“If it weren’t for the shootings, I wouldn’t know they had schools.” - YT comment I read today

It’s the morning light from the side, letting you see each speck of dust.

I put a rubber cap thingy on mine. This should be the least invasive fix.

A drunk text or a butt dial!

I wonder what CPU performance you would need so that it is compiling all the time given: average package release rate and average compile time of the most commonly installed ones.

Make it vertical? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Is this client only or a mod feature?

Average neurodivergent-neurotypical interaction:

Yes, beacuse that would be distribution of copyrighted materials…

Meta’s legal defense was that they limited seeding to a minimal value as a precaution when they pirated terabytes of books. Of course, I don’t expect the same ruling would be granted to an individual… Shit is fucked.

There are many ethnicities in India and China. Your equivalence breaks down, because then both an uyghur, tibetian and han chinese would be the same.

I get it, if we are talking about outsider’s perspective, I for example can’t tell apart a typical chinese from a typical korean or japanese person. Due to the lack of exposure, my brain only registers them as “asian person”. Maybe the language can give a clue, but that’s debateable.

Still, the broader the brushes we paint with, the more erroneous generalization are.

Why is there an assumption of nationality = ethnicity?

People act the way they act as a reflection of their environment and society, not race.

Would you say you are behaving the same as a mainlander?

“Google would never do something like that” comments just one year ago. Oh my! Google dropped the “don’t be evil” motto a long time ago.

After both the 4G modem and the wifi dongles didn’t work I decided to flash an old TP-link router with OpenWRT (or was it DDWRT?) and using that in a bridge mode connected wifi and via ethernet to the PC. So yeah, then I got an Intel wifi 6 NIC and gave the router away.

There’s new webcam, theres also an “empty” extension thing where you can put 2 nvme SSDs in place of the GPU.

Steam has the platform to recoup the hardware costs. They are selling PC-based consoles, while the rest is selling handheld-shaped PCs.

China: We increased green energy production.

To scale back on fossil fuels, right?

China: …

Right?

That’s actually hilarious, in a good way. But they never miss a chance to drop the PR ball. Would it be that hard to roll with it and earn some points with the community?

Competition of closed source software generally makes sense if you have the advantage in engineering resources. AMD is in a disadvantage on this front, so getting OS contributions could level the field.

Search engines been going relatively fine for decades now. But the crawlers from AI companies basically DDOS hosts in comparison, sending so many requests in such a short interval. Crawling dynamic links as well that are expensive to render compared to a static page, ignoring the robots.txt entirely, or even using it discover unlinked pages.

Servers have finite resources, especially self hosted sites, while AI companies have disproportinately more at their disposal, easily grinding other systems to a halt by overwhelming them with requests.

The ultimate validation is to see if it gets sent.