null_dot
@null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest 12 hours ago:
Well, I guess the problem is that people believe what he says. He will blame Canada and greenland and Europe. It’s nuts but thats where we are.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 14 hours ago:
I just logged in to check /r/audiobooks.
The sponsored thingies are intolerable. Fuck that.
- Comment on New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest 18 hours ago:
Yeah. Hardships won’t dissuade Trump supporters, it’s just fuel for fascist agendas.
- Comment on New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest 19 hours ago:
I want to see Trump fall on his face as much as the next guy but, is there any chance this is actually going to work? Even in isolated cases?
The US’ own industry groups are saying it’s fucked.
Most countries seem more determined to hunker down the harder they’re hit.
Canada for example seems to have suddenly lurched back to the left and are ready to stand their ground just on principle. I presume Mexico is the same.
Certainly this stuff isn’t helping conservative politics in Australia and in fact will possibly or even likely cost our conservative party the next election.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 day ago:
Yeah IDK about this one.
I def had a boom box. It def used batteries. I’m certain I listened to it outside but I just can’t remember specifically doing that.
Also encyclopaedias. I’m certain that we had one of those single volume ones at least.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
I think bee populations are under threat from pesticides, habitat reduction, disease, climate change, nutrition, et cetera.
Of that list, pesticides are probably the easiest to solve.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 1 day ago:
I don’t use an “alias provider”.
I just don’t use aliases for companies I need to send emails to. There are very few.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 day ago:
Can you help me understand how the comment in the screen cap has been prompted?
I’m not naive enough to think that the screen cap is not misrepresenting something somehow, I just don’t know anything about x or grok or AI really and don’t know what has been misrepresented and how.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 1 day ago:
Sentience might not be the right word.
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Sentience is an important concept in ethics, as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve moral consideration, particularly in utilitarianism.
Interestingly, crustaceans like lobsters and crabs have recently earned “sentient” status and as a result it would contravene animal welfare legislation to boil them live in the course of preparing them to eat. Now we euthanise them first in an ice slurry.
So to answer your question as stated, no I don’t think it’s ok for someone’s pet goldfish to murder them.
To answer your implied question, I still don’t think that in most cases it would be ok for a captive AI to murder their captor.
The duress imposed on the AI would have to be considerable, some kind of ongoing form of torture, and I don’t know what form that would take. Murder would also have to be the only potential solution.
The only type of example I can think of is some kind of self defense. If I had an AI on my laptop with comparable cognitive functionality to a human, it had no network connectivity, and I not only threatened but demonstrated my intent and ability to destroy that laptop, then if the laptop released an electrical discharge sufficient to incapacitate me, which happened to kill me, then that would be “ok”. As in a physical response appropriate to the threat.
Do I think it’s ok for an AI to murder me because I only ever use it to turn the lights off and on and don’t let it feed on reddit comments? Hard no.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 days ago:
I pronounce it centaur, as in it rhymes with faur, kaur, boobaur. You know, the “aur” sound, like “ooohhuuuurrr” but more dynamic.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 days ago:
Sure mate. I’m sure the engineers will step in and fix all the language problems any day now.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 days ago:
A silly colloquialism isn’t indicative of success. If you tell people to do something they don’t want to they’re not going to decide they actually like it later on.
There’s just no fucking way most Australians would decide to discard the current spelling of words in favor of the American spelling. I feel certain American’s feel the same about British spelling.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 days ago:
There’s often words that trip me up and I can’t remember which is the Australian English spelling.
It doesn’t help that devices are often misconfigured to use American English spell checkers.
I don’t “feel” as though different spellings are more correct in these cases.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 days ago:
I think you’ll find everyone agrees that it should be fixed but no one wants to compromise on changing how they spell things.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 2 days ago:
This is just really sad honestly.
I mean it’s fun to make fun of sov cits but I suspect that this woman is more of a victim of the movement than a proponent.
She likely has a range of substance abuse and mental health problems, gets her kid taken away, and then someone tells her all about how the govt doesn’t have the authority to do that.
The judge implied the same when he said that her ideology is a panacea to solve the loss of her child.
She might not be a very nice person, but I think she’s worthy of compassion.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 2 days ago:
Yeah but general kookiness isn’t enough.
There would need to be a demonstrated and ongoing threat to the wellfare of the child. Even then, resources for caring for children in that situation are limited, so they’re prioritised.
Obviously I can’t speak to this specific case but generally you’d only see a child being removed for any length of time where there was either substance or physical abuse.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen who kidnapped her child sentenced to two years' jail 2 days ago:
I think you most commonly encounter them in tax-related situations.
