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byShane A Leslie
y 30, 2026 @09:18AM
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Attached to: Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada
Duuude.
Cory literally has copies of his works on Archive.org for FREE. https://archive.org/search?que...
We literally GIVES AWAY his writing so that it is accessible to those that might not be able to buy it. He used to host the free copies directly on his own website.
That is one of the reasons that people like me that understand that he walks the walk he talks make a point of purchasing hardcopies of his books for both personal use and as gifts to others. We actively support him with our money because not only are his fictions well written and good reads, but his technical, political, and social commentary writings are of net benefit to the world at large.
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byShane A Leslie
er 21, 2025 @03:10PM
(#65873321)
Attached to: Google AI Summaries Are Ruining the Livelihoods of Recipe Writers
Thanks!
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byShane A Leslie
er 19, 2025 @08:18AM
(#65868735)
Attached to: Google AI Summaries Are Ruining the Livelihoods of Recipe Writers
Now I want to find that particular cookie recipe!
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byShane A Leslie
ber 09, 2025 @04:56PM
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Attached to: Microsoft 365 Prices Rising For Businesses and Governments in July 2026
Wouldn't just moving all that stuff to an external hard drive and teaching her to use it be easier and cheaper?
Then you bring the secondary backup to sync it with whenever you come to visit.
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byShane A Leslie
mber 06, 2025 @09:46AM
(#65839353)
Attached to: Blackest Fabric Ever Made Absorbs 99.87% of All Light That Hits It
As I goth I approve this statement.
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byShane A Leslie
er 05, 2025 @05:35PM
(#65838301)
Attached to: India Reviews Telecom Industry Proposal For Always-On Satellite Location Tracking
If everyone is going to be tracked all the time then the timeliness, accuracy, and the veracity of publically disclosed location data should directly correlate to the persons potential impact on the economy, law enforcement, lawmaking, and governance at the municipal, regional, and federals levels.
The higher someone is in governmental or corporate power, and those in persistent proximity to those people, the more important it is that timely, accurate, and validated location data for them should be and made available to the general public, law enforcement, and the press.
Nobody gives a fuck about the average person, but the movers and shakers should be watched constantly by everybody.
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byShane A Leslie
er 05, 2025 @10:16AM
(#65837413)
Attached to: Steam On Linux Hits An All-Time High In November
The Win 10 OS partition was 2Tb of Western Digital 4TB WD Red NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD40EFAX bought and freshly installed in July 2023. It was running nice and fast and I had no problems with it at first, but performance degraded over time. I ran the drive diagnostics a couple of months ago and it came back with no issues.
You're right that I am making a somewhat unfair comparison. I have another of the exact same 1Tb SSDs from the exact same decommissioned server, so I'm going to uninstall and clean up that OS drive so a clone of it would fit on 1Tb and do some benchmarking play to see how they compare, and if it's the drive or the OS that is causing the bottleneck and choking.
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byShane A Leslie
ber 02, 2025 @11:28AM
(#65830271)
Attached to: Steam On Linux Hits An All-Time High In November
I'm a janitor, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know how to sharpen myself when needed.
My main system was first built in 2005 when my then room mate bought me all the components. Since then I've maxed out the CPU and RAM, put in a GPU as good as I could before hitting motherboard bottleneck. It ran everything I wanted well, up to and including Half Life Alyx on a second hand VR rig. Then over the past year or so the performance of the Win 10 installation started to degrade; taking literally 10 minutes to boot up and settle down enough to use and freezing up for minutes at a time or having to reboot on occasion. Frustrating.
I threw an old 1TB SSD I harvested from a decommissioned server from the IT room at work that was getting thrown out and installed Ubuntu Linux on it two weeks ago. Took about an hour. Took longer to download Steam the two games I'm currently playing on the Win 10 drive. That Ubuntu installation Steam games, and Chrome, which was pretty much all I was using that system for besides watching pirated movies, boots in under a minute now and I'm getting satisfactorily comparable performance. I know there are tweeks I need to learn about to get the best performance, and that will be a leisurely endeavor over the next few weeks.
I'm happy enough with the Ubuntu that this morning I booted up the Win 10 drive for the first time since I installed Ubuntu (because I had not found a need to do so previously) to copy over all my 'files' from my profile onto an external HDD and run chkdsk to make that external HDD accessible to Ubuntu. Once I've finished that migration I plan to clean and clear that Win 10 installation down to bare bones and shrink that drive down to free space on the 'data' partition for use when I'm running Ubuntu.
This kind of migration is probably happening all over the planet by gamers that have perfectly fine rigs of hardware capable of running their 10s of thousands of hours worth of backlogged Steam and Epic games that want an up-to-date OS but are not willing to or unable to shell out for a new system just because Microsoft wants more profits.
If you're in an IT role in a corporation, government, or NGO where they will be decommissioning a lot of old Win 10 boxes because they can't upgrade to 11 I beg of you, please, get under the skin of your marketing department to get them obsessed with the idea of getting the company 'good optics' in the local media by wiping those systems of Windows, installing Linux, and giving them away to local underprivileged children. A Linux box, a keyboard, a mouse, and an HDMI cable to attach it to the family TV will mean that there will be an entire generation of kids growing up with Linux and FOSS.
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byShane A Leslie
er 28, 2025 @09:42AM
(#65822969)
Attached to: Epic's Sweeney Says Platforms Should Stop Tagging Games Made With AI
I want every part of the artistic work for a game to be done entirely by a human being.
The front end visual assets, sound design, music, plot, dialogue, etc..
I'll make allowances for someone working on the back end engine to use AI coding assistance to make their workflow easier, but not the artistically creative elements.
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byShane A Leslie
er 28, 2025 @09:30AM
(#65822955)
Attached to: Epic's Sweeney Says Platforms Should Stop Tagging Games Made With AI
High time for someone to rework this...
https://youtu.be/bkSNXwBWqHI?s...
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byShane A Leslie
mber 20, 2025 @10:25AM
(#65806961)
Attached to: Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
Read Accelerondo by Charles Stross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That will scratch that itch.
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byShane A Leslie
ember 19, 2025 @04:48PM
(#65805673)
Attached to: UK To Ban the Resale of Tickets For Profit To Protect Fans
Dude, you know you're being disingenuous.
Are you a devout Capitalist that would prefer that there be no regulations on the market to protect people from other peoples predation?
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byShane A Leslie
ber 18, 2025 @07:37PM
(#65803765)
Attached to: Cloud-Native Computing Is Poised To Explode
And why are being 'processed'?
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byShane A Leslie
mber 15, 2025 @06:28PM
(#65797997)
Attached to: Sony Killed This Game in 2024. Three Developers Reverse-Engineered It Back to Life
Maybe canceling the game and then having some Intrepid Mega fans reverse engineer to get it up and running again will create the cultural traction that they were actually going for to draw in a player base? Don't forget if you give Bob Dobbs $5 you get to go to paradise, or three times your money back.
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byShane A Leslie
mber 13, 2025 @08:34AM
(#65792886)
Attached to: Valve Enters the Console Wars
I've got extra drives,I'll check that one out as well. Thanks.
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