Ferrous
@Ferrous@lemmy.ml
- Comment on What was I thinking? 1 week ago:
This kills the fuel pump.
- Comment on Bed 1 week ago:
Ain’t an AI photo, is it?
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 week ago:
Heh. Say what you will about Roblox (plenty of stuff), but seems like their infrastructure is on lock.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Have you since tried Viva New Vegas? It is apparently well supported and stable.
- Comment on Self-hosted alarm system? 2 weeks ago:
I use the frigate plugin in home assistant to make my lights do certain things when persons are detected where they shouldn’t be. Once you’ve got frigate connected to home assistant, your possibilities are endless. With a few zigbee smart switches, you could start pulling off home alone style antics if you really wanted. Think: sprinklers, lights, noises, projectors, video, etc… just dont forget to keep the legal aspect in mind.
I also have home assistant play a sort of alarm on my denon home theater stereo if a person is detected in frigate. It gets very loud.
I haven’t heard of alarmo. It sounds like it fits my use case perfectly. Checking it out.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
Oof, ILS is a menace.
Paddlers of invisible carpet rolls.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 5 weeks ago:
You realize that China has dominated the smaller consumer drone sector for ages now? And that most countries are beginning to turn to Chinese drones for military applications?
Still a better track record than the F35.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 1 month ago:
Making my way downtown
- Comment on The Mouse meets The Beast 1 month ago:
Don’t lie to me Walt, you sussy baka.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
Yes… that is not only possible, but likely when n=5…
Please, the original claim was “Chinese people feel coerced”, which is wrong by every metric, and there is no evidence to support this claim.
Although China is certainly not immune from severe social and economic challenges, there is little evidence to support the idea that the CCP is losing legitima- cy in the eyes of its people. In fact, our survey shows that, across a wide variety of metrics, by 2016 the Chi- nese government was more popular than at any point during the previous two decades. On average, Chinese citizens reported that the government’s provision of healthcare, welfare, and other essential public services was far better and more equitable than when the survey began in 2003. Also, in terms of corruption, the drop in satisfaction between 2009 and 2011 was complete- ly erased, and the public appeared generally support- ive of Xi Jinping’s widely-publicized anti-corruption campaign. Even on the issue of the environment, where many citizens expressed dissatisfaction, the majority of respondents expected conditions to improve over the next several years. For each of these issues, China’s poorer, non-coastal residents expressed equal (if not even greater) confidence in the actions of government than more privileged residents. As such, there was no real sign of burgeoning discontent among China’s main demographic groups, casting doubt on the idea that the country was facing a crisis of political legitimacy.
…harvard.edu/…/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf
Let me guess: Harvard is tankie?
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
Again, asking for any type of source or statistic over anecdotes. Your “observations” go against reputable polling and statistics of people in China.
Was this survey conducted in Taiwan and signed as “China” complying with “one China policy”?
No… in fact this was a Harvard study that started off with “Given how China is an authoritarian nightmare, how widespread is support for the government?”
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 months ago:
They also claimed 7 out of every 10 Nazis killed in WWII, and by all accounts at the time, contributed the most to winning the war.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t that count as slave labour?
Not according to the Allies at the Yalta conference.
By the late 1940s, the only people claiming that the labor enjoyed by the Soviets at the hands of captured Nazis was “slavery” - were Nazis.
By all allied accounts, using German labor to pay reparations was deemed acceptable given how the Soviets had just sacrificed 27 million people.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 months ago:
The difference is that the Americans rolled out a red carpet for the Nazis and offered employment contracts. The Soviets showed up one night and kidnapped nearly 7000 nazis at gunpoint, and then forced them to work to pay reparations. Based.
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 2 months ago:
Enjoy the freedom of having the likes of Meta and Google pull another Cambridge analytica. Or the freedom of having multi-billion dollar companies like YouTube aggressively push algorithms that steer people down the alt right pipeline. Or the freedom of instagram mechanically and ruthlessly instilling in children as much body dysphoria and low self esteem as possible in the name of profit.
It was literally only two years ago that Meta was promoting racial violence in Myanmar. amnesty.org/…/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-…
Any reasonable person can look at the heinous acts carried out by western tech companies in recent years and realize that the great firewall has been vindicated.
