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- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 3 days ago:
Good guy The Guardian. For my fellow Brits, here is your regular reminder that there are only two major independent news outlets in the UK: The Guardian and the BBC.
- Comment on Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable 1 week ago:
Sounds good. Tell you what, why don’t you write a complete list of every problem that needs sorting, objectively ranked in order of importance, and we can make sure no-one addresses problem #2 until problem #1 is fixed.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
“Federation” is like “non-fungible token”. Everyone knows what it is, but they’ve never heard it called that.
- Comment on Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces | Tor Project 1 month ago:
Tgese Nuts lmao gottem
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
Wow. For real, I always just assumed that .com was the commercial arm of .org. Holy shit.
- Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy 2 months ago:
Refresh abdomen
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
Ah’m nut yuh bruf, meeit.
- Comment on that's it that's the whole show 3 months ago:
- Comment on Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. 3 months ago:
Demand GDPR. No ifs, no buts. Its even written in several languages.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 3 months ago:
I mean, joking aside, isn’t that how parity calculations used to work? “Got more uppy bits than downy bits - that’s a paddlin’” or something.
- Comment on The app that promised to ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down 3 months ago:
I read “daters” as “dealers” and I ran the whole gamut of emotions in about a half second.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 4 months ago:
No. Yes. Kind of.
My home setup is three ProLiant towers in a ProxMox cluster. One box handles all-the-time stuff like OpenWRT, file server, email, backups, and - crucially - Home Assistant and is UPS protected because of how important it’s jobs are. The other two are powered up based on energy costs; Home Assistant turns them on for the cheapest six hours of the day or when energy costs are negative and they perform intensive things like sailing the high seas, preemptive video transcoding, BOINC workloads and such. The other boxes in the photo are also on all the time basically being used as disk enclosures for the file server and they are full of mismatched hard disks that spend virtually all their time asleep. At rest the whole setup pulls about 35-40W.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 4 months ago:
Flip them on and off repeatedly to put them in pairing mode.
- Comment on Babe, wake up. Polls are open 4 months ago:
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- Comment on The internet connects people 4 months ago:
I’m glad your typo was “start trek” and not “start wars” because rambling is a noble hobby and warmongering is… not so much.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
See, the thing is, I hate the styling of it, but I absolutely love that car makers - freed from the rigid designs demanded by huge combustion engines, transmissions and fuel tanks - are actually trying stuff out.
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- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
Sire!
Tony Ladruzo?
Huzzah!
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
ITT: Have you heard the good news about our lord and saviour, Jellyfin?
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 6 months ago:
I use these from IKEA:
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 6 months ago:
A stand for my phone, a stand for my ereader, and two buttons for my smart home setup: one turns everything in the house off, the other toggles the reading lamp.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 6 months ago:
They’re scanned by the sorting equipment. When a stamp is issued with a particular number that number can then be used exactly once, at least in theory.
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 6 months ago:
Closest thing I can think of is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstem.
And now the only thing I can think of is youtu.be/snO68aJTOpM
- Comment on How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math 6 months ago:
Kashmir Hill sounds like the name of a newly-built neighbourhood of McMansions.
I have nothing more to add.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 6 months ago:
Did you know there is an industry-standard mounting system for strap-on dildos? Just saying.
- Comment on German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating 6 months ago:
Honestly, it would be great for everyone including Windows users if Microsoft was made aware that they have viable competition.
- Comment on chai tea 7 months ago:
Yeah, but I need the cash to buy more DDR RAM Memory.
- Comment on Rats and cockroaches among thousands of pests found at English hospitals 7 months ago:
I worked in schools until last year, so this doesn’t surprise me. A huge number of schools and hospitals were built in the 1960s and 70s during the baby boom, but the were built on the cheap with an expected lifetime of about thirty years. Most of those schools are still standing. There was a program of rebuilding from 2000 to 2012 but it got cancelled. Why spend £10m on a new school building, when you can spend £2m/year patching up the old one?
- Comment on mice 7 months ago:
Ideally the wheel should be big enough for a single human but not so big that it can fit multiple humans.
Source: I was once a child on a wheel big enough for multiple humans.
- Comment on She did her best ok? 7 months ago:
“Sire! The Theiyr"reian hoards have attacked the village of Peasantry. The Peasants, they fight back, Sire, but they will surely be overwhelmed. We expect a death toll in the millions, Sire.”
“Dispatch ten knights to se- wait, ‘millions’? There’s only a few thousand people in that village.”
“Yes, Sire, we included the Theiyr"reians in our estimates… there’s a lot of them but they fight with wooden swords, Sire.”
“…”
“They are an inefficient peoples, Sire.”
- Comment on She did her best ok? 7 months ago:
Theiy"re
