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BrightCandle

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  • Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies

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  • Item 3 is even shovelling more AI into more places. About the only thing that is real in that list is the taskbar being able to be moved, and this was something they have promised would happen since they rewrote the taskbar and crippled its functionality.

  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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  • I keep trying to use the various LLMs that people recommend for coding for various tasks and it doesn't just get things wrong. I have been doing quite a bit of embedded work recently and some of the designs it comes up with would cause electrical fires, its that bad. Where the earlier versions would be like "oh yes that is wrong let me correct it..." then often get it wrong again the new ones will confidently tell you that you are wrong. When you tell them it set on fire they just don't change.

    I don't get it I feel like all these people claiming success with them are just not very discerning about the quality of the code it produces or worse just don't know any better.

  • The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer

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  • No country has managed a transition to communism, all of them got turned into various types of authroritarian dictatorships. There is no known method for transitioning to communism and maintaining it.

  • LTT does another Linux Challenge

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  • I still had some issues with the mouse speed on cachyos even after I disabled acceleration. I felt off on its default and I ended up boosting it. Thing is my mouse has its speed inbuilt so I don't need external software or anything else to configure it on Linux so I don't understand why I had to boost the speed to make it behave a bit better, it felt like there was some latency as well.

  • UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

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  • At some point those same authorites are coming for Lemmy and the metaverse generally.

  • Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act

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  • Would be a nightmare to adminster as well, has so much less automation and tooling for deployment and updating of software. Even now the updating of apps on windows is a mess and the closest they have come is winget that centralises the entire thing through stores, completely useless for the corporate world. There is a reason Linux won on the server.

  • Everyone is stealing TV

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  • Theft has a very specific definition, critically it requires the taking of something so that someone else is permenantly deprived of the thing. When something is cloned or copied its not theft, its all intellectual law driven so copyright and trademark breaches. No one is deprived of the product, only potentially the payment for a service.

  • ‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics

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  • The same ploy has been used for everything environmental and climate change based. Apparently you have a CO2 emission cost, you have a personal plastic and waste cost its all your consuming fault. No one seems to challenge the idea that if we don't "consume" this plastic we die from lack of food since everything comes wrapped. Almost all production of waste products generally is done by companies for products they sell us, they are secondary emissions.

    The most common ones where people actually produce the waste themselves are petrol/diesel cars, gas boilers/heating and stoves. But the bulk of production is all the choice of really very profitable businesses and asking them to change over the last 55 years has not worked.

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • Got to have a couple of examples of the rich and powerful going away for their crimes so the plebs don't realise how stacked against them the system really is.

  • Are there any examples of 'perfect' software?

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  • Pretty certain cd and pwd have changed over the years. The kernel hasn't remained the same so the commands that use it wont and now we have faster methods to do various things like getting file data the commands that depend on it will change. Less quickly than something that is still gaining features but bit rot is a very real effect since every single part of software is in constant flux.

  • ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain

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  • It will definitely take in the order of millions of years to recover from what humans have done to destroy the habitat. The species will destroy will likely never return, the planet in a million years time will bear the scars of the Holocene extinction.

  • Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr

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  • The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Alas I don't think the USA will have the political stability to ultimately allow the adoption of an alternative. There is zero point building something that also accommodates the USA right now as the new King is quite likely to ban it and waste all the time put into it. Even a treaty put in place wouldn't stop this from happening, so frankly its not worth an EU or any other countries company anticipating doing anything with the USA for the foreseeable future.

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    Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • Its a big problem. I also dump projects that don't automatically migrate their own SQLite scehema's requiring manual intervention. That is a terrible way to treat the customer, just update the file. Separate databases always run into versioning issues at some point and require manual intervention and data migration and its a massive waste of the users time.

  • How long do solar panels last? New study shows it's longer than you think!

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  • They often talk about to 80% production rate but that isn't where it ends. A panel installed 50 years ago that produces 50% of its power is perfectly usable and still in use and is only worth replacing if its economically sound to do so. They don't just fail.

  • How many containers are you all running?

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  • 31 Containers in all. I have been up as high as ~60 and have paired it back removing the things I wasn't using.

    I also tend to remove anything that uses appreciable CPU at idle and I rarely run applications that require further containers in a stack just to boot, my needs aren't that heavy.

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    Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • I reject a lot of apps that require a docker compose that contains a database and caching infrastructure etc. All I need is the process and they ought to use SQLite by default because my needs are not going to exceed its capabilities. A lot of these self hosted apps are being overbuilt and coming without defaults or poor defaults and causing a lot of extra work to deploy them.

  • NexPhone is a phone you can use as a desktop PC with Android, Linux, and Windows 11 support

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  • The docks need to start providing cooling fins and maybe even active cooling for the concept to work. The phones themselves just can't cool this usage pattern they would be too bulky.

  • UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction

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  • The minimum price agreed of £91.20 per MWh is a 9.12p a KWh. That is kind of high the typical wholesale price at the moment is lower than that and Solar typically comes in at more like £50 a MWh in the UK. The prior deals were at £50 and £70 so this is quite an increase in guaranteed minimum pricing. I am not so sure this is a good idea at this price, its not going to be reducing bills.