ViatorOmnium

@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's where Americans come from. Thanks all gods, most babies are not American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is reading checkboxes before pressing them.

  I don't know what people expected the option

  ☐ Make this chat discoverable

  Allows it to be shown in web searches

  to do.

  I also don't know why it would have been implemented in the first place, but at least it was very clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-hours contracts: Peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  said the Lords was “doing the bidding of bad bosses” and ought to “get out of the way” of the plans.

  I think someone didn't notice who the "lords" are yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of private banks, a basic savings account wouldn't really be a big risk for them nowadays because it's a bare bones account. It doesn't include things like access to credit cards or other forms of credits, or any form of long term investments.

  If anything, banks might even like the idea, because it gives them a way to offload their riskier (and let's be honest less profitable) customers without making society fully collapse.

  If the system is implemented properly it's a win-win for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all other Europeans out there, avoiding this situations is another thing the EU did for us.

  For the Americans, write to your representatives demanding the same rights.

  Excluding people from having a bank account in 2025 is basically condemning them to ostracism even without sending to concentration camps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's almost like most customers prefer function over form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic hung in my office for years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Journalists are not the source of the claim the LLMs are the path to AGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents urged to get children vaccinated after measles death in Liverpool⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a child dies of measles in a school all parents of all unvaccinated kids at school should be jailed for manslaughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So does not allowing food companies to sprinkle lead and uranium in food. What's the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they are not hiring people's bodies to build their houses. Or to move their furniture. Or to do any other job that's damaging to the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a federated LinkedIn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you work in tech in Europe, lots of people are already on mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If any work it's a bug. "Dating" apps don't want to be dating apps, they want to be hookup apps because that's how they can keep repeat customers.
  The only way dating apps would remain dating apps under for profit companies is if they found a way to charge a subscription for long term relationships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That's why monitoring and digital calendars exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with most dumphone modes is that "normal" Phone and SMS (RCS makes the latter better, but your provider needs to support it, and it usually adds one more Google dependency) are useless if your social network extends past one country, and that's not that uncommon in Europe. I would need to at least be able to include Signal for it to work for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That's the vernacular meaning of dignity.

  In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.

  You don't infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to black people, or that gay people don't have right to love who they love, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people's faces, free speech can't include speech infringing on other people's dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).

  Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the participants away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of the SI system. The metric system started with cgs (centimeter, gram, second) and evolved from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They were all done by scientists or engineers.

  The meter was defined based on what they calculated as the length of Paris' meridian.

  The second was 1/86400 of a day, which makes sense with the angle/circle nomenclature on the clock.

  The gram was initially set to be the mass of 1cm³ of water at 4°C - which is why 1l of water ≈ 1kg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There's nothing in the SI system that says ratios have to be between base units. Units that involve mass are defined against the kilogram not the gram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because neural networks aren't known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s

  Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the "Emperors New Clothes" levels of intellectual destitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah failed successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant comic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The same legal terms might mean vastly different things in Germany and the US. This is often the case in arbitration and warranty clauses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  EFF's lawyers don't have the legal expertise to help a company based in Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Dairy Queen sell food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amd they need to do something with calves. Cows only produce milk after giving birth, and dairy producers are not going to keep a freeloader around. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm betting on Google destroying Google instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.

  I think phi3:mini on ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it's a small model, but was trained on python codebases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Les Miserables ends with the revolution being crushed and more than half of the cast dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't call that song auspicious for people trying to overthrow a tirant.