Blaster_M
@Blaster_M@lemmy.world
- Comment on Marine Le Pen banned from running for French president after embezzling EU funds 4 days ago:
Well, that’s a given, but leading with why is more genuine than making what appears to be a propaganda piece by only mentioning the political part (far-right leader), which makes it appear that she was banned for being far-right.
- Comment on Marine Le Pen banned from running for French president after embezzling EU funds 4 days ago:
This is the context that’s missing from the headlines of the other thread of this event. She’s not being banned for being far right, but being banned for embezzlement.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
privacytools.io uses affiliate links. privacyguides.org does not.
- Comment on Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset 2 weeks ago:
You order corrective lens inserts for it
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
Gas powered cars catch fire all the time
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
Stuff I’ve heard on naysays:
“The battery will blow up!!!”
No, it won’t if it’s a solid state battery - solid state batteries barely even notice such a charging rate, their temperature might change by half a degree from this monster charging rate.
“You can’t supply the power because lines”
Modern large commercial buildings already suck down this amount and more.
“The grid overall can’t take 1MW”
So, the 1,000 MW nuclear reactor can’t provide 1MW? How about a reactor station with 4 units cranking 4000 MW? How about we add another 1000 in renewables? How about another 800MW with a single gas turbine? How about adding roof solar and a battery bank below ground for the charging station to supplement the power? We haven’t even touched hydro or geo yet. Making power is not a problem, and we’ll build out the power as we need it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A relationship is a commitment. Once you have a partner, the two of you work together as one. If you do not maintain this cohesion, it will fall apart. You can’t have an “unrelationship”. That won’t work for long.
- Comment on Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. 3 weeks ago:
Visual Voicemail has been a thing for literal decades. The older ai models (before they were called such) were even more jank
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 weeks ago:
Stupid is as stupid does. A significant portion of trucking accidents involve the truck driver missing a cue because they were mid gear change.
While it is good to have a person learn to drive stick, it is really hard to get people to learn how to drive if they have zero interest in actually learning how to be a driver, no matter what transmission.
I personally like dual clutch transmissions and daily’ed a car to 175k miles with one, yet I went out of my way to find a manual version of my current car.
- Comment on DeepSeek brings disruption to AI-optimized parallel file systems, releases powerful new open-source Fire-Flyer File System 4 weeks ago:
TLDR: 3FS prioritizes random reads and does away with a read cache entirely to optimize for performance with random read speed.
It functions in a similar manner to BeeGFS.
The lack of a read cache may be less useful for consumers, as this is hyper optimizing for datacenter-level NAS.
- Comment on Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot 5 weeks ago:
Github is for open source, use gitlab or self host for private code
- Comment on China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers 1 month ago:
Almost as if those “backdoors only for the good guys” ideas are bad ideas afterall…
something something leopards and faces
- Comment on Damn Okarun 1 month ago:
A victim of an unfortunate smelting accident…
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 1 month ago:
Garbage in, Garbage out. Ingesting all that internet blather didn’t make the ai smarter by much if anything.
- Comment on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Announce Trailer 1 month ago:
Me hoping for a PC release
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 1 month ago:
Ironically, the Aztek is way better, despite its age…
- Comment on FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working 1 month ago:
Great news, if it was 2004 when this hardware was actually in use…
- Comment on Avoid ISP Routers - RouterSecurity.org 1 month ago:
RIP AT&T users, who not only can’t use their own routers for fiber, but have to put up with AT&T’s stupid ipv6 implementation that follows no standards regarding subnetting.
- Comment on Mass Effect 2 Celebrates 15th Anniversary 2 months ago:
Third game turns it around - those guys are the bad guys, they always have been. The second game was an “enemy mine” kind of situation. Not every fascist is facist for facism’s sake. A lot of them think they’re saving tbe world. You, as the player, make sure they get what’s coming to hem.
- Comment on Lemon wine and orange wine 2 months ago:
Whatever you do, do not put these next to the urine samples
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 months ago:
The 1880’s
- Comment on Microsoft warns Windows 11 install media bug blocks future security updates 2 months ago:
Back in the Windows XP days, not geting security updates was a death sentence for a pc. Even on a dialup internet, it only took minutes to get infected.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 4 months ago:
…and that’s why you don’t use car navigation in airplane mode.
- Comment on Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers 4 months ago:
“Everyone has aids!”
- Comment on Mastodon sees a boost from the 'X exodus,' too, founder says 4 months ago:
The Xodus
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 4 months ago:
All you need is a frequency modulator and to send four pulses of a specific amplitude at the right time in sequence, and then all the bullet costs are discounted.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 months ago:
People who don’t like Palworld, maybe give a real reason? The AI stuff was made up by a salty troll who admitted later he made it up. It being “legally distinct from pokémon” isn’t a good enough reason. It having the ability to ::: spoiler Spoiler butcher your Pals for resources ::: may be a reason to be upset about the gameplay, but then again, many, many, many RPGs have you culling the local wildlife and depopulating a nation for quests too. Neither is the Genshin Impact art style a reason to hate it. That’s just JRPG asthetics.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 4 months ago:
Incredible. It’s entertaining in the way watching a slow motion train wreck is entertaining.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 5 months ago:
2014… the POS edition (basically LTSC) was 2019
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 5 months ago:
You do migrate to newer Linuxes with new de and python versions, and all the breaking changes that entails which means spendjng another week chasing down broken stuff.