TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools. 3 days ago:
Phones would be far less socially damaging if social media didn’t exist in the way it does now.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 days ago:
Tesla’s argument of “well human eyes are like cameras therefore we shouldn’t use LiDAR” is so fucking dumb.
Human eyes have good depth perception and absolutely exceptional dynamic range and focusing ability. They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised, certainly more so than any computer added to a car.
And even with all those advantages humans have, we still crash from time to time and make smaller mistakes regularly.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 6 days ago:
HDR is kinda complicated right now.
As it stands, it’s only available on the Plasma and Gnome desktop environments.
The HDR stack on Linux has went through a lot of change recently, and much of the stack has only just been finalised/standardised. It’ll take a while to mature, and to arrive on distros like Mint.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 6 days ago:
No
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 1 week ago:
Strange. But I won’t complain about more houses being built.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s bigotry to dislike Nazis, but you do you mate.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
You wouldn’t want the Signal brand to become linked to it.
“I’m on Signal, would you like to chat there?”
“What, on the MAGA Nazi app, are you joking? Of course I’m not talking to you there”
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 1 week ago:
This source backs me up, not you.
Under the terms of the contract, the Chinese group has the possibility of converting its obligations within two years in order to become a minority shareholder in the French group - in the order of 5 to 7.5% of the capital, according to the documents obtained by Politico. But such a scenario, which would allow Huawei to influence Qwant’s strategy, can only be achieved if the Chinese group obtains prior among other conditions. According to Politico, this mechanism reassured the Deposit Fund. Qwant, on the other hand, assures that Huawei is not trying to get into its capital.
So, a 2021 source says Huawei, in accordance with agreements, could possibly take a 5 to 7.5% stake as long as they did it within two years. It then states that this isn’t something Huawei actually intends to go ahead with.
It’s been well over two years, Huawei indeed didn’t take a stake in Qwant, and Qwant is still entirely French-German.
With that above information, you went online and lied, saying Huawei owns Qwant. They do not. You lied.
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 1 week ago:
Qwant is owned by Huawei.
No it isn’t.
Why are you lying like this? What’s the goal?
Qwant is based in Paris and its owners are:
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Jean-Manuel Rozan
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Éric Léandri
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Patrick Constant
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Caisse des dépôts et consignations (basically a public investment institution owned by the French government)
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Groupe Axel Springer (an online media company based in Germany)
So again: why did you lie? What’s the goal here?
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- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
I’ve pre-ordered the Core Time 2.
Pre-orders are something I never usually do, but given this is essentially just an improved version of an existing product, as opposed to a Kickstarter, I feel more confident. And I can cancel the preorder at any time (plus I’ll see reviews of the cheaper model before the Core Time 2 ships).
The price made me wince, though. It’s very expensive for the functionality. Technically cheaper than the original watches adjusted for inflation, but that ignores the current-day smartwatch market. Still, I loved the Pebble.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
I just pre-ordered one, but the price made me wince 😬
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
I definitely think Apple is less susceptible to this, but people seem to forget that Apple literally has an ads business.
Look at the ads in Apple news and in a couple of other places. Apple isn’t immune to injecting ads into the UX of their products.
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 3 weeks ago:
Seeing this late, but thank you very much, that’s very kind ☺️
- Comment on Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. 3 weeks ago:
It’s training that uses a tremendous amount of power.
Speech-to-text transcribing of voicemails is done on-device and uses basically zero energy.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 3 weeks ago:
Properly open source.
The model, the weighting, the dataset, etc. every part of this seems to be open. One of the very few models that comply with the Open Software Initiative’s definition of open source AI.
- Comment on The RTX 5070 reviews are in, and let’s just say people aren’t happy 4 weeks ago:
I don’t actually think that’s true. Not because people wouldn’t want it, but rather because yields are good enough that there won’t actually be many 9070s (which is a cut down and lower clocked die).
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 weeks ago:
I don’t mean to be an apologist for dieselgate - I’m not, it was scummy and I’m glad VW execs ended up in prison - but all carmakers had illegally high diesel emissions.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
VW weren’t even close to the worst for it, either. Fiat, Hyundai, and Renault-Nissan (they partner for engine designs a lot) were the worst, VW was bizarrely one of the least over the legal limit.
