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- Comment on Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus? 4 days ago:
Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:
“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 days ago:
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it. - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I just wish we’d have neither inflation nor deflation.
Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today’s dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999 — cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.
(Macs are just an example since Apple doesn’t have a very extensive product list, so there’s only one “entry level” laptop to choose from. And yes it’s fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite — the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 1 week ago:
I am the Walrus?
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 1 week ago:
Interesting, TIL — thanks!
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 1 week ago:
Books has become e-books.
To some extent — but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 1 week ago:
Cashless requires power all the way from PoS to wherever the servers live.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 week ago:
It makes for a mean cappuccino, and is environmentally much, much lower impact.
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 1 week ago:
Compensation for engineers in the Bay area will average much higher than $200k, and that’s not counting benefits (medical, etc.). So cost to the company will be way higher than 200k/employee.
For a project that has hardware, there will be large expenses associated with that — custom silicon has huge setup costs, for example.
- Comment on To whom it may concern 2 weeks ago:
I could be wrong but I think these are prepaid, not paid on receipt…
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
They specified 1 significant figure — at that level it’s the same.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
This is the same argument used for blaming the cost of college on government loans for education, for $$$ housing prices in cities that offer low income subsidies, for food prices due to food stamps…
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
That’s because you’re thinking of trucks used first and foremost for heavy duty “truck stuff.” That is not the only market for trucks, at least in the US: thedrive.com/…/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-t…
According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
0-60mph is mostly deprecated these days in favor of 0-62mph, which just so happens to be the same as 0-100km/h — what a coincidence!
- Comment on Study: Hopeful homebuyers need income of nearly $117,000 to afford typical home in U.S. 2 weeks ago:
VHCOL area (San Francisco) — “middle class” usually means household income of 300k or so.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 2 weeks ago:
CC “debt” that’s paid off in full every month is debt in the same sense that eating at a typical restaurant puts you in debt.
Don’t get me wrong, unmanageable CC debt is a real thing, but that’s not what we’re talking about.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of non-graphical utilities — basically the *NIX coreutils, plus stuff like rsync, ssh, compression/archival tools (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), grep, and the like. Git also comes to mind.
I think part of this is that the UNIX philosophy is “developer friendly” — tell a good dev they need to make a compression utility that follows this protocol, and they will make a compression utility that follows the protocol.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
Having a CC doesn’t mean you have debt…
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 4 weeks ago:
“Why the HELL should I have to press 2 for English?”
— bumper sticker I would see on my bike commute back in the day.
- Comment on What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services? 5 weeks ago:
Fail2ban config imcan get fairly involved in my experience. I’m probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules — anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don’t use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn’t be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).
I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Yeah, without being a policy junkie I think a reasonable step would be to have Prop 13 only happy to primary residence — investment real estate would be subject to a “wealth tax,” but folks wouldn’t get priced out of their primary home due to gentrification.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Right, that’s a huge downside for sure.
Property tax is on the one hand a wealth tax, which sounds like a great idea; but on the other hand, it’s a wealth tax that disproportionately affects people with the bulk of their assets tied up in real estate — which often means middle class homeowners.
So while you can certainly look at prop 13 as “good” in that folks don’t get priced out of their existing homes, it of course gets used to the advantage of rent seekers, etc.
It’s…complicated.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
California disagrees: …wikipedia.org/…/1978_California_Proposition_13
Property tax is assessed when there’s a sale, and otherwise changes very slowly. It’s a controversial measure.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
But this is a weird thing to lie about — the only reason to implement toner DRM is to get people to buy your cartridges. But if your public statement is, “it’s ok to buy off brand cartridges,” then…well… that’s kinda weird.
Not saying you’re wrong, and they could be trying to have their cake and eat it too (court the anti-DRM crowd but also scare people into sticking with their toner). I’m just saying your snarky/sarcastic response seems unwarranted here.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
Brother deny the claims: arstechnica.com/…/brother-denies-using-firmware-u…
- Comment on Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Lemmy is not encrypted, my comments are public, your comments are public, we both know that. Anyone with a raspberry pi or an old netbook can scrape them.
If I use an encrypted service and all of a sudden everything that I thought was encrypted was decrypted by the service provider without my consent? That’s breaking encryption.
If on the other hand I use an encrypted service and they tell me that they can no longer offer the service, my data will be destroyed after X days, and I need to find another way of storing my encrypted data because of privacy invading government policies? That is not breaking encryption.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 2 months ago:
For many things I completely agree.
We just had our second kid, and neither set of grandparents live locally. That we can video chat with our family — for free, essentially! — is astonishing. And it’s not a big deal, not something we plan, just, “hey let’s say hi to Gramma and Gramps!”
When I was a kid videoconferencing was exclusive to seriously high end offices. And when we wanted to make a long distance call, we’d sometimes plan it in advance and buy prepaid minutes (this is on a landline, mid 90s maybe). Now my mom can just chat with her friend “across the pond” whenever she wants, from the comfort of her couch, and for zero incremental cost.
I think technology that “feels like tech” is oftentimes a time sink and a waste. But the tech we take for granted? There’s some pretty amazing stuff there.
- Comment on This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting. 2 months ago:
Seriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.
- Comment on Sadge 2 months ago:
Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed lase, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power for a pulsed laser!
Note that it’s not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.
- Comment on Sinners!!! 3 months ago:
Remind me again, what color was Obama’s scandalous suit?