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Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals
Given Norway is famous for its Salmon, I wonder if those heave metals bioaccumulate?
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Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals
Given Norway is famous for its Salmon, I wonder if those heave metals bioaccumulate?
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Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier:'We Have No Chance Against This'
Make a dumb EV and you immediately get a lot of clients.
An EV doesn't need internet access, doesn't need mics and cameras inside, doesn't need a touchpad or a big screen.
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MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow
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Remember what the maintainer of The Pirate Bay once said?
Never be too certain something won't be enforced, as the power of capitalists are far worse than the public can imagine.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but this may just be the start. Big corps may find their way to control every aspect, step by step.
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Is it ethical to pirate a game to try it, and buy a license later?
Maybe slightly off-topic, I just want to remind that Denuvo used pirated (personal licence) VMProtect in their commercial product.
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Steam store "refresh" is out in beta now, enwidening images and adding infinite scrollage to the homepage
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You can.
Open a publisher page, then in the top right corner, look for a gear icon. Click it, and there's an option to ignore this publisher.
Unfortunately there's a limitation. This works only for those having a dedicated publisher page. For publishers without a dedicated page, Steam will fallback to the search page, which doesn't provide a way to ignore this publisher.
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'
This CEO may think it's developer-friendly, but I highly doubt if Epic will keep such developer-friendly stance if Epic becomes a giant in this industry.
Epic burnt so much money on Epic store these years. If it succeeds, it's very likely Epic will try to earn it back. From player? Will players willing to pay more in Epic store than the others? If the answer is no.. Sometimes it really makes me wonder if these CEOs are really that stupid..
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Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough? This tool is guaranteed to help with that!
I'm not saying this site is malicious, but I have a feeling that, once this becomes viral and people believe these (existing) links are actually safe, this site may go rogue.
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Raspberry Pi is intentionally blocking RAM capacity upgrades
I'm not really familiar with this industry, but as far as I know, there are quite a few pi-named alternatives from China. Banana Pi, Orange Pi, Lichee Pi, and there are probably more. Unless there's something only Raspberry Pi can offer, this looks suicide to me.
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Trump fires the entire National Science Board
Guess who's speedrunning to the stone age.
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lemmy.dbzer0.com now protected by Haphash Proof-of-Work [GenAI] [Instance]
I wonder if this change affects Lemmy clients? I use Voyager and it currently works fine.
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007 First Light has Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM removed
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The problem is, some developers/publishers simply never remove Denuvo.
Some examples I can think of, Ubi seems to never remove Denuvo, SEGA has Denuvo removed for some (probably due to the Denuvo offer at that time), but most are not removed.
I guess some are simply too notorious to really get a sales boost. I really want to buy those Ubi games on 95% off. UPlay required? Bye.
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I wonder how the owner of these cats distinguish them; they're completely identical to me..
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubles down on criticism of AIPAC
AIPAC is leading the political fight to keep Congress pro-Israel, helping pro-Israel candidates win elections and helping defeat detractors of the U.S.-Israel relationship. AIPAC's members contribute directly to Democratic and Republican candidates through the AIPAC PAC. As the largest pro-Israel PAC, our members demonstrate that being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics.
Americans will be mad if the word "Israel" is replaced by words like "China", assuming they can read.
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Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies
I have a feeling this can't be fixed unless they fork from a pre-slop point, which is highly unlikely.
The core problem with AI is not being incapable of generating working code, but the ability to maintain by AI or human.
AI has a larger memory (context size) than human. It can generate codes that are difficult for human to understand, and the complexity can build up fast, especially doing vibe coding without clear instructions (especially architectural).
On reaching a critical level, AI starts to make significantly more errors. At this point, no one can maintain, the codes are spaghetti. I think this is where Windows is at.
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A new Steam game called Congratulations On Your Purchase is priced at $1000, making it one of the most expensive titles on the platform.
I have a feeling that this may break certain terms in their Steam agreement, but I'm not sure.
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‘He’s lied about everything’: Iran war puts Trump on shaky ground with young MAGA men
"America First"? Trump is not wrong, he simply didn't tell you the verb. "Sell America First".
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Relying on Go
This AI slop is so baffling.
GO uses a garbage collector because it has to: removing this GC fundamentally complicates parallelism. If it's manual management, then who owns the data? Of course there are ways to work around, but none of them are free; in fact those can be even more expensive.
Assuming it enforces single ownership, then the allocator is responsible for freeing resources. How can it know the resource can be freed, if the resource is processed in another thread? Inter-thread communication? The complexity will be insane. Pass ownership? There's no move semantic in GO. Reference counting? No such a thing in GO either.
I even have a feeling that those 1.1k stars are fake.
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Chinese rival to Intel and AMD vows to close performance gap with trio of CPUs nicknamed Three Musketeers
This clickbait article is so stupid. What's the point mentioning amd64 cpu manufacturers while the protagonist uses MIPS?
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The day this happens will be the day American democracy is saved.
Not sure if relevant. In Mandarin, "1314" sounds like "一生一世" which means "lifetime".
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Co-op adventure, town-building and survival game Necesse hits the big 1.0
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I played this game earlier this year. I'm not sure about the recent development, but for the time I played it, solo was definitely not a problem. You can even recruit NPCs to help you in hoss fights, and these NPCs have a low cooldown on potion consumption. As long as there's potions, NPCs are unlikely to die. You can even focus on dodging and let NPCs bully bosses. NPCs also help in other perspectives e.g. farming and mining. Its QoL is the best in this genre, in my opinion.