

This is my primary account and always has been? What’s with the loser? Why so cranky?

that is not how the social media ban works…