dfyx
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- Comment on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective 1 week ago:
Somehow I doubt that a few thousand consumer grade machines used by startups will make much of a difference compared to millions of specialized servers ordered by the big players.
- Comment on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective 1 week ago:
Even if the AI bubble burst today and we canceled all data center plans, it would take a while to pivot production back to something useable for consumers instead of highly specialized servers. Not four years but at least a couple of months.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
Sounds like a bunch of good solution. Have you considered proposing those to the people who can actually implement them?
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
Some of us are activists. It is our duty expose incompetence. It is nobody’s duty to expose anything for the sake of exposing it. It is our duty to expose things for the sake of solving them. If you have a better solution, we’re ready to hear it.
The question is, why would have it covered up? I don’t see anything being covered up. You have linked an official government website that tells you how to perform the test. Looks like you have found it. Doesn’t seem like much of a secret. Where else should they put it?
Of course the reason I was looking into how to test 911 is because I actually fucking need to test it Then do what they tell you to do: contact them beforehand (borrow a phone from a neighbor or send them an email) and ask if they have free capacity for a test call and what you should do if you don’t know which 911 call center your VOIP setup will reach.
you asshole! Reported.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
Well, go ask the non-emergency line if it’s okay. That’s what is recommended. Looks like you have access to the internet. What keeps you from writing an email to your local police station and just ask what you should do? I can’t know where you live. I can only tell that in my 38 years of life, these things have been solved by actually talking to people or trying things. Certainly not by complaining on the internet to people who can’t do anything about it and then not even suggesting a better solution.
Sorry, but you don’t seem like you want a solution. You want something to complain about.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
You’re constructing an argument that’s so specific, you’re basically begging to be the victim.
If you a) have a device that can’t make regular calls b) have no way to contact a non-emergency number through a different device to ask for advice and c) absolutely need to test this right now, then you’re about one in a million. Just make that call, answer the “what’s your emergency?” question with “No emergency right now, I need to test that my device that can’t make regular calls will work in a real emergency. Sorry, I couldn’t reach your non-emergency number.” and it will be fine.
It’s only an illegit 911 call if you call them for fun or if you test so often it can no longer be considered necessary.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
To be sure that your (possibly rather unusual) phone or connection will work. Maybe you have an automated home security system, an emergency call button or your own GSM antenna that gives you access in a very remote area. That’s totally legit and many emergency hotlines have scheduled times when you can do that. They make sure they have additional staff during those times so test calls don’t interrupt regular operations. If you need to do a test outside those scheduled times, it’s polite to call a non-emergency line first to make sure they have the capacity to handle your test call. You wouldn’t want to bother them when they’re already understaffed or some large event causes a high call volume.
In the end, an unannounced test call isn’t a big deal either. Just let them know right away what’s happening and they should be fine with it. Just make sure to stick what you actually need to test. Calling once a week or “testing” a phone that could also make regular calls could be considered disruption of emergency services.
Disclaimer: I’m not professionally affiliated with any emergency service operator, just speaking from personal experience. I’ve had a couple of situations where I wasn’t sure if calling 112 (the European 911) was the right thing, always politely explained the situation and was always told that I had done the right thing. Operators would rather have you call than not call when you’re not sure.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 1 week ago:
Well, I don’t think you need to make that first call from the same phone so it should be fine. How often have you had to test a 911 call with absolutely no other phones available that you can borrow for a moment?
- Comment on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I said he can keep it. No promises about it staying attached.
- Comment on Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. 2 weeks ago:
The smartest thing my monitors ever need to do is to automatically select the active input.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Okay, here‘s a compromise for him: he shuts down his company and refunds everything that was paid with tax money (with interest) and he can keep his head.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 5 weeks ago:
It (usually) does not, at least not for websites. Reading the screen would require a lot of computing power and be prone to mistakes, especially with unusual fonts and noisy backgrounds.
Instead, screen readers read a website‘s HTML source code which also gives the developer the chance to annotate how certain elements should be read. Accessibility on the web has been a huge topic for years and serving obfuscated HTML that only works for seeing users goes against everything we have been fighting for.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, because fuck accessibility, right?
