alphabethunter
@alphabethunter@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 9 hours ago:
Because of the early 2000’s movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 4 days ago:
Hardly ever I come across a person more self centered and a bigger fan of virtue signaling as you. You ignored literally everything we said, and your alternative was just “sms”. Even to the point of saying that the other commenter should stop talking to their 47 friends and family members.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 4 days ago:
Lots of people. I need it because it’s how my clients at work prefer to communicate with me, also how all my family members and friends communicate.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 4 days ago:
Yes, there are. You just have to live in one of the many many countries in the world where the overwhelming majority of the population uses whatsapp as their communication app. Like my country. Where not only friends and family, but also businesses and government entities use WhatsApp as their messaging app. I have at least a couple hundred reasons to use WhatsApp, including all my friends, all my family members, and all my clients at work. Do I like it? Not really. Do I have a choice? No. Just like I don’t have a choice on not using gmail, because that’s the email provider that the company I work for decided to go with.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 5 days ago:
Right?! It’s literally just a messenger, honestly, all I expect from it is that it’s an easy and reliable way of sending messages to my contacts. Anything else is questionable.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s quite cheap! I was afraid it was going to be one of those “cool indie tech” that costs hundreds of dollars and which makes no sense for the consumer except as a cool gimmick. If they can make them a bit cheaper through mass production, this might actually be an alternative.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 1 week ago:
This is cool, but how much was it?
- Comment on China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ with satellites as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force 2 weeks ago:
Great! I hope he fucks America deep enough, it’s high time for that Empire to crumble. I just also hope rhat he doesn’t destroy the rest of the world with him, just the part of the world that voted for him. If he can take a few multi-billion dollar corporations down a peg with him might be even better.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 2 weeks ago:
From my experience, those last years. But they are indeed a bit expensive… I have had my eco tank for the last 5 years, only had to replace the b/w printer head after around 4 thousand prints, and I’m almost sure it was my own fault for using expired low-quality ink that I had bought in bulk for super cheap.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 5 weeks ago:
Around my region, South America, everybody used MSN as well. We went through a phase of using Skype, but it was too resource heavy in comparison with MSN. Later on, people who needed voice chat for games played around with several different apps, until we finally settled with Discord back in 2016. Say all you want about Discord, but I’ve been using it for almost a decade at this point, and if your need is to have voice and text chat and easy screen sharing for gaming, it’s basically the golden standard. The problem started when people started using it as a replacement for forums.
- Comment on Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide 5 weeks ago:
Your monitor is “smart”?
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 month ago:
Voting for issues? We’ve had to vote for issues in my country in the past, specifically gun laws. People voted in favor of banning guns. It feels more impactful when you know your vote will directly correlate to a result, and compels people to discuss and think about their vote, and also to go vote. Voting for a politician is voting for the chance that the things you want them to do will actually be done. We could have legislators, professionals, responsible for writing legislation for certain issues, and people could read and vote. We could regionalize and localize politics even further, where each small local community should decide certain questions that pertain to their own community themselves. And leave less stuff to be solved at national level.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 month ago:
No, that’s what Representative Democracy is. You can have democracy without representation, where every single individual is responsible for voting not for representatives, but for issues.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 month ago:
Part of the problem is that they had to vote for someone. Representative democracy is a popularity contest. And the orange fuck had a lot of people rigging the popularity game in his favor.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 month ago:
It’s crazy that in the age of information we still allow our democracies to be representative. Representation still made some sense 4 decades ago, it makes no sense today.
- Comment on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the immediate and full suspension of Rumble in the country due to noncompliance with court orders. 1 month ago:
I have the news in Brazilian-portuguese if you want.
