Treczoks
@Treczoks@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 7 hours ago:
And on top of it, the commute is costing money, too. Either public transport tickets or fuel and wear an tear on car.
I can so much understand my former coworker. He switched jobs because not only did they pay more, but now he has a five minute commute instead of a one hour one.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 days ago:
but there’s no logical reason to be against EVs.
There is, if you get paid by the Koch mafia.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 week ago:
The more confusing thing is a change on February 8th, where they add a Russian edition to their game if I interpret it correctly.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Thank you for preaching and proving my and others point.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Providing a decent vegan option is easy
As someone who knows his ways around the kitchen: No. It is definitely not easy, even if you just go for the salad option. Have you ever looked at any ingredient list? Some store-bought “fresh” pasta is not vegan. A lot of things you would not think for a second about them containing animal products like salad dressings are actually not vegan. In a lot of countries, McDonalds fries are not vegan.
And as soon as it comes to the necessity to replace non-vegan ingredients with vegan ones, you’ll fall down a rabbit hole of “this can be used to replace that, but only in those circumstances”, “Yes, you can replace X with Y, but you have to be careful to cover up some flavors”, or even “The replacement for X is basically a doctoral thesis in chemsitry”.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
think there’s nothing wrong with explaining your ideas and why you believe them
That’s actually not the problem. The problem are those who repeat themselves ever louder, even to people who have expressed disinterest.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Because the experience of the loud-mouth preacher vegan has become the stereotype of that movement. It might be frustrating for the rest, but it even more frustrating for the recipients of this preaching.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Specifically the annoyingly loud, self-righteous, insists-everyone-must-join-them vegans.
Unfortunately, most people only really see this sort of vegan
If all you can see of a movement are the annoying loudmouths, it will quickly taint the overall image of that movement, regardless of goals of the the movement itself.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
You can accept that they are making a better choice,
That’s exactly where it starts. You simply assume that vegans are the better people. And then you preach. That’s exactly what people dislike in vegans and similar people.
- Comment on Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever 1 week ago:
If we can get the idiots off the net by them getting ripped off, maybe the internet will get better again.
- Comment on If we took material like rock from space and got it back to Earth enough times, would Earth grow as a planet? 2 weeks ago:
Happens all the time, for eons. See: “shooting stars”.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 2 weeks ago:
First of all, it will make cold calling way, way worse. Time to ramp up restrictions, fines and other penalties for that kind of stuff.
When it comes to tech support call centers, some may actually improve. Not because the technology is so superior, but just because the current support simply sucks, and any change would be an improvement. And then they must actually work, i.e. solve the customers problems. On top of that, there is that case where an AI call center made expensive promises (IIRC if promised a car for $1 or something like that), and the judge made the company uphold this deal.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
Could they please pull from Europe, too?
- Comment on He's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, the EU has such regulations, but does not enforce them, especially npt against US companies. So, having an explicit law in the European Union that would force it to finally get the asses moving in Brussels would be a nice thing.
- Comment on He's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. 2 weeks ago:
I, as aEuropean, want a PROTECTING EUROPEANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024.
Sell or dissolve X, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Instagram, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 weeks ago:
Since Musk outed himself as pro-right-wing idiot with his X fiasco, the mostly left leaning electric vehicle crowd is looking for untainted brands.
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 3 weeks ago:
I’m quite convinced that quantum computing will lead to exacly nothing. My bet is that the error factor will grow larger than the result scope, and not a single thing they try to stabilize will ultimatively make it viable.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
Well, you can invest money to get rid of bots, or you can try to make money to get rid of bots. He tries the latter, and will kill the platform doing that.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
Well, one more reason to ignore that platform on it’s way to obsolescence.
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 3 weeks ago:
While I am convinced that fusion will get somewhere practical in the near future, I have serious doubts on the practical viability of quantum computing.
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 3 weeks ago:
As I said repeatedly: Wake me up on Quantum computers once they are capable to do something actually useful, and not just random worthless quantum benchmarks.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
Should be easy. Just take a AY-3-8500 chip, and the gaming console is basically done!
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
The british didn’t quite overcome the old ways of measuring.
Not completely, agreed, but they are miles ahead of the Americans. :-)
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
Blame the French and British, we got it from them!
Like 99% of the world, the French and British long ago managed to overcome the imperial system. Actually, the French spearheaded the metric world.
America just failed, time and again, to follow the times.
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 5 weeks ago:
Wired links to doors and windows for wired contacts/sensors. The cheap wireless burgler alarms can easily be jammed. Also wires for automatic shutters (if you have shutters).
Metereological sensors (wind/rain/temperature) for e.g. retracting an awning if it rains or the wind gets to strong. Can also be used for control the heating/AC.
Network sockets (or at least tubes to run them through) basically everywhere. Have you thought of having an outlet where the big mirror in the corridor/entrance area is, so you can one day turn set up a magic mirror there?
Have you thought or wiring up motion sensors throughout the house to automate lighting (and get additional input for the burgler alarm)?
Wired links for any kind of camera is vital, be it the door cam, or anything watching the place for security reasons.
Wired smoke alarms! Not only will they be connected, so they all start beeping when smoke or fire is detected, but you don’t have to change batteries every other year, and you can integrate the output inot he home automation system and get a mail or SMS is case of an emergency-
What kind of smart appliances could you imagine? Smart fridge, smart washing machine? Even if there is a non-smart device, you can rig a raspberry pi or even an arduino to detect the beeping of your dryer and send you an email.
Well, and more network sockets…
Do you have some outdoors (patio, garden)? Does it have wifi coverage?
That’s just of the top of my head…
- Comment on With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key? 5 weeks ago:
Basically, asymmetric key cryptography is based on the idea that some algorithms are one-way roads. Or trap doors - falling down is easy, climbing up is much, much harder.
For a simple example, take adding numbers. I’ve got a thousand numbers, I add them up, and hand you the sum. Will you be able to find the thousand numbers I have from that sum? Probably not. The math involved in the actual cryptography is a bit more complex, but the principle holds.
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 5 weeks ago:
That is one of Germanys foreign politics problems that for historic reasons it cannot critizise whatever Israel does. If they started beheading children in Jerusalem or bombed orphanages, the German government will turn a blind eye.
- Comment on English, old 5 weeks ago:
I am maintaining the list of langages for a discussion and simultanous interpretation system. The two oddballs in that list are Latin and Klingon. And yes, both langages have been used in the past.
- Comment on A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic 5 weeks ago:
That I’ve listened to, it is a great organ piece.
- Comment on A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic 5 weeks ago:
No idea. Never seen it.