- Comment on Number of hours you need to work to buy GTA VI around the world 2 months ago:
From the fine print it looks like this is based on the US price. Can we get one that is adjusted for regional pricing?
- Comment on A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined: Thanks, Guild Wars 3. 2 months ago:
Summer Games Fest, the successor to E3
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 5 months ago:
I almost punched a guy on the train this week for something similar. He had some music on speaker for a while, then asked „does anyone think this is too loud?“. I told him that actually yes, I think it is to which he replied „well I don’t care“ and turned it even louder.
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 6 months ago:
Until Discord starts classifying anything and everything as adult content, TikTok style. Can’t curse, can’t talk about any form of violence. Good look talking about most video games when you can’t say “gun”, “kill” or “die”.
- Comment on Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027 7 months ago:
I have exactly one reason why I own an Xbox One S: Gamestop went out of business in Germany at the exact moment I made plans to buy a cheap 4k BluRay player for my bedroom TV and they sold me one (used) for 60€.
- Comment on Halo community lead wears PlayStation t-shirt to announce: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward’ [VGC] 10 months ago:
Oh yeah, exactly what the PlayStation needs: more soulless shooter sequels from Microsoft. What ever would we have done without Halo? Played CoD?
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 10 months ago:
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, a collaboration between Ensemble Studios and Lucas Arts to reskin Age of Empires 2 for Star Wars. The base game had campaigns for the OT and Phantom Menace and a bit later there was an Attack of the Clones expansion.
I would really love for them to port this to the AoE2 Definitive Edition engine and add more content.
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC 10 months ago:
They have gone the safest path for over a decade now, making reskins of the same three games over and over to the point where Assassin’s Creed and FarCry which used to be real innovations in their fields are now just boring copies of copies. They haven’t taken a single risk since AC2.
They got negative feedback to including Yasuke - a real historical figure who did exist in the area the game exists - and now they’d rather preemptively cancel their own game than tell a story about freedom and rebellion from an unusual perspective.
Cowards.
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC 10 months ago:
Cowards.
- Comment on Game Pass Price Hike Announced, Will Cost $30/Month For Ultimate 11 months ago:
So in other words, you pay more and unless you’re on the highest tier, they take away the one thing that made Game Pass worth the money: new games available on day one.
I’m not a fan of subscription models overall but getting a ton of new releases for about what two full price titles per year would cost was a great deal. Not anymore.
And there goes another reason to keep a Windows machine around.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded! 1 year ago:
Nirav talks about that in the other video they released today. They’re working on it and in the meantime there is a DIY solution.
- Comment on Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot 1 year ago:
What would you recommend as an alternative for the general non-technical population?
- Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” 1 year ago:
There were a few things that it eventually got but lacked for way too long like support for UNIX line endings.
- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 1 year ago:
For video editing I would highly recommend DaVinci Resolve. So far I’ve only used it on Windows because I haven’t had any need for it since my switch but it’s available for Linux as well.
- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 1 year ago:
So what do I do when I need to get something done on a deadline? VM? Dualboot? Just give up?
Please don’t interpret that as an attack, it’s a serious question. I would love to fully move to linux. I’ve put Arch on my laptop about a month ago as an experiment and overall it works great. But every time I need to be productive, I hit a wall. Especially with photo editing but even for software development (mostly C# and C++), Windows 10 + WSL feels like the better choice.
- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 1 year ago:
Well, are you a developer?
I am. I have written software, both open source and commercial, for almost twenty years now and the most important lesson I have learned in that time is that developers alone don’t write good software. You need to listen to UI/UX experts, testers and user feedback to make something that people actually want to use.
- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 1 year ago:
Just for maybe an hour or so, haven’t had time for more. It seems a bit better but still too different from everything else to assume people can „just“ use it instead of the solution they are familiar with.
Gimp really needs the kind of in-depth UI/UX redesign that blender got with 2.8.