thevoidzero

@thevoidzero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  During Superbowl I was talking with a software guy working for a big shopping ( data) company, he was telling us how every interaction on their website is recorded for data analysis, and his own wife was shocked. It came up after I prompted for that conversation, talking about the license plate tracking in parking lots (which she didn’t know about).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just explain but starting how you can email gmail from Outlook and such ( familiar concept). Then tell them you could email a Facebook account using username@facebook.com (this shows they were open to it at some point), that it was a default state of things because they wanted you connected. But then they realized they can make you sign up to their own website and make more money, so now we need account for everything. But imagine you didn’t, you could access different contents in the UI/format you want. You don’t need to share screenshots of different social media (shows why it’s useful), you could just follow different people from different websites.

  So far this explanation has worked. I haven’t converted anyone, but they understand. Sometimes they try to install and see, then say “the things I want are not here” because we don’t have all the niche

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like radishes, raw and pickled. And it used to be very cheap food. But in US it’s really expensive. I wish we could just grow stuffs freely. Radishes are ready in 2-3 months if grown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is to ward off mammals. Their goal is to be eaten by birds, birds can’t taste capsaicin, so it’s just normal food. And birds distribute the seeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Womp womp womp womp⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why didn’t we just have people that apply for grants, then people who work on research. Of course the person that applies for the grant should be familiar with the capabilities, and verify the proposal is sound before applying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case you can probably find someone for $100-200 that’ll check your excel logic and make sure it works on libre office. Or python script

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How much do you pay? Maybe you can pay someone to write you a custom program to do those things. Maybe in libre office, or python, or some other language with gui and plots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Exposure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People that do well in wartime and during peacetime are different type of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Fun For The Whole Family⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have freedom OS, definitely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And risk wiping the life on that planet? Considering something like that happened to native population in America, I guess people don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather, it puts you in debt. And now you have even less power. We should normalize everyone being able to live and not force college on everyone. But also make it free/super cheap so people can attend if they want without having to suffer financially

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are bots on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like nowadays the bots are actually really good in English because of LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if you believe in God knowing everything and everything is happening because of his will then that gives you the ability to rationalize everything, doesn’t it?

  Oh you have cancer? God gave it to you, if you didn’t deserve it he’s have cured it. Done, use that everywhere: poor, homeless, immigrant, race, sick, traffic, lightening, flood, airplane crash, school shooting, …

  That’s why blind faith is dangerous. And the idea of afterlife because they just do whatever now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If chickens are modern dinosaurs some dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop eating gamers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  War against education

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Minimum payment is dependent on your salary and you can die with debt.

  Making education free would have been way better that making college expensive and then providing loans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE SIMULATION⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t all simulation have bugs, or all be bugs free. It’s the same code you’re running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was going on under the surface all this time, growing and growing, people just did not see it as a valid concern thinking “crazy people” or “stupid people” will “come around eventually”. They did not expect there’d be enough of them to pull the carriage backwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speculation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crabs holding each other’s pincers into a crab train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨protein!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you find half a worm, you just spit it out, cut/bite out the wormy part and continue. Can’t throw the whole fruit. Although the worms I remember in guava make hard shells around them as they eat, so most times you bite into it, know immediately, and throw that part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mot boring though. You just have to find things. I see so many interesting projects, and so many interesting ideas that I want to implement but run into time/skill issues. Summer is when I can just forget about other things and develop what I want, but I think after university I won’t have much time at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you don't know me⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I have opposite problem. I don’t like reading papers that much. And while I do write I don’t like to spend too much time there either, so I just end up procrastinating by making new things with plots, analysis, codes, helper scripts and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dams pregame?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don’t get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven’t actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dams pregame?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It’s called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).

  Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you’re looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can’t simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don’t get enough rain, then you don’t have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you’re wrong on the other side you get flood issue.

  Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.

  Also a fun fact, we’ve had dams for so long that we don’t know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can’t calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I’ve been meaning to publish this, but it’s just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Game controller works fine in the computer. It’s the applications that need to support it. Problem is finding normal applications (not games) support it. I could map the controller to keyboard keys, but it’d be nice to have it work directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just using Firefox to open web sites for most things. For games I open them directly. And I have kdeconnect to control it from my phone.

  Ideally I’d love a launcher that just stays on there forever, with some virtual desktop options where I can open different apps. If it can support game controller to choose apps along side kdeconnect it’d be the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want it to be run as a desktop environment. Is that possible? I already have laptop connected to tv with hdmi. I just use it like a normal computer. But I don’t have any applications that can work well with that setup with TV like UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signs that rhyme⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After coming here I can’t tell how to say g and z differently. Why are they doing this :(

  It had perfectly different sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blursed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing cancer cells: easy Not killing normal cells: hard

  Guess who found an easy way to get PhD.