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- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 2 hours ago:
I wonder if this is a bug or a feature.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 22 hours ago:
I don’t know if it is the same brand, but my morning walks are cheered on by an increasing chorus/wave of “hello, you are currently being recorded”. Weird dystopian vibes.
- Comment on In space, nobody can hear your construction noise. 5 days ago:
- Comment on Caption this. 6 days ago:
I think the skeleton needs a top-hat before we can caption this.
- Comment on In space, nobody can hear your construction noise. 6 days ago:
That sounds like the basis for some kick-ass sci-fi.
- Submitted 6 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name 6 days ago:
What if it goes the way of facebook, and one day you realize that it’s just you in a virtual space filled with bots.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 week ago:
For some reason, that doesn’t look like a GPT-generated graph, which means… sadly… that someone had to make that thing… and somebody had to approve it.
- Comment on He knows his ABCs 1 week ago:
“Elemento” reminds me of the decabet skit.
- Comment on dream chat 1 week ago:
When you cant remember all of your many wives’ names you label them like the seven dwarves.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s not safe to feel safe.
- Comment on Lord of the Power 2 weeks ago:
Yes. AFAIK they all get several up-votes, this one included.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 23 comments
- Comment on Plump prophet proved perfectly precise 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 weeks ago:
“Let’s see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind…”
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 3 weeks ago:
So even if it does not move, this pawn could get promoted by some future tile-slide… come to think of it, I guess two pawns could get promoted in the same turn via a tile-slide.
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 4 weeks ago:
So now that the black pawn has reached “the last rank”, does it get promoted?
- Comment on The time has come! 4 weeks ago:
*protocol
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 4 weeks ago:
IIRC, I had a PC (since sold) that had secure boot permanently enabled from the factory. That is, in spirit, a PC with a “locked bootloader”, but you might not even notice because many Linux distros have that Microsoft-blessed Linux loading shim… but it is still Microsoft inserting themselves between you and your hardware; they could decide in the next few years they no longer “support” Linux, hypothetically.
- Comment on Environmental Damage 5 weeks ago:
It was not immediately obvious from the image (though you might see the starfish for scale), but these things are huge!
- Comment on Environmental Damage 5 weeks ago:
It makes you wonder if they have a whole bunch of training data in this style, or if it is the mathematical average of all cartoon styles mashed together.
- Comment on Environmental Damage 5 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting I should have asked it to reprocess the image, or ask it to try again?
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 15 comments
- Comment on Apple Envy 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, unlockable bootloaders seem a bit exceptional on the Android side too…
- Comment on NOTICE: 5 weeks ago:
At first, I thought this was a “flash forward” reference.
- Comment on Apple Envy 5 weeks ago:
I would agree insomuch as Google’s privacy issues are better known.
Nonetheless, we are comparing two jail cells. One has a finger-puzzle that opens the cell-doors than the secure jail (and an obvious surveillance camera), and the other one is securely locked with a less-obvious/hidden camera (iphone backups)… and the issue at hand is they want to remove the finger-puzzle because the captives keep opening it to let baddies join them.
- Comment on Apple Envy 5 weeks ago:
Splitting detected.
Are we seriously going to pretend that a single person can be wholly evil? Much less a company of 200k people.
Even if Google takes this huge step of requiring their blessing for every Android developer (which Apple has ALWAYS had on their side), they will still be better (by my estimation) along the freedom dimension than Apple. Maybe too far removed for my involvement, but better nonetheless. For example, one interesting metric may be the number of useful open source projects they publish.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 42 comments
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 5 weeks ago:
Noticably? I imagine their skin imperfections would be twice as large… or maybe √2 as large?
