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BrightCandle

@ BrightCandle @lemmy.world

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  • Every file you copy is costing your SSD more than you think

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  • I have never killed an SSD with wear. I have had their controllers die long before they should (OCZ drives!) but even my original 80GB Intel Gen 1 SSD is still kicking along working happily with about 70% of its wear remaining. All my modern era gen 3 and above drives are still working and nothing below 93%. Its enormously difficult to get SSDs worn out on a desktop or home server.

  • WHO head tells countries to prepare for more hantavirus cases

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  • If we avoid a bigger outbreak of this it will be luck not because we actually did this right. I am not convinced we should have been taking these exposed people and spreading across the globe and certainly not with very different procedures, only some countries are actually quarantining those who have been exposed. It could still be in the community from one of the people exposed on the plane. Given how slowly this virus progresses it could smoulder for quite a while before we have an epidemic that we recognise.

    I really wish the WHO would get over its aversion to saying viral spread is airborne, they still haven't admitted Covid is airborne despite the scientists proving it is and they have called Hantavirus "close contact", which isn't actually a transmission mechanism its either droplet or aerosol and given the exposures where its spread its airborne.

  • World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines

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  • We aren't handling the current pandemics in the world very well at all so its no surprise there is poor preparation for the next one. But having heard the WHO once again with its transmission mechanism as "close contact" rather than the actual known transmission vector of airborne it isn't a wonder agreements aren't being made. Every party involved is twisting reality and wants to be able to keep doing that into the future and the drug companies want to make sure they can maximise their profits when they do develop something.

  • Britons on hantavirus-hit ship to be asked to isolate back in UK for 45 days

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  • The disease might not show symptoms for around 1-8 weeks, which at the top end is 56 days.

  • The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders

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  • The antisemitic cartoons in 4 newspapers have been appalling. The press has been an absolute disgrace in this election.

  • Google Chrome is reportedly auto-installing a massive 4GB AI model without your consent

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  • If someone chooses to do that then yes its a better option, but 4GB of LLM shouldn't just be shipped in a browser.

  • PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market"

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  • Indy and small budget games are where all the innovation in game mechanics is occuring. The AA/AAA industry has become a conveyor belt of ever more expensive graphics on the "omni game" mechanics.

  • Human-to-human hantavirus transmission suspected on stranded cruise ship, WHO says

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  • Was kind of obvious from the moment it went past the first 2 people. Despite this they still aren't wearing N95/FFP3 masks which would actually stop the spread of it, they are being told to wash their hands. Its madness that the airborne nature of viruses is ignored by the authorities the science on this has been crystal clear for decades, viruses are airborne in tiny little water particles.

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    Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt

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  • This AI bubble is going to take so much of the economy with it and I can't help but think we are all going to be paying to keep "too big to fail" businesses that clearly knew it was a bubble but invested anyway because the public would pay if it went side ways.

  • YSK that sometimes less is more. If you take medications, next time you see your doctor ask about ‘de-prescribing’

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  • Even weirder in my experience is doctors trying to pull you off medication you need for no reason at all. They seem to do these reviews and then suggest diabetics come off their insulin and I can not work out what the heck they think they are doing, its getting people hurt or killed if they don't stand up to them.

  • London police refuse to investigate British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza

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  • And they pick and choose which laws they choose to follow themselves just as frequently.

  • Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! 🤦🏼

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  • apt dist-upgrade is a necessary change to your process in place of just upgrade.

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • Google, Youtube and Facebook all forced real usernames for a time and it made no difference to the quality of conversation or how toxic it was. Indeed many people on Twitter/X use their real names and say some truly awful things.

    Its not about anonymity, the real answer to getting less toxicity is good moderators that care about the subject matter. Its why Reddit is a mixed bag depending on the sub you are in, all depends on the moderators. If you want to fix social medias toxic name calling and everything else you should be forcing Facebook et el to have enough moderators to actually do the job well with interest in the various sub topics.

  • Ubuntu 26.02 working like it’s too new

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  • Definitely worth waiting a few weeks and letting the post release patches roll through. I tend to start looking at it for my server upgrade about a month after its officially released, anything earlier is usually under heavy updates. IIRC do-release-upgrade on the server releases typically doesn't even allow upgrades for at least a month.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • Or hosting your own services. 25 gbit/s is a lot of potential to scale up to a pretty decent sized web business before you need to get dedicated hosting.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • I wish this was just in the USA but numerous countries in the EU handed out billions upon billions to private companies to roll out VDSL and then fibre connections (GPON) and the public owns none of what has been made despite paying for it all and the bonuses on top. Now the higher speeds are grossly more expensive than the old DSL lines used to be and they are turning those all off and getting to pocket the increased prices.

  • 'Very deep poverty': Exposing the UK's hidden shame

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  • Inequality really needs addressing. Our "benefits" are very low for a country of our wealth, not enough to live on and a contributor to poverty. There are plenty of disabled people who will never be able to work which the government just halved their universal credit payment from today. The other side is people stuck out of work unable to get and keep work in places where there just isn't enough and we do extremely poorly at giving them opportunities and skills instead of just punishing them. The country needs a complete attitude adjustment or the situation is just going to get worse.

  • Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies 'the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore'

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  • The problem is the views that got Trump elected will still be there in the country for the foreseeable future. So ultimately the USA is not a reliable member of NATO at any point since Trump was first elected. The USA is no longer a member they just haven't changed the treaties yet. That won't be going back at any point in the lifetime of anyone who lived through the Trump era.

  • European allies say Russia is helping Iran more than the U.S. has acknowledged, sources say

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  • This is how these proxy wars have happened for many decades now. The USA and Russia never have a direct conflict, once is doing the invading while the other is aiding the attacked nation.