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It would destroy all their terrible plots though.

Picard: "Shut down the holodeck!"
Data: "Holodeck controls are not responding"
Picard: "Pull the holodeck MCB!"
Data: "Holodeck systems shut down"

Credits.

Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot (www.businessinsider.com)

Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It’s putting those people in an awkward spot::Big Tech wants to bring back some of the workers it laid off. The decision might come down to how a company handled the layoffs.

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I think this is the answer. Time for the companies to experience the bad side of fire and rehire.

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Nah. I don't plan to ever have ads. Hardly any users so my nice little single server will be fine for years to come and I can afford it no problem. If somehow I got a lot of users, I'd likely just close registration rather than ads. I hate ads!

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I have a bit of a weird opinion on this. I was very anti brexit. I make multiple trips to Europe every year, probably 4-5 at least. I benefit nothing from leaving the union. My passport is filling with stamps at an alarming rate.

But, to rejoin now after it is done. To rejoin with the basic requirements of a new state rejoining? I don't think it's as great an idea of remaining when we had the perks of an early joining larger state. Certainly you'll find a lot more resistance to replacing the pound with the Euro (I actually could care less, but I'm in the minority here) than there was to leaving on the original terms.

Also, I don't think Europe should have to put up with us (as a whole, the country I mean) whiners. Our bed has been made by the stupidly defined referendum, and the subsequent disastrous implementation and now, we should just suck it up and lie in it.

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When it was clear the referendum was going to be actioned, I never understood why the UK government didn't just try to implement a move to the EEA or similar satellite level. It would satisfy the terms of the referendum entirely. The referendum was to leave the European union. The wording was very succinct.

The UK probably would never have joined schengen (that's really of hugest benefit to mainland Europe), we never took the European parliament seriously (you can argue that we should have, but we sent fucking Farage, so. No, we never took it seriously).

But the common trading area and freedom of movement did benefit us (and the BS use of it to get votes from the right was filled with lies of course). Which (as I understand it) is the main features of being part of the EEA. It still of course means we'd need to adopt trade related laws of course (Oh my gaawwwd our sovereignty!!!!). But we already were and it didn't hurt us one bit!

But no, it had to be full brexit or nothing (for some inexplicable reason).

Yes, before people say anything. We'd need to be admitted into the EEA. I know that. But it wasn't even tried! That's the annoying thing. It was rejected straight off the bat.

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All of the benefits (so far as I can tell) were always theoretical. We can make our own trade deals. Except, previously trade deals were made on our behalf as part of a trading bloc that included us, Germany, France, Italy, The nordics (mostly via the EEA) and the rest of Europe. How was there ever a serious expectation we'd get a better deal as a fraction of that bargaining power? So, a theoretical benefit that's extremely unlikely to pan out to our advantage.

Taking control of our borders? How has that worked out for us? Not too well so far it seems.

Yeah, it's crap. But I feel like some more of those brexit supporting business owners need to eat some more humble pie before we ever try to go back.

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I wasn't lied to. Actually, the way this stuff was spread on social media was the whole cambridge analytica thing. I never saw ANY of the ads/sponsored posts etc. I was not the demographic, I guess. What I did see was weird opinions and people that never had a problem with the EU suddenly talking about sovereignty etc starting around a month before and getting much louder a week or so before. They targeted the advertising so tightly that those that weren't close to the middle or on the side of leaving already never ever saw an advert/sponsored post or any other advertising. It was spookily well executed.

I remember initially I was certain it would be a landslide remain. Around a week before I was very concerned it wouldn't be any more, just based on the shift of public sentiment.

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You might very well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.

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OK, but there's need to be some automatic beeping over my <expletive deleted> comments.

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Yes, but you lose your save game every reboot.

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Unity: Hold my beer.

Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps (www.broadbandtvnews.com)

Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps::Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters are up in arms after Amazon demanded a 30% slice of any advertising revenue that passes through its FireTV devices. Financial Review said networks Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS had accused the parcels to showbiz company of a...

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Pretty much. I currently use fire sticks with Kodi side loaded for TV because it's a pretty cheap decent android TV device. If it became restricted in this way such that apps I do want to use go away, I'd just buy a generic Android TV device (or side load them).

This is just another of the long line of bad ideas big business seem to be having to try to get every last cent out of a product or service they can. It's too far and we can easily avoid it.

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Yeah, I still have my plasma TV from 2011 (hey, the thing refuses to die, OK!). When I bought it, it was a "smart tv". Now, there's no apps for the thing. But I use a fire TV stick with side-loaded extra apps and it's like having a modern smart TV.

