MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say 5 days ago:
Narrator : But they didn’t.
(or maybe there was a significant shift to Greens)
I just hope we finally say no when Trump tries to drag us into a war.
- Comment on Deshittification 5 days ago:
If you take a broader view of enshittification (than Doctorows’ original formulation, good as it is), as has been happening to the word, you can apply deshittification to things like right to repair, inter-operability, repeal of reverse engineering felonization, even straight up open source. I actually think it could be a useful umbrella term.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 1 week ago:
Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 2 weeks ago:
First up… backups…
You’ve got all your data on a single 8TB external drive?
This. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP !!! Sorry for shouting, but it’s that important. It’s a main storage tolerant of disk failure, you still need backups or you’re one bad ‘rm -rf’ away from losing data.
First get that second 8Tb, or better yet a 16+Tb (see serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent for good prices on manufacturer recertified drives) so you have room to grow. Now copy that 8Tb onto it and disconnect it from your computer. Congratulations, you have a cold backup and are pretty well protected from data loss, much better than a RAID.
You can now think about a NAS with confidence, but preferably before that get another drive copy your data again and take it to a friend / relative / safety deposit box (even bury it in the back yard in something waterproof). Now you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy and you’re pretty damn well insulated against data loss.
TLDR: Backup first, NAS later.
- Comment on Tony Blair’s government discussed how to influence John Howard to commit Australian troops to Iraq 2 weeks ago:
Eh, we’ve blindly followed the US into everything since WW2, no influence necessary. We’re (or ozgov is) morons. Here’s hoping we finally draw the line at whatever BS Trump cooks up to prop up their failing economy (except for selling weapons, that’s doing fine).
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
Think so ? I put these games down for a while and come back later, explore the new content, muck around for a while, and put them down again… Love 'em both, but not all the time.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
Yup, very much make your own activities games, but both continue to grow. NMS especially just keeps bashing out free updates (Best Ongoing Game again at this year’s The Game Awards) and has monthly or so expeditions for the new things if you need more direction. Corvettes went over well.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, IIRC they have a free weekend. A couple of years back I gave it a spin, realized what I wasn’t missing, and went back to Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky. You know, working space games…
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale 3 weeks ago:
Nah, Spock’s too young, vulcans age slow.
- Comment on Report: China is said to have a functioning EUV lithography system 3 weeks ago:
Woot, competition!
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
160km/hr as per TFA.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 4 weeks 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 ;}
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- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Get the SSDs pronto…
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 2 months 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" 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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…
