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- Comment on Blue cheese is milk that has gone bad twice 3 weeks ago:
Well two wrongs clearly make a right when it comes to chicken wing dips
- Comment on Blue cheese is milk that has gone bad twice 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 3 weeks ago:
Pig is wearing stilettos
Performance enhancing attire is prohibited from this event
🇮🇴 Pig: DNF
Deviating
- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 4 weeks ago:
The NT kernel supports hot patching because restarting running servers is an inconvenient requirement to remain secure
Apparently end users can just run that insecure kernel indefinitely because… arbitrary product feature tiering?
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if they’ve degraded, but I’ve got one of those CD-R spindles with a few disks left on it somewhere
I could burn a mix CD this afternoon if I felt like it?
Thing is if I gave half of the people I know a mix CD I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t actually have a means of listening to it
- Comment on New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit 4 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, people running in Ubuntu do get Firefox in a container by default IIRC as it’s delivered as a snap
- Comment on Day 611 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I see you’re new here
- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 4 weeks ago:
What in the hell, this is the first time I’ve been able to actually see it as blue and black
- Comment on My kind of Doctor 4 weeks ago:
Glocktor
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 4 weeks ago:
Yes of course
But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else
Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:
- It is enough information to answer any fact based question (with an answer)
- It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost
There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 4 weeks ago:
Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.
But you’ve missed the point, my personal access to Wikipedia is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn’t enough.
And anyway a person can’t practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 4 weeks ago:
I feel like this has been one of my soapbox things for a while now, but
Americans, the Internet Archive and Wikipedia stand as two of the biggest contributions to human knowledge preservation in all of history. To lose either would be a huge backslide for us as a civilization, and it never really seemed like a genuine threat until recent events over there.
I know there’s a lot of other shit going on right now, but you must do what you can to ensure both are able to continue their work.
- Comment on Finally, an optimal monitor configuration! 5 weeks ago:
I literally cannot conceive of a more efficient arrangement of 17 monitors
- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 5 weeks ago:
Way to get out of it? Lawyers
Why are people afraid? Lawyers
Lawyers can get very expensive, and don’t have a guaranteed result. Also a company Vs an individual usually has disproportionate funds for legal fees
- Comment on public service 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think we want to close the recruiter & c-suite containment system
It does a great job of keeping them all in one place so we can leave them to their fart sniffing and occasionally visit like it’s a zoo
- Comment on Rude 5 weeks ago:
Conclusive proof all species of geese are assholes
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’d say something like Seinfeld or Friends is probably it, there’s still channels showing reruns of these all day long across the world.
You’ve got to consider stuff that was popular and universal enough to get translated to many different languages and then still get rerun in those countries too
- Comment on Roses are red, cabinets have shelves... 1 month ago:
It would be lovely if they all would
- Comment on If the rain keeps up, it won't come down. 1 month ago:
When they rain keeps up, it was up, And when the rain falls down, it falls down, And when the rain keeps only halfway up, It falls neither up nor down
- Comment on Trump touts bill that could make voting harder for married women 1 month ago:
And who else?
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 1 month ago:
Doesn’t that list just describe america?
Yes even the dog thing, plenty of people with shitty landlords
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen any phone tell me why someone is calling, only who
Frankly, I’ve gotten to the end of many phone calls and still not known why someone thought they needed to interrupt my day with a phone call
- Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 month ago:
Tbf the kind of cultural fusion cuisine you get when another culture successfully imports another culture’s cuisine, is super interesting to me. I’d say this stands separately from intentional fusion restaurants, this is more something that happens organically as a cuisine is adapted to the ingredients and tastes somewhere away from where it is invented.
The classic examples are Tex-mex and British curries, but every country has a few things like this. Japanese Italian is a pretty cool experience, not least of all because now I think about it there’s some places that are straight up Japanese/Italian cultural fusion, but others are more Japanese/Italian-American, so this thing can go deeper.
Always been a fan of trying local cuisine when I’ve travelled, but I’ve more recently been trying to add places like the above into the mix, as it’s genuinely always been interesting to me
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 months ago:
I more meant now they’re not being made because Micron recently killed the Crucial brand to focus supply towards data center customers
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 months ago:
TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 2 months ago:
Funny they need such an advanced piece of war defense equipment deployed against their own citizens
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 2 months ago:
The OP: datapro.net/…/usb-type-d-connector-unveiled.html
Following the overwhelmingly positive response to 180° reversible connectors like USB Type C and Apple’s Lightning, USB Type D’s novel plus-shaped design can correctly be inserted in 4 different orientations, a mere 90 degrees apart.
“With our reversible Type C connector, we allowed users to blindly plug in their devices with minimal frustration. But we wanted to take it a step further. Now with USB Type D, no matter how crazy your night has been, we guarantee that you’ll be able to successfully plug in your phone before passing out.”
Remember when funny people still did April fools? I’ve not seen a good April fools hoax that doesn’t transparently reek of marketing in years
- Comment on Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...) 2 months ago:
You know what’s really stupid about this
Notepad existed for decades, resisting the general trend of Microsoft software, and it continued to do one thing, and do it well (for the purposes of this argument, let’s not get started on line endings)
If someone wanted to do more than just view text files, there was wordpad, a stripped down word processor, that would have been the perfect application to add support for markdown to.
Except they killed it, because enough people must have realised that the word processor bundled with the OS did everything they needed without having to pay Microsoft a subscription for Word.
So now Microsoft is trying to turn notepad into the rudimentary word processor that people expect to come with their OS, destroying the thing that made it useful
- Comment on Would a quarter of workers really be better off on benefits? 2 months ago:
Reminder that 99% of think tanks are just organisations that pay for studies that help the owner’s ideological goals.
Always look at the owner of the think tank and people involved and decide if it’s just propaganda before you listen to a word of reporting that originates with them
