chaircat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unearthed touchscreen iMac G3 prototype evokes a very different era of Apple | Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a lot of people online saying this kind of thing, though I gotta wonder if it’s mostly old people who can’t adapt new paradigms.

  I would never buy a computer without touch anymore. The thing the ergonomics argument misses is just because you have touch doesn’t mean you can’t use a mouse (or touchpad) also when it makes more sense. Tiredness is never an issue for me.

  There are some things that are just infinitely more natural with touch, using an electronic device that lacks touch just feels like using incredibly outdated technology to me now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your phone keyboard statistical engine is not a very insightful comparison to the neural networks that power LLMs. They’re not the same technology at all and just share the barest minimum superficial similarities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate the cynical nihilism around here so much. It plays into the Republican and big business hands so well it might as well be propaganda.

  We had net neutrality before under the Democrats. The Republicans got rid of it when they took power.

  Bothsidesism is juvenile bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of bed frames that are solid, though, including the one I use at home. If it causes any ill effects on the mattress I haven’t observed it personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall Dorsey publicly coming out in support of Elon’s Twitter well after the sale. Maybe there was no ethical conflict for Dorsey and he likes what he sees.

  Yeah, maybe all of this wouldn’t have happened if the equity was split among the employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.

  Samsung was actually one of the later Android manufacturers to drop it is my recollection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair as a definition of genocide, though it isn’t the way I’m used to understanding the word.

  Precisely because of the differences though, I’d also find it in poor taste to make comparisons been the Canadian genocide against indigenous peoples and the Holocaust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll go against the grain here and say I do think it’s antisemitic, for precisely the reason outlined in the parent comment, even though they themselves are also giving you a pass.

  The genocide against the Jews, the Holocaust, was a situation where they were rounding up every single member of the ethnicity they could find in order to exterminate them.

  Even though we use the same word genocide for the Uighurs, no credible authority I’ve ever come across is alleging that is what is happening in Xinjiang. Uighurs still openly populate the province and roam the streets publicly.

  To compare them like this is to directly downplay the Holocaust in order to make a point on the Uighurs. In fact, I’d also say the widespread use of the word genocide for the Uighurs is the same, for reasons we’re seeing from the reactions of everyone else in this thread.