When structural inefficiencies prevent successive governments from effectively maintaining public infrastructure: a star is born.

Steam on Linux use has hit an all-time high! With the Steam Survey results for October 2025 coming out this evening, Steam on Linux has finally cracked the 3% threshold! A few months back Steam on Linux was close to 3% before stumbling a bit but now it's above that elusive threshold. The only time Steam on Linux use was close to the 3% mark was when Steam on Linux initially debuted a decade ago and at that time the overall Steam user-base was much smaller than it is today. Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well, these October numbers are the best yet.

Here’s a good example “Phil Axes”. When I search for them online the only hits I get are from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. I can’t find any Wikipedia, social medial, news articles or anything related to them. Also a lot of the songs are 2:30-3:00 every time.

Are these just AI generated artists and music?

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5416022

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[South Korean] President Lee Jae Myung proposed expanding bilateral cooperation during a summit with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday, describing Canada as “a key partner for Korea that goes beyond a friendly nation, one akin to an ally.”

Lee held a summit with Carney, who was in Korea for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, at a hotel in central Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, on Thursday morning.

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We are already cooperating in many areas beyond defense, including the economy, and I expect to see even greater collaboration moving forward,” Lee continued. “Canada’s leadership in foundational AI research has greatly benefited the world.”

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"Despite the complexities of the global order and the many challenges it presents, I hope Korea and Canada can work together to overcome them,” Lee said.

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“Korea is an important partner for Canada in all areas, including defense, commerce and culture,” Carney said. “Our trade relationship is important, and cooperation in defense and cultural exchanges is increasing. This is a very significant moment for the Korea-Canada relationship.”

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what do I have to do now?

People keep posting good posts in /c/badposting. This is unacceptable and I demand the mods take action!

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Taoiseach [Ireland's Prime Minister] Micheál Martin was in Ottawa in September, where boosting business links was on the agenda. And earlier this week, the [Irish] Government backed a new report that examined opportunities for increasing trade between the Republic and Canada.

The report says Canadian companies already employ more than 22,000 people [in Ireland], while more than 19,000 in Canada are working for Irish companies.

However, it states that there is significant potential for future growth in trade and investment. In particular, the report points to the clean tech, fintech, agri-food and life sciences sectors.

The study, commissioned by the Government, employers’ group Ibec, and the Ireland-Canada Business Association, suggests that there is potential to increase trade in goods between the two countries by €1.2 billion annually – a 34 per cent increase – and to expand trade in services by almost €500 million.

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The report states that trade between the two countries has nearly doubled since a deal between Ottawa and the EU was reached in 2017, reaching approximately $9.6 billion in 2023. The Republic is now Canada’s 15th largest trading partner.

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“Canada has the potential to increase exports in financial services, air transportation services and management and consulting services. Ireland has potential to increase exports in computer services [eg, tech sector exports] and insurance and pension services,” it says.

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Taoiseach [Ireland's Prime Minister] Micheál Martin was in Ottawa in September, where boosting business links was on the agenda. And earlier this week, the [Irish] Government backed a new report that examined opportunities for increasing trade between the Republic and Canada.

The report says Canadian companies already employ more than 22,000 people [in Ireland], while more than 19,000 in Canada are working for Irish companies.

However, it states that there is significant potential for future growth in trade and investment. In particular, the report points to the clean tech, fintech, agri-food and life sciences sectors.

The study, commissioned by the Government, employers’ group Ibec, and the Ireland-Canada Business Association, suggests that there is potential to increase trade in goods between the two countries by €1.2 billion annually – a 34 per cent increase – and to expand trade in services by almost €500 million.

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The report states that trade between the two countries has nearly doubled since a deal between Ottawa and the EU was reached in 2017, reaching approximately $9.6 billion in 2023. The Republic is now Canada’s 15th largest trading partner.

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“Canada has the potential to increase exports in financial services, air transportation services and management and consulting services. Ireland has potential to increase exports in computer services [eg, tech sector exports] and insurance and pension services,” it says.

My Unraid server is currently running out of a 4U rackmount PC case with 6x 3.5" drive bays (actually 5x 3.5" + 1x 2.5" since one bay interferes with the RAM...), and looking to increase storage capacity. It's primarily a media server with some light NAS and PC/phone backup use.

