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SparkleBunny··on Zhaoxin ZX-E / KX-6000 CPU review
lunis twat tips
SparkleBunny··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
I was making fun of the fact that he thought 32 was pro. I slam into the 64gb limit on my laptop daily.
SparkleBunny··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
I have 64GB in my Thinkpad P71. I got it ~2 years ago. Why so much ram? I make money with this beast. How's your Starbucks?
SparkleBunny··on AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs
Latency! Lack thereof, actually. I bought an Ipad just to be able to use them. My second Apple product. The first was a Macintosh SE. That says something.
SparkleBunny··on The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline
I doubt this.

"After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline."

It seems to have been a problem for some time.

SparkleBunny··on US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019)
1.) When did you graduate? 2.) How has employment been? Not snark; genuinely curious.
SparkleBunny··on A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
Furthermore, if you're watching from within Firefox you can lock the screen without the video stopping.
SparkleBunny··on A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
Welcome back to Firefox all!

Get NoScript while you're at it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

SparkleBunny··on Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
You can disable the ads in the steam client by going into Setting > Interface > Uncheck "Notify me about additions or changes to my games, new releases, and upcoming releases."

https://i.imgur.com/Gh9V45t.png

SparkleBunny··on IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows
We're talking about IBM here. It's "System Z."
SparkleBunny··on Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-02-04/phantom-expander-targ...
SparkleBunny··on We Must Prepare for the Next Pandemic
At least Madagascar will make it out alive.
SparkleBunny··on Quora pays thousands for posting questions
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...

For me, it's "Pinterest, what's that?"

SparkleBunny··on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
We don't like being spied on.
SparkleBunny··on Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack
Their "backups" were both online and on the same network. Lol. There's a reason tapes still exist.
SparkleBunny··on Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
Imac G4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4
SparkleBunny··on Intel won’t release Spectre patches for some older chips after all
I wouldn't even bother mentioning X86(64) in the context of RISC-V. When RISC-V becomes financially viable for manufacturers they'll switch. Cost alone is enough to justify the change. Most of the innovation happening these days is in the mobile sector with mobile devices replacing more and more of the average consumer's computing needs. This alone has made for some pretty nimble software already. Every device sold with one of those ARM-based processors has an Arm holding "tax." ALL vendors are happy to not pay that tax and will be even happier to have nothing to do with ARM Holdings at all (I've heard they're shit to work with). Arm and RISC-V are both RISC architecture; not hard for software to switch. What happens in the mobile sector will trickle down to the rest of the tech industry. Microsoft has even embraced RISC with Windows on snapdragon devices. I doubt the consumer will even notice a difference.
SparkleBunny··on Intel won’t release Spectre patches for some older chips after all
RISC-V: A new hope
SparkleBunny··on Intel won’t release Spectre patches for some older chips after all
I think the "awkward conversations" are already over:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16737072

SparkleBunny··on The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero
Noscript.
SparkleBunny··on Motel Living and Slowly Dying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte,_Montana#Berkeley_Pit
SparkleBunny··on Samsung DeX
Hello fellow dex user. I had the same experience with firefox and discovered a "solution" - DEX developer mode [1].

Yeah, zooming is a fucking mess. To zoom in firefox, doubleclick the mouse, and while HOLDING ON THE SECOND CLICK you can move the mouse up and down to zoom. Neither control +/- and control + scroll wheel work.

Selecting text: click on a word and hold the mouse button down. This works exactly like long-pressing on a touchscreen and getting the text select pop-up.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/help/firefox-...

SparkleBunny··on MINIX: ​Intel's hidden in-chip operating system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
SparkleBunny··on Humble Book Bundle: Hacking Reloaded
Shout-out to them for not backing down when publishing Bunnie Huang's "Hacking the Xbox." Even MIT refused to have his back.
SparkleBunny··on Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand'
That's your fault for not using uBlock Origin.
SparkleBunny··on Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand'
They've been shit for a while now. Switch to imgur and be done with it.
SparkleBunny··on Intel to cut IoT jobs
It's #TLA, yo.
SparkleBunny··on We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with the Better Ads Standards
Kiss Forbes' bullshit goodbye!

https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer

If you use UblockOrigin this is already an option in settings under "3rd-party filters."