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@drspod@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It has been well iver 24 hours since this shit atarted. No reply from admkns anywhere⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The troll doesn’t own the instance. It requires the instance admins to pull their fingers out and start doing their job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now has 30 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Another corporate social media platform, what could go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Walkable? Gas giants?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hogwarts Legacy Official Mod Support Confirmed For This Week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  J. K. Rowling is a transphobe and a bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the tuition fees. The reason why a whole generation will never vote Lib Dem again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) integration with ActivityPub: follow @thecupid@cupid.careers, answer polls, find like-minded people who would be great co-workers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded

  This is a mistake. When building any kind of team, you want diversity of experience, backgrounds, viewpoints etc. A mono-culture is extremely prone to group-think and is unlikely to generate ideas as quickly or elegantly as a team comprising many different types of people.

  The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider “culture-fit” when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).

  You should hire people based on their ability to perform the job, and nothing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can exclude tags by going to your Store Settings page and scrolling down to “Tags to Exclude.” You can only exclude up to 10, and this only works for games that are actually tagged with the word. It doesn’t exclude keywords in the description. I don’t know how many games are actually tagged with “dystopian.”

  This works best for genre types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What will we do with all the copies of the books already in schools?

  The English teachers will have to take them out the back and shoot them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping for a bit more of a review of the various options with pros and cons for each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police officer who rammed cow with patrol car acted 'lawfully', force concludes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Four legs good, two legs better 🐷 🐷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I use a uBlock Origin filter that looks like this:

  lemmy.ml##div.mt-2.post-listing:has(.d-sm-block.d-none>.post-container.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala/i))
  

  You’ll need to modify the domain at the start (replace lemmy.ml with your instance hostname) and then change the keywords at the end with whatever keywords you want to exclude.

  To use it:

  • click the uBO icon and then the gear (settings) icon
  • click on the My Filters tab
  • make sure that “Enable My Custom Filters” is checked
  • paste the filter into the text area below
  • press the “Apply Changes” button
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among apps vying to replace Twitter, Bluesky may have the news and innovation edge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bluesky is bad and mastodon is the only way forward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers develop Python code for in-memory computing — in-memory computation comes to Python code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In-memory computing is a new way of computing that aims to solve the memory latency problem. As the name suggests, in-memory computing enables the system memory to do some calculations the CPU would do otherwise, cutting down the amount of data that must be transferred between the CPU and DRAM.

  Samsung and TSMC are actively working on memory capable of doing this, featuring MRAM memory cells. In-memory computing is still in the prototype phase, but progress is being made on the hardware side to make it a viable technology. With the help of conversion layers like PyPIM, software should be developed to support this computing method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  deflock.me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a researcher and publisher withholds information then ignores requests -- what’s the recourse? How can science have integrity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who funded the research? They probably have the source code and want to keep it proprietary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played Forza Horizon 4 and the Drivatars are pretty convincing. They make exactly the kind of mistakes on the track that I make and they can be challenging but beatable in a way that’s much more fun than any other racing game I had played before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing in the licensing scheme changed, at all.

  This statement is incorrect. The SDK had specific source files placed exclusively under the SDK license, and the remainder of the repository dual licensed between GPL 3 and the SDK license. So the licensing scheme did change.

  See also: github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/blob/…/LICENSE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why you’d suggest the previous commenter is out of touch with what users want, but what does that have to do with being a software engineer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Zuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.

  I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”

  Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy’s facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.

  She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scythe: The Digital Edition - Prettier than Chess, uglier than Scythe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it gets racist and victim-blaming.

  A strange confession to put in a game review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Bluetooth Vulnerability Leak, Your Passcode to Hackers During Pairing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the article, the described attack allows a man-in-the-middle attack on two devices while they are pairing.

  This means that someone could intercept and modify your bluetooth mouse or keyboard inputs, resulting in complete compromise of the device they are connected to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The (50!) games

  50! presumably referring to the number of different orderings in which you could play them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He can sue for compensation under the Equality Act 2010, or probably even the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then what you bought is not a mouse, it’s a proprietary peripheral that emulates a mouse when you install its propretary drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You clicked the tree somewhere and it would tell you either to try again, or you would win something. I think most people who won got $5 and a monkey plush toy. I’m not sure anyone ever won the jackpot. You could just click over and over again trying to remember where you had previously clicked, like a treasure hunt. Meanwhile they’re showing banner ads on the page.

  It worked using the ismap attribute on the image which tells the browser to add the x,y coordinates of the user’s click to the link when fetching the result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone remember the TreeLoot.com MoneyTree? It existed from 1998-2004 and looked like this:

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  I’m all in favor of going back to the old internet, but… not this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, there’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

  At the end of its third quarter of its fiscal 2024, […] Qualcomm had $7.8 billion in cash and […] just over $23 billion in total assets. That means Qualcomm, […] is almost certainly looking at a stock-for-stock transaction. As of writing, Qualcomm’s market cap is $188 billion, just more than double that of Intel’s at $93 billion.

  In fact, Chipzilla may not be worth much to Qualcomm unless it can renegotiate the x86/x86-64 cross-licensing patent agreement between Intel and AMD, which dates back to 2009. That agreement is terminated if a change in control happens at either Intel or AMD.

  While a number of the patents expired in 2021, it’s our understanding that agreement is still in force and Qualcomm would be subject to change of control rules. In other words, Qualcomm wouldn’t be able to produce Intel-designed x86-64 chips unless AMD gave the green light.