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snerbles
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Different meme, about adtech-driven dystopia. See original greentext [0]

[0] https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png
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·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
The latter is definitely more colorful, and reflects a parrot's tendency to glom on to patterns. "Not X, but Y" being one of the more infamous ones.

Once in frustration I called a certain frontier model "Sam Altman's Tin Bird" to another agent with memory, and ever since then that other agent refers to ChatGPT as "the tin bird". Definitely a RAG artifact more than an attractor in that case, but I found it amusing.
snerbles
·قبل 6 أيام·discuss
Tried it for while, works with GrapheneOS and Android Auto well enough.

What I absolutely can’t stand is the routing. It once tried to send me through residential Oakland on some Manhattan-grade staircase labyrinth instead of just taking normal streets.
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·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
EVE to me is an odd duck because it's an explicitly cutthroat universe - many people log on expecting monsters. There are a lot of supportive players out there among the trolls; where the knives of betrayal really come out is in the politics of player-controlled space.

What's weird is that I love EVE for that sort of nullsec drama and sociopathic players eating each other in crazed gambits, but a couple of matches in Overwatch competitive a decade ago put me off the idea of matchmaking lobbies altogether.
snerbles
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
No worries, in some languages it is indeed one word - like Luftwaffe.

I've seen many native English speakers routinely bang out "airforce", so it's not just an ESL thing.
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·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
A lot of floppy-based games have on-disk copy protection patterns that take advantage of undocumented behavior of disk drives at the time. So much so that tools like Greaseweazle [0] are necessary to compose full magnetic flux maps of archived floppies.

Another thing is that these games are often made to run on a wide variety of graphics and sound hardware, and effectively have drivers compiled into them.

[0] https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
snerbles
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
USAF veteran here. I grew up on F-15 Strike Eagle II, and unfortunately my copy has long since degraded. I am elated to see this project.

I do have one teeny, tiny, personal pedantic grumble that is sure to bring other the branches out of the woodwork to point out how much I love chairs.

Air Force. Two words. Thanks.
snerbles
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
As long as the vehicle traveling above Mach 1 remains a ground vehicle, the FAA won't get involved.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I'm reminded of prepper forum discussions. Where some do little more than hoard supplies, weapons and gadgets yet don't network and build communities. In an actual societal breakdown scenario these isolated individuals will become loot drops for others who actually band together.
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Exactly. So many comments here about technical solutions are missing the underlying government/authority problem, or are actively a part of it.
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Online anonymity makes it harder for TPTB to punish dissidents.
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
It's by no means accurate, but the comparative histories of Ladybird vs. Servo sure has some parallels with Linux vs. GNU Hurd.
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Mozilla laid off the Servo team years ago.
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I upgraded a ~1992 Dell 486 DX2 to 36MB (original 4MB + 32MB...or was it a pair of 16MB sticks? hard to remember) around 1997 or so.
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Just slap a new legally-distinct-but-still-confusing name on your client/server pair, and use it as a marketing tool to sucker in purchasing managers.

Like EtherNet/IP, where the IP somehow stands for "Industrial Protocol".
snerbles
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
The company itself might not discriminate as a policy, but some hiring managers certainly have their preferences. Or exclusively pull talent from their overseas cousin's brother's spouse's college roommate's consulting firm that is most certainly not a grift.
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·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
The pelt is what's harvested - the fur is not removed from the skin.

In some cases the animal's hair can be cut without harm, like how sheep are shorn for wool.
snerbles
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Finger-wag all you want, it's not going to make that Sisyphean boulder any lighter.
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·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Forgot about Dell gimping Turbo Boost on that firmware.

Another route is the PowerEdge T440 (tower server), which does respect Broadwell-EP turbo logic without a reflash. Not quite as quiet as a workstation, though.