gsfraley

@gsfraley@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Growing a tree from sapling to a giant trunk removes significantly more carbon from the atmosphere than an existing trunk sitting there at mass, unable to store much more carbon.

  And yes, that’s why I clarified that new trees would need to be planted, right on the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s the mechanism by which carbon is removed. It goes into tree, tree dies or gets cut down taking all the solidified carbon with it, new tree gets planted in its place to repeat the cycle. In fact, the fastest way to scrub carbon with the practice is to farm trees, assuming you do it sustainably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. iPhone VPN apps aren’t the route that Russian hackers are taking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, too fucking late. Already canceled PS Plus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Just canceled PS Plus. Fuck Sony for the shifty bender they’ve been on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I was in the camp of “put a sock in it” until I reached a point of “alright FINE, I’ll give it a go” and now I’m joining the choir on it, desktop Linux is a dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More that our species of primate’s general wellbeing and health was hijacked by a cancerous abstract concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I’m sure if I was heads down in Excel for years beforehand it would be a significant downgrade, but as a casual user, making better use of some of the more advanced features became so, SO much easier with the Ribbon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the way both Splunk and JFrog work – you generate or enter a password into the key field in a YAML file somewhere, start the service, and next time you come back it’s been hashed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP

  WTF are you smoking? WTF is wrong with you that you think such a dumb claim would go unscrutinized? I would play Russian roulette on the chances of a random Linux installation on a random network talking DHCP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PlayStation 2⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more over-the-top and arcade-y. Things like volcanos exploding as you ride down the slopes and an indoor mall-like mountain in Tokyo with an air-lift you use to do laps. Note that it’s not free-ride, so there are pluses and minuses to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pause alerts during the night⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can confirm both Pixels and Samsung phones have that feature (1/2/4 hours or indefinite). On my current phone (Samsung) you get the option by holding the DND button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polestar Joins Tesla in Departure from Auto Lobby Over Proposed Vehicle Efficiency Standard⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The consumer vehicle side of Polestar has always been exclusively electric, and was launched 7 years ago with the Polestar 1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say. There’s a million concerns over environmental and economic effects (that I’ll own up to ignoring when visiting family or exploring), but safety is still wayyy down the list. The statistic about being 20x more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than the flight itself still holds very firmly true (and I’m being SUPER conservative about those numbers in case recent events tilt it, it’s still a ~800x per-mile ratio).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In case you’re missing it, this is what the Stephen King book and movie “Maximum Overdrive” is about, but technologically behind by 50 years. Radio signals and power surges just happen to influence machines all over the world into vengefully killing people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing a new look and vision for EA's Frostbite engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really agree. As quick as I am to be cynical about low-impact press releases from a conglomerate, I do find it interesting to read through design changes and the symbolic meaning in branding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation | Lawmakers demand that Apple commit to not censoring content critical of China.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll make the “China bad” post. There are very few governments with an ego as fragile as China’s. It barely even makes sense since they have the weight and soft power to lead by example, or develop healthy ties with the rest of the world. But they just. Don’t. It really gives the impression that all is not well within their borders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh yea, that's the good stuff **huffs glue**⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For those interested, this is because of how Rust uses value gaps to represent its nullable/enum structures. E.g., like how None for Option [sic] is represented internally by a 0 instead of a wrapping structure.

  When you have that many layers around a unit, it will start at 0 and bump the internal representation for each Some you turn into a None.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That gets wildly different with how taxing games are and how much they specifically take advantage of x86_64 instructions sets. Even decade old games would barely squeak by, if they don’t break entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, it’s not videos, it’s a Spotify clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So long, small phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have the new Z Fold after years of owning borderline-phablets and the usability is much better. My previous phone (Galaxy S20+) felt too big and painful to use one-handed, yet typing with two hands felt awkward. This splits the use cases. Slim one-hand phone on the outside. Mini-tablet typing monster on the inside. 🤌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and Ohio constitutional amendment process change get overwhelming positive outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not…? It’s literally just another social media site, it doesn’t hook into ActivityPub or any cross-broadcast protocol. I don’t know why you’re throwing around the word “fediverse” here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing ONCE, a new line of software products from 37signals: Pay one time, own forever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I get it, but there’s value in paying for support and updates, and it’s untenable for an organization to do that for free. I’m optimistic for software running under this model, I’d 1000% love to go back to the pay once per major version model, but “pay once forever” software leaves some unanswered questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Mozilla 100% forced to comply with this? What’s to stop them from dropping their French presence and keep serving the browser unaltered on the public web? Do they also then get added to the ban list?

  The motive behind this is alarming and worrying, but the mechanism of action seems shoddy and not thought out at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨walkie talkie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, yo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨walkie talkie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/-cCXsqiMqxo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't untrain my brain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone with a Mac

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorta, but people didn’t originally sign up for his company. People joined and set up channels of communication and outlets of information on a platform that got bought out and rapidly changed in unexpected ways.

  I can buy the Oreo brand and only sell toothpaste-flavored Oreos and I think people would rightfully be pissed off. The first buyers would get a nasty surprise. Competitors would take off over time, but the nostalgia and attachment to the original product would still be there. “Remember Oreos before they fuxkin’ sucked?”