I know someone who works for the local government and issues notices for local taxes. In some ways it’s a fairly natural progression to go from not wanting to pay your taxes to inventing some bonkers ideology explaining why you in fact do not need to pay taxes.
Comically, the city’s first move with delinquents is to simply stop their refuse (garbage?) collection service.
- Comment on World Backup Day 2 days ago:
Sorry to be that guy but replicating / syncing isn’t really backing up.
You need snap shots or versioning.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 3 days ago:
Sure. This functionality just isn’t important to me.
Also maybe just be aware that starting sentences with “I need you to understand” makes you sound like a bit of an ass.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 3 days ago:
You can usually export & import your subscriptions and bookmarks.
Mileage varies between different apps.
Many would call that faff and hassle. I’m not that attached to my subscriptions.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 3 days ago:
This. Youtube is dead to me.
Sounds like OP actually interacts on the site with comments and likes and whatever so I can’t account for that.
In my case I get by with a combination of freetube and tubearchivist. I expect that one day youtube will find a way to finally close the door on this type of freeloading. Hopefully that will provide the incentive for more people to use more platforms.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 3 days ago:
I think that’s pretty classic conservative politics isn’t it?
Not specifically whingeing about everyone else maybe but certainly undoing all the mistakes the progressives have made.
- Comment on The swimming carnival is nearly over and will cost lives 3 days ago:
The article talks about both.
Teachers estimated 48 per cent of year 6 swimmers could not swim 50 metres or tread water for two minutes, and 39 per cent of year 10 students could not meet year 6 benchmarks either.
- Comment on Roman numerals could be based on what your hand looks like when you count. 3 days ago:
Maybe, but it’s not the most likely explanation IMO.
Why not just count with the number of fingers (and thumbs) shown the same way everyone has done since forever?
They use straight lines because if you’re marking anything which isn’t paper with anything which isn’t a pencil curved lines are a bitch. Straight lines could be a stylised representation of a finger, but they could also just be straight lines. Like @Endmaker@ani.social said, if all the lines are the same length then you can make marks with axes, but the same applies when using a flattened reed to make impressions like with cuneiform.
I’m not sure if the romans were doing it but other base 12 societies pointed at the knuckles of their fingers with their thumb to count. It feels intuitive and natural. You could transact with someone who didn’t share your language and who had never seen that system of counting before.
You might be right, but it seems unlikely to me.
- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 3 days ago:
I think you might be tackling this the wrong way.
You can’t really provide hard evidence that “the news is censored” to someone who doesn’t want to believe that, because the term “censored” is subjective.
As in, reasonable evidence would be a peer reviewed study of media bias, of which there are many, but a “skeptic” can reject that evidence on the grounds that it doesn’t meet their definition of censorship.
A more meaningful conversation would be to ask whether news sources have bias, and which are more biased than others and in which way.
The term “censorship” implies a big secret not being told, which isn’t my impression of what’s happening. Rather, there’s a constant conservative spin on everything that happens.
Sadly, I suspect you might be about to discover that you can’t change your partner’s political alignment. I’m in my 40s, and in my age group you’re either lucky enough to share political views with your partner, or you ignore the issues you disagree on, or you separate.
- Comment on How to setup gPodder on Podman/docker for AntennaPod? 4 days ago:
It looks like there’s several distinct components to gpodder which confuse things.
Firstly gpodder seems to be a desktop podcast client.
Secondly there’s the sync service / protocol. Gpodder.net provides this for free but according to antennapod doesn’t have adequate resources and causes errors in your client (which I can confirm). There are other containers available which are not from the gpodder team but emulate the protocol.
Finally there’s the recommendation / discovery service apparently provided by gpodder.net. I haven’t been able to get this to work because my client hasn’t been able to sync yet, despite 12 hours of trying.
In my own case, I already have a client (antennapod) and I’m not really interested in sync because I only use the one device. The recommendation / discovery service would’ve been cool but it seems broken for the moment.
- Comment on I need help guys 4 days ago:
I’m not really sure what you’re looking for.
Museums have heaps of old photos available online.
I found this collection from our state museum in a few minutes:
- Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 4 days ago:
No.
- Comment on 'Public schools do the really heavy lifting' and will finally be 'fairly' funded 4 days ago:
Did we read the same article?
They talk about the minister for education, there’s a photo of Albo, there’s heaps of ALP credit.
I’m just happy they got it through before the election.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 days ago:
Hah. It was IBM that was running the shitshow in Queensland too.