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darth_helmet ,

Orion supports Firefox and chrome extensions

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Risotto is easy but you do need to add liquid and keep it stirring for pretty much the whole cook time

No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows (gadgeteer.co.za)

Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.

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I haven’t worked somewhere that really requires a desktop office suite in like 15 years. Almost everyone seems to get by with browser based tools. The big exception being finance and their excel monstrosities.

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That usage data is neat! Also really fucking creepy. I hate that we’ve normalized just whole-hog spying on people.

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I’ve created this innovative new technology: it’s called a survey.

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REWIND

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Copilot uses codex, it’s another OpenAI model but you can generally consider chatgpt to be a superset of that

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The rule is in place so that they have a leg to stand on for letting people go with cause. When good workers don’t show up, they might get a performance improvement plan, but their managers will find a way to not enforce it. When the rest of the workforce doesn’t show up, those folks will be let go.

darth_helmet ,

Shoutout to -l for “do I want to cat this or tail this”

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Hrrrng admiral, I’m trying to sneak around but I’m dummy thicc and the warp signature from my nacelles keeps alerting the Romulans

What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online?

There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

  • bill gets signed
  • no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
  • 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
  • years late and at double the budget, it releases
  • two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
  • years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
  • zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
  • new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists

'Limitless' energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots (theconversation.com)

‘Limitless’ energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots::New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.

darth_helmet ,

Room temperature superconductor (if it’s real) changes the game. We could pave the southwest in panels and send the power where it needs to go.

darth_helmet ,

You have to give the industry some time to circle the wagons and enshittify led bulbs so that they only last 10,000 hours

darth_helmet ,

No, but that only works if the ads are being served by known ad hosts, so you should expect that adtech will get hip to that and proxy their traffic through the same hosts as the content.

That being said, it’s pretty easy to check if a user has network blackholing going on in clientside JavaScript, you just do a test request to a popular ad network and see if it resolves, no special browser support needed.

darth_helmet ,

There is a whole lot of sky, my dude. I don’t think it’s plausible that we could capture even 1% of the kinetic energy of wind currents if we wanted to.

But also, wind is ultimately solar energy: the sun heats up parts of the planet at a time, the temperature differences cause pressure differences, and pressure flows from high to low. If we could somehow capture most of that kinetic energy, the result would be that areas which heat up stay warmer, and areas which don’t heat up as much stay cooler.

But we’re talking about gravity-bound gases, here. If we tried to capture too much, the gases would just find an easier route to equalize, such as going above our turbine network.

darth_helmet ,

Feasibility aside, it’d be a lot more practical to get cracking on that Dyson swarm. Photovoltaics are a much more efficient way to capture solar energy, or even direct solar thermal (ie mirrors and steam turbines)

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I don’t understand, what’s hard to like about ortegas? She’s exactly what I’d expect a hotshot pilot to be like.

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This is something that’s been a problem with space combat in media forever. It’s the size of an aircraft carrier, but combat is more exciting if we pretend that everything in space maneuvers like a fighter jet.

Pretty much only The Expanse gets that stuff right.

darth_helmet ,

Oh that’s fantastic for AWS. I have a dozen chrome profiles for this type of behavior and it’s always sucked

darth_helmet ,

Yep, particularly with the Riker clone, it seems like the safest way to do away missions would be to send down an instance of the crew rather than the actual crew. But then what would they do with all those extra red shirts?

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He’s a cleaner, a doctor, and also the best transporter tech in the business, better than folks operating teleporters a hundred years later.

M’Benga Sue

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Transporters essentially destroy and recreate people anyway, you have to imagine it is already something that most folks in Starfleet have made peace with, somehow.

Tom Riker is proof that we’re just bags of meat, and consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. The only difference is that instances copies have a divergence point in their experiences. The Bobiverse books explore similar ideas.

But it is hard to imagine those instances wouldn’t want to avoid getting merc’d Tuvix-style. The handwavium way you’d probably try to approach it would be some sort of memory reintegration. Not implausible in Star Trek

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archive.is/6mRkf archive of the pluralistic article in full, which lacks the shitty authwall.

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If this is a Brewster’s Millions situation, and he just has to lose $44 billion dollars in a year, I’m voting we let the writers stay on strike.

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Whether or not it’s on purpose, I think that Twitter was vulnerable to this outcome due to literally years of mismanagement. Dorsey hadn’t given a fuck for quite some time, and Twitter’s problems always grew faster than its solutions.

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Change latitude, change altitude, save up for an off-grid power system, maybe learn a few things about living off the grid in general. I don’t think we could make earth less habitable than mars if we tried, but we are pushing it toward not being to support as much life as it does right now.

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It’s cute when the serfs tear each other down

sent from my iPhone

darth_helmet ,

We’re hitting the point where people who played Bioshock and missed the lesson have money.

darth_helmet ,

I think the word you’re looking for is “and.”

darth_helmet ,

I had my policy canceled for having a 15 year old roof, no heads up or chance to remediate any actual issues. Insurance companies are just dicking Californians because they hate being regulated.

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I’m not optimistic based on that first episode, did they have a hard time getting a writer’s room together this time?

The animation was extremely unambitious and the plot was, charitably, a minimum viable effort. I’ve loved this show for the majority of my life, but if you don’t have something to say, move on.

The comedy in this episode was the “Now that’s what I call jokes we missed 201x” and there wasn’t anything beyond it to latch onto. After the quality of that last finale, I just want to forget that this happened, so far.

darth_helmet ,

Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.

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