I don't think I'd buy a TV for its smart features ever. Far better to get a TV for the picture quality and what actually matters in a TV and use devices to fill in the rest. Sure if they're there and working I'd use them perhaps. But, I know they will become obsolete too soon.

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Indeed. They had the whole chart showing exactly what would be paid by who. Their original post was designed not to be confusing and it wasn't.

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I'm generally a bit weary of the sunk cost fallacy being absolute.

I think, in most cases it will be though. Furthermore, I think a developer needs to do a cost analysis to know for sure. They should include the consideration that if Unity get away with this AND it makes them more money, they will gouge for more.

For any new developer, this has to be a huge red flag.

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Papers that would be released 5 years after the engineer got doom to run on it.

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Well you need the screwdriver (with the smorx 5omble bit) to open the maintenance panel and access the button you hold while booting to get the unlocked bootloader, so you can install Linux and then subsequently doom.

Elementary.

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God damn big academia at it again!

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I think specifically, they have amazing precision. But the boundaries just don't fall perfectly on round numbers we humans would expect. That's what gets people confused.

Rounding can resolve these problems, or don't use float if you don't need to.

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Yeah. Maybe c# game developers will drop. But they're actually a drop in the ocean.

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I think the apple connector was a good one. Nothing wrong with it except that it was apple licensed. Whereas USB-C is a standard. Also, because of Power Delivery over USB-C I think that should make USB a standard connector on way more devices. It's a one-stop shop for data and power needs.

I can also see PD becoming the power system used for all small devices, especially once there's (if not already) some very low cost single chip (or very simple reference circuit) solutions for handling the negotiation. Also it will need more of the available PD chargers/supplies to support more voltages.

My work laptop already uses PD, and that was useful when I forgot to take the supply once. Just used my 45W PD charger that I DID pack, and it worked fine (it should have 65W, but it seemed not to discharge).

Who knows, maybe houses in the future will be built with some PD wiring too alongside the standard mains power.

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Yeah, I'm thinking more a whole wiring solution for power delivery. Although you'd probably still need a chip per outlet to do the negotiation. So still pretty expensive I'd bet.

Perl still relevant in 2023/24?

hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different...

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Back in the days when we actually used usenet for discussion, there was a newsgroup called alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe. Ah the olde internet.

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I use perl for automation stuff that needs more than bash, but doesn't require the speed of a faster/compiled language. In my opinion it's great for that kind of thing.

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I think in most of Europe (speaking from UK here) if you have one job then it's on the employer to sort your tax out. You get a form at the end of the year to add any other other gains (including benefit in kind etc). If you owe more they adjust your tax code next year to cover it. If they owe you they send a cheque, and then I have to remember how to deposit such ancient technology.

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What if I put a serial number on it and a warning that detonating this thermonuclear device may cause harm and is thus not advised?

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I think it would make sense in areas with full fibre coverage PROVIDED they offer a comparable service. That is they install an ATA with battery backup that presents a standard analogue phone port for the same price. That way they can start removing copper to make way for more fibre.

In areas not covered by full fibre this seems very short-sighted. BTs companies benefit greatly from the legacy infrastructure, in my opinion that comes with an obligation to ensure basic services are provided at reasonable pricing.

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I can imagine that they were making a mad dash for the toilet and didn't make it. They thus were leaking it along the aisle while still trying to get there.

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I wouldn't compare new labour to labour. They were far closer to the tories than labour ever has been I think. And blunkett et Al wouldn't have stopped at the id I'd bet.

The two party system we've effectively been left with puts me off mainstream politics. That is I can't get behind enough policies from either party to emphatically want to vote for them. That's before you get to the reality of how much of the manifesto suddenly gets dropped or changed once they gain power.

Having said that. WhatsApp and other E2EE messengers leaving the market is only going to increase hacking/finance crime as people side load untested versions of WhatsApp/signal onto their phones.

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Yes, I've had one or two sales pitches in my time after admitting to being a software developer.

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I actually got one of these second hand for a holiday to replace an ancient tablet that had a battery life measured in minutes.

It's really good for the money I think.

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I think gandi are still good if you just need dns registration, and want anything remotely technical (in my case glue records) they're still good.

X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes. (thehackernews.com)

“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023....

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Security is what pretty much all companies use when collecting data. It's designed to stop you dead. Many people have been conditioned to see "security" as necessary.

Calls may be recorded for security and training purposes.

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Actually I think journalistic quality has degraded overall. Not just in technical sites.

