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  • Apparently not in Windows settings:

    If the BIOS says it supports Modern Standby, Windows takes it at its word and completely disables the ability to enter S3 sleep (classic standby). There’s no official or documented option for disabling Modern Standby through Windows, which is incredibly annoying.

    Side note: for a while, there was actually a registry setting you could change to disable Modern Standby on the Windows side. Unfortunately, Microsoft removed it, and to my knowledge, has never added it back.

    I’m not a Windows user, so I can’t confirm one way or the other, but toward the end of the end of the article the author gives vendor-specific instructions for disabling the S0 Low Power Idle capability from BIOS.







  • This reply’s interesting:

    How can data licensed under the CC-BY-SA licenses (that SO content is licensed under) be “misused”? The license explictly allows others to do essentially anything they want with the data as long as attribution is given, in particular profit off of it.

    When SO content is applied as parametric knowledge I’d expect the outcome to fail both the “BY” and the “SA” clauses, since model interpreters can’t provide attribution for it and their output won’t share the license. That’s true even if output is considered public domain: CC-BY-SA content can’t be moved into a public domain equivalent license. It seems practically indistinguishable from using any other in-copyright content as training material.

    None of that’s to say SO is right to stop data dumps. It feels like they’re trying to find a technical solution to a legal problem, perhaps even one that rises to criminality on the part of Open AI and others?





  • I agree with your parenthetical strongly enough to rule out a typo.

    This announcement lists things that Reddit will humor, for now, and as a way of cheaply outsourcing niche and difficult problems. It clarifies that everyday third party apps were never intended to have a future with the platform. They’re simply an obstacle for Reddit’s most convincing path to revenue.

    I might even have forgiven Reddit if it had said so up front, but the story they’ve been trying to spin – with prices that just happen to be orders of magnitude in excess of anything devs might afford – is outrageously insulting. I’ve never had my trust in a brand demolished so thoroughly so quickly.