dustyData
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- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 days ago:
Ableist, racist white supremacist doing their ableist-racist-white-supremacist thing.
- Comment on LibreOffice goes collaborative and Wasm as ZetaOffice • The Register 4 days ago:
Only for OneDrive. SharePoint documents lock excel tables and only one person can edit at a time. Though multiple instances can see and update the changes as the locked version is updated. Something about credentials.
- Comment on Discord introduces a feature that lets you quietly ignore users without them knowing 5 days ago:
Because online harassment exists.
- Comment on When a courier service job didn't pay enough... 1 week ago:
Oldest reference seems to be around 2021. One version is a color sketch over paper by a reddit user named __Nnyleus, and this particular rendition is a Facebook to reddit’s community Anime girls with guns reference, that no longer exists. Both post and user got deleted. User Sandman-115 reposted the image to sub-reddit Weapons moe a year later, without the text.
- Comment on “This was CS50”: Yale ends largest computer science course 1 week ago:
Sad to see. I took the free online version of the course a few years ago. It was really well organized. Although it faltered near the last classes (excessive focus on web site application) it was undoubtedly the best introductory course available for free on the web and perhaps even better than most paid ones. I do wish we could find out who was the secret donor, not to berate them, just to say thanks.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 1 week ago:
If you’re encrypting and scrambling your own personal data and not properly saving the keys, that L is on you dog.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 week ago:
Always remember that in some places executive just means the dumbest person in the room and most developers won’t lift a finger if it means they get to see the owners embarrassing themselves in public.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 week ago:
Ms 365 just assumes that your company has a Ms azure cloud solution, exchange server or just defaults to onedrive. You have to wrestle the software into giving you a local storage folder browser when picking the place to save a new document to. It’s frustrating.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 1 week ago:
What you don’t remember where the armies of bot accounts it brought into Steam. People would pay for votes and get scams and money grabs greenlit while indies couldn’t even get a foot on the door. YouTube channels made series about playing the shovelware and mocking the system. There’s a reason it was done away with.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 1 week ago:
Greenlight saw one of the biggests flood of shovel ware in Steam’s history. The store hasn’t actually recovered since.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 1 month ago:
You know, to make money in a gold rush, don’t dig, sell shovels.
- Comment on Petrichor 2 months ago:
Your ape’s first anthropogenic climate disaster.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Nuclear has gone the other direction. Nuclear power is more expensive now than it was when it began, and is only getting more expensive.
Ask why? don’t just stay with oil companies PR talk points. Nuclear is expensive because innovation has been artificially stifled. A huge part of this, is the insistence to forbid newer designs and more modern improvements, and instead force new plants to use old technologies and models, as well as arcane and arbitrary administrative processes . Nuclear power is expensive (in the US), because it was made expensive by refusing it all the factors that typically reduce costs of technologies.
It doesn’t matter though. Nuclear power could’ve help us survive climate change…40 years ago. It’s too late now anyways. Even if we covered the whole planet with solar power and stopped every single combustion engine in existence, we are already on the way to living in a hellscape. We must focus on survival of the species now.
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 2 months ago:
The discussions here are a bit prosaic, though valid, but on a higher philosophical view you can check Descartes Discourse on the method. It is the basis of all natural sciences and the philosophical foundation of science and rational truth establishment. Maybe grab an explaineer on those ideas.
There are further developments that discuss the sociological proceeds of the scientific community. But the best start point is to always check any statement of truth and fact for four things: controversies, criticisms, corrections and praises. With those four elements you can assert for yourself the credibility of a source’s claims.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
The argument I’m replying to is a classic “not perfect, thus not worth it”. Its disingenuous and it calls for disingenuous. We are also pursuing renewables in despite of their political and technical flaws. The point is that all the flaws that OP exposes about nuclear power also applied to renewables (at one point in history solar power was 10x more expinsive than nucluar) and also to oil. They are status quo defending arguments designed to halt thought, paralyze action and scoff change. Just because it isn’t perfect doesn’t mean it isn’t better.
- Comment on San Francisco tech company Forward, once worth $1B, abruptly shuts down 2 months ago:
Most likely, as with all AI as a service startups. After a certain mass of users the models can’t keep up. So to reduce the response times they pay offshore firms to have real people answer the chat. Unfortunately, doctors willing to answer a chat all day are way less numerous than cheap labor.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Yes, of course. Because oil has never depended on outside countries that are openly hostile. No sire, no war has ever been fought because of gas and oil, ever in history.
