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It could be happening on my kitchen counter right this very second. But my kitchen counter, despite a recent cleaning, is absolutely lousy with microorganisms. So the new proto-lif…

> Can google be trusted ? Or facebook ? No. Neither can be trusted as far as you can throw them. They're both incredibly invasive data brokers. Their customer facing products are j…

My rooftop solar disagrees. It generates my whole house load in the winter, spring and summer I run a pretty healthy surplus. Thats with all my appliances being electric and superf…

Just because the machinery in the building grinds puppies into pulp doesn't mean the building itself is bad. I don't get what the big problem is!

> Teenagers who send each other nude photos are creating child exploitation material but you hardly want to put them jail for that. Well rational thinking people wouldn't. A great …

Yeah as someone else that worked on Snow Leopard I found this article and ones like it a bit silly. They're a lot like the old "debug code" posts on Mac forums back in the day tryi…

But have you considered the absolute existential horror of a user clicking a link and a whole new page loads (modulo cached elements) rather than an entirely client side routing? S…

Any sort of online service you're logged into is going to have your IP and account correlated with a timestamp. Dropbox, GDrive, and even your e-mail provider. While a device ident…

Drink your verification can.

My 2011 Mac mini nods sagely. It runs even better today than when it was new because I put an SSD in it a few years ago.

I own a Sony Magic Link and you are 100% correct. The UI is the worst sort of point-n-click adventure game memes. Not only do you have to guess what visual elements actually do som…

Token generation is nominally bandwidth limited. Prefill/prompt processing is nominally compute limited. For CPU inference on old hardware I don't think q4 offers any benefit over …

Reads off your SSD don't age it prematurely.

Both North Korea and Israel are notable (compared to space) for their dense oxygen rich atmospheres, accessible large reservoirs of water, access to solvents/lubricants, and a gene…

It is and it doesn't. You only get into disk writes if the system starts paging out to disk.

I have a retail copy of Photoshop 7 I bought decades ago with hard earned money. A full copy of Photoshop then was hundreds of dollars. I still use it to this day. I learned Photos…

I don't know what you mean, I mean I made a million dollars with only a small hundred million dollar loan from my dad! This sort of entrepreneurship is available to anyone in Ameri…

It is astonishing to me just how bad end user software has gotten over the past twenty years. It's just goofballs. It's not like that point was when software started requiring more…

Except no one will be able to afford those laptops. The hyperscalers will buy up literally all the RAM and high power GPUs. So you'll be stuck with 8GB of unified memory on anythin…

The current administration has repeatedly demonstrated they do not feel constrained by laws or the Constitution.

Which requires them to explicitly ask your age outside the bounds of qualification for a job (over 18 etc). Which ends up opening them to age discrimination lawsuits.

You'd be right if ISPs didn't do mass DPI and modification of pages to inject their own ads and trackers. They also routinely hijack and intercept DNS responses. They absolutely ca…

> People are bad with computers because "Designers" have been objectively value negative for decades. Instead of paying attention to the reams of scientific data that tells you exa…

Big whoopsies on that one.

Shh, don't remind them.