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tony ,

I’ve never seen any difference with the top two with that test. My monitor is 144hz and TBH I might as well have saved my money and got 60Hz ones.

We’re not all hardcore gamers trained to see miniscule differences.

tony ,

It’s mostly marketing. Films are perfect at 24fps and gamer bros think they can see framerates ten times that.

tony ,

I’ve really upset the gamer bros here…

Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy (www.eff.org)

Thanks to more than 100 civil society groups joined us in speaking out against this proposal. So did thousands of individuals who signed the petition demanding that the EU “Stop Scanning Me.”...

tony ,

That one is a lost battle, alas. We’ll have to hack our browsers to make them secure, or download them via VPNs from the US.

EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments (www.eff.org)

EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments::The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted...

tony ,

No it hasn’t, not even slightly.

tony ,

Happens with americans too… they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn’t).

tony ,

Our legal system basically relies on the fact that criminals are that stupid.

tony ,

There’s a lag between human activity and climate change. Rolling out nuclear might have helped a bit, but whether we’d have seen the results today I’m not sure… the benefits would be in the future.

I doubt cars could have evolved any faster though (well they could, but capitalism, so realistically things went as fast as they could)… so it might not have had much impact at all.

tony ,

TIL… I thought it was some low budget channel they’d bought the catalogue of

tony ,

Ad floods happen semi regularly… they get banned fairly quickly though.

tony ,

androidpolice have had lots of articles about ad blocking and picking the best one etc.

Then they won’t let anyone view the site when they follow that advice…

Any way to add an "It's now safe to turn off your computer" message at the end of shutdown?

I want to do this for my raspberry pis since they don’t have an ACPI system in place. I think it would look really nice combined with XFCE and the chicago95 theme. So I would prefer it if it were showing it like the windows 95 shutdown screen, maybe using an image file? There’s a lot of information on the shutdown process on...

tony ,

Just before shutdown you’re at the terminal so something like this github.com/stolk/imcat on the image at the end of shutdown script might work.

tony ,

Ads pay miniscule amounts per view… I’ve heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere… the more ads the better.

Which means people block the ads because they’re obnoxious, and they make nothing…

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

tony ,

I presume apple users do occasionally…

I guess this is a way for google to force apple to open the protocol since they can’t just open it in the EU, so it affects the US too. But the EU don’t have to listen to google… if imessage is such a minor player they may just leave it alone.

tony ,

He can join the queue then…

Lots of new sites starting up. Most don’t last a year.

tony ,

It looks to me like they were counting some windows variant as ‘Other’ for a time.

tony ,

I’m surprised stackoverflow haven’t sued some of them… they literally steal the content and stick their own name on it.

tony ,

Raid 0 on 3x500GB triples your failure rate (especially important on older drives, as I presume these are), and still won’t get anywhere near an SSD in speed.

You could just mount the 3 drives separately and have storage that way, which means if one fails you’ve still got the data on the other two… it’d still suck but not as bad as losing everything.

If it was me I’d wait until I could afford the SSD… it’ll be many times faster and newer.

tony ,

Holy shit… 1Tb drives too…

If only I had a use for them :/

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Or actually do anything useful? No network, no filesystem… it’s a hello world app isn’t it…

Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts 'intense competition' (www.cnbc.com)

Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts ‘intense competition’::China’s Nio has been hit by weak consumer sentiment in the world’s second-largest economy, stiff competition and a price war started by Elon Musk’s Tesla.

tony ,

They’re more a BYD rival, being chinese.

Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)

Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of...

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That’s literally what they teach you about basic economics at school…

The standard graph of price increasing on one side and customer demand decreasing on the other, and how companies try to find the crossover point.

Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount (i.imgur.com)

IKEA Family is a membership program, like grocery store memberships. The only real feature of the program was their 5% discount. But now, they are getting rid of it to focus on “New Lower Price offers”. I’m not holding my breath that their prices are going to come down anytime soon....

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How am I going to fit my rackmount servers into it now?

tony ,

The daily express isn’t exactly known for it’s accurate insightful reporting. The headline is mostly about scaring people, mostly elderly (their main readership) that their computer is about to stop working.

tony ,

There are some well known ones, like L4sbot, that copy everything but they’re upfront about it with bot in their name.

