br3d
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- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 18 hours ago:
“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predicted amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
Except people don’t plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 2 weeks ago:
Woodlice
- Comment on Swoletariots of the World 2 weeks ago:
m’=m-45. Fixed it for you
- Comment on How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4? 1 month ago:
If you ask, some places can do early check-in. You might have to pay for it, because it disrupts their routine
- Comment on Why does Sync not display some comments? 1 month ago:
It’s not just Sync, I find. I’ve had this issue with other Lemmy apps yoo
- Comment on Why does Sync not display some comments? 1 month ago:
I’ve just tested this and it didn’t work. I think this issue, of posts saying there is 1 comment when there are none, is some sort of Lemmy-wide issue. It drives me crazy, as it’s impossible to know whether posts have a comment or not without looking at each individually.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 1 month ago:
Have a look at marginalia.nu - it’s like a return to the old days
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 2 months ago:
I wonder if my colleagues have picked up on the fact that when I start an email “Dear-” rather than “Hi-”, it means I’m annoyed with them
- Comment on Broadband boss hits out at rivals over mid-contract price rises 2 months ago:
One of the most annoying bits is that these increases are always inflation plus a bit (eg current rate of inflation plus 3%). But… inflation is calculated using, among other things, broadband prices. So this practice guarantees that inflation will be pushed up
- Comment on Here is How ChatGPT Can Harm Your Dissertation Research 3 months ago:
Ironically this article reads like GPT output
- Comment on Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice 4 months ago:
I mean, just look at the way Microsoft are trying to ram “AI” into every interaction with every app right now. As the big players make it more and more non-optional, people are going to have to work really hard not to put anything into, say, Word that they don’t want sent back for analysis
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 4 months ago:
Why would billions of us stop our excess pollution when we can just kid ourselves a handful of billionaires are doing it all? /s
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 4 months ago:
It’s disappointing how the article mentions the big issue is people who can’t work work thanks to preventable ill health, but then the discussion doesn’t go on to address this - as though dealing with bad diets and lack of physical activity are not even work thinking about, and it’s easier just to magic up £100bn a year
- Comment on Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You 5 months ago:
Nobody can audit the code for all their apps. Even within an ideal world where the code is all open, people don’t have the skills or the time. Sensor permissions are supposed to be a system so that people can have a strong level of confidence in apps without needing those skills and time, and so not having the ability to control this sensor is a problem - but an OS problem
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 5 months ago:
Speaking of which, it uses the same web interface as a lot of other news sites. Newsletter popup, autoplay video part-way down that then jumps to the top of the screen, etc. What Hifi is the same, and there are various other sites all with the same annoying engine. Two questions: (1) are all these sites owned by the same company and (2) is there a browser extension that can fix them?
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- Comment on Do we own our posts? 6 months ago:
I think the problem is that you’re not explaining which country you’re thinking of, and seem to be suggesting it’s the same legal situation everywhere
- Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit 6 months ago:
Those are much much higher up, which introduces a lot of signal latency. The Starlink types are low down, which makes the Comms faster (and also means they keep burning up in the atmosphere)
- Comment on Can videogames trigger a heart attack? 6 months ago:
Don’t ask online strangers for medical advice. Go to a doctor if you’re worried
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 6 months ago:
Comparison with current excitement about AI is interesting. Look at the language people use to describe the behaviour of LLMs
- Comment on Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement 7 months ago:
No way is something that size transmitting video all the time, or even processing it on board to upload summaries. The battery would last about an hour
- Comment on King’s Speech: What policies made it in and what’s been removed? 7 months ago:
He’s also a figurehead who announces whatever the government of the day tell him to accounce
- Comment on Are there any active news communities similar to Lemmy/Reddit, but users can only vote and comment, not post articles? 7 months ago:
Flipboard sounds a lot like what you’re looking for
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 8 months ago:
Because we have a lot of history. If we’re doing an historic festival it would be more specific about the period, not just some homogeneous “past”. But that said, such festivals are quite rare anyway
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 8 months ago:
Same in the UK. Very curious how all over the world, governments created exactly the same tax loophole. I can’t think which highly resourced industry might have been involved in “advising” them
- Comment on Nigel Farage called ‘sketchy crackpot’ in secret NatWest emails 8 months ago:
Yes! For a moment I seriously was trying to decide if scunting was a word
- Comment on FTX execs blew through $8B — testimony reveals how 8 months ago:
I always hoped Wolf of Wall Street would have a sequel