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- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 days ago:
Hes a bucket of shit that was and out and proud “race realist” until he got popular and backpedalled his earlier articles.
- Comment on What a great idea 4 days ago:
Go to costco.
Extra cluster fuck challenge: go when they jave samples.
- Comment on Every anime ever… 6 days ago:
There are whole seasons of the anime that are a break, and im not even talking about the “catch up” ones that are 8 episodes long.
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 1 week ago:
US still just averages 65 kilometers per day.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 1 week ago:
That is wildly expensive for a emotercycle, but maybe not if they are legitimate solid state.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 2 weeks ago:
Great info, but want to add that heat pump efficency is normally around 300%, which is why they are so cost effective. 1500w in a heat pump is around the same as 4500w resistive.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
Mythbusters tested this and I beleive found no difference at all.
If you want a sanitized toothbrush, you’ll need to use one of the UV cases.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 2 weeks ago:
Theones in the article had a fridge, microwave and kettle. No sink, countertop or actual plumbing, which is a pretty core part of a kitchen. At least the above looks like a barely functional kitchnet.
The UK landlords just slapped cheap, non permanant appliances in the room and called it a kitchen.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 3 weeks ago:
Likely cloned Netflix’s “netflix in a box” arctecture, where they drop a large 200TB+ NAS in different CDN datecenters with their most populuar content cached so that total traffic is minimal across the internet at large.
Spotify mainly being music with very little video likely makes this even easier.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
The AI assets were only patched out at day 5 because fans noticed them.. The devs likely rolled it into that patch because of the fans catching it in the live game.
The issue at hand, as the article above goes into, is that the devs said that they used no AI at all in developement, which is a condition of the award. They did however, as these assets and the devs themselves comfirmed in various interviews. They lied to the Indie game awards and violated its conditions.
Revoking the award seems like a pretty reasonable response on the IGA’s part when the dev explicitly lied to you to win an award.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 3 weeks ago:
They have lost dozens of court cases in as many countries. They are still up.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
Thats not ambuguity. AI will be opt out in firefox, which is them abandoning core principles like user choice and privacy.
They can do that, but playing like they arebt by redefining well established term in UI/UX to try to hide the fact that they are is disengenious, and cuts right through the “we will earn your trust back” messaging made by the same dev.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
No, go deeper into that thread.
The dev has a really hinky defention of “opt-in” thats basicslly “yes we push all this on by default and realize it will be the nirm for most of our users because of that, but you technically dont have to interact with it so thats opt-in.”
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
“On by default unless you run down a setting buried in a menu” is the thinnest type of optional in computing.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 4 weeks ago:
They have had to hop countries a half dozen times. They are already enemy #1, in piracy terms, so I expect they are okay leaning into it and doijg mkre good for the world.
- Comment on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 4 weeks ago:
Losing some market share to other vendors that allow it.
Its entirely an attempt to recapture the big name authors like Brian Sanderson peeling off to either their own or vendors like kobo that will publish drm free books.
- Comment on until next year 5 weeks ago:
The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broekn up reaction shots from wach of the 26 charectors in any random episode.
Art.
- Comment on happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate 5 weeks ago:
Bang apprently is cops energy drink of choice.
- Comment on Chart: Geothermal energy is attracting more and more investment 5 weeks ago:
Its not. Its still experimental, but geothermal is showing real promise for clean, steady state power pretty much anywhere with no fuel requirements.
Some estimates place the power potential of geothermal in the US to be around 20% of power needs.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Ive worked with a fractional CISO. He was scattered, but was insanly useful about setting roadmaps, writting procedure/docs, working audits and correcting us moving in bad directions.
Fractional is way better than none.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
You can vibe write and vibe edit a movie now too. They also turn out shit.
The issue is that llm isnt a person with skills and knowledge. Its a complex guessing box that gets thing kinda right, but not actually right, and it absolutely cant tell whats right or not. It has no actual skills or experience or humainty that a director can expect a writer or editor to have.
- Comment on Dude's rock 1 month ago:
Its a big list, but most have at least severe, untreated PTSD.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
Cause hulk hogan was a trump boosting racist?
The fruit was rotting on the ground, mate.
- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 1 month ago:
Im seeing a lot of research being done in the cattle/panels area, although most of it appears recently and is partially stymied by the rollback of solar funds. This seems like a solid place to start.
- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 1 month ago:
Thats great to here. From what ive read sheep are easy to graze under most panels. For cattle, the panels will likely need to be 10+ feet up, as they are so large. This is more expensive, but is doable.
- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 1 month ago:
Batteries are effectivly another “power plant” on the grid. They have different charectoristics than hydro/nat gas/coal/etc, but most of them are postive, like being able go kick on immedialty, versus some lag time with the others as power demand moves around.
They are a great natural compliment to solar/wind, as they collect excess power for use when these sources lag, smoothing the curve out for the two cheaoest sources of power. They thenselves are also cheap and getting cheaper.
If youre our in a rural area, you may be able to do a microgrid based on agrivoltaics, i.e farming/ranching in harmony with solar panels. Turns out lots of crops like the shade and increases moisture that solar panels provide, especially grasses/clover that sheep or cattle can graze while the farm makes passive income from the sun.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 month ago:
Same dev makes a good kodi remote called Yatze too.
- Comment on Krueger, Gallagher Introduce SUNNY Act To Support Balcony Solar in New York 1 month ago:
Tons of panels are UL listed, including the ones on amazon. I assume the dame for temu, but have no inclination to check.
Generally these “solar balcony” kits are all in one setups with a power regulator and sometimes a battery built in. The power regulator makes sure no power flows back into the grid when the grid is down, for safety. You can check out the option in Utah to see whats availble.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 month ago:
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 month ago:
Feel free to draw whatever line or excuse whatever behavior however you like.
At this point I would prefer to support the Immich devs directly without Futos involvement, but thats likely not possible.