Initially I was looking at something like a used Dell MD1200, since it seemed like a pretty straightforward expansion, just requiring a HBA card with external SAS ports. But then I stumbled across this basic DIY build (https://www.serverbuilds.net/16-bay-das) which seems obvious in hindsight. There are plenty of inexpensive 12-16 bay 4U PC cases, and I've already got a spare ATX power supply.

So question #1 is whether there's any substantial reason to go for a used enterprise DAS over the DIY option, given that I'm not too worried about storage density in my server rack?

Question 2 is unrelated, but I recently upgraded my wife's GPU and now have a 1070ti lying around. The i3-12100 in my media server seems fully capable of any of the transcoding tasks I've thrown at it, so is there any point in installing the 1070ti? Or is that just a waste of power/hardware?

Thanks in advance!

I posted this same question the other day, but after seeing no replies I checked and realized it was nowhere in my posting history, so not sure what happened there... sorry if this shows up as a double-post for anyone

So I took this image using my Canon with a 40mm lens and a 3D adapter.

My of us we adapters to use old or weird lenses. Would it be possible to add those lenses or combinations to a master list? Maybe the list has the ability to choose an image avatar for that lens too?

This would be so freaking awesome!

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/the-value-of-nvidia-now-exceeds-an-unprecedented-16-of-u-s-gdp-ede4b541b24c Sixteen percent of GDP. Think about that number.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company. Not an industry. Not a sector. One company. NVIDIA.

This isn’t diversification. It’s not even speculation. It’s national self-delusion dressed up as innovation.

America has done this before. We worshiped General Motors until it collapsed. We inflated the dot-com bubble until it burst. We built an entire financial system on subprime mortgages until 2008 taught us otherwise. We learned nothing…. NVIDIA’s Unchecked Dominance

NVIDIA makes graphics processing units. They’re very good at it. Their chips power AI models, crypto mining operations, and cloud datacenters. The company’s market capitalization has surged to over $5 trillion.

Wall Street cheers. Politicians brag about American technological superiority. NVIDIA’s CEO becomes a rockstar.

But here’s the truth: concentrated market dominance is not strength. It’s fragility masquerading as power.

NVIDIA controls between 80% and 95% of the market for AI chips used for training and deploying models. Their H100 and A100 processors are the gold standard for training large language models. Every major tech company — Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta — depends on their hardware.

This isn’t resilience. It’s a single point of failure with a stock ticker.

Revenue concentration tells the story. NVIDIA’s datacenter segment accounts for over 88% of total revenue. Remove AI hype from the equation and you’re looking at a company propped up by speculative frenzy, not diversified industrial strength. The Dangerous Over-Leverage of the U.S. Economy

Sixteen percent of GDP.

Let me say it differently: If NVIDIA stumbles, America doesn’t just lose a tech darling. It loses jobs, investments, pension funds, and the entire AI narrative Wall Street has been selling.

The ripple effects would be catastrophic. Tech slowdown. Financial contagion. Investor panic. The kind of systemic shock that makes 2008 look like a practice run.

And what’s America’s backup plan? There isn’t one.

We’ve bet the economy on corporate hubris rather than building diversified industrial capacity. We’ve confused market capitalization with national security. We’ve treated stock prices as a measure of geopolitical strength. It’s reckless. It’s stupid. And it’s quintessentially American.

No other advanced economy would tolerate this level of concentration. Germany doesn’t pin 16% of its GDP on Siemens. Japan doesn’t hinge its future on Toyota. Even China, for all its centralized planning, spreads risk across multiple state champions.

But America? We put all our chips on one chipmaker and call it genius. Supply Chain Fragility and Geopolitical Shortsightedness

NVIDIA doesn’t manufacture its own chips. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company does. TSMC produces an estimated 90% of the world’s super-advanced semiconductor chips, and more than 90% of the most advanced chips globally are manufactured in Taiwan.

Taiwan. An island 100 miles from mainland China. A territory Beijing considers its own. The most geopolitically volatile piece of real estate on the planet.

This is where America has decided to anchor its technological future.

TSMC’s most advanced facilities are in Hsinchu and Tainan. If China moves on Taiwan — through blockade, invasion, or economic coercion — those fabs go offline. NVIDIA’s supply chain evaporates. America’s AI ambitions collapse overnight.

And China knows this.

