leftzero
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- Comment on wtf 3 days ago:
lizard that can spray blood from its eye, but nothing in the animal kingdom past or present has a human’s innate ability for ranged attack
I don’t know, a hawk plummeting from the sky at 190km/h onto something the size of a small rodent is kind of impressive, too, if you count the bird throwing itself as throwing…
- Comment on wtf 3 days ago:
Also in very short races (up to 100m) if the human is an olympic athlete, though mostly because momentum is a bitch and it takes time for the horse to accelerate all that mass, and by the time it’s done the race is already over (it also probably helps that the athlete knows what they’re doing while the house is just along for the ride and wondering where it can get some grass).
- Comment on wtf 3 days ago:
Most animals know humans are too much trouble to mess with.
Sure, you can kill one human. But next thing you know your whole species has gone extinct, or worse, has been domesticated into pocket yappy dogs that can’t breathe properly.
In places where we’ve been around long enough staying away from humans has practically been bred into every surviving predator’s instincts by now (which is what makes polar bears so terrifying, they’re about the only dangerous predator that doesn’t have this instinct yet, and probably never will, now that murdering whole species has become a bit of a bad look); anything that considered us prey and didn’t learn not to simply doesn’t exist anymore.
Wolves in particular (in the few places where they survive) definitely know not to mess with us, except maybe in the frozen depths of Canada, and so do most bears (again, with possible exceptions in the least populated bits of North America) except polar ones.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 1 week ago:
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Not everyone hates life like you do
Work isn’t life.
It’s the opposite of life (no, death is just its absence).
hang out with co-workers all the time
Bonding over shared trauma and Stockholm syndrome is not a good basis for a relationship (though there’s probably no relationship other than you pestering them while they try to work).
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Unions aren’t community.
They’re a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
So they ruin it for everyone else.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Sounds horrible, glad I have no intention of bringing a child into this torturous world.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Well, just from reading that I can assure you your coworkers don’t.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
sense of community between you and your coworkers, which is a very real and normal thing
No it fucking ain’t.
Forcing people together doesn’t create community, it creates stress, and resentment, and burnout, and migraines.
“Workplace community.”
Biggest oxymoron I’ve ever seen since military intelligence.
ALSO miss the sense of community with my coworkers which I used to get from lunches together, sharing the train ride home, or just working side by side at our desks
Oh, you’re one of those fucking extroverts.
I can’t begin to imagine the extent to which your poor coworkers must have despised you while you constantly bothered them while they tried to work, or have a quick decompressing lunch, or disconnect after a long day of work during the train ride home, the poor bastards. As if work wasn’t bad enough by itself.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
No we don’t. Work is work, not fucking community.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because IBM built the PC as a side project out of mainly off-the-shelf parts, except for the BIOS, never intending it to be more than one of many personal computers in the market… and then Compaq and Columbia Data Products reverse engineered said BIOS making PC-compatible clones a possibility.
Open BIOSes and a personal computer made of essentially off-the-shelf parts led to everyone and their aunt making PC-compatible machines, and the personal computer boom, and most personal computers being able to run mostly the same software.
IBM tried to lock it back down with the PS/2, and Microsoft also later tried to lock it down to Windows with some shady schemes like ACPI, but all attempts ultimately failed because by that point the PC ecosystem was so large that any attempts at lockdown were sidestepped by other vendors, or eventually reverse engineered or bypassed.
Sadly the same never happened with phones. The PC thing was a serendipitous fluke to start with, phones aren’t made of off-the-shelf parts, and manufacturers were wise to the “risk” and made sure to keep as much control as possible.
- Comment on Israel: Euphoria gives way to fear after Iranian missiles rain down on Tel Aviv 1 week ago:
All according to plan.
The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.
When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 week ago:
Rocky from Hail Mary is sort of crab-like, and I think they’re making a film adaptation…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, you’re not overreacting.
But, if you’re in north America, you’re probably fucked.
(If you’re in the USA, though, good news is you’d be fucked anyway, so the car thing is mostly irrelevant, except as a means to get out, fast.)
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 1 week ago:
Doesn’t really show the friggin’ massive wingspan of the damn things, though…
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
“if you put in the wrong figures, will the correct ones be output”
To be fair, an 1840 “computer” might be able to tell there was something wrong with the figures and ask about it or even correct them herself.
Babbage was being a bit obtuse there; people weren’t familiar with computing machines yet. Computer was a job, and computers were expected to be fairly intelligent.
In fact I’d say that if anything this question shows that the questioner understood enough about the new machine to realise it was not the same as they understood a computer to be, and lacked many of their abilities, and was just looking for Babbage to confirm their suspicions.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
LLMs are also very good at convincing their users that they know what they are saying.
It’s what they’re really selected for. Looking accurate sells more than being accurate.
I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the people selling LLMs as AI have drunk their own kool-aid (of course most just care about the line going up, but still).
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.
There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
Not using Lemmy
I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
Some greedy little pigboy decided to lock down the API and kill third party apps.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, seems extremely irritating for a franchise that — except for the protomolecule (and related sufficiently advanced alien shenanigans) and the Epstein drive — prides itself on its realistic physics, you’ve convinced me to blacklist both the game and the publisher on Steam.
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 2 weeks ago:
Seems quite easy to remember with a nice jingle, like the emergency number… 🎵0118 999 881 999 119 725🎶. 3🎵.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Had my first ones yesterday too.
I’ll use FreeTube if I have to, though I don’t quite like the UI, but cleaning the cache seems to have done the trick for now.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Revanced users are within a rounding error of the total users, surely?
Some of us use NewPipe. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Good, good, there aren’t enough microplastics in the sea, must dissolve more.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 3 weeks ago:
I just found out the other day that items pinned to the taskbar are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. 🤦♂️
Microsoft is a sad parody of itself.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 3 weeks ago:
Hear me out, Eliza. It’ll be equally useless and for orders of magnitude less cost. And no one will mistakenly or fraudulently call it AI.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 3 weeks ago:
They add capabilities not replace.
They poison all repositories of knowledge with their useless slop.
They are plummeting us into a dark age which we are unlikely to survive.
Sure, it’s not the LLMs fault specifically, it’s the bastards who are selling them as sources of information instead of information-shaped slop, but they’re still being used to murder the future in the name of short term profits.
So, no, they’re not useless. They’re infinitely worse than that.
- Comment on Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm. 3 weeks ago:
That’s all I want out of AI.
The ability to hurt my computer when it isn’t working properly.
