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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation⁩ ⁨⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  But that sounds like disproving a scenario no one claimed to be the case: that everything we perceive is as substantial as we think it is and can be simulated at full scale in real time by our own universe.

  Part of the whole reason people think of simulation theory as worth bothering to contemplate is because they find quantum physics and relativity to be unsatisyingly “weird”. They like to think of how things break down at relativistic velocities and quantum scale as the sorts of ways a simulation would be limited if we tried, so they like to imagine a higher order universe that doesn’t have those pesky “weird” behaviors and we are only stuck with those due to simulation limits within this hypothetical higher order universe.

  Nothing about it is practical, but a lot of these science themed “why” exercises aren’t themselves practical or sciency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Though passkeys are now commonly shared across devices. That was one of the changes they made. For example, chrome will gladly do all the passkey management in the Google password manager. Under Linux at least there’s isn’t even a whiff of trying to integrate with a hardware security device. First pass they demanded either a USB device or Bluetooth connection to a phone doing it credibly, or windows hello under windows, but now they decided to open it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically the truth, but an argument can be made that 2FA was mostly more secure by virtue of how bad password security is, and selling a switch to passkey as a convenience is a big security win.

  Also with passkey, you’ll be commonly be forced to do some sort of device unlock making it generally the “thing you have” require either “thing you are” or “thing you know” so it becomes effectively 2fa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If a service were going to passkeys for sake of law enforcement or works be so much easier for them to just comply with bypassing auth to access the user data altogether. Passkey implementations originally only supported very credible offline mechanisms and only relaxed those requirements when it became clear the vast majority of people couldn’t handle replacing their devices with passkeys.

  For screen lock for the common person it was either that or nothing at all. So demanding a PIN only worked because most of the time the user didn’t have to deal with it owing to touching a fingerprint or face unlock.

  People hate passwords and mitigate that aggravation by giving random Internet forum the same password as their bank account. I wouldn’t want to take user passwords because I know I have a much higher risk of a compromise somehow leading to compromise of actually important accounts elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please no, just stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how you get a promotion.

  I wish I was kidding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is one of those terrible ideas even if you thought that, in theory, you were onboard with ‘anti-DEI’.

  Out of the blue the wrong person gets randomly pissed at you and invokes the highly subjective clause and suddenly you owe them $1.5M…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except how bad was it for Microsoft?

  They didn’t lose share. For the people that rightfully saw Metro as a painful dumb direction in Windows design language, they just stuck with Windows 7. Microsoft didn’t have upside they wanted, but they didn’t have the downside.

  They tried to pump life into their mobile platform by throughing their desktop platform under the bus. Because they have zero competitive pressure, they attempt to do that with essentially zero downsides. Just like now they can make their OS little more than an advertising platform for the Microsoft Store and Microsoft services without real repurcussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With many bearaucracies there’s plenty of practically valueless work going on.

  Because some executive wants to brag about having over a hundred people under them. Because some proceas requires a sort of document be created that hasn’t been used in decades but no one has the time to validate what does or does not matter anymore. Because of a lot of little nonsense reasons where the path of least resistance is to keep plugging away. Because if you are 99 percent sure something is a waste of time and you optimize it, there’s a 1% chance you’ll catch hell for a mistake and almost no chance you get great recognition for the efficiency boost if it pans out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, they aren’t so tone deaf as to think avocado toast is all that stands between this generation and home ownership.

  It’s actually starbucks coffee: fortune.com/…/corcoran-group-ceo-says-just-as-tou…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Musk’s net worth including his stock is a bit shy of 500 billion, and Tesla market cap is about 1500 billion. His net worth includes all his assets that he could possibly leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually he doesn’t. Most of his ‘wealth’ is Tesla shares already. Even if he could toss everything he has just toward controlling more of Tesla, and if the shareholders accepted it at current market value, he’d only have a third of the company.

  Tesla is crazy over valued for a company that has only been able to be a car company that is in 14th place, yet assessed as being more valuable than all the 13 more successful car companies combined…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the PayPal one is so spot on.

