halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 5 days ago:
IIRC Lemon8 at least will have to stop just like TikTok. It isn’t TikTok specifically that is being banned. Rednote likely is affected as well.
They’re jumping ship to other sinking ships because the media has been providing incorrect information about what’s happening, as per usual now.
- Comment on South Korea | 'I got rape threats over claims I put a feminist symbol in a video game' 1 week ago:
Seems like the symbolism is probably spot on. Just like you know the big ass lifted princess trucks are driven by those same guys.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 week ago:
This is why many/most reviews are actually useless.
Many people use reviews to complain, about anything, especially if it has nothing to do with the product because it’s the easiest way to try and get it out of their system.
Combined with fake reviews, astroturfed reviews from undisclosed free products, and the average user having no knowledge of a product or category to compare against, etc. and I’d even say most reviews are effectively useless.
On the bright side, seeing any of those types of phrases in the review means you can effectively ignore that review entirely.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy to me that’s all the info I cluded in the Amber alert itself.
Every alert I’ve ever gotten had the relevant info on the alert, regardless of how large that might make it.
Why the fuck would they shorten the info in the first place?
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
Should have probably considered filtering it’s training input to not include humanity’s fascination with rogue AI killing us.
- Comment on Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave. 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the classic excuse. “The company isn’t legally required to give a shit. so it’s not a problem”.
It’s not about what they’re legally required to do. They may not be required to, they are not prevented from doing so. It’s about the fact the company is a shitty place to work and will fuck employees over in every way possible whenever given the chance. Without exception.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 weeks ago:
A random person recognized Luigi in just a couple days, and he was wearing a mask in all the video footage released.
Modern recognition systems can scan footage a lot faster than humans. Many modern systems don’t just use facial recognition but other factors like general height, walking gait, stride length, etc. to make more accurate recognitions.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 weeks ago:
As much as I logically know this to be the case, especially now that Android and iOS indicate when things like the mic are active… My brain still wants to reject it because it is just too coincidental.
I do not trust mic switches however, unless someone can provide proof that it physically disconnects the circuit to that microphone, it can be bypassed somewhere and there’s no reason to trust the manufacturer.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Depends on what was damaged. Being able to unlock and open things like the frunk, tonneau cover, glovebox, etc. with a remote command is certainly easier than breaking them open, if they were still closed.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t surprising at all to anyone paying attention to what the Tesla app lets you do with your vehicle, or if they have interacted with Tesla support. All of that info is available in the app, including viewing not only live camera feeds from sentry mode, but also saved recordings from the USB drive installed in the vehicle now. Clearly if you can do that from the app, the company can do that and more.
Similar stuff is almost surely possible with any of the other manufacturers that have mobile apps with similar functionality as well.
Hell, shit like OnStar had similar functionality to remotely unlock vehicles before Tesla even existed.
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 2 weeks ago:
While the North and South poles match the planet’s axis of spin. If you’re comparing differences in latitude, you’re looking at it as if the Earth were spinning around a vertical point between the poles, but the planet itself is tilted 23.5° compared to the solar plane. Plus we’re in an elliptical orbit, not circular, and that axis of tilt also wobbles about from the pull of not only the Sun but also the gas giants in our solar system like Saturn and Jupiter, and of course the Moon which also gives us our regular tides.
There’s a lot of factors that go into orbital mechanics. All of which result in our planet having widely varying tidal forces, distinct seasons, but still resulting in an overall stable and balanced ecosystem.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 4 weeks ago:
Whistle lower deaths need to be treated by the courts like other destruction of evidence, because that’s what it is. The jury being instructed to assume the most damaging version of what that evidence could have contained.
A whistleblower isn’t going to kill themselves out of nowhere. To get to that point they were undoubtedly being threatened by the company.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 5 weeks ago:
They usually do, it’s pennies to the government. Notice however, it’s information leading to the arrest AND conviction. They’re not getting paid anytime soon, if at all.