There are a few others more sneaky.

tony ,

Thank you for signing up for Uninstaller 365. Your monthly fee will be $49.99. To cancel write 16 pages of klingon opera and send it to the following address exactly 100 days 16 hours before your requested cancellation minute.

Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?

I recently switched my server over to running Plex and Home Assistant in Docker. I like the ease of transfer (just move my compose file and one directory where I have stored all the configs and I’m set) as well as the simple permissions management to give access to directories....

tony ,

If it’s fun, it’s not overkill!

You also have experience you can use in the workplace (even if it’s mostly experience of what happens if you f**k things up).

tony ,

Yeah I went to firefox beta for ublock origin… but it seems most things work.

tony ,

It refuses to install on the non-beta version… had to upgrade to allow it.

When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution. (arstechnica.com)

When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.::As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.

tony , (edited )

We have alot of rules wrt. ventilation for gas appliances in the EU. Gas boilers for example have to vent outside away from doorways… I’m not sure if gas cookers need hoods these days or extractor fans are enough.

Edit: Ahh no, just venting… you must have an openable outside door or window, or equivalent ventilation.

Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)

Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy....

tony ,

Find out what happened to Dasani in the UK

Bad publicity can destroy a brand.

tony ,

In theory an ad blocker could retrieve the ads in the background and simply not display them… I’m not sure any actually do currently, but if advertisers are silly enough to pay simply through network traffic it’s an option.

Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather (www.notebookcheck.net)

Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather::A number of Tesla owners have taken to Reddit after their front cameras fogged up and stopped working in cold weather, leaving several features, including the US$10,000 FSD Beta, inoperable. Tesla has declined to assist to these customers,...

tony ,

Camera fogging has been an issue since at least 2019… Tesla forums usually have threads from new owners surprised by this each year…

It was 100% predictable that ‘vision only’ would fail in these circumstances.

tony ,

That’s been evident for years. Like the 3 that when it was released hadn’t been tested in rain so when you opened the back door all water poured into the car…

tony ,

Compare something like an MG4… £27k, so about $33k. Model 3 base model is £39k, so $48k.

US Tesla price is subsidised like crazy…

tony ,

I’ve successfully used autopark twice since 2019.

All the other times, if it sees a parking space at all (which is very rare) it has either aborted immediately or tried to reverse into an obstacle.

tony ,

Or Fedilab…

tony ,

Hmm…

“last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs”

So… they simply switched to UBlock Origin?

tony ,

Used it once… it’s as annoying as shit since you can’t just run apps you have to type ‘flatpack run org.mozilla.firefox’ instead of just typing ‘firefox’ (and I had to google that because I just can’t remember the sequence). Also for some reason it’s slow… as you mentioned a 1 second delay before anything works. I can’t see myself using it again.

tony ,

So now you have to do that every time you install a flatpak.

Or just stick to a normal package manager, that does all that for you.

tony ,

Cancellation must be provided in writing at least 180 days before the end of the contract.

tony ,

Bah… NCSA Mosaic FTW.

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. (www.androidauthority.com)

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

tony ,

Yeah, no… it’s already overpriced.

Paramount + £6.99 Netflix £10.99 (standard) Youtube £12

Makes no sense… they don’t have anything like the production overheads. Stuff like Star Trek and Stranger Things are expensive. ‘10 greatest cat videos’ is not.

tony ,

I can’t see the value in using youtube for music… it’s not like I can watch music videos in my car. That’s worth $0 to me, and I imagine the majority. Spotify is better… or apple music if you’re on the fruit side.

tony ,

And cloudflare controls the connectivity… luckily they’re not (yet) evil and are happy just to provide infrastructure.

tony ,

Yeah similar in the UK. £3k for a single room mini split. £6k for a two room, etc. There’s no way you’re doing a whole house for less than bend-over money.

tony ,

A 1kw heater (less, given they’re all heat pumps these days) isn’t doing squat to the range compared to an 80kw motor.

A gas car has to idle its engine to get heat. It’s burning fuel constantly… that’s why you frequently see broken down gas cars in heavy traffic.

tony ,

So companies are people when it’s convenient for them to be so, and ‘just a business’ when it isn’t.

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