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  • Oh that headline had so much more potential than the article actually delivered on.

    For better or worse, a lot of these types of posts are like that 😅

  • "Comma-la" unfortunately doesn't help much for people without US accents lol (though of course people in the US are who the question and answer are most relevant to). On first reading -- without the accent or something close to it -- it implies "kom-uh-luh", whereas with the accent it implies something more like "kah-muh-luh", just based on how people pronounce "comma" differently.

  • Intel fumbled hard with some of their recent NICs including the I225-V,[1][2] which took them multiple hardware revisions in addition to software updates to fix.

    AMD also had to be dragged kicking and screaming to support earlier AM4 motherboard buyers to upgrade to Ryzen 5000 chips,[3][4] and basically lied to buyers about support for sTRX4, requiring an upgrade from the earlier TR4 to support third-gen Threadripper but at least committing to "long-term" longevity in return.[5][6] They then turned around and released no new CPUs for the chipset platform, leaving people stranded on it despite the earlier promises.[7]

    I know it's appealing to blindly trust one company's products (or specific lineup of products) because it simplifies buying decisions, but no company or person is infallible (and companies in particular are generally going to profit-max even at your expense). Blindly trusting one unfortunately does not reliably lead to good outcomes for end-users.


    edit: "chipset" (incorrectly implying TRX40) changed to "platform" (correctly implying sTRX4); added explicit mention of "AM4" in the context of the early motherboard buyers.

  • There wasn't a lot of time this year since I came into it so late 😅

  • Would be nice to get some Australian fedi instances (e.g. aussie.zone ) written in either the red or blue sections (I think red might be better?) using pixels that are one shade lighter or darker.

  • There's currently no implementation (the repos are currently just skeletons), so it could just be a semantics difference right now.

  • More than 180 firefighters have responded to a huge factory fire in Derrimut, in Melbourne's west, where hazardous material and unknown toxins continue to burn.

    Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) said there had been a large chemical explosion at the factory on Swann Drive, resulting in one of the state's biggest fires in recent years.

    Clearly a plot by big chemical to put the mind control drugs into the air!11!!

    It's good nobody got hurt, given the last time I saw a chemical explosion reach the news (obviously the scale is different, but still)

  • If this was a serious discussion, hey fair enough, but the post is satire, the original comment is tongue-in-cheek, and right now we're just dunking on ourselves and each other for fun!

  • An invented creation used to segment regions of the Earth in homebrew RPG campaigns :P

  • I guess it could be used in many different ways, but when I read it I thought of it in the context of a homebrew campaign's lore (maybe ttrpg memes have corrupted my mind?)

  • There is this

    The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.’s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long—and largely one-sided—correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president’s son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show WikiLeaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.’s cooperation.

    I don't personally know much about it beyond that.

  • I thought Frozen Synapse's ability to let you simulate your opponent's moves was super cool - surprised I didn't end up seeing it in more strategy games (obviously not so much applicable to the normal real-time stuff though!).

  • If you read the article, which part of the last-resort financial consequences do you deem insufficient to curb the "absorb the fines" business approach?

  • Supermarkets that fail to meet these requirements would open themselves to fines worth three times any benefit they derived from their misconduct.

    Alternatively, the fine could be up to $10 million, or 10 per cent of the supermarket's annual turnover if the benefit can't be determined.

    Those fines would need to be approved by a court, but consumer watchdog the ACCC could also issue up-front infringement notices worth up to $187,800 if they believe there has been a breach.

    Are you not entertained?