MHLoppy

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

said Prime Minister Netanyahu, “no one should be allowed to have them as they destabilise the region.”

It doesn't have to be completely fictional to be satire

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

If you come to the comments having eaten the ~~onion~~ hard drive I swear to god I'm going to slap you

 

Waluigi, noted foil of Mario and Luigi, has been arrested after being caught masturbating in public at Cheep Cheep Beach.

“I was doing my morning patrols at Cheep Cheep Beach as usual,” says Police Officer Toad, “when I heard this nasally ‘WAA’. It was disturbingly erotic. I went to investigate and that’s when I found Mr. Waluigi with his overalls off, in sexual congress with himself. He most likely chose that location and time of day, because Cheep Cheeps were extremely active, leaping out of the water and enticing people. That’s usually the reason we catch people here.”

After he called it in, Waluigi was detained by a Lakitu with a fishing pole. Many residents observed the lanky man in the air, waving his arms frantically and screaming “WAA!” [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't combine matter and onionmatter, you'll doom us all!!! Keep that to !nottheonion@lemmy.world

 

Israel has put out a plea to the rest of the world saying that anyone who even considers building nuclear weapons should be dealt with.

This comes after a massive war potentially started that stemmed from bombings in Iran following Israel’s yearly tradition of accusing Iran of being ‘close’ to reaching the point where they could eventually have a nuke, and maybe one day even have as many nukes as Israel has.

“The international community must act to stop nuclear proliferation by any means necessary, ” said Prime Minister Netanyahu, “no one should be allowed to have them as they destabilise the region.” [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Fwiw it looks like Cutipol is the brand and that Horne is just the retailer

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

At press time, Game Dev Simulator has been canceled after the studio was acquired by Microsoft and promptly shut down.

o7

 

Fans of the simulator genre have a new game to look forward to and it’s set to be the most realistic one yet. Game Dev Simulator is set to be the most true-to-life simulator game ever made as it consists solely of browsing Indeed.

“We wanted to give gamers the most accurate recreation possible of what it’s like to be a game developer,” said Lead Designer Travis Strickland moments before he was laid off. “We know that gamers are interested in the specifics of how the games they love are made and what it’s like to work in this industry. Using our collective decades of experience, we were able to really fine tune and perfect this simulator to offer an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible. Players will be able to spend hours browsing Indeed, filling out applications and never hearing back.” Strickland was escorted out of the building by security before he could continue. [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago

I think you've tilted slightly too far towards cynicism here, though "it might not be as 'fair' as you think" is probably also still largely true for people that don't look into it too hard. Part of my perspective is coming from this random video I watched not long ago which is basically an extended review of the Fairphone 5 that also looks at the "fair" aspect of things.

Misc points:

  • In targeting Scope 2 emissions they went with renewables to get down to 0 Scope 2 emissions. (p13)
  • In targeting Scope 3 emissions they rejigged their transportation a little (ocean freight instead of flying, it sounds like?) to reduce emissions there. (p14)
  • In targeting Scope 3 emissions they used an unspecified level of renewable energy in late manufacturing with modest claimed emissions reductions. (p14)
  • Retired some carbon credits, which, yes, are usually not as great as we would like, but still. (p14)
  • They may have some impact by choice of supplier even when they don't necessarily directly spend extra cash on e.g., higher worker payments.
  • They may have some impact by engaging with suppliers. They provide small-scale examples of conducting worker satisfaction surveys via independent third party which seemed to provide some concrete improvements (p30) and "supporting" another supplier in "implementing best practices for a worker-management safety committee" (p30).
  • They're reducing exposure to hazardous chemicals in final assembly, and according to them they are "the first company to start eliminating CEPN's second round priority chemicals" (p31). I don't know much about this.
  • With partners, they "organize school competitions in which children are educated about [...] e-waste" (p40).
  • They're "building local recycling capacity" in Ghana by "collaborating" with recycling companies (p40).
  • Extremely high repairability (with modest costs for replacement parts that make it financially sensible to repair instead of replace) keeps more phones in use, reducing all the bad parts of having to manufacture brand new phones.
  • The ICs make up a huge portion of the environmental costs of the phone (both with the FP4 (pp 40-41) and with the FP5 (p10)), and Fairphone isn't big enough to get behemoth chip manufacturers to change their processes (though apparently they're lobbying Qualcomm for socketable designs, as unlikely as that is to happen any time soon). If you accept the premise that for around half of the phone they have almost no impact on in terms of the manufacturing side, it makes their efforts on the rest a bit better, I guess?

