So, Peter Thiel has sold off all stock in NVidia. Following SoftBank’s complete NVidia stock sell-off. Well done. The self-fulfilling prophecy is now underway, and the AI-collapse is about to begin. All it’ll take it one more market wobble.
Category: micro
Freedom from ads is the best gift you can give yourself this Christmas
This morning I saw a post on LinkedIn, linking to this story on TheGuardian.com about John Lewis’s new Christmas ad. In terms of retail in Britain, John Lewis is something of a national treasure. Sadly, Google’s approach to ad-blocking in YouTube has come to bear: I am unable to watch this advert unless I disable ad-blocking on my browser.
Google disrespects my freedom to choose what content I see in my own browser. In fact, it attempts to deny me it.
Despite having had a Google account for many years, I can see this relationship coming to an end. Big Tech abuses its users in order to stay profitable… and there’s a word for that.
No, Flickr
mind-chown
Why, oh why, is it that when I go to ‘chown’ something recursively, I always forget to put -R before typing the owner:group?
At Learn2Drift, Dunsfold
Maxing it out!
Dunsfold Aerodrome
The Importance of Sustainable Cooking at Heckfield Place – COOL HUNTING®
A landmark local to me, featured as stylish content to promote WordPress’s Special Projects.
Every evening, a herd of deer bounces merrily across the fields of Heckfield Place during dinner. There seems to always be a sprinkle of magic—you can almost imagine Alice in Wonderland sitting ami…
Source: The Importance of Sustainable Cooking at Heckfield Place – COOL HUNTING®
Cloudy adventures await
Re-installing to disk (instead of USB)
sound – How to remove Nvidia HDMI audio output in PulseAudio? – Ask Ubuntu
How to remove Nvidia HDMI audio output in PulseAudio?
If you’re having trouble with audio routing throught the wrong device, this may be the answer.
Source: sound – How to remove Nvidia HDMI audio output in PulseAudio? – Ask Ubuntu
Better Linux Disk Caching & Performance with vm.dirty_ratio
The Linux kernel parameters vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio can help you improve your disk I/O performance. Here’s how to adjust them.
Source: Better Linux Disk Caching & Performance with vm.dirty_ratio