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- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 12 hours ago:
In this version nobody attacked her.
Ny post is still anti -trans regardless
- Comment on AI Training Slop 14 hours ago:
There’s stuff I could do, like remove tags from myself on fb (is that possible?) or delete my account, but it’s enough work and enough of a loss (what if I need to find an old contact) that I just ignore the problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
Weird I wonder if this is happening on Android too.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 1 day ago:
It still might be problematic around airports if people on the ground breathe it in before it reacts. And what about all the sodium bicarbonate precipitating all over the ground? That’s bound to affect the local environment before it ends up in the oceans…
That said who knows maybe it’s better than the carbon dioxide alternative
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 3 days ago:
“Clearness and vividness in writing often turn on mere specificity. To say that Major André was hanged is clear and definite; to say that he as killed is less definite, because you do not know in what way he was killed; to say that he died is still more indefinite because you do not even know whether his death was due to violence or to natural causes. If we were to use this statement as a varying symbol by which to rank writers for clearness, we might, I think, get something like the following: Swift, Macauley, and Shaw would say that André was hanged. Bradley would say that he was killed. Bosanquet would say that he died. Kant would say that his mortal existence achieved its termination. Hegel would say that a finite determination of infinity had been further determined by its own negation.”
- Comment on Which is more likely in the future: Smartphones eventually becoming more "open" OR Computers eventually becoming more "locked-down"? 3 days ago:
This will be the result of requiring TPM 2.0 on Windows 11 computers.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 3 days ago:
Unfortunately, you are incorrect, and everything WhyJiffie has said about trusted computing on Android hardware is correct, and there is currently nothing to stop it from happening on PCs too, when TPM is more ubiquitous.
This is the same technology that locks printers out of 3rd party ink, or restricts the ability of farmers to repair their own tractors.
I recommend learning more about it, and reading what Cory Doctorow writes about it. pluralistic.net/2024/01/…/descartes-delenda-est/#…
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 3 days ago:
What happens? I don’t mind spoilers
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 4 days ago:
/s
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 4 days ago:
Humor is the big one. I would start thinking about the jokes that co-workers make, and if everybody would think they’re funny. Not just trans folks, but any kind of joke that has a butt of the joke or a stereotype might be good to start getting away from.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 6 days ago:
The problem is if it’s wrong, you have no way to know without double checking everything it says
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 week ago:
It’s the same, Star Trek uses technobabble and Star Wars uses non-verbal technobabble to explain FTL
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
The Psalms of Isaac series did this very well at the beginning – starts off with a magic fantasy land but as you read you realize that there were forebearers with immense science and technology, and weaves a conflict between the two.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
The type of food that’s the worst for pipes is fats, oils, and grease. You should never put any of these down a pipe because they can solidify and cause pipes to burst. Restaurants are required by law to have a grease trap for any grease that inadvertently goes down to minimize the damage.
The occasional vegetable scraps going down a residential garbage disposal will not pose a huge problem, but keep out any fats, oils, or grease.
- Comment on Gets me goin every time 1 week ago:
I wish I could find episode 4 of jandrewedits to post here but they’ve been disappearing… m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEHOdH4QhcF1kgZo8nYz…
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 1 week ago:
Standard size
- Comment on The most powerful laser in the US recently produced 2 quadrillion watts of power 1 week ago:
The laws of physics are best understood at standard temperatures and pressures, where we have loads of data. To understand how physics works in more extreme circumstances, we have to create those circumstances and then measure what happens. At CERN, they accelerate particles very fast, smash them together, and record and analyze what happened. This is how they observed the Higgs boson and measured its properties.
From the article, it looks like one of the experiments is to shoot the laser into an oncoming high speed beam of electrons. One of the things they’re looking for is if this high amount of energy causes matter and anti matter pairs to spontaneously form and annihilate. Our theories predict this but the more ways we can measure it the more we can learn, for instance about what happened right after the big bang, and why we were left with matter instead of everything annihilating symmetrically.
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 2 weeks ago:
Yeah unfortunately
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 2 weeks ago:
No this is an example where sarcasm and stupidity can’t be distinguished via text alone.
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the printer company did not have antivirus on their systems.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
I like the little typo … c:// :)
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
I had a similar experience and this is what made me switch away from Apple computers.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Mort and Bailey, when they’ll have a weak argument and a much stronger argument, they get you to attack the weak argument, and then they retreat to the stronger, more limited argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s also typical for a Honda fit
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
I’m so tired of this. It feels like an onslaught.
Back in 2008 or whatever I let Google handle my voicemails, and I enjoyed the convenience of the machine-transcriptions.
Now I wonder if my voicemails are being studied and trained on or whatever.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 2 weeks ago:
I also read the news about the same research article you did.
I was surprised how much I could understand, based on how much trouble people in the study had. Sounds like a wet miserable city our Lord Chancellor is in.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 2 weeks ago:
Sewing is fading away but maybe that’s different enough
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 2 weeks ago:
I have the regular F-droid and it does automatic updates now.
- Comment on Time is a Flat Circle 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Time is a Flat Circle 3 weeks ago:
There’s… something on the wing…
