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- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 22 hours ago:
You really don’t understand how bd-r/bd-rw works, do you?
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 1 day ago:
Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?
- Comment on Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly Russian state hackers from APT29 3 days ago:
Here we go again…
- Comment on McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream 4 days ago:
Five Guys have a vanilla milkshake till bacon … Yummmmm
- Comment on Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs 1 month ago:
Ok. We’ve whitelisted you now.
- Comment on Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs 1 month ago:
As a Swede I feel a bit offended.
Guys, just be happy that we don’t send your Volvo in a flat pack, ok?
- Comment on How can we improve the judicial system that monitors our politicians deals (spotting for fraud, corruption) when it is not in the interest of anybody involved? 1 month ago:
Don’t give up. It might sound like a cliché: This not something that is won overnight.
It’s either that or revolution…
- Comment on How can we improve the judicial system that monitors our politicians deals (spotting for fraud, corruption) when it is not in the interest of anybody involved? 1 month ago:
Everything starts with you engaging in local politics.
You get the politicians your deserve.
If you don’t engage in the local part of the political party that is closest to your views, then someone else will. That “someone else” might not have the same good intentions like you do.
The politicians elected in the lower parts of the political pyramid are the ones that will eventually rise to the next level.
So the corrupt ones in the top could have had a much harder journey if people stop focusing on the top and change focus to their own surroundings.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 month ago:
Well, at least when you used to buy windows you were the user and the customer.
With Google you’re just the product.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 month ago:
I’d argue that Windows 11 is a result of what Google has been getting away with Android.
Google has shown Microsoft that the users happily pay money for giving up the control of their device. While Android was open 10 years ago, Google has worked hard to lock it down for 99% of the end users. The amount of personal data they get from each device is staggering.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Cool. Where can I read up on the catalog of Tidal?
- Comment on Is this discoloration a problem? 1 month ago:
I’m not a professional and not living in the US.
- Get a Wood Moisture Meter and check everything. If the wood contains more water than it should you have an ongoing problem and there is ongoing microbiological growth.
- Some of the Black / Dark parts look like fungus. (In Swedish “svartmögel” which is directly translated to “black mould”). That shit can cause allergies and worse shit.
All in all: get a professional to check this. I’m Sweden we have “building inspectors” that are experts in leakage and mold that checks this for you.
- Comment on Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License 1 month ago:
Nice idea but the chances of that happening is close to zero.
If you take the top 10000 companies around the world that use some open source software and count the amount of full time employees that contribute with code to open source projects I would be extremely surprised if you would reach 10000 contributers in total.
I love the philosophy behind open source but business people doesn’t understand why it’s valuable for them to have additional cost associated with “employees helping competitors”.
Business people are the ones pulling the strings in the corporate world.
- Comment on After printing ABS almost exclusively for about a decade, I'm rediscovering PLA and its fancy variants 1 month ago:
That’s $80 per kg.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 month ago:
PCWorld:
Microsoft’s latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there’s no fix
What Microsoft actually said:
Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update, or KB5036893. We are working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release
I’m so fed up with everyone trying to make a quick buck on our constant struggle to stay safe.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 month ago:
TIL that Silicon Graphics still exists…
- Comment on "Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ? 2 months ago:
Wait what?
You consider food that has been properly refrigerated for 3 days a health risk?
If all ingredients have been properly heated in the cooking process and cooled down quickly (letting it cool down in room temperature is not “quickly” it should be good for a much longer time. Put the food in an airtight container. If it’s cold outside, like below 4°C, you can put it outside to cool. Otherwise, put the container in cold water. Make sure to change the water if it gets luke warm. When the food is luke warm/room tempered you move the container to the fridge (cooling capacity of your fridge determines how warm food you can cook down in the fridge. The cooler food, the better).
If kept below 8°C (I prefer a temperature of 1°C to 4°C in my fridge) it should be good for at least a week. Up to 2-3-4 weeks depending on how poor, courageous and/or stupid you are.
