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- Comment on EcoGnomix, a roguelite town-builder x exploration/mining game hybrid, released on Steam 1 month ago:
This smells of Pratchett :)
- Comment on China’s AI overload: Baidu CEO warns of too many models, too few applications 4 months ago:
And forget the clamp in the process ?
- Comment on OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public 4 months ago:
Dark if true…
- Comment on European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures 6 months ago:
What I don’t get is what’s the end game? Because this will likely affect only already law abiding citizens of those with limited technical knowledge as bad agents will simply generate certificates and encrypt however they see fit. It’s not like building an encrypted client is hard…
- Comment on Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 7 months ago:
You can’t magically change heating source for the whole affected households though. And the end user will definitely care in case of retrofit with the impact of the changeS needed. Plus costs unless you also magically address that but electricity is still very expensive.
- Comment on Saudi Aramco CEO says energy transition is failing, world should abandon 'fantasy' of phasing out oil 7 months ago:
I’m one year in being an EV owner - in europe, not in a metropole but in belgium so there’s still some density of population.
Relative cold had anecdotal impact. Maybe when going under -10 it’s becoming an issue but so far no impact.
Charging infrastructure is getting there - still no rapid chargers in wallonia but I’ve learned that I don’t need them either. I’m able to live my life by charging once a week or so in my home charger. Admittedly I work from home 3 days a week and I use trains 2 days to get to work.
For holidays we like going to France where they seem to have an abundance of fast chargers and it’s been a breeze beside an increased frequency of stops to charge for 15 minutes.
So yeah it’s all anecdotal but in European settings it’s perfectly fine.
- Comment on Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems 8 months ago:
A pain and obviously I wish to never have a use for the recordings….
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 8 months ago:
Hu in VR Chat… I was hoping for something else 😅
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 8 months ago:
Really? I wasn’t invited to those. Where can I read about them?
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 9 months ago:
Then take on yourself to help educate whoever doesn’t create a specific set of credentials to share accounts… But as we said back then - sharing is caring.
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 9 months ago:
What bad habit? Proving entertainment to your loved ones on the house? Because as long as the account is created specifically for the purpose of being shared there’s absolutely no bad habit in that…Being generous is considered cool no?
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 9 months ago:
As long as you segregate credentials and whichever service you’re sharing doesn’t expose any critical data like cc info what’s the risk?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta 9 months ago:
Accountability is overrated…
- Comment on Have companies that claim to anonymize the data gathered on individuals ever been independently audited to verify that? 9 months ago:
Let’s see a company weasel out of iso27001 audit and explain their customers that they aren’t so much compliant anymore. That’s what is getting companies to stay within the lines and that should count as a punishment. Privacy authorities aren’t generally staffed enough to be a concern for the moment unless you are very unlucky.
- Comment on A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural... 10 months ago:
If the storm took down the utility pole 3 blocks away you’re not getting city’s batteries to help you through. There’s a certain charm to distributing reasonably the power storage.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 10 months ago:
Sure but even looking a only the financial produce of one person for a family dwarfs the comical 23k here. And that’s not even looking at the emotional side of things. 23k is straight insulting imho.
- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 10 months ago:
Hardly an argument ; it can be said just about every company… and also unrelated to their CEO to a large extent.
- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 10 months ago:
You’re preaching the choir. I agree he (and others) is overpaid. I solely reacted on weird spike thrown at docusign.
Where in disagree is on your very generous of billions in humanity’s achievements ; pretty sure a lot of us didn’t pitch in. Pretty sure my own name isn’t appearing in the credits for example. But I salute your optimism.
- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 10 months ago:
Fair point. I find it interesting that there’s such an emphasis on « just »; it takes some efforts to get to a point where as a company you can trust the process to the extent we trust docusign… it’s not exactly trivial. Still waaaaaaay overpaid indeed but still.
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 10 months ago:
Yeah definitely a good idea. Routing your mobile traffic through it so your carrier cannot access your traffic and the services you don’t want to share location with can’t snoop as much on you.
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 10 months ago:
I’d say it’s about designing a good strategy. I have local backups on my NAS and a nightly incremental backup to cloud locations from there. That way the capture from my local equipment to the NAS is lightning fast and it’s not a big deal to have it take a few hours to reach the cloud. Also having a NAS on a power backup is a must-have.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
True, it’s not at all stage where it’s likely to be a problem. The army of very old persons isn’t at the door just yet ;-)
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Same for me. I started to chit chat a bit here and there just to have some more activity but I miss a community I like to be part of.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
True. Related to that I wish there were more engagement on lemmy. Most of the posts in my stream have zero replies or 1 and it’s the bot. But let’s keep smaller numbers - quality over quantity.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Meh. Not like there are shareholders to appraise of growth…
- Comment on Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis 11 months ago:
And posting to Reddit if I recall correctly :)
- Comment on Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents 11 months ago:
Not sure I’m entirely with you on that one; what’s the alternative to schooling kids so that they achieve autonomy and how do you propose to make them fit in a society where is seems important to have compatibility between everyone’s behaviour if not by pushing the towards a standard ?
- Comment on The Teddy Bear Was Once Seen as a Dangerous Influence on Young Children 11 months ago:
To some extent they anticipated the Furries apocalypse risk 😂
- Comment on What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash? 1 year ago:
My personal favourite remains perl for anything text oriented or for simple-ish orchestration.
- Comment on Remember when Target blamed theft for closing stores? It's all lies. 1 year ago:
As an outsider I fail to understand why the reason to close shops is so critical. Can’t they just say « fuck it we’re done here » at any point in time? What’s the point on pinning the closure on fictional crime level?