AllNewTypeFace
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
- Comment on Solar leading Baltic states to energy security 3 hours ago:
Given the wild imbalance between summer- and winter-time solar generation (in Germany it’s an order of magnitude, and further north, in the Baltics, it’d be more), it’d probably be a good idea to overbuild solar capacity and have some energy storage with a year time frame like pumped hydro, storing summer surplus for the winter.
- Comment on Apple Rumored to Be Working on AirPods With Built-in Cameras 3 hours ago:
An Apple bidet which adds a colonic health section to your Health app
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 13 hours ago:
Cosmic Combo, an iOS port of Johan Peitz’ PICO-8 game Cosmic Collapse, is good.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 13 hours ago:
Isn’t that lousy with video ads now?
- Comment on 2021 Nigerian Prophecy Calander 2 days ago:
Also the cover of the least street R&B album of 1991
- Comment on IDF investigates soldiers who tied Palestinian man to vehicle’s bonnet 1 week ago:
The world’s most moral army does not conform to its values
- Comment on ._. 1 week ago:
uwupiter
- Comment on The SNP is not the only political party that wants to rejoin the EU - Full Fact 1 week ago:
Have the Lib Dems abandoned their pro-EU stance?
- Comment on Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot 1 week ago:
For those who like a bit of fascism with their emulation.
- Comment on Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot 1 week ago:
Or it’s deliberate trolling
- Comment on Pyongyang - Glory to the DPRK! (satire) 1 week ago:
inb4 .ml discovers this and makes it sincere. “Here come the tankies”
- Comment on Newspaper Drops Paywall, Moves To Reader Patronage, Generates 37% More Revenue 2 weeks ago:
The Guardian (based in the UK, though with editorial operations in the US and Australia) made this decision some 10 years ago, and has stuck with it. So far, they seem to be going well.
- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 1 month ago:
They’ll be quoting that figure in reports on increasing antisemitism in the UK.
- Comment on Honestly, I couldn't even imagine living in such a country lol 1 month ago:
In Australia, spiders are here to fuck you.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Ubuntu is a gateway drug. Its lickable Fisher-Price interface is easy to use for basic tasks like web browsing, email and so on, and the always present sidebar provides reassurance. Once users start chafing against the limitations, they can move to forks like Xubuntu, or all the way to Debian itself, or if they really want to get their hands dirty, Arch.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
Australia has a somewhat threadbare welfare state, though is more of a social democracy than the UK. And snakes and spiders are easier to avoid than Tories.
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 1 month ago:
Forsén redid the shoot some 50 years later, producing a (worksafe) image of a grandmotherly woman wearing a hat and smiling. Perhaps using this updated image would be a reasonable compromise?
- Comment on sweet dreams 1 month ago:
There was a guy on the net years ago who claimed that the entire universe is an electron on a plutonium atom. He made a religion out of it, wrote hymns to the atom (or, more precisely, changed the words of Christian hymns, clumsily fitting in references to plutonium atoms) and even legally changed his name to Archimedes Plutonium.
- Comment on 8-Bit Homebrew Processor 1 month ago:
Silicon foundries use a lot of water and raw materials and contaminate the ground. Full degrowth may involve abandoning semiconductor technologies and making computers out of simpler parts, such as electromagnetic relays. They’ll be a lot slower and simpler, but with the right knowledge, one can make them from raw materials without bootstrapping a complex technology chain.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
Is the firmware enclosed in a SOC with no way of reading/extracting it? If not, if all else fails, someone will extract it and dissect it with Ghidra or something, extracting whatever encryption keys are needed. If so, and there aren’t any documented side-channel attacks for reading the firmware from this SOC, if firmware updates exist, they too constitute an attack surface. (They probably would be encrypted, but how strongly?)
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone reverse-engineers the protocol and codes up their own replacement backend as a one-file Python script in a weekend.
- Comment on Comedy has peaked ladies and gentlemen 1 month ago:
Needs to be drawn like a 1950s newspaper comic
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 1 month ago:
The official app appears to be written in React Native and is as laggy and janky as you’d expect. Other than that, more people are using it (and/or interacting with it from elsewhere in the fediverse).
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 1 month ago:
Yes, but he’d never do that, because he’s a Democrat, and when the Republicans go low, the Democrats go high.
- Comment on Open source project seeks to clone classic Z80 chip • The Register 1 month ago:
If old process nodes like that still exist, perhaps someone should periodically do a run of old chips which are getting scarce, like 6581s or fragile ASICs from vintage computers. I know people who grew up coding Z80 assembly on their home computers have fond memories of it, but there’s a glut of deadstock Z80s that won’t run out for a decade.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 1 month ago:
We have a winner!
- Comment on Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel 2 months ago:
Interesting how the App Store page doesn’t mention Israel or Palestine.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 months ago:
Do friends-only posts only work on the same server, or have they devised a protocol for federating access controls?
- Comment on Just got texted a job offer. You guys think it's legit? 2 months ago:
I was sceptical, but the exclamation mark convinced me.
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 2 months ago:
As of a few weeks ago, the strike is still going, with everyone from cleaners to electricians refusing to work for Tesla.