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- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
Digging on Concord was funnier for longer than its server were online.
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 2 months ago:
Didn’t happen in my life, but in the life of a family member and that makes me very happy as well. My sister got a permanent job at a place she did an internship in last year. It’s a job in her career, half the number of hours she is currently doing working at a spa, making more money, and it’s a 90% remote role. She gets to be with her 8yo son, my nephew, almost all the time he is at home now. It also means my brother in law can take more hours at his job, thus overall getting to live more comfortably.
- Comment on Star Citizen player reports CIG is making him sign an NDA before getting a refund 3 months ago:
SC is a scam. Of course they’re willing to break the law to keep the money they stole.
- Comment on What's the point of a long-distance friendship? 3 months ago:
You’ve never shared your intimate personal life with anyone? Your fears and woes, and happiness and triumphs? One of the wonderful qualities of deep friendship is the ability to withstand long stretches of being apart and still shine as brigth as the last time you met. I have a couple of people right now who I haven’t seen or talked to in years. But I have the utmost certainty that if I were to pick up the phone and write them “hey, can we talk?” I would get an almost immediate response, despite the timezones. And the conversation would flow as if we just talked yesterday. That, is friendship to me.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 months ago:
On Mint, you troubleshoot the wifi antenna following a gude once and then you’re done. On Bazzite you probably just needed to click to change to X11 instead of plain Plasma, on the login screen. I would bet money that you have an Nvidia GPU. Sometimes Nvidia breaks the drivers support on Wayland. They intentionally neglect it in order to keep your kind of mentality around.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 months ago:
How is having to apply workarounds to keep windows working on old machines any different from troubleshooting the occasional linux issue? It’s a rethorical question, the difference is that the workaround on Windows is mandatory while the Linux troubleshoot is nowadays rare and usually related to edge cases.
Some of the workarounds in this article are far more involved and convoluted than what I’ve ever had to do in 15 years of linux. My very recent install of bazzite in a new laptop has been a perfectly out of the box it just works experience. Not even having to open the terminal. 100% friendly GUI without compromising flexibility, power and customizability. Today, suggesting linux with a solid desktop environment like KDE plasma is just foolproof. The end user will be using exactly the same knowledge and habits of Windows, without the harassment machine that is MS now.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 3 months ago:
If this were done by MS or Apple, who lack any shred of respect left, sure. If it were a material change on how the code works, certainly it would be most concerning. But what happened was blown entirely out of proportion for who Bitwarden has been and how they’ve acted in the past. They are still ethically very solid. And it was an immaterial change in the build tools, that could very well have been neglectful or accidental.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 3 months ago:
That’s a poor understanding of the situation. Nothing in the licensing changed. The SDK has always been the proprietary business to business secrets management product. The client integrates with and can use that SDK to provide the paid service to businesses. The client and the server side management of password has always been and still is FOSS.
This was apparently an accidental change in the build code (not the client code, just the building scripts) that required the inclusion of the SDK to build the client when actually it has never and doesn’t really need any of that code. It prevented building the client without accepting the SDK license. Which it shouldn’t.
This was fixed and some things will be put in place so it doesn’t happen again. Nothing in the licensing scheme changed, at all. This is not a catastrophic enshittification event. A Dev was just being lazy and forgot to check the dependencies before their commit.
- Comment on Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? 3 months ago:
Firefox has all those things already (albeit vertical tabs are experimental still). Just without the AI marketing and the built-in identity theft.
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 3 months ago:
Surely the former because at least clowns try to be funny and entertaining.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 months ago:
This is when “could you please send that request on writing via e-mail” becomes really useful.
- Comment on Menopause should be called menostop cause there is no menoresume? 3 months ago:
It’s latin. Pause literally means stop in latin.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
The SDK was never FOSS, and was never under the GPL. Hence why they can add the text mentioned in the article. You don’t get to change the text of a FOSS license to begin with. It isn’t unheard of for text like this to be part of proprietary software that integrates with and uses FOSS licenses.
That said, this is concerning, but whether it changes BW’s FOSS state is a matter of legal bickering that has been going on for decades.