IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 2 weeks ago:
They don’t really have anything to gain by delaying until October, and they lose any power/credibility they have anyway if they make this an empty threat.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 2 weeks ago:
The current government is a minority government, so the opposition parties can force an election whenever. By law, the next election has to occur by October 5th, but the opposition will likely trigger an election at the earliest opportunity. This is why Trudeau also delayed the next next sitting of parliament until March, to allow the party to elect a new leader before the inevitable election.
Long story short, the Conservatives will likely be in power by summer.
- Comment on A scientific discovery 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and in that exact order.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 2 months ago:
If your PC was bought in the last 5 or so years, it’s probably just the TPM being disabled in bios.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 2 months ago:
I would have upgraded to Windows 11, but they decided my processor is “too old”, so now I don’t use Windows at all.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 3 months ago:
Does the balance at least accumulate until you do hit the threshold, or is the money just gone?
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 3 months ago:
Depends on the device and the usage. “Smart devices” can encompass a lot of things.
- Comment on Cryptocurrency exchange network accused of helping Russia hit with sanctions. 3 months ago:
I thought dodging state imposed transaction restrictions was kinda the whole point of cryptocurrencies (other than the pyramid scheme part).
- Comment on 2real4me 3 months ago:
Worse. Terminally online edgelord.
- Comment on 2real4me 3 months ago:
“Yay! We’ve created artificial general intelligence!”
“…Fuck, it’s an asshole.”
- Comment on This should be the right address.... 3 months ago:
Well that would depend on exactly what type of experiments he’s doing.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 4 months ago:
I’m not up to speed on how US tax laws work. What does getting deemed a hobby entail?
- Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech 4 months ago:
Nothing says “small government” and “freedom” quite like mass surveillance.
- Comment on Connecting an Electric Kettle to Home Assistant 5 months ago:
My current tech philosophy is “dumb devices, smart switches”. So many times the “smart” portion of things shits the bed, is rendered obsolete, broken by some other change I made, etc, and then the whole device is rendered useless. Life has gotten so much easier once I dedicated one device to one task.
- Comment on Stay Mad 6 months ago:
Exactly. More specifically, I’m not afraid of how people vote, I’m afraid of people choosing not to.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 6 months ago:
Wait, is that a random number, or the actual scale of the power draw we’re talking about?
'Cause that’s fuck-all when we’re talking about industrial level power draw.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 6 months ago:
Not important enough to me at this point to spend the time changing over. Windows 10 does what I need it to and still gets security updates. When one of those two factors changed, then it will be worth my time to change over.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 6 months ago:
Microsoft has made the choice very easy for me. I still have an i7-7700k that works just fine. But that’s “too old”, so when Windows 10 hits end of life, I’ll be switching over to Linux.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 6 months ago:
the ads are minimally intrusive — that is, highly relevant and engaging — they should not detract from the overall user experience
In what universe do ads, no matter how “relevant and engaging”, ever not detract from the overall experience?
- Comment on Let's talk about Prusa Printables contests. It might need some fixing. 6 months ago:
Not really. In most jurisdictions, only gambling type sweepstakes (ie a random draw) are governed that tightly. Fan voted things like this are more or less unregulated. Plus, you have to read (and understand) the legalese fingerprint to determine legal responsibilities. I’d be surprised if there weren’t language in there a that absolves them of almost all legal responsibility.
- Comment on Let's talk about Prusa Printables contests. It might need some fixing. 6 months ago:
Also, there’s nothing in there that seems to be anywhere near an actual legal problem.
- Comment on evangelism 8 months ago:
I think this pretty much applies to all fields. Everything looks complicated and hard to outside people, but once you get into the field, you realize that most people are just average.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 8 months ago:
That’s what I do with all TV/Movie adaptations. Is so much easier to just sit back and enjoy when you aren’t constantly comparing it to something it’s not.
- Comment on Look for the warning signs 9 months ago:
One example does not prove a trend.
Plus, I’m just talking about perception, not the reality of the actual political leanings of every single Carhartt customer.
- Comment on Look for the warning signs 9 months ago:
Wait, Carhartt is a stereotype of the left wing now? I’ve always associated it with very blue collar, outdoors type work. The kinds of jobs that you wouldn’t typically associate with left wing extremism.
- Comment on Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts 9 months ago:
Microsoft has deemed my processor too old, so luck me doesn’t have to worry about these things.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 9 months ago:
I think one thing you and many other people misunderstand is that the image generation aspect of AI is a sideshow, both in use and in intent.
The ability to generate images from text based prompts is basically a side effect of the ability that they are actually spending billions on, which is object detection.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 9 months ago:
Manufacturers of what? Selling and replacing car parts is a much different proposition than trying to replace semiconductors inside an earbud.
- Comment on wat 9 months ago:
“Given enough time, hydrogen will begin to wonder where it came from.”
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 10 months ago:
I think you’re really overthinking it. I’d say the vast majority of people paying simply came across something they wanted to see, and paying for it is faster and easier (and safer) than trying to search it out for free.