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All the data that is associated with a user account relates to that user. All of it is personal data.

Yes and it's identifiable. That's why I mentioned your online handle. You also not just consented, you tasked lemmy.world with broadcasting it all over the place. Complaining about that is like complaining about an email provider sending an email to a recipient.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/07/german-court-fines-site-owner-sharing-user-data-with-google-to-access-web-fonts/

That has nothing to do with the data transfer lemmy instances are doing among each other. Which was what you complained about. Yes, it's personal data, yes, you consented. No, the GDPR has no issues with that. I could've been more clear in the beginning, let me ask again:

Which personal data do lemmy instances exchange that you did not consent them to share. That is not necessary for them to share to function as federated social network. That, in fact, isn't available via the web interface. Exactly one thing comes to mind: Votes are identifiable and not everyone knows about that but there's also a discussion going on.

You know what? Why am I even talking to you. If you have something to complain about, contact your data protection officer.

The enlightenment bit was too much?

Nope it already started at the neoliberal/conservative bits. Neoliberals would like to own all your data freely, privately, while conservatives would like the police to own all your data. Things like Chat Control come out of the neolib/conservative corner of the EU while data protection is a Pirate/Greens/EFA thing, with Socdems and Demsocs not minding it but not taking the initiative, either. Oh and there's also some conservatives who are in favour because digital sovereignty and such.

Little of the information that instance share is not personal.

The only PII contained in that post you wrote is your user name. My instance has no idea what IP address or whatnot you used, it gets sent "user posted message", "user voted", etc. messages by lemmy.world. It does not interact with you.

The information that your instance shares with the rest of the world is a) pseudonymous, unless you dox yourself no connection can be made between your handle and your actual person and b) said information transfer is part of the primary service of the platform. You wouldn't be here if things wouldn't get shared that way, hence, you consented.

If it wasn’t, tracking cookies would not be a big deal unless you had the real name of someone connected to the cookie ID.

Cookies are no issue. Tracking without consent is. Lemmy isn't tracking you. You have an account with lemmy.world. You presumably have taken notice of its privacy policy. lemmy.world is run by a Dutch foundation, and yes they have a legal department... or at least lawyers. If you're a EU citizen the GDPR applies, otherwise other stuff might apply, they're spelling it all out.

EG Your ISP could be subpoenaed to reveal the customer behind a dynamic IP-address, making it a personal datum.

...yes? You gave lemmy.world the right to log your IP when you signed up. They're not retaining it longer than necessary because of the general GDPR provision of data frugality, but if a court order knocks on their door saying that they need your IP they can also be required to wait until you log in and then send that fresh IP directly to the authorities. Newsflash: The GDPR does not provide opsec against EU state actors. Off to the darknet with you if you care about that. It does provide opsec against ad networks, data brokers, etc... well at least in so far as it's actually enforced.

Don’t expect me to defend the GDPR. It’s neoliberal/conservative bullshit; even an abandonment of enlightenment values.

The fuck are you on about.

Why would they? Serves no purpose.

It's still code. What makes scratch special is that it structurally rules out syntax errors while still looking quite like ordinary code. Node editors -- I have a love and hate relationship with them. When you're in e.g. Blender throwing together a shader it's very very nice to have easy visualisation of literally everything, but then you know you want to compute abs(a) + sin(b) + c^2 and yep that's five nodes right there because apparently even the possibility to type in a formula is too confusing for artists. Never mind that Blender allows you to input formulas (without variables though) into any field that accepts a number.

Unless you dox yourself what kind of personal information are instances sharing? On top of that stuff that isn't due to the normal functioning of the site as a public message board?

What's questionable is embedding images, lemm.ee mitigates that with proxying, but ultimately the web is the web and you can't proxy the whole web. Clicking a link will still lead you somewhere else and if your browser pre-loads links then that's up to you.

Didn't he step down as boss after the latest kerfuffle because he just doesn't make for a good boss.

Link to segment. And, no, not only didn't Liechtenstein not cross the threshold they're not even in the EU they can't vote.

Even more up to date numbers straight from the commission.

I'm not aware of any protocol limitations there, it's just that monitors don't bother to support refresh rates that low.

Experience at low frame rates will be choppy anyways, if it's a fixed low framerate you can use LFC without quality degradation (say for movies) and if it's a variable low framerate (where LFC causes jitter)... you should be lowering your graphics settings to get better fps. Why spend extra engineering and hardware on a capability that won't ever result in a good experience anyway?

...has it really come to this? From laughing at console people for their "cinematic FPS" to nvidia fanboys saying "my monitor supports lower framerates than yours"? Aren't we supposed to brag about our displays (pointlessly) reaching haptic fps? (that's be 1kHz btw).

It works down to whatever the implementation in the monitor supports which tends to be 40 or 48fps. There's a minimum you have to support if you want the FreeSync sticker but in principle you could call it AdaptiveSync and only support down to 60 or such, or support everything down to 1fps (which doesn't happen in practice) and still call it FreeSync, AMD doesn't mind you exceeding specs.

So I have two Acer monitors with the dedicated G-Sync hardware, are those compatible with AMD freensync?

Have a look at the manual but I don't think chances are good.

I’m curious now that I’ve switched to Linux I’m running into issues with my NVIDIA GPU and Wayland suspend/hibernate functionality.

Suspend/hibernate is iffy in general, doesn't necessarily have to do anything with the GPU. You'll need sufficient swap space and a BIOS which is playing nice. Aside from slogging through logs to see if anything throws particular errors you can try booting without nvidia drivers (plain VESA console if you have to) and trying to hibernate that.

I need AI upscaling,

Not a hardware thing.

SDR-to-HDR conversion for videos,

Not a hardware thing.

and way better ray tracing performance.

Ray accelerators are a hardware thing. The AI to denoise them, again, not so much.

Just because AMD cards don't come with tensor cores doesn't mean they can't run AI workloads, tensor cores are essentially cut-down GPU cores. They make sense in mobile devices to save on energy consumption but on desktop? Just use the TFLOPs you have for the basic matrix math you're doing, the important bit, and that's the gather/scatter memory architecture to deal with giant matrices, GPUs also have.

That constantly puts you at the LFC boundary for a lot of AAA games if youre on a popular midrange graphics card and aiming for 60fps average.

That constantly puts you at the point where you should lower graphics settings. Average fps might be a thing to put on benchmarks, but for actual playing you want to go by minimum fps (non-cutscene if necessary). And it's not like Adaptive Sync can't go down that low, protocol-wise, it's that monitor producers don't care to.

Overdrive, too, is a matter of implementation not the sync protocol.