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- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 4 days ago:
It takes time to scale up production, CATL is supposed to deliver in small scale production next year.
That means the factories for it are already about to be built. - Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 4 days ago:
This too is false, great progress has been made on for instance solid state batteries.
- Comment on X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find 1 week ago:
Which was the purpose of Elon Musk buying it all along.
The algorithms are fucking designed specifically for that purpose! - Comment on Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 1 week ago:
I would recommend Linux also for people who can run Windows 10 or 11.
- Comment on Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune 1 week ago:
all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months,
So does that include working in AI?
Quite the blanket statement, and as always with blanket statements, they are probably false.
Of course it could be true to a lesser degree, like maybe 20%, but “ALL” is ridiculous. - Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
But second, keep in mind that for a lot of people, most companies are still responsible members of society; “pillars of the community,” and generally worthy of trust. It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because they’ve been propagandized into believing it.
Oh boy that is so true, I was laughing my ass off during the financial crisis about how people were shocked that banks are businesses trying to maximize profits like any other business.
They genuinely thought that banks were some sort of community institution that existed to help people with their finances, and not businesses that are selling products to make money.
Still even if people are so ignorant that they are unaware of privacy issues, they have chosen to be willfully ignorant, because this issue has been talked about non stop for decades. For nothing to sieve in at some point, you have to be a special kind of willfully ignorant.
Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO. - Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
Question is why they bought a Ring camera in the first place?
There is no way they can have been unaware that these gadgets can be accessed from outside.
But it was only when the evidence was put right in their face they finally connected the dots?So my answer is quite simple: Because they are stupid, and bought a sleazy product from a known sleazy company, and when they found out it was in fact as sleazy as could be expected, they figured that maybe they didn’t want to to be voluntarily surveilled anyway.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 3 weeks ago:
I made a digital drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure. - Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 3 weeks ago:
That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 3 weeks ago:
It looks to me they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.
- Comment on Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy 3 weeks ago:
Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.
Unless the students are acting incredibly naive, it’s almost impossible for the anti-piracy group to lift the burden of proof here.
In general all you have to do is to claim you know nothing about it. For instance having “evidence” that your IP address was used for download is not enough.Also the Anti Piracy group has a reputation of themselves working outside the law here, so maybe an investigation into this group could be a good idea.
da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Schlüter
Johan Schlüter was for many years the embodiment of anti piracy in Denmark forming “AntiPirat Gruppen” (Anti Piracy Group).
I 2014 idømte en fransk domstol ham 18 måneders ubetinget fængsel
Translation: In 2014 a French court gave him 18 months UNCONDITIONAL prison term!
The case was followed up with a $5 million lawsuit. For the fraudulent handling of Charles Trenet copyrights.In 2015 he was reported to police for defrauding 100 million from copyright holders. The investigation found “inconsistencies” in 4 companies owned by Johan Schlüter. Later that year AntiPirat Gruppen" was declared bankrupt.
i juni 2017 tiltale mod Schlüter og to andre advokater i Schlüters advokatfirma.
In July 2017 cases were raised against Schlüter and 2 other lawyers in the company.
So the people handling these copyright investigations and cases do not have the best reputation. In fact they are the real thieves stealing from copyright holders, embezzling their money through their judicial con job. Promising to help, but doing more harm than good, to a degree that Denmark is now basically protected against anti piracy lawyers immoral and illegal activities.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting, but people will find something else stupid to complain about, because there is pretty obviously a storm of propaganda against Firefox, which I very much suspect is driven by interests that are against an open and free internet.
Blocking these features may calm some people, but in reality, none these features were used for anything unless specifically used by the user. So the claim of it making Firefox slower or using more resources or being used for telemetry were all outright lies.
A sentiment is tried to be created that Firefox is just as bad as Chrome, Edge, Brave and Safari when nothing could be further from the truth.
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 4 weeks ago:
Not an expert, but logically the shorter chain makes it easier to handle and relatively more precise.
A longer chain however, allows for a greater swing, resulting in a heavier impact.
That however can also be achieved using a heavier ball on the flail. But that makes it heavier to lift and carry.
Using multiple balls however seem counterproductive, as it will make the flail harder to use compared to the impact you can achieve.
I suppose the idea is to make it harder to defend against, but if the defender has a shield, I think multiple balls are utterly inefficient.So as far as I can tell there is no single optimal balance. It depends on the persons strength and agility, and I suppose it also depends on what type of enemy it should be used against. For a heavily armored opponent, a longer chain will be better to smash hard against the heavy armor, and the armor will make the opponent relatively slower to avoid attacks.
