floquant

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources.⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I know for certain the CEO at my company is like that. Not even how or why to do something, but what we should do. Fucking mental

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am actually glad I started my photography experience in film. Really taught me to think about framing and timing before hitting the shutter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks, but well handled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How are energy and power “loose terms”? Energy might be difficult to fully explain rigorously, but it’s one of the fundamental elements of our universe. And power is just energy over time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean a full time wage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you need an FBI background check outside of the US?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A brain can also do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  His last comment is from 7 minutes ago so I would say no x)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I named my bat §kPetBat§r⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonsense has been a staple of the internet since forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar noon is the only real noon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UTC but 12 hour time? That doesn’t make any sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that for HDDs, it doesn’t matter if they’re powered or not. The platter is not “energized” or refreshed during operation like an SSD is. Your best bet is to have some kind of parity to identify and repair those bad bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry dude, but bit rot is a very real thing on HDDs. They’re magnetic media, which degrades over time. If you leave a disk cold for 2-5 years, there’s a very good chance you’ll get some bad sectors. SSDs aren’t immune from bit rot, but that’s not through quantum tunneling - not any more than your CPU is affected by it at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Behaviour is tracked in order to be influenced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the meantime, hackers have just released a new jailbreak and made it a more open platform than ever :^)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear has moved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really though. Sure, you can AXFR the root nameservers and run your own copy, but that’s not really decentralizing its infrastructure. 10 of the 13 root servers are managed by US entities, including the US Army and DISA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how long before you would feel it becoming colder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And microplastics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LG and Samsung have been caught uploading screenshots of your HDMI inputs too, so it’s not like it’s any better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is so much worse. Humanfacing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caveman technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Secret WiFi 8 underground lab

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, I apologize, my use of “infringing copyright” was too loose there. What I meant in that context is more like “stealing and then re-selling the identity and essence of every human creation to ever be made into ones and zeros”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to my point: there’s no such thing. You always have to go through national courts, with reasons that sometimes defeat logic: if you hold copyright in several countries, you can pretty much pick and choose the legislature that is most advantageous to your case. Take this recent one: an Icelandic company sued an Icelandic artist for slander… In UK court. The “legal” basis was that the website was hosted on a .co.uk domain, but I’m sure that the strict UK slander laws and astronomical costs of its courts had nothing to do with it. Not a copyright case, I know, but I think it’s a good example of how laws and jurisdictions get fundamentally twisted when applied to the Internet. I think anyone can agree that it should’ve been settled in an Icelandic court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. The ICJ handles disputes between nations. It has literally nothing to do with copyright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re getting punished for providing books to people, while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it. As always, the point isn’t author’s rights, it’s money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyright laws are agreed on at a international level But every country then implements them in different ways, for example duration and what constitutes “fair use”. There even is a international copyright court No there isn’t. Source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about breaking the law, what I’m saying is that copyright laws (but actually, any law) just plain doesn’t make sense when you try to apply it to the Internet, because the internet is not a national entity, and the nature of its interactions are fundamentally different from anything else that came before it. Because which country’s laws should apply when interacting across continents? If I am in country A, and I’m interacting with you, a resident of country B, on a platform that is owned by a company registered in country C, hosting their servers in country D, who should have authority to regulate this interaction? Simply put, I don’t give a fuck (pardon my french) about what the US Copyright Office has to say about anything, since I’m not a US citizen nor resident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I am aware of what they do. And I am of the opinion that spreading access to knowledge is vastly more important than copyright laws made decades before the internet was a thing. Especially when is comes to US copyright laws being forced upon the rest of the world.

  They already were not “giving away” books but doing “digital lending” where DRM-protected copies were given to one user at a time, which is absolutely nonsensical in the digital age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boo to standing up for things!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Point being…?