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- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 3 hours ago:
Good thing I live outside of the US then ;)
This looks awesome…hope they make it, I’d buy one if it isn’t toooo expensive.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 2 days ago:
Home Assistant? Replace google / nest / alexa.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 1 week ago:
What does this mean? That other employees are going to be expected to give up their own vacation/sick leave to pregnant co-workers? The state is so cheap they aren’t willing to give them their own leave? WTAF.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 1 week ago:
That might indeed be the result sometimes :). Doesn’t matter. Since the US seems OK with Amazon making their drivers pee in a bottle and docking them points for gazing away while driving, why not make police submit to full recording like this?
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 1 week ago:
The cameras worked by constantly recording even before the “record” button was pressed, periodically deleting any footage that hadn’t been intentionally recorded. Once the “record” button was pressed by the officer, it would capture the 30 seconds before the button had been pressed, thanks to this method of constantly being on standby.
But it was a hard concept for cops to understand. They weren’t being properly trained on the fact that their own cameras didn’t start recording once they pressed record. Hitting that button saved the 30 seconds prior as well, a neat feature that really bit them in the ass.
Maybe bodycams should randomly record even when the RECORD button isn’t pressed by an officer; and the pre-record time should be random from say 2 minutes to 30 seconds before. And the recording should stop a random 30-60 seconds AFTER they hit ‘STOP’. So they never know when they’re being recorded. If they’re not pulling illegal shit, they shouldn’t have any problem with that, right?
In fact, with storage capabilities nowadays, bodycams should ALWAYS be recording, period. Gotta go to the bathroom? Too damn bad. You’re a public servant. Trust the auditors to redact that if it comes to a court subpoena. You signed up for it. Extraordinary powers come with extraordinary sacrifices.
Jeebus Chripes. No wonder so many people say ACAB.
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 1 week ago:
I played Total Annihilation many years ago w/friends at a LAN party… good times (I always sucked at it, the name described my fate well :P)
Looks fun!
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 2 weeks ago:
Good point. Mechanical means are safest and simplest.
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, my very sharp keys fell hard onto that screen, tragically cracking it.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 2 weeks ago:
Sorry you’re right, number MUST GO UP /s.
sigh.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 2 weeks ago:
Oh no. Anyway…
Make Windows 7 again (or just use Linux), ditch AI, value your users. Sack the CEO. Pretty simple.
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 2 weeks ago:
Me too!
- Comment on low beans 2 weeks ago:
My beans are mighty low right now and the fog has been dense these past few days. :/
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 4 weeks ago:
…or to Vivaldi, or vanilla Chrome, or any other browser that has search engine options in its Settings.
- Comment on HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced 4 weeks ago:
The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
Cloudflare has caused too much of the internet to be centralized under their whims. There need to be more alternatives for DDoS protection; I don’t use any at all for my self-hosted site, but if I ever do, it won’t be Cloudflare.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for linking via xcancel.com rather than to that service directly. Wish more posters would do this.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 weeks ago:
Could workers not form a ‘dark union’, gathering members from as man different companies as possible without informing the employers up-front – gathering a strike-pay war chest before announcing any unionized shops? Then the next time they pull this, everyone everywhere quits out of solidarity. Draw from the war-chest to pay workers while the companies panic, and then dictate fair terms to return to work.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 weeks ago:
Cue that Ants scene… they want to nip resistance in the bud, before it grows too large.
- Comment on Microsoft just open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy on CPUs. 5 weeks ago:
Is it still probabilistic slop or does the model understand what it’s doing and verify primary sources? If not, yay for burning the planet more slowly I guess, but still no thanks.
- Comment on ‘I’m just a girl in Canada trying to get everyone their vibrators’: Why a Toronto sex toy store got a letter from the U.S. Department of War 1 month ago:
Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and ‘running Canada’ like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.
- Comment on I'm there! 1 month ago:
There is adventurescientists.org which has projects (sadly most are US-only, but sometimes they extend into Canada). They aren’t necessarily 'camp’s with groups, but they might have something appealing to you.
- Comment on Do it. 1 month ago:
This is the best.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 month ago:
Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.
Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 months ago:
Neat – I just set it up, got my gmail going in the Mail app and it works.
uBlock Origin isn’t officially supported any more as it’s considered ‘legacy browser’, but I found a working XPI here and it even seems to block Youtube ads. Wow.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 months ago:
In case you didn’t know, the original ‘Mozilla Suite’ (the browser/HTML composer/Mail client) is still apparently being developed! I’m sure it’s behind a lot of modern standards, but I love the idea it’s being kept alive…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.