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- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 3 days ago:
music in the background through non diagetic sound.
I had to look it up but it seems to me you are simply referring to background music.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 4 days ago:
They were leaked, not guessed.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 41 comments
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 4 days ago:
Lobotomy is a bit extreme. Try Trepanning first.
Trepanning was sometimes performed on people who were behaving in a manner that was considered abnormal. In some ancient societies it was believed this released the evil spirits that were to blame
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 4 days ago:
Depressed ever since puberty when I realised that Hollywood isn’t real life.
- Comment on China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long. 1 week ago:
In Australia it was proposed by the Labor government and it was the Greens who passed the Digital ID bill. (Labor needed either the Greens or Conservatives on board).
It was the conservatives who opposed it (similar to when Conservatives opposed the Australia Card in the 80’s).
Go figure.
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 1 week ago:
Unless readers want street cred reading only books from publishers who observe the request. There will be a market for “authentic” publishers along with the more liberal slop-friendly ones.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
Edit: Huh. Lemmy automatically changed my three fulls stops to the Unicode character.
Not on my phone it didn’t. It looks as you intended it.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t the burner be the whiter one?
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 1 week ago:
I have been flagged three times by teamviewer. Appealing requires writing an email and waiting weeks. This last time my use was consistent and only ever connected to my home computer due about 10 minutes tops.
They just don’t want free users who don’t upgrade to a monthly subscription but will never say that.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 week ago:
Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it
You haven’t researched as well as you think you have. Even freshly squeezed juice is unhealthy. You need the pulp too in order to slow the sugar metabolism, in which case you may as well just eat fruit.
Check Robert Lustig re sugars.
- Comment on Russia frees REvil hackers after sentencing 1 week ago:
What makes even more sense is that they now might be secretly forced to hack for the government in exchange for bread and water and starting out of prison.
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- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 week ago:
Thanks, yeah someone else said similar here.
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 1 week ago:
Not so sure about Iran. I have looked for unambiguous quotes from them but can only find kooky religious stuff about Mahdism which is kind of like extremist Christians with their second coming madness.
Well educated Iranians seem to be Atheist whereas even intellectuals in Israel can be right wing religious nuts.
Certainly Iranian proxy groups like Hamas have unambiguously calked for a global caliphate
“Hamas, which is widely recognized as an Iranian proxy, has leaders and official rhetoric that go beyond the goal of liberating Palestine and at times explicitly reference the ambition of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.“
“On December 1, 2023, senior Hamas official Fathi Hammad declared on Al-Aqsa TV that the Palestinians are preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. He and other Hamas leaders have repeatedly stated that the liberation of Palestine is just a prelude to bringing all Islamic countries—and eventually the entire world—under Islamic rule, referencing the conquest of Rome and America as future goals”
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 week ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
Wiki citation:
86. The United Nations verified the recruitment and use of 4 Palestinian children (3 boys, 1 girl) by Israeli forces as human shields (3) and by the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (1) as combatants in the occupied West Bank (3) and the Gaza Strip (1).
So that’s 4 examples of the IDF and 8 of the Palestinian militants. The numbers are not a scorecard though. These are just children and just the ones they had evidence of. Must happen a lot more, especially if you count adult shields.
I expect better from IDF since they represent a democratic government and so we should be hearing of the rogue soldiers being disciplined (jailed even). We rarely hear that.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
Got a curtain for that claim?
There are also claims of IDF sending civilians ahead of a raid in a potentially booby trapped buildings.
But why waste our time on hearsay? It is hard enough examining am the documented evidence from each side.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
Going by this very targeted attack video, I find that claim difficult to believe.
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 2 weeks ago:
Neither side seems interested in murdering everyone on the other side.
Iran’s intention is to eradicate a Jewish state in the Levant. Hamas have stated that they would repeat Oct 7 (seems a stupid thing to say out loud even if one is on their side).
Whether we agree with the establishment of Israel in the first place or not, it aint going anywhere so to continue trying to eradicate it 77 years later exacerbates suffering.
Aboriginal Australians got a raw deal but are still doing better than Gazans because they didn’t continue warring. They are still fighting politically and rightly so.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
They are monthly not daily popups. They are daily at the start kust to make sure you memorize your PIN, then they peter off.
However if you ignore a monthly one then it doesn’t disturb you until the next monthly reminder. What is the point of a PIN if it can be ignored?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 weeks ago:
The pager attack was pretty targeted. Very low percentage of civilians killed (unlike the percentages of Hezbollah attacks on Israel).
- Comment on Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab 2 weeks ago:
It will be remotely human run.
- Comment on Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab 2 weeks ago:
Consumer car
- Comment on Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies For One-Handed Users 2 weeks ago:
Podcast on 99% Invisible with the guy, also talking about other one handed keyboards on the market (and why they suck).
- Comment on Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab 2 weeks ago:
40 minute uncut video of Tesla robocar in LA. Impressive. It may be a cheat using remote drivers I suppose.
Here is a short video showing Tesla robocar ignoring a school bus’ stop signs and flashing lights.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
Wow, that makes this thread all the more awesome. Thanks!
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 weeks ago:
*The phrase “Gandhi’s words are backed with nuclear” refers to a popular internet meme and in-joke related to the video game “Civilization.” In the game, Mahatma Gandhi, known for his non-violent philosophy in real life, has a tendency to become surprisingly aggressive and develop nuclear weapons in later stages of the game. This has led to the humorous association of his name with nuclear power, despite his actual historical stance. *
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 3 weeks ago:
I want philosophy direct from the Monarch! /s