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  1. Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2025 on the internet in ~talk

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    I don't have them often, but is the covering not just regular sugar? The flavouring is part of the jellies themselves I thougt

    I don't have them often, but is the covering not just regular sugar? The flavouring is part of the jellies themselves I thougt

  2. Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account in ~tech

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    Isn't the green screen just for their insider/beta program? Like, not a thing that's in the program to roll out after testing, but as a means to specifically identify beta crashes

    Isn't the green screen just for their insider/beta program? Like, not a thing that's in the program to roll out after testing, but as a means to specifically identify beta crashes

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Amid calls for sovereign EU tech stack, Swedish startup Evroc raises $55M in Series A funding to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe in ~tech

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    I suspect it's a few things: the big clouds already have a lot of data centres in Ireland, which means a lot of competition. E.g. eu-west-1 is in Ireland which is quite popular from people trying...

    I suspect it's a few things:

    • the big clouds already have a lot of data centres in Ireland, which means a lot of competition. E.g. eu-west-1 is in Ireland which is quite popular from people trying to target western Europe but also having decent links to the US
    • the Irish power grid has been having scaling trouble which has caused delays to data center projects in recent years, as well as in some cases protests as there are some people who believe data center usage has a larger impact on local energy prices than it probably actually has.
    • if your pitch is specially European data centers for European clients serving European customers, more central locations are geographically preferable for latency reasons.
    4 votes

  4. Comment on Important 2025 Plex updates in ~tv

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    (in fact, emby trying just that is the jellyfin origin story)

    (in fact, emby trying just that is the jellyfin origin story)

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Question about routers and access points in ~comp

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    You'll want to put the Netgear router into AP mode (see page 113 of the manual: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/XR300/XR300_UM_EN.pdf ). Then the device you put in front will handle...

    You'll want to put the Netgear router into AP mode (see page 113 of the manual: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/XR300/XR300_UM_EN.pdf ). Then the device you put in front will handle most of the advanced functionality and the Netgear will just provide WiFi.

    Alternatively, you can operate the Netgear normally behind the other router but that will lead to a lot of problems with double NAT (especially if you play games with P2P networking, which is a lot of gameshttps://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/XR300/XR300_UM_EN.pdf), and it won't help if the problem is your netgears performance in the first place.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Disney scales back ‘Snow White’ Hollywood premiere amid Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot controversies in ~movies

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    There are definitely other dwarfs that disagree with dinklage: https://movieweb.com/dwarf-actors-peter-dinklage-refute-comments/ I'm not sure how widespread each view is, since we only ever really...

    There are definitely other dwarfs that disagree with dinklage: https://movieweb.com/dwarf-actors-peter-dinklage-refute-comments/

    I'm not sure how widespread each view is, since we only ever really hear from the like 10 celebrities with dwarfism, so there's a lot of room for sampling bias either way. (And of course it you're an actor that makes your living playing dwarfs on movies or tv, that might make you more favourable to those roles continuing to exist)

    7 votes

  7. Comment on What works do you think should be added to the literary canon? in ~books

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    Night Watch is probably my favourite Discworld novel, but despite being seemingly standalone in its plot, I'm not sure it really would hit as hard without having read some of the prior...

    Night Watch is probably my favourite Discworld novel, but despite being seemingly standalone in its plot, I'm not sure it really would hit as hard without having read some of the prior ankh-morpork books to understand the progress that's at stake

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Digg is relaunching under Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian in ~tech

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    "Popcorn tastes good" - Alexis Ohanian, 2015, responding to complaints about firing of an employee Spez being the sole leader since kn0thing's withdrawal has done wonders for Ohanian's image, but...

    "Popcorn tastes good" - Alexis Ohanian, 2015, responding to complaints about firing of an employee

    Spez being the sole leader since kn0thing's withdrawal has done wonders for Ohanian's image, but he had his share of community upsets too.

    8 votes

  9. Comment on Why is ~society not listed among all the other groups in the sidebar when logged out? in ~tildes

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    The sidebar lists your subscriptions. ~society was added relatively recently and only those participating on related threads were automatically subscribed.

    The sidebar lists your subscriptions.

    ~society was added relatively recently and only those participating on related threads were automatically subscribed.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on EA releases source code for several Command and Conquer games under GPLv3 in ~games

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    Includes: Tiberian Dawn & Red Alert 1 (remastered was already open source, this is the original windows release) Generals and Zero Hour Renegade This is pretty much the source as is, so doesn't...

