thejml
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- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 1 day ago:
Or we could, you know, NOT do that. That’d be the better option.
- Comment on The US government is coming for Google and Meta – but what will happen next? 1 day ago:
It’s actually pretty depressing how little money it takes to buy a senator. We’re talking hundreds to single digit thousands of dollars. Not really going to set that off, sadly.
- Comment on Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, and it may change climbing forever 1 day ago:
Leave them like the bodies. Unless they can be strong enough to take supplies up and bodies down.
- Comment on Fyre Festival is becoming a music streaming service that might not be a scam this time 1 day ago:
That’s just what a scammer would say!
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 6 days ago:
I actually just pulled some files off of one from 2004-ish. No issues. Found another one from 2008 about a year ago that had no issues as well. Not sure why… maybe because they were so much lower capacity? Like, one was 64MB and that was huge back then.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
First off, I’m not here to defend anyone. Biden and the Democrats should have been further left, and told our supposed ally to pound sand when they wanted bombs for Gaza. But they are an ally, and these deals came from Congress, so the democrats have basically zero say in what actually happens there because the republicans hold enough power there to make it so.
Secondly, don’t gaslight me. There’s plenty of news sites, it was pretty well covered, and I lived through it. I know what I read and saw. I don’t think it went far enough, and I’m pissed off it went the way it did, but it happened. A quick Google/bing/kagi search reveals plenty of results.
Thirdly, it doesn’t really matter. If you have the choice between “we’re going to let them bomb the shit out of them” and “were probably going to let them bomb the shit out of them” you don’t really get a choice on that front. You can NEVER truly be a single issue voter anyway in the US, so the fact that you choose who you didn’t means you liked the rest of Trump’s Project 2025 platform as well. You choose who’s more closely aligned with what you think is best and then you petition your congressional representative with your position. And I know we’re all looking forward to see just how far down economic security can go.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
Yeah, because Trump didn’t make it clear enough that he was going to hand over as many bombs as possible to speed the genocide up so he could build a hotel/resort there. What the hell did you think would happen with the “I’ll just buy stocks in defense contractors before I escalate a war” Republican party?
Gimme a break. I hate Biden but at least he was trying to talk Netanyahu down and setup a peace deal. Biden even held bombs back until the republicans threatened to impeach him. Do I think he should have stuck to his guns, absolutely, but it’s congress that makes those decisions, not the president. Either way, thanks for choosing the worst timeline, directly or indirectly it doesn’t matter at this point.
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 1 week ago:
passengers will also be able to upload their passports to their phone and travel through airports using their face for verification. Instead of manually checking in, which would let airlines know who intends to board their flights, airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned
They can’t even reliably scan a QR code, how can they pull that off with 100% accuracy?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because X is definitely the right place for that, and something older generations will have access to and know how to use…
Can we stop this timeline now?
- Comment on Trump extends TikTok deal deadline by 75 days, touts 'tremendous progress' 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, if I were TikTok and saw this, I’d just shut off all US access to TikTok, make it clear the Tarrifs and Trump are the reason, and watch gleefully as a good % of the US that use it start revolting against Trump.
- Comment on Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem 3 weeks ago:
This, but Jellyfin. Plex has already begun its enshitification, sadly.
- Comment on US | Trump announces 25 percent tariffs on all vehicle imports 4 weeks ago:
Are we great again yet?
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
Meanwhile Western Digital moves away from SSD production and back to HDDs for massive storage of AI and data lakes and such: techspot.com/…/107039-western-digital-exits-ssd-m…
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Current homelab+desktop+laptop host count here is 22. All anime characters or references. It’s a fairly large pool to pull from, so it’s worked for me for 20+ years now. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc) and game consoles aren’t really as clever though.
All of them are in a piHole DNS though so no host files keeps it easy to track. Services have names that mostly are just what they are though and cnames to the matching host that hosts them (or load balancer, whatever)
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
Definitely boycott Walmart. They’ve been horrible a lot longer than Amazon. I haven’t purchased from Walmart in a decade and a half and I see no reason to stop now.
- Comment on Panama president calls Trump's talk of 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal a lie 1 month ago:
Trump lie?! Nah. That never happens.
/s
- Comment on Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff’ 1 month ago:
Then he should complain to Drumpf that his tariffs are hurting his business and actively Making America Terrible Again.
- Comment on Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader 1 month ago:
Lost. It’s gone.
And it’s going to take a long time to get any positive view about the US from anywhere, including the citizens. Any country where every four years you can just completely about face any contract, agreement, accord, convention, treaty, whatever, who would want to deal with that country? You could sign something, be perfect partners and then 4 years later get tariffed and humiliated on a whim just because a of a small percentage of votes (or lack of votes).
- Comment on Expert reports say poverty rate has fallen to 36.8% | Buenos Aires Times 1 month ago:
That’s… still horrible.
- Comment on How to secure your phone before attending a protest 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t bring paper directions unless they lead to and from a place that ISN’T related to you. Somewhere you know you can get to and from by heart but is a public place, for instance. Don’t give away a beautiful map from your home address To the protest.
- Comment on Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases 1 month ago:
You don’t. You don’t even really own physically purchased digital goods (like BluRays or video games). It’s a great time to be alive folks!
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 1 month ago:
It’s entirely cash based. Sure, some parts are “non-profit”, but at the root of it, they depend on cash based services that can pull the plug at any time.
It’s also completely controlled, directly or indirectly, by localized political regimes.
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 2 months ago:
Correct, except that more people buying used laptops will incentivize people to upgrade more often as they can depend on a strong secondhand market to recoup some of the cost of the new one by selling the old one.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 2 months ago:
I just tell it to back up my laptops every hour anyway. If it’s not on, it just doesn’t happen, but it’s generally on enough to capture what I need.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
I’ve used it the last few years to do Advent of Code (adventofcode.com) and that’s been fun and challenging. Definitely recommend it. Better than trolling through a book of “now do this” examples if you’ve done other languages in the past.
- Comment on USA | White House bans AP journalists from Oval Office amid continued Gulf dispute 2 months ago:
La la la, I can’t hear you!
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 2 months ago:
Sadly, the deteriorating conditions are exactly what some groups want. Those are also the ones who can affect change, either with guns or money.
- Comment on Meta’s $9-million class-action settlement presented to Quebec judge for approval 2 months ago:
“$9-million” shouldn’t that be at least a “b” instead of an “m”?!
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
For other potentially worse manufacturers. I hate how far it’s all gone, but even buying a used/secondhand device is empowering the prior own to support one of these manufacturers.