AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 1 hour ago:
It’s really easy. Step one, fire up chatgpt.
- Comment on The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate 2 hours ago:
Your complaint has been marked as a duplicate.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 3 hours ago:
Unpopular opinion of the day: LLMs are a distraction from the climate fight.
- Comment on Any plans to set up a piefed instance? 1 day ago:
Oh cool. @thedude@sh.itjust.works, any developments on this?
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- Comment on China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world's top EV seller 6 days ago:
Good question. I know there is to some extent, but I haven’t really taken a look at it yet.
- Comment on China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world's top EV seller 6 days ago:
Have one myself. The hardware is decent, the software is standard modern tech bullshit. Annoying how much control I lack over my own vehicle.
This is not to say it’s better or worse than other EV brands, since I don’t have a comparison point.
- Comment on “Infinite” scroll not working for others? 6 days ago:
I get that it’s new years, so lots of people are away. Just hoping it gets resolved soon.
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 6 days ago:
🤮
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 6 days ago:
Forget reddit and forget spez
- Comment on 94.3° F 1 week ago:
Butt thermometers
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 1 week ago:
Looks like outsourcing good management of public resources to “greed” to fix inefficiencies.
Pretty much. The only upside is we’re getting more return on less dollar from this particular instance of outsourcing. I’m well aware that’s not always the case.
Why is some greedy fuck with delusions of grandeur needed here?
It’s not, and it would be nice if the human race ever figures out a system for fair and equitable allocation of resources. But we haven’t yet, so here we are stuck between corrupt politicians and greedy billionaires.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
Are we? Antivax, anti science BS is largely due to Russia poisoning our dataset.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 1 week ago:
I’m fine with national space programs and whatnot.
Are you aware of just how much of NASA’s budget was being drained for bullshit ‘cost+’ contracts with Boeing et al?
Elon sucks, but spacex has progressed space tech significantly, at a much lower cost than before.
National space programs are great, but the US turned them into a kickbacks program.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 1 week ago:
Do you think rockets burn unicorn farts and exhaust pixie dust?
By that logic, pretty much any activity we do exacerbates the crisis. The climate is not being fucked because we’re launching rockets, save your passion for those issues where it actually matters.
we do not want to “start manufacturing in space”
Speak for yourself.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 1 week ago:
We have crises here that are only exacerbated by this dumb need to send people to space.
The human race is capable of doing more than one thing at a time. That we aren’t working on solving our many crises has nothing to do with whether or not we’re in space. You’re tying together two issues that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 1 week ago:
“The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge.
Interesting. Having something that can only be manufactured in space would be a real motivation to getting off our asses and back up there.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Nothing new in this article, it’s just rehashing stuff that’s already been announced and talked about since last year.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
Can’t your phone store multiple esims? I thought that was actually one of the selling points of the stuff.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
AFAIK, the only ‘improvement’ is that it takes up less physical space.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
The carrier can bypass that authentication, so basically the same process as if you had lost your physical sim. Show up at the shop in person with id.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
This is a problem for somebody reviewing phones, but how much of a problem is it actually for the average user who will change phones once every few years? And will probably be doing so at a phone store where they can support it.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 1 week ago:
FYI, there’s many bot accounts already reposting stuff. There was an entire instance previously dedicated to it, though I think it shut down at some point. It was not popular, most people blocked the accounts / instances and they just clogged up the feed for newcomers due to the lack of engagement.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
It’s hard to say what the actual carrying capacity of earth is, if we were trying to optimise for sustainability and not profit or special interests. Would we be sustainable today, if we were full on renewables and batteries, vat grown meat, no plastic waste, etc? There’s so many things that could be done for major impact but aren’t, for all we know we aren’t even anywhere close to earth’s carrying capacity with current or near future tech.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 1 week ago:
There’s an explicit flag that can be toggled on every account to mark them as bots. If you’re acting in good faith that flag should definitely be toggled.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
population decline is hardly a cliff.
Population decline in Japan and similar countries is absolutely a cliff right now, hence the article.
We’re still growing.
That’s largely due to said population inertia. The current best estimates of actual worldwide fertility rate has us anywhere from 2.0 to 2.2. There’s a possibility we’ve already dropped below replacement rate worldwide.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
long term health of the earth and her inhabitants it’s a necessity.
No. This has been brought up and explained. Despite the rapidly falling birth rate, it will take centuries to overcome population inertia. Changes will not happen anywhere close to fast enough to save us from the environmental crisis we are facing. If anything, it may make things worse as an aging elderly population means the young generation is preoccupied trying to take care of them instead of dealing with the shit they left behind.
Our ideal birth rate would be between neutral to very gradual decline, not the cliff jump we’re currently facing.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 week ago:
Can’t speak for all of them, but type I does fit
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
LD50 is the point where the dose, based on your body weight, is 50% likely to kill you.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 week ago:
Good news, you can just buy them from China at pennies :D