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• Post #4396661

  Now I am your average landlubber but I hear there are these things called waves at sea, which means spinning disks are out of question, all cables need to be specially made or picked to allow for bolting down, you need to make sure ram sticks or graphics cards don't come flying off the servers when they may do so even while transporting a PC on the highway, and the only reliable way to bring in a sysadmin or engineer quickly is via some rope dangling from an helicopter Definitely an idea o...

• Post #3691283

  *Tinfoil hat on* I doubt it's a coincidence that the last 10, 15 years things like cryptocurrencies, "metaverse", "AI" are becoming popular, just as "lines" in the computing industry flatten: as the computer has been perfected, an _economy of waste_ is created to sustain appetite for growth. Computers (phones, tablets &c are computers) have become longer term investments; even if you have abundant money, the latest devices aren't necessarily upgrades t...

• Post #2914137

  Damn, this is a first, Brill won't let me have the book I want if I try to get it from its page with institutional login, but if I get to it with Ebsco of my uni then I can get the PDF? Whaaat??

• Post #2914136

  If I was more of a bitter nerd I'd be insisting on calling my phone a PDA or pocket computer instead.

• Post #2914135

  ⏰ When I see lists like this, 🤔 I think to myself 💩 Wow, this must be "AI" generated... 🚭 ...I won't read it 🖔 🖔 Just FYI

• Post #2914134

  Bring back background filling for icon labels I CAN'T READ THIS SHITE IDIOT COMPUTER SHAGGERS YOU DIMWITS YOU DESERVE THE FUCKING GUILLOTINES

• Post #2914133

  «Aro/Ace Online Talk Series» «The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network is excited to announce its Aro/Ace Talk Series running throughout the summer. Every week on Friday at 3 pm (UK time, exception noted in schedule), we will be joined by researchers, activists and academics who will give us insight into their projects and current topics in aro/ace research from asexual geographies to aromantic belonging, online fandoms, activism, disability and the erotics of editing.» https://n...

• Post #2914132

  Everyone: fake it till you make it Google, lately: make it till you fake it

• Post #2914131

  2000-2009 -- Noughties 2010-2019 -- Naughties 2020-2029 -- Ouchies

• Post #2276205

  Any recommendations for an introductory textbook on social theory? I am preparing a syllabus for myself to catch up on social theory, chiefly from Marx up to post-colonial/structuralist stuff, as relates to history in particular and humanities an social sciences in general, as it's an area I'm sorely lacking in. I've some particular interests like Marxism, feminism, and Bourdieu, but I am thinking perhaps following a textbook would be more productive and would be less...

• Post #1484123

  We should get building web directories again. Curated, collaborative, intentional. The age of the search engine is gone by.

• Post #848473

  https://discuss.kde.org/t/framework-becomes-a-kde-patron/45701/10 This is incredible. Basically KDE is telling us some 150 dorks decide everything and "community" doesn't matter, ofc because "community" is a fiction Well, I'm done with KDE forever