- Comment on Which way? 2 months ago:
Yeah the science is above my head but I believe usually after they rip out the nail (be it whole nail or a strip), they will apply a cotton ball of phenol to the bed and that is supposed to stop the nail from coming back. It failed to do so 3 times in my case, albeit on two different toes.
- Comment on Which way? 2 months ago:
Fair, edited to bring the final choice back to podiatrist.
- Comment on Which way? 2 months ago:
To anyone who gets this: do not let the podiatrist convince you to do the partial removal. Ie, removing a tiny strip from one or both sides of the nail. It is HIGHLY likely it will get bad again. Have them do a full phenol cauterization and remove the entire nail. You dont need it, and you’ll be better off without it. However, I’m no doctor.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 2 months ago:
Which has nothing to do with the myth of a social credit score…
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s no AI databases in tibet, Yemen, Sudan etc.
Yes… I know… the point was not that AI is stealing water from the Middle East. The point is that, whether its datacenters in the west, or climate change in the Middle East, profit motive, corporate greed, and theft are the main causes of water scarcity and lack of water collaboration. As is stated more elegantly in the numerous sources I’ve linked - which quantify water scarcity at the hands of corporations.
these places were going to run out of water eventually anyways
Source? This is a massive statement. You think that since humans first settled the Middle East, they were doomed to run out of water? How do even prove or disprove this? Any analysis here is predicated upon a history of capitalism and imperialism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Climate change is listed as one of the main contributors to water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa. And as we know, capitalism is one of the main drivers of climate change. Water scarcity is a result of capitalism and corporate greed. Until AI companies are no longer able to move into towns and suck up their entire aquifer just to make AI slop, there is not as much of a water scarcity as there is a water hoarding and theft.
r3sustainability.com/corporate-water-usage-the-su…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Which is still a result of capitalism and corporate greed.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 2 months ago:
So, what are the facts relating to China’s Social Credit System (SoCS)? First, a system does exist, but it is very different from what is imagined by many critics outside China. The biggest disconnect is around the notion of scores. Some commentators seem to imagine that a magic algorithm draws from AI cameras and internet surveillance all over the country to calculate a score that determines everyone’s place in society. In reality, the SoCS is not the techno-dystopian nightmare we fear: it is lowly digitalized, highly fragmented, and primarily focuses on businesses. Most importantly, such a score simply does not exist.
merics.org/…/chinas-social-credit-score-untanglin…
Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent “ebil ccp” systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 months ago:
It’s no longer interesting because it’s probably bullshit - which is par for the course for these CIA cutouts. These are the same groups that push absurd ideas about state-mandated haircuts, Kim Jong Un dying, that Kim Jong Un executed his ex, that North Korea banned sarcasm, that Kim Jong Il claims he once shot 11 straight holes in one, etc… these pieces get absolutely eaten up by western liberals who, in the next breath, will call citizens of the DPRK the most propagandized on earth.
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 3 months ago:
For real. My nvidia shield (the tube version), has been struggling with 4k HDR playback lately. It needs frequent reboots. I later come to learn that the device is 32 bit, yet it’s one of the most competitive devices in the space? Silly.
- Comment on Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export blacklist 4 months ago:
Am I understanding this right? You believe that, amid a new strategy of gunning down starving Palestinians arriving to aid sites, Taiwan was obligated to start giving free vacations to genocidal IDF soldiers to bolster its defensive capacity? Dafuq?
Yall’s “liberal pragmatism” is laughably evil.
- Comment on Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export blacklist 4 months ago:
So then why is Taiwan bending over backwards to cater to Zionists from a lunatic blood-thirsty genocidal child-killer state-terrorism country? Going so far as offer free vacations to zionists and expanding ties in the wake of Oct 7?
www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bj611yqjqxe
middleeasteye.net/…/israel-taiwan-forging-closer-…
“It was Mao Zedong who said, ‘Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective’. So almost automatically, if China supports a side, then Taiwan will support the other,” Arnaud Bertrand, an expert on China, told Middle East Eye.
- Comment on Peak male form 4 months ago:
That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
