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- Comment on New Report: Offshore Wind Can Create Over 60,000 Jobs in Norway by 2050 1 week ago:
To put that number in perspective, it’s way more jobs in a much smaller country than the number of coal miners in the United States. data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021210001
- Comment on New Orleans subdivision on toxic Superfund site being cleared for solar farm 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad we’re turning something so horrible into something positive but I’d still like more info on how the NFL and WWE — doing security sweeps for the Super Bowl and Wrestlemania, respectively — discovered Radium-226 in one neighborhood. It was apparently the site of a munitions factory during the Vietnam War but some sort of classified shenanigans was clearly afoot.
- Comment on Data Show That X Continues to Lose Users in EU. 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to think it’s because they’re taking a stand but they have to be even more sick of seeing weird American incels talk about US elections than we are in the U.S. Not to mention vote scolds who assume the entire internet is American. “I don’t care about the election.” “Vote! It’s important!” “Motherfucker, I live in Antwerp! Shut up! Just shut up!”
- Comment on 4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows 2 weeks ago:
4 more gigstons of CO~2~ in the atmosphere linked to more anxiety in people who might actually see 2100.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 weeks ago:
Why is generative AI even needed for audio transcription? We’ve had decent voice recognition tools for years even on cheap consumer grade stuff.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees 3 weeks ago:
I imagine this is less about making money off developers as it is about making misinformation research cost prohibitive.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Can we have a decent password manager that isn’t tied to a browser or company? I pay for Bitwarden. I’m not being cheap. But open source is more secure. We can look at the code ourselves if there’s a concern.
- Comment on In the California desert, residents are struggling with the influx of massive solar projects 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices to stave off previously unknown levels of human misery.
The alternative is communities (like Louisiana’s “cancer alley”) impacted in way worse way.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
And that’s on top of all the Brazil users who fled to BlueSky when he refused to comply with a court order (and pay a fine) so they blocked Twitter for a few days. I’m not sure how many went back after he paid the fine but BlueSky was fairly popular in Brazil even during the closed beta so I’m sure a ton stuck around.
- Comment on Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats 1 month ago:
I can’t believe plutocrats that hates unions are against a progressive party. Also, I have never read one thing about American history except WWII books where they pretend we were involved the whole time.
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- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
Also, there’s easy tools to help you. I know VS Code has accessibility code linter extensions. I’m not as familiar with Xcode or others but I’d bet there’s something that at least treats it like a code warning if you do something that would make your web site gibberish to screen readers and the like.
We’re pretty much all gonna be disabled at some point. Some of us will piss off the mafia and be sank to the bottom a shallow sea while in our prime. But ideally, we all live to have vision problems or some other need for accessibility to exist.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
It’s a joke, dog. It makes it so the page comes out white when printing. It’s not something anyone should actually put in their code.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
This is a good point. I obviously said the code was a joke but accessibility is something I was ignorant of early in my career when I was just trying to make the code work. Once I got some experience under my belt, I really focused on it as critical before shipping. And, surprisingly, I was always able to request extra funding for it.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
If you buy whatever Brother laser printer, the ink doesn’t dry up and you never have to print anything anyway. It’s like $100 and the cartridge lasts forever.
And also; don’t print. If you’re a developer, put in the css that says:
@media print { body,html {display:none;} }That might not completely do it because it’s a joke but slap !important or whatever wherever you want.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been cited for multiple safety violations with workers exposed to chemical sludge 1 month ago:
Very rude to call Elon Musk “chemical sludge” even if that’s basically what he is nowadays.
- Comment on World now has five times more PV than nuclear power 1 month ago:
I imagine they assumed readers of PV Magazine would be photovoltaics enthusiasts.
- Comment on Instagram has announced it will be removing beauty filters – but the damage is done. 1 month ago:
Meta should probably never be blamed for innovating when all they do is steal ideas from potential competitors and crudely duct tape them onto existing products. Instagram was once a useful, good app and now it’s 80% features from Snapchat and TikTok and you maybe see a friend’s post a week late.
- Comment on Who still uses pagers? 1 month ago:
Multiple electronics stores caught on fire. I doubt Mossad found a specific box that said “To: terrorists” on it and only rigged those pagers. They just don’t care about killing civilians.
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 1 month ago:
Because the U.S. government gave them $6.6 billion to do it under the CHIPS Act: reuters.com/…/tsmc-wins-66-bln-us-subsidy-arizona…
With TSMC, it’s insurance against China invading Taiwan but Intel (and probably everyone else) got a load of subsidies too. After the chip shortage during the pandemic and Russia invading Ukraine, chip production became a national security issue.
- Comment on To be more useful, robots need to become lazier. 2 months ago:
Laziness is the number one skill anyone innovative should have. Whoever invented the wheel definitely didn’t do it because they liked work. It was because they hated it knew there had to be a better way.
So, what we really need is lazier inventors. Only then will we get lazier robots.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Maybe add a spoiler alert next time. Jeez.
- Comment on Why didn't other nations help China during its Great Famine? 2 months ago:
In addition to the historic reasons mentioned in the other comments, there’s places facing famine right now that aren’t getting much help and several more countries where we should be preparing for mobilization and aren’t.
Source for that image is the World Food Program’s early warning report: docs.wfp.org/api/documents/…/download/
- Comment on ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In. 3 months ago:
I commented elsewhere about this but it’s entirely dependent on the type of bar and event. That data will be used for holding bartenders who “overserve” liable for someone else’s behavior and there’s so many scenarios where you have no idea who has drank the correct amount.
Imagine working an event — a concert or wedding or anything like that — and some jackass manages to get too drunk. That should be on them but America is the most litigious society on Earth. There’s no way the bar and bartender won’t ever be sued and this data subpoenaed.
- Comment on ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In. 3 months ago:
As someone in New Orleans who has bartended and done many other service industry jobs, eat pant. That will definitely be used in shittier cities to arrest/sue bartenders who “overserve” someone who then leaves and gets in trouble.
It’s basically impossible to keep track of every customer at crowded bars when you’re working your ass off, people buy rounds for each other, you’re worried about stocking the bar, cleaning glasses, etc. Imagine working at a music venue and being slammed for 3 or 4 hours for tips and then some ass gets you sued, fined, or arrested because you didn’t manage to remember every single person at the show.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
And people laughed at me for sticking with my MOS 6502. Who’s laughing now?
- Comment on Tesla’s profits sank sharply in the second quarter of 2024 | The company’s revenue increased by 2 percent compared to last year, but profits are down 45 percent year over year 3 months ago:
You’re not wrong but Tesla is probably more of a meme stock at this point. We might not be able to blame Wall Street for this one. There’s a lot of retail investors in Tesla stock because they think Elon is a super brain genius despite all evidence to the contrary.
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
It appears the world’s most divorced bozo is at it again.
- Comment on Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR 3 months ago:
Why do I need a reason?
- Comment on Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR 3 months ago:
Thanks for taking my joke literally and showing me a new search engine. That Google one seems pretty good. I’ve been using AltaVista and my BBS to find info but that’s way quicker.
Also, if you want to be a smart ass about it, use letmegooglethat.com/?q=dikfore
- Comment on Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR 3 months ago:
What’s the easiest EU country to emigrate to?
