MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Recent research shows charging habits are more complex than expected. Most drivers prefer plugging in at home or nearby, especially overnight. While this offers convenience, it creates problems for the power grid, which is already under stress during peak evening hours.

  So schedule the charging to start at off-peak hours, such as 9PM.

  In contrast, shifting charging to daytime hours, particularly during periods of abundant solar energy, could alleviate grid stress and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  This presumes your local grid makes use of solar. This is not a significant source of power in my area.

  “Policymakers should consider utility rates that encourage day charging and incentivize investment in charging infrastructure to shift drivers from home to work for charging,” Rajagopal stated.

  First, where I live they already charge more during peak hours than non-peak hours, which incentivizes charging at home after peak hours.

  Where I charge at work, the charging is free, but you are not guaranteed a spot. So charging at work would mean anxiety about getting to charge at all. Also, not everywhere has free charging.

  There is an existing, simple solution to the problem and it is not to discourage charging at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is only allowed to ask a very specific set of questions to candidates. She can’t deviate. It’s fucking ridiculous. This is a multi-million dollar company, but they aren’t so big to have all this process. They have maybe less than 100 total employees, certainly less than 200. I’m frustrated by proxy for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is a customer service manager/trainer. Hiring actually competent people who know how to just listen to the customer and understand their needs is apparently really fucking hard. I’ve heard some stories of such dumbfuckery…

  And once they are in, HR/lawyers make it so fucking hard to fire anyone. If you get a decent customer service person, either as an employer or customer, appreciate them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  [x] Doubt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point but also I just genuinely don’t have a mind for that shit. Even my own close friends and family, it never pops into my head to ask about that vacation they just got back from or what their kids are up to. I rely on social cues front others, mainly my wife, to sort of kick start my brain.

  I just started a new job. I can’t remember who said they were into fishing and who didn’t, and now it’s anxiety inducing to try to figure out who is who. Or they ask me a friendly question Andee I get caught up answering and when I’m done I forget to ask it back to them (because frequently asking someone about their weekend or kids or whatever is a friends way of getting to share your own life with them, but my brain doesn’t think that way).

  I get what you’re saying. It could absolutely be used for performative interactions but for some of us people drift away because we aren’t good at being curious about them or remembering details like that. And also, I have to sit through awkward lunches at work where no one really knows what to talk about or ask about because outside of work we are completely alien to one another.

  And it’s fine. It wouldn’t be worth the damage it does. I have left behind all personally identifiable social media for the same reason. But I do hate how social anxiety and ADHD makes friendship so fleeting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, shit like this would be pretty handy—if it didn’t also enable more dystopian shit. I’d be happy if it could just remind me of someone’s name and how I know them. Maybe remind me of small talk details. But they aren’t going to stop there…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of those things where I’m happiest just not seeing or being part of that conversation. Those are unserious people and it’s pointless to pretend you can have a serious conversation about those things. And even if you could, what is the value to me to wade into the nuance of when it’s okay to find someone attractive when frankly it wouldn’t matter—if they didn’t act like aggressive horny assholes to anyone. I have 13 and 15 year old daughters. I don’t really care who finds them attractive, but I do care who disrespects them, and that’s not going to change when they turn 18, so again that conversation doesn’t need my presence at all.

  I’ll agree that Bluesky is minimally toxic, but I also haven’t gotten a whiff of those kinds of conversations here on Lemmy, either. The most contentious ones were in the run-up to the elections and that’s just a tense time for everyone. And it’s hard to let opinions we vehemently disagree with run rampant when the consequences for getting shit wrong are… well… gestures at everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind driving as long as I’m not sitting in traffic. Which is why I’m in the Midwest making far less money than I could on either coast. My commute times were just as long near DC with a third of the miles traveled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people deliberately come to social media for fighting. I probably used to. Maybe on occasion when I’m feeling cranky I will be less diplomatic than I really want to be.

  But I find two things actually help:

  1. I’m not friends/following anyone I know in real life. That helps with anonymity in case I do run afoul of someone who bears a grudge, but also when someone posts aggravating bullshit, it’s not someone I care about. Which leads to…
  2. I’m merciless about blocking anyone and anything that I can’t engage with fruitfully. Attention is a limited resource and I don’t want to spend it all on negativity. I’m happy to hold genial conversations with folks I disagree with, but if interacting with them becomes tedious, stressful, or annoying I just bin them. Hell, if someone is a big enough prick to someone else I block them. If someone is in every threat harping on some agenda, gone.

  Bluesky has a feature to mute keywords for a set period. If I need a break from news about Gaza, Trump, some trending drama, sports (like the World Cup), or just want to avoid spoilers, I mute the topic for a while.

