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kbal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • I've been completely isolated from the internet and news for the last two months. What'd I miss?

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  • The Yogscast did a dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol while raising money for charity, which was pretty good.

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  • The world as we know it is rapidly approaching the point where it's going to cease to function. Ecology matters, and climate change is going to wreck the world economy we know and love if war doesn't wreck it first. Whether hypothetical future better-organized societies should choose to put as much effort into steelmaking as we do seems highly questionable, but it's up to them.

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  • So your thinking is that you don't want to live in a world where people aren't coerced into doing jobs they hate, because then you personally wouldn't be coerced into doing the job you hate? Just saying you might consider looking for other work.

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  • Same as the incentives under any other economic system: Ambition, adventurousness, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

  • Which model of good and evil, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

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  • The universe started out good, and then it took billions of years for large enough stars to form that their collapse could create supernovae capable of reaching the energies needed to synthesize evil particles.

  • We all know people who don't understand when you love and respect women and are just making a joke

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  • Good luck with your transition from porn bot to outrage bot.

  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • It's obviously the right idea, Cory's been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren't powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?

  • Guys, have you ever been asked this question: "If your mother and your girlfriend are both drowning, who would you save first?" How would you answer this question?

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  • I'm not a very good swimmer... which one looks more buoyant?

  • Americans, when did you first become aware that "judgement" is spelt "judgment"?

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  • I hear that boomer + trans can be tricky.

  • Do you prefer FOSS over proprietary software? How much do you use it?

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  • Hmm, tough call. Generally speaking I guess I'd prefer freedom over eternally paying rent to the tech oligarchs but then I'd miss out on the benefits of Microsoft's latest adjustments to the Windows 11 start menu.

  • NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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  • Poor Nvidia... the AI bubble is going to burst, the gamer market has all kinds of reasons to hate them now, and all they'll have to console themselves with is several trillion dollars.

  • Whats the worst baby name?

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  • Omnizuckerbub

  • 44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust

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  • Okay I'm not surprised that C and Rust are popular, but I didn't expect there to be so much Vala in there.

  • You should know this, Scotty.

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  • I am insufficiently versed in Star Trek to know whether there's a known reason why that isn't true at warp speed.

  • NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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  • Device drivers are not like other software in at least one important way: They have access to and depend on kernel internals which are not visible to applications, and they need to be rebuilt when those change. Something as huge and complicated as a GPU driver depends on quite a lot of them. The kernel does not provide a stable binary interface for drivers so they will frequently need to be recompiled to work with new versions of linux, and then less frequently the source code also needs modification as things are changed, added to, and improved.

    This is not unique to Linux, it's pretty normal. But it is a deliberate choice that its developers made, and people generally seem to think it was a good one.

  • NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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  • Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.

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  • The driver needs to interface with the OS kernel which does change, so the driver needs updates. The old Nvidia driver is not open source or free software, so nobody other than Nvidia themselves can practically or legally do it. Nvidia could of course change that if they don't want to do even the bare minimum of maintenance.

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  • They started 9 years ago, but they remained popular into 2020 and according to wikipedia the last new pascal model was released in 2022. The 1080 and the 1060 are both still pretty high up on the Steam list of the most common GPUs.