elrik
@elrik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 2 days ago:
Unpopular opinion I guess, but I think Teams is actually pretty good at my workplace.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Isn’t it available on PS5?
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Effectively you will not have any credit history, so you simply won’t qualify for lower interest credit products or will be rejected on applications that have a credit score threshold.
- Comment on There it is 2 weeks ago:
That’s awesome - nice work!
- Comment on A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. 2 weeks ago:
Only those who could lift more than average survived for the photo, obviously.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Good. Please proceed as quickly as possible.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 3 weeks ago:
Ah so it’s marketing BS then, got it.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 3 weeks ago:
How is this different from the capabilities of Tesla’s FSD, which is considered level 2? It seems like Mercedes just decided they’ll take on liability to classify an equivalent level 2 system as level 3.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not enough.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never clicked an ad on purpose. I use DNS to block all the common click thru domains for ads.
This move by Microsoft will undoubtedly result in more Windows PCs infected by malware as people find tools to remove the ads and some of those tools will turn out to be malware.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 4 weeks ago:
Not only that but the API cost is per token, so every message exchange in every conversation costs more because of the length of the system prompt.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t just one man who was discriminated against. Your genetics determined which opportunities were available to you, even for those who were selected for at conception. There were still varying degrees of “genetically perfect.”
The problem presented by gattaca and with the thought process behind this company is the suggestion that your “value” to "be selected’ (for conception, for employment, etc.) should be determined by your genetics.
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 5 weeks ago:
That’s excellent. Thanks for pointing that out!
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 5 weeks ago:
I am not using passkeys until it’s possible to easily migrate them between providers (not just devices / browsers). If I used Proton Pass, and then later decided to use another password manager, could I export my passkey data?
- Comment on Get the ketchup. 2 months ago:
Where’s the spam?
- Comment on Sometimes fewer walls are better 2 months ago:
Really interesting! I wonder what would happen if you combine these two properties. Suppose some length of the middle is all walls, and the hooks are infill, or vice versa. Is there an optimal mix that maximizes the weight it can support in your testing, or have you found the optimal configuration (with infill along the entire length) already?
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
I recently went through these exact pains trying to contribute to a project that exclusively ran through Discord and eventually had to give up when it was clear they would never enable issues in their GitHub repos for “reasons.”
It was impossible to discover the history behind anything. Even current information was lost within days, having to rehash aspects that were already investigated and decided upon.
- Comment on Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI 3 months ago:
Users would get bored quickly. The most engaging content on social media tends to be those posts that you disagree with or even anger you.
The real trick would be to sprinkle in about 40% controversy, 5% trolling and a healthy dash of nonsensical hate posting.
You need to give the user a tribe along with an opposition to defend the tribe against.
- Comment on Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses 3 months ago:
IPv4 support is required and works perfectly.
Except it doesn’t work perfectly, because it has a relatively small address space. That’s why ipv6 exists.
- Comment on Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses 3 months ago:
There are huge gaps in ipv6 adoption which means most users and services must continue to support and use ipv4.
Since everyone has to continue ipv4 support, there’s not much motivation to push general adoption of ipv6. Maintaining dual stack support has its own costs.
Even within AWS, many of their services still don’t support ipv6. AWS fees for ipv4 addressing may end up being a comparatively big driver for adoption.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 3 months ago:
It’s not skippable as far as I can tell. It also frequently advertises shows I’ve already watched. Sometimes it advertises the show I’m trying to watch.
I’m pretty sure it also has the “ad counter” showing on the screen during this as well.
Here’s what they call it in their docs:
You’ll also see a quick preview only once per day before any show to keep you up-to-date on our original programming.
It’s not an ad, it’s a “preview.” /s
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 4 months ago:
PE
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
It’s the same inner voice speaking thoughts instead of words on a page.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
Read this sentence one word at a time. As you read it, do you hear the words spoken inside your head?
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 4 months ago:
If you don’t have prime you might not buy things from Amazon which would probably be a net loss compared to the potential ad revenue increase.
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 5 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Fusion360 free Startup option is going away! 5 months ago:
You can also mark designs as ready-only and they no longer count, so this limit is really 10 concurrently editable designs. I just keep everything read-only unless I’m actively working on it.
- Comment on The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans 5 months ago:
What could go wrong?
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 5 months ago:
You should get 33% more pay as the full work force productivity would be 4/3 of the original in your example.
This difference might be clearer with an example where only half of the work force is required to match the original productivity. In this case, if the full work force continues to work, productivity is presumably doubled. That’s not a 50% increase. It’s 200% of the original or a 100% increase. So the trade-off should be between 50% fewer working hours and 100% more pay.
Of course, instead you’ll work the same hours for the same pay and some shareholders pocket that 100% difference.
- Comment on Senate Leaders Plan to Prolong NSA Surveillance Using a Must-Pass Bill 5 months ago:
Although, if they do stop some mass shootings we’d likely never hear about it. So it’s not really that straightforward to understand what, if any, impact it has had.