Beijing is pouring resources into semiconductor self-sufficiency. SMIC, Huawei, and other Chinese firms are reverse-engineering NVIDIA’s architecture, with Huawei’s Kirin 9000S processor — produced in SMIC factories — providing tangible proof that China can produce advanced chips locally despite embargoes.

Analysts project China will achieve a true 5nm-based chip by 2025 or 2026. SMIC is approximately a handful of years behind TSMC in process technology.

Five years. That’s the gap between American dominance and Chinese parity.

Export controls won’t save us. Sanctions won’t stop reverse engineering. The U.S. can restrict NVIDIA from selling advanced chips to China, but it can’t prevent Chinese engineers from studying, replicating, and eventually surpassing American designs.

History is littered with technological monopolies that thought they were untouchable. Britain dominated textiles until America stole the designs. America led in consumer electronics until Japan refined the process. Japan ruled semiconductors until Korea and Taiwan built better fabs.

Overconfidence breeds catastrophe. Always has. Always will. Market Myopia and Investor Complacency

NVIDIA’s price-to-earnings ratio has fluctuated wildly, hitting levels that would make even dot-com speculators blush. At its peak, the company traded at over 70 times earnings.

This isn’t valuation. It’s religion.

Investors assume AI demand is infinite. They believe NVIDIA’s dominance is permanent. They think American tech exceptionalism is a law of nature rather than a temporary advantage.

They’re wrong.

China’s chip industry is advancing faster than Western analysts predicted. Reports indicate Chinese companies are achieving 5nm chip production using deep ultraviolet lithography without access to extreme ultraviolet equipment.

The gap is closing. And when it closes, NVIDIA’s moat disappears.

American investors are complacent. They see NVIDIA’s stock price and assume supremacy. They ignore competitive threats until it’s too late. They confuse market hype with sustainable advantage.

It’s the same myopia that convinced investors pets.com was worth billions. The same delusion that made Enron look invincible. The same arrogance that inflated every bubble in American financial history.

Where is America’s industrial policy? Where’s the strategic planning? Where’s the diversification?

Nowhere.

Washington reacts to crises. It doesn’t prevent them. The CHIPS Act allocated $52 billion for semiconductor manufacturing — a pittance compared to the scale of the problem. It’s a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

Meanwhile, China created the China Integrated Circuit Investment Industry Fund to channel an estimated $150 billion in state funding to support domestic industry. South Korea and Taiwan have invested hundreds of billions more.

America is being outspent, outplanned, and outmaneuvered. And yet, policymakers still assume tech dominance is our birthright.

Anti-trust enforcement is toothless. Strategic planning is non-existent. Industrial diversification is treated as anti-market heresy.

The result? America has a “too-big-to-fail” tech company that nobody wants to regulate, nobody wants to challenge, and everybody assumes will last forever.

We’ve been here before. AT&T. IBM. Microsoft. All seemed invincible until they weren’t.

The difference now? NVIDIA isn’t just a monopoly. It’s a systemic risk. And nobody in Washington seems to care.

For the longest time, I've been wanting to set up an email server with one of its main purposes being phone notifications.

Is there a fedi thing that I can use to do that?

You know how many server apps will ask for an email address?

Heck even immich asked for an email address! WTF! Ask me for my mastodon or my Lemmy address! So far these have been very reliable communication systems.

I guess the question is also a sort of statement. Why not add a fedi option for logins? Please???

Looks like they hacked something already for this using:

https://unifiedpush.org/

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12842

It looks intimidating but probably same as spooling up a mastodon instance.

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Title: Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

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Hey everyone, I'm looking at phones around the $1000 price point and would love some input. I've been an iOS user for years but I'm seriously considering making the jump to Android this time.

Here's what I'm looking at:

iPhone 17 Pro - The safe choice since I'm already in the ecosystem

Samsung Galaxy S25 - Hearing good things about this generation

Pixel 10 Pro - Probably crossing this one off the list due to the stability issues I've been reading about (the 911 call failures, overheating problems, etc.)

Nothing Phone - The design looks really cool, but I'm not sure if they have anything in this price range

For those who've made the switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), what would you recommend? Any major gotchas I should know about? And is the Nothing Phone even worth considering as a daily driver at this price point?

Thanks in advance!

‘I don’t have warm shells to plug into’

The corporate-friendly party refuses to learn the lessons of the past decade. When will it implement a truly humane agenda?

Publication of 2010 correspondence comes two days after Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his titles

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