bookmeat
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- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 hours ago:
Which of them help normies monetize their videos?
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 hours ago:
It’s not even on principle. From a pure business perspective, giving a funder the right to claw back money you previously spent is insanity.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 7 hours ago:
LibreOffice supports python, JavaScript, and beanshell, as well as LibreOffice basic. The latter is similar to VBA and some VB scripts can even run unmodified.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 12 hours ago:
Most good Linux releases (distros) have a Live CD/usb boot option. Do try that out! It doesn’t mess with your existing setup and you can see how it feels.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 12 hours ago:
Shut your mouth about VB… 😁
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 day ago:
Hmm, I didn’t realize so many people were interested in Sam Altman committing suicide.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 2 days ago:
This is really a pointless concern. Wait a couple of years until people can just make these videos privately without openai’s intervention.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 weeks ago:
No one would make you take 9 months off if you lived in Canada, but you always have that option. You could also transfer some of your maternity leave to your partner if you were ready to go back to work earlier. Forward thinking countries recognize that flexibility is required for a healthy population and economy.
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
This is why there need to be translations with notes on the opposite page, to show the reader the depth of the translation.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the foundries are the limiting factor. There’s a shit ton of engineering going into every step of the fab process and most of those experts are in Taiwan.
- Comment on The campaign against predatory in-game practices takes a step forward in Brazil, as President Lula bans loot boxes targeted at under-18s 4 weeks ago:
Betting should not be a thing that’s run as a business. It’s a cancer on society.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 4 weeks ago:
Yes, don’t release the game in the USA.
- Comment on The campaign against predatory in-game practices takes a step forward in Brazil, as President Lula bans loot boxes targeted at under-18s 4 weeks ago:
Just ban them for EVERYONE.
- Comment on YSK about Hiring.cafe - a free job scraping site that lets you filter out Workday and other nuisance ATS 4 weeks ago:
These look like explanations of the problems, not solutions.
- Comment on YSK about Hiring.cafe - a free job scraping site that lets you filter out Workday and other nuisance ATS 4 weeks ago:
Cool. You have a better alternative?
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
They have to hyperbolize to attract investors. At the rate they burn cash they won’t survive without constant massive financial inputs.
- Comment on Is the AI Bubble Bursting? A New Study Reveals a Shocking 95% Failure Rate for Business AI Projects 2 months ago:
Not shocking.
- Comment on Trump claims EU leaders call him ‘president of Europe’ 2 months ago:
It’s not dementia. He’s signaling that he actually knows other fascist leaders in Europe. They just haven’t taken their masks off yet.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards not eligible for preservation by Japan’s National Diet Library, officials say 2 months ago:
As designed.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 2 months ago:
The only difference between their concept and Alexa, for example, is that you wear it on your face and tether it to a phone. Oh, I guess it also has a display you can read. Massive innovation right there.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 months ago:
This happens all the time to people who don’t receive royalties. Parents die, kids get nothing. End of.
- Comment on Concern as Ministry of Defence reportedly poised to hand £2bn training deal to Elbit, Israel’s largest arms firm 2 months ago:
If concern is the only pushback then it’s definitely going to happen.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 months ago:
Windows treats users like a product.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 2 months ago:
Let me guess. This is to protect children.
- Comment on Automating Restic backups 2 months ago:
I used this. If you get stuck, try it out. Or check the code for ideas.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 months ago:
Well, of course they are.
- Comment on US nuclear weapons agency ‘among 400 organisations breached by Chinese hackers’ 3 months ago:
It’s always fucking SharePoint.