MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 9 hours ago:
Don’t get me started on the second law of thermogoddamics (I’ll never stop :).
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 10 hours ago:
- Comment on Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data 4 days ago:
There’s options, simplest is Adguard DNS at the VPS. Likely better is Gluetun container + PiHole on your local network or VPS and wireguard your phone in to that (find another app), or you can just hook your phone up to free tier ProtonVPN.
- Comment on Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data 4 days ago:
Who knows, and this is why you muddy the waters as best you can with personal data and use a privacy respecting VPN, the whole Vader ‘pray I don’t alter the deal further’ thing is getting real old. Also, opt out is predatory BS (and likely quietly disregarded anyway on the basis we won’t get caught, and if we do the fines are trivial).
- Comment on Coalition in crisis as entire Nationals frontbench quits after division over Labor’s hate speech laws 1 week ago:
The way One Nation has been polling lately, they might, unfortunately.
- Comment on Labor’s hate speech laws set to pass as Ley and Albanese cut deal on bill crafted in wake of Bondi terror attack 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s a bad sign.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Weirdly, within the last thirty years, we’ve realised that the truth is not so clear cut. Epigenetic changes do occur as a result of the environment and are hereditary. While genes are still the main drivers of evolution, these epigenetic changes affect gene expression.
Nature doesn’t leave anything on the table if it is remotely possible (billions of years will do that) and learned experience transmitted to offspring is way too juicy. I would be wholly unsurprised at the existence of a mechanism for writing this to DNA, perhaps enhancing the chance of copy number increase or similar.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 5 weeks ago:
Think so ? I put these games down for a while and come back later, explore the new content, muck around for a while, and put them down again… Love 'em both, but not all the time.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 5 weeks ago:
Yup, very much make your own activities games, but both continue to grow. NMS especially just keeps bashing out free updates (Best Ongoing Game again at this year’s The Game Awards) and has monthly or so expeditions for the new things if you need more direction. Corvettes went over well.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, IIRC they have a free weekend. A couple of years back I gave it a spin, realized what I wasn’t missing, and went back to Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky. You know, working space games…
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale 1 month ago:
Nah, Spock’s too young, vulcans age slow.
- Comment on He'll peck your eyes out, for goodness sake 1 month ago:
It’s much more metal that that, it’ll kick you to death (yes, it happens).
- Comment on Fun science fact 1 month ago:
Sigh :)
- Comment on Fun science fact 1 month ago:
You already have Diehard and Gremlins, be satisfied ;)
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 2 months ago:
FFS, just adopt, it’s way to needed anyway.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 2 months ago:
Valid point.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 2 months ago:
Ima go with Voyager, because it was real science, versus (admittedly cool) mostly dick waving and missile development.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 7 months ago:
Surprised no-one pitched Elite:Dangerous. Certainly a labour of love to begin with, incredibly talented sound design, first space sim to VR, truly devoted to the original material… Still going pretty strong (had a few weak years) with updates (only 2 DLC-ish major updates of which were paid) a decade later…
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 7 months ago:
Privately owned (no shareholders), small team that seems to love what they’re doing, they can likely go on forever. Strange how a lack of shareholders correlates with good games (/platforms, Valve!) isn’t it ?
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 8 months ago:
Yarr !, my experience has been stellar ;) (Gaben: It’s a service problem…)
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 8 months ago:
Yeah, that’s some bullshit, but the trend away from the duopoly has been ongoing for what, this century ?. That’s just patching a leaky bucket with sand. They scared.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 11 months ago:
Not to my mind, science requires a testable hypothesis and evidence. I would argue that merely refuting someone else’s hypothesis without providing a new one doesn’t meet the bar of doing science.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 11 months ago:
Sorry, I don’t understand.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 11 months ago:
Counterexamples also refute, without necessarily being science.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 1 year ago:
If you believe in the final episode, they failed, hard. Otherwise, I’ve grown to like it, found the beard from the latter half of season 3. Shame the post 9/11 dark shift killed it before it could get its seven. Feel much the same about Lower Decks, too soon.
- Comment on Our first new Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay module - the Dual M.2 Adapter, enabling you to add additional storage drives or other high speed devices. 1 year ago:
Last I heard, there was a community effort designing an 8xPCIe4 (yes, that’s a thing) Occulink adaptor, love to hear if anyone’s got any info on it.
That said, M2 <-> Occulink adaptors abound, so, with some pretty trivial hacking this could support 2xeGPUs!
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 year ago:
Or, in the Homerian fashion, It’s Funny Coz It’s True. Agreed.
- Comment on Boo 1 year ago:
Well, anything over a non-continuous x for example off the top of my head (and, yes for well-defined forms you can do the integral), still I have no idea what the cartoonist is on about and haven’t heard ‘anti-derivative’ for a donkey’s age, guess it’s poorly defined grade school stuff.
- Comment on Honey 1 year ago:
isn’t most of modern vegetable agriculture at least equally harmful
I’m a going with far more harmful.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] HW News - Ubisoft is Ubi-Sued, Razer's Brainwashing Con, RTX 5070, 'New' Noctua Fan 1 year ago:
Nice to see tech jesus here (getting this right?), normally in my rss feed…
Keen.