trailee

@trailee@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost everything in that list of new features sounds negative to me. A few are neutral, and one might be positive depending on how it’s implemented (having the phone monitor a phone call while sitting on hold). Pretty disappointing, Tim Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might! But the article I linked also suggests it might destroy ozone and have a net warming effect. We just don’t know. The upper atmosphere has never before had this level of direct pollution injection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though it’s not a space trash problem, it is a regular upper atmosphere polluter of aluminum oxide ash. We don’t yet know the long term consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazing Copper Plumbing Pipe?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Copper won’t be chewed by rodents that unexpectedly gain access to the attic or crawl space, and it doesn’t degrade in sunlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article:

  While drug companies profit from the sales of unproven drugs, everyone else — patients, insurers, and the government — pays a heavy price. In just four years, from 2018 through 2021, the taxpayer-funded health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid shelled out $18 billion for drugs approved on the condition that their manufacturers produce confirmatory trials that had yet to be delivered.

  I’m guessing their citation only includes Medicare and Medicaid because those have publicly-available data for the study to review, but I have to assume that private insurers pay a ton as well. I can see your point that insurance denials result in angry sick people, but there’s not really a lot of nuance in “that medication has never been shown to be safe and effective for your (or any) condition.”

  I dunno. Everyone sucks here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  American health insurance companies are famously miserly, and this seems like a great area to use penny pinching for good. Where the hell are the insurance CFOs who should be demanding efficacy proof instead of being swindled along with the masses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connect Mini Split to Air Circulator system?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mini splits are sized for single rooms and the expected expansion path is to add more of them. That’s not too expensive if you are a handy DIYer who can deal with electrical and mechanical, but it’s not great if you’re paying installation labor. Similar story with everything else in the home improvement space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network question...Some sort of AP or directional antenna to connect a bit distant shed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ubiquiti is a pretty good answer, but the airMax line is better for this sort of thing than UniFi. A pair of Nanobeams would be perfect, and standalone without need of an additional controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify begins accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs' software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Read a book out loud, preferably to your kids, recording each chapter as a file. Then use m4b-tool to combine all the chapter files into a full audiobook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California governor vetoes bill to create first-in-nation AI safety measures.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta: I’ve noticed a lot of VOA links on Lemmy lately, and I’d like to understand why. As I understand it, VOA is essentially a national propaganda news organization targeting an international audience (similar to RT). Why is that a good source for article sharing? Especially in the case of the article at hand, which is just a VOA republication of an Associated Press piece that could have been linked originally.