SkaveRat
@SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Solar panels cleaning solar panels 1 week ago:
But who will clean that solar panel?
- Comment on Solar panels cleaning solar panels 1 week ago:
Kinky, even
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 1 week ago:
Singer would be proud
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives 1 week ago:
- Comment on WTF why my filament exploded? 2 weeks ago:
Hi, filament expert here
This is not funny
Filaments only do this when they are under extreme distress
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 weeks ago:
Fork
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 2 weeks ago:
Except for the contract employees. Fuck those people.
I mean technically the contractors are not employees
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it basically confirmed in tng as well with broccoli? I can’t quite remember
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 2 weeks ago:
Japan is super into lottery based sales. Even for things like concerts
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 weeks ago:
If you listen closely, you can hear the heads of NSA people banging on their desks because of the funding stop
- Comment on tchncs was updated! 4 weeks ago:
neat. thanks!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
They are doing that only for paying users for 10
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 5 weeks ago:
The one weird trick that makes clickbait work
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5 weeks ago:
any announced date? (don’t really want to watch trailers)
- Comment on A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years 1 month ago:
Will we, though?
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 1 month ago:
Fun fact: that’s Elijah Wood and it’s his first film role
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 1 month ago:
the thing is: the employer has absolutely 0 say on if a person is sick or not. If a doctor says a person can’t work: that’s it. The company 0 in the matter.
In fact, the company isn’t even allowed to ask why a person is sick. An official note from the doctor is all that matters
- Comment on Donate USB Drives and SD Cards to Help US Smuggle Outside Info into North Korea 1 month ago:
elaborate
- Comment on Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon? 1 month ago:
ActivityPub is a half-assed unfinished mess.
tried working on my own service and figured this one out very fast.
It’s amazing that it works at all. 98% of the stuff is not documented at all. and the stuff that is, can hardly be called documentation.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 month ago:
Not if we go butlerian jihad on them first
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 month ago:
They work. As long as people make sure that the top knows that the alternative are guillotines
- Comment on xkcd #3060: Omniroll 2 months ago:
88
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 2 months ago:
I skimmed over the article to see if whether or not if they’re just gonna send you another DVD or if they’re gonna do it through other means. I couldn’t find anything.
???
It’s right in the quote in the article:
Where possible, the defective discs have been replaced with the same title. However, as some of the affected titles are no longer in print or the rights have expired, consumers have been offered an exchange for a title of like-value.
Consumers with affected product can contact the customer support team at whv@wbd.com.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 2 months ago:
no, it’s a decentralised service on the decentralized internet
- Comment on People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now 2 months ago:
I believe that was a genetic algorithm
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
be warned that it feels different and sometimes confusing, narration-wise. Just keep at it.
Some people don’t like it because of that, but I like it. The new species opens some interesting philosophy
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 2 months ago:
maybe he did as well
- Comment on fireflies 2 months ago:
skill issue
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
If anyone is interested in “what could alien life look like?”, I can highly reccoment reading the Children Of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
He manages to really have his alien species feel like truely something non-human.
Reading the novels feels like going on an adventure