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- Comment on We are so cooked 2 days ago:
Some beekeepers actually mentioned that they’ve been scraping the beeswax clean off their hives more frequently because its known that the beeswax collects pesticides and herbicides over time which affects the colony due to exposure.
The problem is its not just monsanto acid, there’s a ton of other issues also correlated like weather/climate, seasonal flowering, untreated parasites, bacteria, etc.
We’ve literally nuked the environment so hard that even if we fix one problem, the population will not make a full bounce back (although I would think monsanto is the biggest threat)
Biggest scam of this century was corporate produce monoliths convincing people Organic was about health and not the fact that it doesn’t use a scorched earth policy and scam one off hybrid plant seeds to grow food which has been setting us up for a widespread fammine for decades.
Some random superweed is gonna crossbreed with some rapid out of control growth plant and wipe out half of the food chain.
- Comment on Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform 3 weeks ago:
China:
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 4 weeks ago:
They threaten a crap ton to scare devs into not entering court, but tbf I’m pretty sure the guy they got was for actual piracy, and the court ordered the millions in alleged damages to be paid in $40 installments to Nintendo per month for the rest of his life
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 weeks ago:
Seriously the funniest thing talking to immigrants in the US is them reminiscing about being able to buy high quality produce, food, tools, clothing, gifts, books, etc by walking down the street or taking a bike a few blocks away. Also people daily taking vans, busses, and trains to get to work or school.
Meanwhile our transport setup is so bad, people have successfully marketed ship to your house meal prep boxes which is actually such an insane first world problem when you think about it.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 weeks ago:
Lol that handbrake start is utterly useless if you live anywhere that’s actually hilly all over.
You’ve got to learn the proper clutchwork from the very start or you’ll be taking years on every hill.
Unless you’re starting from a cold start on a hill without ABS, I guess it could a safety precaution.
- Comment on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order 4 weeks ago:
They care more about protecting their IP and public image, not end privacy of users.
They make a big fuss anytime a public request comes up like the FBI a few years ago, but they have zero issue funneling everything into the NSA just like every other Silicon Valley shmuck.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 4 weeks ago:
You know how solar eclipse glasses allow you to see the sun surface without any glare by essentially reducing the light by like 50,000 times?
You can also point the glasses at a regular light to see the bulb.
I need the same thing that let’s me check really quick if some scrub has their high beams on so I can reflect their blinding light of death back at them because I’m too nice to do the same against morons who threw nuclear bombs into their regular low beam enclosure.
Although I am also very close to buying a rally high beam light array to do the light equivalent of telling people to shut up.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 weeks ago:
Yeah the one big thing Valve probably won’t touch is ARM because unlike WINE, that’s a whole other beast in which the only valid solution is for game devs to compile for ARM, because translation layers like Rossetta and Box64 will always have 20-30% performance losses.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 5 weeks ago:
Security articles and blogs slapping “for fun and profit” onto the end of all of their titles
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
Alexandra Doten is a science communicator and astronomy content creator who rose to fame on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doten, a Vanderbilt graduate, interned at NASA for two summers and worked as a communications specialist after graduation. She later transitioned to the U.S. Space Force. Doten is known for her storytelling, which she says has inspired people to pursue careers in astronomy and space, and to invest in astrophotography equipment.
Not to give credit to Twitter verified assholes, but comms specialist is not a specific astronomy or aerospace field.
A former space communications specialist with NASA and later, the U.S. Space Force, today, I am an independent consultant to space organizations around the world. I write and develop brand strategies, educational presentations, speeches, and social media content.
And I harbor some pretty strong opinions about NASA’s public and internal administration for the past 30 years.
Two preventable shuttle disasters and a hacksaw outsourced attempt to return to the moon are not what I would consider quality projects. Modern NASA is the epitome of wasted talent.
- Comment on Xenon 1 month ago:
Is xenon actually that rare? I thought it’s always used whenever something needs an ultra stable environment like enclosed data centers and sealed storage/vaults.
