noir_lord

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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Which is what the European Socialists have been calling "Late Capitalism" since I think the 60's about the period from the 30's onwards. The problem is it's not easy to have an actual debate on this since to some fo
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
`We suggest everyone wear flame proof plants - right back to inventing ever hotter flamethrowers we go.` Call me cynical. Realistically none of that would happen on a years long time scale (since security professionals have been trying exac
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
The definition of a boat is “a hole in the water into which you throw money”. Never owned one, a friend did and it seemed that way, I suspect like many things it’s much cheaper if you can do the work yourself.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> In my state there are no helmet laws. I still find that one wild. When I commuted I wore full high viz motorcycle specific textiles (jacket/trousers), proper boots and a helmet with the highest safety rating (on the SHARP system),
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> motorcycles etc make more Often by design (either the manufacturer or the rider swapping to a louder exhaust) there isn't any reason they can't be quieter and many of them are off the forecourt. The common argument you run in
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Indeed, I've no interest in native apps to do something that can be done in a web app and if you don't let me do it in a web app I'll bounce and either find someone who can or do without unless there is a seriously compelli
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> The end-user recording aspect makes this an absolute non-starter for me. Nor would I use any product implementing your tool. Me as well, seems like we are losing that battle but I take the view I only lose when I stop fighting it.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
It's the Gish gallop applied to a legal/legislative system - it just can't keep up with the sheer volume of cases that would need to be brought to curtail even the worst of it and that's assuming that if/when it eve
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> He could literally have done nothing and it would have been better. Struggling to find a policy where that doesn't apply. If he'd gotten elected and then gone and lived on the golf course for four years it's hard to argu
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
You seem to be missing the part where this is all people voluntarily doing things that they deem are important to themselves or just plain fun to do. No one commands open source developers to do the things they do, they do them because they
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
It is their time to “waste” though.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I wonder if it's a bug/issue with specific browsers. It's near instant on desktop (Windows/FF/7950X3D) and I wouldn't expect the delta to be that large against a modern mobile device.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> I don’t dispute capitalism and democracy. I do the capitalism part, or more specifically what form of capitalism because there is a vast range between "society should work for capitalism" and "capitalism should work fo
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I had a manager in a previous job tell me it was my fault for not warning them that it would go wrong (which I had, in writing, I had the emails (plural) and meeting notes and recordings of the meetings) and then it shifted to "well
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I was a little "what a weird nitpick" then I opened it on FF and yeah... that's awful . Normally I'd just switch into FF reader view when it's that badly done but that doesn't work either.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
It's been weird to see the face of a bunch of youtubers I've followed for years without any idea what they look like (mostly history/military history/engineering type stuff), it used to be video/photo's/di
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> Who is accountable for all the slop they’re shipping if nobody even knows what it does anymore? Whoever management in the future decides is accountable and weirdly... it's seldom them .
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Way ahead of you, reddit links are on my "nah, mostly can't be bothered" list since they made that change. Maintained for years that as soon as they disable old.reddit.com (or make it effectively disabled) I'd abandon th
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> You could justify the jabs when we could all blame any outage on the migration to Azure, but then they shared numbers around the scale they're dealing with now that everyone is constantly building and pushing with AI. How about n
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> Heh. We are now at the point where people might end up deliberately inserting typos and bad grandma into their writing, just to signal they aren’t AI. Except what humans write will continue to be fodder for the LLM's so they'
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Gaming footage/videos, some games are so fast they are noticeably better to play at (and watch at) 60fps over 30fps.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I entirely agree but I'm entirely biased, in a world without Sir Terry Pratchett he'd easily be my favourite writer. It's one of the reason that Musk referencing The Culture makes me want to smash my head on a desk (or someon
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
The Culture is what I'd want to happen, the Polity (from Neal Asher) is closer to what I'd expect to happen. Both are good series if you haven't read one or the other (or either) though I'd say Banks was the better write
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Appeal to the "Golden Age" is just built into the way they do propaganda, it's particularly popular if that Golden Age is long enough ago that everyone around during it is dead and can't ask awkward questions like "
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
It's been showing up all over YT for a while if you do any searches for Linux. I took a look at it when I kept seeing it, realised what it is and who it's by and carried on moving, putting aside DHH as a person, it doesn't re
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
It's impossible to know what his politics was back then in fairness. People's politics do often (but not always) change as they age.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Beyond human hearing for a whistle but within the frequency a dog can hear a whistle, i.e. a slightly tongue in cheek way to call it a dog whistle.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
It's disappointing more than anything, I never agreed with him on everything but he was at least somewhat interesting/relevant to listen to at the peak of the RoR days and mostly harmless.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Your left side of the curve is missing people like me who use Fedora. Been using Linux since 1997, it's been my primary OS since ~2003 (except for gaming and Microsoft seem determine to end their streak on that one) and I use Fedora be
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I thought he was referring to his "London that I used to know" posts, wasn't aware he'd been at it again.

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