sndrtj

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So wait, bit-shifting some integers is now considered being malicious? Is that really the defense here? Using that definition just about all software in existence is malicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrimp is bugs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mammoth one is uncanny valley for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Dutch resident, I seriously disagree here. We are just coming out of a 15 year long neoliberal period that has caused the following:

  • public transport costs just went up 12% in January, whereas they are going down in surrounding countries
  • the total amount of minutes of disruptions with the largest rail company has gone up by five-fold over the last 10 years, and no sign of abating
  • the high speed rail line was taken out of service completely at the beginning of this month.
  • peripheral areas have increasingly less access to public transport and other services. Everything gets centralized to Amsterdam.
  • the local tram network in The Hague is downsizing in March due to lack of personnel. And the trams are already completely full in rush hour.

  All these things are having the effect of pushing people IN cars, because the alternative is getting more expensive for reduced service. Heck, road congestion is significantly up from pre-pandemic levels and that’s with the neoliberals investing billions upon billions in new asphalt.

  Not Just Bikes is in a bubble, and it’s seriously irritating to have foreigners believe we’re this utopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz Is Selling 20,000 Used EVs Due To High Repair Costs⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This does not entirely surprise me. When Tesla became well-known a significant fraction of taxi services in my country switched to Tesla. Why: a) it was cheaper to buy since subsidies for EVs, b) electricity being cheaper than fuel, and c) Tesla being perceived as luxury.

  Within a couple years most taxi services had gone back to ICE cars. The Teslas had inferior build quality, and repair turnaround time was awful compared to regular ICE cars. This meant a large fraction of the Tesla fleet was idle as they were waiting to be repaired.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if Hertz encountered the same. It’s not that EVs are bad. It’s that the largest supplier of EVs in the West, Tesla, is bad and slow to repair cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A website where you can download paywalled scientific literature. Most scientific literature is paywalled by publishers, and costs a real significant amount to read (like 30-50$ per article if you don’t have a subscription).

  Scihub basically just pirates it. And has been shut down several times. But as most scientific studies are already laid with public money, scihub isn’t that unethical at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That has been tried with the DoNotTrack header. Turned out servers didn’t oblige by it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not it was a plug, at the time of the incident this piece its role was basically that of a portion of fuselage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Venus is interesting. While the surface is extremely hostile, the upper atmosphere is maybe the most similar to Earth-like environment out there in the solar system. At about 50km up in the air, the air pressure is about 1 Earth atmosphere, and the ambient temperature is about 20C. A 80/20% nitrogen-oxygen gas mixture is buoyant too at that depth, so a balloon filled with breathable air will just float. A rupture won’t cause explosive decompression like it would on Mars either. In addition, the gravity one would experience is only very slightly less than that of Earth, and the large atmosphere also provides some shielding against radiation.

  Mars doesn’t have these perks. Mars is cold, really cold, with only 1/3rd of the gravity of Earth, has practically no radiation shielding, and any breach would cause explosive decompression and almost instant unconsciousness. On top of that, regular solar panels really don’t work that well on Mars because of the extra distance from the Sun, while solar panels would actually work better in the upper atmosphere of Venus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Concurrent is not the same as parallel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Martin Shkreli, now that’s a name I would never associate with even anything remotely positive. Not someone you want as a “supporter” usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you ignore the latter half of 2023 there is a huge and consistent decline in number of posts per day. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. While yeah at times it certainly feels a bit empty, Lemmy feels like old Reddit or maybe even the days of Forums before. Interesting, engaged discussions, rather than vapid one-liners that reddit ultimately became.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just block the news and politics communities. It’s good for your sanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. Spend several hours a day on reddit since 2014, but haven’t logged in since the API shutdown. Only the occasional Google search brings me there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, this stats website is interesting. I checked a number of subs I used to frequent: r/thenetherlands, r/idiotsincars and r/Europe . All of them see meteoric rice in subscribers, but number of posts goes down significantly since 2020-2021 (r/idiotisincars is the outlier here, you can clearly see the pandemic, but once it resumes the trend is downward again).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit doesn’t allow targeting by community?! To me that seems like the most obvious feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Breaks are very commonly unpaid in my country. So an 8 hour work day means being in the office for 8.5 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved to Tidal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Popularity among 18 year olds of > 50%. Christ. A significant chunk of those will become long term users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a huge one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adds new meaning to explosive...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But indigestion is sort of the opposite of diarrhea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have made this subscription far easier and fairer if they wanted to. A service that simply buys a new cartridge once your existing one reaches a threshold (say 20% left) would be simple to implement, simple to understand and even be quite useful. Instead this Instant Ink thing is an abomination of multiple tiers and price gouging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He thought it was a sausage on a stick..⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But dandelion greens are actually edible. Reed has no edible parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp continues working on Instagram integration behind closed doors⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertisers, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a tantrum-throwing manchild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sensitivity or specificity? Sensitivity is easy, just say every person is positive and you’ll find 100% of true positives. Specificity is the hard problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bowl cut gang, rise up.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t unsee this is 🤣🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s various glacier tiers. Something like Glacier Flexible has retrieval times in minutes, while still having a per-GB cost that is 6x cheaper than regular S3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, but if it did I would every day. Still use wired every day on laptop and pc.