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- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 8 hours ago:
Is there an extension of Betteridge’s law of headlines for tech blogs?
If the title of a tech blog ends in a question mark the answer is “the product I work on/sell”
- Comment on Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs 1 day ago:
PhysX has just been a CUDA application for a long time, there’s not been a dedicated PPU on any card in a very long time
- Comment on DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink 2 days ago:
This is just one of many reasons, for example
The FAA head pushed out by Musk before all the planes started crashing had fairly recently fined spaceX for safety issues.
It’s just pettiness and entitlement. He’s going after everyone who has ever said no to him.
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 days ago:
www.theregister.com/2025/…/youngsters_in_foss/
Read this a few days ago and it feels pretty relevant here.
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 days ago:
I bet you can run 10base2 over it
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 days ago:
Further evidence that a Republican government in the USA results in private organisations pushing the bar as far as they can.
In Reagan’s time it was Wall Street. Now it’s Silicon Valley.
You want private organisations working for your benefit and not that of their shareholders? You need a government that actually has the gumption to challenge them. The current US government is 4 years of a surrender flag flying on the white house.
Or we could bin off this fucking failed neoliberal experiment, but that’s apparently a bit controversial for far too many people
- Comment on Why did Microsoft use Windows 3.1 for the Windows 95 setup? 2 days ago:
FWIW I think the underlying parts of the setup environment change with every version, there’s just no need to port the modern UI toolkit when the Vista Aero Basic one does the job, and doesn’t expect GPU drivers or anything like that.
I’m not even sure if the windows modern UI works at all without some level of GPU acceleration actually.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
The statement “this [guy] thinks the government uses SQL” demonstrates a complete and total lack of knowledge as to what SQL even is. Every government on the planet makes extensive and well documented use of it.
The initial statement I believe is down to a combination of the above and also the lack of domain knowledge around social security. The primary key on the social security table would be a composite key of both the SSN and a date of birth—duplicates are expected of just parts of the key.
If he knew the domain, he would know this isn’t an issue. If he knew the technology he would be able to see the constraint and following investigation, reach the conclusion that it’s not an issue.
The man continues to be a malignant moron
- Comment on Greenland bans foreign political donations as Trump seeks the island 2 weeks ago:
Good, hopefully they’ve also covered any loopholes where it gets funneled through a local organisation
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 3 weeks ago:
Well it is the i, owned and published by the daily mail
- Comment on Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week 3 weeks ago:
This is great news, hopefully the ball keeps rolling until it becomes the norm
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration 1 month ago:
I’m not at all excited about the way our climate is going, but there’s a bit of a silver lining in Trump likely being the guy to put mar-a-largo under the mar
- Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard 1 month ago:
Yeah, 9v at the very least, but 15V would be a useful option too
- Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard 1 month ago:
Tbf, these are slightly different things, the one in the OP hooks up to the standard power “rails” on a breadboard. You don’t need to buy a special one with markings specific to a pi or Arduino (or just learn the pin outs). OP’s also has the benefit of not taking up half a breadboard like your example.
Not saying more similar things don’t exist, but for the example you’ve given I think there’s significant enough differences for them to have distinct use cases.
Agree with what another comment said though in that it would be good to select for higher voltage than 5V.
- Comment on UK | Musk accused of ‘politicising’ rape of young girls in UK to attack Starmer 1 month ago:
Called that rescue guy a paedo randomly
*Has been photographed with Epstein *
Randomly stirring shit in another country about paedos
That’s a lot of smoke that we keep assuming isn’t coming from a fire over there
- Comment on what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites 1 month ago:
I think I’m very similar to you
I want to have a feed of topics I’m interested in, very rarely do I care about a specific individual, and the case that I do it’s probably because they’re a local restaurant or something like that, basically all I use Instagram for is a glorified photo menu for food I might want on a given weekend
- Comment on End of an era as Radio City tower hosts final live broadcast on Christmas Eve | Liverpool 1 month ago:
Other than the liver building, radio city tower has to be the most iconic part of the Liverpool skyline.
It was definitely the first thing I noticed when I arrived by train for the first time years ago
- End of an era as Radio City tower hosts final live broadcast on Christmas Eve | Liverpoolwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Even great data couldn't solve the UK’s COVID woes 1 month ago:
Because we had an absolute moron in charge at the time
- Comment on Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5.2 brings fixes for Alpha Protocol, The Sims 2, Borderlands 2 and more 1 month ago:
Kinda crazy that Linux can support some older Direct X games better than Windows these days
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 2 months ago:
The date thing is infuriating because the American date format just shouldn’t exist
- Comment on Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal 2 months ago:
I can hear the facing worlds music in my head
- Comment on Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 2 months ago:
I see where you’re coming from but then you could easily headline this as “Teenage con man scams $50k”
Just because some people are gullible, even if they’re also often shitty people, it doesn’t mean they deserve to be scammed
- Comment on Don't Forget The Sega 32X Turns 30 This Year, Too | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Cheers I appreciate the list, yeah I had a feeling it was a bit of a smaller library
- Comment on Don't Forget The Sega 32X Turns 30 This Year, Too | Time Extension 2 months ago:
I’ve never really given the 32X library much of a look
What are some personal highlights of people here? I might give some a look at the weekend
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 2 months ago:
Huh
I had no idea there were actual rules
- Comment on don't be a coward 2 months ago:
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 2 months ago:
My friend, this is unfortunately the reality of all “left” press of any high volume.
We have the Guardian in the UK which is regarded as the lefty paper by many people here, but if you look at the modern editorial slant, particularly around political coverage and you’ll find it’s very much a centrist paper and occasionally a bit centre-right. They get the odd left-winger in for opinion pieces from time to time to keep up the charade, but you can tell if the LibDems had a chance in hell of being elected, the paper would drop all support for Labour in a heartbeat.
Actual left wing press at any large scale is not permitted to exist by the billionaire classes. If one gets too big, it’ll be acquired and the slant will shift before long. Class consciousness is bad for business
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
High latency though and particularly catastrophic if you get packet loss
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 months ago:
All grass users should touch Lemmy just to see what happens