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- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 2 days ago:
I thought the aluminium was fine conductivity wise, the problem is that it oxidises and becomes brittle.
Every time a BT man went into the box, it was russian roulette as to whose internet would get broken.
- Comment on Wanderer - federated trail database (komoot etc) 1 week ago:
There is also wandrer.earth (not federated) that is really cool. It gives you points for each unique mile you have been, encourages you to explore new places.
- Comment on Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are. 1 week ago:
It’s not that they are gigantic companies, it’s that they are big companies with lots of techies. Other organisations can have them as well.
The BBC has it’s own TLD for example. their Mastodon account uses it: social.bbc
- Comment on Is My Pub Fucked? 2 weeks ago:
One nearish me closed overnight after the announcement of the higher tax. Just decided it wasn’t viable.
Don’t think it was that popular to be fair.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
I think part of the idea is: build it and they will come… If 10% of users have NPUs, then apps will find ‘useful’ ways to use them.
Part of it is actually battery life - if you assume that in the life of the laptop it will be doing AI tasks (unlikely currently) an NPU will be wayyyy more efficient than running it on a CPU, or even a GPU.
Mostly though, it’s because it’s an excuse to charge more for the laptop. If all the high end players add NPUs, then customers have no choice but to shell out more. Most customers won’t realise that when they use chat got or copilot one one of these laptops, it’s still not running on their device.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 2 weeks ago:
really? able to nest nultiple times etc?
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 2 weeks ago:
Firefox has tree style tabs add-on. Gamechanger
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s true. How would it get there originally, other than through what you eat?
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 4 weeks ago:
I do the pools idea too.
But every Christmas I sum my expected non regular expenses (maintenance fees, insurance, dentists, cloud storage, etc) and divide by 12 to get the monthly cost so I can spread out the expected budget busters.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 4 weeks ago:
The companies making the ram chips are not the ones making motherboards. They just want to sell their product for as much as they can.
Shutting down your entire consumer business does seem a bit short sighted though - keep the doors open for the future.
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 5 weeks ago:
If only half the estate is on WhatsApp, you will get even less on the rest.
Maybe make a website with basic info, what’s happening etc, but that’s probably it. ( Unless you have a very young road)
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 1 month ago:
In what way?
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 1 month ago:
YouTube has a great algorithm, in that it mostly seems to show you stuff you actually want to watch, and let’s you say you don’t like stuff.
You can train it with a little effort to show you what you want.
You just can’t make the shorts go away, even with premium!
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 1 month ago:
GPS is a great way to get an accurate time.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 month ago:
It’s now a requirement to be able to book appointments online I believe?
- Comment on Bread mold 1 month ago:
I thought that jams were so sugary it was probably fine?
- Comment on Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale) 1 month ago:
That pretty much says: safe when stable. (Which it is now) Makes some sense.
Mine is public, so I hope it’s safe (ish)
- Comment on Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale) 1 month ago:
On the public Immich bit, they have docs on how to setup a reverse proxy correctly. No security warnings.
That sounds like a thumbs up to me?
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 1 month ago:
Even splatted on the back of it?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
The government knows who you are. They know your age, your address and know you exist (probably).
You go to a site that requires ages verification. You say:please verify me with the government portal. You go to that portal to get a temporary id code to give to the site. The website says to the gov portal give me the name and age of the user with this temp ID. You approve that access. Portal sends age (or an issue over 16/18/21 etc flag) to the site.
Gov portal doesn’t need to know who the site is You don’t provide a unique ID to the website, just a temporary one. Site only gets the data you approve.
The process can do with some streamlining, busy should work in practice?
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 1 month ago:
Can you just move that product to a new URL? What happens?
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 2 months ago:
If you go to the site, what does it think of your fingerprint?
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 2 months ago:
Somewhere, that Dev who was told that having clustered databases in nonprod was two expensive and not needed is now updating the deploy scripts
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And we recently discovered a clump of dark matter big enough to form a gravitational lens - we could actually see it curving light.
This helps show that dark matter isn’t evenly distributed, it’s not that we just need to add a multiplier to some equation; it’s something that ‘exists’.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 2 months ago:
My problem is the lack of control. They tend to be digital devices, not analog, so I always find myself wanting a heat level between settings…
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
You should be able to disable them on a game by game basis if needed. Annoying thiugh
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
Lots of game recommendations here, but for hardware, look for a cheap MMO mouse. All the buttons you could ask for, on a single hand. Could unlock more games.
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 2 months ago:
I stand corrected then! TIL
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 2 months ago:
It’s a voice chat server. That’s all it does. You can’t post images, GIFs etc.
Fine for if you just need voice, but good luck getting people away from discord.
(Used it for WoW before discord)
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 2 months ago:
I think north America only switched this last weekend?
Had a non standard difference last week.