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ciwolsey··on U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile
It's not going great for America.
ciwolsey··on Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity
It's rich people . They also complain that wind turbines are too noisy.
ciwolsey··on Claude 4
Far too expensive to care
ciwolsey··on Zed – The Editor for What's Next
If it's so decent why isn't there even a version for Windows....
ciwolsey··on Intel's BIOS updates for crashing CPUs are now rolling out
I'm probably switching to Amd too in a month. I haven't upgraded since 2016 either. I was planning to go from 6700k to 14700k. Now I'm considering a 9950X if the pricing and performance are good. Think they're due in a couple of weeks. I'll be staying with nvidia though. Just hope pairing NVIDIA with Amd cpus won't cause issues.
ciwolsey··on Windows 11 now comes with its own adware
Scaling is still a mess.
ciwolsey··on Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
Garbage collection causes performance issues.
ciwolsey··on Meta Horizon OS
You have no choice, so no point worrying about it.
ciwolsey··on Thetawave: A physics based, space shooter game made with Rust and the Bevy engi
Not everyone is trying to write the next hit game. You sound up your own ass.
ciwolsey··on Doomscroller.xyz
Site doesn't even work on Android.
ciwolsey··on Covid Made Heart Disease Deadlier, Puzzling Scientists
Forced how?
ciwolsey··on Houthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia
I can't see why the internet would reset us to the the bronze age. I think what they're saying is it's more likely to reset us to similar state to when the internet wasn't common-place, ie, the 80s.
ciwolsey··on Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible
I don't know why people are shocked by Apple anymore. We know exactly what to expect from them.

If you want to support a terrible company, then you can endure the terrible results.

What are we trying to achieve here? A u-turn on a terrible decision so that we can keep using Apples devices in complete ignorance for yet another decade or until their next disgusting move? How about we let them be terrible and go elsewhere?

No way I'm signing this, you've all made your bed now lie in it.

ciwolsey··on The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days
It's working for me.
ciwolsey··on VideoPoet A large language model for zero-shot video generation
Why should I care about this? I don't care what google have hidden away. The best AIs are always going to be for the the most privileged.
ciwolsey··on Aurga dongle can remote control any device, even a headless PC with no OS
You could just go look at the videos section.
ciwolsey··on Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity
Personally I think a lot of people just don't understand how far, both feature and performance wise Godot is compared to Unity and Unreal Engine.
ciwolsey··on Raspberry Pi 5
Out of curiosity which brands?
ciwolsey··on UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
Correct, there's been no ammendment to the bill, only promises it's not going to be used.
ciwolsey··on The ideal viewport doesn't exist
I refuse to read anything even remotely related to accessibility written by someone dumb enough to put white text on a yellow background.
ciwolsey··on Shazam for singing
Just tested sound hound and it got the first song wrong. Never known shazam to do that
ciwolsey··on We need scientific dissidents
You mean like drug abuse?
ciwolsey··on We need scientific dissidents
I don't agree anyone let scientists drive the bus. Scientists advised and the responsibility of balancing that advise against factors such as the economy was entirely the responsibility politicians and leaders.
ciwolsey··on Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury after Covid-19 Vaccination
Yeah why does this person know several dozen but I don't know of anyone? Clearly there's a major difference here.
ciwolsey··on Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix
Why does there have to be an audience, or why can't it be other people interested in Rust?
ciwolsey··on SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
You pay out your ass for one of Elons cars and he's credited with the carbon footprint benefits. Why should he get all the credit?
ciwolsey··on SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
Or how many times over they don't make up for it.
ciwolsey··on Russia readies next-generation suicide drones
Also, were missiles ever something that didn't suicide?
ciwolsey··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
For other UK citizens: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725
ciwolsey··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
I think he's genuinely confused, and as a citizen of the UK, so am I..
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