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- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 8 comments
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 1 week ago:
Okay.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 2 weeks ago:
That has not been my experience.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 2 weeks ago:
I think sometimes when we ask people something we’re not just seeking information. We’re also engaging with other humans. We’re connecting, signaling something, communicating something with the question, and so on. I use LLMs when I literally just want to know something, but I also try to remember the value of talking to other human beings as well.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
That has been my experience with security people, too. They are button pushers and copy pasters. But I don’t think it’s cloud computing causing it. They were like that before clouds.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
Kinda unexpected to see Straight Arrow News doing original reporting.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 3 weeks ago:
If you’re in Bluetooth range can’t you chat with your mouths? Or is it for secretly chatting when you’re in a group of people? I don’t get the use case.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 3 weeks ago:
Never heard of it. Only Office was decent though, the couple of times I used it.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 3 weeks ago:
Man… every time I use LibreOffice I curse. I’m dyed in the wool pro open source, but LibreOffice has just never cut it for me. I suppose if I had a job to do and that’s what I was given it would work.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
It’s a sensible first step.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, like, if you’re just gonna ask someone, they’d be the ones to ask.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
The “study” is that they asked teachers, “Hey, how’s it been going?” and the teachers answered, “I feel like my students are paying attention more now.”
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
I’d rather not debate that particular topic. I’m not up on all the nuances. But I will say that while coal was maybe the right choice for generating abundant energy once upon a time, we know a lot more now about why it’s a bad choice for other reasons, and, besides, we have more options now than we used to. So it’s good to see the world’s second largest economy at least trying to build solar capacity.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
To be clear: Are you saying China is in the process of developing?
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
Good for China on that!
To add some perspective, China is about 2 and a quarter times as large as the EU nations, and according to currentresults.com seems to get a bit more sunshine than the EU does. So the difference isn’t quite as stark as this post makes it seem.
But still, it’s good that China is taking solar power seriously. I didn’t realize they were doing that well.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
What is the technology angle here? What does this have to do with technology?
- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 1 month ago:
Unsubscribe
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What is the connection to technology here?
- Comment on 109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas 1 month ago:
Not sure what this has to do with technology…
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 2 months ago:
Those “backdoors” are called RJ-45 jacks. That’s where the bits get in and out.
- Comment on The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search 2 months ago:
This feels truthy to me.
- Comment on The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search 2 months ago:
Don’t tell me caffeine has drawbacks. Don’t wanna hear it!
- Comment on On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages 2 months ago:
It’s a good thing Israel would never want to develop software that spies, and that even if it did it would certainly never spy on America with it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
newsweek.com/israel-flagged-top-spy-threat-us-new…
france24.com/…/20211103-us-blacklists-israeli-fir…
…and so on
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 3 months ago:
PewDiePie? Is that really the guy’s name? Is that Slavic or something?
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 3 months ago:
I pride myself on not going in for conspiracy theories and always doing due diligence on the facts. But the idea that my phone is listening to me at times when it shouldn’t be is one I am not going to give up easily.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 3 months ago:
e. that guy with the mohawk and the gold chains on his neck
- Comment on Google wants to make its 2M-mile fiber network fully autonomous by year’s end 3 months ago:
When the machines rise up…
- Comment on It’s Google’s turn to get thrashed by the GOP 3 months ago:
Maybe they didn’t donate enough to Trump. $1 million just doesn’t cut it, apparently.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 3 months ago:
How did it “verify” your age? Did it quiz you on early-2000s trivia or something?
