crocowhile (u/crocowhile)

crocowhile commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda

osigurdson · a month ago

Do you use a laptop? It seems that doing the right then when opening / closing the lid only happened in the past 5 years or so.

crocowhile · a month ago

Changed many laptops in the past 20 years. I have run Linux on dell XPS, Asus zensomething, now hp dragonfly. No problem.

crocowhile commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda

crocowhile · a month ago

I have been using Linux exclusively for twenty years now. I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest.

crocowhile commented on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration ankursethi.com/blog/gemin... · Posted by u/speckx

crocowhile · 2 months ago

I got a Gemini API key once. I was overcharged £350, took me ages to find a way to file a complain, and at the end they refunded me only the google charges and not the VAT.

Never again, thanks.

crocowhile commented on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI · Posted by u/Weves

crocowhile · 3 months ago

In a landscape where every week we have a different leading model, these systems are really useful for the power users because they keep the interface and models constant and allow to switch easily using API via openrouter or naga. I have been using openwebui which is under active development but I'll give this a try.

crocowhile commented on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance elifesciences.org/article... · Posted by u/nabla9

Vera_Wilde · 3 months ago

Worms are great, but they're not your grandma.

So one thing missing from the excitement around this line of work: how little these worm effects generalize to mammals.

C. elegans has very unusual biology — direct soma→germline communication pathways, minimal nervous systems, and short generational cycles. Epigenetic inheritance is much easier to observe there than in mice or humans, where mechanisms differ and dilution across meiosis tends to erase these “marks.”

This means that, even if the PA14 avoidance effect replicates, it’s not evidence that humans inherit learned behaviours. It’s evidence that worms are an interesting edge-case system.

crocowhile · 3 months ago

So what? Not everything has to be about humans.

crocowhile commented on Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules apnews.com/article/pentag... · Posted by u/pjmlp

qqxufo · 4 months ago

Curious how long this will actually last before the outlets cave under access pressure again. Has anything like this worked before?

crocowhile · 4 months ago

It has worked in the UK. The then government had decided to unilaterally exclude some "hostile" media from the room and all the others walked out in protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/03/political-j...

crocowhile commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener

phba · 6 months ago

The business incentive is funneling new users into their walled garden. If they could, they would assign a MS account to every newborn. There are still loopholes to protect your children from Minecraft's new "features" (at least for Linux users, ask privately), but it's only a matter of time until they are closed to appease the gods of enshittification.

crocowhile · 6 months ago

The problem is that my kids want to play on online servers and for as much as they are learning to hate Microsoft, they still love Minecraft. I don't think loopholes can help with that, can they?

crocowhile commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener

ttiurani · 6 months ago

As a bonus, you can can get completely stuck if you made the mistake of creating a MS family when signing into Minecraft. In the forums there are hundreds of problems like mine where the family becomes completely uneditable and Minecraft offline-only.

But I should've never attempted anything that complicated with MS. They can barely manage simple cases, groups of users is way too hard.

crocowhile · 6 months ago

Just going through that myself. My son's Microsoft account was hacked, we contactes customer service and all they did was acknowledge the account was compromised, close it indefinitely asking us to buy the game again, and locked my account as the family manager. Fortunately I am a Linux guy and the last Microsoft thing I've touched was windows xp some 20 years ago. But imagine thinking this is acceptable?!

I guess they still suffer from monopoly syndrome. The EU should get them again.

crocowhile commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener

crocowhile · 6 months ago

It gets much worse than this if you think about what they decided to do with Minecraft. They obliged millions of kids - literally, kids - to have a microsoft account to play a game that has nothing to do with any other microsoft products. They apply sub-standard and child-unfriendly security measures and when armies of kids get hacked (mostly phished) every day the only thing they do is to close down their account and FORCE them to buy the game again.

I still have to understand whether it's incompetence or a business model.

crocowhile commented on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T

kridsdale1 · 7 months ago

Please elaborate.

crocowhile · 6 months ago

The conclusions are pushed and hyperbolic exactly to get this type of reaction from the public, at best conflating control with function (we solved sleep) while the sleep phenotype itself is basically non-existing.

Proper rebuttals will come up in due time on the appropriate channels. all the colleagues I talked to are as pissed off as I am about this way of doing science.

u/crocowhile

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