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wnevetson EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

> what kind of temperature difference can you get inside vs outside?

Enough to prevent death. When I was growing up we used duct tape and cardboard boxes.

wnevetson EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

To prevent the cold air from escaping.

wnevetson EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

Those type of windows exist in America and for $20 you can buy a kit for them on Amazon.

wnevetson EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

There is something very wrong in the EU if installing a life saving window air conditioner requires a permit or signed approval from every person in the building.

wnevetson EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

Something is very wrong with the EU if ordinary Europeans can't afford a $150 window unit.

wnevetson 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

Did you really skip the article AND the comment I initially replied to?

wnevetson 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

Please stop defending Nazis.

wnevetson Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

Can you fit a decent LLM on a thumbdrive?

wnevetson Om Malik has died

> (remember him? of course not!)

I long for those days.

wnevetson Om Malik has died

> Malik was also a frequent guest on the former CrankyGeeks podcast with John C. Dvorak.

That takes me back, he was always great on that show.

wnevetson Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

Whatever happened to that Facebook cryptocurrency?

wnevetson Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

> The saying "money can't buy happiness" is in fact true no matter how much people want to rationalize the opposite.

I'm willing to test this theory out, send me some money.

wnevetson VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

Good thing Brexit happened to prevent government overreach.

wnevetson How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

> Who uses service providers like this?

People who don't want their headless browser to get blocked?

wnevetson US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

Its not right to steal what I worked so hard to steal from someone else. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhvd6bIRPK4

wnevetson U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

> reduce America's standing in the world.

That is the goal.

wnevetson Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts

Why do you need an "Engine" for wallpapers in the first place?

wnevetson Fox to buy Roku

The last thing the world needs is even more media consolidation.

wnevetson Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

According this administration forever chemicals are good but vaccines for deadly diseases are bad.

wnevetson How to earn a billion dollars

> pg's reading of it is so blunt and misrepresentative that I'm nervous about what kind of content he's consuming.

Does this mean you haven't been following his twitter the past several years?

wnevetson Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

The party of free market capitalism strikes again.

wnevetson Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

Computer, make nuclear reactor. No mistakes.

wnevetson If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

This has been my rule since the moment generative AI hit the scene. If you're not willing to put in the effort to create the thing, why should I put in effort to consume it?

wnevetson Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

> That's going to give back the productivity gain and more, while also decreasing my quality of life.

but did we increase our EBITDA for the quarter?

wnevetson ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light

> Where was all the outcry when Obama and Biden were deporting way more per year than Trump is?

It sounds like you are saying you believe Trump is weaker on border security than Obama & Biden.

wnevetson Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Which free CA should I use instead of lets encrypt that has same browser support?

wnevetson Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Maybe consolidating ~60% of the web's certificates on to a single provider was a mistake.

wnevetson Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

> It's strange to me that Apple would choose to disadvantage themselves by selecting Google as their provider as opposed to, say, Anthropic or even OpenAI. Doesn't this mean they'll struggle more to differentiate themselves from the assistant on Android phones? Thinking more cynically, couldn't Google, if they wanted, feed Apple an inferior version of Gemini, ensuring they stay ahead?

Is it really all that difference from Apple defaulting to Google's search engine?