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- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 week ago:
Yeah.
I mean I didn’t buy $15 in bitcoin 15 years ago (have never bought any, never will), and I’m not obsessed about it.
Is it really any different for this guy?
- Comment on What's up with lemmit.online? 1 week ago:
I dislike it.
Pretty sure my instance blocks it.
I believe it’s counter productive and stifles engagement.
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 1 week ago:
Yeah. They waited till sales had dropped off then pulled it.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 week ago:
I don’t necessarily dislike “AI” but I reserve the right to be derisive about inappropriate use, which seems to be pretty much every use.
Using AI to find pertoglyphs in Peru was cool. Reviewing medical scans is pretty great. Everything else is shit.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 week ago:
Yeah S.Pellegrino in those sleek cans.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
You raise a good point.
I’m much the same in that I just refuse to watch anything with ads. They really are dystopian and weird.
I also get that same feeling when I see someone just grinding through youtube ads, but people that do that just don’t seem to have any awareness of the interaction - it’s just part of the show.
The weirdest of all is when people (usually brave browser enthusiasts?) try to claim that “some” ads are actually a good thing because it makes them aware of some product they actually desire which they wouldn’t have been aware of otherwise. I’ll take blissful ignorance thanks.
So yes, I can imagine people doing this stuff without really thinking about it.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
There’s just no way I’m ever going to do this.
Honestly, I’d rather go forage for twigs and berries than interact with ads.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 week ago:
Naming things is complicated.
It’s not really a case where some organisation has the authority to name something. Rather people just call something a name, and organisations adopt that name.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 week ago:
Yeah look i wouldn’t sign up for this on principle because subscriptions are shit, but I do enjoy poncy overpriced water.
I don’t drink booze, smoke, or do drugs. I have a very restrictive diet and can’t even have a slice of cake once in a while.
You’ll have to pry my lightly sparkling imported Italian mineral water from my cold dead hands.
- Comment on Interest in a website containing the docker-compose files of projects listed in the awesome-selfhosted list 1 week ago:
If only there were some way you could kind of refer viewers to the primary documentation for the project.
- Comment on Interest in a website containing the docker-compose files of projects listed in the awesome-selfhosted list 1 week ago:
It’s not that it’s uncommon, but slightly different for each project.
I collated library would be kinda cool.
That said, I don’t know how much utility this project would have.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 1 week ago:
Settle down mate.
I didn’t say defaced websites are going to take down the government.
My implication was that it would be more effective than ranting on social media.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 1 week ago:
Yeah. I’ve only spent a few moments skimming through the linked article but if you were part of a legitimate hacktivism group planning a significant operation why would you publish this statement ?
It’s really just spooky hyperbole - as though written by an adolescent that want’s to sound scary and powerful.
I would absolutely love to see hacktivists cause some chaos, and maybe even some real financial harm.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 1 week ago:
I’m not going to write off hacktivism so quickly.
Even if it’s just a few defaced websites now and then, that’s a whole lot more effective than any other sort of activism I’ve seen to date.
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 2 weeks ago:
searx.perennialte.ch has been great.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
You’re very willing to surmise what their views on Biden would be, but not Trump?
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not asking you to speak for them.
Do you think they would feel relieved that Trump is POTUS?
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Do you think Palestinians are relieved that Trump is POTUS now?
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry for your loss.
Religion sucks so much, especially the more dogmatic ones. Mormonism is gross.
One insight I would offer is that categorising people as “good” or “not good” may not be helpful. I suspect that your dad probably invests a lot of effort in being a good man, he’s just unable to acknowledge that his perspective has been corrupted.
We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions.
It’s not wrong to never speak to him again, but maybe this will make the mourning easier.
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 weeks ago:
Me neither. We do dozens in Australia.
I mean, what if someone needs a quarter of a carton? Or even a third? Didn’t think about that did they.
Curse these Europeans with their fancy metric numbers.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 3 weeks ago:
Oh man 100% this.
A little while ago there was a thread about what people are actually using LLMs for. The best answer was that it can be used to soften language in emails. FFS.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 3 weeks ago:
That assumes that whatever we have now is a precursor to AGI. There’s no evidence of that.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 weeks ago:
It sucks because it’s performative.
“Look at me being mean to these poor people”.
- Comment on ‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I absolutely agree with this sentiment. The whole plastic mess really grinds my gears.
The straw thing is classic “industry reference group consultation” stuff. Regulators asked the companies that manufacture stuff wrapped in plastic what they should do, and they said “no more shopping bags!” and “cardboard straws!”, and now consumers feel like they’ve endured some hardship and solved the plastic problem. Meanwhile the assholes can keep selling everything wrapped in plastic because that’s the cheapest way to sell it.
About a year ago I noticed plastic products at the shop like wraps and bin bags with “50% ocean plastic” or some such. They define ocean plastic as plastic collected from communities within 100km of the ocean which have no other plastic reclamation facilities. In Australia 99.99% of the population lives within 100km of the ocean. City Councils pay companies to process waste. If you take the plastic from those companies then it meets their shitty definition of “ocean plastic”. So in summary, they’re not saving any dolphins, but using the plight of the dolphins to sell more plastic. Assholes.
Regulators need to regulate these cunts. Add a levy to any product that includes plastic. Start at 1% and increase by 1% each year forever. I have absolutely no doubt that within just a few years your local supermarket will be awash with products enclosed in amazing polymers comprised of frog spit and corn starch that were invented 80 years ago.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
Yeah, the medical industry in Australia is probably similar, sliding away from universal health care.
I mean it’s nothing like the US but I do feel that we’re headed in the wrong direction.
10 years ago it wasn’t hard to find a GP that wouldn’t charge you anything on top of the government rebate. Now the rebate is usually about half what the GP is charging.
That said, myself and those in my care have spent a lot of time in hospital over the last few years and we haven’t paid a cent for any of that. My partner gave birth to Twins, it was a “complex pregnancy”, all fit and well in the end but we spent 3 months in another city to be near a specialist hospital. Govt paid for a nice apartment for us for the whole time, absolutely gold standard care from the miracle workers at that hospital, just amazing honestly.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
We have the same inflation / gouging problem in Australia.
We had a supermarkets inquiry to investigate practices of price gouging. I don’t think anyone has any faith that it’s going to improve anything.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
This doesn’t sound terrible?
In Australia, it feels like the inverse. We generally have conservative governments until they do something particularly abhorrent and lose government for a term.
We’re presently enjoying our once-in-a-decade progressive government term and sadly I feel they have squandered their term. They seem determined to ignore the core responsibility of making life better for everyone and instead waste political capital on fanciful notions like banning sheep exports and frivolous changes to the constitution.
- Comment on Are affordable apartments easy and cheap suicide prevention? 1 month ago:
No. There’s a reason cheap apartments in China have enclosed balconies.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 1 month ago:
This is my understanding, and rightly or wrongly it’s the theory underlying the artistic license supporting popular fiction like the star trek and star wars universes.
Obviously my views are supported by confirmation bias, but in the only ecosystem we know of the hominid body plan is the most successful.
Things would be different in different environments, like higher gravity or ocean planets, but in the absence of any data about those the safe bet is that most intelligent life looks similar to us.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 1 month ago:
Even pizza shops with their own drivers. I’d usually prefer to go get it myself so it’s as fresh as possible.