- Comment on Lt. Gov. Patrick vows to ban all THC in Texas 1 month ago:
While other border states have done the right thing, legalized, and taxed it to increase revenues and ensure a minimum safe quality, you can always rely on Texas to do the opposite.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 1 month ago:
After working retail for more than a decade… Those people deserve it. The type of person to argue with an employee about whether they carry something or not solely because Google said so, are the quintessential Karen. They deserve every bit of unhelpfulness right back at them for the misery they sow everywhere they go.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 1 month ago:
Why do people buy raw milk?
They’re idiots. Some believe it’s because pasteurized milk had added chemicals, which isn’t correct, pasteurization is simply heat. But idiots will be idiots.
For others it’s the general anti-science/education bullshit going around now. The crossover with the anti-vax is nearly a circle it seems.
- Comment on Russian food prices are soaring — but no one dares blame Putin and the war 1 month ago:
Can’t do that. Then the North Koreans would know what food actually looks like.
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement 1 month ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 month ago:
There is a nearly zero percent chance that the game developers are also cloud experts. Having the same parent company means almost nothing, especially when you get to the size of places like Microsoft. The internal bureaucracy can actually make getting things accomplished properly worse. External contracts are usually pretty clear on what’s provided for the payment. Internal processes are often much more blurry, if not completely muddy.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 month ago:
I’d say it’s more on how the developers setup their system to utilize (or not utilize) those dynamic capabilities.
The game devs not taking advantage of that properly should be on them. Put the blame where it belongs.Don’t let the devs off the hook just because you want to at least partially blame the MS cloud. Microsoft’s systems CAN handle dynamic loads when setup properly, we see it all the time.
- Comment on We have the best shaped states, don't we folks 2 months ago:
After learning about the chef, it becomes impossible to not see him anymore when looking at the states.
- Comment on Not So Fast! Judge Halts Infowars Sale To Onion Due To Shady Auction Procedures 2 months ago:
What a surprise. The bid the families are backing to win despite not being the highest, is being challenged.
The higher “backup” bid is a company setup by Alex Jones sycophants to maintain control of their propaganda brand, despite the purpose of the entire defamation lawsuit and the reason for it being sold in the first place.
They can go fuck themselves. The reason it is being sold off in the first place is the damage done to the families. Their opinion should have weight, if not outright make the decision of who wins the bid.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard of Hydro power boiling water. Usually hydro power is natural or pumped storage.
You’re just taking water from an upper reservoir and dropping it to a downstream river. Either a naturally-filled reservoir/lake, or a pumped storage reservoir where you use other cheap power during low usage periods to pump that water to a higher reservoir to utilize later. The pump doesn’t heat the water, it just moves it uphill to utilize later, like the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station in Missouri.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.
I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
Same with the Model 3.
I have to disagree with them not being obvious however. Nearly every new person in my Model 3 goes to grab the emergency release immediately. I even added vinyl door open stickers next to the button to make it more obvious and it still happens almost every time.
- Comment on Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad 2 months ago:
SpaceX will for sure be exempt. Justification will probably be national defense, which is a decent justification to be honest.
Tesla, probably lumped in there because there is a lot of cross-work between Tesla and SpaceX with battery tech, electric motors, engineering, etc.
It won’t affect them at all.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 months ago:
Were they as annoying as seagulls? Because I could see that being a fairly valid reasoning back in the day.
- Comment on Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost. 2 months ago:
There are varying levels of moderation, and not all moderation is unpaid volunteer like lemmy and reddit. Not all moderation is just morons fighting or porn being posted where it shouldn’t. There are dedicated moderation teams that handle the worst things like child sexual abuse verification and reporting at sites like Facebook, etc. Those are pretty objective based determinations that don’t need to handle moderation criticism or concerns in any way shape or form.
- Comment on Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost. 2 months ago:
It sounds like it might be a good job for sociopaths. Since nearly everything I’ve read from those who have actually done that moderation is about the effect on them due to their empathy, a lack of natural empathy seems like it would be advantageous.
I wonder if there’s been a study on that.
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 months ago:
Blood is in the water. The sharks will come to feed on the corpse. If one manages to make an alternative that can be a nearly seamless switch from WP that will probably succeed.
