Only because, up to this point, we've been successful at pushing back against this tyranny. But make no mistake: that is the real goal of this "age verification" bullshit.

9h ago

Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

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grue @lemmy.world 9h ago

"Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain."

13h ago

you deserve this rule ♥️

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grue @lemmy.world 13h ago

Typical male attitude, not wanting to talk about their feelings.

13h ago

Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says

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grue @lemmy.world 13h ago

Or they just don't want political campaigning going on in their restaurants, and this chucklefuck is the only one who's tried.

15h ago

Can't be too careful

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grue @lemmy.world 15h ago

I click the link to listen to the song intentionally. It's a great song!

16h ago

Cycle lane paused after thousands of locals object

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grue @lemmy.world 16h ago

Ah yes, the ol' "this project is stupid because it isn't finished yet" argument. 🙄

By the way:

and then are inevitably lucky if you see anyone using them.

That's often not because they aren't being used; it's because bike lanes have 2-3x the capacity of general-purpose lanes. They look a lot less busy even when they're carrying the same number of vehicles.

17h ago

OPNsense Mini PC Suggestion + Switch + AP? (And running cables)

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

Furthermore, how do you go about running cables in your home?

You watch some Youtube videos about how to do it and then you follow the instructions.

It's going to depend a lot on the construction details of your house:

Do you have wooden framing (common in the US), masonry (common in Europe, as I understand it), or something else?
Do you have access to an attic or basement/crawlspace?
Do you need to run wires on exterior walls (which means dealing with insulation), or just interior ones?

For me (wooden frame construction, accessible attic and basement), I didn't find it to be too difficult. Is it work? Yeah, of course. But it's not that bad, and I recommend spending the effort because having proper wall plates wtih in-wall wires is way nicer than having stuff snaking along surfaces.

17h ago

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

LOL, it lights up when the character jumps.

17h ago

US governor boosts US-Iran 'combat footage' that is actually from War Thunder, featuring WW2-era weapons

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

This is some North Korea-level shit.

17h ago

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

Laughs in Memory: 46.84 GiB / 62.72 GiB (75%) with (probably) several hundred tabs open

17h ago

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

There's no real good reason that all RAM shouldn't have been ECC since decades ago. It doesn't actually cost much more to implement. The only reason it isn't, as tal's reply mentioned, is artificial price discrimination.

17h ago

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

Also…I’m not sure that ECC is the right fix. I kind of wonder whether the fact is actually that the memory is broken, or that people are manually overclocking and running memory that would be stable at a lower rate at too high of a rate, which will cause that.

Some of it is cosmic rays, right? I think ECC is still worth it even at JEDEC speeds.

17h ago

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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grue @lemmy.world 17h ago

LOL, nah, Firefox isn't that stable. If 10% of crashes were caused by bad RAM, it means 90% were still caused by something else.

(My install regularly gets a memory leak that eventually makes my system unusable, BTW. I don't think it's necessarily the fault of Firefox itself -- more likely Javascript running in tabs, maybe interacting with an extension or something, and some of the blame goes to the kernel's poor handling of low memory conditions -- but it's definitely not "dev humblebrag stable" for me.)

1d ago

Apple rolls out OS-level age verification in latest iOS 26.4 dev beta

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grue @lemmy.world 1d ago

I mean DRMing and Tivoizing every new computer so that it can't be rooted or jailbroken and Linux won't run on it. Requiring a license from the state to have a compiler. You know, The Right to Read or Unauthorized Bread type shit.

1d ago

is this even possible

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grue @lemmy.world 1d ago

That's not what we're talking about here. The "de-limbing machine" is the two-party system, and destroying it would mean ending first-past-the-post. An individual voter does not have the power to do that.

1d ago

Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'

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grue @lemmy.world 1d ago

Between that and calling the war an "operation," it's obvious Reuters is sanewashing Trump.