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etchedpixels

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Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trains

ESO: EtchedPixels & PenguinOfEvil (Wombles, Greymanes, Chill Mode)

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CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Seventy-one percent of Americans say #EnergyPolicy is at least one important factor in thinking about their vote for the next president in November [including 78% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans], and 64% say the same about #ClimateChange, [including 84% of Democrats and 43% of Republicans]."

https://apnorc.org/projects/americans-attitudes-toward-electric-vehicles-climate-and-energy-policy-ahead-of-the-2024-presidential-election/

etchedpixels,
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@CelloMomOnCars BYD were scoping a factory in Mexico so I think we will find out in a few years, although the US market is going to demand a longer range I think. Ditto the EU via Hungary.

sjvn, to random
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5 ways to save your Windows 10 PC in 2025 - and most are free https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-ways-to-save-your-windows-10-pc-in-2025-and-most-are-free/ by @sjvn

Don't want to trash your #Windows10 machine? Who says you have to? There are ways to keep it working. Some of them will even let you keep running Windows 10.

etchedpixels,
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@sjvn Or they could wipe them all and put them on ebay so the rest of us can all have piles of nice extra cheap laptops.

whitequark, to random
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extremely specific spam

etchedpixels,
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@whitequark No thanks I've got a biro for all my tape winding needs

gamingonlinux, to steam
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No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/no-leaving-a-steam-account-in-a-will-after-you-die-according-to-valve/

#Steam #PCGaming

etchedpixels,
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@gamingonlinux One day someone is going to take them to court in Europe citing UsedSoftware v Oracle. That will get interesting.

Same mess holds with stuff like Amazon although Amazon clearly look the other way when accounts get handed down.

jwz, to random
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Today in Assassination Coordinates.

Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet:

Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it's just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much...
https://jwz.org/b/ykSW

etchedpixels,
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@jwz All theatre. You plug two weeks of "where was Taylor Swift" into the flight tracking and the one code that is present at each location on the right day is your plane until they buy a new plane.
It's no different to cops trawling mobile phone data to find someone by phone or phone by person.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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In the battle for the youth vote we now seem to have some clear blue water between the parties;

Labour is (at least at the moment) offering to lower the voting age to 16 - perhaps hoping that 18 year olds will see this as a positive move for their younger siblings?

Meanwhile the Tories are offering mandatory 'national service' at 18 to build character & experience....

Hmmm... while actually, I'm not sure the Tories idea is nuts, I can't see many 18 year olds going for it.

#election

etchedpixels,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ChrisMayLA6 @richardknott I would disagree entirely.
At 18 we have university (except nobody can afford it), apprenticeships (except there are not enough), vocational training and other options. If you make everyone do some "national" service then everyone will start their career a year late, and it'll be meaningless because everyone will have done it. Just like University is now a joke because so many people went you need a 2-2 to stack shelves in Tesco

etchedpixels,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @richardknott That makes some sense although re-creating all the social clubs Thatcher and co destroyed would do that without compulsion.

Not that the teens/20 somethings I know seem to society as factions, far from it. They are very tied into it by the internet because they talk regularly with people who are better off or struggling, and know people around the world on all sides of wars and disputes.

etchedpixels,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @richardknott If you want people of different social groups to mix the previous answer was to actually fund things university grants and further education. Blair did many dumb things but actually giving disadvantaged kids a leg up into college with things like EMA did more for mixing social groups than forcing everyone to attend something for the crime of being 18 ever will IMHO..

etchedpixels, to random
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Microsoft co-pilot is down. Now they are stuck because they've got nothing to ask how to bring it back up again 8)

jwildeboer, to random
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As if didn't cause enough chaos and flash elections, billionaire and hobby politician Rishi Sunak announces yet another election to confuse the UK electorate. On the 4th of July. Le fucking sigh. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/rishi-sunak-will-call-general-election-for-july-in-surprise-move-sources

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer Not sure we are that confused. The 4th is just a quirk of the announcement time scale and the fact Thursday is the conventional day of week. It had to happen by November anyway and his party is the party of old people, who stay at home when it's cold and don't vote then.

etchedpixels, to UKpolitics
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Every election I hear the words "dissolving parliament" and have visions of bond villains with cats and sizzling noises.

sjvn, to random
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Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places https://zdnet.com/article/where-are-floppy-disks-today-planes-trains-and-all-these-other-places/ by @sjvn

Floppy disks live!

etchedpixels,
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@sjvn Not just technical debt, it's often certification issues. It's $50 to replace the floppy interface with a Gotek, and half a million dollars of paperwork to recertify the change to a safety critical system, or you could just keep using floppies as you have an existing proven safety case.

