A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens 9 hours ago:
Silicon Valley Pain Index
- A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth.
- wealth divide widened in Silicon Valley at double the rate of the whole US over the past decade
Remember that the wealth divide is bad enough in the US already.
These people know exactly why they support Trump.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 12 hours ago:
Sherlock Homes’ treatise on typewriters, 21st century edition.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 20 hours ago:
I have had similar thoughts, not specifically about Mexican food though.
I think many culutures have developed cuisines that are carefully balanced, incl. traditional alcoholic beverages.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 20 hours ago:
There’s a Vietnamese restaurant (…) that serves Belgian beer with the food.
Another person just commented that low hop beer (certainly applies to Belgian beers) goes well with most foods, and I took that to include spicy food. Maybe I should try this - because I’m usually a big fan of hops in beer and rarely drink it directly with food.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 20 hours ago:
Low hop. In my book that’s most American beers, most certainly that one Mexican brand that’s exported a lot. With corn and rice iirc. SOL?
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 1 day ago:
Watching Landman or you just familiar with the lingo?
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 days ago:
Using special terms wrongly doesn’t mean I’m clueless, cryptobro.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 2 days ago:
Devil’s advocate says: 5000 ft is probably below groundwater level. But tbh idk. Hell, they could even use spent oil reservoirs.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 2 days ago:
Apart from the questionable practice of buying CO2 credits (or whatever the practice is called), pumping shit underground does not seem like the best way to save the ecosphere. It could’ve produced energy and/or useful products in various ways but oh no, that would have been too expensive.
This prevents it from being dumped at a waste disposal site, where it would eventually decompose and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
This is the only reason this practice is deemed carbon-emission-friendly. Color me skeptical.
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 2 days ago:
Because even in the already deeply flawed US “democracy” his power isn’t absolute - just yet.
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 2 days ago:
Tony Schwartz said this pretty much verbatim in 2015 already (iirc) at Oxford university. And a lot more things about Trump that seem positively prophetic in retrospect.
Mary Trump as well.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 days ago:
Which you then have to type out every time. Laziness wins: they will be shorter.
The assumption is that the product is for non-savvy users. They might not even understand what you wrote up there.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 days ago:
It depends on what the user fills it with.
Even the objectively safest solutions will be much shorter, and have less entropy, than what a pw-manager can deal with.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 days ago:
It really depends what the user fills it with. “Clever” solutions like using your daughter’s birthday, or other hard-to-remember-but-easy-to-deduce strings.
It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I’m thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 days ago:
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That’s the main weakness imo.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 days ago:
My master password is physically present as a mnemonic device, but not available digitally. Anywhere.
Beyond that I really cannot recommend this book: You need to be able & willing to type your passwords out, which means simpler and shorter passwords. I use 99 character complete random ASCII-strings by default. Try typing that in even once.
But there’s a different, unspoken criticism here: don’t store your database on a 3rd party server, a.k.a. “The Cloud”. I use KeepassXC btw. - and my very own “cloud”.
- Comment on Why are so many Afghans suddenly being deported back to Afghanistan? Why is it from so many different countries? 4 days ago:
… suddenly … Why is it from so many different countries?
Can you specify? I just saw this post (German). Where else? Afghans specifically?
IIRC somebody (Trump or Biden maybe) declared Afghanistan a safe state after the US military left, or to justify its departure.
That and a rise in far-right populist fear- and hatemonmgering anti-immigration policy in many countries. Like Germany.
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 4 days ago:
he was right very often and “only” his tone was…unfiltered
Yeah, there’s a big difference between just insulting someone, or insulting someone based on clear arguments. AFAIK Torvalds always did the latter. Again, not saying that makes it OK though.
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 4 days ago:
Looks at date… meh. We’ve been through this, OP. Many years ago. In great detail. Meaning, among other things, plenty of outrage posting like this.
And Torvalds has my full respect for facing the music and coming out a better person. Not many people are able to admit they’ve been wrong about something, and even fewer are able to actually do something about it.
Still, without the old Torvalds we wouldn’t have memes like this one either.
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 4 days ago:
he’s one of the few people I’ve read about who not only acknowledged that but also put effort into changing it - and succeeded.
💯
Not sure I’d have characterised him as an “absolute dipshit” even back then, though.
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 4 days ago:
That is how I read it as well.
Also, Torvalds went through some serious soul-searching between then and now and really came out on top of it. My full respect.
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 4 days ago:
lately Linus learned how to do it correctly without going on rants
Yep. This is from 2012 and we went through whatever OP is trying to do here sometime between then and maybe 5 years ago - in great detail. And Torvalds really came out on top of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Thanks for reporting. I think it’s important to realise that the fediverse and FOSS software in general can attract commercial interest just like everything else. All sorts of bad players really.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 days ago:
My Nokia 701 also has Stereo:
Nokia 701 - Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 days ago:
Maemo => Meego => Sailfish OS 👍
Nothing ever replaced the N900. And there’s a different between a large corp developing a true Linux OS, as opposed to a tiny company. But still: it’s not dead.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 days ago:
Before Nokia was assimilated and digested by Microsoft, it open sourced the OS
Huh. Did not know.
Symbian’s swansong was the remarkable Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 and other late-model Symbian devices run Nokia Belle which was really quite nice.
I still have a device here that runs that version. A Nokia 701. With AngryBirds games on it. It had an extensive app store. And that wonderful tiny charger connector (but also takes a charge from USB micro).
Nokia 701there was that brief attempt at a revival by Planet Computers but it really didn’t stick
Oh, again I did not know that. I was interested in one of their later devices for a while, a keyboard phone running true Linux iirc.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans 1 week ago:
Helped? As in, they’re not doing it anymore? Color me skeptical. But I’m going to read the article now.
- Comment on Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews 1 week ago:
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.
“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”
Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.
Think about that the next time you “ask ChatGPT” something.
Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.
There we go. Who coulda seen that coming! While that’s going to be a fun ride, at the same time companies all but mandate AS* to their employees.
