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- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 18 hours ago:
Maybe a call centre operated by map producers, intended more for questions about routes and conditions rather than “take the third left” kind of navigation.
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 18 hours ago:
Maaaaaybe. I think the actual advantages over other methods are fairly intangible.
If “surfing the web” required making many very small anonymous payments every hour then yeah, there’s advantages. I’ll admit that doesn’t actually sound terrible - I’d rather pay a few cents to read articles than the current advertising & subscription model.
As a solution for mozilla in isolation though, it would be an over engineered solution with too much baggage. Current mozilla users might have the aptitude for something like this but Mozilla wants to seduce a larger market share which is not people like us.
- Comment on Have you shared your own posts from platforms like this (or Mastodon) with others you know offline (besides your partner)? 1 day ago:
I would but no one would be interested
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 1 day ago:
There are 2 important factors.
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Very few people are doing their research and making a logical decision about who will best represent their interests. They will just vote for whoever their friends vote for.
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The way the president is elected through the electoral college means that a few states are over represented. IDK the numbers but for example, it might be possible to become president with as few as 40% of the votes.
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- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 1 day ago:
This was always the conspiracy. I don’t really buy it though. Having firefox’ user base default to Google search is worth something.
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 1 day ago:
Because crypto just has such a stink on it.
It may well be a reasonable solution for this specific problem, but still… no one is going to get behind this.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 1 week ago:
Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 1 week ago:
You’re conflating “disk” with “drive”.
An SSD is not a disk.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 1 week ago:
This is correct in most cases but I don’t think it’s the underlying principle.
This wiki talks about the etymology, with a lot of examples. Most conform to this rule, but there are exceptions in astrophysics like an accretion disk.
Even in info tech, “hard disk” doesn’t really conform to this rule. Like is a hard disk a square hard drive or is it the round thing inside? If it’s the square hard drive, that’s not thin enough to be a “disk”. I’d it’s the round thing inside that would be hard disc, but also creates problems for floppy disk because why refer to the housing in one instance but not another.
Sadly, I think the correct answer is that either refers to a thin flat thing, some spellings are preferred for some uses.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Not all of them, some are just idiots.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
Australia checking in … I feel similarly about the attitude of doctors and the type of care I receive. I don’t have any amazing advice that you’re not already following, but I’ll regale you with my thoughts regardless…
About 18 months ago I developed a chronic health condition that I will need to manage for the rest of my life (hopefully several decades). In that time I’ve seen a myriad of medical professionals.
My first tip would simply be that if you’re not satisfied with a doctor or specialist, your only recourse it to arrange to see another instead. Sometimes the advice / treatment prescribed will vary significantly, sometimes they just have a less punchable face.
As regards GPs, I’ve come to categorise them thusly: those that just prescribe meds without any conversation, those that try to manipulate you into wanting the meds they want to prescribe, and those that will have a conversation with you about what meds you ought to take. Obviously this last category is the one you want.
Finally, I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of simply staying on top of all the data about me. I have all my test results available on my phone, as well as medications, dates of treatments, contact details for specialists, et cetera. Also just understanding the available treatments.
- Comment on Any non-tech-background self-hosters? 2 weeks ago:
Similar here. I’m an accountant by trade but tech is my strongest hobby.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 weeks ago:
My comment is a reference to the well known axiom that you can not provide evidence for a negative. It’s not possible to provide evidence that AGI is not possible, we must content ourselves with the lack of evidence that it is possible.
- Comment on If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social? 2 weeks ago:
Not really.
Both mastodon.social and piefed.social are domain names that point to instances.
The last part of the domain name after the dot like .com or .social doesn’t really mean anything.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 3 weeks ago:
Because there is no evidence that it is possible.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s possible to demonstrate whether or not AGI will be possible until it exists in some form.
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is talking about this like it would be a snow day or something.
You’re right - it would be a catastrophe. I think companies that could function in any way without offshore servers of some kind would be a rarity.
The question is, exactly how much impact could Russia have. Enough that we couldn’t route around it? Probably not.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 3 weeks ago:
Think of it as the next iteration of automation, which has been happening for centuries.
In theory, it frees up humans to do more amazing things. In reality, it means humans are stuck doing the complicated stressful things.
I think the answer to your question depends on who owns the tech. If it’s open, then we all get UBI and live happily ever after. If it’s owned by openai or Microsoft, then we live in the dystopia you described.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 3 weeks ago:
My very limited understanding, is simply that LLMs are not an early iteration of AGI.
In the same way automobiles are not an early iteration of aeroplanes. They use some of the same tech but before there were aeroplanes no one really knew what was possible.
It’s true that computers get faster and more amazing, but that’s not an indication that AGI is possible.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that here they can charge you for staging any amount.
- Comment on Words truly matter 3 weeks ago:
One, day… some adult is going to think “that fucking cunt ass bitch lied to me about the rice”.
- Comment on The unpleasantness of mosquito bites is not something useful for mosquitoes, but it *is* useful for the ones who suffer it 3 weeks ago:
I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think it’s a histamine response which is just directed at parasites in general.
- Comment on How to Promote Phishing and Scam Awareness 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really about reaching a wide audience, but about actually supporting the people I care about.
I don’t think even my elderly parents watch “news” anymore, and their main threat is vanilla type phishing emails.
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- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 4 weeks ago:
If there’s “a” church then there’s “the” church.
It doesn’t need to be an international organisation headquartered in the vatican city. It could be equivalent to your local knitting club. If you say mean things about an organisation you can expect them to take legal action to stop you.
- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 4 weeks ago:
I’m not defending the church in any way, merely pointing out that they are a litigious organisation and it’s probably easier to take legal action than to stop raping children.
- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 4 weeks ago:
By “most countries” I’m pretty sure you mean “the United States”, and your constitutional right does not protect you from civil slander or libel cases.
- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 4 weeks ago:
I think in most countries the church would hit you with a cease and desist notice if you called them a child raping cult.
That’s not exclusively German.
- Comment on Cryptolancing - A job marketplace where you can pay and be paid in crypto for your work 4 weeks ago:
It’s not hate, I’m critical because I just don’t understand how this can work.
- Comment on What's Mull browser about? 4 weeks ago:
Loads of good answers to your question that I don’t need to add to.
I just thought I’d give fdroid a shout out.
It’s an alternative app store focused on FOSS. That’s where you’ll find mull, and a bunch of other great apps.
You do need to give it permission to install apps but I’ve never thought of it as side loading.