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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if part of this remaining value is because the Japanese internet still heavily relies on it as a platform, even if the west has begun moving elsewhere.
- Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes 3 months ago:
They know.
Capacitive touch sensors are WAY cheaper than physical buttons, and aren’t nearly as prone to mechanical flaws. Plus they can market them as “newer”!
Car companies only care about your safety as much as it affects their bottom line. It’s unfortunately commonplace for there to be known fatal flaws which occur infrequently enough that it’s cheaper to just pay out the injured/killed victims than to issue a recall. Driving is inherently dangerous - any car companies that tried to fix everything would go bankrupt, or at least be squeezed out by those that don’t.
Now, if only there were a way to build the places we live so that we didn’t need to take on the risk of driving so frequently…
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
Just now tested in Vivaldi and it works, so yeah seems like Chromium 🥲
- Comment on Hee hee 4 months ago:
🤫🧏
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 7 months ago:
This is exactly how machine learning works
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
Yeah I’m just surprised how fast that is, dang
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
80 megaBYTES? What part of the US are you in?
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Depending on their impact, it is often worthwhile to seek alternatives that are less effective or convenient, but also less dangerous. We’ve had materials in the past which were also deemed “essential”, and yet we moved away from them.
A lot of miracle substances tend to be extremely dangerous. There’s nothing quite like asbestos when it comes to fire and heat resistance, but we can still make firefighters clothes, or fireproof buildings, or brakes, even if it means they’re heavier or harder to manufactured. R134 and especially R12 make fantastic refrigerants for car AC systems, but we phased those out in favor of substances that are more complex and costly to implement because of the calamitous effect they had on the ozone layer. Carbon tet is an incredible solvent and great at extinguishing fires too. But we don’t use that anymore either.
You could be right, maybe there is truly no way around PFOAs, but I’m just calling out a pattern here. And maybe there’s no workaround right now that doesn’t cause more harm, but with enough research and investment, we can get there in the future.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
First of all, rooting for decentralized net 100%. Watching Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, etc. all get screwed over from the top down sucks. I really appreciate the strong community here - having it smaller and more engaging encourages participation and makes it feel a little more human.
However, I’m considering leaving Lemmy just because somehow it’s even more cynical than reddit, and I’m losing interest in opening the app if it’s just 99% downers. I mean almost every article is just crushingly bad news. The world is in a rough state for sure, and staying informed is really important! But trying to live on and find the good is near impossible here.
(Yes, I’m subbed to upliftingnews. That’s the 1%.)
Is this a demographics thing, or am I just subbed in all the wrong places? Maybe a bit of both?
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
I’ve been using the rif app with ReVanced patches and my own API key, much better than the 1st party app. Eventually it’ll probably break, but it works for now!