Tl;Dr: repeat of what happened to Twitter basically, Moraes issued the takedown of a right wing/conservative brazilian influencer on Rumble on the basis of spreading misinformation and fake news (no surprise there), but Rumble has no legal representation in Brazil, which makes the company illegal to operate here. He ordered that they appoint someone as legal representation for the company in 48 hours, that was Thursday, feb 20, and they didn’t comply. Rumble was fined and Moraes ordered the platform to be thoroughly and completely blocked in Brazil until they pay their fines and appoint someone as legal representation.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Essentially, just a giant W.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Nothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 month ago:
Maybe the layout or that little nipple that could work as a mouse.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 1 month ago:
“Land of the thief, home of the slave (…) where the dollar is sacred and power is god.” -Brother Ali
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 month ago:
There’s literally porn ads on yt. Recently an acquaintance of mine got one of those “Look what she said when she saw the size of his dick. You can have a bigger dick if you just buy our product”, with plenty of suggestive imagery. And scam ads. My mother got scammed because of a youtube ad pretending to sell products in the name of a famous brand of supermarkets in my region.
- Comment on Data Show That X Continues to Lose Users in EU. 5 months ago:
Because a lot of times other people will share things whenever there’s enough controversy? Often things will also show up on the news? Not that uncommon for things on twitter to show up outside twitter?
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 5 months ago:
My pc auto-upgraded because I donwloaded what I thought was just a regular update. I’ve been using 11 for like a year already, and it’s fine. Install powertoys, run christitus utility… The one thing that really bothered me for a while was not having as granular of a control of my taskbar, but that only lasted for like two weeks.
- Comment on Data Show That X Continues to Lose Users in EU. 5 months ago:
I think of this anytime I see some alleged leftist on Twitter talking about anything as if they were paragons of ethics and morality. It might be a bit of cynicism on my part, but I can’t take it seriously whenever someone can’t take a hint that maybe they shouldn’t be in a platform owned by a Billionaire that makes a point in basing his personality on the fact that he is an imperialist bigot. I wish Twitter had stayed banned in my country…
- Comment on Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station 5 months ago:
Really cool that they can plant and harvest fresh vegetables in space. I bet they joked about eating space lettuce and tomato.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
There’s a point made at the end of the article that most people seems to have missed entirely:
Existing facilities that can filter carbon dioxide out of the air only have the capacity to capture 0.01 million metric tons of CO2 globally today, costing companies like Microsoft as much as $600 per ton of CO2. That’s very little capacity with a very high price tag.
“We cannot squander carbon dioxide removal on offsetting emissions we have the ability to avoid,” study coauthor Gaurav Ganti, a research analyst at Climate Analytics, said in a press release. The priority needs to be preventing pollution now instead of cleaning it up later.
It’s obviously a matter of “why not both?”, and both the article and the scientists behind the report agree on it. However, a lot of people are betting their eggs on the idea that climate reversal technology will suddenly become a lot more effective and cheaper than it is right now. And sure, that may be the case, or not. For how many years have we heard of flying cars or self-driving autonomous vehicles and predicted that they were just around the corner, at most a few years away, but nada so far? Betting on the invention of a new technology that’ll make a very expensive process today way cheaper is a VERY naive and bad approach.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I have a similar issue at my school as well. Chrome is the only allowed browser, and each of us have to use our own school email as our login session in chrome, so we get that much of user space, and that actually works quite decently. I had ublock installed on my user account so far, but if it breaks, I’ll just have to suffer. Although, the real problem is that the school I work in uses some digital books that only work 100% in Chrome, and all show some form of weird behaviour in non-chromiun based browsers. And there’s a 0 chance they are changing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I use Opera for myself, but I have to use Chrome for work reasons (user profiles for different work areas based on whatever email is being used at the company computer). Thing is, Firefox also lacks the feature that makes me use Opera: speed dial. My Opera starting page is my speed dials, and speed dials are 10x better than just bookmarks, and I wouldn’t want to go through all the trouble of transfering literally hundreds of saved pages to standard bookmarks. But, if ublock fully stops working, guess I’ll have no choice.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 6 months ago:
Plenty of couch coop indies out there. Big corpos only care about their money, Nintendo would also jump on the multiplayer wagon if they thought their fanbase would follow them.
- Comment on Huawei tr-fold review 6 months ago:
As someone who carries a tablet around for note taking and making drafts, the idea behind a phone that turns into a tablet is hugely attractive to me, but this is not quite what I would want. I’d be super down for one that folds flat, and does away with the huge camera bump. Get me a nice stylus, a foldable keyboard and a simple folding support to hold the phone at an angle, and that’s essentially a desktop that can fit into your pockets.