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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’re new here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a nice blue and black dress.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Glocktor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Conclusive proof all species of geese are assholes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be lovely if they all would

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the rain keeps up, it won't come down.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And who else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Republican Primary having a normal one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An emotional rollercoaster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk I don’t seem to count myself as having made it until I’m sat

  In my experience there’s an inverse square law where the urge approaches infinity with proximity to the bowl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you all know these things can be pickled???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the inspiration from a visit to Turkey many years ago, give it a go, it’s a game changer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you all know these things can be pickled???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pickled red onions are basically a cheat code

  Shove some cumin, sumac, chives, salt, pepper and lemon juice on some and an hour later you’re dealing with 24 carat amazingness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you all know these things can be pickled???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you seem to be having a bit of a radish moment

  But lemme tell you, you can pretty much pickle anything edible that’s not been particularly processed

  If you’re just living a monopickle life with gherkins, you need to step out into the universe outside your door

  Any given person’s sandwich game is directly proportional to the selection of tang they have available to them