willis936
@willis936@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 10 months ago:
The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google’s best efforts. It’s a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world’s richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world’s richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 10 months ago:
It depends what you mean by support. They made the Steam Link for 3 years and have not made it for 5 years.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
>see headline
“Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?”
\reads first line of article
“Oh it’s for AI. Gross.”
- Comment on EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway 10 months ago:
That’s 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn’t seem practical.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 11 months ago:
There is 1.4E21 kg of water on Earth. 0.03% of hydrogen is deuterium, a suitable fusion fuel. H2O has an atomic mass of 18 and O has an atomic mass of 16, so Earth has 4.7E16 kg of deuterium readily centrifuged out of ocean water.
D-D fusion converts about 2% of mass to energy. E=mc^2. So we have 8.4E31 Joules of fusion fuel ready for us on Earth. We used 2400 TWh of energy last year. If we used this amount indefinitely then we would have 9.8 trillion years of fuel.
Bonus: deuterium depletion would have virtually no environmental effect.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
The Forbes article seems to be citing numbers that are now a few weeks out of date. They cite that Tesla drivers have 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers and Ram has 22.76. If you go to their source link you’ll see that the more recent numbers are Tesla: 31.13 and Ram: 32.90.
www.lendingtree.com/…/brand-incidents-study/
Ram in MA is 64.44 and I want these fucking things outlawed.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Rolling to 75 is more relevant in MA where onramps to highways are 50 feet long.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
TrueNAS Scale has a built-in cloud backup tool that supports the common sites and protocols. Most all NAS solutions have something similar. It’s really just an rsync wrapper with authentication and storage protocol support.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
NAS + cloud backup is the way to go. Any NAS software worth its salt can do E2EE backup with any old cloud backup solution.
Definitely not for the faint of heart though. If you don’t actively enjoy fiddling then there aren’t many good options. Maybe icloud if you trust Apple to not de-platform you.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
I had good luck with B2 backblaze but recently switched to storj for E2EE backups without having encrypted filenames in the browser. Overall these solutions are slower and cheaper than typical cloud backups, but it’s well worth it to stick it to the man.
- Comment on Analog problems require kickass solutions 11 months ago:
It does have a decent loop area in between the signal and return path and any flux passing through it will induce noise. This area is too small for 60 Hz, but there’s a lot of microwave crap that would get picked up. If there isn’t a low-pass analog filter before the next silicon junction then this RF EMI will get rectified down. If it’s a sufficiently bad situation then you’ll hear it. That’s why you can hear garbage when you put your phone right next to crappy computer speakers.
- Comment on Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated 11 months ago:
We have not spent a hundred billion dollars on fusion energy research collectively as a planet in the past 70 years of working on it. We do spent 10x that every year for the US defense budget.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Sure they can. Just give the $7500 credit to an EV worth its price.
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 1 year ago:
The prospect of one entity maybe having a backdoor is much more secure than every entity for sure having read access.
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 1 year ago:
If you use RCS or SMS, yeah. iMessage is E2EE.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
Watch me.
- Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' 1 year ago:
The GrapheneOS kicked out of AOSP for being toxic and shady?
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
- Lots of wars and refugee crises.
- Almost certainly unilateral moves by middle-sized nations seeing existential crises to inject albedo-altering aerosols into the stratosphere.
- Depending on the timing of things in the next few decades we may be in an ice age very quickly from ice cap melt acceleration cooling the ocean. In an ice age the amount of arable land would dramatically decrease and if there is a harvest season at all it will be very short. Nearly everyone would starve.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Dropping someone into the sun and ejecting someone from the solar system both take a lot of energy compared to an orbital transfer to a planet with a similar orbital altitude.
- Comment on The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content 1 year ago:
Jon Oliver is very careful to segregate jokes for levity from sensitive topics. Jon on the Problem would regularly never make a tonal or topical shift when putting in a joke, which really made it feel like a desparate, uncomfortable interjection on a serious rant rather than a lighthearted reminder that we’re still on Earth while discussing a travesty.
- Comment on The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content 1 year ago:
And business daddy appreciates that it’s good business. As soon as you threaten business daddy’s business interest it’s game over. Luckily HBO’s motives are more aligned with journalism than Apple’s. Apple is literally the Orwellian nightmare they mocked in ads 40 years ago.
- Comment on Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices 1 year ago:
If ebay took this to court there’s a good chance they’d win. The overturning of the Chevron deference means any action by the EPA or enforcement of its rules is on shaky footing.
- Comment on New UCF Technology Could Reduce Lag, Improve Reliability of Online Gaming, Meetings | University of Central Florida News 1 year ago:
Speed of light in glass is 33% slower than in free space.
Regardless, in most scenarios that people notice latency it’s from sitting in router buffers, slow CPUs, bad software, and slow last mile. All of those things are fixable, so tricks to lower the fundamental latency floor, like laser beams in space, is pretty neat.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
Wi-Fi has constant retransmissions. This adds perceptible latency.
- Comment on No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific 1 year ago:
AI efforts aspire to reach the accuracy of Portal 2’s Fact Sphere.
- Comment on Stray is being turned into a movie 1 year ago:
Maybe they can stick the landing this time. All they needed to do was show one shot of the pack of four cats reunited during the credits. The parallel theme between the pack of four stray cats and the crew of four robots called the outsiders was an essential part of the plot and then they just leave it hanging.
- Comment on Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy 1 year ago:
I feel also really frustrated to know that a pedophile or any criminal is able to escape justice because the encryption is good enough
How do you know something that’s provably false? Pedophiles who evade justice are not doing careless things that need end to end encryption, like backing up their porn to iCloud. The problem doesn’t start or end with encryption. The policy is entirely about privacy and has nothing to do with protecting children.