NAXLAB

@NAXLAB@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WOOOO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  just by being the biggest player in the system so everything is on their server, then they shut it down and leave the rest of the drivers with a big hole in the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Webb Telescope Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting the types of phrasing they use, like shatter. I never think of stars as rigid, more ethereal even though I know how they work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you spent eternity in a fiery pit wouldn't you just get use to being in a fiery pit?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming there’s enough supernatural power to sustain a torture pit of fire for all eternity, It’s probably trivial to just have you suffer non-stop regardless of any hypothetical limits.

  However, even in real life pain receptors are distinct receptors in your body that don’t dull themselves after a while, the way our smell and sight receptors do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people always assume you're part of a group just because you're defending them?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Groups are just that fundamental to human psychology.

  youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0?si=htB8ROCkPWWIer-A

  This Kurzgesacht video actually touches on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course not. The fingerless gloves are also niche, boutique, and premium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge – Wikimedia Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is commenting for engagement boost a thing?

  This is incredible and I never could have imagined it. This will democratize the power of programming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your position assumes also that no photos can be staged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vimeo is a private operation just like YouTube.

  Peertube is a “federated” system where videos are hosted among the computers of the people who upload videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dvorak is a cypher of Qwerty tho. Anything typed in Dvorak but transcribed as english can be reliably intensified and decyphered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I might have achieved security through obscurity. My custom keyboard is a unique shape and almost all the keys are one unit. Not only is it different enough from a traditional keyboard that the neural network probably won’t understand it, the function layers I use obscure whether I’m typing a letter at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨De omnibus dubitandum⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Qua is good tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… Mathematicians would agree with me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, lying by omission can still tell a totally wrong narrative. Sometimes it has to be the whole truth to be the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “that it’s a true representation of what someone saw.”

  Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but photography has never ever ever been a “true” representation of what you took a picture of.

  Photography is right up there with statistics in its potential for “true” information to be used to draw misleading or false conclusions. I predict that a picture with this technology may carry along with it the authority to impose a reality that’s actually not true by pointing to this built-in encryption to say “see? the picture is real” when the deception was actually carried out by the framing or timing of the picture, as has been done often throughout history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Things that are high up feel better more desirable to people. Naming something “heights” makes people imagine something desirable when they read the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If voting with your money is a valid way for people to collectively decide right and wrong, does that mean people with more money get more votes?

  Does that mean the people with the most money get the most votes?

  If that’s all true, does that mean whoever has the most money decides what’s right and wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A number chosen truly at random will have infinite digits⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my God it’s spez

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, every article I’ve seen from them was pretty poignant, relevant, and funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the world suddebly focused on the irsali-palestine conflict and hamas group?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently, Hamas carried out their largest and most brutal attack on Israel, killing many innocent people and generating quite a spectacle.

  Israel is now responding by invading Gaza: a dense, poor city with about 2 million people in it.

  There is now worldwide outrage at Israel’s response, which is disproportionately deadly due to their advanced military and billions of foreign aid. People are protesting Israel as an apartheid state and claiming that they are now pursuing genocidal goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ithkuill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware of all of this, but most of the software I use is Windows only. Recommending GIMP/whatever seems like enough to a proud Linux user, but it really just doesn’t cut it. I’m savvy enough to get rid of all the stuff I hate about windows or switch to Linux, but I’m comfortable enough to stay with wondoes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1. You can eat them if they have the nutrients you need. Not-carbon-based just means it won’t use carbon as the foundation of its molecular workings. By mass, there’s relatively little carbon in living organisms, and on earth. There’s barely any telling what kinds of chemicals will be found in an organism like that, but it could easily be a mix of things we can digest and things we can’t. Even carbon-based life is like that. Wood for example is biologically very similar to us, but is mainly made of cellulose, which we can’t really digest at all.

  2. yes, if it has a suitably sized hole