Humanius
@Humanius@lemmy.world
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
It shouldn’t even be that complex…
I might be mistaken, but ultimately a password manager is basically nothing more than a database of passwords in an encrypted zip file. That could entirely be self-hosted with off the shelf open source applications stringed together.
All you’d need is a nice UI stringing it all together. - Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 1 month ago:
… and the people involved were arrested
- Comment on What kind of messaging apps do you use? 2 months ago:
Discord and Whatsapp
I’d love to use Signal, but virtually noone in my sphere uses it. - Comment on Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts 2 months ago:
Correct, but that also comes to the main reason why paying people for roof solar isn’t sustainable in the long term.
As solar panels keeps getting cheaper, more and more people will put solar on their roof. Since they get paid / reimbursed for feeding power back into the grid. And they don’t need a battery because they can just draw from the grid. This causes two problems:
- During the day far more power is produced than needed, since everyone has solar on the roofs
- During the night there is a lot of power draw from the grid, which cannot come from all the available roof solar.
Paying people for their roof solar is a good strategy short-term, but as more and more people have solar on the roof you cannot really keep doing that.
- Comment on Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts 2 months ago:
Where in Europe is this? Europe isn’t a monolith, after all.
Here in the Netherlands we (currently) still have the “salderingsregeling” which is used to reimburse people for the solar they feed back into the grid, though that will eventually go away.Paying people for solar on the roof is a bit tricky in general, and probably not sustainable long term:
- The money to maintain the grid has to come from somewhere, and if a lot of people have a bill of zero euros or a negative amount, that system kind of breaks down.
- The grid has a maximum capacity (especially in residential neighbourhoods) so you cannot pump an infinite amount of power back into the grid. If many houses in a neighbourhood have solar the grid simply cannot cope.
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
You are correct, but that cooking process doesn’t have to be done with fossil fuels. Hydrogen (like you mentioned) is an alternative and you can create hydrogen using water and electricity.
In the NL we have a pretty polluting steel mill that is currently still coal fired. They are working on a transition plan where they adapt it to be gas fired instead, with the ability down the line to make it hydrogen fired when hydrogen production capacity is up to speed.
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
That is assuming that those data centers are necessary. If the data center is doing something that is not really needed then it is in effect wasting power that could have been used for other purposes. (e.g. using surplus power to make steel or aluminium for instance)
While I do think that AI-tools can be increadibly useful, the current hype surrounding it very much looks like a bubble akin to the DotCom bubble to me. Companies left and right are jumping on the AI bandwagon for the sake of using the buzzword “AI” in their marketing speech.
I don’t consider that kind of use of datacenters to be necessary.
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
Sadly it’s tricky to separate the two.
Say if hypothethically we have a data center that is not connected to the grid, and is entirely running on solar power and battery storage.
If the grid still generates (part of) its electricity need using fossil fuels, those same solar panels and batteries could instead have been used to (further) decarbonize the grid.While using solar power is good, increasing the overall unnecessary electricity consumption is still not great.
- Comment on Cable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer" 9 months ago:
You could add the link to the post description
Currently it’s showing up at the bottom of the thread for me - Comment on Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... 10 months ago:
If consuming media with integer scaling is the main concern, then 120Hz would be better than 144Hz, because it can be divided by 5 to make 24Hz (for movies) and divided by 2 or 4 to make 30/60Hz (for TV shows).
144Hz only cleanly divides into 24Hz by dividing it by 6. In order to get to 60Hz you need to divide by 2.4, which is not an integer.
And with either refresh rate 25/50Hz PAL content is still not dividable by a nice round integer value
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
Short answer: It’s because of binary. Computers are very good at calculating with powers of two, and because of that a lot of computer concepts often use powers of two.
1024 = 2^7^
- Comment on EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence 11 months ago:
I can mostly find myself agreeing (or at least not having big issues with) with all of the points, except for that one.
Let’s just hope they mean a best effort, rather than outright preventing it in the first place. - Comment on EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence 11 months ago:
Since the article doesn’t actually say what the rules and regulations are, here is a link:
- Comment on 23andMe is updating its TOS to force binding arbitration with a limited opt-out window 11 months ago:
I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think that retroactively applies to things that happened before the ToS got updated.
So 23andMe would still be open to lawsuits for the previous breach
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
As someone who works in the tech industry and has used AI tools, I do think it is overrated.
That doesn’t mean that it I don’t think it can be useful, just that it’s not going to live up to the immense hype surrounding it right now. - Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Por que no los dos?
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
Just wait till Musk learns about banking regulations
- Comment on Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off 1 year ago:
Unity walked back from charging per installation earlier today. Now they will be charging per device it is installed on.
It doesn’t solve the core problem, but it at least prevents install-bombing like you are suggesting - Comment on Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off 1 year ago:
eurogamer.net/unity-reveals-plans-to-charge-per-g…
Other articles I have been reading on the topic do mention that though:
Unity has also clarified the changes are “not retroactive or perpetual”, noting it will only “charge once for a new install” made after 1st January 2024. However, while it won’t be charging for previously made installs, fees do indeed apply to all games currently on the market, meaning should any existing player of an older game that exceeds Unity’s various thresholds decide to re-install it after 1st January, a charge will still be made.
- Comment on Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off 1 year ago:
I’m no legal expert, and I have no familiarity with Unity’s licensing terms.
So I didn’t want to outright call what they are doing illegal.For all I know they did technically have a clause in their licensing agreement that allows them to do this. But that wouldn’t make it any less of a sum move imo.
- Comment on Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off 1 year ago:
From what I understand this change will retroactively apply to games released in the past as well. I think that’s a rather scummy move on Unity’s part. It’s not like game devs have been using a free product. They already pay for it through expensive licenses per developer.
If the justification on Unity’s part is true, that for each install of a Unity game the runtime environment needs to be downloaded from their servers, then maybe they should look into fixing that rather than nickle and diming their customers (customers in this case being the game developers)
- Comment on Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows 1 year ago:
I’m currently using it as a network printer via CUPS (so yes, Linux) But to my knowledge that still requires the appropriate drivers to be installed on Windows 🤔
- Comment on Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows 1 year ago:
So what does this mean for my old laser printer dating back to the early 2000s? Will I not be able to use that anymore? It’s still perfectly functional, so it would be a bit of a shame and a waste of money to have to replace it.
- Comment on Can't login on browser. 1 year ago:
Have you tried clearing your browser’s cache (if the browser allows it you can just clear the cache for your lemmy instance)
That seemed to solve the issue on my end. - Comment on Can't login on browser. 1 year ago:
I’ve had this issue before.
Have you tried clearing your browser’s cookies (in Chrome you can specifically clear the cookies of one site) That seemed to solve the issue for me.
- Comment on Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month 1 year ago:
I’m technically still sharing a Netflix account with my parents, though I rarely use it at this point.
Whenever I want to watch a movie, and I check Netflix, they don’t have it. (It’s worth pointing out that I’m not in the US)In contrast, YouTube Premium gives me pretty much exactly what I seek from it. Videos from channels that I follow, but now without ads.
- Comment on Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month 1 year ago:
I have a YouTube Premium subscription