YurkshireLad
@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time. 5 days ago:
Dave Cutler, the legend of VMS and the NT kernel.
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 3 weeks ago:
Like google, I’m sure Jeff has a near unlimited supply of money to pay lawyers.
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 3 weeks ago:
HTML is the content and CSS is how to display it, or the formatting and styling required to display it.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
Too late!
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 weeks ago:
I think Java was first released just after I graduated. I do program Java at my day job though, and I don’t mind it. It has its quirks but I find I can express myself using Java, but I probably try to think towards much in OO paradigms when I design and code.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 4 weeks ago:
Wtf??? That’s insanity…
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
How many dollar stores are required for it to be classified as a town?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 4 weeks ago:
This is real? Holy crap….
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the point? The service department makes more money.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 5 weeks ago:
Surely Grok would make a better president and be more human and intelligent?
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 5 weeks ago:
I find it very strange that so many American women vote to reduce their own rights.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 5 weeks ago:
“Join our Discord server and Sub-Reddit!”.
Umm, no thanks.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 month ago:
I don’t know, I don’t have a Facebook account. But I can believe you’re right.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 month ago:
And we’ll doom scroll through ads as though they’re shorts, which I guess they are anyway.
- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 1 month ago:
“Write a program to launch a rocket”
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 month ago:
Layoffs is the precursor to adopting LLM generated content?
- Comment on Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentials 2 months ago:
Interesting. I got an email last week that purported to be from Google about requesting an MFA code to login. It looked legit but I wonder if it was using this same exploit.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 2 months ago:
A lettuce probably has more leaves than her platform will have users.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 months ago:
The Sheeples bleat on BlueSky?
- Comment on You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when searching for "Lemmy" returns more results for the forum than for the Motorhead guy. 2 months ago:
God wouldn’t turn up.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 3 months ago:
“Mental landscape”?
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 3 months ago:
Are they then routing all starlink traffic to Russia?
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 3 months ago:
I’m glad I deleted my account a while ago.
- Comment on Google Calendar Malware Is on the Rise. Here’s How To Stay Safe 4 months ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 4 months ago:
It’s the equivalent of two young kids arguing over trading marbles in the playground.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 4 months ago:
Are you in America? I’m in Canada so I wonder if that makes a difference.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 4 months ago:
Google maps on Android shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I use sftpgo.com at home for backing up and accessing files. It’s a private unshared network and it works well.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 months ago:
It looks like something out of an 80s car video game.
- Comment on Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles 6 months ago:
I saw a black cyber truck this weekend. My wife and I both laughed. Mate, you can’t make it invisible by painting it black.
Such a hideous vehicle.