The true turing test

People always hate on k8s, but rarely mention alternatives. Because either you use a cloud offering, aka k8s hiding behind a facade. Or a VM and then your tooling kind of sucks or is equally complex to k8s

Love the guy saying it’s like the Reichstag fire. So the shooter is a nazi?

I agree with the layoffs and maximizing monetization. But I think so far they haven’t actively killed any of their purchased products. It is in their financial interest to keep things running as long as possible to get their return on investment.

Anyone in Metal Gear Rising: Revengance of course!

How can you be “left behind” in art? I can make a cave painting right now and there would be nothing wrong or inherently bad about it.

Check out Hitler’s paintings. He didn’t get into art school, sure, but they aren’t awful. It is certainly beyond anything the average person could just draw without practice. This is just garbage.

I mean pedo shit aside, that’s a way shittier card and drawing than I imagined. A second grader could draw something more artistic, damn.

Oof three comments on the heating one and all are classic “oh no my economy” climate crisis denying dumb asses. Who would have thought that China was the only country giving me real hope for some reasonable outcome…

Hm, I personally prefer that tbh. I hate missing stuff in my old gmx mailbox because it suddenly decided everything is spam. But I get very little of it.

I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.

And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.

That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.

This was the major reason for me not to consider Proton (before the CEO was a dick online). Besides, what good is encryption if every service sends them unencrypted mails anyway? I now went with mailbox.org and it has been great with Thunderbird on PC and Android.

Make your New Tab feel like home

Me switching it to about:blank as the first thing after installing firefox since forever: Okay, thanks!

I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new “open-source” driver only supports the RTX cards.

Nope, 900 and 1000 series have little hope of being properly supported. They require signed firmware which seems to be problem and are not new enough for the “open-source” solution from Nvidia for new cards.

Hm from reading more on it, I think it has more to do with droughts in the area. That is why they build the desalination plant in the first place. I assume using the residual energy of the saline gradient (+ the boost from the brine) to generate new freshwater is better than further draining the naturally occuring freshwater. But still just a guess.

Definitely not shitting on the tech, it’s a really cool concept and definitely useful. I just wish news outlets would have asked how the cycle is beneficial. I don’t doubt that it is, but I don’t get it.

I mean the part in the picture is clear to me. But if we assume freshwater is freely available, why would they want to power a desalination plant with the generated power? Basically you can trade freshwater (or salinity gradient generally) for power or power for freshwater. But in a simple loop you’d only lose both over time due to inefficiency.

I did not quite get how it’s a good idea tbh. They need freshwater to dilute the saltwater/brine. And they use it to separate the brine from saltwater to make freshwater? That’s definitely an energy negative cycle. So what’s the benefit? Is this more energy efficient then cleaning waste water into freshwater?