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• For older folk, “Good morrow, you jolly japester”

  on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• yeah lol it does seem to have the same form factor as a standard desktop PC though:

  https://www.youtube.com/live/XT7fGf28hJ0?t=2196

  That video is the keynote from a couple of days ago by AMD’s Senior Vice President at the Berlin tech event Internationale Funkausstellung, which the article is based on.

  I dug it up because I wanted to know more about this line from the article: “The AMD executive gave a brief demonstration of its potential at the event by generating an entire 3D world and flight simulator from a single prompt.”

  That was kind of disappointing, all he does is bring out a couple of laptops, one running something that looks like a 3D game and the other a helicopter sim, and which he claims is an “entire 3D world” created locally on the laptop from a single prompt. He only holds them up for a few seconds before they’re gone. TBH I suspect they’re short AI video clips rather than interactive games - jump to 23:00 if you want to see it, but it’s honestly not worth it. (These are not made with the Threadripper Halo though, these are allegedly created on a new HP eBook, with some kind of AMD AI on board, with 192 Gb of unified memory)

  on AMD unveils ‘personal super computer’ for new era of computing (if you have €100,000+) in c/technology@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026

• Hmm. Maybe. How much VRAM you got?

  on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• I presume the idea is that by separating the encryption step from the messaging app, people can be more confident that government agencies are unable to monitor their conversations. You know, by taking secret screenshots of the device or whatever.

  But it seems to me that you could easily do this yourself using the gpg command line tool like so:

  gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient <PUBLIC KEY ID>  
  

  This uses the stored public key identified by --recipient to encrypt whatever you type and produce the result in ASCII text form, which can then be sent over whatever messenger you wish.

  I’d prefer to do it this way than trust some unknown 3rd party app.

  You could even pipe the output into a tool such as qrencode to send your encrypted message as a QR code, depending on message length. This would allow you to keep the machine doing the encryption fully offline.

  on Encrypt anywhere. Talk over any channel in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026