Boddhisatva
@Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 day ago:
I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious. You do know that the vast majority of the chips in all the devices you use are not manufactured in the US? Doubling the prices of the chips imported to manufacture devices here will obviously jack up the prices of those devices
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 2 days ago:
True, but apparently the attempt to resurrect its use uses it for both the voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives where current English usage uses ‘th’ rather than resurrecting both characters.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 2 days ago:
Upvote and a salute for Þe use of Þe Þorn character.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 6 days ago:
Just like when you’re shaving the pubes of a bear you’ll have to draw the line somewhere.
I feel seen.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 1 week ago:
Could have an interesting impact on the gold market if it can be done at scale.
Before figuring that out, they just need to develop a functioning fusion reactor. And since fusion energy is, as it has always been, a mere ten years off, it’s probable that such reactors will take longer to be developed than it will take that radioactive gold to be safe to handle.
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
There are some power posters here with agendas who are annoying AF
Yeah, I’ve seen a few users that post a dozen or more times an hour, 16 hours per day, and it’s all pushing the same agenda.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 2 weeks ago:
It’s terrifying that the human psyche is so fragile and malleable that an LLM can twist a person around to much that they become a danger to themselves and others. And I have to wonder how many of those billionaires talk to their own AI creations and have become just as delusional as the people in this article, but with the money and power to act on those delusions.
This also puts MechaHitler in a new light. How many right wingers on X are being deluded into thinking that they are the chosen one who who can save the world by just killing a few Jews, or dems, or POCs or whatever?
- Comment on Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that hidden.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
Delaying a game like this relatively last-minute and giving it an extra year of development is waaaay more expensive than the bonuses would have been.
Is it still more expensive if they just shelve it and pretend to give it extra development? I haven’t seen any details on why it wasn’t ready for release or what they are changing or adding? A quarter billion dollars in savings seems like pretty good motivation for a company to park a project for 6 to 12 months.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Not as long as people keep voting for republicans and moderate democrats.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
But the AI people that the tech bros can now create outnumber real people by ♾️:1. The opinions of real people have ceased to matter even the tiny amount that they once did. So open wide and try not to gag.
- Comment on First Tesla Robotaxi Ride 1 month ago:
Damn. That is terrifying. Somebody should be slapping these on all of them.
- Comment on First Tesla Robotaxi Ride 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t want to be near one of these cars.
The sad thing is that you might be marginally safer inside the thing. Maybe… a little anyway. At least inside it, you don’t have to worry about it running you or your kid over. These things should not be on the road in any capacity.
- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 1 month ago:
It’s also an article about another article from Variety that actually has a better headline. These things are a pet peeve for me. Hey, here’s a story from an actual news service and I’ll even include a link to it, but I’m going to post my link all over so people will see the ads on my page instead of theirs. Variety does some good reporting, I’ve rather they get the clicks.
- Comment on No Internet For 4 Hours And Now This 1 month ago:
TIL. The ones I’ve seen were all black.
- Comment on No Internet For 4 Hours And Now This 1 month ago:
I would expect black-out curtains to make the room hotter. Black absorbs the full spectrum of sunlight shining in and and the material heats up. I would think white curtains would reflect the visible light back out through the window and keep the room cooler.
- Comment on Is it still shopping local if I'm in Bentonville AK and it's Walmart? 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong and many people cannot afford to chose anything but the cheapest option.
- Comment on Is it still shopping local if I'm in Bentonville AK and it's Walmart? 1 month ago:
Are putting money in the pockets of billionaires? If yes, then no, you’re not shopping local.
- Comment on Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting 1 month ago:
Really bad headline. The actual article is about a study showing that browser fingerprinting is being used in real time in pricing target ads to your browser.
To investigate whether websites are using fingerprinting data to track people, the researchers had to go beyond simply scanning websites for the presence of fingerprinting code. They developed a measurement framework called FPTrace, which assesses fingerprinting-based user tracking by analyzing how ad systems respond to changes in browser fingerprints. This approach is based on the insight that if browser fingerprinting influences tracking, altering fingerprints should affect advertiser bidding — where ad space is sold in real time based on the profile of the person viewing the website — and HTTP records — records of communication between a server and a browser.
“This kind of analysis lets us go beyond the surface,” said co-author Jimmy Dani, Saxena’s doctoral student. “We were able to detect not just the presence of fingerprinting, but whether it was being used to identify and target users — which is much harder to prove.”
The researchers found that tracking occurred even when users cleared or deleted cookies. The results showed notable differences in bid values and a decrease in HTTP records and syncing events when fingerprints were changed, suggesting an impact on targeting and tracking.
Additionally, some of these sites linked fingerprinting behavior to backend bidding processes — meaning fingerprint-based profiles were being used in real time, likely to tailor responses to users or pass along identifiers to third parties.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 1 month ago:
Aaaah! Act now! Hurry! Change ALL your passwords! Your password was stolen by malware on your device so change it now… on your device… that still has malware… Wait a minute. Shouldn’t this article at least suggest removing the malware first?
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 month ago:
I bet the business address is that same as the one for his Trump watches, gold sneakers, and some “male enhancement honey” that you’d have to be very
hard upwell, desperate to try. - Comment on Pokémon, alchemy and magic kind of do exist 1 month ago:
The goal of alchemy was to change one element to another. Specifically, most of them wanted to turn lead into gold for obvious reasons. Chemistry evolved out of those attempts but never succeeded so I would say, no, chemistry is not alchemy.
On the other hand, we have now successfully turned lead into gold, so alchemy has been achieved via high-energy physics and quantum mechanics. But the cost to do so is so high, and the quantities involved are so low, it will never be a profitable venture. Plus the gold atoms only lasted a fraction of a second before they shattered into other particles.
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 1 month ago:
It still is, and I think it’s universal for the English speaking parts of the world.
The result of addition is the sum.
The result of subtraction is the difference.
The result of multiplication is the product.
The result of division is the quotient.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead
Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.azaz.com. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.
www.azaz.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
Think I’ll pass on this site.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 2 months ago:
Those ending in a ‘-t’ are archaic forms left over from Middle English.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 2 months ago:
Texas state legislature has passed a law making it illegal for cities to pass laws more restrictive than the state laws and Austin which is known to be full of progressives. This makes it a perfect place for Tesla to beta-test it’s software. They’ll kill people likely to vote for Democrats.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You can learn to consciously control a lot of things that various ‘lie detectors’ monitor. I took a stress management/biofeedback class in college where we learned to raise and lower galvanic skin response, heart rate, and blood pressure. It was a fun class, and in learning to control them, you can also reduce the chance of getting a false positive by keeping any of those variables from drifting to far from the expected range.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“There’s no unique physiological sign of deception. And there’s no evidence whatsoever that the things the polygraph measures — heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and breathing — are linked to whether you’re telling the truth or not,” says Leonard Saxe, a psychologist at Brandeis University who’s conducted research into polygraphs. In an exhaustive report, the National Research Council concluded, “Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy.”
The real question is, why do people think that they work? Why do government agencies use them to grant clearances when there is no evidence that they can reliably detect falsehoods and ample evidence that they are known to give false positives when people are actually telling the truth?
Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for. Then you won’t need to worry about what the questioners mean when they ask you something.
- Comment on YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress 2 months ago:
They come across as psychopaths…
Yep. Studies have shown that corporate CEOs have a much higher chance of having psychopathic traits than the general population.
- Comment on Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle? 2 months ago:
Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.
That would still be a no because no ship can be put in a Klein bottle if every ship is already in the Klein bottle.
