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- Comment on Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 49 minutes ago:
If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would “financially ruin” the entire AI industry.
Journalists need to stop this shit. Yes, it would financially ruin them. It’d ruin them the same way drug dealers would be financially ruined if you confiscated their drugs.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 hours ago:
Honestly, no. US infrastructure for this stuff is scaffolding, at best.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 3 hours ago:
Just to address the idea of a general strike, you pretty much have to get sustained protests going first. More specifically, they have to encourage people from different backgrounds to work together outside of capitalist structures.
I forget the exact example, but I think it was the 1934 San Fransisco general strike. Whole city shut down, including restaurants. One problem was that there were a lot of young men who worked in the factories and lived in small apartments with no kitchens at all. They went to the general strike committee and made it known that they rely on the restaurants for their daily meals. The committee understood and had some restaurants approved for opening along with delivery trucks so they could operate. Problem solved.
Point is that you need organization around that sort of thing where even marginal groups can have their problems heard. Without getting people into organized groups, it’s going to fail. If nobody listened to those young men and did something, then they would have had the choice of starving or crossing the picket line.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 3 hours ago:
Protests must be more sustained instead of the bursts of activity we’ve seen. Even direct action will fail if it’s not combined with large scale protest methods. Unfortunately, people get worn down doing constant protesting.
Trump won’t be around in another 10 years one way or another. It’s rare to find cults of personality that outlive their leader. But if we use Nazi Germany as an example of what happens next, it’s basically a return to liberalism. Half the country went to that almost immediately, and the other half just took longer. Granted, Germany has a better social safety net than America does now, but it’s hardly anti-capitalist.
TBH, I don’t have a good answer. I’m mostly doing the anarchist thing of using social groups to get people to rely less on capitalism and more on each other. That’s more of a long term thing, though.
- Comment on cycle 3 hours ago:
I directly asked my wife about this beforehand, and they’re skeptical, as well.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 4 hours ago:
Accelerationism like that never works. When it all settles, you get extremely mild improvements for a whole lot of hurt.
- Comment on What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup? 4 hours ago:
Fast Mail DNS because I moved my domain over there for email. Problem is that it doesn’t have an API for DNS updates, and that makes it bad for DynDNS. There are some web scraping libraries out there that can work for it, but those can easily break any time FastMail changes their interface.
For now, I’m just using the fact that my IP doesn’t change that often, and living with the fact that I’ll have to manually update it at some point.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 4 hours ago:
Sounds like a definition of success to me.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 hours ago:
Gonna be hard for some people to forget that .gov sites are compromised sources now.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 5 hours ago:
Haven’t innovated? 3D chip stacking?
CPU companies generally don’t change their micro-architecture, especially when it works.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 12 hours ago:
An effect you may be noticing is motion smoothing, or the lack of it.
If you play Pong on an old console, it likely moves the paddle at full speed the moment it gets input to move. There is no acceleration, not even a small one. This is very precise, but it also feels unnatural.
Modern versions will usually have some acceleration time that smooths out movement. It can be a very small effect, but it feels more natural and most people prefer it. It’s also less precise. People generally learn to compensate for it over time.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 12 hours ago:
You measure lag by taking the capture of a frame an input happens when it is halfway down the screen. Therefore, CRTs have input lag of half their refresh rate. For NTSC, that’s about 8ms. For PAL, 10ms.
Incidentally, a modern gaming LCD has a 2ms average pixel response time. Which is about the same as the difference between NTSC and PAL.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 13 hours ago:
If you’re measuring display lag the same way we measure it with modern LCDs, then yes, CRTs do have lag.
- Comment on otaku 1 day ago:
Only on the gray. Where do I get a gray?
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 1 day ago:
I predict this will end in complete success.
We shall define “success” later.
- Comment on paz 1 day ago:
There are certain times when opinions are too vile. If someone says gay marriage shouldn’t exist, or that drag queens are grooming children, or that transwomen are transitioning just so they can win at sports, that clearly comes from a place of complete misunderstanding so ingrained that I couldn’t be around them much.
These are reasonably common positions even among the “moderate” right.
- Comment on cycle 1 day ago:
It probably works better, and yes, it has other purposes, too. But do you need it to tell you this?
- Comment on cycle 1 day ago:
Do people need an app to tell them they’re horny?
This is like the old mood ring craze. For starters, they measure skin temperature. Does skin temperature correlate with mood? Kinda. Sorta. Not really. But let’s assume they work. Do you need a ring to tell you what you’re feeling? Maybe that’s a sign in itself that you have a poor connection with your emotional state.
Could they even work as a tool to help build that internal emotional attachment? Assuming they work at all, maybe. I don’t think people used them that way. Would the app do any better? Maybe.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 1 day ago:
One thing about the 350Z bit. When you have a two-door sports car, the doors tend to be noticeably longer than any four-door, and that does make it harder to get out when someone parks too close. Having had a 370Z in the past (which is basically the same frame as the 350Z), this is definitely the case there. I have an NC Miata now, and even on that the doors are longer than you might think.
By the looks of it, 350Z guy could have parked closer to the front of the lot if he wanted. He didn’t, on purpose, and still got jammed in for no reason.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 days ago:
I’m more thinking about how I’d have to go out of my way to hook this thing up and make it work on a fridge. It’s not like that just came with the fridge, or that wires are easily accessible for power and (presumably) switching it on and off when the door is closed. There’s some custom work here, and while I don’t think it’s a crazy amount of effort, it’s way more than I’m willing to go through for my personal favorite car company (Mazda).
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 days ago:
I don’t have an interest in being liked by Steve. I do have an interest in journalism outlets who are willing to say that a $4T market cap company is full of shit.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 days ago:
There are companies I like, but there’s a limit to my simping for any of them. Projection light on your fridge door crosses a line.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 days ago:
Fun fact: your intestines are also lungs. Or maybe more accurately, lungs evolved from intestines. It turns out, you can oxygenate people by sticking an oxygen supply up their ass. Which is a possible treatment for people who have suffered respiratory failure.
Proof that I’m not just blowing hot air up your butt, except maybe I am: science.org/…/mammals-can-breathe-through-their-i…
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 days ago:
Their bread and butter is hardware reviews and weekly news. No, they’re not a drama channel. Telling Linus to fuck off is a good idea regardless of views.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 2 days ago:
RAID1 combined with a separate backup drive, and ZFS with EEC RAM helps a lot, too (as another poster mentioned).
No, it’s not a full 3-2-1 backup solution, but you have to spend quite a bit as a data hoarder to actually get that. As far as I can tell, few data hoarders actually have a 3-2-1 backup without squinting about the details.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 days ago:
Some people have some real bad ideas about insulation. No, the air gap in your brick building isn’t good. Air gaps are cheap and easy, not good. They do belong in certain strategic locations, but they can’t compete with the R-value of filling the space with blown fiberglass. Not even close.
Windows, too. The best, most energy efficient window on the market is at least 3 times worse than a few inches of blown fiberglass. Industry marketing has confused customers on that one.
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 2 days ago:
You jest, but some level of image recognition can be useful for automatic lawn mowers. It’s not too much of a stretch to call that AI.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 days ago:
Most of the criticism comes from a chapter in “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” where he does some things close to what we now call PUA shit. In other words, picking up women at a bar by acting like an asshole.
Feynman also called it off after a test because he didn’t want to treat women that way.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 days ago:
Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 4 days ago:
Where is my foreskin, Summer?