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- Comment on Petrichor 14 hours ago:
I love the smell of redistributed ood in the morning.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 1 day ago:
“Archiving legally purchased content as an insurance against corporate-sanctioned theft”?
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 days ago:
Nice strawman, bro. I never said a damn thing about screen readers or translators, good or bad. And yes, I’ve read and filled out the entire survey. It doesn’t become a good survey just because it’s biased towards your personal views.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 3 days ago:
Nice assumption, dingus. I filled out the survey and sent it in before even writing that comment.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 3 days ago:
My question is, who asked?
I have many opinions about machine learning and its current position in technology, but expressed none of it in the comment. In case you missed it, the point I was trying to make is that this is a bullshit survey with obviously loaded questions and foregone conclusions.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 3 days ago:
“We’ve decided to focus our efforts on AI and advertising. Please tell us why you think that’s a good idea!”
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
If something is Nuclear enough it can generate heat
That’s an extreme oversimplification. RTGs don’t use nuclear waste. Spent reactor fuel still emits a large amount of gamma and neutron radiation, but not with enough intensity to be useful in a reactor. The amount of shielding required makes any kind of non-terrestrial application impossible.
The most common RTG fuel is ^238^Pu, which emits mostly alpha and beta particles, and can be used with minimal shielding. It can’t be produced by reprocessing spent reactor fuel. In 2024, only Russia is manufacturing it.
^90^Sr can be extracted from nuclear fuel, and was used by early Soviet RTGs, but only terrestrially because the gamma emission requires heavy shielding. Strontium is also a very reactive alkaline metal. It isn’t used as RTG fuel today.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
the waste it produces is highly problematic.
It’s a solved problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHHbgIy9jU
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 4 days ago:
It’s all fun and games until somebody mixes up pinus contorta with the ol’ dick twist.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 4 days ago:
We’re already past the “spreading awareness” stage. Now it’s time to do something about legally sanctioned robbery.
- Comment on Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality. 1 week ago:
You should read The Jaunt to acquire the completely healthy and rational fear of teleportation
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, but that’s the same one that I found. It removes the power button from the start menu and disables the
shutdowncommand, but the computer still responds to ACPI and even the keyboard’s power-off button. - Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’ 2 weeks ago:
If I see Captain Anderson’s “NEED to KNOW BAsis” knife-hand animation, I’m going to shit.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 3 weeks ago:
It makes sense if you represent complex numbers as
(a, b)pairs, whereais the real part andbis the imaginary part (just like the populara + birepresentation). AB’s length is(1, 0), AC’s length is(0, 1), and BC’s length will also be a complex number. - Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
There are use-cases where a computer should not be turned off by its user for the purpose of remote management. I’m dealing with one just as I’m writing this comment.
There’s an exam in a classroom. In 20 minutes I’ll have to run an ansible script to remove this group’s work, clean up the project directory, and rollback two VMs to the prepared snapshot to get ready for the next group. I’ve put a big-ass banner on the wallpaper telling the students not to shut down the computer, and already half of them are off.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
Mainly because our students are idiots and will complain if the computer doesn’t turn off. Or worse, hold the power button, or actually yank the power cable. Maybe I should just lean into it and convince them that the monitor is the computer.
Jokes aside, how could I implement such a policy? I’ve only found one that hides the power buttons from the start menu, but Windows still responds to ACPI.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
As another IT guy at a university, having to manually turn on 30 computers in a classroom for updates or whatever is already a pain in the ass. Wake on LAN is not a reliable solution. Havin to manually flip over every box, then putting them down, and then fixing the cables that got yanked… I’d throw those fuckers in the trash.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 3 weeks ago:
USB Power Delivery over a regular USB-C-compliant cable delivers a variable current of up to 3A, using discrete voltages of 5V for up to 15W of power, 9V for up to 27W, 12V for up to 48W, and 20V for up to 60W.
Higher powers require dedicated USB PD-compliant cables that can handle up to 240W at a voltage of 48V.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 3 weeks ago:
My uneducated guess is money.
Manufacturers likely have factories (either theirs or a contracted company’s) where they can mass produce the power bricks for a low cost. Upgrading to a USB power supply doesn’t offer significant benefits compared to the power brick of similar wattage, and the up-front cost of setting up a new supplier is financially unjustified. The old technology works just as well, so why change?
High power USB is still a relatively new technology. I’m sure it will proliferate, but the consumer market has a fuckton of inertia.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
That says more about your ignorance than anything about AI or Linux.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
Not me. Thankfully I live an ocean away from that hellhole.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
What a way to put on the appearance of an enlightened neutral observer while completely ignoring the complex socio-political situation by reducing it to a simple, sweeping statement. Couldn’t have done it better myself.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
www.phoronix.com/…/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs
The Linux project removed maintainers who were Russian or were using Russian e-mail addresses, probably to comply with sanctions. Linus hasn’t talked about the legal details because he doesn’t know if he can (and because Daddy Vladdy’s Dick Warmers are out in full force).
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
Most likely coincidence. The sanctions came into effect and their respective lawyers took about the same time to come up with a policy that complies with them. There’s nothing more to the story that would make it weird.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 weeks ago:
“That’s why we’ve got a bucket under the wire’s end. Token spillage is a pain in the ass to sweep up, so at the end of the day we collect the bucket and put all the tokens back in the first machine.”
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… weird how sanctions work…
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
So they’re upgrading to 3.5" and token ring?
- Comment on You fuckin monsters 4 weeks ago:
The borzoi is what happens when you describe a dog to someone who’s only ever seen horses and ask them to draw it.
- Comment on "Times Heals All Wounds" and "This Too Shall Pass" may be true, but the time window doesn't have to happen during your lifetime. 4 weeks ago:
It is what it is.
- Comment on "Times Heals All Wounds" and "This Too Shall Pass" may be true, but the time window doesn't have to happen during your lifetime. 4 weeks ago:
Yeast crawls