FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on Microplastics in tea bags 2 weeks ago:
Not clicking but if this is the one from a while ago its specifically about plastic glteabags. And, like, obviously.
If you stir with a plastic spoon you’ll have even more
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
The comments here show the real problem, adverts dont have to say why they’ve been selected.
All online ads should have to say which filters they matched to advertise to you. The advertising in most cases now is centralised into Google or Facebook, this is absolutely technically possible.
- Comment on Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped 4 weeks ago:
Our stalwart guardians of the land right there, we make them work so hard for their tax free inheritance
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 5 weeks ago:
Alone with a mobile and 4 separate communications apps with dozens of chats
- Comment on AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans” 1 month ago:
This doesn’t sound like a great company.
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 1 month ago:
No I agree, it’s mostly useful to fertilize the plants elsewhere in the garden.
But it seems everyone here is thinking of lawns and I realise late my concept of a garden is utterly alien to what most people actually do. No lawns for me!
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 1 month ago:
I don’t have my books handy, but while they take a lot back this varies by species and the fallen leaves can have a lot of N and P in some cases.
Though I’ve always seen them shredded and used for making compost anyway rather than leaving them on the ground. Too easy to get rot that way. And you really want to spread them around the rest of the garden if you’ve planted trees that do drop N in the leaves
- Comment on rollin' deep 2 months ago:
Ankles and knees are a complete con. I want my money back evolution.
- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 2 months ago:
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 2 months ago:
The customers they have are getting absolutely rinsed
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 months ago:
If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.
- Comment on On Mushrooms 2 months ago:
The fungus grows
- Comment on FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business 2 months ago:
Seems a little conincidental all of this and the story about MS locking the us gov into azure come out as soon as trump wins
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 months ago:
I wonder if “code” means pull requests and they have a load of automated ones to update versions of external and internal libraries
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 3 months ago:
I agree but I can see why someone might not want to invite the people they feel ruined their home back to have another go.
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 4 months ago:
Til I use “well actually” too much. I will edit, thank you for the constructive help with my shitpost
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 4 months ago:
Jesus Fried Chicken Christ
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 4 months ago:
Do bombs explode? Or is it the explosives inside of them that are exploding?
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 4 months ago:
Did it really need quotes?
Please don’t “well actually” this - Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 4 months ago:
Jfc Christ Lemmy.
Every single comment misunderstanding the point. The batteries are exploding because there’s explosives in them. This does make them exploding batteries. The explode because they are partially made with explosives. Please don’t well actually this.
No this is not a description of something Israel did, it’s a hypothetical way to do a similar attack to show how within reach of idiot terrorists it is.
Raising the idea of doing this so everyone is thinking about it is extremely bad for us all. Thanks Israel.
- Comment on ‘Side job, self-employed, high-paid’: behind the AI slop flooding TikTok and Facebook. 4 months ago:
404 broke this with investigate journalism. Account needed to read, to prevent ai scraping.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 4 months ago:
You can build excellent expert systems that will definitely help a do tor remember all the illnesses, know what questions to ask to narrow things down or double check it’s not something weird, and provide options for treatment.
These exist and are good
Chargpt isn’t an expert system and doctors using it like one need a serious warning from the BMC and would eventually need to be struck off, same as using ouija boards or bones to diagnose illnesses.
- Comment on Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday 4 months ago:
It’s just a total coincidence the costs are the same then? Weird story
- Comment on That's a big burger 4 months ago:
What is that? A car for ants?
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 5 months ago:
If this is the problem spending a lot of effort to also serve ads along with the real video seems like it’d increase costs.
What you’re talking about is a real problem for Google but it’s not the only cause of the new behaviour since Neal took over
- Comment on Boy, 15, is first person charged with riot over recent English disorder 5 months ago:
I didn’t see it earlier but I’d have assumed this was saying the police should be chasing Rotherham child abusers not wasting time on riots.
- Comment on Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments 5 months ago:
Do you have a link to a non blue sky blue sky instance for people to jon?
- Comment on Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control. 5 months ago:
The suffering is real but the link to migration is entirely made up.
Not enough GPs for the population? They’ve retired.
Too much traffic? More and more people own cars and the entire country outside cities is designed to require them.
No home? Councils were banned from building them in the 80s of course we don’t have enough housing.
giving an inch on the core anti migration argument is a mistake because it makes the action to actually fix these problems harder.
No action on migration can ever be enough because the racists want to kick every black person born here out, and the “legitimate concerns” crowd won’t see any improvement in their lives and will keep demanding bigger and bigger action alongside them. - Comment on Elon Musk urged to take X responsibilities more seriously 5 months ago:
It’s a private company and the only investor that matters is musk.
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 5 months ago:
It’s a fair point, thanks for the correction.
Not sure how I got the wrong impression, probably heard he’d been killed for being too woke or something.