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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
And normalising it is a good thing all-round. You want privacy to be used for trivial, unimportant things, not for it to be seen as something that only most secret vital things need, and thus something most don’t.

People would be more likely to use it that way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Incineration is a terrible idea indoors. At best, you’ve now got the smell of cooking and pyrolised human juices filling the place, and worst, is the house is carbon monoxide poisoned.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you were powerful enough, sure. The court is only as strong as its ability to enforce a punishment.

The president is exempt from criminal prosecution for things they did as part of their duties, and if no-one is willing to impeach or impose other punishments, they can be as contemptuous as they like. How would the court stop then?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This seems unrealistically convoluted, to the level of someone who’s just looking for evidence of a conspiracy.

You could probably poke it enough to get a trifecta of 3s and link him to the Illuminati if you tried hard enough.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It also enables a few of the older features, like being able to read replies to a Tweet, now that the website formerly known as Twitter bars it if you’re not logged in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Paper would fall under that these days, wouldn’t it? You can’t just fit a word onto a punch card like the old days, and you’d need billions of the things go even start matching up to modern storage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to see Vulcan fail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
He certainly seems to think so, though. When he was sharing his emotions with Picard, he was distraught that he wasn’t as open about his fondness for Amanda, before she died.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are back in sync with lemmy.world!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Basically, Lemmy works by having a whole.bunch of different servers chitchat to each other. Hence how I can post a reply to you, even though you’re on Aussie.zone, and I’m on Lemmy.world.

The problem was that because Lemmy.world was big, and there were a lot of people in Aussie.zone who had feeds over there, Lemmy.world couldn’t fire stuff off quickly quickly enough.

Analogically, you’re basically getting a telegram to your house every day, saying what’s on the news. Except that there are a lot of people, so the telegraph operator can’t write and send the telegrams out quickly enough, and the message started backing up.

Lemmy.world basically enabled multi-threaded sending, which works like hiring more telegraph operators. While they could now keep up, there was still a huge amount of backlog that they had to send.

It’s only until this post that they finally caught up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to see Vulcan fail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
At least if Sarek is any indicstor, they are definitely very restrained. He was quite distraught over not being as affectionate with Amanda as he could have been.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to see Vulcan fail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Although it is also important to consider that for both Spock and Michael, they weren’t full Vulcans, but were Human, or part-Human, with all the relevant emotional needs and expression.

It is not implausible that the Vulcan method works with Vulcans, but not nearly as well with non-Vulcans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Plus, like with Marilyn Monroe, their personality on stream is generally a persona of sorts. They’re going to be very different collecting food and paying for it on their own, compared to when they’re in front of an audience.

You’d be more inclined to think that someone who looked a bit like the streamer received the food.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Fair, though in my experience, Debian and Ubuntu weren’t that much better in that regard.

I just went with Arch, because some of the stuff I wanted to use was much newer on it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve had similar issues with Arch Linux for years. The front panel outright refuses to work on Linux, even after modifying a whole bunch of things.

Your average person is more likely to get frustrated that stuff is broken/doesn’t work, and switch back rather than having to alter module configuration files and things like that to fix it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Considering Parallels, there’s at least a sector of Enteprise’s worth of universes, ignoring the one that exploded, that could be close enough to TNG.

Intrigued by the idea that literally every Star Trek took place in a different universe though. That sounds like something you’d find in TOS/Lower Decks episode, only for jtnto just reset by next episode and be forgotten about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t imagine self hosting an LLM-based search engine would be too viable. The hardware demands, even for a relatively small quantised model, are considerable. Doubly so if you don’t have a GPU to accelerate with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He’s also useful. A lot of the kinds of people who might wish to be rid of him back in the day would much rather put him to use for their own ends.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
TNG also brought up raising the continental shelf to create more livable space. Picard’s brother was working on that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Or a Netflix for children/video editing app for primary schoolers in the early 2000s/late 1900s.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You do get sick, and I would be most surprised if they didnt allow people to look away and take breaks/get support as needed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s basically the same motivation as people who have a gun and are itching for the apocalypse so they can loose the safeties.

Even saying that it’s righteous violence is ascribing positive motivations that may not exist. They’re just looking for someone to attack, and an alleged paedophile is a socially acceptable target to unleash that violence on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not only that, but it both reduces the chance of someone going to get help, because they don’t want to be hunted down, and reporting, because someone who knows of them might not want to see them be lynched, and won’t report them for that reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Surely that would very a lot depending on where they get their energy from? Even the most measly household solar panel can deliver 10W to a charger, in which case, the energy impact would be negligible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s also safer, because you’re not connecting something that might carry data to the USB port. Wireless charging cannot transmit data. USB can, so delivering a virus or something that way isn’t out of the question, where it would be harder to do that over wireless charging.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That doesn’t sound correct, considering the amount of wireless chargers that will take 10W, but can only deliver half that to the phone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m surprised that you can wirelessly charge like that. In my experience, wireless chargers are really finicky about positioning, unless they have some multiple-coil trickery going on, which a lot of battery pack chargers generally don’t. Having them in a pants pocket seems like a really good way to throw that alignment off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
On my S5, there’s a little flap that you had to open and close to maintain the IP67 rating. Constantly opening and closing it was a recipe to breaking it off, where wireless didn’t put that kind of wear in.

With my newer phone, it’s easier to keep the cable with a battery pack to charge when out and about, and charge wirelessly at home, since I generally don’t need it done with any great speed, and it saves having to buy/replace another cable, or forgetting to unpack and take it with me.

Qi charging is also pretty standard, which is also good if I have a few devices with different cable needs, but mutually support the same wireless charging standard, since I can put an iPhone and an android on the same pad, without having to swap cables back and forth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Although most phones made in the past decade will detect that, and suspend wireless (and possibly wired) charging if the phone’s circuits are heating, until the temperature drops.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But art is also one of the most fundamental things everyone learns to do. Literal children learn to do art, and doodling is something everyone knows how to do.

Although I do think that the issue is exacerbated by the enthusiast-types who will tune a model on someone’s work as a form of vengeance, and smugly brag about how they can have the computer crunch out something approximating their work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They’re too big to fail. At least, they were, but they’re scaling back these days, so they may be sanctioned sooner or later.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s why we should abolish mental health care for soldiers. They’re not physically disabled. Shell shock is just mental weakness, compared to their disabled comrades (!)