We just affiliate it with VW more because they were not only the first to be tested, but the VW executives admitted to using cheat devices, whereas most others denied it.
- Comment on The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0 (Gift Article) 4 weeks ago:
I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy.
IMO it’s a side effect of money being seen as the most important thing in life and the measure of success. Our culture says the more money you have, the greater a success you are.
With that in mind, imagine you’re a rich person. In your mind, that makes you a success.
You hear people with less money than you giving their opinions of what you should do, and you think “well why would I listen to these people? If they were as clever as me, they’d have as much money (read: success) as me. They do not, ergo their ideas must be worse than mine.”
In the mind of a mega-wealthy person, any normal person trying to give advice is met with the same reaction that a minimum wage toilet cleaner would be if they tried to give life advice to a median earner. “Huh? Really? You’re trying to give me life advice? Lmao. Ok buddy, sure.”
It completely explains why so many wealthy people surround themselves in yes men. It not necessarily that they hate any pushback, it’s that they won’t take it seriously from someone who, by their perceived metric of success, is less qualified to call the shots.
And you know what? It’s not actually a completely unreasonable deduction. It’s just based on a flawed and extremely fucked up premise.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
Not really. The UK is very anti-Musk.
Ireland and the UK being the only ones to grow is likely due to the way Tesla delivers Right-Hand Drive cars - they deliver them as one large batch each quarter rather than constantly trickling them out like LHD cars.
If you look at UK and Irish sales figures across multiple months, they swing between being up and down, depending on when RHD shipments come. Overall Tesla is down (and the UK even before Musk’s recent actions bought far fewer Tesla cars than France or Germany)
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Imagine my shock.
- Comment on George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed 4 weeks ago:
You’re right. People say “1984” to mean “dystopia” or “things I don’t like about modern society”.
Tangentially related, there was a survey a while back that found most people who say they have read 1984 haven’t actually read it.
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 4 weeks ago:
My birthday today too, although I’m unfortunately not 25…
I didn’t have a PS2 (Dreamcast and Xbox in my household), but I do remember frequently staying at my cousin’s house and playing NFS, GTA, Simpsons hit and run, and SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom on his
- Comment on AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems 4 weeks ago:
UEFI came out in like 2005 and was standard on basically all new PC motherboards from around 2012
Tbh I’m shocked generations before this still had official BIOS support
- Comment on AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems 4 weeks ago:
I believe it’s a must for store-bought PCs, but it can be installed on BIOS systems manually
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
Over time as 3D printers go from tinkerer’s toy to household staple, I’d expect them to become more locked down and anti-consumer.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Probably easier to go into the settings and untick a box to disable any telemetry.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
We can, there’s just less demand for them. Sony was among the last holdouts for small phones with their compact series, but they stopped because they were their worst selling models.
Even Apple stopped selling their small SE model (that was basically iPhone 5 sized) despite it being the cheapest iPhone to get your hands on, because it sold terribly.
Small phones is something the tech community says it cares about, but the market has proven that the average person doesn’t care. Same as the headphone jack and microSD slot.
I don’t like it either, but phone companies aren’t deliberately leaving money on the table. If they thought small phones would sell gangbusters, they’d bring them back.
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t go against my comment at all.
Like they said, it could lead to more people driving. Not only are they uncertain, is it likely to be by an amount that would be more than the emissions saved?
Let’s look at this from another angle. What do you think we should do? Every government on Earth suddenly decides to destroy every car on the planet within the next few months?
Like I said, cars will continue to exist for a while. It makes no sense to put your hands up and say “well, cars are bad. But if they can’t be eliminated completely then we shouldn’t attempt to reduce vehicle emissions at all”.
This change is a good one. I’ve said it already, but you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good.
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 5 weeks ago:
No they aren’t. They’re saying smarter traffic systems are an improvement over what we have now. I’ve looked in the article and nowhere do they say cars aren’t a problem, or that emissions is down to traffic lights not cars.
I see so many examples on here and on Reddit of people letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Whether we like it or not, cars will be around for a while. It makes no sense to put zero effort into improving efficiency in the meantime. You don’t have to be so all-or-nothing.
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 5 weeks ago:
I said it in another thread, but…
Good guy EA.
It is unlikely I will ever say that sentence again, but I hope they prove me wrong.
