[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago

Product placement is advertising, and as such saying "no ads" while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 5 months ago

I mean immediately sure but in reality he was just an early al-qaeda prototype trying to spread his religion by blowing people up

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 8 months ago

Not even that, it's more than likely some PM said "we want to open the camera and be ready to record when someone goes on the story tab", then it gets implemented as needing permissions first and not considering that some people wouldn't want to give the permissions and only upload from camera roll

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 10 months ago

He did a fairly good job as the head of criminal prosecutions in the UK for around 5 years, and he was knighted to recognise that when he stepped down

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 10 months ago

Docker fan mindset

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

This is less interesting than standard deviation, percentage living to 50/60/70/80, or life expectancy for men/women and at 1/5/18 years old though, as the issue here is it's hard to tell what is from things like dying in childbirth for both the child & mother and dying as a young child, vs being able to live longer, as we know people have lived well into their 80s and 90s since records began (ie Ancient Greece/Egypt/Sumeria) but this data implies that everyone used to die at 30, when in reality there were likely 2 peaks at 0-5 and 60-80

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago

No, but people need to send and receive next day 6 times a week

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

I mean if you can get it from actually good sources (solar, geothermal) where that type of energy is in excess then use ships powered by it to transfer it around the world is that a huge problem?

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 years ago

*Rail travel

Air is generally cheaper than rail for the cheapest ticket, but more polluting and for journeys under around 300 miles slower, if you're flying from city centre airports like Billy Bishop or London City, or 500 miles if you're flying from larger out of city airports. Additionally it's even safer than flying and you can take way more luggage and bikes.

People don't tend to have a fear of train travel though, it's just that NIMBYs, those who would rather pour money into a pit than make investments and corrupt politicians (those last two often being the same people) who tend to dislike it.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Helico means spinning and pter means pter

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 years ago

They told Meta that they had to pay to so much as host links to news sites on their platforms.

ie they had to pay to literally direct users to news sites, where news sites would make money off advertising to them, allowing the news sites to double dip. If anyone's got good PR, it's the news sites (would you believe it, the news sites have good connections with the press?)

There were ways to stop Meta from scraping news sites, but they decided to effectively stop them from even sharing news. They could've stopped the bill at purely "reproducing" news, but no, they got greedy and decided to make them pay for the privilege to give news sites free advertising. Why on earth would Meta agree to that, and why is it surprising that they just turned around and said no?

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago

Thing is when your system is dying and nothing is responding, you can almost always trust task manager to respond because of its privileges, simplicity and the fact it's built into the OS rather than using APIs, even if explorer.exe crashes.

Given there's no "ctrl-alt-f2: Imma go fix this mess" on Windows, having at least something you can rely on to not die is super valuable even if it is bad.

I'm not saying this tool isn't better for system monitoring (but I would like to see something like KSysGuard), just that Microsoft absolutely shouldn't touch task manager to fix whatever's wrong with it's resource usage monitoring functionality to avoid breaking something else in it

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