AlpacaChariot

@AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world
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Joined 12 months ago

Doesn't Biden have a broken foot that hasn't healed very well and makes him shuffle around a bit?

Will it though? Seems like the kind of task that requires a huge amount of effort, way beyond the kind of capacity you get from casual contributions in peoples' spare time...might be difficult to maintain feature parity and implement new standards without a full time team on it.

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The 5800X3D has the same core architecture as the 5800X but it runs at 11% lower base and 4% lower boost clocks. The lower clocks are in exchange for an extra 64MB of cache (96MB up from 32MB) and around 40% more money. For most real-world tasks performance is comparable to the 5800X. Cache sensitive scenarios such as low res. canned game benchmarks with a 3090-Ti ($2,000 USD) benefit at the cost of everything else. Be wary of sponsored reviews with cherry picked games that showcase the wins, conveniently ignore frame drops and gloss over the losses. Also watch out for AMD’s army of Neanderthal social media accounts on reddit, forums and youtube, they will be singing their own praises as usual. Instead of focusing on real-world performance, AMD’s marketers aim to dupe consumers with bankrolled headlines. The same tactics were used with the Radeon 5000 series GPUs. Zen 4 needs to bring substantial IPC improvements for all workloads, rather than overpriced "3D" marketing gimmicks. New PC builders have little reason to look further than the $260 12600K which, at a fraction of the price, offers better all round performance in gaming, desktop and workstation applications. Users with an existing AM4 build should wait just a few more months for better performance at lower prices with Raptor Lake or even Zen 4. The marketers selling expensive “3D” upgrades today will quickly move onto Zen 4 (3D) leaving unfortunate buyers stuck on an overpriced, 6 year old, dead-end, platform. [Mar '22 CPUPro]

Jesus

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Future incidents probably will still happen, but when you develop in the open it's much easier for people to trust you when you talk about incident response and mitigation, because they can see what's happening out in the open. In contrast, nobody trusts Reddit to do what they say.

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Love how openly you guys communicate about the management of LW. It's interesting for anyone with an interest in self hosting things to see how you've scaled up. Keep up the good work!

What's with the random changes in font size (or am I losing my marbles)?

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Why are you using chrome if you care about things like this?

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It goes on for so long

I don't know about that, we have the same problem in civil engineering. At some point you just have to say that if someone can't read a drawing and do what it says they are not doing their job properly. If that means you need an engineer on site to read and interpret the drawing for people who can't or won't read then so be it.

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We need more polandball on Lemmy

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I'm just grateful to have a place to discuss niche topics where there's a reasonable balance of power between users, mods, and admins.

Federation means no more rug pulling after years of building open source apps to access proprietary services.

Proper 'competition' between instance owners means nobody can degrade the quality of experience for a quick buck.

Thank you for your part in building a better alternative!

I'm pissing my pants in solidarity and I demand that everyone else does the same!

You can't really say it's "their government" when the Palestinians in Gaza haven't had free and fair elections in years. Hamas has fucked the civilians in both Israel and Gaza. Civilians of either country who don't support the aggressive actions of "their side" (countinued settlement, terrorism) shouldn't be suffering as a result.

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What would this achieve? Lots of birds? A bit of bird poo? I don't think I'd even notice if someone did that to me

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More info on this here:

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/12782/the-troubling-past-of-forced-sterilization-of-black-women-and-girls-in-mississippi-and-the-south

I had assumed the women weren't sterilised by the normal contraceptive meds, but it seems they used a large dose of Depo-Provera which is a legit contraceptive injection. Not the usual pills but still.

There are also stories in that article of people having forced hysterectomies.

America's history of racism is so dark.

Auto updates works really well for me so far!

I've wanted this for years; in the past manually flashing the privileged extension after every system update was such a pain that I quickly gave up on it.

(I think the heat is good when you ~~almost~~ feel it in your nipples.)

Sorry what?

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I've always been interested in the idea of canning, but it's not really a thing in the UK. I know that veg is cheaper and gas is more expensive here than in America but still, surely it costs so much money to can things that you can't be saving much? Is it only worth it if the produce was in season and therefore really cheap?

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I agree with a lot of your points about pragmatism but there absolutely is factionalism on the left in the UK, unless (as it looks like you are doing) you say some of them are not actually leftist and therefore the remaining group is small enough that it's not arguing with itself.

The right are also split but in normal times they are better at keeping the worst of it behind closed doors and rallying around the leader when the dust settles. Lack of message discipline is what kills the left at the ballot box. New Labour were good at it and they won; Starmer is trying to do the same - sensible tactic in my opinion.

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This may not be strictly related to the use case you described but I think it's kind of cool...

On Linux you can add the software used to do the upload to a group "vpnroute" or similar, and use iptables to block all traffic from that group that isn't sent through the VPN tunnel. Something like this:

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner vpnroute ! -o tun0 -j REJECT

Obviously needs to be made persistent which I do with UFW in /etc/ufw/after.rules. It makes for a good kill switch.

You didn't love BJ before?

You two should start a new community

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Is this a thing in America?

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Breasts are often measured in cups

Well I have to hand it to you, there's a kind of mad logic to it!

Did you not switch to Nextcloud a while back?

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Those beans don't look the right colour to be British, ours are in a kind of tomato sauce.

Maybe America? Americans are pretty degenerate and I can see them going for "sweet brown sugar sauce" so it checks out...

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Ah yeah it must be even more difficult to convince people to switch if you have a big churn of users every year, less of a consistent subreddit 'culture'

It's when you loved reading something, but you're finished now and it's all over, time to move on.

Used it for the first time this week to install liftoff, it's such a cool idea!

Totally get that. Much nicer to know you're not eating too much processed crap.

Jealous of the peaches!

moving to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches

Wouldn't this be quite slow to transmit messages? When you send email between federated servers your mail goes in a queue on your server to be sent and depending on the connection speed and how busy it is you could easily wait 5 minutes before it's delivered at the other end. Not that the messages caused by this app would be big enough to slow things down a lot, but if the server you are using is also being used to send normal emails with large attachments then you could end up waiting a while.

Free in the UK

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It's an old meme sir, but it checks out

Was not expecting that! What a dark character arc :D

I read this every day, decent commentary which is quite cautious and makes an effort to be objective. The maps show all the fortifications:

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-7-2023

I live in quite a rural area and we have power cuts semi regularly, and we also have no signal on any network. It used to be quite fun plugging in the backup corded home phone with its curly cable to phone the power company!

Not much good news going around at the moment is there. All the more reaaon to celebrate this, which can't have been easy or quick and can only have been achieved a result of hard work over many years.

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