Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
Stopping visiting #CondéNast sites has not been easy. #Slashdot and #ArsTechnica have been two of my most visited sites forever!
But after learning of their treatment of their union workers, I can't in good conscience give them my attention.
Ah yes, the fastest CPUs… patiently waiting to be allowed to exist. 😼
Slashdot reader BrendaEM asks why boot + boot-drive selection can take so long—despite 4–5 GHz CPUs—wondering if it’s UEFI bloat and even calling out modern boards doing memory characterization.
How long do you wait just to pick Windows vs Linux?
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/0111249/ask-slashdot-whats-your-boot-time

How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM. Say you want separate Windows and Linux boot processes, and "You have Windows on one SSD/NVMe, and Linux on another. How long do you have to wait for a chance to choose a boot drive?" And more importantly...
"#ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years - #Slashdot"
"Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago" i.e. tell me I'm old without telling me I'm old 😅
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/0053233/reactos-celebrates-30-years

jeditobe writes: ReactOS, the open-source operating system aimed at binary compatibility with Windows, recently marked its 30th anniversary. Launched in 1996, ReactOS has focused on providing a free alternative to Windows, with compatibility for Windows applications and drivers. Though still in deve...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Nearly five million social media accounts belonging to Australian teenagers have been deactivated or removed, a month after a landmark law barring those younger than 16 from using the services took effect, the government said on Thursday. ...
Just stumbled upon the old #Slashdot post where founder #RobMalda aka #CmdrTaco proposed to his then-girlfriend. How cute! They married later that year, and have remained married ever since.
https://slashdot.org/story/02/02/14/143254/kathleen-fent-read-this-story
Kathleen, I wanted to do this in this most potentially embarassing way possible, and I figured doing it here and now, in front of a quarter of a million strangers was as good a way as any. I love you more then I can describe within the limits of this tiny little story. We've been together for many...
Im Geiste der aktuellen Bestrebungen, sich von ausbeuterischen Großkonzernen frei zu machen (#DID, #DUD), möchte ich auf meinen Artikel hinweisen, wo ich erkläre, weshalb man bei der Auswahl, wo man sich im Internet einbringt, genauer hinschauen soll.
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in #WebForums Like #Reddit, #HackerNews, #Slashdot, #StackOverflow, ...
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/ (habe ich auch damals am #37C3 mal vorgetragen)
Der Aspekt, der damals noch keine Rolle gespielt hat war, dass die #KI die Beitragsautor:innen ausbeutet, um beispielsweise damit Profit zu machen.
insofern: überlegt euch, auf welchen Plattformen ihr euer Wissen teilt. Ein eigener #Blog mit RSS/Atom-Feeds wird zusehends spannender.
#DigitalIndependenceDay #digitaleSouveränität #EU #Dezentralisierung
Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc). Most of the initial design and protocol work is done, as well as a working server and a few test clients."...
RoboCrop: Teaching #Robots How To Pick Tomatoes - #Slashdot
That's the #AI we want to see!
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/2323241/robocrop-teaching-robots-how-to-pick-tomatoes
alternative_right quotes a report from Phys.org: To teach robots how to become tomato pickers, Osaka Metropolitan University Assistant Professor Takuya Fujinaga, Graduate School of Engineering, programmed them to evaluate the ease of harvesting for each tomato before attempting to pick it. Fujinaga'...