SL3wvmnas
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- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 1 week ago:
Yeah my comment is meandering a bit. Maybe a more succinct way would be to say: this so called market is a private firm and it’s in their own interest to not divulge the whole picture.
You’re absolutely right about complex systems always leaking info through unintended sidechannels, but I would argue that is information not available to everyone on the “market” at the same time, thus skewing the market (and again benefitting the owners of the market more than anyone).
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 1 week ago:
Well depends on the definition of public… When Peter Thiel invests heavily in a platform like polymarket all it does is tell him if his political power is showing. Everything else is breadcrumbs we are allowed to see…
Much like with similar markets, robinhood comes to mind, I suspect this is of similar cloth (hugely profitable to the insiders, sometimes profitable to the outsiders and the public ““findings”” get massaged by their marketing department.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
plus it’s their CEO, or their community manager in their name, directly addressing the questioner and going “you don’t understand, under our big tent approach only 5% of people we give money to are controversial, let’s not address your concerns and move on.”
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
While I agree in principle, the response from the CEO, was: only like 5% of people we give money to are
racist Nazi bigots“controversial”, let’s agree to disagree and move on.Which is massive narcissitic, non-empathic behaviour. It’s giving me less “you don’t matter because soon you’ll be dead”-vibes and more “I am literally unable to understand your concerns and empathise with you”-vibe, which to me personally is much more damning.
- Comment on Turtle Songs 2 weeks ago:
To anyone curious how it sounds, I found this ABC segment about it. Rather underwhelming, but cute. Sounds start halfway in.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my working theory is violent narcissists have a much harder time beeing casually violent, so they go ever more totalitarian, because then they can be violent without repercussions again…
- Comment on Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, a foundation for network security, fall to physical attacks 3 weeks ago:
Well not only, there are still industry solutions relying on this infra, going “state actors in our data center are not a threat”…
From Signal Messenger of all places…
I remember one intel technology was pretty thoroughly tested and field proven, (and had significant memory constraints since almost everything happened on-chip as far as I remember) what came after (with similar AMD/IBM/ARM tech) was quite controversial as far as I remember. I think it was SGX 1 vs 2 or maybe Intel-TE that was marked tamper resistant, because everything happened on die, but I could misremember.
On the other hand: Reddit thread about SGX from 5 years ago. I think the talking point even back then was “state actors in our data center are not a concern”.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 3 weeks ago:
I switched to /e/ a while ago, they have a feature called advanced privacy. commercial Lemmy clients like Connect and Raccoon have trackers embedded and are blocked automagically. ^I use Jerboa btw^
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 weeks ago:
Might be - on the other hand, /e/ already supports f-droid out of the box, so there may be a possibility just google play will be going away…
- Comment on Or the common cold! 5 weeks ago:
I do not think they are dumbasses. They understand very well that “pumping the brakes” can start negotiations with people who have infinite deep pockets and are willing to let them have a little extra so the infinitely deep pockets stay that way.
Like Nixon, when he helped privatize healthcare. Playing Dumb (and a little crazy) has been a schtick for republicans for 60 years. I wish there was a website with all the crazy shit republicans said and did in public, maybe I need to start one…
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Plaster Lathe. My old nemesis. Probably with reed or peat for stabilization, so it explodes everywhere once you touch it… Wish you the best of Luck.
Also: napping is important at our age.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
As someone who electrically renovated houses without beeing an electrician. If you find an electrician who is willing to work with you: do a full planning of the house. (What lines go where etc) ask them to go over this, and pay them for their time. If all goes well this will cost them an evening or three (depending how many flaws they find in your design). Do the wiring and drilling raw sockets yourself. Buy the top sockets wholesale, then have the electrician make a fixed price for installing sockets and wiring your fuse box , it will be much cheaper.
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Scientists 1 month ago:
vegetarians
So secretions from alien udders are still a thing?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
See it these links show up if you “view source” on a browser. Print the source as evidence to bring to a lawyer. Or find a lawyer who either knows how to find stuff online or has a good IT Person.
Be prepared for much more DARVO and other mind games. Be aware Law enforcement can not shield you from all of this, but is a good ally to have. Try to find other local women only clubs or victim helping organizations as allies.
Be aware if you search for them online, there are nutjob sites designed to hurt women in need. Go in person if you can, to pick up their vibe before you open up.
Stay safe! Best of Luck!
- Comment on Microsoft readies Windows 11 25H2 while Windows 10 circles the drain 1 month ago:
- Comment on Intelligent Design 1 month ago:
TIL,Thank you for dumping obscure biological knowledge!
I felt the same when I found out roughly 90-99 % of serotonin (predecessor) is produced by a certain type of gut bacteria. For some reason, finding the research was (is? Haven’t checked for a few years) for some reason non-obvious and difficult.
Now that I think about it, is there a wiki or something where we can share this knowledge? Your artefact would have helped a friend a few years ago…
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 2 months ago:
I, too get blocked by certain sites. I think it’s a configuration thing, where it does not like my combination of uBlock/NoScript, even when I explicitly allow their scripts…
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 months ago:
But Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and other top aides cared more about conciliating the powerful, conservative cohort of southern Democrats they considered vital to New Deal legislative majorities.
Wallace therefore fired Agriculture Department radicals in 1935, making clear that the New Deal would do little to threaten the power of planters and agribusiness interests.
… Meanwhile, the STFU collapsed; its defeat would prove a harbinger of the massive, decades-long transformation in American agriculture, a mid-twentieth-century development that pushed millions of small farmers off the land and into cities.
Well yeah the land did not go away it was all gobbeled up by the big players. One could argue it was an industry, even if it was in it’s infancy 15 years after the dust bowl. By todays standard, where just one man owns 12% of US farmland it may seem like peanuts but these southern plantations were/are impressively huge.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 months ago:
As long as it is cheaper to buy water, then evaporate it, big firms will continue to do so.
With a COP of around 15 and up it is difficult to argue with the economy of this.
Local regulation would be required, but that would need politicians who don’t suck.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 2 months ago:
Uh yeah, was referring to a possible translation problem, or maybe not. Either way I chuckled and hopefully you did, too.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 2 months ago:
Well, maybe it got lost in translation, but maybe not… either way I chuckled.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 2 months ago:
Red Candle Games said that “in the aftermath of the incident, some still possess different speculations about Devotion. As regretful as the incident was, we have to bear its full consequence.
I don’t know if this was an honest mistake, but… 😂
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 2 months ago:
That sounds horrifying. Sorry this happened to you. If you have the energy and haven’t done so already, please there are trans friendly law firms in quite a few countries. Hope thing get better for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Same here. Once I stopped coloring my hair, people never doubted my age…
- Comment on blursed 3 months ago:
Well wait a second, they found out what caused the pharaohs curse? That’s awesome!
Well I guess I’m one of the lucky 10.000 then.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank 4 months ago:
Nothing really interesting just a user stating it has happened to them.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 4 months ago:
This would be a movie that I want to watch, then turn off the second the kid is alone on the streets. Horror movies getting too realistic.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 5 months ago:
I somehow doubt he was a Democrat. There are articles claiming he just split campaign contributions in half.
- Comment on I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start? 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t something like a T1000 (50w/8GB) be okay? I know I use a much older matrox card (30w?/ w/ even lower TDP) for this purpose. It’s not great, but it transcodes in hardware.
- Comment on Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds 5 months ago:
That sucks. I’m sorry for your loss.