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- Comment on Still no EU action on Israel, despite Gaza famine 14 hours ago:
Have they considered turning the lights on in their conference hall? Or maybe they just want to look like villains plotting famine and genocide.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 day ago:
Teaching is something usually done by teachers and or parents
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 2 days ago:
I used windows 95 an hour ago because the control system for some lab equipment runs on it. Its actually super snappy and reactive. Boots in like 10 seconds even on that old ass hardware.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 days ago:
I havent used gmail in a while. By tags do you mean that you can add one or more custom tags to emails that you can then use to filter by? If so, yes Thunderbird does support that, but i assume its locally stored information. You can sync your thunderbird profile across devices tho.
- Comment on The Mysterious Noise, The Empty Bottle, The Asshole Labmate 2 days ago:
I once threw out an opened package with custom PCBs (worth like 20k€) intended for one of the detectors at CERN, because i thought my colleague already took them out of the box. The PCBs are very lightweight and there is lots of packing material so you barely notice the difference from a full to empty box. Luckily the paper trash compactor hadnt run yet when i realized…
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 days ago:
thank you my friend :)
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 days ago:
Its not even a good email. It has horribly aggressive filtering and logging in through a proper client like thunderbid/k9mail always requires tedious extra steps.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 days ago:
Always glad to share cool projects :)
If you go up to the parent directory of the links i sent it shows the last couple versions (20250801, 20250601, 20250201, 20241201) so it gets updated every few months yes. I believe the URL has stayed the same for the past decade or so too.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 days ago:
There is also apps like Aard2 that allow you to have all of wikipedia (no images duh) offline on your phone. github.com/itkach/aard2-android
Its a general dictionary type app so it supports things other than wikipedia too. There is a link to the dictionary files in the readme on that github, but it can be confusing.
If you have 23GB of space and your storage isnt fat32 formatted: …halifax.rwth-aachen.de/…/enwiki20250801-slob/
If it is fat32 then you gotta download it in 4GB chunks: …rwth-aachen.de/…/enwiki20250801-vol-slob/
The downside to this is that i (you?) often want very recent fresh info from wikipedia and this obviously doesnt work well for that because it doesnt support updating in a way where you only have to download the changes. If somebody knows of an app that supports this, where you only have to download a couple MB of changes every day to keep the entire thing up to date let me know.
- Comment on Indoor lettuce growing in 3D printed pots 2 days ago:
Idk about ABS, but PLA definitely leeches unhealthy chemicals and will break down into microplastics in soil. It doesnt decompose.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 days ago:
Yeah okay, that joke just doesnt work for me even if i know it, because instructions wouldnt make people commit suicide so its just odd. Would have worked if the conversation with the LLM itself had made the kid kill itself.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 days ago:
Because Us cops will totally do something about it lmao
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 3 days ago:
Deep Rock is peer to peer which is cool because it means you can ban annoying people yourself :) But yeah, no LAN support sadly.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 3 days ago:
That you should become a carpenter, befriend a smith and then build a guillotine together :)
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 days ago:
The entire picture looks completely fake like somebody tried to create a twitter screenshot from scratch in paint.
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 3 days ago:
The concept of “uncrustables” is something so absurd. Surely thats a US invention right?
- Comment on Are drones in war just a one off. Like they drop one or two bombs and are done for? Or do they get flown back to the site to get rearmed and repeat? Asking in context about Russia Ukraine debacle 3 days ago:
There are also big hexa or octacopter ones that can have multiple munitions attached to them that they can drop from high up.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 days ago:
not a single security researcher has found it
They do find it regularly. Its not even a secret, they are openly advertising it as a feature.
AND ALEXA IS LISTENING TO ME 24X365 DAYS A YEAR!
It is…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 days ago:
You can make yourself believe that you turned it off for now*
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 3 days ago:
its just being done for the wrong reasons
Thats what i meant by that. Its not the 10% stake itself that hurts the company or economy, its how Trump is utilizing it.
I dont give a fuck about Intels well being or how well the US economy is doing, but if this leads to normalizing government involvement in essential industries again, then that would be a win globally. - Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 3 days ago:
Nah this is just red scare tactics from Intel. This is not actually an entirely “bad” move by Trump, its just being done for the wrong reasons. People have been asking the government to start doing this kind of thing again for decades. The most prosperous period in US history was during the height of government interference in the market.
- Comment on Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB 3 days ago:
According to the company: mongodb.com/…/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-publ…
Unfortunately, once an open source project becomes interesting, it is too easy for cloud vendors who have not developed the software to capture all of the value while contributing little back to the community
They are totally morally correct imo, but reality simply doesnt work like that.
“We have invested approximately $300M in R&D over the past decade to offer a modern, general purpose, open source database for everyone. With the added protection of the SSPL, we can continue to invest in R&D and further drive innovation and value for the community.”
They also just spent a bit too much money on a single project from what it look like.
- Comment on Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB 3 days ago:
Microsoft made some database software called DocumentDB (which utilizes a kind of database called NoSQL) that the Linux Foundation is now accepting into their list of projects they support. This was done because, unlike others like MongoDB, this one called DocumentDB was released under a license that people can use without certain restrictions that MongoDB put inside their license.
The core issue is that big tech companies regularly take software developed by open source devs and then use it for their big money machines without giving anything back to the original developers. MongoDB was fed up with this and started using a license that forces companies to publicize the code of the projects they use MongoDB for. Big Tech doesnt like that, because they really like money and not sharing how they make that money.
“Today, the market has spoken,” Farkas wrote on Tuesday. “The Linux Foundation has announced the adoption of the DocumentDB project to create an open standard with MongoDB compatibility, the exact thing we were sued for earlier this year.”
So now they have a software suite that people can use to replace their MongoDB systems.
- Comment on There are people young enough to not even remember Pokémon Red/Blue who are old enough to be parents now 4 days ago:
I mean you can technically become a parent at like 11 so this really isnt all that meaningful yeah.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 4 days ago:
If you want more, NVIDIA is bullying tech reviewers into pushing fake reviews
- Comment on Looking to get a new phone with FOSS on it. What should I look into? 4 days ago:
This kinda thing? forum.fairphone.com/t/…/11425
At the moment im still running CalyxOS on my FP4 because the issue i mentioned in my last comment was announced fairly recently.
If development on CalyxOS continue i would very much recommend it above all the other options.If i decide to switch im gonna be trying out Ubuntu Touch for the first time soon. Ubuntu touch is a custom linux based OS that comes with waydroid which allows the device to run android apps in a sandbox. I havent tested this yet but from what i have seen it seems pretty nice.
For all the android ROMs (most of them being based on LineageOS) one important thing to consider is if they do OTA (over the air = self installing) updates. Some ROMs dont do this so you would have to manually flash updates through a computer+cable.
Some more info here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS#Forks
- Comment on Have you know???. 4 days ago:
Yeah no. Imagine it like a computer and screen. To render an image it will momentarily consume a bit more power, but as soon as it has been rendered it will still continuosily consume x Watt to keep running and displaying the picture. For continuous operation of something with no specified time, Watt is the correct unit.
- Comment on Have you know???. 4 days ago:
Its continuous to keep the image active in your mind :)
- Comment on Young Wang: to the pedomobile! 4 days ago:
Not a shitpost and weird title.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 4 days ago:
Im sure there are plenty of abbreviations people make up for their disorders. While one person might be okay with it, others might see it as a slur of sorts. I worked with someone with down syndrome that called himself and his similarily affected friends “downies” but you can be fucking sure as hell that others might be very offended by that.