The BBC here in the UK I generally counted on well written (if not always technically accurate) articles.

Over the last 10 years or so (maybe longer) this has degraded to articles which have clearly not been proof read.

I put it down to the fact that they need to put out so much content now that proper proof reading isn't possible. I also think in general there's a reliance on spell and grammar checking in software.

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I do pay for the BBC.

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This decline started long before 2017, but that's not even what we're discussing. If funding is being cut, all that does is shift some of the blame.

But who was at fault wasn't the topic of discussion. The fact is standards are dropping and it's noticeable.

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No wonder there’s a media crisis that affects all serious medias, the way they traditionally did there job would lead to their death today.

This we can agree on. But the point isn't so much why, I can't do much more than pay what I always did for the BBC. It's more just the annoyance that what used to be a great institution (some will argue) has been run into the ground this way.

It's probably the same with the degradation of most services now. The race to the bottom is the result of the average person always buying the cheapest option.

The full service airlines for short haul are mostly now offering the same services as low cost for example.

It's a strange time we live in, at least from my point of view.

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Here's how I see the TL;DR

"We had a beautiful echo chamber, where everyone agreed with our ridiculous thoughts. Then when they federated, people started making totally reasonable arguments I couldn't defend against. I'm not as good as the rest of you in responding with memes while putting fingers in my ears screaming lalalala. Bring back the echo chamber and lock out these sensible arguments once and for all. "

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Seems to me that while companies are bullshitting calling generic algorithms AI, it's fine for the potentially employed to do the same.

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And don't get me started on "legitimate interest" cookies. Legitimate to whom?

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Pretty much wanted to say similar. Ip address isn't known beyond your local instance (and any retention time and purposes should be stated in their privacy policy).

The rest is standard data any federation app will collect upon seeing content from a user.

It's also worth noting that in general the user URL (which provides this user data) is generally also public. So if you know the user url you can get this too.

Having said that, I do wonder how much they can monetize third party data about people that have not agreed to their privacy policy that grants such uses. It'll be interesting to see.

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Well it's not all of Europe. But given this is now well known, if the rest of Europe continue to buy the LNG from these countries you need to count them as complicit. They need to be blacklisted by the EU and other states that are currently sanctioning Russia.

Belgium and France are particularly a bad show here in my opinion considering they're where EU parliamentary business takes place.

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I'm not using lemmy. But I was thinking of making a process to periodically scan the object storage and check for a reference to a post, comment etc and if none are found delete it. In most cases the images are deleted but sometimes they don't seem to be.

Probably lemmy could have a similar process created.

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I remember 2.2 to 2.4 and to 2.6. Quite a lot of networking changes there and I wonder if lot of the complaints were people annoyed they needed to change firewall configurations and the like.

If I recall right 2.2 had ipfwadm, 2.4 had ipchains and 2.6 introduced iptables we're familiar with now. That was mildly annoying for me and I was a young geeky oik with plenty of time on my hands. It'd probably annoy me a lot more now.

Commando: A Home Port Comparison (i.imgur.com)

Commando (released as Senjō no Ōkami in Japan, Wolf of the Battlefield) is a 1985 Capcom arcade shooter. Word to the wise: Commando isn’t based on the Schwarzenegger movie of the same name - that’s some false knowledge I’ve carried round with me for close to forty years… oh, how I’ve embarrassed myself at dinner...

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I'm going to bet the colours on the spectrum were a result of porting from the c64 version.

I reckon they ported from c64 to cpc. Got the colour as close as they could. Then ported cpc to Spectrum and did the same. The result being the yellow colour.

Generally most 8 bit bigger games were ported like this and the spectrum was always the loser in the game. Graphically the spectrum was always challenged. But there were some games that were done properly and looked good (I'm thinking of the dizzy games as an example).

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I stand corrected. I do know that the c64 almost always got the grade A treatment. I was always jealous of friends with one of those.

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That's odd in a purely programming way of thinking I'd have assumed it'd be easier to port from 6502 to Z80 since Z80 has a lot of instructions that have no direct equivalent and more registers. So porting from 6502 in a lazy way would in theory be easier (while netting a terrible result most likely) than the other way.

I cut my teeth on assembly programming on a Spectrum +3. I always thought the Z80s registers and extra instructions made things so much easier.

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On one hand, yes. But, at the same time I think this is why we're seeing an influx of cheap SSDs onto the market.

Just like the early LED bulbs generally last a long time, but modern ones are created more cheaply and overloaded such that they don't last so long.

I wonder if the latest very cheap SSDs will have anything like the kind of longevity older drives do.

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