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JohnEdwa

@ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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  • Trump says that he's asked 'about 7' countries to join coalition to police Iran's Strait of Hormuz

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  • Trump, you just made your Board of Peace. Ask them for help, ask them to uphold world peace and end the war for you. Surely you can solve your own war yourself, big man, seeing as it was you who started it?

  • Which Firefox alternative do you guys recommend?

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  • Most Firefox forks still have support for Mozilla account sync and the extension malware blacklist, as those are useful features to have. But they do share info with Mozilla.

  • Italy: Alert for Russian methane tanker (loaded with gas) adrift near Linosa, risk of environmental disaster in the Mediterranean

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  • The front fell off.

    Russia claims that it was attacked by Ukrainian drones launched from Libya, but usually what they claim is not true so nobody actually knows yet.

  • Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense

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  • One argument is that gambling requires the chance of a loss - you go to a casino, make a wager, buy a lottery ticket, bet on a horse race, you can lose your money and end up with nothing.

    But buy a Labubu, a Lego minifigure blind bag, MtG booster, or a video game lootbox, and while you don't know exactly what, you will always get something in return for your money.

    Then again, "taking a gamble" is a term used for many things, like when you buy a used car without extensively checking the condition first, because you don't know what exactly you are getting...

  • Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

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  • The solution of which is that you change the tag before you change the actual price if it's an increase, and the price before the tag if it's a discount, with a long enough delay. That's what they do with gas pumps and the advertisements here in Finland.

  • It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

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  • Ask chat GPT to come up with a nice message explaining why direct copy pastes of LLM outputs is bad. Copy paste it to her directly.Maybe she will understand it better that way.

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • It's a warranty & legal thing. Prusa had users flash unsupported firmwares, break their electronics with bad configs and then claim warranty on them, and there are also ones available that have safety features tweaked or disabled that could end up with a fire.

    You are still free to do it, the tab just a permanent way of clicking "I understand doing this voids the warranty and I'm going it on my own risk" - which you've basically always been agreeing to modifying the firmware anyway.

  • NVIDIA confirms GeForce RTX GPU shortage for 2026

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  • Most of the hardware manufacturing capacity is currently entirely focused on datacenter and AI stuff, be it GPUs or hard drives or RAM, because it currently seems to be a field with unlimited funding, but almost everyone can see it isn't sustainable and won't last for long.

    If you were a baker and suddenly making expensive cookies made you boatloads more money that baking bread, you wouldn't spend time making a single loaf of bread until you could satisfy every cookie order first, no matter how many people were desperately in need of it.

  • What will happen if the Linux kernel starts having AI generated code in it?

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  • AI code is like alternative medicine, it's called that when it's bad and doesn't work. If it does, it's just called code. And the issue isn't using code made by AI, it's when people who don't know how to code think the AI does, and blindly do without checking. That's very unlikely to happen with the Linux kernel, as the entire project is basically just one constant code review where it really doesn't matter if bad code was written by a human or an AI.

    Even Torvalds has used AI to help with his projects, because it would be kinda silly not to.

  • Lamborghini pulls plug on plans to launch all-electric supercar

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  • Wroom wroom make monkey brain happy.

  • Social Insecurity: Billions of Social Security Number and Passwords

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  • Honda unveils new electric moped cheaper than gasoline equivalent, no motorcycle license needed

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  • Also having a powered front wheel can result in you easily losing front wheel traction while accelerating out of a turn, which means you just lost side to side stability at the front while in a lean and you simply fall over.I know that one from experience on an electric (kick) scooter :)

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • Microsoft did as well - 8.1 still had ESU support, and as Server 2008 R2 had paid extended support and as it shared a kernel with Vista & 7 you could use those to keep your system updated as well. IIRC both ended January this year.

  • Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"

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  • Because the servers I follow aren't on matrix, signal or jitsi, and neither are any of my friends.

  • EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

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  • Currently, a lot of the discarding is done by individual shops/resellers. I know of a few instances where basically all customer returns and unsold merchandise was slashed at the orders of the manufacturer to make them unusable, and then thrown in the bin.

    If that is made illegal and everything would have to be returned, stored, processed and then sent somewhere else anyway, the chance that it's going to end up with destruction greatly diminishes - opening that outlet section/shop or selling them to a local outlet company suddenly makes a lot more finacial sense.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener

    Which "standard" Torx head? Maximum torque of 0.43Nm of a T5? Or maybe 10.5Nm of a T20? 132Nm of a T50? T60 is rated for 437Nm.

    If you need a bolt that can handle 50Nm, you put a head that's sized to that on the bolt.If it's a Torx, you put a T40. If it's Hex, you put an 8mm on it. And if it's a stupid BMW one, you pick the size that can handle 50Nm. The shape doesn't matter.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Though Reddit is a publicly traded company now, so they currently own only 30%.

  • Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

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  • There kinda is, as at some point the heating hits a stage where the oceans will warm up enough, and as warm water can't hold on to as much Co2, it will be released into the atmosphere, which causes the oceans to warm up, which releases Co2, which causes... And so on.Add in some ice melting and stuff like that, and once the feedback loop starts properly, there's not much we can do to stop it.

    We are a frog in a pot where we know someone is going to put a lid on it eventually, and we keep arguing and contemplating about when and how soon it might happen, instead of working on getting out of the pot before it does.

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • Though any competent manufacturer, especially when talking about laptops, would still have the application key under FN (as is shown in that example image), and give the ability for users to select which one is the default function in the BIOS.

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    OLED is nice and all, but the upgrade I really want is this.