overview for ZiemekZ

Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But can it run over wet string, though?

Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Privacy Badger anyone?

New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ 10 points 2 weeks ago

Skip & skim could also stem from the fact that this how a mind used to everpresent ads reads. It's like an adblocker built into your brain.

Google is on the Wrong Side of History. in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Socialism is cyanide and capitalism is cookies. The former will kill you instantly, the second one long-term (diabetes etc.) – what we're looking for is fruit and vegetables, but for now I'm more than glad to eat some cookies.

Google is on the Wrong Side of History. in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ -5 points 2 weeks ago

Leave such takes for .ml, please.

Google is on the Wrong Side of History. in c/technology

ImaGUIck: a simple image processing app in c/selfhosted

[–] ZiemekZ 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But does it support JPEG XL, though?

Explaining green transportation policy to normies in c/fuckcars

[–] ZiemekZ 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Risk of what? Getting run over? It's actually better since 2:30 AM = less traffic. Getting assaulted and/or abducted? Good luck for would-be criminals catching up with you on foot. Even if they're in a car, they usually have to get out of it in order to do their stuff and that limits them to running speed.

China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems surprising, especially because Estonia is known for its digitized government. I logically thought that it'd be complemented with decent Internet coverage.

weirdly poetic in c/fuckcars

[–] ZiemekZ 5 points 1 month ago

stolen from Simon Tatham

I didn't think I'll ever see that PuTTY guy on this part of the Internet, yet there we are lol

Elon Musk Admits To Cheating In Path Of Exile 2 And Diablo 4 Amid Fake Gamer Controversy in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not all incels are Nazis, though.

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too in c/technology

[–] ZiemekZ 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

AFAIK it can't reach feature parity with Discord, it only does text FFS! No video, no voice, not even simple text formatting and emojis! Not to mention plenty of clients are ugly, which can't be said about Discord.