  He had a company that I guess was like CitySearch that no one ever heard of and managed to win a lottery of selling it to Compaq who thought they had to do something in this whole dotcom thing.

  Then he founded ‘x.com’, a failure of an online bank while Paypal took off. Then, somehow, in the wake of being merged in he talked the company into letting him be in charge, despite his company pretty much the relative failure in that relationship, and he nearly tanked it before being kicked out. Despite this for a long time he got credit as ‘the paypal guy’, despite his only contribution being almost tanking it after losing to it initiallly in the market. Again, won the lottery because he had such a share and eBay tossed so much money at it.

  He’s supremely successful at taking credit from others when things work out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d research Chilipad harder if I were in the market again. At very cursory glance it seems like less of an uphill battle. I could be wrong and they could be douchey, or their engineering somehow sucks, but maybe they are good too.

  FreeSleep is what I would do if they try to force the subscription on me, but I probably wouldn’t buy the product hoping that I can change their firmware against their will. I don’t want to give money to a vendor I would just be antagonistic with.

  If they announced they formally endorsed use of FreeSleep as an ‘advanced alternative’, ok, but that isn’t going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is spot on. Note these asshats eventually caved and added local controls when customers kept saying how horrible it was to use the phone. The local controls are explicitly disabled unless the cloud service has recently approved the bed to allow the local controls to work. You have to use the phone to enable the local controls. The phone can’t do anything locally except tell it how to connect to wifi. If you don’t have the subscription or grandfathered in before the subscription, the local controls do nothing.

  Well, unless you jailbreak your cover with FreeSleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So in my case (I didn’t want to, but not my choice, but at least it was cheap and without subscription at the time), it was about the water cooling/warming. It’s really nice and essentially inaudible.

  I think Chilipad is a brand that does it without the online bullshit, though I didn’t get to try that.

  None of this should ever require an internet connection, and it’s abundantly clear that’s an anti-consumer hostile forced behavior Eight Sleep did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar with AWS myself, but they seemed to be referencing something they vaguely characterized as ‘security infrastructure’, kind of as a handwaving for why they thought it made sense to be single point of failure because to enable distribution of it would somehow be insecure…

  I frankly wasn’t interested in delving deeper, because that excuse sounds pretty stupid, but I’d be trying to get details I don’t personally need about something I probably shouldn’t be arguing about. I’ve gotten burned too much by someone championing something stupid ostensibly in the name of ‘security’ to try to sign up for another one of those arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also skeptical that any payment processing networks were impacted. I would be surprised, but less so if they couldn’t manage their account online which might have similar effect. I’m not surprised at all of the grocery store or restaurants were significantly impacted. I know a lot of the apps were broken and I could imagine someone used to apping everything leaving their cards at home and unable to get lunch. Might have some aggressively “modern” establishments that are kiosk only and I could imagine them getting downed by aws outage.

  outside a single DC?

  I’m told that a lot of the companies did all the right things but still got taken down because some dependent Amazon services are tethered to that single DC and only Amazon has the power to change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1.1.1.1 went down for a while not too long ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that as a provider, if you are sure you are confident you’ll get hit by an outage at some point anyway, it’s actually better for you if a bunch of other big names are brought down at the same time.

  Instead of “that one service sucked”, the story is “aws sucked”. If it happens too much people will more widely say “ok they suck for using aws”, but for now the transparency gets them treated more like being affected by an unavoidable external condition.

  I’m grateful a lot of sites I like didn’t use aws, but I’m not exactly a common demographic and even I won’t know if she is the services even move or not until another such outage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I haven’t seen the video, so I don’t know if she went inside without being asked or the door was wide open and he was just right there.

  At least I could understand if she thought he had set an exhibitionist trap and wanted some evidence… but if she thought a cracked door meant to open up and maybe hand the food directly without being expressly invited in.

  Butb while I’m trying to imagine a scenario that lets her at least go as gay as recording it, can’t imagine it being justified to post it for the world.

