PlutoniumAcid
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 23 hours ago:
Hey, I’ll take you up on that. Better than no sex, amirite?
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 day ago:
Makers by Cory Doctorow is a great novel that explores exactly this.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 1 day ago:
Email is a must for between businesses. Having said that, lots of internal communication is findingther channels, like Teams, Slack, and so on.
- Comment on Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp? 3 days ago:
twitches in FDA
- Comment on Breaking GPT-5 News! 3 days ago:
Can’t argue against that!
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 5 days ago:
If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is!
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 6 days ago:
Paywalled…
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 6 days ago:
I don’t get it? That description fits on the amoebas currently acting as “politicians” demanding Zelenskyy to say “thank you”.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 6 days ago:
50+ European here. Could you please explain in simple terms what “woke” is? I’ve seen it for years now and still don’t have any idea.
In my mind it’s a lumberjack shirted 30yo with a trimmed full beard and tattoos working as a barista. That’s how little I know of it… Sorry!
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 6 days ago:
Yup. Competent nerds like us make up about 0.0002% of their earnings. The big business is in corporate, and the hordes of plebs as a distant second.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 1 week ago:
I was the lucky owner of a rare FingerWorks Touchstream keyboard for many years. If you don’t know it, it’s the precursor to the keyboards used in Star Trek Enterprise.
It’s a keyless keyboard. Two large flat mousepads with a keyboard layout printed on top, and you type by pure touch. There’s no mouse; the surface just cleverly detects when you are doing mouse gestures. Or a lot of other gestures.
Trekkie joke aside, it’s actually the magic tech that made the iPhone possible. Of course Apple didn’t invent anything, they bought existing future tech.
I miss that keyboard. They still sell on ebay, for 1400$!
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 1 week ago:
184 billion transistors
My mind broke, reading this. From way back when you could count the transistors by pointing at them with your finger, to hundreds of billions on a postage stamp. How??
- Comment on Is Severance the new Lost? 1 week ago:
Yeah because the ending (and severance last seasons) of Lost was a big unlubed middle finger. Effing waste of time.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 1 week ago:
Maybe Lexmark? OKI? I vaguely recall there was 1 other not-evil printer company.left.
Otherwise, I’ve heard good things about clay tablets.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 1 week ago:
Wow, that does seem really useful! So clever to use Home Assistant, and nfc tags. Plus, it’s plain csv when you need the data.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 week ago:
Sure, but the challenge is how to block them without putting undue load on humans.
In the olden days, you’d just host a webserver and be done with it. Today you need elaborate setups to trick bots. It’s a losing proposition.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 week ago:
Just to the left of Demimoore.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 1 week ago:
They’d be taking out the core and putting in tulip bulbs instead 🌷🌷🌷
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Teams (Classic), actually.
- Comment on A look at Europe's options for building a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult than the €15B Galileo satellite system, and potential issues. 2 weeks ago:
Some EU countries (and the City of Munich) habe tried to shift from MS to Linux. It didn’t pan out, but maybe this is the decade where it could be done?
Imagine getting EU funding to run basically the EU IT department - best Linux, best management, supporting open Office suites, and establishing an EU cloud operation. One can dream, right?
I guess it didn’t work well last time partly because of re-training needs, interoperability issues, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Apple… Monetisation… Aren’t they already making like a billion per day?
Greedy fuckers.
- Comment on Le Chat: A faster European alternative to American AI 1 month ago:
Because they need to be honest and adhere to the EU regulations and not be asshole thieves like Muricans and Chinese?
Being “nice” severely limits your options.