MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale 4 days ago:
Nah, Spock’s too young, vulcans age slow.
- Comment on Report: China is said to have a functioning EUV lithography system 5 days ago:
Woot, competition!
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 5 days ago:
how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun
Have you never played a game with unreasonable grind that saps all the fun out of it ? Often just to drive player hours and ‘engagement’. Multiplayer cheats however can die in a fire.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 6 days ago:
The tanks might go underground mitigating (perhaps) the pressure explosion risk as opposed to lithium fire risk, but the honking great tent is an issue. Should have a longer life than Li Ion and be repairable vs somewhat recyclable. At scaled production it could certainly be cheaper, but some of the newer immobile battery chemistries might beat it. Synthesized fuel also makes a lot of sense. We shall see. What certainly makes sense is microgrids and power self-sufficiency.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 6 days ago:
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again.’
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 6 days ago:
Wonder how small you can scale these and retain efficiency, at twice the footprint (but I’m guessing a lot more volume) of a lithium grid battery, will we see these replacing home batteries down the line?
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 6 days ago:
160km/hr as per TFA.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
The ones with metal pigment are still waiting to fail, the ones that died used a cheap organic dye, coz profit. This is Silica (i.e. quartz, a long lived rock) with variances in polarization and intensity,( hence 5D when combined with a 3D Crystal))
OK generic marketing crap and will you have their special reader in a century, but it’s a solid way to project knowledge into the far future (gotta wonder if we need to re-examine some quartz crystals with this in mind ;}
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 3 weeks ago:
through a means that doesn’t directly fund Rowling
YoHoHo, it’s Christmas on the high seas :)
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 3 weeks ago:
And now I’m whistling in my head…
Also a good British one : Hogsfather
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 weeks ago:
They’re not law as long as you can afford the lawyers and legal costs to fight them. Which is, of course, the problem and the system working as designed. Image
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 weeks ago:
Get the SSDs pronto…
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 weeks ago:
Hmpff, when I added the image it overwrote the original URL, not exactly intuitive, probably makes sense for memes.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, thought I had, apparently I don’t understand the post creation mechanism as well as I thought. Thanks for the catch, I’ll edit the text.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I hadn’t bothered to read the comm rules and doing a filesystem check is a suitable pain in the ass. BTW the last word was originally shitfuckery.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
Using wireguard to VPN into your home network is mostly trivial (using tailscale to do so is actually trivial, for my usage of the word, but introduces an untrusted company into the mix), opening your local network to the outernet is not, expect pain.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 month ago:
Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”
TLDR as soon as you have a system like this people will game it…
- Comment on What budget friendly GPU for local AI workloads should I aim for? 1 month ago:
Nah, NVLink is irrelevant for inference workloads (inference nearly all happens in the cards, models are split up over multiple and tokens are piped over pcie as necessary), mildly useful for training but you’ll get there without them.
- Comment on Tax strike? 1 month ago:
General Strike.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
Sigh, time to rewrite my scraper so I can have just the facts in my top panel again. Last one got like 5 years I think, hopefully they’re not going to up the pace…
- Comment on The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead. The US can’t provide the submarines. The UK can neither make up for the shortfall nor co-develop such a submarine in a reasonable timeframe 4 months ago:
If this is so, well, thank fuck for that. Such a bad, expensive idea. One good thing to come from Trump is a severe loss of faith in the US, long overdue.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 5 months ago:
Didn’t take as long as I expected, but I expected it (which is why I didn’t bother to read, even if it’s not all the way there, it’s coming).
Seriously, advertising (or propaganda to use the older name that Goebbels used) really needs to be seen as a much more serious enemy than most do. Propaganda for capitalists is super effective at sucking up peoples mental bandwidth, they’ve been selecting for it going on a century now and they’re depressingly good at it, if you don’t actively counter it, straight to the subconscious, along with all the background crap in it. /rant, but seriously…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
'Twould be sweet irony and a blessing for the earth.
Although the best method for removing it I’ve found is donating plasma (PFAs down 30% in 6 months of regular donation, the hope is nanoplastics are also removed…) so it might be the poors (in USA) and generous that get to have kids, so that’s nice…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
plastic is inert
wat? In no way is it inert.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
What did plastic replace? Good chance we can go back, if we can convince some people the line doesn’t need to go up. Good joke, everybody laughs…
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic
Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 5 months ago:
Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ? No more so than using any search engine directly, it’s a nice to have. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then? By the time you’ve investigated it, you could have stood up your own instance…
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 5 months ago:
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.
Oz gov yet again doing something unfathomably stupid with tech privacy, shocked I tell ya. Might have to point my SearxNG instance VPN endpoint somewhere else, maybe, see how it pans out…
