duncan_bayne
@duncan_bayne@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
USAID wasn’t charity though was it? I believe it was taxpayer funded.
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 4 days ago:
The late Ella 💖
- Comment on rules 1 week ago:
Not only would I be okay with that, I’d hope they then replaced all my avatar images online with that photo.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
Or it was retrospective.
“Frank what the fuck have you been doing while I was away visiting my family out of state?”
“Um, er, ah, dodging the draft! Yeah, that’s it. Certainly not a month long bender.”
😜
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 week ago:
Oh is this one of Mr. Bonesaw’s ventures, or a different thing?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
Hey human doms I’m 100% okay with, it’s these things I’m worried about
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
playing dom
I do not want to train a bioengineered intelligence with guns to do that.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I was being snarky. What I meant was that a computer running Android (or iOS) can’t really be counted as a PC, in the sense that Google (or Apple) control what you do with it.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 2 weeks ago:
There is no such thing as an Android PC.
- Comment on nothing & no one is safe from this plague 2 weeks ago:
I think the Vatican is sad that LLMs are encroaching on their turf of “very expensively harming people and especially minors while hallucinating about things that don’t exist”.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Electron!
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
You’d want a stronger girder than they used.
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 months ago:
Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
