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goodpointon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

base load is a myth

goodpointon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

No. Either it's profitable or it is not. It is not.

goodpointon How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

By being more expensive?

goodpointon Saving another 100TB of RAM

TLDR: the existing implementation was poorly designed. They packed 2 integers better and saved memory.

goodpointon CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

Is it specific about DefCon or are you describing the US?

goodpointon Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

"nothing good" is more accurate

goodpointon Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

Google is objectively the worst

goodpointon What will our economic future look like?

It happens in cycles throughout history: inequality increases until it reaches a breaking point.

goodpointon Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

way too expensive

goodpointon Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak

flatpak is unsustainable

goodpointon AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

90% of this stuff should be illegal

goodpointon Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

There has been successful honeypots like EncroChat. What's the evidence that GrapheneOS is not yet another one?

goodpointon That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

> Be honest; it’s more likely you will be hired by honest people.

He applied for Microsoft.

goodpointon A week in Matrix

XMPP

goodpointon Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea

Drops add up, just like using gas, oil, coal...

goodpointon A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

For the next 6 months until they get all replaced by robots

goodpointon Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

"indoctrination" means teaching people what to think instead of teaching how to think critically and skeptically.

goodpointon Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

Religious trauma is documented in psychology. People suffer when they are indoctrinated by their parents.

> this just feels mean and divisive from the perspective of a conservative OR a Christian

If they feel offended maybe they should ask themselves some hard questions instead of demanding the speaker to hide his experience.

goodpointon Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

It's not just pay gap. A lot of FAANGs treat employees as very disposable and fire people with an email, but at least provide learning opportunities, growth, have budget for projects... other companies can be much worse.

goodpointon Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

no

goodpointon Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

6 inches is the bare minimum for an e-reader lol

goodpointon Designing and assembling my first PCB

Their shipping costs are too high.

goodpointon CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

There's a ton of sock puppet accounts here and on other sites shilling it.

goodpointon Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

That does not justify not looking at the road.

goodpointon FAANG Simulator

Look at salaries for the other 95% of human population on levels.fyi - earning $100k at 25 years is incredible privilege.

goodpointon FAANG Simulator

Now make it 10x more difficult for those not born in the US.

goodpointon Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

Maybe you should ask yourself why you are not looking at the road in the first place.

goodpointon LineageOS Statistics

That's really depressing.

goodpointon StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

Also Duolingo's gamification is too obnoxious

goodpointon CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

Stop shilling graphene. We can tell.