duncan_bayne
@duncan_bayne@lemmy.world
- Comment on Liminal Space 5 days ago:
Haha my first thought was “I wonder if it’s possible to build a general purple CPU out of 555 timers, then get DOOM running on that sucker.”
Of course, someone has already taken the first steps towards such a monstrosity.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
That depends entirely where the Tesla stopped, and under what conditions.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
Electron!
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 weeks ago:
Is it better for them to remove the app altogether and have users on Apple forced to use it through the website?
Yes. Clearly yes, for everyone. This sort of shit only continues because people don’t do that.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Probably worth mentioning: www.linkedin.com/company/…/people/
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 5 weeks ago:
Here’s an idea: a catalogue of companies who pulled this shit during the bubble, so we know who not to buy from when it bursts.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 1 month ago:
You’d want a stronger girder than they used.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 month ago:
Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 month ago:
The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 month ago:
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 1 month ago:
… was second to none. Looking at almost illegible black text labels on a black Sony TV enclosure.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 2 months ago:
Mattermost user here, I self-host an instance for friends and family (and their children).
To upgrade and discover I’d lost access to the message history on my own instance was infuriating. I’m investigating alternatives right now.
So far Zulip seems reasonable - although Google and especially Apple being shits about push notifications means you can’t self-host push notification servers 🙄 So I’m considering forgoing push notifications altogether and leaning on email notifications instead.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 2 months ago:
Not for self-hosted installations, where Zulip aren’t paying for the storage themselves.