7rokhym

@7rokhym@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Charcoal filters are to catch some odours, the aluminum will catch some grease, but ‘natural gas’ is a whole lot more than methane, and think the same is true for propane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought this was an Onion article!

  Hey plebs! I demand you work 50% more to develop AGI so that I can replace you with robots and fire all of you and make myself a double plus plutocrat! Also, I want to buy an island, small city, Bunker, Spaceship, And/Or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The studies I read, there was no ventilation / exhaust fan. The point was that low income households using these stoves often don’t have proper ventilation and it makes them dangerous. I didn’t find much evidence that using them with proper ventilation is actually a serious problem.

  Further, cooking releases all sorts of chemicals from incomplete combustion in the air if something is burning, as well as the toxic chemicals release from nonstick cookware at very high temperatures, so cooking without ventilation is bad for your health would be the message I’d take away. I find most people are completely unaware of the hazard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a lack of Nazi hunters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow most people figured out email. It’s like picking Gmail, Outlook, Proton, Mailbox, Yahoo. Doesn’t matter, pick the one you like, ceate as many accounts as you want, or make your own.

  This isn’t a Fediverse or Lemmy problem, but is speaks volumes of how broken the Internet has become and how far we’ve fallen. 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be more forgiving, but what MS Copilot sucks at the worst is working with Office files: PowerPoint: completely useless Excel: useful for some tasks if I reformat all my sheets into tables, so mostly useless Word: can’t even answer why the formatting of the file from my coworker is a mess (which is every coworker), let alone try to fix it. But it will gladly take a succinct piece of information and make it into an insufferable 50 pages of fluff. It summarizes documents well and helps with reviews. OneNote: creating content it’s ok, but useless at retrieving info. Outlook: It tries to help, mostly confirms that my language is may be perceived as cold and offensive. Which is good, because that was my intention.

  It is surprisingly helpful with PDFs and extracting data and cleaning up formatting.

  Unsurprising, it does great with CSV and other open data formats. Maybe there is a lesson here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course not. They were taking notes as they expect to be next in line to grind the peasants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a thought from experience: Be wary of any critical products and/or taking a job from a company run by an accountant. CrowdStrike CEO… accountant!

  Accounting firms are an obvious exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other concern is censorship. Essentially a movie that you bought is on a server and then someone’s decided that words, content, or scenes are no longer appropriate. The video, song, etc, is different from the original and without any notification. The old scenes get sent to the memory hole. Oh dear Winston, I fear we will meet soon!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s a classic case of Microsoft marketing. So far I found the office integration to be the least useful and most over hyped in marketing. However what it is good at is actually helpful. Join a meeting late it already has an update for what’s happened on the meeting so far and it’s really good for summarizing a meeting especially a key topics and a summary of action items. Tedious tasks like taking data copied from a PDF file and reformatting it correctly in CSV. And my favorite is making custom graphics based on a specific colour pallet, though most images are really good for entertainment, demos and samples, but not production quality for final products. Weird results include creepy human images just don’t look right in a disturbing zombie-like way.