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- Comment on The decline of democracies, ideas and freedom around the world is one of the results of the downfall of social media 6 days ago:
I’m not sure what they even meant. Possibly that social media replaced real communication and made inroads into our social lives, all of which have now been taken over by all the bullshit? Because yeah that sounds right
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 6 days ago:
The other explanation is right but what’s freddo?
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 6 days ago:
In practice, inference [which is to say, queries] can account for up to 90% of the total energy consumed over a model’s lifecycle. Source.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
You can’t say with certainty that you’d derive no stimulation from that, since you have not tried deriving stimulation from it.
The multi-billion dollar entertainment industry isn’t there because we need it. It’s there because we like it. What we need is to connect with the real world, which is a skill, and as such requires practice.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 3 weeks ago:
Afaik, it’s not recommended to have them in kitchens, because harmless culinary mistakes can set them off so people end up disabling them in annoyance. You have to have one in a common area on every floor, but ideally not the kitchen.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 4 weeks ago:
If you aren’t willing to work on your social skills, you need to stay in a position where you don’t need them.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 weeks ago:
The radios would need to have a very, very short range to avoid this. You’d need to know that everyone who can hear you can also see you (and potentially follow you if they’d like a word face to face), which is the accountability aspect that’s missing from online interactions.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, password on its own is weak. Any factor + password will always be a lot more secure than password alone OR the other factor alone, but pairing stronger factors of course results in stronger pairings.
Passkey is a device check (the key lives on your device and nowhere else), so it relies on your device security, even if it’s just a PIN…and there has to be a backup option in case you lose access to that device, in which case the account only ends up as secure as that authentication method…which hopefully isn’t password alone.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 weeks ago:
I see that the comment I initially replied to has been edited, but it still reads as though the second factor of 2FA is itself 2FA:
Because passwordless authentication is awesome and needs to be the standard. It’s basically just skipping the password and going straight to 2FA, which is the main security behind any account that you’ve got 2FA on.
2FA stands for two-factor authentication. The typical case you’re describing:
Factor 1: password Factor 2: device check, usually
That second step of device verification itself isn’t 2FA, it’s only the second factor of that particular 2FA, and the reason your account is more secure behind it isn’t because it’s a device check but because it’s a second factor. There’s not really a “main” security check in 2FA because having two is the whole point.
I do have thoughts about passwordless as a standalone security measure, but that’s not at all what I’m addressing here. I will add, however, that since passwordless can only ever be as strong as the security on your email account…it might seem like enough if your email is protected by 2FA—but not if you mistakenly leave your email logged in on a device someone else has access to, which may sound stupid but it definitely happens.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not defending passwords specifically. You could do better 2FA with email + biometrics, although of course device authentication is only as secure as the device itself—but that’s entirely beside the point, which is that there must be two factors if you’re going to call something two factor authentication.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 weeks ago:
If you skip the password then you’re back down to just 1FA, it just happens to be the factor that used to be second.
- Comment on thats all 5 weeks ago:
What do you carry in there?
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 2 months ago:
TJ’s isn’t boutique, though. Before I actually shopped there, I conflated it with Fresh Market for years, but it turned out they were far and away the cheapest grocery option anywhere near me until we got Aldi.
I shop Aldi more now because our TJ’s is always so busy, but since they’re all store-brand, their prices are still usually on the low side (other than meats).
- Comment on nostalgia 2 months ago:
In a way, sure. What’s unfortunate with such a medium is what a small proportion of the thoughts in the final product are the prompter’s. The machine references countless works that the prompter has no knowledge of, whereas in a medium controlled by the artist, those references (both conscious and subconscious) add meaning to the piece.
- Comment on nostalgia 2 months ago:
Art is about thought, not skill.
Skill is required for craft. Can art be well crafted? Hell yeah. Does it have to be? Hell no.
- Comment on nostalgia 2 months ago:
AI makes a picture of something that just completely never happened, so the viewer’s imagination doesn’t even bother filling in a story. I think your collection is a thousand times better.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 months ago:
If this is in the U.S., teachers typically have to buy their own supplies on meager salaries. Watching one kid literally eat those supplies must be pretty demoralizing.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 months ago:
It doesn’t sound like they’re necessarily his erasers though
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 2 months ago:
I broadly agree but there’s not necessarily anything altruistic about the “good” that they’re doing—they’ve just found a way to justify what they want/decide to do, same as everyone. They don’t have to believe it’s good for people or the world. As long as they can find a reason why those harms don’t matter, or convince themselves that those people/the world would’ve been fucked regardless, or figure at least they’re not doing [insert some other scenario they can imagine], they can live with themselves. And they can focus on who it is good for (their kids perhaps, and all the people in their lives who are undoubtedly pressuring them to abuse their power).
I just wanted to speak up for that nuance, because to me “they think they’re doing good” implies that they value the ideals of doing actual good…and I don’t think there’s necessarily true.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 2 months ago:
There are no mainstream Christian denominations that don’t believe that the Old Testament is the word of their God, so I’m not sure how the student could have prepared for that particular nonsense juke
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 2 months ago:
The people at the bottom, yes, probably. But it bears mentioning that the world’s simpletons are just repeating rhetoric that was carefully engineered and fed to them by powerful people who are smart enough to know it’ll make them more powerful.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 months ago:
It’s not a limitation but a matter of precision. The position of the minute hand tells you how far into that minute you are. You don’t need that information, of course. You can just say whatever mark it’s closest to. At 1:00:58, although a digital clock would still read 1:00, it is by all accounts much more accurate to round the minute to 1:01.
So if you just call the time by the minute your minute hand appears closest to, you’ll often be more accurate than a digital clock. It won’t matter. But you’ll know it’s true.
- Comment on Phosphorus 3 months ago:
Yeah he looks stunning in blue
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 3 months ago:
I mean all seriousness aside, that photo is pretty fucking cool
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 3 months ago:
In the context of the premise, absolutely not, because there is plenty of suffering to go around already.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 5 months ago:
I agree with everything you’re saying, except my john is just down the hall…so when we’re going, we don’t need roads
- Comment on It is what it is 5 months ago:
Oh man, I envy your opinion of other people. Hold onto that as long as you can.
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 5 months ago:
Absorbent, because he’s a sponge. Absorbent and yellow and porous. Obnoxiousness is just bonus.
- Comment on The Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Just Published Trump's Iran War Plan 5 months ago:
Depends on which American you’re speaking to. It’s a big country.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 6 months ago:
Was R2D2’s narration intended to be subtitled…?