repungnant_canary
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- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
PSA: if you’re on a remote island or dysfunctional yet floating ship do not abandon it unless truly necessary - raft will be always more dangerous
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Sooo actually why land mammals can’t filter out salt from seawater?
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 4 weeks ago:
365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap days
- Comment on Mafs innit 1 month ago:
120 Celsius is still fairly low for baking
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
When you use Celsius from birth 41C does make you say FORTY ONE DEGREES?!!!
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
You are indeed correct, some artistic freedom is definitely expected from that kind of series. But relying on Russian propaganda sources and making Legasov a hero doesn’t qualify as artistic freedom but misinformation. Also the representation of the soviet reality was at least inaccurate - my dad who was raised in the former soviet block summarised it as “representing how Americans think it was not how it truly was”.
Chernobyl is a good and very interesting series and it’s good that it raises at least some awareness about the catastrophe. But imo it could be more technically and historically accurate without losing its attractiveness.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
Check out this YouTube channel: youtube.com/@thatchernobylguy2915
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
I do know from experience that networks are complicated and users are dumb, but I still think that if someone with barely any knowledge and without malicious intent can mess with your network then something’s wrong with the setup.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
But if the bio or art major can seriously affect your network then is that even their fault? What if someone had skill and malicious intent?
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
If someone deploys their router using a uni network as wan then I don’t see how that could affect other uni network users? I can imagine some internal services might not work behind such a router but it would be illogical of the user to blame anyone but themselves.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Can you give some examples of issues you mention?
- Comment on Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. 2 months ago:
We should be sending solar panels to the developing world as fast as humanly possible
More of addendum than criticism - sending random stuff to developing countries is one of the problems. Solar panels need proper infrastructure and maintenance. Instead of sending them for the west to feel good, we should rather empower governments of those countries to take their own initiative, build infrastructure, train people and make the panels very affordable for them.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 2 months ago:
Sorry mate, those figures with no meaningful captions are borderline incomprehensible. Like, what’s the difference between first and second figure?
- Comment on NOAA sending a message. 2 months ago:
I sadly need to point out that you might have missed a few anatomy lessons
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
You as a human use pure iron. But non-animate objects, yeah mostly alloys
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
the fuckup in redefining the mole in 2019 What? It was necessary due to our observations of the universe (on every scale), not some subjective “fuckup”
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
It is undoubtedly a new piece of research, but the cause is always the same: corporations exploit people because they are taken out of government and democratic control effectively everywhere.
Some corporations employ more people and have bigger budgets than some countries and they often influence people’s lives more than the government. Yet they’re effectively electoral monarchies where electors and monarchs are just a bunch of rich assholes who respond to nobody.
Only when we change that system then those headlines will stop.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
I’m genuinely curious where their penny picking went? All of tech companies shove ads into our throats and steal our privacy justifying that by saying they operate at loss and need to increase income. But suddenly they can afford spending huge amounts on some shit that won’t give them any more income. How do they justify it then?
- Comment on Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers 4 months ago:
Drives are usually encrypted with symmetric ciphers (usually AES) and these are reasonably secure against quantum attacks with a key big enough.
And with the vast majority of crimes you just need to wait until the statute of limitations, which in cryptography and quantum fields is quite short period.
- Comment on Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers 4 months ago:
No more secrets.
Post-quantum cryptography enters the chat
- Comment on Work from home 4 months ago:
I presume you’re from the US but at first I was surprised you can even not take all vacation days. Cause in my country it is actually illegal to not use all vacation days and the employer pays a fine for that. Which leads to a bunch of people having days or even weeks free in February/March as they’re using their vacation days (the law necessitates them to be used by Q1 or so of following year).
- Comment on Academia to Industry 4 months ago:
“Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with!”
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
In most jurisdictions you can’t give away copyright - that’s why CC0 exists. And again most open-source and CC licences require attribution, if you use those licences you have a right to be attributed
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
CC (not sure about MIT) virtually always requires attribution, but as GitHub Copilot showed right now open-“media” authors have basically no way of enforcing their rights.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 6 months ago:
Data caps are simply false advertising - if your infrastructure can only handle X Tb/s then sell lower client speeds or implement some clever QoS.
There are plenty of users for whom 1.5TB is quite or very restrictive - multi member households, video/photo editors working with raw data, scientists working with raw data, flatpak users with Nvidia GPU or people that selfhost their data or do frequent backups etc.
With the popularity of WFH and our dependence on online services the internet is virtually as vital as water or electricity, and you wouldn’t want to be restricted to having no electricity until the end of the month just because you used the angle grinder for a few afternoons.
- Comment on I'm glad my meat didn't go to waste. 7 months ago:
I actually wouldn’t suggest this episode to someone whose father’s body is currently donated. But good episode nonetheless
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
I would assume that when shattered it becomes flexible so you can move it out of the way
- Comment on Doing the important work 9 months ago:
People with mobility issues for example… Not everything is made to solve issues of fully functional people
- Comment on Tax time 11 months ago:
Okay, so I get the reason why NOWADAYS IRS can’t tell you how much taxes you owe is lobbying. But how did it work BEFORE computers? Did you file your forms and IRS agents checked them one by one, and it was just most efficient to check taxes instead of calculating them? How did we get to the situation where the IRS checks the taxes instead of calculating them? I’m genuinely curious, because that’s a recurring theme worldwide.
- Comment on Correcting > Helping 11 months ago:
I would say that if someone asks a difficult question it’s often difficult because it’s very general, so you don’t have any specific point to answer that you know will satisfy the person asking.
On the other hand, if someone is writing misinformation then they provide specific statements which still may be difficult to correct but you have those anchor points you can refer to.
So I guess the thing here is that if someone, after asking a question, writes a BS answer they actually refine their question and narrow its scope, thus making it easier to answer.
I usually see broad questions about rather simple things unanswered, but very specific yet difficult questions answered