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amanda , 3 days ago to Technology in don't use ladybird browser lol

Now that is news, and a much, much worse thing when it’s an expressed policy than when it’s “please don’t submit a tiny change to only documentation as a PR that’s just annoying”.

amanda , 3 days ago to Technology in don't use ladybird browser lol

It must be an allusion to Stalingrad and presumably the battle there where the red army beat the crap out of the nazis, so you’re not wrong.

amanda , 4 days ago to Technology in AI is about to make software testers redundant

Look, it’s my favourite energy drink Peal Doul!

Joking aside that image is disgusting? Why is it so disgusting?

amanda , 4 days ago to Technology in don't use ladybird browser lol

You joke but I realised I feel exactly the same about this as I do about the choice of C++, which is: deep sigh ok sure

amanda , 4 days ago to Technology in don't use ladybird browser lol

This framing made me read the comment in the link as a transphobic joke (“ha ha I won’t accept your change of gender ie will misgender you”) which would have been a pretty smoking gun if left there, and in case anyone else makes the same incorrect interpretation I’d like to warn them that they’re talking about grammatical gender, in the PR.

I think it’s a stretch to call this transphobia; if anything it’s good ol’fashioned sexism, but a pretty tame one.

amanda , 6 days ago to Technology in Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

Apparently the instruction set is off-brand MIPS64?!

amanda , 7 days ago to Technology in Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more

I’m not an American but my impression is the Supreme Court is mainly designed as a last bulwark to ensure the US never under any circumstances ever does anything remotely good and this isn’t exactly improving that impression.

amanda , 9 days ago to Technology in Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch

Sweden’s mostly on Meta Messenger. WhatsApp is the foreign exchange student protocol.

amanda , 10 days ago to Selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

Can you (or a human) expand NPM, presumably not the Node Package Manager?

amanda , 12 days ago to Technology in Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding

Has anyone been able to find an actual description of what this does? I clicked two layers deep and neither explains the details. It does sound like they’re doing CPU scheduling in the hardware, which is cool and makes some sense, but the descriptions are too vague to explain what the hell this is except “more parallelism goes brrrr” and it’s not clear to me why current GPUs aren’t already that.

amanda , 12 days ago to Technology in Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week

Oh no we’ve gone full circle

amanda , 13 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

Shows how much I know! (Nothing)

amanda , 13 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

I assume we need a lot of breakthroughs to even have useful quantum computing at all, but sure.

Isn’t quantum encryption interesting for end users?

amanda , 13 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

Wow they just…disabled all RAM over 3 GB because some drivers had hard coded some mapped memory? Jfc

amanda , 14 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

The comments on this one really surprised me. I thought the kinds of people who hang out on XDA-developers were developers. I assumed that developers had a much better understanding of computer architecture than the people commenting (who of course may not be representative of all readers).

I also get the idea that the writer is being vague not to simplify but because they genuinely don’t know the details, which feels even worse.