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- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
I just put a new clutch in the vehicle I’m teaching my kid to drive.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 week ago:
Whenever I ssh into it.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 week ago:
or, as you wrote, “steals”
Nice hallucination, clanker. Fuck off.
- Comment on Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions 1 week ago:
This is a great change. I wonder how long before the hate brigade comes along and complains.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 week ago:
No. Employment is finite. Including someone means excluding someone else.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 week ago:
“DEI hire” has a different definition depending on whether you’re talking about design or implementation.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 week ago:
I get that hiring practices should not discriminate, but in practice, what I have seen is the opposite of meritocracy. My company had many DEI hires, and they were the first to go when the money got tight.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
I have this and I will not change.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 2 weeks ago:
What’s crazy is that my small UPS consumes 20W at idle (fully charged; AC connected).
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 2 weeks ago:
That’s amazing. I’ll have to take your word for it. I only have Firefox on my devices.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
Bed goes up. AWS goes down.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
AWS outage. Basically Bezos went down on all his customers.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny that people get upset about one line in a config file that’s not even selected by default.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised it’s so low. My brother in law just sent me a photo posing with the red-bellied black snake that he found in his suburban Melbourne backyard today.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 3 weeks ago:
Imagine running a website for 20 years, changing absolutely nothing, and one day you’re being tageted because someone else on the other side of the planet changed something at their end.
Tell them to piss off.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 3 weeks ago:
The Australian ones (whitetails) are more populous, venemous, and aggressive than you could imagine in summer. I’d have a kill one inside my house almost every day.
It probably doesn’t help that our houses seal worse than an average tent.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 3 weeks ago:
It would be nice if this extended to all text, images and video on news websites. That’s where the real damage is happening.
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 4 weeks ago:
AMPALL
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 weeks ago:
The stepping-stone would be de-googled Android like LineageOS or GrapheneOS. I think Linux is the end-game though.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 month ago:
frustrated by ads that feel irrelevant
What?
Do they think we have a friend-or-foe system that only shoots down advertisements from adversaries?
An ad is an ad, and should be terminated on sight.
- Comment on REMINDER: Check your NBN speeds after the weekend upgrade 1 month ago:
On ABB I had to kick the connection and restart the NTD.
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 1 month ago:
It’s not attention to detail. Normies are affected by social pressures and emotions. Their behavioural patterns are baised towards acceptance.
Take that away, and an autist will assess the function and intent. The only desire is something that works, and is designed to work towards the user’s interests. Anything with a dark pattern will be set alight.
- Comment on @jack_toohey on why the housing crisis is not caused by migration 2 months ago:
Average income is not a useful metric. The higher the average gets, the further it drifts from the median.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
Even as a dev, I use a 32" QHD screen for programming. If I went 4K, I would need to use 150% scaling, and that breaks a LOT of stuff.
Everything is built for 100% scaling. Every time I’ve plugged my PC into a 4K display I’ve regretted it. It go to 30Hz (on HDMI) or glitch out or something. Even if it doesn’t, it’s never as smooth.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
It creates more problems than it solves. You would need an order of magnitude more processing power to play a game on it. Personally I would prefer 4K at a higher framerate. Even 1080 if it improves response.
Video in 8K are massive. You need better codecs to handle them, and they aren’t that widely supported. Storage is more expensive than it was a decade ago.
Also, there is no content. Nobody wants to store and transmit such massive amounts of data over the internet.
HDMI cables will fail sooner at higher resolutions. That 5 year old cable will begin dropping out when you try it at 8k.
4K is barely worth the tradeoffs.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 months ago:
ABN lookup indicates it’s registered in Melbourne CBD.
- Comment on How to prepare for future home server upgrade? 2 months ago:
When you upgrade your desktop PC, plan for it to be the home server after that.
I got a rackmount case to transplant my old desktop montherboard into every 5 years. I also got a 4-port NIC so it can also be a router. My server is a 4th gen Core i5 and it’s still plenty of power for a home server.
If you’re a laptop guy, I’m not sure what you’d do.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
Google has already started killing GrapheneOS by removing device trees from AOSP releases. Android 16 works fine, but for how long?
I would imagine the first thing any custom ROM would do is bypass Google’s app restrictions.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in 3 years I would need to pass hardware attestation to install a calculator app from the Play store.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh, you have 10 random singles in the same directory? That must be an album all from the same artist!
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 2 months ago:
Number of firearms is not a useful number. The ban had an exemption for bolt-actions used for farming.
When grandma has a handgun for catching the bus, there’s a problem.