  I’m inclined to think she was grossed out, but taking it too seriously, even by her account it’s just a naked dude not even looking her way or saying anything. A private complaint that the dude had his door open and naked woukd have sufficed without trying to trial by Internet here. I don’t know if it was an old guy, a drunk guy, a sleepy guy or an exhibitionist. But in any event her posting the video is certainly enough to have her account suspended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether she accidentally or intentionally filmed him, I think that’s within her rights. But either way, it was not within her rights to go and share that on the internet, accidental or intentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure she wasn’t trying to be the creep, but her reaction of posting the video online of the customer was absolutely out of line. That’s evidence for your own possible cases maybe, but certainly not for indiscriminate sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like she posted her video of the customer online, which would seem to make her hands unclean. Taking the video for your own evidence sure, but posting it online crosses a line. So I could easily see both parties having their accounts suspended.

  So he likely set a trap for a stranger to get a show to get off on being a bit of an exhibitionist, but it’s hard to really prove that intent, and she took a video of it and then posted it online, which is another whole can of worms being opened.

  Now if they are refusing to let her take money from doordash, she’s got a legal case, though unsure if it is ‘wage theft’, since the whole loophole with these ‘gig’ companies is that there’s no employment and it’s all transactional. Terribly exploitative system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So a fan of squirting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, that Steam Deck and myriad of PC handhelds I think is why I don’t consider the Switch quite so uniquely gimmicky… It’s a recognition that normal controller games can be played in a ‘tablet’ with better controls more than a particularly unique, possibly patent protected thing like the wiimotes, or the Wii-U tablet+main display, or the DS dual screens…

  In short, if they made their low-spec games ported to PC it’s quite likely to be a nice additional revenue stream without having to compromise the game to be workable on PC. If the Wii-Motes were still a big thing, then Nintendo would have a hard time trying to make PC ports without screwing up their console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like with the Wii, I’d be with you and the Wii motes were super gimmicky. Also if the Wii u had panned out.

  But the switch is not particularly uniquely gimmicky. Pretty conventional controls, with maybe the residual gimmick of those NFC figures…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insuranace is a joke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When it’s totaled, then you get a cash payoff for what they declare it to be worth. It being the other person’s insurance does give you a bit more leverage than is it were your own.

  At least in my case, I was able to negotiate a bit and got the other person’s insurance to at least go up to paying the blue book retail for mint condition of the car. They also tossed in a few thousand for pain and suffering and covered a full month of rental car. In my case someone in the other car was unresponsive and needed an ambulance ride, and on my part I had been very thorough in documenting everything that legally would count including damaged contents in the trunk, missed work, and other things.

  However ultimately it is a check and car sales can be rough. So it may be that they were underpaid, or that the car’s general book value didn’t match their subjective value for the car, or they were thinking they should get what they paid for it. I could imagine if they bought a 2015 in 2019, they were probably getting a decent, off lease practically new car. Now they have a check appropriate for buying a 2015 of the same make and model and the 2015s now available are in worse shape than they kept their own, previous owners that neglected their car over a longer period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those metrics aren’t any more trustworthy than their own subjective word anyway. If they wanted to say they took more time then they could delay at their whim anyway. If they said their production costs increased, then again, they could spend the money to fit the narrative. On those particular points objective evidence is so susceptible to being gamed that it isn’t really more valuable than their subjective reporting.

  Numbers of subscribers/views could be a bit more informative, but then people inclined to disbelieve would claim it’s because of any number of other reasons not because of AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing in this case sounds like the content is becoming harder and harder to create, which they lay out the subjective case for, but that wouldn’t be exactly something they could use figures to present, since it’s so subjective.

  The one point they might have been able to show with numbers would be the emergence of AI slop ‘infotainment animations’ diluting the audience, but that wasn’t exactly the biggest point of the video and it might be a bit early to be able to demonstrate statistically credible evidence on that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, presuming they are sincere and put in all that effort, they are competing with other sources that have no such discipline and they are able to flood the field and grab eyeballs faster than they could.