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- Comment on Don’t upvote this 1 week ago:
- Comment on histories mysteries 1 week ago:
Tell me please.
I’m missing a reference and it itches my brain.
- Comment on collegial colleagues 2 weeks ago:
Dear fossilesque I’m not replying to your post
- Comment on An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on isopods are friends 3 weeks ago:
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 3 weeks ago:
I had to scroll way too far to find this - surely the main pro/con if hydrogen.
Storage was an issue in the past. Is it better now?
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 3 weeks ago:
BP apparently
- Comment on Spending a billion dollars to bring solar manufacturing back to Australia is 'worth a shot', researchers say 5 weeks ago:
If it can be made without Lead & reasonable efficiency. Why does there always have to be an if.
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 1 month ago:
You don’t like a bunch of people shouting at each other across a cafeteria? It kind of explains why I never got twitter either.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
That would be Hanlons razor. I have no idea whether it applies here.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 2 months ago:
Good old copper is pretty hard to beat for a high temp/pressure (or vacuum). Chemical compatibility can be an issue though.
Viton gets used a lot & I’m struggling to think of alternatives to it.
- Comment on Public trust in AI is sinking across the board 2 months ago:
The tools are OK & getting better but some people (me) are more worried about the people developing those tools.
If OpenAI wants 7 trillion dollars where does it get the money to repay its investors? Those with greatest will to power are not the best to wield that power.
This accelerationist race seems pretty reckless to me whether AGI is months or decades away. Experts all agree that a hard takeoff is most likely.
What can we do about this? Seriously. I have no idea.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 2 months ago:
Is there really no alternative in shampoo & disposable coffee cups?
I understand that these chemicals do have some outstanding properties but that doesn’t mean unfettered production & use. Any risk assessment of a potential use really should include 100% resource recovery & disposal or recycling. This could have been done years ago but if industry can’t self regulate then bans it is.
These chemicals make silent spring look like, um, er, weekend at Bernie’s?
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 2 months ago:
Git gud.
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 2 months ago:
- Comment on He is my evening nightstand duck, we get each other 2 months ago:
I really want it to wave its legs around helplessly when your alarm goes off.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
100%
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
I assume AI is training off the content here for free.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out? 2 months ago:
It’s been an option for as long as I can remember. I suppose they are leaving the default until websites adapt to chromes changes.
- Comment on Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law 2 months ago:
- Comment on AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source 2 months ago:
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 2 months ago:
The ad based stuff seem happy to go with click-baity & AI generated content anyway. The people with the purse strings do tend to be stingy. So much genuinely original content gets ripped of, reacted to etc and diluted away. The loss of professional journalism has been a loss to humanity but it’s one that we might just have to accept.
Now I’m sad.
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 2 months ago:
Does that mean you (and me) end up drowning in a pool of 90% AI dead internet comments while everyone who stayed on Reddit or Facebook can talk to their friends in their WEI tracked & profiled walled garden?
Shitty choice.
The only solution I can see it robust moderation tools on a platform like Lemmy.
AI still gets to read everything but at least individuals/communities/instances can be blocked for bad behaviour.
What altertatives do we have right now?
- Comment on Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season 2 months ago:
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 3 months ago:
One day a million years from now.
- Comment on There's a reason why some people hang toilet paper over while others hang it under 3 months ago:
Unless you have a child or an insane cat that likes to bat the roll & dump it all on the floor. Thank fuck that part of my life is over.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 3 months ago:
- Comment on Facebook Collects 'Link History,' Uses Data To Target Ads 4 months ago:
Stool samples - yet.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 4 months ago:
Depends how many bears he has eaten.