TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it really worth it⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen, okay, over 90% of your oh-so-“natural” hedgehog-based pencils are dyed with carcinogenic chromium and act as an environmental contaminant when thrown away. At worst, it’s a lateral change to use plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This robotic hand has such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It is imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it really worth it⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Disgusting. This is why I only use plant-based mechanical pencils.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, let’s just say it’s perfectly fine because of the problem Valve creates by making you open Steam when you play games. It’s just 64-bit for the runtime, not even the client itself. It’s 2026. I’m not going to act like this is an accomplishment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You recall correctly. It’s another one of Canonical’s attempts to shoehorn their trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you butthurt that I called it a monopoly because it is one? Its status as a “benevolent monopoly” doesn’t make it not a monopoly; its competitors’ incompetence doesn’t make it not a monopoly; competition existing doesn’t make it not a monopoly; that it’s not an illegal monopoly doesn’t make it not a monopoly.

  Its incredibly stable market share, which is deeply entrenched because you don’t own the games you buy there and can’t bring them elsewhere.

  The point of pointing out that Valve is a monopoly is that they have functionally no real competition to worry about; they have all the leeway in the world to improve their client, so I’m not going to clap like a seal when the container for the software gets 64-bit support in the year of our lord 2026.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That it’s weird for Valve’s client to be running inside a container?

  My other software isn’t containerized that I know of. I don’t run Firefox in Docker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 2026. An experimental version of Steam’s runtime container – a very normal thing for your software to have – is now 64-bit. This is worthy of praise somehow for a multibillion-dollar corporation whose only real job is to do bare minimum maintenance of its storefront and rake in 30% of profits from its monopoly.

  Glad to know where the bar is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A name more fitting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ☝️🤓 umn ackshually “pedophile” comes from the Ancient Greek “παιδοφίλης” (“paidophĭ́lēs”), and if you were to construct this in Latin, it would be “paedophilus”. Also ☝️🤓, AI slop didn’t exist in Ancient Rome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s still better than the hoops we gotta jump through to sideload on iPhone.

  The fact iOS is a joke doesn’t make this any better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ShitpostID: 4185519047⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  (About 110 MPa)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  People this willing to let a corporate, self-enriching nanny state erode their ability to use the products they paid for terrify me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My honest reaction every time I see something like this. For what it’s worth, the small mammals were pipistrelle bats, and other flesh and organs were missing. I don’t think they’ve ever been reported to eat rodents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they just take the alt route?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sailors on the Gay of Hormuz always bring lube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the Politico article that this article from The Independent cites and takes the most sensationalist part of for its headline.

  The nuclear threat that Balkhy talks about is mainly potential fallout from strikes on nuclear sites. She also mentions a nuclear weapon because both aggressors have nuclear weapons, but you can tell she’s plainly focused on the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, “HR News” is outrage bait, LLM-generated blog slop that’s specifically crafted to get people to click on it to feel angry. As an example (that I’ll keep harping on about, because it’s proof positive):

  “HR News” had an article whose headline said that there was a study quantifying the amount of LLM-generated content on Reddit (something like “15%”?) The article even said the journal and year it was published. However, they never provided author names, identifiers, a link, the title of the article, an issue/page number, etc. After a lot of digging (exhausting every single article in that journal in that year and searching keywords just in case they somehow got the journal name wrong), it turns out they’d completely made the fucking thing up. The article never existed. The entire premise of the blog post (that I’ll refuse to call a “news article”, because it’s a fucking Substack blog) was fabricated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t seem like it. As the linked OMG Ubuntu article speculates, probably the main benefit financially is making users more likely to sign up to their paid VPN.

  Aside: Based on their blog post it seems like it’s a proxy rather than a VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨somehow i don't make any progress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Workspaces help you compartmentalize your dread and regrets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s not horrific or offensive like most of their work. It’s moreso pretty sad. It’s like the antisocial asshole of the family who ran away from their loving home 10 years ago, and going to visit them now, you see they’re still a terrible person, but scant glimpses beneath all that awfulness into their core show a sad, frightened little child who has no idea what they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what a competent encyclopedic treatment of algebra looks like by comparison. The other algebra article fucks up from the jump, because the goal of an encyclopedic treatment of algebra is not to teach someone the mechanics of solving a handful of elementary algebra problems (you can as a small aid, but making it nearly the entire article is failing the assignment completely).

  It’s to cover what algebra is, its various subfields, its history, its applications, its relationships to other parts of math, etc. Covering algebra encyclopedically by offering a mediocre Algebra I tutorial is like covering internal combustion engines encyclopedically by making the entire article a short guide on how to change the oil in your car; it’s asinine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can believe it, that’s relatively tame for their coverage of mathematics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Cursing you with knowledge
  • Blessing you with ignorance (warning: comically horrendous)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the fact two people are taking the selfie at all is bizarre.

  • One – Understandable.
  • Multiple but spaced out – Maybe strange, but makes some sense if you want to use them locally and don’t want to wait to have it sent to you.
  • Everyone doing it – Makes sense as a humorous gimmick.
  • Exactly two people out of a group of five?
    • As you said, same phone, so zero technical quality difference.
    • Basically the same angle.
    • The rear one will probably capture the first phone in her shot.
    • Looks stupid as fuck.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but saying the public doesn’t support Wikipedia when we’re actually the #1 supporter worldwide of Wikipedia feels kind of disingenuous.

  Like I said, active support in hearts and minds. Relatively, North America is the most supportive financially compared to the rest of the world. To the extent that’s related to a bunch of factors, I’m not qualified to say (and I’ll say I’m a fuck of a lot more qualified than most).

  When I say that people take Wikipedia for granted, you can hopefully tell that I’m talking about it in the same way people often used to take basic executive branch norms for granted before Trump’s terms. Not everyone did; people who were especially politically engaged probably didn’t. Most people would’ve told you they supported them; an overwhelming majority of people who weren’t far-right nutjobs would’ve. But they often treated them as “too big to fail”, and they were blindsided as Trump destroyed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you’re calling Americans out here.

  Because the original comment (not made by me) was an appeal to Americans. The subsequent comment said it’s not the [American] public. Thus I’m specifically limiting what I’m saying to Americans regardless of the relative extent to which it applies elsewhere. Because that’s who the conversation – that I didn’t start – is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that Americans are against either of these per se; it’s that they’re indifferent. Ignoring people brainwashed against the right-wing propaganda against Wikipedia, sane Americans largely take Wikipedia for granted. I don’t mean that bitterly; I mean that it’s been there for 25 years, its quality is better than ever, finances are good, and everyday people therefore don’t consider how unstable its position really is and how irreplaceable it is.

  As for the IA, sample 1000 American adults. I’ll bet you five or fewer could tell you what the hell an “Internet Archive” is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biggest wildfire in Nebraska history continues to burn out of control⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Suggest posting the original from ABC News. News aggregators like Yahoo! News and especially MSN are not reliable long- or even medium-term for keeping the article live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨opportunities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These bailouts for the oil industry are getting ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

  Except most free and open-source software, major open knowledge bases, literally the social media service you’re using to communicate this point right now…

  While understandable when talking about services by for-profit corporations, this talking point is oversimplified to the point of being obnoxious in a world where I can set up a desktop OS with a fully featured environment and software suite then go browse a social media site where – at no stage – was anything free where I was the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran, not the US, currently has the strategic upper hand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The motivation behind [Opinion] prefix is to avoid accrediting content to publications that they don’t explicitly endorse. In this case it looks like they do.

  That makes a lot of sense, and I appreciate the rationale. Thanks!