amanda

@amanda@aggregatet.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the times rats got into the networking room and ate random cables. I should add the network was built by volunteer students in the ‘90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was once responsible for a student house (we don’t have dorms in the US sense, this is the closest we have) and I have similar experiences but less extreme. My favourite was when I had forgot to configure DHCP filtering and someone plugged in a router the wrong way so it started offering DHCP (that didn’t work) to everyone in the building, in a race with our upstream ISP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I needed it for a printer the other day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like that should be assholes without cars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to read the linked Twitter thread from Ars and good god it’s terrible. Half of it is people complaining about the demo version without understanding that it’s the demo version. Even though people in the thread keep explaining it to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case I think the terrible code really, as they say in fashion, completes the look

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife talked about how Grok apparently seemed promising in AI benchmarks for a while until everyone realised the way they’re winning is by absolutely blindly outspending everyone on GPUs and brute forcing the fuck out of the problem rather than having good anything.

  This seems to match that approach (and, more generally, everything Musk is doing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat is this real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of worried about Celebration, Florida now. It always seemed too much of a Stepford Wives type situation but now it’s just ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the hardest earned lessons I’ve ever learned, and I’ve had to learn it over and over again. I think it’s mostly stuck now but I still make the same mistake from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As in efficient per watt or some other metric?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and Intel was releasing foxes and shit

  I realise this is an autocorrect error, but it’s still funny 🦊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve fallen for it too and I’m technically a security researcher depending on how you read my job description

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TitanFall 2 at 3$⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sold!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do the right thing for the wrong reasons and this is a classic case. He’s an ethno-nationalist. Ask him how he feels about Kurdish minorities or the genocide on Armenians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea honesty, I don’t collect metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still do this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard perovskite-based solar panels have less scary runoffs if they go bad but I haven’t found anything solid on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A boomer gets just $1,056 a month in Social Security and works as a bus driver: 'I don't see myself being able to retire, but I'm grateful and healthy'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not ok, boomer :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The public are usually very for that after it’s been implemented. They hate it before, assuming you include people who live outside the area where it’s being built but imagine they might want to some say drive there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did not see “faster than Commodore 64!” coming!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you sign up with your email address, yep!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data from deleted GitHub repos may not really be deleted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like lojban!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it will be released but it isn’t released yet right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same situation almost. We have fiber from Telia delivered to the basement of our apartment building where it’s converted to cable by Tele2, who rents access to Telia’s fiber. Neither of them were willing to sell me or the organisation that owns the building access to fiber, even though it would have required only activating an outlet on whatever fiber switch thing they have in the basement.

  Tele2 also has a monopoly on internet access; it’s that or 4G/5G.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s profits sank sharply in the second quarter of 2024 | The company’s revenue increased by 2 percent compared to last year, but profits are down 45 percent year over year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not in the US and I also get most of my retirement in stock market casino chips

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo Coming to Sega Dreamcast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mouse controls must be atrocious on a console

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m imagining him going on to do the same thing there and just going “why am I the John McClain of cybersecurity? How can this happen AGAIN???”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t this been posted five thousand times already?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like we may have an easier conclusion to draw here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black and White 2: The Good, The Bad, and The Divine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh oh!!! I had the same experience but with an AMAZING anticlimax. So when the game came out it was one available for purchase in a localised version, with a horrible Swedish dub.

  For the record, Sweden has a policy of not dubbing essentially anything for anyone over maybe seven years old. No other game I know of was translated even (except the sims), and certainly not dubbed. We made fun of how terrible and corny that version was for years. It sounded like morning cartoons for babies, probably because the same cast who did Sailor Moon and Pokémon did it.

  I’ve never played the real version, and only sparingly played the horrific dub because the family computer wasn’t good enough.