SkaveRat
@SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 7 hours ago:
Isn’t it basically confirmed in tng as well with broccoli? I can’t quite remember
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 8 hours ago:
Japan is super into lottery based sales. Even for things like concerts
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
If you listen closely, you can hear the heads of NSA people banging on their desks because of the funding stop
- Comment on tchncs was updated! 2 weeks ago:
neat. thanks!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
They are doing that only for paying users for 10
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
The one weird trick that makes clickbait work
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3 weeks ago:
any announced date? (don’t really want to watch trailers)
- Comment on A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years 3 weeks ago:
Will we, though?
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: that’s Elijah Wood and it’s his first film role
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 4 weeks ago:
the thing is: the employer has absolutely 0 say on if a person is sick or not. If a doctor says a person can’t work: that’s it. The company 0 in the matter.
In fact, the company isn’t even allowed to ask why a person is sick. An official note from the doctor is all that matters
- Comment on Donate USB Drives and SD Cards to Help US Smuggle Outside Info into North Korea 4 weeks ago:
elaborate
- Comment on Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon? 4 weeks ago:
ActivityPub is a half-assed unfinished mess.
tried working on my own service and figured this one out very fast.
It’s amazing that it works at all. 98% of the stuff is not documented at all. and the stuff that is, can hardly be called documentation.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 4 weeks ago:
Not if we go butlerian jihad on them first
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
They work. As long as people make sure that the top knows that the alternative are guillotines
- Comment on xkcd #3060: Omniroll 1 month ago:
88
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 1 month ago:
I skimmed over the article to see if whether or not if they’re just gonna send you another DVD or if they’re gonna do it through other means. I couldn’t find anything.
???
It’s right in the quote in the article:
Where possible, the defective discs have been replaced with the same title. However, as some of the affected titles are no longer in print or the rights have expired, consumers have been offered an exchange for a title of like-value.
Consumers with affected product can contact the customer support team at whv@wbd.com.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 1 month ago:
no, it’s a decentralised service on the decentralized internet
- Comment on People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now 1 month ago:
I believe that was a genetic algorithm
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 1 month ago:
be warned that it feels different and sometimes confusing, narration-wise. Just keep at it.
Some people don’t like it because of that, but I like it. The new species opens some interesting philosophy
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 1 month ago:
maybe he did as well
- Comment on fireflies 1 month ago:
skill issue
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 1 month ago:
If anyone is interested in “what could alien life look like?”, I can highly reccoment reading the Children Of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
He manages to really have his alien species feel like truely something non-human.
Reading the novels feels like going on an adventure
- Comment on Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine 1 month ago:
makes it sound like its the cheap option for school leasing
that’s exactly the target.
They also have the option of locking the expension cards from inside the case, so kids don’t take them out and potenially lose them
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 1 month ago:
a new product
not only new
- Comment on Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over 1 month ago:
A couple years ago I wanted to write a simple website with SQL injection vulnerability, so I could demonstrate sqlmap to someone
It was surprisingly difficult (and every fiber in my body screamed)
- Comment on Managing Mastodon Storage 1 month ago:
Saving for later
- Comment on Are there and mastodon texted based rpg games 1 month ago:
While on the topic of masto poll games: we need more active participants over at Fedi Plays Pokemon:
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
they should wear a mask, so they don’t catch it
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
or some very hanging boobs