winterayars
@winterayars@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 4 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking Christ i want to schedule a hysterectomy and i don’t even have one of those.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 5 weeks ago:
You could just have a server up and running, paid several months in advance, that did it automatically but you might want a human (i would think a lawyer) to also be involved.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s generalizable to this scenario. That’s also pretty time constrained. Besides that, was there any evidence this person was depressed or otherwise suicidal? Maybe there is but i sure don’t know if it.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company 5 weeks ago:
Dead man’s switch that uploads a message to YouTube that’s basically “If you’re seeing this then i have been assassinated by the company. I did not kill myself, I was determined to testify. Because I will now no longer be able to, what follows is my testimony” and then do a tell all. Could work it out with a lawyer in advance, too.
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
So the person above may think they’re so clever, or whoever fed them that factoid may think that. Notice the claim is remineralization. Maybe that’s true, it may be that a study first showed that in 1975 and that’s not contradicted by your link but that is a non sequitur. It’s not what we’re talking about, it’s not a good faith argument.
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
“I can’t wait for RFK Jr to stop this, he knows all the chemicals!”
Overheard while at the polls on election day.
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
In 1945, Grand Rapids became the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water.The Grand Rapids water fluoridation study was originally sponsored by the U.S. Surgeon General, but was taken over by the NIDR shortly after the Institute’s inception in 1948. During the 15-year project, researchers monitored the rate of tooth decay among Grand Rapids’ almost 30,000 schoolchildren. After just 11 years, Dean- who was now director of the NIDR-announced an amazing finding. The caries rate among Grand Rapids children born after fluoride was added to the water supply dropped more than 60 percent. This finding, considering the thousands of participants in the study, amounted to a giant scientific breakthrough that promised to revolutionize dental care, making tooth decay for the first time in history a preventable disease for most people.
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
They like the lead, though!
(Probably. I mean, they did in Flint, MI…)
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
(Don’t give them ideas…)
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 2 months ago:
I don’t want to encourage paranoia here but “off” does not mean “off”. Modern phones are almost never actually “powered down”. If you’re paranoid, turning your phone off is not enough. Leave it behind.
(Also a gap in your phone’s location history can also be used against you, fwiw.)
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 2 months ago:
“The fourth amendment means what we say it means” – SCOTUS, probably.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 months ago:
How the fuck do you run someone over with a bulldozer… no matter what i think of it’s not coming up good…
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
It doesn’t mean that in this case, except perhaps very indirectly.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
Vaultwarden is Bitwarden–at least for now, this change may push them apart.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
No, technically they already are SaaS company. That’s mostly how they make their money.
Also it should be noted “no longer open source” doesn’t mean they’ve done a “our code is now closed and all your passwords are ours” rug pull like some other corporations. This is a technical concern with the license and it no longer meets proper FOSS standards (in other words, it has a restriction on it now that you wouldn’t see in, for example, the GPL).
So by and large the change is very minimal, the code is still available, it’s still the best option. However, this does matter. It may be a sign of the company changing directions. It’s something they should get pushback about.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
Honestly, it’s Bitwarden right now. This move signals their intent to change that, though.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, the powerful have the power so they’re arranging my life too. To the best of their ability, at least.
You’re right that we should not confuse their values for our own, however.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 months ago:
Don’t need to go that far, i think. If you had your extension hash some piece of each keyframe (basically: tokenize some IDs for each keyframe) and submit them to a database you could then see which parts were shown to everyone vs only to some people and only display those. Basically similar to how sponsorblock crowd sources its sponsor segment detection but automated. Some people would see the ads but then you’d know what the og video was unless it gets edited.
This is assuming they’re not reencoding the video for each advertisement, which they probably aren’t. If they are it probably gets easier, actually. Sponsorblock could do that.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 months ago:
Compared to the cost of reencoding the video (or even segments of it) it would be basically nothing, though.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 months ago:
“Line go up” is the animating force of the age, the critical philosophical principal around which our entire society is arranged.
Gives me a fucking headache.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 months ago:
RSS feed -> yt-dlp script -> auto queue the folder into the player of your choice. Hmm…
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 4 months ago:
One of the originators of the idea of “planned obsolescence”. Even after the cartel got killed the manufacturers never extended the life of the lights into (to an extent) CFLs and then moreso the days of LEDs.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 4 months ago:
They’ve been sabotaged by design. LEDs should last 10+ years if built even half away reasonably, but unfortunately the manufacturers basically got together and agreed to build them in such a way they would fail. Same as regular light bulbs, they just have to work harder.
I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market–old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks. They’ve been running for like 15 years now and not a one of them has failed. I spent several hundred USD replacing all my bulbs with those back in the day and they’ve done me well.
Modern bulbs are trash by comparison. Not because the technology is limited in some way but because they refuse to make anything to that quality anymore.
We need an alternate solution to this planned obsolescence bullshit. Light bulbs hit 50k rated hours long ago and they were talking about making ones that went 100k+ but these days you can’t find anything above 25k. And that’s setting aside the fact that a lot of these rely on apps that could be dropped at a moment’s notice.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 4 months ago:
Imagine not having 70,000 followers. Fate worse then death.
- Comment on USA | 'Whitewashing genocide': How Democrats and the media kept Gaza out of the DNC 4 months ago:
I think it’s pretty well known they want to nuke and pave the Middle East. The only question is whether they’d include Israel in that or not.
- Comment on Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. 5 months ago:
In that sense, TikTok is really their competition. They’re upset not because it steals your data, they’re upset because they’re not the ones getting your data.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 6 months ago:
A lot of them already called him “the God Emperor”, so…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Kind of a Hitleriam 'stache, too, being completely honest.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 8 months ago:
The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose. Nobody has to lose their jobs.