  Together, these tools make social media much less negative for me. It usually keeps me from doom scrolling or taking the rage bait.

  And when I’m emotionally charged or unclear, I sometimes draft my comments elsewhere before posting. I let it sit for a bit, and if I can’t say what I mean with the tone and clarity I want, I just don’t post. Maybe 30% of my comments get binned—some after spending an hour or more working on them.

  In short, I heavily curate my social interactions—both incoming and outgoing—to reduce stress and negativity. As a result, social media today is far more pleasant than it was ten years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was transitioning from being a lotus notes developer to a java developer and I was moving back home to the Midwest from DC. As that job took a chance on me and allowed both, it was a really good fucking job for the moment. It eventually transitioned to hybrid.

  We had planned to move to the area but couldn’t find a place we liked and kept living with my folks until I just said fuck it and we bought a house near them instead and I dealt with the commute. Then Covid hit and I got laid off on my two year anniversary.

  Now, my commute is about 70 miles one way 1-2 times per week. That’s a pretty typical drive for me. My kids also live kinda near where I work so even if it weren’t for commuting, of still make that drive quite often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was seriously considering it back then. My wife hated the look and wouldn’t let me even consider it, but as someone who likes Back to the Future and Tron, I didn’t hate the aesthetic, though it took some getting used to. And I want a comfortably large EV (my compact is too small for my old bones) with 500 miles to avoid range anxiety. A 100 mile round trip in the middle of a midwestern winter without a charger at the other end is going to require 500 miles of range due to heating the battery and cabin, and driving at 80mph.

  I wouldn’t say bullet dodged because I was never really close to getting one, but charging three times the price for only 60% range compared to that announcement is fucking insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are getting better though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  'E’s not John Cleese! 'E’s a very naughty boy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  If this garbage doesn’t prove I’m not AI, I don’t know what will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (It was totally kinky.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but it doesn’t matter if it was bdsm clubs, gay bars, Freemasons, book clubs, worship, or 4H, I should be able to have an expectation of privacy in my associations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine. I’ll bet this experiment has been conducted a dozen times or more but without the reveal at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I can see what you’re getting at here and I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of all that, the one that really bothers me is one they didn’t even list: it knows all of your friends and associates. They have your location data. They have the location data of everyone around you. If you and several other people are in the same location frequently, you’ll start seeing Facebook and other apps suggest them as friends.

  Fifteen years ago, I was among a community of people who primarily used aliases within the community to isolate their personal lives and identities from their community identity and activities. Facebook outed everyone to each other through friend suggestions.

  All the rest of these things don’t bother me all that much, but by knowing your associations, they can infer things like political affiliation, and currently it seems like being in a database of people who hang out with “the enemy” is very dangerous for folks who take action behind the scenes while keeping a neutral face in public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammit, Zuck! You don’t have to hide behind a “chatbot”, just fucking tell me if you want to be my friend.

  Also, no. But be fucking honest about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you act like this is a bad thing? You just described how it’s supposed to work.

  Look at Tom from MySpace. He had it all. Got overtaken by the competition. Now he just travels the world, takes pictures, and does whatever the fuck he wants.

  Zuck is never going to want for a damn thing for the rest of his life. The fact that he hasn’t just fucked off to paradise is a Zuck problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only of their PRs are accepted. I don’t even care if your choice is AI generated but you’d better be able to explain it and you’d better fix the fucking mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter was a prime example of that. They started out with something so simple and people loved it. Then they started adding all of these features and I’m really not sure it was worth taking on huge amounts of VC funding to bloat it out to the point of enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. “We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability.”

  Why can’t anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Transferred User Data & Prompts Overseas Without Consent, Claims South Korea’s Data Protection Authority; Activities Were Carried Out When Service Was Active In January⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transferred prompts? As in sent my prompts through my browser to be processed on computers in China, exactly like I would fucking expect? Am I going to have to read this fucking article?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t fucking want personalized ads no matter how relevant they are to me. I only have so much money to buy stupid materialistic bullshit and once that’s gone all an ad can do is make me want something I can’t have. Ads are just trying to make you discontent.

  They just want you to spend more money in a failed attempt to be happier adding complexity to my life when I’d rather just be content with simplicity. And they work really fucking well on my wife. I automatically distrust anything someone is paying money to show me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You wouldn’t SteAL a gUilLotINe!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [ Doubt ]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just saw a group is going to start doing custom feeds with ads inserted. I blocked the account and every single sucker who comes in to say congrats and how excited they are about it. Fuck the lot of them. That said, that’s a third party, but also an example of what they could do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% cotton? My man!