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MHLoppy

@ MHLoppy @fedia.io

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Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE's community patch (CBP). He/him.

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  • Elon Musk’s lawyers claim he ‘does not use a computer’

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  • Sorry, I forgot this was a thing with Wired articles (I don't read regularly enough for it to usually be a problem) - I'll add an archive link to the OP

  • What brand are these utensils?

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  • Fwiw it looks like Cutipol is the brand and that Horne is just the retailer

  • How fair is a Fairphone? (Or, how much of the sticker price does Fairphone spend on fair/eco?)

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  • I think you've tilted slightly too far towards cynicism here, though "it might not be as 'fair' as you think" is probably also still largely true for people that don't look into it too hard. Part of my perspective is coming from this random video I watched not long ago which is basically an extended review of the Fairphone 5 that also looks at the "fair" aspect of things.

    Misc points:

    • In targeting Scope 2 emissions they went with renewables to get down to 0 Scope 2 emissions. (p13)
    • In targeting Scope 3 emissions they rejigged their transportation a little (ocean freight instead of flying, it sounds like?) to reduce emissions there. (p14)
    • In targeting Scope 3 emissions they used an unspecified level of renewable energy in late manufacturing with modest claimed emissions reductions. (p14)
    • Retired some carbon credits, which, yes, are usually not as great as we would like, but still. (p14)
    • They may have some impact by choice of supplier even when they don't necessarily directly spend extra cash on e.g., higher worker payments.
    • They may have some impact by engaging with suppliers. They provide small-scale examples of conducting worker satisfaction surveys via independent third party which seemed to provide some concrete improvements (p30) and "supporting" another supplier in "implementing best practices for a worker-management safety committee" (p30).
    • They're reducing exposure to hazardous chemicals in final assembly, and according to them they are "the first company to start eliminating CEPN's second round priority chemicals" (p31). I don't know much about this.
    • With partners, they "organize school competitions in which children are educated about [...] e-waste" (p40).
    • They're "building local recycling capacity" in Ghana by "collaborating" with recycling companies (p40).
    • Extremely high repairability (with modest costs for replacement parts that make it financially sensible to repair instead of replace) keeps more phones in use, reducing all the bad parts of having to manufacture brand new phones.
    • The ICs make up a huge portion of the environmental costs of the phone (both with the FP4 (pp 40-41) and with the FP5 (p10)), and Fairphone isn't big enough to get behemoth chip manufacturers to change their processes (though apparently they're lobbying Qualcomm for socketable designs, as unlikely as that is to happen any time soon). If you accept the premise that for around half of the phone they have almost no impact on in terms of the manufacturing side, it makes their efforts on the rest a bit better, I guess?

    So yes, they are a long way from selling "100% fair" phones, but it seems like they're inching the needle a bit more than your summary suggests, and that's not nothing. It feels like you've skipped over lots of small-yet-positive things which are not simply "low economy of scale manufacturing" efforts.

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  • Unfortunately it's hard for the rest of us to tell if you actually think you want a video to save you from having to read 18 sentences or if you're just taking the piss lol

  • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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  • Would love to see tests like this attempting to use DXVK etc (as part of their testing on Windows) to better isolate more factors

  • Intel details 18A process technology — takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance

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  • That being said I don't trust Lip-Bu Tan to deliver.

    The thing I struggle with about this is understanding how much impact a single person actually has on this stuff, especially since all the fab stuff has been in motion for so long already (2021 called). He's fired / is firing a bunch more people than his predecessor, but beyond that I basically don't even really know what medium-term effect he has on a 130,000- 120,000- 110,000- 100,000- 90,000-strong company vs Gelsinger.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • Intel will outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, laying off many of its own workers

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  • It's clearly a smokescreen to please the investors. The real plan is their soon-to-be-unveiled cloning technology which will be used to form an entire marketing department made up of Tom Petersons.

  • Raora simply touches Mococo's tail (animation)

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  • This animation is fucking fantastic and is continuing to live rent-free in my head

  • Mattel, OpenAI sign deal to bring ChatGPT to 'iconic' toys

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  • ChatGPT'd UNO was not on my bingo card

  • Russian cannibal soldier ate his own comrade, leaked audio from Ukraine's HUR claims

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  • There does seem to be an at least western-media-reportable level of known-prior-cannibalism amongst the current forces: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0gvsjgz [it's audio only, sorry - first reputable source I could find]

    Whether they knew for the specific person in the current report or not, no idea

  • I disappeared off TV screens seeking a different life. Here's what I found

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  • I guess posting here we're mostly part of the terminally online crowd; it seems likely to be true that for this demographic if we spent 50-90% of the time we currently spend reading social media and news on instead reading books or meditating or something it would probably improve our lives (without ever interacting with the the part of the pyramid where a lot of people are struggling over more fundamental needs). Idk.

  • [Satire] PM vows to redirect sub funds to something just as pointless like public housing if AUKUS fails

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  • Opposition Leader Larissa Waters criticised the announcement

    Now this is a knife satire

  • In view of Trump’s review of AUKUS, should Australia cancel the subs deal? We asked 5 experts

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  • Read this a few days ago but didn't want the feed to be all-AUKUS-all-the-time 😅

  • I tested $200-ish GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel—but no matter who wins, budget gamers lose

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  • If you allow stretching budget slightly (as the article does), B570 reduces the number of compromises that an A750 makes (though of course there's still some).

    Second-hand market is pretty serviceable at the price point too. I don't know how the demographics for these preferences slice up, but I basically don't play any new AAA games at release - so honestly 8GB is almost always enough for me, which makes a lot more second-hand cards viable (though I would still be hesitant to buy a new card with 8GB unless it was on a killer sale). There are surely a non-trivial number of people who also mostly buy several-year-old games on sales instead of new releases who don't need the extra VRAM to still have a perfectly playable experience.

    edit: typo

  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • An empty stomachHungry for my beloved starchLife in Latvia

    Knock at door. "Who is?" "Free potato". Open door. Is secret police.

  • Australia's sunscreen showdown — and why SPF might be misunderstood

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  • You can tell it's an AI-generated article because of the em dash in the title /s

  • Intel's Nova Lake-S CPUs to bring massive architectural overhaul, up to 52 cores

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  • Between this and the sustained Zen 6 rumors, looks like core wars will be back on the menu soon!!

  • HoloEN 3rd concert -All for One- | Aug 23-24 @ Radio City Music Hall, New York

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  • Unfortunately if spoken it just sounds like you're saying "promise" but with a lisp 🫠