IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When the people end up with nothing left to lose, things tend to get exceptionally shitty for a few generations. Then it’s a die toss to figure out if what comes after that is any better or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love that his name is the first thing anyone thinks about when someone so much as mentions a couch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They would. Just not in the way they’d prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t support this decision in any way, but I can at least think of some legitimate motivation for it (assuming the Synology branded ones aren’t marked up from the equivalent Seagate/Toshiba ones). I imagine Synology has to deal with a lot of service calls and returns for issues that are caused by shoddy drives (like those Seagate drives with the fudged lifespan numbers), not by anything that they can directly control.

  In reality, the above was probably what sparked the idea, but I’m betting that they’re going to jack up the price of those drives just to squeeze out a little more profit for this quarter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sound quality will be exactly the same among any of the services that offer lossless files (ie all of the ones that aren’t Spotify). That’s literally the point of lossless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, hear me out: we split up Alphabet. Ads and search can be one company, since those two are always going to be related, while Chrome, Android, and the hardware division become the other company. This should help reduce Google’s current incentive for privacy invasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are you referring to? In North America, much of the infrastructure wasn’t changed, it was created for the first time to accommodate cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So after reading the article, are you editorializing or did Wired change their title? No where does it mention the legality of selling the Sakura in North America. It only mentions that Nissan has not chosen to sell it outside of Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what knowledge we are talking about. Personally, I’d be feeding it tons of manuals so that I could ask questions like “Which version of software x introduced feature y?” There’s no extra context I need, I just need a version number to give to a customer. And in my industry, that type of info just doesn’t show up on Google. So having an LLM that can answer the question in seconds saves me an hour of sifting through manuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what I was thinking. And this is actually the first time I’ve heard of some use of LLMs that I may actually be interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn’t know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC's for millenials (and Gen Z somewhat) is the same thing as cars to boomers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this rate, scavenging and cobbling together essential items out of trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’d ever have a peripheral power the tv. The use case I’m envisioning is power and data going to the panel via this single connector from a base box that handles AC conversion, as well as input (from Roku etc) and output (to soundbar etc.). Basically standardizing what some displays are already doing with proprietary connectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Headroom and safety factor. Current screens may draw 120w, but future screens may draw more, and it is much better to be drawing well under the max rated power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s aimed at TVs in general, not computer monitors. Many people mount their TVs to the wall, and having a single cable to run hidden in the wall would be awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little poser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “answer this trivia question” gatekeeping is dumb.

  But the unreasonable metalhead in me also wants all band shirts to have been bought at a show, so maybe I’m a bit guilty too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what is going on at Microsoft. I’m starting to think that they are trying to pivot to a completely different business model. In addition to this Windows 11 crap and XBox seemingly being given up on, they appear to be losing their embedded market as well. In the past, if you saw any screen in an industrial setting, there’s a good chance that there was the embedded Windows version behind that screen. Lately, all the new products are moving over to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that’s it’s easier to neatly package your data up for when they go to sell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really relevant here. This is more of a “genie is out of the bottle and now we have to learn how to deal with it situation”. The idea and technology of bots and AI training already exists. There’s no socioeconomic system that is going to magically make that go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I now need a screensaver that I can tie to a cloudflare instance that visualizes the generated “maze” and a bot’s attempts to get out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because eating the rich will accomplish nothing if you don’t also change the underlying system that created them in the first place. And good luck getting everyone in the non-rich class to agree on what that change should look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you can’t use your mirror anyway, just adjust it so that it reflects back at them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What car stickers say about you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I’m understanding correctly, once I get rich from winning the lottery, I should build myself a sleeper with a “Hideous and Horny Commune” bumper sticker on the back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also use more land for just about every sport and recreational activity that requires a dedicated facility.

  Unless the area is out of space, and the golf course existing is the only reason why a given wind/solar project isn’t going forward, the comparison is pretty useless.