Mereo
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
I switched from: https://lemmy.ca/u/Mereo
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Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC PerspectiveEnglish
14·3 months agoThis. As with any technology, it will always improve. The American government helped the Chinese by barring the chips from them, meaning they had to program more efficient models.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. usersEnglish
56·3 months agoI’m Canadian and I switched to maps.here.com, a European service as it provides good transit info. We need to move away from American hegemony.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)English
302·3 months agoOLD NEWS! The article dates from Jul 17, 2026.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog RobotsEnglish
8·3 months agoEh… $$$$$ > ethics unfortunately.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricityEnglish
111·3 months agoThe first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices have skyrocketed because of the US war with Iran.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp MoneyEnglish
31·3 months agoI hope you will have better standards soon.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp MoneyEnglish
72·3 months ago[email protected], I notice that you post a lot of garbage like this post.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This YearEnglish
92·3 months agoWatch how quickly the US government will try to ban them in the name of security. They’ll claim that they transmit RAM data to the Chinese government 😛.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeEnglish
86·4 months agoIn my opinion, I just don’t understand permissive licenses. For example, with FreeBSD’s license, companies can essentially “steal” the hard-earned efforts and use them to enrich themselves. For example, FreeBSD could have been a gaming OS, as the PlayStation’s OS is FreeBSD. However, they didn’t give anything back to the community.
Copyleft licenses, on the other hand, require companies to contribute any changes they make to the code back to the community so that it benefits the community as a whole. In this case, there’s no “stealing”, companies need to respect the community’s efforts by giving back.
That’s my two cents anyway.
Mereo@piefed.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Big Companies Are Starting to Hire Again, Defying Predictions of AI WipeoutEnglish
31·4 months agoIn my opinion, AI is here to stay. But OpenAI and Anthropic will suffer because companies realized that don’t need a Ferarri all the time, they can do with a Honda (Chinese open-source models) 90% of the time.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employeesEnglish
653·4 months agoChinese open-source models are becoming the norm. You don’t need the latest model from ChatGPT (e.g., a Ferrari) to complete your task. A simple Honda will suffice (open-source models), and it uses a lot less energy since it runs on your home or company’s infrastructure.
Because of that, I predict that we’re going to see a lot of financial hardship among AI companies.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•New Jersey bans grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set pricesEnglish
20·4 months agoAnd the fact that it is a debate tell you everything about the state of the world today… sigh
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200English
143·4 months agoThis article ISN’T AI slop.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listingsEnglish
27·4 months agoWhen politicians are not beholden to lobbyists, they are truly serving the people because they have no conflicts of interest.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time(70% off from its peak); SpaceX has lost more than $800 billion in market value from its closing high seen a month agoEnglish
3·4 months agoWealthsimple Canada advertised that clients could buy shares at IPO prices, but they couldn’t sell their shares right away. Why would I do that?!?
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk FeesEnglish
12·4 months agoDoug Ford was not the mayor of Toronto. It was Rob Ford, his brother that was the mayor.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developersEnglish
501·4 months agoThe author of the blog is living in dreamland. Microsoft will never release Windows Lite because, to management, Windows is a conduit for AI and subscriptions.
Linux is the answer.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hopedEnglish
421·4 months agoManagement makes me laugh. They often make decisions on a whim without thorough planning. In my opinion, AI is here to stay. However, as companies like Ford have realized, you cannot replace humans with AI. AI is simply a tool for humans.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possibleEnglish
24·4 months agoYay… It will be expensive to build an AM4 system now…





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