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BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

These are nice, but on the other hand there’s the case where you have a limited time slot somewhere and windows randomly decides that it’s time to update, pop up a window to upload your data to “the cloud”, reboot, and bang, you’re f*cked.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

As far as I know there would be, it’s just that nobody is using them that way

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Where’s enlightenment and windowmaker?

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

What I don’t get is why anything these guys are saying makes the news. It’s changing every day, and it’s always a lie. They know it, everyone else knows it, it doesn’t make any sense to write about it.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I don’t mind bashing Musk for a second, but as far as I know China follows a startup mentality with electric cars - the government supports the industry so they can sell cars below their actual price, and once they killed all their competition they can increase.

There’s no fair winning against this policy

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

You can have a computer with multiple users, one prefers gnome, the other kde. Say, they also want to access the computer through cnc, but these are too slow for that, and one prefers windowmaker, the other enlightenment. It works just fine. You can run all these four at the same time.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

One local news site wrote that it might be a mistranslation, and a poet from Leva got to be leftist poet. Can’t confirm personally, my Slovak vocabulary is 20 words at maximum

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

But what do you do if that field is needed? A throwaway address won’t work as it’s easy to recreate. Buy your own domain and run a server?

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

As far as I know (not kuch actually) there are some tries to slightly reform German (DoktorInnen and alike), and maybe even Spanish where in a group with mixed males& females you’d target them with male pronoun and seemingly that makes some people sad.

It’s indeed not an issue with Hungarian, although I’ve seen a party invitation online that decided that it needs to be inclusive, so the spoken language should be English, and THEN they complained about pronouns. Weird.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Thanks, I learned a lot :)

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I use a Kindle, but never bought a single book from them. I mostly use their transfer method for convenience instead of looking for a cable. As for books, I downloaded a few gigs of ebooks in html/RTF/doc format well before e-ink was invented, and use those with calibre to convert to epub. Pdfs are rather suboptimal for ebooks.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Have you tried tiny macros with q and @? Syntax highlighting? Z-folds? Or turn vi into a hex editor with :%!xxd ?

If that doesn’t work, try :divorce

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Use justtherecipe.com - it will not only cut ads, but also the sob story about the writer’s grandmother and how they kept this thing a family secret for exactly 137 years until now.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I miss my E17 and windowmaker, when I had the time to fiddle with config files…

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

And Afghanistan was not available on that week?

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I think there was a 99% invisible podcast episode about that, it’s prison inmates. For some never-changed rule they are only allowed music on cassettes, so they are probably the target audience mainly.

Just a few years ago I had an old car with a cassette player/radio, and from time to time I enjoyed the cassette player with some leftover stuff, but in most cases I just used an FM transmitter

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Sure, there are transmitters without Bluetooth. I somehow preferred the SD card, as it would hold a few Gb of music and needed no internet connection. The only downside was if I was driving short trips only for a while, and it stuck with a 20-min long Deep Purple concert track every time :)

Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law (www.aljazeera.com)

Pornhub and two other adult sites are suing the European Union over a landmark digital content law, the Digital Services Act, which imposes age verification and other obligations on large platforms. The European Commission last year named Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat as a category of “very large online platform” under the...

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Yepp, I always wanted to have a login to a porn site verified with my ID and connected to my home address

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Ebben Eastern Germany had a better solution: vezess2.p3k.hu/app/uploads/…/trabi-700x467.jpg

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I happen to rarely read recently published books, so I paid for an ebook a single time. In a series of eight books, each of them had an appendix saying “this file was formatted on purpose for torrenting. The estimated cost of producing the book is roughly 5.27$. If you liked it here’s my bank account and my website if you’d like to buy the book on paper”.

BlushedPotatoPlayers OP ,

And a language model, absolutely unsuited for this task, just as much as a lawnmower or a float needle.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Right, but for nonEU trips you have to exit the Schengen zone, which comes with passport control, I have no idea how one can avoid that

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

So, the thing is we can’t really predict CMEs. What we can do is observing them by satellites like SOHO or SDO (actually you can also check these data, check for jHelioViewer). While light indeed needs roughly 8 minutes to travel from the Sun, the ejected plasma is much slower than that, it travels at a comfy pace of 1000km/s or so. So it takes about a day to reach Earth (you can do the precise numbers as a homework or use Wolfram alpha to cheat), so from the observations we have roughly this time to do anything.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Yeah. Way worse that the cup thing or the Japanese eel stuff or the others. That crap still haunts me

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

But you just told the computer to ignore case…

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Wait, in the last thread it was a bank

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

The AdBlock arms race is still going on - would have been more precise

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

It’s worse than that. Authors actually pay (up to several thousand dollars) to publish, the editors who find referees are doing this as a side job, so probably they’re not exactly overpaid either. Finally you have the anonymous referee, who not only doesn’t get paid, but they get literally zero recognition. Also, papers aren’t printed in journals any more, they are online only, so there’s no printing fee either, there’s only just server hosting costs, paying some people for language editing and final typesetting (in many fields authors must submit LaTeX manuscripts, basically ready for publishing). And profit of course.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

The guy with the scat fetish that disappeared the moment his wish started to come true

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I think this was it reddit.com/r/confessions/s/cJFm6eRXMi (it’s not for a weak heart)

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I don’t think you can make up these kind of things

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

There’s a hedgehog in the garden. BUT IT’S NOT THEIR ONE!

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Did I miss something from the news? Why is a field hospital needed in Libya?

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Thanks, that somehow never got in the news here

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I know only one case where this shrinkflation thing was stopped - one beer company decided to sell 0.4l cans, because “that’s what the customers want”. It turned out pretty fast that wasn’t what their customers wanted :)

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

I think I’ll stick to ‘fresh’ or ‘sourdough’ as alternatives from now on

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

While that’s true, we still have for example safe air travel, although I’m pretty sure companies would be happy to ship their passengers minced to maximize their profit.

Also, thorium reactors would be a great step forward, unfortunately its byproducts can’t be used for nuclear weapons, so their development was pretty slowed down.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

My best guess is hemorrhoid followup - what would you do, ask your neighbor to look and comment on your butt?

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

My wife loves that show, I was never able to fathom why it is so interesting to watch people being frustrated in you free time. Cooking should be so about fun and love, don’t shout with my food, please.

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers (www.cnn.com)

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers::Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Not all, they were kicked out from Hungary - although that was less a victory of workers’ rights rather than that of the taxi driver union.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

But it’s also about the MacBook – the series sold 10 years ago had replaceable HDDs and memory units, I upgraded the disk twice in the lifetime and fixed the disk cable three of four times (they had a funny design so that you had to break the cable several times to fit its place neatly). The current laptops are sold with every component glued/soldered to place, and this is getting a trend everywhere. It probably started with phone batteries: my first phone (Ericson GA628 with an exchangeable front panel!) had a battery you could replace in two seconds, now even 2500-3000EUR laptops are considered single-use throwaway items, it’s insane.

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Nah, if it’s a/s/l, he’s 25 from M and identifies as cat. 7 - queer, maybe? Or two-spirit?

BlushedPotatoPlayers ,

Wazzup

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