RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 6 days ago:
You can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get into in the first place
- Comment on Make a new friend! 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by the internet being held together by chewing gum, string, and an informal agreement that the few thousand people who keep the whole mess running won’t all go to the pub at the same time
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 3 weeks ago:
This only works with rational actors
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe don’t engage in a war of escalation with unstable people
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 3 weeks ago:
People keep imagining AGI like its going to be benevolent skynet, when it’s probably going to be more like the Tyrell corporation from Blade Runner
- Comment on Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui 4 weeks ago:
The license change literally just prevents you from stripping their branding if you have more than 50 users a month - this is more permissive than the MPL that Firefox is licensed under
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
It does, but it’s super dangerous to do unless you have it wired up properly. Proper installations will use a special connector so you can’t plug anything else into that receptical, and will have it interlocked against the main breaker - you can’t plug anything in without disconnecting from the grid. The dangers of doing it amateur-hour are:
- You now have a cable that you can unplug and have live ends exposed - which if you don’t realize is connected to an active generator is super dangerous, and even if you do one slip and you are now the ground conductor
- If you connect the generator while still connected to the grid, your generator is almost certainly going to be out of phase. This will probably cause damage to your generator and anything else plugged in at the time
- If you don’t have an interlock and run the generator while connected to the grid (say during a power outage) you will be back-feeding power into the grid. This is super dangerous for anyone coming to fix the outage, as things that they’ve isolated to fix can still end up being live
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about strictly racist, but it’s definitely got colonial overtones. Europe has used “they are uncivilized” as an excuse for the way they brutalized their colonies, erased cultures and enslaved people for centuries
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 1 month ago:
Idk, even before Musk went full meth head things were already heading south pretty fast - they’d completely squandered their first mover advantage and their “move fast and break things” approach was really starting to take a toll on their brand reputation. Teslas were already starting to be known as expensive cars with terrible build quality, then the constant delays and broken promises about self driving did them no favors either.
A Tesla made sense when they were pretty much the only really viable luxury EV, but when you can get equivalent cars (with better build quality) from established Western manufacturers for ~75% the price or from a Chinese manufacturer for ~60%, what advantage do they have?
Musk’s cult of personally is/was a big part of it, so they are kinda screwed either way - the stink of Musk won’t instantly vanish if they get rid of him, and taints everything while he stays
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Another point on this, in events like this the cell network is often under very significant stress as every single person tries to contact their family and friends at the same time to check if they are OK. The general advice is to avoid making phone calls if you can to keep capacity free for people who need to contact emergency services
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 months ago:
If you are going to propose a law, you need to define “stupid”
- Comment on Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios? 2 months ago:
I find it telling that AGI people seem to assume that AGI will spontaneously appear as a distinct entity with its own agency rather than being a product that will be owned and sold.
People who have hundreds of billions of dollars can get mid-single-digit percent ROI by making very safe investments with that money, but instead they are pouring it into relatively risky AI investments. What do you think that says about their expectations of returns?
- Comment on Backup compose and env files 2 months ago:
Check them into Git, but be cautious about credentials that might live in the env files that you don’t want to expose publicly.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 months ago:
… so I shouldn’t use the CEOs history of bankruptcy and failed a Kickstarter when judging if I think it is going to succeed or not?
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
IIRC Ubiquity make a line of point-to-point ethernet bridges that operate in the 20GHz range (because more bandwidth, and if you have line of sight you don’t care about interference as much). Responsible vendors won’t even sell you one without sighting a license cos they can also get in trouble for selling it to you if it turns out you are operating it illegally
- Comment on How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught 3 months ago:
The irony of being asked to sign up to a website to be able to read an article about opsec failures
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 3 months ago:
My concern isn’t that things will get delayed, it’s that I’ll give them my money and get nothing in return
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 3 months ago:
I’m pretty excited about this; my Pebble Time was the best watch I’ve even owned - smart or otherwise.
That said, I don’t think I’m going to be preordering this given how badly the last Pebble Kickstarter went. For those who weren’t around at the time, Pebble (whose CEO is behind this venture) built his whole business around Kickstarter. The first 2 generations were wildly successful, but for the third generation they massively overextended themselves trying to get hardware into mainstream retailers, prioritised building stock for retail channels (because contracts) and ran out of cash before shipping for the majority of backers who had bankrolled this whole thing. Eventually everyone who hadn’t had their orders fulfilled got a refund, but that was only because FitBit decided to buy them. Eric seems like a nice guy and great at the technology - and I’m not saying that I could run a business any better - but I think I’ll wait until there is stock on hand for me to buy outright before I hand over my cash
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 3 months ago:
There are two truely hard problems in computer science; P=NP, naming things, and off by one safety
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 3 months ago:
Beyond just being able to draw a bow, being able to draw it well enough to have a chance of shooting at all repeatably takes a lot of training - it’s not just lifting a 50+lb weight, pulling it towards you with one and and pushing it away with the other while keeping your arms stable requires a lot of strength in muscles the people don’t tend to use.
Source: former colleague is an international competition level archer - the sheer amount of core strength and coordination and balance you need to be a good archer is wild
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 3 months ago:
They talk about AGI like it’s some kind of intrinsically benevolent messiah that is going to come along and free humanity of limitations rather than a product that is going to be monetised to make a few very rich people even richer
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 months ago:
Oh one one eight nine nine nine…
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 3 months ago:
So I’m going to get down voted to hell for this, but: this kind of legislation is a response to US tech companies absolutely refusing to compromise and meet non-US governments half-way.
The belief in an absolute, involute right to privacy at all costs is a very US ideal. In the rest of the world - and in Europe especially - this belief is tempered by a belief that law enforcement is critical to a just society, and that sometimes individual rights must be suspended for the good of society as a whole.
What Europe has been asking for is a mechanism to allow law enforcement to carry out lawful investigation of electronic communications in the same way they have been able to do with paper, bank records, and phone calls for a century. The idea that a tech company might get in the way of prosecuting someone for a serious crime is simply incompatible with law in a lot of places.
The rest of the world has been trying to find a solution to the for a while that respects the privacy of the general public but which doesn’t allow people to hide from the law. Tech has been refusing to compromise or even engage in this discussion, so now everyone is worse off.
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- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 3 months ago:
I’ve been looking at getting solar installed, and been talking to a few different companies for quotes. One place only supplies PowerWall batteries, and I said to the sales rep that I wasn’t really interested in buying anything from Tesla and his face made it pretty clear that that was the answer he’d been getting a lot recently
- Comment on 3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain 4 months ago:
Please tell me they struck a deal with Zack
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 4 months ago:
I mean, if he also wants to take on the costs of doing all the remediation work and ongoing maintenance and surveillance for the rest of time that’s probably a good deal for the city
- Comment on no words, much feelings 4 months ago:
What’s the bet those filters never get changed either?
- Comment on These still don't taste like Steve Harvey.. 4 months ago:
… My first thought was “is this loss?”. I’m probably too online.