Welcome to the fediverse! We’ve got Star Trek, Linux, and seasonal beans.

I love my CalcEs simulator app.

This shouldn’t be as relatable as it is…

That’s not how you put a CPU in a socket, silly article!

I thought this was about the UK.

Not detains, kidnaps is the word you were looking for.

I run my own matrix server, too. I’ve never had any issues with updates. Honestly, I just pull the new docker image without thinking twice about it. It is risky, of course, but I have daily automated backups, so I’m not too concerned. Personally, I felt like setting up a matrix server for the first time was the biggest pain in the butt. It’s extremely convoluted with very poorly written documentation that is often outdated or incomplete. After I got through that, it was smooth-sailing from there. Setting up mautrix bridges one you got Synapse to work is actually really easy, though.

These greedy companies never cared about any petitions. My only hope is some powerful legislature putting a stop to this, like the EU.

For some reason, the domain name does not resolve with quad9 :(

Well, affordable for the high quality they deliver, but not as competitively priced as some cheaper crap on the market. Yeah you get what you pay for, but you do have to expect to pay premium prices to Valve (for equally premium devices).

A very rewarding part of getting into 3D printing is that after the initial purchase, I started repairing things left and right like a standing mixer for my grandma or a thread adapter for my partner. I didn’t picture just how many things could be saved and how many purchases would be avoided. I’m always glad to be able to print some niche thing for under a euro worth of material that would otherwise cost 30€ or so and only be available on Amazon. I do realize the irony in having to make a non-insignificant purchase to acquire such a device, but it did open up a whole new world of making things on my own.

We don’t all live in the same neighbourhood.

My immersion is ruined.

Our exam system supports multiple choice and, indeed, collecting that part automatically. (We can still go through the boxes recognized as tick or blank en-masse to check for recognition mistakes.) However, they’re only allowed to make up 20% of an exam according to university-wide rules.

Yeah, but not as much as Beethoven

Here, students can also view their graded exams online. There are some professors that don’t do it out of fear of the exams questions being leaked. In that case, you’d go there in person, but you would definitely not be able to just go through the exams on your own until you find the right one. That would never pass data protection laws.

I recently started getting share.google links to web articles from my parents. I asked them to just give me the direct link instead, but I’m sure Google is making that as unintuitive to the user as possible. I’m not even sure where exactly these links come from.

Safety is not even an excuse, but an actual fair concern. If cars can’t give a damn about passing bikes with sufficient distance, then you’re putting yourself at danger by allowing them to do that.

Tbf, the code combinations on luggage are a scam. You can open them up in under a minute with a YouTube tutorial.

I love the correction system we have at my university. All the exams are pseudonymized with a sticker you receive during the exam and scanned after completion. About 10 to 30 people are involved in correcting the exams for one course. We don’t know who the exams belong to as we only see the scanned version on our tablet or computer. Each task is corrected by a different set of people. We can select to see only a single task or subtask to streamline the process of correction, too. Furthermore, all the tasks are checked twice independently. Once done, the system can assign the exams back to the students. I love how it’s fair and “anonymous” by design.

It will only get worse from here. The internet is getting flooded with slop, diluting the actual human knowledge. If you tried to train it again now, I’m sure the results would be worse due to less quality content in relative terms. This is the thermal death of the internet as the entropy plateaus.