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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The real fucked up part is how bees assemble dangerous chemicals from a wide zone around where they live. So if the farm is near pesticides, they will be collected too. Studies showed that almost all honey is contaminated this way

  So basically, unless you’re buying honey yourself from some very remote sources, it’s not the good stuff

  Now wait until you read about fake olive oils and their mafias…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very hard to believe, and may not be a very good metric for how much effort is actually saved. Like sure, I can have ai generate code, but I often have to spend a bunch of cycles to get it to generate it correctly, and then I feel like the chance of subtle bugs goes up

  But yes, how well you can use AI as a coder is increasingly a mandatory skill, and we may as well get used to gdp/productivity rising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, media cannot truly be DRM because: (1) it ~has to be converted into data that screens and speakers can display (2) ultimately if it’s fetching widevine encryption keys, those keys are somewhere in your device and can be retrieved

  So yes, you can do it. A “capture card” is such a “gyzmo” — but often, you can just rip using software, i.e. record the decoded stream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah he was saying he was okay with free versions of his app undercutting him before, but calling his paid version a scam caused him to reconsider the policy - threatens revenue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfume?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, ugly ppl still make the music, behind the scenes :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make my own internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Internet is connected together using routers/switches. Your own home network is a “private internet” until you pay to connect it to the big one. So if you want, nothing is stopping you from running cables to your neighbors and hooking together. But then you won’t have access to anything useful except whatever servers you guys run

  Was that your question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk seems very useful to me, like if I need a paperweight or doorstop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Functionally the same for most people. A VPN is a virtual LAN so you can access other computers on it. Ex. company’s internal websites from a remote location

  Proxy just forwards traffic like a gateway. In both cases the source is hidden. LANs have gateways too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion on coming down from drugs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it turbo suction vortexes ass and that’s why you never stop doing drugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly a golden era

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won't companies release old games or at least make very old ones free?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No way, that game terrorized my childhood and is basically just a picture book click adventure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any actual standalone AI software?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever these corps talk up the danger of AI, all I think is “nice marketing dept bro”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down but if it can’t handle a 5s dc then rip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got a new laptop and was genuinely gonna try windows 11 and wsl for my coding needs. But in first boot, it demands internet to do updates. Ok, I connect to coffee shop wifi. Nope, won’t do it because it can’t handle the click through screen to accept wifi ToS. Fine. I take it home, where my Internet is great but has a glitch where it drops out for a few seconds now and then. Turns out that windows will literally cancel updating and demand I reconnect and restart for the kind of drop that I barely notice day to day. So I gave up, plugged in my ArchLinux thumb drive, and mkfs.ext4 before rsyncing my entire old computer to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kinda annoyed that this whole thing was pretty much a pitch for Tauri, and that’s a pretty lame looking webapp thing with typescript and whatever browser engine you happen to have lying around

  Tauri is tryna be all like “hey look at our install size, it’s smaller than electron!!” … like anyone cares about install size much. The problem is the memory/cpu use of web apps, which tends to 5x a decent native app. Maybe one day, with webassembly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, like I said, bipartisan support. Biden/Blinken just did an emergency act move to send them a ton of funding and weapons. Both parties are at the whims of the military-industrial complex because America is objectively the weapon dealer of the whole world. Even Russia uses American parts in their missiles (despite half assed attempts to prevent that). All of American economics benefits from this situation. And I mean, that’s after we already have been fuckin up the middle east for decades, with countless atrocities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Miss me with the doomsday news cycle capture, we aren’t even close to AI being a threat to ~anything

  (and all hail the AI overlords if it does happen, can’t be worse than politicians)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they can do big genocides. Nah jk, there’s always bipartisan support for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure you can. I mean, not legally ~anywhere, but pay some sketchy dr 25k and make a world-first snuff film. I’m not sure why anyone would want to do this, and I sure don’t think it would be “cool as shit” but you probably would shit yourself. And I suspect that even if you’re real high, if would still be traumatizing for all involved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! Let me repair all my semiautomatic dildos already!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m super fucking tired of having zero privacy. The fact that governments&corps can access records of everyone’s phone locations, their data, and communications — is frankly absurd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to Vine we go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fancy digital serf now, yay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man, the Internet has information, if you’re not able to use it, that’s not the information’s fault

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Mortal Kombat games across the years should I start with?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played this as a child it was brutal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weird idea continues connecting fediverse and email⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brilliant, who needs new fancy apps when you have email clients

  Tell Google to give us back our RSS feeds too, they stole em

  Then there’s the irc client bridge to think about, posts could be channels and you reply in em

  And ofc the extra spicy sms bridge where an AI gives you an executive summary of your memes for the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybertruck engineer pushes back on claims that Tesla EVs rust in the rain — “It's surface contamination only and can be cleaned off easily.”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rust grows once it’s punctured down, everyone knows this, no? I guess they only test cars in Texas and California. Still like the trukk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  clearly never lived in a rural setting