theneverfox

@theneverfox@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Technologically, yes, they could easily identify non-compliance with how much data is being collected these days

  Logistically though? How are they going to enforce this? Sue every open source project that circumvents this? Block downloads of it with a great firewall? Fine end users? It’s just not feasible

  Realistically, they’re going to go after the OSes with the biggest market share. Google, Microsoft, and Apple will be forced to comply on new devices, and maybe they’ll try to make an example or two to get compliance in advance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I can see where they’re coming from, because I don’t love AI slop myself": Nvidia boss plays DLSS 5 good cop after criticism⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Who cares if it’s slop or not, you already killed the consumer market so no one will be able to run it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is a true masterpiece, one of the best works of art I’ve ever experienced. The pacing and story were amazing, even the boring and annoying parts are perfectly seasoned with new information so that your interest and investment to the story deepens

  It’s a world and a story that flows like music, repeating the same melody over and over with new instruments joining in and swelling with each repetition. It constantly adds new information that recontextualizes the story entirely with masterful timing

  I also don’t recommend the game to people. It was perfectly tuned in a way that no longer works, it was made for society a decade ago. Sadly, I don’t think you can get the same experience anymore… We just aren’t the same as we were then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  repeated support from money that should have been smarter then that

  Why would you think that? Look around, everything humanity does is absurd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried looking for a theater that does Chinese subtitles?

  It’s a thing that exists, you might find it in a populated area but it’s not super common.

  You could also find a Chinese movie with English subtitles, that’s probably a lot more common

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you should probably let the engineers at Boston dynamics know your views. Maybe they just aren’t familiar with wheels. They’d probably feel very silly having spent all that time on an inferior tech tree

  Seriously though, these are being used for a reason. Have you ever once seen a video of one of these stuck out in the wild? Because I’ve seen plenty of compilations of wheeled bots stuck on curbs or sign posts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen these dogs move? It seems like you’re not very familiar with them. They can jump fences and outrun a human, they’re also remarkably stable for the body and can have a higher center of gravity which sensors appreciate… The tech works prettywell

  And tracks take a lot of maintenance and tend to tear up floors if they’re tough enough to handle the outdoors. They’re also very heavy and expensive, and far less efficient or fast as wheels. They’re uncommon for a reason, they’re an even more specialized version of the wheel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It also serves the purpose of a generator, and with solar you might be able to cut your grid draw to basically zero

  The fire risk is generally overstated, plus different battery tech, like sodium, are much less flammable. Weight and size are much less of an issue, so as adoption increases they’re going to get much cheaper and longer lasting as production ramps up

  Not to mention it does meaningfully reduce load on the grid with increased adoption. Not everything needs to be financially min-maxed… If you’ve got the money, it’s a good thing to invest in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, wheels would require an essentially impossible evolutionary path, but they’re still very dependent on terrain

  Some goats can climb grades no wheel could touch. Wheels have issues with long grasses and roots, don’t work great if they don’t have good contact with the terrain, aren’t good for climbing or ledges, and fast to wear in dirty environments

  You can specialize to overcome these challenges, but they’re less general purpose. Wheels that would let you travel over uneven terrain need to be big and/or very complex

  Wheels work really, really well on suitable surfaces, but they’re specialist technology. Quadrepeds are very stable and control their weight distribution much better

  From an engineering standpoint, you’d be better off putting the robot dogs on skateboards or in a wheeled carrier then making the kind of high-torque wheels that can lock to work like feet when needed - that’s what we use when designing wheels for the kinds of travel these dogs were designed for

  Wheels are obviously incredibly useful tech, but they’re not the ideal solution for every problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the ocean. The majority of Earths surface where there’s usually not much going on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because wheels aren’t all that great in less than carefully managed paths. Quadrupedal motion is just fine in most all situations… Wheels are most efficient, followed by swimming with boyancy, then flying with the wind, then bipedal motion… But quadrupedal motion isn’t everywhere for no reason. It’s very stable and robust. It’s very practical and forgiving in most all situations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a pretend problem. When have EVs ever caused rolling brown outs?

  Grid can’t handle the current of all the cars charging at once? Charge them slower. Get a battery bank for your home to smooth out the demand curve. Throw banks of supercaps at fast charging stations. Fix the fucking grid as you go. Use battery banks on the grid to even out demand at any level. Hell, you can use the cars themselves as battery banks and bring back rooftop solar tax breaks

  It’s a fake problem, our grid and production do genuinely need work, but in practice EV adoption hasn’t been a limiting factor at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are reliant on US Intel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because on one side of the war is their begrudging allies and on the other is an ally to their invader

  Ukraine gets a pass because they’re currently being invaded. It’s not an ideologicall position to defend yourself, they aren’t hypocrits for playing wherever hand they’ve got

  War is a horrid thing, it makes monsters of us all. The only valid reason is for self defense, and we (theoretically) blame the aggressor for what the victim does in the course of defending themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.

  I’ve experienced it on both, but it was much more toxic and persistent on reddit in my experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a world war, it’s a handful of regional conflict level wars.

  A world war is defined by the scale and involvement level. The world wars reshaped continents and put most of the world on wartime production footing… We’re very, very far from that

  Taiwan had the ability to kick off a world war, because the whole world relies on TSMC. But the fabs being built in China, the US, and the EU seem to me to be a compromise between the power blocks - once they’re completed NATO will probably just let China invade Taiwan without lifting a finger

  WWIII isn’t a big concern of mine… The conditions just aren’t unfolding that way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do carpenters need all those saws and chisels? I have a perfectly good staircase right here already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was likely a plan to put the Epstein scandal entirely on the Clintons, but failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is close friends with Bill… The “elites” are an incenstous cabal that goes far beyond the political theatre they put on for the rest of us. They never wanted to take down the Clinton’s, because this whole “democratic experiment” of a country has always been hostile to the idea of real democracy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC upgrade woes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the US defaults, America as an empire collapses. It could be as small a deal as a massive period of restructuring, or it could mean the death of billions and the end of modern life

  It sure as hell won’t be a better world for the banks though, they’ll invent new types of math to keep the game going a little longer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatta my color? 🤩⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s purple and color changing eyes too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard that before, that’s wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask what proof would change their mind and show them. Then when their mind is not changed, you will understand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Devs are the creators… What the public gets is down stream from their work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this concept. Make federation easy and practical for devs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called the deep web in this case. The dark web takes special tools to access, like Tor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Internet was cool while it lasted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really does

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The benefit is less distractions and pointless organization for a project in the early stages

  Open sourcing things is a pain in the ass. It’s common to get the core project working before doing so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not a bubble!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst part is it is useful, and almost none of the planet burning was necessary.

  We could have just had siri, but actually useful. Instead we lose the Internet to slop and companies are literally selling their futures to get people to use siri, but it require a quarter second on a top of the line server rack, instead of 20 seconds on your phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s also how the Cyrillic alphabet came to be