TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 2 days ago:
I’m as against Israel’s war crimes as the next guy, but I don’t see why some people try to shoehorn it into completely irrelevant topics.
The video is about GPUs being smuggled into China, as well as the futility of this GPU export ban.
It is not about middle eastern geopolitics. That’s why middle eastern geopolitics wasn’t mentioned.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 2 days ago:
Which wouldn’t happen if uniforms were cheaper…
Hand me downs for other clothes still exists too.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 4 days ago:
Can’t believe I’ve lived to see Cloudflare be the good guys
- Comment on Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’ 5 days ago:
Conservatives fucking up public finances? Say it isn’t so!
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 5 days ago:
If you ask me, there should be a government-mandated spec of uniform, in a range of, say, 5 colours.
Schools can choose what colour they want to use.
All uniforms will be made to the same spec, purchasable basically anywhere (i.e. not just from the school itself), and can be mass produced by anybody.
Prices would drop like a stone.
- Comment on Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’ 5 days ago:
There are protests all the time, it’s Palestine Action (an organisation) specifically that the government is taking issue with.
After Palestine Action damaged business known to be owned or worked in by Jewish people (not all of whom expressed support of Israel), attacked a policewoman with a sledgehammer, drove a car through the wall of a factory with workers inside, had a leader that has expressed support for Hamas, and broke onto an RAF base and destroyed the engines of two jets, the government had them classified as a terrorist organisation.
That means that any support of PA is illegal, even if you’re not involved in anything PA does. Some people think that is an overstep.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 days ago:
There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it’s deleted your data.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 6 days ago:
My god, this is the LOTR Extended Edition of tech journalism videos
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 6 days ago:
What a dumb statement.
- Comment on Meat from EU set to be cheaper as UK axes new border checks in Brexit reset 6 days ago:
Good. It was pointless red tape to begin with.
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 6 days ago:
The UK does not sell bombs to Israel anymore.
- Comment on British soldiers still paying for sex in Kenya despite ban 1 week ago:
Banning prostitution and/or paying for sex has never worked in human history, and it’s likely it never will.
Regardless of how you feel about the morals of sex work, surely any rational person will see the truth in that above statement, and thus seek to ensure that the sex work that inevitably does happen should be done in the safest way that we can.
That is not achievable under blanket ban situations like this, IMO. It’s just creating a dodgy black market.
- Comment on U.K. cops are going undercover as joggers. Will it stop women runners from being harassed? 1 week ago:
Pointless to speculate on. I hope in time there is conclusive data.
Although, and I know this sounds a bit conspiracy theorist-y, it’s also possible that they aren’t doing this/aren’t doing it in any high numbers, and it’s just to make would-be harassers second-guess whether there are undercover police in the area – like those frequent road signs that say undercover police operate in this area.
Come to think of it, Sunak said he was putting undercover police in pubs all over the UK, as a means to prevent violence and harassment. Did that actually even happen, or was it just a cheap way to keep would-be criminals in line? Because I don’t recall hearing anything about the scheme after it made a few headlines.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
I have an extreme dislike for OpenAI, Altman, and people like him, but the reasoning behind this article is just stuff some guy has pulled from his backside.
- Comment on Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip 1 week ago:
Seems a bit of an over the top response.
He wasn’t aware he even needed one, and once he was informed he immediately fessed up about it publicly and referred himself to be looked at.
The sentencing guidelines state that the normal punishment for a first offence of this violation is a warning, which is probably what he’ll receive.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
What are you talking about?
Debian is stable.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Depends what you mean by this AI nonsense. Some of it is great. Offline translation in Firefox is great, as is the enhanced screen reader for blind people.
Chat bot integration less so, but it’s opt-in so I don’t bother getting myself worked up about it.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 week ago:
Looks cool.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 week ago:
You’re getting really weird with your whole nationalism/xenophobia angle on this.
The banking sector in the UK is very competitive. I have no idea why that ruffles your feathers so much, why you keep lying, or what your weird obsession with nationality is.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 week ago:
I’ve banked in South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, and the UK.