    Includes:

    • Tiberian Dawn & Red Alert 1 (remastered was already open source, this is the original windows release)
    • Generals and Zero Hour
    • Renegade

    This is pretty much the source as is, so doesn't build unless you can get yourself a copy of things like DX5, but potentially useful for fan projects, modders, or OpenRA.

    12 votes

  12. Comment on How core Git developers configure Git in ~comp

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    A lot of these are unlikely to ever become a default for fear of breaking tools that rely on parsing git's CLI output, which makes me wonder if the Git CLI needs something like Rust's "editions"...

    A lot of these are unlikely to ever become a default for fear of breaking tools that rely on parsing git's CLI output, which makes me wonder if the Git CLI needs something like Rust's "editions" to improve it's ergonomics. Set core.edition=2025 or run git --edition 2025 and get all these as defaults rather than have to configure them individually.

    9 votes

  14. Comment on HP ditches mandatory fifteen-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' in ~tech

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    So the idea with it is by making calling be unpleasant, there would be fewer calls and therefore less work for the call center staff collectively. Agreed so far. Bit of a blunt solution. But...

    So the idea with it is by making calling be unpleasant, there would be fewer calls and therefore less work for the call center staff collectively. Agreed so far. Bit of a blunt solution.

    But assuming it would be good for the call center workers individually seems to be missing why the call centers are so high stress. It's not just because of the volume of calls, but because the companies employing them keep staffing to the minimal possible level. If there's less work for the staff, companies will just take that slack and use it to have less staff, not to ensure a more reasonably paced and pleasant work environment.

    And then you're just making things worse for consumers to reduce staffing costs for companies that have already been paid for products and services. I don't see why this would be a good idea.

    8 votes

  15. Comment on What low-stakes drama is going on in your circles right now? in ~talk

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    Used to have two dogs, one large and one small. We bought a larger bed for the big dog when he got bigger. The small dog would kick him out of it, so we had to get two big beds in the end.

    Used to have two dogs, one large and one small. We bought a larger bed for the big dog when he got bigger. The small dog would kick him out of it, so we had to get two big beds in the end.

    7 votes

  16. Comment on HP ditches mandatory fifteen-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' in ~tech

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    Or they'll just cut staffing numbers

    it does allow for some wiggle room for those working the call center

    Or they'll just cut staffing numbers

    8 votes

  17. Comment on Linus Torvalds weighs in on the Rust for Linux controversy in ~comp

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    Rust bindings to DMA are being merged against Hellwig's wishes. These are part of the Rust subsystem, and Hellwig is under no obligiation to maintain compatibility with them. Hellwig still views...

    Rust bindings to DMA are being merged against Hellwig's wishes. These are part of the Rust subsystem, and Hellwig is under no obligiation to maintain compatibility with them. Hellwig still views this as "DMA" being forced to accept Rust, while Linus and the R4L devs see the DMA Rust bindings as just another user of DMA, not part of the DMA subsystem.

    15 votes

  18. Comment on Linus Torvalds weighs in on the Rust for Linux controversy in ~comp

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    Greg Kroah-Hartman The problem is he's about the same age, so it answers the "Linus gets hit by a bus suddenly one day" problem, but not really the "what do we when linus is old enough to want to...

    Greg Kroah-Hartman

    The problem is he's about the same age, so it answers the "Linus gets hit by a bus suddenly one day" problem, but not really the "what do we when linus is old enough to want to retire?" problem.

    14 votes

  19. Comment on Audio enthusiasts share your audio setups in ~hobbies

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    Question: Assuming the audio output on my devices are able to drive my headphones, am I going to benefit much from a DAC? I've got sennheiser hd 650s for my headphones. When I got them, I had to...

    Question: Assuming the audio output on my devices are able to drive my headphones, am I going to benefit much from a DAC? I've got sennheiser hd 650s for my headphones. When I got them, I had to do a little experimenting, the audio output on my front of my PC and the one on one of my 3 monitors have issues with the headphones at lower volumes alright, but the motherboard audio output and two of my 3 monitors seem to provide no issues.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on What are your favorite static site generators for creating text based and fast blogs/web pages? in ~tech

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    I currently use Zola, but without knowing specifically what you find complicated about Hugo, Jekyll etc., it's hard to know if that's an improvement for your use case as to me they all operate on...

    I currently use Zola, but without knowing specifically what you find complicated about Hugo, Jekyll etc., it's hard to know if that's an improvement for your use case as to me they all operate on basically the same model. To me at least, folder of markdown in, folder of html out is pretty close to as simple as it can get.

    11 votes