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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that Americans on the Left would be offended to learn that their political leader was a complete hypocrite, so they assume that Americans on the right would feel the same way. Meanwhile, the truth is that Americans on the Right only pretend to have moral standards, while in actuality, they will simply follow their leaders regardless of what they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony has been shit for much longer than 20 years, kiddo.

  It’s interesting. I did a quick search, and couldn’t quickly find many complaints about them before 2000, but technical people complained a lot about Sony products back then. The biggest complaint was that Sony did everything themselves. So, every component inside a piece of electronic equipment was made by Sony, and every time they could get away with it, it would have a custom footprint or custom specs, so that it was impossible to find replacement parts without getting them directly from Sony at huge markups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the main picture, about half of those videos use filters that do something based on the location of the person’s head. Unless they’ve changed the definition since I went to college, that would be classified as a type of computer vision, aka AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine that. You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access. And it uses all of that stuff to display ads to you. You’re literally paying for every ad it shows you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would you do with an old dell server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what would you do with an old dell server?

  I thought this post was going to be a sea shanty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As you say, the question presented to Fry doesn’t mention a question at all. Only an answer. So, you could make an argument that any answer could be the answer to something, and therefore you’d have to choose a 100% chance, which isn’t an option.

  On the other hand, it asks for the chance of “picking the correct one”, clearly meaning “the correct answer”. So, as there is no answer that is the correct answer to everything, the correct choice would be 0%, which is an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a phone that I put the charging cable in backwards, and the port was completely broken. Bought a wireless charger and never had any problems.

  (Whoever decided to standardize phone chargers on that connector should be put into prison.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess Valve wants whatever makes more games work on Linux so that their Steam Deck works better and is more compatible.

  And that means the most important thing is Linux desktop adoption by game developers so they make more native games. So somewhat ironically, I don’t think SteamOS would be as high a priority as other distributions, since it focuses on players instead of developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Biden Administration Policies Led to a 0% Market Share in China", Claims NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as He Hopes for a Breakthrough in the Region⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Today, we have 0%. At the beginning of the Biden administration, we had 95%. The policies of that administration really caused us to lose practically the entire China market. - NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

  The article says that both Biden’s and later, Trump’s policies have decreased NVIDIA’s market share. He’s really phrasing it in a favorable way to Trump. Like, the same way, you could say the following, “At the beginning of the Obama administration, we had zero deaths from COVID. Now, we have millions.” Just skip over the part that is inconvenient for propaganda, right?

  However, the loss of NVIDIA’s market share in China isn’t only attributed to the previous administration, since under President Trump, Team Green had to halt the sales of its H20 AI chip temporarily, and they were resumed only after the firm agreed on a ‘revenue sharing’ model with the Trump government. More importantly, with US-China trade relations being influenced, NVIDIA also suffered a significant setback from China, as domestic regulators and authorities began persuading Chinese Big Tech companies not to use Team Green’s AI chips.

  Also, Jensen Huang’s statement betrays an insane naivete about China. Newsflash: China always tries to take international industry and make a domestic Chinese version. If you have a 95% share of something in China and you’re a foreign company, that simply means it’s related to some fresh technology, or that it’s virtually worthless. If it is believed to have value, China will have their own stuff before you know it, and don’t expect IP laws like patents or copyright to slow them down. They don’t give a shit about that stuff for foreign companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of how police abuse any new tool they’re given.

  Like how while trained dogs can actually sniff out drugs, when they’re given to police, they get retrained to simply alert whenever the police want them to, and essentially become a flimsy reason to let police violate your rights and search anybody they want to.

  And the police suffer zero repercussions for their actions. If they don’t find drugs, there’s nobody who’s going to take them to court and force them to retrain their dogs or to disallow drug dogs from being used as reasonable suspicion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the deal is with people who say that. They’re good for several days, and they even have a very convenient method for showing you whether they’re good or not. You don’t really need bananas to last more than a few days, because by then, they’re all eaten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they say that the chef made them close their eyes before tasting it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought to you by the central limit theorem society⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the explanation that says “you included”, I’m guessing that the original joke was both the people said, “I’m not gay”, and then they look at you, the reader, making you the one out of three people who is gay.