You think it’s nationalist to say the UK has a competitive banking sector? Lmao you are crazy.
I caught you blatantly lying. £30 fee for being overdrawn? That’s way above the legal limit. It literally couldn’t have happened.
I tell you that in fact, just like the EU, a new payment processing system is being created, and you go straight into denialism.
Take your weirdly-placed xenophobia out of here. I don’t know why you’re lying over something so inconsequential.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 week ago:
So much text here, and yet so incorrect.
Then topped off with a “they’re working on it? Well I say they’re not!!!” lmao
- Comment on Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK 1 week ago:
Spiced roasted meats, pasties and pies with spicy meat fillings, probably a bunch of seafood stuff, you could probably make blackcurrant in a salsa work depending on what you’re pairing it with. Beans are an obvious one too.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 week ago:
The banking sector is very competitive in the UK compared to pretty much any other country, so dodgy behaviour from banks/payment processors wasn’t very frequent.
More recently, however, just like the EU, the UK is working on their own system right now. The EU doesn’t have a unified payment processing system either, just a patchwork of different ones.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
This. It costs hundreds of millions per year to develop a web renderer. The security expertise required in particular is immense.
People have made clear they will not pay for browsers. At the same time, Mozilla doesn’t want to hoover up mountains of personally identifiable information like Google and MS do.
People hate Mozilla for doing what they can to make money, and they also hate the idea of paying.
I understand the frustration, but I genuinely don’t know what the community expects.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
“I’ve noticed that my CPU, GPU, and power usage when I run games. Valve needs to fix this ASAP!”
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 weeks ago:
It works well, so long as you don’t mind your DE being a bit behind the latest version. With how much Plasma and Gnome have been improving in the past couple of years, that may matter a lot.
To be honest, I think it makes more sense than it used to. You can have an extremely stable base, and if you want regularly updated user apps you can utilise Flatpaks.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
My point is that your comment makes it sound like gun control would solve nothing. That patently isn’t the case.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 2 weeks ago:
I imagine Labour are scared to go after them because it’ll be called censorship, and the Tories didn’t do anything because they thought they’d benefit from it (short-sighted, now it’s Reform getting the benefit).
Theoretically, Ofcom is independent, so the above shouldn’t be a thing, but in reality, like with Ofgem and Ofwat, I’m not sure that’s actually the case…
Personally I’d be fine with a compromise: you get to keep your licence to air, but you have to be reclassified as a news channel, as that’s clearly what you brand yourself as to the public.
It wouldn’t be the end of the world, you can still have an editorial slant. At the end of the day, Sky News has a mild right bias and Channel 4 News has a mild left bias. GB News just wouldn’t be able to get away with some of the more egregious stuff they do.
- Comment on US envoy to Israel taunts Keir Starmer and likens Gaza assault to Dresden bombing 2 weeks ago:
The Same Starmer who is increasing military funding, as well as support for Ukraine?
The same Starmer who is signing defence pacts with allies like the Nordic countries, Germany, and others?
The same Starmer who appears keen to expand various naval projects, as well as the GCAP, to like-minded allies like Canada and Australia?
The Same Starmer who has increased resources towards GCAP (UK, Italy, and Japan’s joint 6th gen jet fighter project, which is significantly further ahead than the US’s and France/Germany/Spain’s 6th gen fighter projects)?
The same Starmer who’s overseen the Royal Navy successfully prevent attacks from Houthi terror groups attacking and boarding civilian ships bound for Europe?
The same Starmer who, after Iran threatened to attack UK bases, warned them not to, and they immediately backed down?
Starmer and his team actually seems pretty competent on defence.
This is just dumb posturing from a deranged Republican.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 2 weeks ago:
If it was a newest channel it would already have been revoked, because they keep breaking Ofcom standards.
Unfortunately, they’re using the same loophole that Fox News uses in the US… “We’re an entertainment channel that covers current affairs. We are not a news channel.”
It’s staggering it works tbh, especially since their name literally has “news” in it.