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by davidgerard 10mo ago
this is all infosec mall ninja proposals
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
that was in 2020, and so here in 2025 MS has underwater data centres around the world! wait, no it doesn't. why would that be, d'you think
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by davidgerard 11mo ago
it is hard to make a man understand something when his giant cash incinerator that just sets billions of dollars on fire depends on not understanding it
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by davidgerard 1y ago
yes, I'm completely in error, sorry!
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by davidgerard 1y ago
I glanced at the article links at the bottom: * The shady Story behind why we think Veganism is healthy - Paid off scientists, swayed politicians, and hidden studies helped us be afraid of meat *The $200 Billion Industry shrinking our brain
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by davidgerard 1y ago
the one from Bluesky with the public real name? That one's literally a vibecamp neoreactionary, so ...
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by davidgerard 1y ago
This appears to be another deal to do a deal in the future.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
that's a truly amazing example that just happened to spring to the forefront of your mind to throw into the discussion
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Screnshotted fine in Xfce.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
I got a Synology on friends' recommendations in 2018 and have always regretted not getting a secondhand Microserver Gen 8 instead. Next household samba box will probably be something with an N150 and unfeasible amounts of M.2.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
> So let's stop building browser agents? Yes, because the idea is stupid and also the reality turns out to be stupid. No part of this was not 100% predictable.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
I am pretty sure that post was written with a chatbot. It reads like LinkedIn glurge. Do we have any evidence of the claimed sequence of events?
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by davidgerard 1y ago
they consistently try to talk it up like they were uniquely on the ball.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
oh, where was this on? Was it the MP on the press release? I'll see if I can get it off iplayer or something, I wanna hear this
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by davidgerard 1y ago
I worked at the British Medical Journal at the time. We got wind of COVID being a big thing in January. I spent January to March to get our new VPN into a fit state that the whole company could do their whole jobs from home. 23 March was lo
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by davidgerard 1y ago
I have mixed feelings about the openboot font, specifically that most times I saw it my life was actively sucking. Other than that it's very nice for a console font. Why don't we have PC BIOSes with that font, eh?
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Lotta electric buses in the UK have a USB-A charging port at every seat. Carrying a cable with you can pay off!
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Does Linux arm64 run Windows x86 applications in Wine? I mean, I'd be surprised if it did, but I need that. Otherwise an arm64 Linux laptop is super tempting.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
there's also a lot of straight up liars, to be clear
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Every Firefox post has people claiming problems with it that are literally not true.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
You must understand, these startup founders did extremely well on Raven's Progressive Matrices in grade school.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
One effect is a fresh set of eyes. When I started my last job I immediately reorganised a pile of stuff in useful ways just based on my previous job - which made up for not knowing anything about the local lay of the land as yet. It can giv
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Fake title - original does not contain a question mark
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by davidgerard 1y ago
The canonical post length at Pivot to AI is 250 words and the canonical video length is 4 minutes, though I go over way often these days. > are people skepticizing tech... recreationally? As recreations go, it'd be a socially produc
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Ed and I basically agree that this shit is shit. People whine about his tone in direct proportion to how many directly useful worked-out numbers he provides. I also agree strongly with his declaration that he will never forgive them for wha
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by davidgerard 1y ago
those are amazing, thank you
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by davidgerard 1y ago
Literally a news story where they spoke to the engineers. Verdict: stop shilling.
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by davidgerard 1y ago
This ad for Builder directly claims "Natasha" - the secret sauce that Builder hoped to sell to Microsoft - is an "AI": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36ZmJRYGK8 Engineers in the dev office say that&#x2
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by davidgerard 1y ago
So how are you disentangling it from hard dependency on us-east-1? That would be enough reason for non-EU customers to set up there!
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by davidgerard 1y ago
fly.io is of course closed source, right? so we can't look at the code and see the demonstrable engineering excellence trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,

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