- Comment on Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor 4 weeks ago:
WTF?!
I know Sweden is way more liberal with what is considered street legal than Denmark,systemet kräver i sin nuvarande form ständig förarövervakning
The system in its current form requires constant driver supervision
So it’s more like assisted self driving.
I åratal har Tesla sålt funktionen ”total självkörningsförmåga”
For years Tesla has sold the function “fully autonomous (self) driving.”
I wonder why they are allowed to advertise that?
But it seems it is following EU regulation, so I guess we can’t blame Sweden for it. But those shitty Tesla cars shouldn’t be street legal in EU even without FSD. - Comment on Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor 4 weeks ago:
A model Y revision just reached the age of mandatory safety check here in Denmark.
#45% Failure rate!fdm.dk/…/tesla-skandalen-fortsaetter-naesten-hver…
The previous record was held Buy Tesla model 3 with about a third of the cars failing!
The average is about 7%
And a similar priced VW ID.4 is less than 2%. LESS THAN!
Without question the VW is way better quality, and even the cheapest Chinese cars we can get here have way lower failure rate! - Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 4 weeks ago:
This is what many of us warned against already 20 years ago. It’s one of the inherent dangers of proprietary software.
Back then most people didn’t believe it, now that such dangers are out in the open, nothing continues to happen about it. - Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 4 weeks ago:
He would just have proved he was drinking water with something salty.
Your description of circumstances are lacking, but what you imply is impossible.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 4 weeks ago:
consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.
Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 4 weeks ago:
That’s part of how shitty the consumer protection really is.
But common for all, there needs to be complaints before the law is involved. - Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 4 weeks ago:
So are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 4 weeks ago:
If true, this is sabotage of the customers product, and must 100% be illegal in almost any country!!
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 month ago:
the misuse of the word “propaganda”,
No I use the word propaganda because the accusations are based on falsehoods.
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
I’ll take that as a “Yes”.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 month ago:
My claim is that firefox gets worse by adding the features nobody asked for
Most of those new features are absolutely amazing, like the instant translation of almost any page,
Creating tags for images that don’t have them for blind people, is an amazing feature for blind people.
If you don’t like them you don’t have to use them. You don’t get to dictate that others shouldn’t have them on false accusations.
Some of us like a feature-full high quality browser, that respect our privacy.purely out of FOMO of the AI hypetrain
OK and which functions are that?
You’re just on the AI hate train and think that’s the default correct position.
Well guess again, because Mozilla is actually using it for things that are both useful and noninvasive.
So why don’t you piss off and go use a terminal browser instead if that’s what you want.
Alternatively there are a lot of decent open source browsers that don’t have the advanced features of Firefox you can use. - Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Is this the same fast to ship but hard to maintain argument we’ve seen a thousand times already?
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 month ago:
Again, propaganda against Firefox with no basis.
What is your claim? That because it uses AI, it inherently bad?
The AI functions implemented by Firefox are generally run locally.You show NOTHING, and yet you act like you made a point???
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 month ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 month ago:
Except it’s not, all the complaints about Firefox are moronic, none of them have any merit.
Don’t fall for the false propaganda or morons who think they found a problem when they have no understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
I’ve seen dozens of claims about bad things Mozilla does, and every time I investigate the issue, it turns out there is nothing there, or at most some sort of misunderstanding that is blown out of proportions.You can dislike Firefox as much as you want as a use case. But Firefox is still 100% above board with everything they do.
- Comment on Many Years Ago, I Told A Nuclear Power Loving (Eventually Employee) Friend that I Heard that China had Solar Panels that Charged Even Off The Moon Light… 1 month ago:
Even if moonlight could be harvested for energy, the amount of energy is infinitesimal and would have absolutely zero practical use.
The energy of moonlight is only 1 millionth of sun light, and it is very doubtful that solar panels with low enough internal resistance will ever exist to allow any measurable energy output.
The theoretical energy is only 0.003 w/m² with a clear sky at full moon. This is such a small amount of energy that I doubt it will ever be worth pursuing. A similar amount of energy can be picked up from ambient radio waves, that would have the clear advantage of being way more stable working 24/7.
Moonlight can be a nice light source at night, and it can look pretty, but as an energy source it is absolutely useless.