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cecilkorik

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  • Laptop as server, how to best manage battery?

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  • This is FUD. Dell workstation class laptops are absolutely designed for running at full power with the lid closed (and for use with a docking station, in fact). That's why it's called a "workstation". Business class laptops are a totally different beast than consumer-grade/"gaming" laptops. They are typically quite durable, quite tolerant, and quite repairable. Exceptions, obviously, exist, and we don't know the exact model OP is talking about, but there's no reason to assume they will have any issues running it as intended.

    I run several old consumer grade laptops as light servers, permanently closed, and they've been perfectly fine for years.

  • ‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI

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  • Exactly, it's a tool. It's potentially useful, in certain situations, but I'll be the one deciding if I want it at all, if it's useful and what it's useful for, not some company. If they tell me to use a table saw to clean my teeth, I'm going to tell them to go fuck themselves. Nothing wrong with table saws, but fuck any company that tells me what I ought to be using a table saw for.

  • US-backed microreactor reaches criticality in major nuclear step

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  • Bringing us one step closer to the day when I can have a nuclear reactor in my utility room to power and heat my house and swimming pool, like Maniac Mansion always taught me was a totally reasonable, safe and not at all unhinged idea.

  • PostgreSQL in-database durable execution

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  • It's a bait and switch, and you're taking the bait. Microsoft does not do anything that benefits others, they only do things that benefit themselves, and if you think they're benefiting you, that's the trap, and you can sniff around it all you like until you're convinced it's safe, eventually they're going to catch you, you're not smarter than the multi-billion-dollar trapper who has already caught and killed and stripped the pelts off so many others. You will be no different.

  • PostgreSQL in-database durable execution

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  • All you're missing is that I loathe microslop and will no longer extend them even a nanometer of goodwill. They deserve nothing but mistrust. They have burned all possible bridges. I'm entirely done with them, forever.

  • PostgreSQL in-database durable execution

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  • Ah, so we're trying to embrace, extend and extinguish Postgres now are we Microsoft? Good luck.

  • [Meta] Removing definitions from Decronym?

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  • i18n is definitely a real thing and it's often even used as an abbreviation in repos, folder structures and filenames related to internationalization/translation, I don't love it, but it is definitely in real world use. l10n is one I've seen before and is also a real thing, but much less common (and even less acceptable in my opinion). a11y is not one I've ever seen before.

  • [Meta] Removing definitions from Decronym?

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  • If this is about the bot I think it is, I haven't personally complained but I have noticed it's weird and often wrong, it seems to detect HTTP/HTTPS in every post (perhaps seeing links and URLs?) and it seems to maybe possibly be detecting any words with those strings of letters somewhere in them and presumably also doesn't care about case sensitivity? The short ones in particular like "AP", "CA", "CF", "HA" and "IP" seem to come up frequently almost every time it posts, and "NAT" and "IoT" seems common, and none of things seem to be actually mentioned in any of the comments that I see.

  • Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

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  • Capitalism has cooked these people's brains. There is nothing of value left inside them.

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    Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says

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  • Financial censorship is a useful tool for people who want stuff censored.

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    Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" has always been my policy for spiders, mosquitoes and ticks, so I'm looking forward to World War 3 going nuclear. I'm just a bit concerned that the "from orbit" part implies I'm supposed to be up there when it happens, and while I understand the basic mechanics of how to get there, I'm not sure how I'm going to handle the logistics after that point.

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    Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • Have it spray tear gas first. But wait, then the laser won't be able to penetrate the cloud. Maybe we could add a quadcopter drone to clear a path to the mosquito for the laser to fire. But then we'll need a system so the drone doesn't run into a human choking on tear gas, and the drone can't see because of the limited visibility, could we use infrared sensors I wonder? /s

    This is a stupid system. I love engineers, but they tend to uh... overengineer things like this.

  • California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists

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  • Us digital hippies just believe in free data and world peace, man.

  • Google hates you

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  • Rest assured, the feeling is deeply mutual.

  • Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI

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  • Given that AIs are demonstratably incapable of successfully operating a vending machine for more than about a week, sounds like a great time to start a competitor.

  • Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences

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  • Yeah like most people probably don't remember the web before Google, but there was altavista. You know what happened to altavista? It became overrun by SEO bullshit and people stopped using them literally overnight because Google did a better job. If Google starts doing a shit job, you know what's going to happen? People will stop using them literally overnight as soon as anyone else starts doing a better job.

    Yes, web search is a "hard" problem, but a lot of it is a hard problem because there's an insane amount of corporate SEO slop out there, and now there's a lot of AI slop out there too. The first person to solve this problem is going to completely destroy Google. Is it an unsolvable problem? I don't think so.

    At its core it's a federation problem. Websites want to be discovered. People want to discover websites. But bad people also want to abuse the discovery process to show their own spam that people don't want to discover. The magic that Google brought to the table was PageRank, which allowed them to determine the authenticity of the spam by the number of backlinks that went from other real sites TO that site. This is essentially just "voting", same as we do here. Of course immediately people tried to abuse it by generating their own massive backlink farms but those are pretty obvious and easy to taint as bad actors and scrub out their rankings or remove them completely. If it's not clear yet how similar this is to the exact sort of trustworthiness problems the fediverse is also dealing with with, just wait. People will find ways to solve this.

    The arms race against shitty content will never stop -- but the point is, if Google is no longer participating in the war against shitty content and is now switching sides to become a producer of shitty content, they're not going to succeed. People don't want that shit, and people will instantly vote with their feet the moment any very inevitable alternative appears.

  • Nextcloud or Seafile alternatives?

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  • I am questionning using it only for myself and use something else to share with family

    I'm confused, you don't want your family to be able to know each other's email addresses? That seems like a bit... extreme level of profile paranoia.

    I have my family on my Nextcloud and I can guarantee 90% of them don't even know where their own user profile is nevermind anybody else's. Maybe you have a different family than mine.

  • Flashforge closes ecosystem & puts AI ads into printing software 🤦

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  • The poor man is just trying to keep up with all the shitty companies doing shitty things all the time, he's only got one lifetime and he needs to fit a lot in. It's like that scene in Spaceballs where President Skroob is running everywhere, "The ship is too big! If I walk, the movie would be over!"

  • (UPDATE: a different issue??) What are these burn marks on my failed 3D print?

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  • It's typically called a raft or a brim depending on whether it's underneath the whole print or just around the edges.

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    CRTC to require online streamers to pay 15% of annual revenues to support Canadian content

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  • If you want to do businesses in a country, don’t complain when...

    Complaining about things the government tells them to do on behalf of society is pretty much the foundation of every company's whole business model at this point.