VonReposti

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a pledge early on. Sold it a few years later for double the price. Great investment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got any grapes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a coincidence, that’s the number to the emergency services too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having healthy competition is a good thing and I’ve wished for a competitor to Steam for a long time until one day the monkey’s paw curled and we got Epic Game Store. To sum it up:

  • Epic actively tries to introduce exclusivity deals to PC, something that goes very much against the nature of the platform. It is something we’re supposed to be above on PC and let console players deal with. PC gamers simply don’t want fragmentation in the market. We hate all the different shitty launchers publishers are making for the same reason too.
  • Epic has a very hostile attitude towards Linux. Their anti cheat for example by default detects the mere fact of using Linux as a hack. For a long time if their anti cheat was included it was an absolute no go on Linux. Their store also works like crap on Linux, if at all.
  • EGS lacks necessities for then to call themselves a good store like reviews, good support and refund policies, ease of mod support, wishlists, etc.
  • Their UI is just plain bad.

  But the main point is the first one. If they bothered making a good store they wouldn’t need to make most of PC gamers angry by introducing exclusivity deals, but they can’t be bothered to do that, so they go for hostile competition instead at the detriment of the customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 19-year-old girl just received the world’s first wireless bionic hands controlled by thoughts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rule no. 1: Test on a sausage first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're on the wrong timeline!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I do in fact. We need to lower the economical impact of production too, consumption is just a drop in the bucket. To put it in perspective, I can run my PC from a second hand generator. Most low end generators might even be able to run 10s of my PCs. A datacenter training the high end LLMs that I could be running needs a nuclear power plant worth of energy. We are talking multiple magnitudes of difference.

  I suppose you don’t consider the coal-powered electricity that powers your EV when reflecting over your impact too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're on the wrong timeline!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run a fully fletched LLM at home but you can’t generate the model. The latter is a huge contributor to power consumption. Running it is peanuts in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TYVM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a vodka enjoyer, I do love me a good Vodka Martini. But that shaken thing Bond has going on is pure blasphemy.

  It’s worth remembering that the taste doesn’t just come from the vodka so the vermouth is equally important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's wrong with denmark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word “dog” means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is “dog”. The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's wrong with denmark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn’t make in much easier.

  Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes “half to the fourth” become “halv til fjerde” or “halvfjerds” while “four times twenty” becomes “firsindstyve” and shortened to new Danish “firs”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's wrong with denmark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We actually still say “halvanden” in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's wrong with denmark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's wrong with denmark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse. 90 in old Danish is “halvfemsindstyve” but it is rarely used today. The “sinds” part is derived from “sinde” means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).

  We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means “half to the five” in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then “tooghalvfems” (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The “sindstyve” part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.

  So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following the at all anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Self hosted doesn’t necessarily mean hosted at home. Some of my stuff is for example hosted in a French datacenter for redundancy. At one point it was my only server space since hosting at home wasn’t feasible at that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not space that’s hard. Its more the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that’s hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milestone: NASA achieved GPS signals on Moon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be okay with that, honestly

  Well, good news then! If you wait a few billion years the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  using GitHub to host our code

  I can’t possibly think of any way that could backfire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is some unexpectedly good news. I’m looking forward to see the results of an EU based search index.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M'Lady⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Cheeto flavoured soda?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I post this to the right comm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less words, better propaganda

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your 4-bay docking station and raise my 20-bay storage server. I even stopped counting how much the hardware costs for it :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re in a private tracker like RED or OPS it works very well, but I agree that public trackers are not well indexed enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just you wait till you see the arr stack (radarr, sonarr, lidarr, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually the fuel cap is on the passenger side according to the country of origin, so for example European = right side, Japanese = left side. It’s not 100% bullet proof but it can eliminate a bit of the guess work if the car doesn’t have an arrow to indicate such side the cap is on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  XcQ, link stays blue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m considering it. I’d probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That could have been done by just having a single entry called GoogleBot or BingBot, not an entire sentence explaining their product offering let alone hundreds of times a minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re saying who they are, what they do, and are linking to their website and sometimes sends hundreds of requests in a minute. It might not say "For only €49.99 you can get your very own thing!”, but that does not mean they aren’t throwing their name up in every website owner’s arse whether they like it or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re spamming all web logs too with an advertisement for their services in the user agent. I decided to ban them from all my websites because the logs took up too much space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a 128GB Kingston DTSE9G2 and it has served me very well for close to a decade. Shit’s built like a tank and has sustained a lot of abuse being packed in my pocket with all the keys. Even survived a bike accident where I landed on the pocket (the pain was intolerable though…)