corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But I think even the worst case did not have “world war” into consideration.

  Specifically “blowing up regional methane storage” was probably unexpected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Their house will be nicer than average, probably not crazy, but just a lot more than a typical person would have.

  I hear Michael Bublé lives in a modest house he inherited, and he’s a great neighbour. But he seems as un-Hollywood as people can be, so he may be a bad example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if you live in a crazy expensive neighborhood or building, your neighbors are pretty much guaranteed to be rich.

  Careful. We’re paying $4.10/sqft/mo rent and we are NOT rich; just in a very overpriced area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just systemd adding a birthdate field to their userdb. Doesn’t require that it be filled out or accurate

  You. Don’t. Get. It.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The self-important creator of Systemd has personally blocked that PR, if I’m hearing correctly, which would suggest he or his employer Microsoft is all in on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this’ll take the shine off that wunderkinder mess and people will finally be free to choose something more reliable. I love how RH pushed this beta software so hard and my reboots are now just shite – unreliable and occasionally ridiculously delayed.

  I’ll be glad to see the back of that metastatic shitball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.

  Oh, no. That’s just what it is today. Are you new here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The CI turned me off though. It’s kike they saw how bad GitHub is for CI and said “no notes. Just like that”

  And I use the CI config a huge amount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How much methane is that gonna burn?

  Isn’t methane bad for the environment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google told staff worried about Pentagon AI deals that the company is 'leaning more' into national security contracts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did non-profit work. If you wanna see absolute abuse of employees, go do non-profit. “You have to stay late (for free). Think of the children!”

  They’re chronically understaffed while sometimes overstaffed with people who don’t add to the expertise and still required experiences training every shift; but you can’t ignore their attempt to contribute because “the children” need them. So your day is trying to get routine things done amid relentless interruption for the same thing you told an unskilled empty-nester yesterday.

  It makes one say things that sound really bad in the reading of, like the bit above. I promise it’s just experience and, while all effort is good, the least beneficial ones do stand out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s gonna be people who don’t know why containers break iso27002 and think they’re the bees knees just lashing out for this affront to their favourite toy, dude. Hunker down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's $65B Iran War Could Have Ended Homelessness and Rebuilt Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  aided

  Didn’t prevent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a piece

  apiece

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extraordinary, climate change-linked heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr Trump’s FEMA is gonna get a lot of business this year.

  He …does have a FEMA still, right? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we organised highly-publicised world-wide funerals for each animal that goes extinct because of our behaviour, maybe it would help sway people to take environmental issues more seriously⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hearing that Iceland held a funeral for Okjökull (glacier) was incredibly impactful. It seems that all life on the island is made possible through glaciers and volcanoes interacting, and losing one would be disastrous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  on-premise

  You mean “private cloud”, right? No one who can afford outpost will be putting this in their server closet. It’ll go in the datacenter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever

  The smartest guy I know - dizzyingly capable - was only pulling a very small fraction of that. I suspect ‘or whatever’ is doing a lof of heavy lifting, here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever call your son a disappointment?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. “Being a disappointing,” yes. “A disappointment,” no.

  The difference is one is a fixable behaviour, and the other is an identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering self hosting my own git repositories. What are some options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure. And their bumbling has made it harder to deactivate all the useless bloat and get the good web-editor back. And a host of other mind-numbingly short-sighted decisions that show they’re fully run by LostBoy coders who were never mentored and just don’t know better.

  But tuning can come after. And their CI is way fucking better than forgejo’s facepalm of a GitHub clone. And that’s a thin reason, but, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The geo-exfiltration of personal information needs to be in great big banner lights; and not just because you’re outside America, or China, or wherever the bot happens to be where Firefox is exfitrating your history as queries.

  Exfil is bad; geo-exfiltration is next-level bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If your business is critical for modern human living, it should be non-profit. It should be guided by the best management plan of the time, debated and approved by the majority of shareholders. It should open its books and stay open.

  Really, it should be government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering self hosting my own git repositories. What are some options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s monstrous, but gitlab installs from one big RPM on a base box; and with one config file you’re up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think they’d actually bring back the draft?

  The important question is whether THEY think they’ll bring back the draft; and the answer is yes, they are thinking of that very thing. Young men - they’ll bar women - will go and die, just to keep the Epstein files sealed by any distraction possible. Any fight, any time, anything big and bloody.

  (Because if you listen to the one witness, it’s just eve such more more heinous than even this)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay! More places where devs will just say you can’t run their stuff.

  I’m pretty sure I don’t need to use anything built by a company so preoccupied with my birthday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … And based on usage, it’ll be run by a religious group. They consume the most porn, after all, and I bet this kind of bill is virtue-signaling or offloading of responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onionphone - E2EE PTT Voice and Chat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  most of the world have Android

  Heck, most of the Known Universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called the universal operating system for a reason.

  If they call themselves that, it really doesn’t count. It’s like how trump ended like 10 wars to get his FIFA peace medal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black oil clouds over Tehran⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You say “sorry, I’ll correct that now and be more careful. Nice catch” a little weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The NorTel remembers.