So yes, they are a long way from selling "100% fair" phones, but it seems like they're inching the needle a bit more than your summary suggests, and that's not nothing. It feels like you've skipped over lots of small-yet-positive things which are not simply "low economy of scale manufacturing" efforts.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Look at miss moneybags over here, able to afford toilets at their wedding /s

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately it's hard for the rest of us to tell if you actually think you want a video to save you from having to read 18 sentences or if you're just taking the piss lol

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Would love to see tests like this attempting to use DXVK etc (as part of their testing on Windows) to better isolate more factors

 

In a welcome bag filled with favors such as local chocolates, artisanal soaps, and scented candles, guests arriving for the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez this week were reportedly given monogrammed plastic bottles in which to urinate during the ceremony. “Because guests will be strictly prohibited from leaving the room at any time during the festivities, the couple have provided these custom-made bottles as a token of their appreciation.” wedding planner Lucia Contarini said as she showed off a makeshift urine receptacle emblazoned with the initials “J” and “L,” noting that it would be the only option available to attendees who did not wish to wet themselves when they inevitably needed to empty their long-held bladders. [...]

 

When I'm feeling down I like to tune in to my favorite parasocial relationship to be told:

everyone's going to die and to die lonely and alone

it really picks me up

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the relatively short amount of time we've had with computers we've made pretty astounding progress though. If we had had a few million years to improve those silicon brains I think we'd give evolution a run for its money!

 

US President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to the management of Melbourne’s Northland Shopping Centre, declaring the suburban retail hub “a hostile regime” and a “hotbed of terror” that may require military intervention.

Speaking from the White House in the wake of a coordinated US airstrike on Iranian nuclear installations over the weekend, the President confirmed his administration is now “actively considering options” for a similar operation in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. [...]


See also: The Shovel: DFAT upgrades travel warning for Northland Shopping Centre to ‘Do not travel’

 

A small indoor cactus found clinging to life was reportedly facing conditions worse than the actual desert, experts say.

“Cacti is consistently ranked as one of the easiest indoor plants to keep alive,” says botanist Dr. Joseph Graham. “Their low-maintenance and resilient nature make them a perfect choice for beginners, kids, and dumb dumbs. But it’s clear that this particular cactus would have been better off in the harsh, barren, 40 degree desert where it would have at least received a few pathetic drops of water a year than in this suburban home with access to full resources.”

The doomed plant – afflicted with root rot, yellowed spines, and ennui – was left for dead in an unventilated, windowless bathroom. It sat in a decorative pot without drainage, its frayed little plant tag still standing with care instructions begging to be read. The plant’s air quality conditions were determined to be highly toxic due to its location – that being directly atop the toilet tank and below a Febreze plug in. [...]

 

Stressing that the facade informs nearly every aspect of his daily life, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told reporters Thursday that his Christian faith is an important part of who he pretends to be. “Whether I’m delivering a speech calling for theocracy in front of dozens of cameras or talking to my children at the kitchen table about God’s separate roles for men and women, I mean it when I say the mask I wear in public is the same one I wear at home,” said the 45-year-old lawmaker, who confirmed that Christianity has been the foundation of his public-facing identity ever since he was a shameless young prep school student with his sights set on Yale Law School. [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That being said I don't trust Lip-Bu Tan to deliver.

The thing I struggle with about this is understanding how much impact a single person actually has on this stuff, especially since all the fab stuff has been in motion for so long already (2021 called). He's fired / is firing a bunch more people than his predecessor, but beyond that I basically don't even really know what medium-term effect he has on a ~~130,000-~~ ~~120,000-~~ ~~110,000-~~ ~~100,000-~~ 90,000-strong company vs Gelsinger.

 

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance. [...]

 

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently facing charges of racketeering, kidnapping, and coercing women into sexual activities in federal court. Here is everything you need to know about the trial. [...]

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

For platforms that don't accept those types of edits, the link OP tried to submit: https://www.theverge.com/news/690815/bill-gates-linus-torvalds-meeting-photo

 

U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding that he be immediately awarded a Nobel Peace Prize as a reward for single-handedly sparking a potential Third World War with the nation of Iran.

Moments after confirming via his Truth Social website that U.S. forces bombed Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan, the U.S. Commander in Chief began truth-ing directly at the Nobel Prize Committee.

“They said nobody could start a war as quickly as me, and as we all know, war and peace are two sides of the same coin,” Trump wrote from a guest bathroom at his Mar-A-Lago resort. [...]

 

Saying the pampered 6-year-old seemed to think someone should provide her with a midday meal on a regular basis, sources told reporters Thursday that local entitled child Harper Wiley expected to eat lunch each day of her young life. “Can you imagine? Not just on the odd occasion, but every single day!” said a source with knowledge of the situation, contending that if Wiley was given a lunch that consisted of the bare minimum nutrition necessary to sustain herself, the next thing she would be asking for was clean, lead-free drinking water to wash it down with. [...]

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