one tungst, two tungsten
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We are on Lemmy, so yeah, they are here. Just take a look at how many people are defending Russia invading its neighboring country and murdering the people there. Or try calling Xi Jingping a dictator who is doing a genocide on the Uighurs.
Grrr.
Printer rant incoming.
We have a wireless printer. And most of the time, it works. A few days ago, it would not listen to my laptop, and I had to send the document I needed to print to @ColinTheMathmo. Printed perfectly for him.
Grrr.
Today I have printing to do, and just in case, I've found the cable and plugged it in, and sat down, bracing myself to troubleshoot.
Wireless works perfectly, first time. Ordinary printing, and high quality on special paper, both successful.
So the printer needs a pacifier before it will work for me now?
/end rant
@virtuosew @ColinTheMathmo This morning I discovered I needed to update one of the many printouts I am bringing to MathsJam. The crucial changes were on later pages, but there was also a nice-to-have change on the first page, so what the hell, might as well reprint the whole thing, it's not that long.
Of course, it printed the first page and then stopped with an error message. Which it printed on a second sheet, making it unusable for subsequent print jobs.
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Every now and then I end up on that site (usually from searching for something and then absent-mindedly clicking to the homepage from there) and get whiplash at just how horrific the whole front page is even on its default logged-out setting for racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, and other far-right talking point news stories.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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I’ve been in IT for the better part of 30 years and the greatest tool ever invented for finding fiber optic cables is called “the Backhoe”
Just so happens that there a quite a few rural communities that already have the tools necessary to deal with data centers poisoning the air and using up all the water. 🤷🏾♂️
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I can attest with the utmost confidence that every developer or manager or whoever that claims "all code written by AI is reviewed by a human" is a boldfaced lie.
AT BEST they have quickly skimmed it, but more likely they've not looked at it at all.
Actually reading code THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE YOURSELF takes quite a bit of time, and the one thing that people who use AI tooling care most about is just how fast it makes things.
They will not spend the time needed to actually read it.
In real life I regularly encounter people who think using AI is totally fine for anything & everything even if doing it themselves wouldn’t be that hard, and I’m made to feel like the weirdo for refusing to touch them.
So reading all the posts and blogs from IGF judges this week about how no, this is a valid and correct position even when shit gets hard has been very reaffirming. I feel like less of a weirdo this week than last. So, thanks for talking about it
@sinbad got a link to those posts?
Coffee (Team CW)
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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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Q: "But what will Ukraine give up for peace?"
A: Killing Russians. Nothing else.
#Ukraine was invaded and occupied by Russia, and Russia committed and continues to commit war crimes in furtherance of their goal of eliminating the Ukrainian people.
For peace, Russia just has to retreat across its border, and then we can talk reparations. Ukraine should not have to give up anything for peace.
#Ukraine #Russia #war #WarCrimes #SlavaUkraini #PeacePlan #peace
Welcome to 2026. I forgot to renew the domain homebrewserver.club and by the time I realized it got sniped. Its a big bummer and I was expecting some online casino on it but its far worse.
The person that got it made an AI generated version of it, containing some of the old content but also adding new content about AI. The problematic thing is that it is relatively hard to tell apart from the old version as it is clearly trying to impersonate and smuggle in new content.
Do not trust whatever appears on that domain as it is not me or anyone from @varia
I will purge all references to that URL where possible but it will be misleading, annoying and possibly dangerous for a good while.
Don't forget to renew your domains.
@rra I came across the changed last week while looking to reference the old webserver guide (the replaced one is much different which struck me as strange).
I've been seeing this happen a lot recently, one person I know their site was sniped and fully replaced. It looks almost identical, but then random links go to casino sites :/
well and truly foxed myself coding in Tiny BASIC this afternoon
It's all very funny however I can't help but think ... why now?
Nothing has changed. Nothing "happened" so why is this dude's private life blowing up in media?
Has someone turned on him? Why?
I suppose I will never know unless there is a book someday.
@futurebird I don’t know anything special, but I’m wondering whether the U.S. midterm elections have anything to do with it.
But most likely, there are other relevant factors that you and I simply don’t know about.
A lot of current hacks are about how to overcome the limit of a totally optional software prison rather than be creative with what can be done with the unexpected combination of software and hardware.
That's not actually progress but a regression due to walled gardens.
Thanks for opening up ... but also why even get to such a bad spot in the first place?
This is a check in. Post the number of photos of either yourself or your SO on your phone then the number of photos of your cat.
252
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@futurebird
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Does two cats count as one picture?
@thomholwerda The machine would not have shut down completely (not charging when shutdown) to mirror EC.
@starlabssystems That did the trick! Thanks!
SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to ~$3.19B, net profit up 123% to ~$428.4M, above ~$396.8M est., and a gross margin of 29.9%, above its 26% to 28% guidance (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/chinas-smic-doubles-profit-posts-record-revenue-on-ai-spillover-effects-0606debc?st=4BA8bL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/261112/p13#a261112p13