Always: Use your nose and if it smells a bit unusual, not just “off”, you should consider throwing it away. The smell receptors you have have by evolution been calibrated towards smelling “spoiled”. Especially spoiled meats, most likely since the micro organisms and the toxins they produce are among the most dangerous to us compared to what’s in spoiled vegetables. If a piece of meat is really off, you most likely won’t even be able to breath normally within 4-5 inches of it.
Look for color change, tiny tiny dots of something that doesn’t seem to belong in the food. (It doesn’t have to be “hairy”. Bacterias doesn’t create “hairy dots”). If it does have dots or after coloring, then throw it away. If you see “hairy” it’s most likely mold. Not mold actually, but the fruiting body of mold, which is just the tip of the iceberg. What you don’t see if the actual mold which continues det down in the food. So never just cut away the bad parts and eat what looks ok. It’s everywhere, even in parts that looks good.
But if you wouldn’t be able to eat one week old properly refrigerated food, all of our ancestors 100 years ago would have died of food poisoning. I mean “all” as all of them and not just the large amount of people that actually died from botulism, salmonella and all the other food related fun ways to die.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 2 months ago:
How do you get new furniture into your house?
Our way, since I’m a Windows and Linux user, of adding applications is a remnant from the old times. We have left the age where computers are maintained by men in white coats and powerful computers took up while buildings.
Apples way is more intuitive since it mimics how it most often works in the real world.
Computers should adapt to humans, not the other way around.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 2 months ago:
It’s so funny that you use the word “unintuitive” and the describe the most intuitive way of adding a program to your computer. 😁
- Comment on A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He? 2 months ago:
No.
That was easy.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 2 months ago:
You make it sound like corporations invent a new revolutionary wheel each quarter. They don’t.
What fantastic new beverage have Coca Cola launched the last couple of years? What astonishing new car technology has GM or Volkswagen released lately?
Companies are largely j in either one of there phases. Downsizing, acceleration or regular business “maintenance”.
Most companies are doing what they’ve always have done and guarding their market share. Now and then some small competitor with something revolutionizing pops up and either starts eating market share it gets aquired by one the bigger ones.
So between a competition popping up or one of your engineers coming up with a lucky accident, all you do is to manage the business as you always do.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 2 months ago:
No. Middle management is a lot of repeating tasks that an AI could do. The thing is that were not talking about replaying all middle management, we’re talking about giving 10% of the managers the tools to run 90% of the repetitive, tedious and boring tasks.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 2 months ago:
Yes. And it will.
- Comment on My new Commodore PC-10 III...! ima need some opinions on this one 2 months ago:
Oh… The good old MFM disks… Those were the days …
- Comment on ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets 2 months ago:
Even if you got US and Israel to sign it, Russia, China and The Saudis would never.
- Comment on 8BitDo’s latest retro keyboard is an ode to the Commodore 64 2 months ago:
Nope. No ISO layout = no buy. I hate that thin ugly Return key.
- Comment on Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken 3 months ago:
OS/2 3.0 “Warp” was a little too much ahead of its time and had the exact same problem that Windows Mobile had: no applications.
IBM tried to solve that with Windows emulation but it was a headache from the start and often have a buggy experience.
It didn’t help that the real world hardest requirements were off the charts as compared to Windows 95 (still 16-bit MS-Dos based and not even close to what OS/2 was).
IBM duideverything right from an engineering perspective but failed miserably on what the market wanted.
It never stood a chance. IBM had always been great at delivering solutions that was well engineered. What IBM has n-e-v-e-r been good at is marketing and understanding the volume market.
- Comment on Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken 3 months ago:
If it was OS/2 from IBM it was true multitasking and the OS in full control of memory allocation, something Microsoft only were able to offer after creating a new operating system from scratch (Windows NT).
If you thought OS/2 took forever to boot on a 386DX with only 8MB of ram, imagine how long it would take to boot Windows NT 3.5 on that same machine…
- Comment on McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure 3 months ago:
So they got hacked / ransomwared?
- Comment on Linux market share passes 4% for first time 3 months ago:
…and shitty business decisions there are plenty of.