ricdeh

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes screens on fridges are stupid but… The display will definitely last more than 5 years. I’d even go so far as to say that it will last longer than the compressor of the fridge. Where do people get the idea that displays fail very easily?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately lots of affordable projectors are also “smart” these days, running some kind of Android TV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And Rogue. I rarely hear Rogue mentioned but it’s my favourite. I find the story the most appealing, and it comes with so much moral ambiguity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT), which does not match with many studies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no, you still need rare erath metals, you need good quality silicon

  That does not compare in the least to the environmental damage and resource depletion that mining uranium causes. Unlike solar or wind power plants, nuclear power plants must constantly be fed a fuel that is only available in limited quantity, while the power source for renewables is realistically infinite (for our purposes). Uranium-235 is way scarcer than natural gas or oil, so power generation through nuclear fission is almost by definition less sustainable than even fossil-fuel power generation.

  Finally, there is the matter of nuclear waste, which accumulates over the lifetime of a power plant and does not get smaller, but rather larger every year that the power plant is in operation. Getting rid of this waste is so difficult because it will radiate for thousands of years, and you can’t guarantee that its containers will last that long, so you need geological structures that are 100% known to remain stable into the far future. These are difficult to find. I want to underline that this problem is already here, and for every new fission power plant you build, it gets worse. There is no reverse direction this process can be taken.

  Thus, I would even go so far to say that this statement of yours: “everything is better than fossil fuel for practical purposes.” Is wrong. Even natural gas would be preferable over nuclear, FAR preferred, in fact. In Germany, nuclear fission was successfully phased out for cleaner natural gas, without adverse effects on power grid stability, and with cost savings in the long run (natural gas comes with its own problems, I am aware, especially with regard to the supply chain, but that is not much different with regard to uranium).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only tools, Mojang themselves eventually provided obfuscation maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  insert rant about Mozilla CEO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wdym “killed the whole company”? Nokia was always more than just phones. They are still around and one of the largest telecom equipment manufacturers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for the downvote, but I see this take repeated here on Lemmy so often and it just makes no sense. This will not kill the FOSS app “ecosystem”. Nothing whatsoever changes for FOSS ROMs like LineageOS or GrapheneOS. And as long as there are FOSS operating systems, apps will be developed for them. If anything, this could drive mainstream adoption of free/libre Android forward, re-invigorating the scene through public outcry.

  And to the people who propose fully jumping ship from Android to “Linux phones” because of Google’s recent changes, you would only make the app support matter worse. As someone who daily drives both a phone with LineageOS and one with postmarketOS (mainline-ish Linux), mobile app support is endlessly worse on Linux than the fallout from Google’s developer registration could ever be. That is not to say that Linux phones will not eventually get to a point of reasonable maturity, but it is way too early and frankly utterly irrational to bury AOSP Android or needlessly hate on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Street racers are not criminals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Street racers” are some of the worst people to exist. They have no empathy and regard for the lives and well-being of other people. Most of the time, their fatal accidents kill entirely unrelated people (including children!) that were just going about their business. Having “street racing” as your “hobby” is the ultimate display of unlimited egoism; you do not care at all about the actual humans you kill through your actions and the decades of connections you sever and memories you eradicate. And defending this abhorrent practice is almost as shameful as participating in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Different species of animals could have a noise or calling that means "human" and we would never know.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not true. The “words” with which specific species call some others has been determined and can be observed, so “we would never know” is false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not just one of those ivory tower papers with their actual applications far away in time and eventually ending up in some obscure industrial process never heard of again in lay circles; this could have an immediate impact on the maker culture and makerspaces right now and in the near future. The preprint describes the process in a very understandable, digestible manner and provides actual implementation examples, as well as detailed recipes for all of the compounds. If you are even remotely interested in the subject matter, I’d recommend you to try it out for yourself. The “ingredients” are all easily obtainable and handleable. Yes, gallium and indium might be a bit expensive, but it is worth it imo. They literally used consumer kitchen equipment for some of the steps, to demonstrate how this is feasible for tinkerers, makerspaces and prototypes. No expensive machinery required (except for an FFF 3d-printer, of course).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh this is wonderful! I strongly recommend reading the preprint, really enjoyable: URL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I call you a terrorist I guess I can expect you to be picked up tomorrow morning? You people just have an utterly deranged sense of logic. You cannot convict someone without proof, regardless of the alleged crime and how strong your personal feelings on the matter are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest and admit that you see IT too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see Bowser doing a Hitler salute. Very interesting tho that so many people associate Nintendo characters with these clouds. Probably due to their unique art style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally not a problem with smartphones, the problem is about the software you decide to run on it. A smartphone is simply a very powerful pocket computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But don’t we expect different Ralphs to exist in each of our minds and memories? My Ralph will probably have ceased to exist by tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pushing users into paranoia about tracking and privacy is a brilliant way to reduce server load from users that are not producing value on a platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure champ, you are the smartest person in the world. So now you can shut up and go to bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be too happy. For every such attempt there are countless highly technical papers on how to filter out the poisoning, and they are very effective. As the other commenter said, this is an arms race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you. Regardless of the state of the world, we should stay optimistic and work toward that goal, instead of surrendering to defeatism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you are stupid for not acknowledging that people from other countries are not just useless consumers without any agency. Americans and Europeans have industry too, and very productive ones. The narrative that you can trace any product back to China is entirely wrong and reeks of tankie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What an infinitely stupid response. The proportion of rich people owning a Tesla with respect to all Tesla owners is vanishingly small. When you burn a Tesla of an uninvolved person, you are costing them tens of thousands of currency and are probably destroying their only car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to experience that first hand. I tried to get my best friends to register on my Matrix server last September and join a room for our group, and they did, but I rarely see any of them online and I only get responses days later, if at all. One even stopped using it entirely, lol. Ah well, but at least I got a Matrix server out of that that I can use to federate with other like-minded people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez moth balls⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly militant “meme”. The people that write these are some of the most annoying on the planet, and contribute nothing to actually solving problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The borders are just WIDE OPEN though!!11!!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please keep in mind that despite being downvoted, you are not alone with your opinion. I for my part find your argument very compelling. So please don’t let yourself be overwhelmed by the echo chamber!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regardless of the geometric figure you path trace, as long as your start and end points are the same, you will be considered to be going on circles.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is what ∮ means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just isn’t possible, and we should want to dumb down the introduction too much. The Fediverse is not a centralised medium, and to participate in it, its users should understand that, analogous to how you would instruct people before using motor vehicles. Some things are just essential and need to be taught. Not teaching the stuff doesn’t make it disappear. If some people cannot get behind the idea, then either find novel, intuitive ways of conveying it, or just accept that they cannot be a part of the Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix is not proprietary. The protocol is FOSS, Synapse server is FOSS, Dendrite server is FOSS, there are FOSS clients, Element is FOSS too afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That VPN provider will then know ALL the connections you make. Almost worse than just using the Internet normally.