theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on The rich are ‘renting’ out their idle gold bars for income as prices remain at historic highs 3 days ago:
It’s probably something like the loan thing, but wackier
Financial people lose the plot regularly, but they get real creative when it comes to the super wealthy. Time and time again, they’ll take on all the risk for basically reward, all just to chase a whale
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 1 week ago:
People really latched onto the idea, which was shared with the media by people actively working on how to solve the problem
- Comment on Is a budget 3-2-1 home-server backup (one NAS + one cloud + weekly clones) actually enough, or am I kidding myself? 1 week ago:
What’s your risk tolerance? If every moment of data is irreplaceable, there’s so much more you could be doing
If this is just like… Your data, you’re already doing a paranoid amount
If your data is local and backed up in the cloud, your house could burn down or the cloud could accidentally delete your data. If both those things happen at the same time, I guess you could lose your data. That’s a freak accident. Having another backup of any kind is unreasonable, and a second freak accident is borderline impossible
The first backup is smart, but diminishing returns kick in quick
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 1 week ago:
No, see that has meaning… This doesn’t. No information is contained in 6 7, there is no concept or reference or anything to it
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 week ago:
Well in this case, you’re going to have a hard time trolling Trump supporters on the fediverse
I think memeing at the right is one of the few acceptable uses of Twitter at this point
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 1 week ago:
It’s a meme where you say “6 7”, optionally with a hand motion like you’re weighing something
There’s no meaning. That is the full context. Any situation where you do any part of the meme is a valid use of the meme
And that’s why I personally find it uniquely annoying
- Comment on I feel like a buffet would fix this 1 week ago:
The crazy thing is, most narcissists would be kneeling down next to him, screaming for help and going “it’s going to be ok buddy, I’ve got you”. It’s such an easy moment to take control of
His brain is just cooked. He’s grumpy because he got woken up and it’s not time for him to talk. He looks pissed
- Comment on US to demand countries share data on ‘pathogens with epidemic potential’ in return for health aid 1 week ago:
They’re trying to build a distopian tech stack for Palantir
DOGE dumped all of our private tax records and health records illegally into a big database, and apparently now they want more healthcare data
They probably think they can make an AI to take over public health if they just had more data
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but not spiritually
Teflon doesn’t react with basically anything. It won’t stick to anything but itself, which makes manufacturing difficult, initially we could only make pure Teflon pieces
Every other kind of PFAS is super toxic. Some part of the molecule is reactive, usually very reactive so it sticks to things, and the rest won’t react to anything. That causes nasty problems in biology
Teflon itself isn’t that much of a problem because even if it’s around forever, it doesn’t react with anything… The byproducts of working with it are what are poisoning people and causing all the problems
Anything coated in Teflon are going to have the nasty shit under the Teflon so I’d generally avoid it, but the real take away is that chemical companies are just dumping this shit into water sources knowing it causes super cancer
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s the opposite
You can season nearly anything with oil. Except aluminum, which needs a Teflon coating or it gets nasty very fast. Except Teflon is non reactive to nearly everything
Except pfas. You can dissolve Teflon in pfas and spray it onto aluminum
- Comment on Why don't all the "illegals" or just some put a tracker on them that goes back to their spouse or something? That way we can go to whereever the place their held at a protest the shit out of it? 2 weeks ago:
How? An airtag isn’t going to work from inside you, and they’re going to search you. They also like to bounce people around to make them hard to track, so that tracker is going to end up wherever the person was processed
This just isn’t practical with current technology
- Comment on Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, pretty much. Cooperation is our natural state, we act a lot like a eusocial hive species when you watch from a distance
- Comment on He makes a great point 2 weeks ago:
I speak dog. It’s mostly expressions and context really, but it’s very easy to tell exactly what they’re thinking, and they can read human expressions so you just have to exaggerate them the way you do for kids
It’s more about trying to understand them than anything else. Most people don’t make the effort
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 weeks ago:
…And do what now?
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 2 weeks ago:
It’s more like 7000 people really fucking everything up, the 1% just sounds better then the 0.00001%
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 2 weeks ago:
Might as well make it a public private partnership, right? Then you have total insulation.
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a schedule that includes buses… You’re going to have the odd person who either isn’t ready, doesn’t have enough on their account, or doesn’t understand the system, and each one knocks the schedule off by 20-40 seconds. You’ve also got lines at the machines, you’ve got overhead to track all this… None of that is free, especially not the man hours
I’ve used really really great paid public transport… It just does not compare to when it’s also free. More people use it, people act less entitled, it’s just a better experience
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 weeks ago:
We’ve been so focused on taxing the wealthy to lower inequality, but maybe the answer is staring us in the face
What if we just nuke the economy to ruins?
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 2 weeks ago:
The best ones don’t bother, because collecting fares is expensive and slows everything down
You can have self funded infrastructure, it can work, but it just seems like a bad solution. It’s a weakness. All it takes is one leader throwing a wrench in the process, and the whole thing unbalances and you get a death spiral
But if it’s free? Even if maintenance is neglected for a time, there’s no feedback loop
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 3 weeks ago:
That’s because it’s infrastructure. It’s very expensive, and needs to be publicly funded to be good - otherwise you have a death spiral of raising prices, neglecting maintenance, and losing passengers because it’s expensive and terrible
You can easily make it all back from taxes though… Good public transportation means anyone in a city can work, shop, or patronize anywhere, it makes the economy go brr
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 3 weeks ago:
It theoretically could through the azure remote desktop client since Windows owns every part of that stack and has no concept of not stealing all data. It probably doesn’t because it would involve coordination between several teams
It could work on Linux, but probably doesn’t because the Linux version of software tends to have more autonomy and better priorities
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Teams is software that runs on your computer. Based on what’s described here, it’s now going to ask the wifi driver what access points are available
Then it will send that info through the VPN along with the voice and video
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 3 weeks ago:
According to that picture, the bell cracked in 1974 and the current bell is named Brian Blessed
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 3 weeks ago:
Well, surely someone will set it up for you… For a fee
Maybe even a subscription, why not
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 3 weeks ago:
No, because this isn’t looking at networking, it’s looking at wifi access points
- Comment on Here we go again... 4 weeks ago:
What? Avatar is like 20 years old, had a second series years later that explored the changed world a generation later, and has had only live action adaptations of the original story
This does not seem like a good example…
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 4 weeks ago:
And including cold veggies in a plastic bag counts as exposure? Where others aren’t eating it?
I’m all for science, but you also have to have common sense or you’ll missapply the science. Children aren’t machines, they’re people. People can be communicated with. People are less adverse to new foods when they see others eat them. People have their own tastes
If your kid doesn’t eat the little bag of carrots, maybe find out what veggie they would eat and continue to expose them to carrots on more palatable terms
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like bullshit to me. If your kid doesn’t eat it, it’s not performative. It’s bullshit
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 weeks ago:
Bazzite if you’re expecting it to work without any required reading
I’ll probably be going fedora aurora, it seems more solid but would require more setup
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 4 weeks ago:
My bet- it’s the conspiracy nuts.
When AI videos started to flood YouTube, science was one of the biggest areas. It’s stuff like “scientists discover potential signs of vacuum collapse”, then have 4 minutes of clips before going full AI and rambling about quantum physics for an hour
I think they just take a grab bag of technical terms and theories, have AI spit out a title, and feed it into a video pipeline.
Then they bait and switch you
Now throw in a title about Elon musk discovering aliens, and anyone who clicks on it is probably low functioning enough not to realize