RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 2 hours ago:
At best you’d end up with the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
The lower level firmware, your pc is probably doing the same eff.org/…/intels-management-engine-security-hazar…
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
Linus is kinda infamous for being a dick.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 6 days ago:
I was going to disagree, because manufacturers often set a very short and arbitrary EOL, but looking at the amazon price history this doesn’t seem to have been sold new since around 2013.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 6 days ago:
Always is.
- Comment on lab toys 1 week ago:
The article I linked says they’re unrelated.
- Comment on lab toys 1 week ago:
See also, the Pauli effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
Since the 20th century, the work in some subfields of physics research has been divided between theorists and experimentalists. Those theorists who lack an aptitude or interest in experimental work have on occasion earned a reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment. Pauli was exceptional in this regard: it was postulated that he was such a good theorist that any experiments would be compromised by virtue of his presence in the vicinity. For fear of the Pauli effect, experimental physicist Otto Stern banned Pauli from his laboratory located in Hamburg despite their friendship.
An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.
R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli’s entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect
- Comment on It's a ruff job, but someone has to do it. 1 week ago:
lab lab
- Comment on Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals 1 week ago:
Honestly the only thing that concerns me about GM crops is allowing companies like monsanto patent monopolies on seeds.
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 weeks ago:
The boomers at the Vatican have no idea what they’ve unleashed with this.
- Comment on Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads. 2 weeks ago:
Lately I’ve been getting adverts on facebook for forged notes, lol.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 2 weeks ago:
How can it be that bad?
I’ve used zoom’s ai transcriptions, for far less mission critical stuff, and it’s generally fine (I still wouldn’t trust it for medical purposes)
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 2 weeks ago:
How can it be that bad?
I’ve used zoom’s ai transcriptions, for far less mission critical stuff, and it’s generally fine, (I still wouldn’t trust it for medical purposes)
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 weeks ago:
Grav and strapi are open core only (arguably so is wordpress though), I’m not familiar with postlight.
- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Would the USA actually sanction TSMC though? Wouldn’t that be a massive blow to companies like apple?
- Comment on Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders 3 weeks ago:
It will be a short conversation I imagine.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
Where is gender plasma?
- Comment on CMA launches court action against Emma to protect UK consumers. 3 weeks ago:
Who is Emma?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
keep their code yet remove attribution
Isn’t that a violation of the GPL?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
He makes a habit of that tbh.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
risc-v saw this coming a while ago and moved to Switzerland to avoid it.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 3 weeks ago:
Depressingly, probably true.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 3 weeks ago:
Remind me, what does the “e” in “e-commerce” stand for again?
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 3 weeks ago:
Or just, you know, subscribe to the coms that interest you, like everyone did on reddit.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 4 weeks ago:
Why stop at short term?
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 4 weeks ago:
And a tax on second, third, etc homes. Outside of summer some places are starting to look like a ghost town.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a stepladder
- Comment on risky abbreviations 5 weeks ago:
Windows update was originally called “critical update notification tool”.
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
If you somehow killed him he would be replaced by someone who would be in a position of having to prove they were strong enough for the position.
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 1 month ago:
Probably about the same, you still have stuff like the intel management engine backdoor.