Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

TL;DW: it never was a good theory and the majority of physicists stopped caring about a long time ago because of that

Interesting topic, but the random usage of “AI” to do things because they did not want to x, followed by them doing x anyways a paragraph down was weird. Also all the xitter LinkedIn style posts and pages of slop code made it awful to read…

Where is “PDF is a database” on the alignment chart?

You cannot fix society with technology, the end.

A good friend has one, also only for one ear. People don’t really notice, I’d say. I don’t think it really restored a lot of hearing but he still wears it usually as it is still better than nothing. He got it pretty quickly after his hearing loss, so no idea how that would be after 20 years. He got them for free through standard health care as far as I know. I don’t think he’d be willing to pay a lot for it if he had to. But I never asked that directly. Not aure if that helps. If you want I can try to ask him some specific questions if I remember to do so.

Don’t have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.

I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

Support for overthrowing the government you say. Hmmmm let me think 🤔🤔 Who. Who could that be?

It’s based on a report from Deutsche Bank finical analysts that said that the enormous spending on “AI” is the only reason the US economy isn’t in recession already.

Not a musician, so honest question. Is her music actually bad from a theory perspective? I mean its unlikely to be ground breaking. But for pop, my assumption would be that it’s more towards the upper end.

It definitely is/was. Most user facing software these days is a web app, or native application using JS anyways. The event loop and async programming is also ubiquitous nowadays in most languages, especially server side.

If you want a fun read how, once again, the government socializes losses so the rich can keep their privatized gains. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115278892228192244 TL;DR they outsourced their IT security (to a company part of management owned), laid off staff and then got owned.

The true turing test

Anyone in Metal Gear Rising: Revengance of course!

Check out Hitler’s paintings. He didn’t get into art school, sure, but they aren’t awful. It is certainly beyond anything the average person could just draw without practice. This is just garbage.

I mean pedo shit aside, that’s a way shittier card and drawing than I imagined. A second grader could draw something more artistic, damn.

Oof three comments on the heating one and all are classic “oh no my economy” climate crisis denying dumb asses. Who would have thought that China was the only country giving me real hope for some reasonable outcome…

I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.

And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.

That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.

I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new “open-source” driver only supports the RTX cards.