bloopernova
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- Comment on Global Wind Report 2024 - Record year for wind energy shows momentum but highlights need for policy-driven action - Global Wind Energy Council 6 months ago:
Wind feels so much stronger than 20 years ago, at least in Michigan USA.
I don’t suppose anyone knows of a site that has wind speed plotted over time? I found a NASA site, but it’s difficult to compare years.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 7 months ago:
Just being able to exclude certain sites, and reduce the ranking of others, makes search so much better in Kagi.
I hope they eat Google’s lunch.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 7 months ago:
Go on, Texas, try to ban VPNs.
- Comment on GNOME 46 Wallpapers | Jakub Steiner 8 months ago:
Gotta love that the Python script to generate one of the wallpapers is open source and shared :)
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 8 months ago:
No.
- Comment on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
At least the code is open, and Librewolf works great.
- Comment on Tell me your Best Software Haiku 9 months ago:
git pull origin git diff predev@{'yesterday'} git rebase predev
Going by words not symbols is ok I hope?
- Comment on Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. 9 months ago:
And Kagi search results have additional links to archived versions. It’s very useful.
- Comment on Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest 9 months ago:
Paul Simon was prescient!
Lasers in the jungle indeed.
- Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 9 months ago:
Reminds me of a pterosaur somehow.
- Comment on Warmer winters and more flooding will be the norm in the UK, scientists warn 10 months ago:
Not if the gulf stream shuts down. Then the UK will be more like an ice cube.
- Comment on Malcolm "Trip" Tucker 10 months ago:
I always wondered what happened to that wraith dude that SG Atlantis tried to make back into a human. I guess he got to Earth and joined Starfleet.
- Comment on Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles 10 months ago:
Powered by piss jugs
Way of the road, Bubs
- Comment on How many of you browsing this community are system admins/hobbyist? 10 months ago:
DevOps here, been a sysadmin since the 90s.
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 10 months ago:
Not a single Terminator 2 quote. I am disappoint.
- Comment on Firefox 121.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes 10 months ago:
Force links to always be underlined is surprising but welcome.
- Comment on Mirror Chekov aka Bester is a very efficient undercover agent 10 months ago:
Now I’m wondering about an Odo Garibaldi buddy cop movie.
And Kira + Ivanova being pissed off at things together :)
Spock tries to mind meld with a Vorlon and his head explodes.
Delenn is fascinated by wormhole prophets.
- Comment on this place is pretty stupid 10 months ago:
So… You do realize that it’s fairly easy to spot sealioning agenda posts? Do you understand why a community might find those posts objectionable when they cause drama?
If you’re not a sealioning agenda poster, then view this as the community informing you of their standards, and either adjust, or leave.
- Comment on Tool to manage CLI tools 11 months ago:
Look into asdf: asdf-vm.com or rtx: crates.io/crates/rtx-cli
One .tool-versions file in a directory and you get specific versions of each tool you want.
- Comment on World of Goo 2 - Official Trailer 1 11 months ago:
Do they say “2Goo4U”?
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Boo fucking hoo
- Comment on How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word | A research team from the tech giant got ChatGPT to spit out its private training data 11 months ago:
The craziest part about all this is that they claim to have found a method to get factual information from an LLM.
ヾ(’Ｏ’)/
- Comment on How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word | A research team from the tech giant got ChatGPT to spit out its private training data 11 months ago:
Worrying that OpenAI wasn’t willing or able to fix this vulnerability within 60 days.
- Comment on PipeWire 1.0 Release 11 months ago:
Sweet, pipewire has been rock solid for me in Fedora.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Please give actual examples of what was silenced.
Also what is your definition of freedom of speech?
Do you understand that freedom of speech is a legal, very explicitly defined thing?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Yeah, I’d like to hear exactly what free speech was suppressed. Because the vast majority of these rants have a very interesting post/comment history.
- Comment on Crikey my child 11 months ago:
Made me snort out loud and choke a bit. worth it
- Comment on How do I make myself smarter? 11 months ago:
Read more. Go to the local library and read.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
I’ve switched to Kagi for search, and Fastmail for email. Though a bit more difficult to escape Google when you’ve got a pixel 8 pro ;)
- Comment on OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims 11 months ago:
what is happening over there?
The world told them that their shit don’t stink, and they believed it.