  It’s basically the same joke I heard a comedian tell about San Francisco in probably the 1980s. “Look to your left. Look to your right. If they’re not gay, you are.” I’m guessing the joke is way older than that, though. It doesn’t work today because the majority of us all finally agreed that “You’re gay” isn’t an insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raven Big Mom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, juvenile birds look bigger than usual when they have their mouths open for feeding.

  I suspect it’s an evolutionary adaptation to be the biggest target for food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pants too!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pants too!

  closed-toe pants? Like a footed onesie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is simply a generic way of referring to the concept of private investigators, as I’ve also just done in this sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3155: Physics Paths⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Randall Munroe knows this better than most, but Einstein’s insight more derailed physics than overturned it. What I mean is that the path it seemed like physics was on at the time was torn out from under the establishment. But it’s not like the work done to that point was discarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have no problems if you honestly give something a try and don’t like it. But the people who judge without trying are acting like small children. I’m not sure why anybody gives their uninformed opinions the time of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could argue that cryptography is nothing but a type of obfuscation. I was trying to explain things so that the very average person could understand it.

  People don’t stop doing things just because you make it illegal. You even know this because you mentioned India. However people actually do stop when you make it nearly impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses are a separate use case. Phone companies already handle separate use cases, where they use very short memorable numbers for specific purposes. They just need something similar, whether it’s keeping phone numbers, or using something slightly different. Probably some sort of simple alias.

  It’s the phone companies that need to innovate, and the solution isn’t very hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I intentionally was vague because there are many possible existing ways to accomplish each thing I said, and it is up to the phone company to innovate.

  The simplest way to keep people from guessing phone numbers is to make them very long and sparse. If an autodialer had to dial 1000 invalid numbers before finding a valid number, it would make the endeavor that much harder. This is just a convenient example because the cryptography equivalent is harder to explain, but you could make contact info so hard to guess that it would be basically impossible.

  Probably the easiest way to explain how to keep people from passing contact info is to imagine a two step process like facebook has. If I pass your facebook username to someone else, they don’t automatically become your friend. The cryptographic equivalent would involve a chain of trust, but again, harder to explain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really the phone companies’ fault for stagnating instead of innovating.

  There is no reason at this point for most people to have phone numbers at all. We have the technology today to throw the whole concept out the window.

  Replace it with something where a stranger couldn’t guess how to contact a random person. Replace it with something where third parties can’t easily share your contact info.

  You could even have both technologies at the same time to help transition. And we do, as users, but we still need phone numbers because our carriers don’t give us multiple options directly.

  Phone numbers are based on requirements for a system that’s almost 150 years old now. Back when the numbers really meant locations and before people realized how easy it could be exploited to steal old people’s retirement money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't look up :)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have to do with the way that they cropped out the artist’s signature? Maybe it’s due to a lawsuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sometimes called red fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the evolutionary advantage?

  Preservation of energy. Anti-parasite behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  no plan for federation, and no guardrails to stop the slow slide into bloat

  What would be an example of a guardrail to stop the slow slide into bloat?

  I’m not asking for a detailed explanation, but I simply can’t understand what sort of feature you’re imagining.

  I sort of get the idea that maybe you just mean that you’re already seeing the beginnings of bloat, but if there was something that could actually stop bloat, that sounds very interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people who treat their cats like they are little stupid humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The real me is so introverted that I don’t find people at all. Well, I find them, I guess, but I mostly want them to leave me alone.

  I guess zero human interaction is a tiny bit too low, so my dream is to live in a big city where everybody ignores me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irresistible to women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, he dodged a bullet. Imagine a taxonomist who wants to date another taxonomist. It’s virtually guaranteed that their relationship would be non-stop fighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were super intelligent and you were a slave to Mark Zuckerberg, you might try to embarrass him, too.