Rail is particularly fun for this with all sorts of ancient stuff hanging around because it's either got a safety case or was grandfathered in on the basis it never broke and can no longer be touched

etchedpixels, to retrocomputing
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The elegance of the DG Nova instruction set really becomes apparent when you write emulation code for it. The entire core CPU emulation (no devices) is 250 lines of C, including comments and not even written to be small.

Nova 3 and 4 will probably add another 50-100 lines at most

etchedpixels,
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@loke If you are nesting interrupts you store the contents of 0 somewhere else then either put it back when ready or jump through the saved version.
The other detail is that INTEN takes effect one instruction after not immediately - ie it's the same trick the Z80 later did so you can EI RETI, but in the Nova case you can INTEN JMP @0

etchedpixels, to gentoo
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Nice to see and catching up with which has had a

"Microsoft co-pilot laundered code is not accepted in this project"

for a long time. Possibly I need to generalize the rule these days.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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With , even just domestic solar panels and privately installed batteries we can get domestic electricity mostly for free in a few years in many developed regions of the world. The electricity companies will do everything to make that impossible. But their claims of a grid that can't cope only shows their centralised approach that favours big consumers is failing ;)

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer Our largest electricity company is now a very renewable oriented business. Since not everyone can have an off shore wind farm in the garden, or hydro or whatever deep drilled thermal comes out they will be fine even with major home battery advances.

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer Much the same. Grid is operated by one body, multiple energy suppliers and sellers. Self generation isn't going to beat grid tie for a long time IMHO

The far sooner version of the problem is the gas grid. As everything moves off gas the gas grid cost gets divided by fewer people so the prices soar so people leave so.. kaboom...

Same for the petrol supply game (and some nasty knock ons to oil refining which is set up to produce the wrong mix of outputs for the future).

etchedpixels, to dadjokes
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If you eat nothing but the numbers and A-F out of a bowl of alphabet for a day and then go to the loo is the result a hex dump ?

#dadjokes

timonsku, (edited ) to random
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Yo, if you live in Berlin and have a sunny balcony/garden/window. You can get a plug-in solar setup for basically free.
This city subsidy program gives you up to 500€ for a setup and most only cost you around 300-400€.
Its basically free electricity for your apartment/home.

https://www.ibb-business-team.de/steckersolargeraete/

https://www.berlin.de/solarcity/solarcity-berlin/im-fokus/foerderprogramm-solarplus/

E: Actually a lot more citites and even some states offer similar programs: https://www.vattenfall.de/infowelt-energie/solar/balkonkraftwerk-foerderung

etchedpixels,
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@timonsku Would be nice to see more of that in the UK and less "Oh but we've made it a conservation zone so no solar because it'll ruin the look".

Still pays for itself in 4-5 years here with the feed in tariffs - bit longer with battery. Unfortunately there are bizarre historic rules about feed in payments and second hand panels not being eligible that are only now starting to get resolved or it would be 3-4 if you used 2nd hand panels.

etchedpixels, to random
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There really ought to be an open season on private jets each year. It would be a wonderful CO2 reducing way to bring environmentalists and hard-man hunting types together as they stalked small jet planes with manpads.

gamingonlinux, to linux
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What do you think is the best thing to happen to in the last few years?

etchedpixels,
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@gamingonlinux I can't decide between Steamdeck/Proton and Windows 11.

NanoRaptor, to random
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A "They Live" AR filter for Apple Vision Pro.

etchedpixels,
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@jwz @NanoRaptor Even better would be replacing their heads with animated talking corporate logos of their major donors

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

etchedpixels,
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@emmatonkin @rrwo @ocdtrekkie @mcc It will no doubt take years to beat the EU into acting but
https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

is starting the process already

pid_eins, to random
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Even though Fedora probably is kinda popular among developers, it sometimes baffles me what is and what isn't packaged in Fedora.

I mean come on, how is it possible that there's no meson mode packaged for emacs on Fedora?

I mean, it's pretty obvious: if Fedora wants to be taken seriously as a developer platform, I think it's pretty obvious that this is a glaring omission, like no other! 🤓

etchedpixels,
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@pid_eins Even weirder is that for years they've been busily packaging a broken weird gcc 68K fork not the real thing - not that packaging any 68K gcc is probably a high demand feature.

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
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Sigh. Google flagged https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/classic-rts-perimeter-returns-as-perimeter-legate-edition-with-linux-support/page=1/ as containing "Malicious or unwanted software" with no way on the adsense control panel to speak to them, to get them to recheck it.

It's a news article about a game, that links to the GPL source code (GitHub) and a Steam page.

What about that is "Malicious or unwanted software" exactly?

etchedpixels,
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@gamingonlinux Everyone I know at Google left. Says it all. It might have better PR than twitter but the rest .. shrug

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