spogbiper
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:34PM (#50342397)
For most of my (male) life, people misspelled my name Aaron as Erin fairly regularly. I think that has contributed to the confusion. I also used to get Arron, Airon, and other variants. The "A-A-Ron" skit has made a noticeable difference in recent years.
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:14PM (#50198252)
They literally could just replant those 300 hectares of forest. Or 3000 hectares to show how sorry they are. It's not irreparable.
Re:Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:45PM (#50090659)
I think they are only in the "home" version, so if you're using a business version of Windows you won't see them
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:12AM (#49979722)
I've used these: https://sensirion.com/media/documents/213E6A3B/63A5A569/Data...
They claim accuracy of +-0.2 c across a wide temperature range and in my use they seem to be. easy to find on a support board for under $10
Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot
on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:49PM (#49846918)
I get the impression that it is, at least to some degree
Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:44AM (#49844593)
On my Pixel I don't even open the Play store for this
Settings, System, Software Updates, App updates
Bonus that any OS or Google services updates are here too
Re:WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:31PM (#49806879)
> If you know what you're doing, WordPress fine.
Probably true, but for whatever reason Wordpress seems to attract an awful lot of people that do not know what they are doing
Re:I said no and Apple said yes
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:54PM (#49805420)
it really is like the meme..
Apple users to Windows users: I feel bad for you
Windows users to Apple users: I don't think about you at all
Re:Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:25PM (#49745391)
Some keyboards of the time period even came with a special "general midi mode" specifically for this, i recall the ensoniq TS12 I used at the time did
Re:Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:58AM (#49552162)
"On Monday, Aug. 31, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) issued a memorandum revoking existing permits for automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, commonly referred to by the brand name "Flock cameras," that are installed within the right of way of roads on the State Highway System."
Very first paragraph. "Flock" is basically being used like "Kleenex" here
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:22AM (#49551529)
downdetector.com is showing Gemini issues as well
Re:Federal Judge Declines to Break Up Google's Ad Technology Business
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:01PM (#49541655)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/apple-maps-changes-name-lak...
Apple updated it yesterday. If I were Google I'd turn down that refresh rate and let someone else take the bad PR next time
Re:I Don't Have a Smartphone
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:55PM (#49541555)
calling it "Google's war" is an interesting take. No doubt they have added some hoops to jump through and reduced freedoms, but Apple has been leading the charge against installing arbitrary software for decades.
Re:Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in t...
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:24AM (#49450806)
sometimes I wish I was born a few decades earlier. it would have been fun to work on things like this when they were new
Re:Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:23AM (#49448725)
Yes, I recall that not all hardware was supported (or well supported) although it wasn't a huge problem and I was able to find drivers for everything I personally needed. Video drivers that supported the full capabilities of the card were the biggest issue as I recall
Re:Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:33PM (#49438532)
I remember that campaign, me and a couple of college buddies convinced an IBM rep that we were an OS/2 User's Group and they sent us a crate full of Warp T-shirts, posters and buttons.
Re:Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:33PM (#49437620)
This study is using water "withdrawal" figures rather than consumptive use. Hydroelectric plants withdraw tons of water, but it goes right back into the river it came from.
Edit - good information on this here: https://news.bgov.com/environment-and-energy/data-centers-us...
The "Consumptive Use vs. Withdrawals" section discusses the trouble with using withdrawal as a meaningful data point.
Re:Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:11PM (#49437323)
Kind of but not really. As I understand it some of the OS/2 dev team at Microsoft was involved in NT (after MS and IBM stopped working on OS/2 together) but they aren't the same code. The NT core is more closely related to DEC VMS than to OS/2. It can be confusing because the name OS/2 was applied to things that are NT at certain points along the way, and NT did have an OS/2 compatibility layer
Re:Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:58AM (#49435312)
I remember being a big OS/2 user/fan and thinking surely everyone would realize that Win95 was inferior. I was wrong.
Re:US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:58AM (#49434266)
Only 0.5 trillion gallons is precious water, the rest is just regular water
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:49PM (#49422513)
that would be nice, but unfortunately I think the supply vs demand situation is quite different this time
Re:Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster mu...
on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:45PM (#49422454)
There's NDK which seems supported. It's been some years since I messed with mobile stuff but https://developer.android.com/ndk
Re:AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before ...
on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:17AM (#49389427)
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html
some form of mandatory deposit law has existed since 1790 in the US. other countries have similar laws. there is a very good chance the government already has a copy of anything that has been copyrighted
Re:Finger: Social network that never died
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:44PM (#49363918)
i remember the good old days of wide open terminal servers. used to dial into my local uni so I could then telnet into MUDs all over the world.
Re:Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:21PM (#49351182)
the information I have says they use 3-5x, which isn't even one order of magnitude
Re:Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts t...
on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:12PM (#49336145)
"rare" is used in these headlines/articles to incite and generate clicks
Re:Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:22PM (#49247633)
once while visiting Peru, I had a vivid memorable dream that my cat was jumping on the bed. woke up to learn that I'd slept through an earthquake.
Re:50k Boat Names
on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:21AM (#49244880)
unsinkable-2 (copy)-FINAL.revised7-4-19
Re:On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:00PM (#49198479)
They aren't banning it. They are introducing a one time 24 hour waiting period. Not ideal, but not banning.
Re:On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:58AM (#49198454)
> install any operating system like you can with an actual computer
This is in practice only true of IBM PC compatibles these days, you really can't install any OS on modern Macs. Maybe you can on (some?) Chomebooks?