wewbull
@wewbull@feddit.uk
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 week ago:
No.
49% (ish) non-trans women would like to have a space away from the 49% non-trans men. They probably don’t give a shit where the 1% trans-women go as they’re not the problem.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 week ago:
It’s not to spite 1%. It’s to give two sets of 49% safe spaces from the other 49%. Recent changes in attitude haven’t made the previous need for segregation go away.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
He’s saying the whole game, not just the server.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 week ago:
…but it feels like so much more communication today is just references to other things.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
- Comment on kissies 1 week ago:
And eating horse poop.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Signal is now “phone number to login to the account, but you can share a username with other people”
Not 100% but better than some.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Blue bubbles.
(I’m half joking)
- Comment on Qualcomm Under Fire: Benchmarking Controversy Clouds Snapdragon X Launch 2 weeks ago:
The Accusation: Skewed Benchmarks for Inflated Performance?
Oh no! Say it’s not so. /s
We all know not to trust benchmarks from the manufacturer. We know this because we’ve all been burned by cherry picked results under favourable conditions that can’t be reproduced.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Your not going to stop taking a medical history of someone just because they are on ward A or B. Your second paragraph is nonsense. Every patient has to be treated individually and many people are on unique combinations of medications.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
You weren’t the consultant.
You were the subcontractor for the consultant.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
I hope when they say TVs, they don’t mean the parental controls pin.
In fact… What password is needed on a TV?
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Glad somebody else gets it.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 2 weeks ago:
Do you think some level of collaboration might help them do their job? Do you find online communication sucks?
It’s not about getting people in one place for management’s sake. It’s about getting people to communicate with each other.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 2 weeks ago:
Define “necessary”.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Your sensing of humour is failing.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Fediverse TikTok = TikToot?
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
We already sanction TV stations because of their propaganda content e.g. Russia Today. I see this as no different.
- Comment on Comedy Funeral 2 weeks ago:
Dead you say? Oh, no no no!
- Comment on German renewable energy: lack of network expansion 2 weeks ago:
No you really don’t.
For renewables to work you need diversity of generation. The sun might be shining in Spain when the wind doesn’t blow in Germany. If we start putting barriers to cooperation in place through “local first” mindsets then each region will be maintain gas and coal long after they could have been turned off.
- Comment on Theoretical Physics 2 weeks ago:
He’s coming in like a wrecking ball.
- Comment on German renewable energy: lack of network expansion 2 weeks ago:
UK has a similar situation between England and Scotland. Connectors between them require approval from both regions and so national grid are landing cables from off shore wind farms hundreds of miles further south than they should. All to avoid politicians.
- Comment on Offline llama3 sends corrections back to Meta's server; I was not aware of it 2 weeks ago:
[update] A better headline would have been: AI hallucinates stating it phones home when corrected, user did not wireshark it to confirm.
TIL that I’m not better than all the old people on Facebook believing what the scammers tell them. Let that be a lesson to you, don’t use a LLM for fact checking.
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Fair play on OP. They’ve updated the story and saved me writing a tirade on how LLMs are not trustworthy.
- Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass 3 weeks ago:
Glass bottle recycling is about reuse. Wash the bottle and use it again.
In the UK off-licenses (liquor stores) used to partake in a scheme where they’d take your empties and give you money off your next purchase. Those bottles were then sent back to the bottling plant to be reused. It went away with the wide spread use of plastic bottles (80s).
Aas far as I’m aware, there’s no reason not to do it again except the distribution network is more centralised now, and sending stuff back is something nobody budgets for. I expect this is the “too complicated aspect”.
- Comment on don't listen to big gravity!!!!! 3 weeks ago:
…but our quads and glutes would be stonking.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 3 weeks ago:
In this case, it’s nothing to do with Latin. German is not a Latin language, and old (pre-Norman) English is closer to German than anything else. It’s the shared Germanic heritage which gives us this quirk.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 3 weeks ago:
with sufficient technology
Well of course but that statement is writing a blank cheque. Let me cap my statement.
“…within the next century”.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 3 weeks ago:
Best example of how Monkey-brain driven the markets are.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter what sensors you have. Autonomy is a pipe dream.
- Comment on Not just mums go to Iceland: supermarket drops slogan to be more inclusive 3 weeks ago:
Walker said Gibson, who is a mother herself,
OMFG! Is she? Is she really? How rare and special a thing. Somebody with children! Wow.
Can an author really be that tone deaf?
- Comment on RAF fighter jets deployed to shoot down Iran drones, MoD says 4 weeks ago:
Yes, they need room for their population to live.
You know, “living room”