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- Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
It was a joke. You see, I was suggesting that a place with lots of sharks might be called “Shark”, in keeping with the point of the original post.
I am aware that most shark attacks are due to mistaken identity, but it wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously.
Perhaps the reason sharks came to mind before any other animals is because I read this article a couple of days ago: standard.co.uk/…/surfer-bitten-in-half-7232230.ht…
It stands out because the way it was reported makes it sound like the sharks executed a coordinated attack on the surfer. But, again, I didn’t expect to get cross-examined on what I intended to be a humorous remark.
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
Regular visitors to Sharks would like a word.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Any time they get asked questions like “Are my messages visible only to me?”, they answer with a very canned response like “Your messages are encrypted from end-to-end and can’t be read by anyone while in transit” … or words to that effect. I have never seen them state that no analytics or telemetry is happening on the unencrypted side by the client. Which has always bothered me.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Back at the start WhatsApp wasn’t free, although it was pretty cheap. Then Meta bought it and made it free. Some time after that, the founders left and started Signal.
The E2E encrypted protocol WhatsApp used to use was the Signal protocol. When the OG founders left and created Signal they revamped it, calling it the Signal V2 protocol. Whether WhatsApp still uses that original Signal protocol or not is probably not known to many people outside of Meta, but WhatsApp definitely used to be E2E encrypted prior to Meta’s purchase.
I deleted my WhatsApp account around the time Meta announced they were merging all of their messaging stuff together, e.g. Facebook Messenger, Instagram etc.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 week ago:
The dissonance with Trump is astonishing. The Arctic is recently becoming more important strategically due to ice disappearing, and yet he’s one of the biggest and most stubborn climate change deniers.
- Comment on Be ungovernable 3 weeks ago:
Norwegian Blues are quiet and chilled out, so I hear.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 month ago:
I’m holding out hope that discounts wont work this time, because the motivation is different. It used to be about cost, now it’s about digital sovereignty. I won’t bet anything of value, but I can hope.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 month ago:
Interesting. I knew the stuff about Munich, and I knew Gates was still a shareholder, but didn’t know he was still so actively involved. Based on that last link, it sounds more like he’ll be telling Nadella to get on a plane and what to say on arrival rather than get on it himself though.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 month ago:
Nadella you mean? It’s been a while since Gates was CEO of Microsoft.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 1 month ago:
The “do more with less” philosophy doesn’t make sense here either. Why not “do loads more with same”?
Imagine the current workforce, with all the experience and domain knowledge, paired with AI instead of replaced by it. Humans can do such awesome things when we work together.
These billionaires can be so short-sighted sometimes. All profit and no vision.
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
I also suspect that Doritos dipping cheese is closer to a fossil fuel than a dairy product. I still eat it though.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
To me, the logic is similar to "I can PROVE God exists. Look at the way this banana fits in my hand… "
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 months ago:
Maybe they should have listened to him instead of correcting him.
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 2 months ago:
But, AI can do the work of 10 of you humans, so it can write 10 times the bugs and deploy them to production 10 times faster. Especially if pesky testers stay out the way instead of finding some of the bugs.
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 2 months ago:
They’re laying off testers because they think AI can do it all now.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 2 months ago:
Traditional pizza isn’t all that high in carbs. The US style pizza pies are.
- Comment on tiktok users are making videos on... class conciousness?!! 3 months ago:
Another reason they choose to demonise immigrants is because they can spin rhetoric that energises the working and middle classes together, like a 2-for-1 deal.
They convince the working classes that immigrants are stealing their jobs and abusing benefits. They convince the middle classes that immigrants cause more crime.
They have influence over social media algorithms to ensure that each demographic gets the message that most infuriates them.
Finally, with all the hate stirred up, their chosen political allies/pets can make a promise to crack down on immigration and gain the votes for both demographics in one go.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 months ago:
I thought it was a fancy letter o. Everyone loves nodes.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 3 months ago:
Tax assets instead. Then it doesn’t matter even if they do leave the country because their assets are still here no matter where the owners go.
Also, if the rich leave because they were told to pay fair tax then good riddance, they were a burden on the country.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 3 months ago:
Tax wealth not work
- Comment on Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says 3 months ago:
Whilst I agree with your statement, the research is using this as a measure of wealth inequality. 20 years ago a sudden windfall equal to 38 years of the average salary would put you in the top 10 percent. Now it would take 52 years. It’s illustrating the change in wealth gap.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 months ago:
Whilst this answer is correct, it’s not entirely accurate, because it is dismissive of the root cause. The logical follow-up question is: “Why is energy billed in kWh?”. If the question/cycle answer continues down this line there will probably be an answer like “because <some person> had to make a decision once, and they chose this because of <some reason>, and now we’re all stuck with it because of convention.”
Anyone who doesn’t understand what joules are probably doesn’t understand what kWh are either. If the billing convention (and every other power consumption label) used joules (of course MJ or GJ) instead, then most people would just accept that as the unit of billing and measurement, and those who understand what the units mean would have an easier time of it.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 months ago:
I am glad someone else has noticed this. Why is my TV’s power consumption reported in kWh/1000 hours?
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 6 months ago:
I wonder if there is a refill cartridge with the flavour in it that the OS reads from to always display the right logo. Or maybe a touchscreen that the workers use to change it manually.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 6 months ago:
It could just be a backlit panel that you place a semi-transparent logo in front. Could be magnetic or slid into place. More resources than a sticker but probably far less than a system-on-a-chip running an OS and displaying the same picture on a monitor all day.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 6 months ago:
I agree with all you wrote, and it’s a good point well made. However, in the context of what it’s replying to, it could be interpreted as condoning the death penalty for extremists, which I disagree with, if it was intended that way.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 6 months ago:
I had a Honda with a CVT and it was pretty bulletproof. Never skipped a beat.
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 6 months ago:
And, he always keeps his promises…
- Comment on Mmmm suppositories. 6 months ago:
Does Lemmy have a dontdeadopeninside? If not, maybe it’s time for /c/southmouth?
