jonhendry

joined 2 years ago
[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I could see Linux attracting the "I am a superior intellect" types and then those people drifting rightward over the last ten years. If they didn't start out far right.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

The best way of conserving nature is to build a ginormous wall 110 miles long and 1,600 feet high that utterly destroys wildlife's ability to traverse territory it has been traversing for eons. It is known.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Why… why do they need a racing team? Why does the racing team need a lego set? Who is buying it for 27 dollars? (Well apparently the answer to that last question is nobody)."

Apparently NEOM is sponsoring some McLaren Formula E teams. (Formula E being electric). Google Pixel, Tumi luggage, and the UK Ministry of Defence are other sponsors, but NEOM seems to be the major sponsor.

I assume the market for these is not so much NEOM fans but rather McLaren fans.

As to why NEOM is sponsoring it, I think it's a bit of Saudi boosterism or techwashing to help MBS move past the whole bone saw thing.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Apparently there's another brand that describes its scents as "(rich durian & mellow cheese)"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I suspect a 194 dB fart would blow the person in half.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I can see it making sense, what with CPUs moving to integrated RAM, and probably CPU-integrated flash, to maximize speed. The business of RAM and flash drive upgrades will become a very large but shrinking retrocomputing niche probably served by small Chinese fabs.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

"they call this “training” but i try to avoid anthropomorphising chatbots"

You can train animals, you can train a plant, you can train your hair. So it's not really anthropomorphising.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh no

He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

It is 1992 and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

Does it have GPS so it can flash "WRONG HOUSE, FUCKWIT"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

PORN site encrypts random nonce

Really unfortunate word in this context. (Not your fault of course.)

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

"And then after the apocalypse the techbro families died out because their children had heads too big to be born without a surgeon."

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