Maybe power is more reliable in central Texas, my family still has no electricity from the derecho that hit Houston. And they lose power frequently from all the heavy storms or hurricanes that pummel the gulf coast.
Love your enthusiasm. Your comment feels like it was just written with the most positive attitude straight from the heart. I wish to carry that energy with me through the rest of my day :)
I am such a better cook than I would’ve been otherwise, due to necessity. But I also enjoy it, because usually what I will make is going to be far tastier (and healthier) than other options.
Just the other day I got downvoted for posting that it’s stupid that 8GB of RAM in laptops is not enough. Software like Synapse, trying to lift the load that it does in Python, is exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about.
the college WiFi environment some of my friends are in where a timer is set after bedtime which would wait until all sockets are closed which doesn’t include XMPP so messaging with my friends after bedtime is still possible.
The college tries to just shut off the WiFi at night??
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
I foremost hope that the United States can regain a shred of its diginity and stop treating every foreigner like a criminal, stop funding a genocide, stop killing its own population with guns, have a decent social services program, etc. This is obviously a fantasy, so I secondarily hope these researchers can go back to China and do good work, where they won’t be treated as second-tier human beings.
What kind of stupid world is it where 8GB of RAM is actually not enough? I’m not doing anything that fundamentally different to what I was doing 10 years ago, and back then 2GB was fine on the low end of things.
Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....
Ok so, “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”
But secretly selling services to a genocidal ethnostate does belong in the Google workplace and will be tolerated? Palestinians just don’t matter if you can you make a dollar off of their death and destruction??
Lying for sales. Which we normally would just call fraud. Worse yet, they were misrepresenting themselves as people who were genuinely needy and cashing in on that. Wish we’d see more of this kind of sentencing in the USA.
My first car had a curb weight of 2400 lbs. It’s absurd how fucking huge these planet-destroying, environment destroying, life destroying monstrosities have become.
tochd is an iso/cue+bin and other cd like formats to chd converter. It’s actually an automation script that uses chdman and 7z under the hood. The Python script/program only works under Linux and is for commandline usage....
Your tochd script was a big time saver for me in the past. Thanks for making and sharing it!
To anyone swinging by and wondering what the deal is, use tochd to convert your ISOs to CHDs. It can easily batch the work for you. It will be smarter, better, and definitely more convenient than a quick bash script you hack together.
This seems to be how these things inevitably must go. Pay money to legitimately use a product or view a piece media. 🔜 Oh no, my money is now going toward funding something bad.
Jet rains here, Nintendo with their lawsuits, the entire MPA (formerly known as MPAA).
It was bewildering to me in the moment that when TOTK was leaked that they didn’t restrict themselves from working on the emu to handle TOTK. It was some nod and wink “breath of the wild” improvements coming in all of a sudden.
Like… for real? If I were the project lead I would’ve banned discussion and development about it until after launch. And part of the legal filing from Nintendo is that Yuzu’s own telemetry shows that Yuzu devs must be aware of piracy because they can see games being played on the emulator pre-launch. Make of that what you will.
I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me when it comes to legal cases you want as many facts stacked in your favor as possible, and as few facts stacked against your favor as is possible. Because at the end of the day some jury or judge will decide one way or another, based on facts and prejudices.
Due to this it also means that ripping 4K and Blu-ray discs also are breaking a DRM which means you are legally not allowed to make a digital copy of movies that you own. Which directly contradicts the intent of these laws.
Yes, this has been a long-standing point of stupidity in my mind. It’s clearly inconsistent.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...
When people perform stunts (stuntmen running around engulfed in flames for movies) the most critical part, aside from extinguishing the flames as soon as is necessary, is making sure those people have oxygen. The fire will consume the oxygen that you would otherwise breathe in.
Biden administration signals it will support push to hit ICC with sanctions (www.ft.com)
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Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
This week in KDE: all about those apps (pointieststick.com)
What good/positive habits have you taken away from your time in Covid lockdown and kept up since then?
For example, I have kept the habit of washing my hands with soap, first thing when I come home.
What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like? [video] (tilvids.com)
Hey good news guys!
I found the last bug in my program!
why do you use xmpp instead of matrix?
I see the matrix is more popular than xmpp, but why?
The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations (www.theguardian.com)
As tensions with China rise, scientists at America’s leading universities complain of stalled research after crackdown at airports...
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jesus, again already?
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In China's Sichuan, Influencers Jailed for Exploiting Rural Hardship (www.sixthtone.com)
Introducing GNOME 46, “Kathmandu” (release.gnome.org)
SVT-AV1 v2.0.0 released · GitLab (gitlab.com)
[2.0.0] - 2024-03-13...
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
tochd converter v0.12 (github.com)
tochd is an iso/cue+bin and other cd like formats to chd converter. It’s actually an automation script that uses chdman and 7z under the hood. The Python script/program only works under Linux and is for commandline usage....
Yuzu Emulator is gone from Github
github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu...
Jetbrains attempting to shutdown IPFS gateway manager, EFF defends (www.eff.org)
Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)
AI Determines Sex of Person From Brain Scans - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
This article describes a new study using AI to identify sex differences in the brain with over 90% accuracy....
US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...