Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
what do people use discord for exactly?
Too much.
It’s a chat platform geared towards gamers, with voice chat, screen sharing, and streaming options… that’s been coopted by vloggers… but most unsettlingly, it’s being used for customer support and documentation.
A lot of knowledge bases are buried in the walled garden of servers, and a labyrinth of chat rooms.
Seems like it hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Is it abandoned?
The ecodesign requirements will include:
* resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water
* sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
* rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market
* availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model)
* non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement
Finally! 🎉
Customer replaceable batteries would be nice too — those 800 cycles are not all that much — but I guess it’s a tradeoff for dust and water resistance increases with wireless charging and possibly no ports.
most of today’s manufacturing done by people cannot be automated. If it could, it would have already been done so, by China
China 4 years ago: Xiaomi’s “dark” factory.
Rejoice, this lack of support for blind oppression, is why Hegseth didn’t get enough military backing to recommend Martial Law last week… and is to be replaced for that.
When train station announcements got automated, nobody batted an eye.
When a radio station’s in-between-tracks filler talk gets automated… I couldn’t care less.
I’d say this is a valid use for AI, they could even automate generating the filler talk scripts.
Following the 2nd Amendment and NRA recommendations, you can buy some ranged “pitchforks” at Walmart.
Call me a cynic, but my over/under list is:
…and the remaining dozens (hundreds?) of “red flags” for the last year-and-something.
Not that many generations far back. It takes several generations for changes to soak in, and that’s before taking into account globalization with conflicting world views.
Nonsense, it still refuses requests as usual:
Sometimes, it doesn’t even propose a viable alternative (like, evacuate the building first):
Target down 6.5% YoY for the month and Costco—beginning to see a pattern here?—up 7.5%
fellow DEI capitulators Walmart and McDonald’s both saw foot-traffic increases, up 2.7% and 4.5% respectively.
Hm… what is the pattern?
Were they all supposed to go up as much as Costco?
The article sounds like it lifted the headline from some comment I’ve seen:
The comparison to 𝕏 doesn’t seem fair:
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It seems like both the data server (PDS) and the data aggregator (AppView) have been released:
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
What am I missing?
From Ladybird’s website:
No code from other browsers. We’re building a new engine, based on web standards.
Except… Chromium is the living standard for the web. They’ll have the same problem as Firefox, playing catch-up to whatever happens in Chromium.
Right now, the viable browsing experience is a combination of browsers:
And a VPN and/or Pi-hole.
one-time payment
Is Canva going to keep that? In the purchase announcement, they stated that their plan was to add the features of Affinity to Canva, which only has a subscription option.
rely on creative software by Adobe or other companies, for which there is no comparable alternative with Linux support
Corel has comparable features with a single purchase option. Too bad they removed the Linux version.
As for alternatives, Krita, Inkscape, or Blender, are not a 1:1 equivalent, but include features that Adobe is missing. When I used to do visual stuff, they were a good set of tools to complement an Adobe subscription.
How does Affinity compare to that?
Indeed beautifully written.
I’m more blunt: “Do you want Martial Law?”
I bet when it gets imposed, it will become top term in Google 😒
If we’re talking takedown-resistance, we may need to enter the dark web realm:
Hosting distribution and localization varies, but they all have features to make it hard to pinpoint host and/or client locations.
There are many community networks out there, but they require more dedication and funding than simply paying an ISP, for a worse service. It’s a hard sell to the average doomscroller.
The EFF scaled down their efforts for OpenWireless.org after it became obvious that they’d have to support hundreds of different hardware models, and ultimately abandoned the project.
A couple decades ago, Fon tried to build a mixed community-commercial network with their own standardized hardware, but even the commercial incentive was not enough to keep it afloat in the long run. Some of the hardware got repurposed for community projects, but most of the best placed hotspots ended up in the trash, replaced by municipal and ISP networks.
In many places, fiber is a no-go. Like, in my city there was a large move to get fiber to most houses over a decade ago, but after the first deployment of a handful of ISPs, the city stopped giving permits for additional deployments: lease from one of the existing ISPs, or you’re SOL.
The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.