Notices by Amikke (amikke@qoto.org)

@coolboymew apparently it’s completely fake and valve had no hand in creating this website.

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@mangeurdenuage @coolboymew IIRC “leaky gut” is 100% bullshit, homeopathy-tier altmed.

@mangeurdenuage @MK2boogaloo @coolboymew damn, I didn’t think it was that bad. And here we were joking about the UK potentially becoming the first formerly developed country…

@coolboymew @MK2boogaloo @mangeurdenuage Them’s fighting words. France being officially a developed country should not be as centralised, but the other big cities are probably not much better when it comes to cost of living.

@lanodan @coolboymew there’s a picture of that somewhere but I can’t find it :-/

@lanodan @coolboymew apparently the Event Horizon Telescope (global array of radio-telescopes) uses people flying on planes with suitcases full of HDDs as the main form of data transfer.

Each telescope records at a rate of 64 Gbps, and each observation period can last more than 10 hours. This means each site generates around half a petabyte of data per run. With each site recording simultaneously, Blackburn said the high recording speed and sheer volume of data captured made it impractical to upload to a cloud.

@coolboymew the funniest part is that occasionally someone does strap whatever the current equivalent of a terabyte SD card is to a homing pigeon and beats an ISP in throughput. I’ve seen news of one of those cases relatively recently. (This year or the past couple of years.)

@mw1cgg honestly baffling that’s legal in the USA at all. Try that in an EU country and whatever local branch of the government enforces workers’ rights will happily explain to you how much you need to fuck off. Not to mention that if you get away with it and try to enforce it, you’ll be laughed out of court, likely also starting a separate case of breaking employment laws.

Employers borrow a portion of your time, not take ownership of your life. Stuff like this should never happen in a country that claims to be civilised.

@coolboymew we’re slowly approaching the point at which CGI in anime is net positive. Only took like 20 years.

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London: shuts down pop-up urinals because they killed or injured too many people
This startup: fine, I’ll do it myself

@matrix literal zoomer

@coolboymew I’ve seen a story (I think in Derek Lowe’s In the Pipeline blog) where during research on the effects of caffeine on muscle performance an intern made an oopsie by weighing out two orders of magnitude more caffeine than was prescribed. Apparently no alarm bells went off in his head while preparing a decent pile of the stuff. The unfortunate athlete test subjects spent ~a month in hospital and left much, much leaner.

@VD15 @coolboymew @adiz the xbox OS is a virtualised abomination based on Windows Core, which is a slightly stripped down version of plain desktop Windows. You could probably run linux on it without issue if the system wasn’t super locked-up precisely to prevent that.

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@nixCraft day ruined