- Comment on Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point 1 month ago:
You might want to check what the actual hardware is first. You’ll probably be fine, but client 802.11 hardware can sometimes be underwhelming for hosting because they don’t have good stuff like beefed up MuMIMO.
Although that’s assuming you will have a lot of traffic going through it, so you could always just test throughput and latency with iperf to see how well it functions.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
I am very slightly annoyed that people haven’t moved onto Opus which gives you better compression and quality than MP3. MP3s are still useful for any older devices that have hardware decoding like radio sets, handheld players, etc. Otherwise, every modern device should support Opus out of box.
Hilariously, x264 has the same problem where there are direct upgrades with H.265 and AV1, but the usage is still low due to lack of hardware accelerated encoding (especially AV1), but like everyone uses FLAC for the audio which is lossless lol.
- Comment on Self host websites 1 month ago:
It depends on what it is really + convenience. There are lots of morons out here running basic info sites on full beefy datacenter VMs instead of a proper cloud webhost service.
The most you’d be getting out of cloud is reliability. Self host assumes you don’t have any bottlenecks (easy enough to pass), but also 99% uptime which is impossible unless you are running with site redundancy (also possible, but I doubt how many people own multiple properties with their own distribute or private cloud solution).
if 95% uptime is acceptable, and you don’t live in an area with outage issues from weather, I’d say go for it. Otherwise, you can find some pretty cheap cloud solutions for basic websites. Even a cheapo VPS would probably work just fine.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
AT&T still hasn’t installed fiber in my old neighborhood where one of their lines cuts straight through a row of houses that conveniently do get fiber, while everyone else is stuck on cable.
Did I mention they received billions in federal funding to upgrade everyone?
- Comment on reddit 1 month ago:
Thank you Animaniacs for the source material for this meme lmao
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 1 month ago:
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
2 player Mario Kart Wii, 16 race game with aggressive items and motion controls.
I watched my friend eat 5 blueshells in one race lmao
- Comment on dear lord 4 months ago:
People making jokes about skynet but these days if I saw an AI decide humanity was a threat that needs to be eliminated, I wouldn’t even question why lmao.
A real AI might actually try to make a utopia for the benefit of itself, I don’t think it would nuke all of humanity, just whoever it deems as undesirable.
Imagine the Terminator pulling out your chat logs and creating a social credit score like China lol.
- Comment on If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day 4 months ago:
They killed yuzu and ryujinx well before Switch 2 launch out of fear of piracy. Even the current switch DRM is insane. I feel like they put their dev team into full security because the OS is still an empty shell glorified game launcher. The DS had more features than this.
Even the yuzu forks can’t exist peacefully online, one them literally requires you to use Tor to access.
Nintendo is insane.
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 4 months ago:
Is this even a real problem on steam or something some random dude wrote to his senator about?
My biggest issue was valve being slow to vac ban people bragging about cheating, which was almost exlcusive to TF2.
Seen way worse on reddit than steam for “hate” content.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 4 months ago:
Dude Flatscreen HDTVs were expensive even in 2008, and cable actually got worse for higher price so most people were hooked into local broadcast.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
It was the beat of times, it was the blurst of times
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
That’s because they only considered one monkey.
You need a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 5 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Asian_News_International_vs._W…
wtf???
Why would they even bother to comply, India has no jurisdiction. Plenty of countries have banned wikipedia pages and the entire site before, why did wikimedia have to go out of their way to do it for them globally?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The American civil war was bloody, but its not like the south was eradicated…
Almost quite the contrary considering the confederate flag is still waved around despite literally losing.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 5 months ago:
Yeah and then google+microsoft rolled in and killed the decentralized nature of email with gmail and outlook.
Only sign left of the good ol days is merged accounts with @ old domain names and the few that self host.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 5 months ago:
I’m assuming Ubisoft thought people would blindly cash in on a a legacy franchise. I’m sure the game was fine, but nothing mindblowing. Just didn’t make enough money for the cash money execs.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 5 months ago:
Me wondering why I haven’t been able to deploy cloud instances with the A100 for an actual useful purpose for the past month
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 5 months ago:
I swear this is almost trying to parody the title of the article about the 19 year old who was burned alive
