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- Comment on Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war? 12 hours ago:
Because Hamas then wouldn’t stand a chance and prefers to use the civillians as tactical asset to increase there odds, which is asshole-behaviour.
And because the Israelis decided to don’t care about this civilians any more, which is also asshole behaviour.So, in short: because both are assholes.
- Comment on when hell freezes 14 hours ago:
Just smile and wave!
- Comment on Dazzling! 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 2 weeks ago:
Fascinating read.
I liked learning about the “Simon effect”, only knew about similar, non-spatial ones (colours)…
And I might give non-inverted controls a try, although being a die-hard inverter.
At least it will be some brain stimulus to keep me from cognitive aging to fast. Like changing the mouse hand from right to left and back again once in a while. - Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 2 weeks ago:
As others already wrote, the original meaning has been specific to awareness of racial discrimination, later broadened to general discrimination topics.
But that is just the US, and e.g. in Germany these roots (and also the connection to wake/asleep) are mostly missing.
So it is just a normal imported word, with no clear antonym existing.
Also because of this only recent import of the term, it is less connected to its original meaning, but often only associated with a well-intended, but superficial kind of activism.
E.g. it is heavily associated with a generally not very popular over-gendering going on in official and news texts, which leads to a broken kind of the German language. (German is heavily gendered, but a word’s gender often has nothing to do with the sexual gender).So the term had a somewhat negative connotation to begin with, even in more progressive circles.
Doesn’t hinder the far right from doing anti-woke campaigns nonetheless, wokism is just such a nice (but actually in the broader population none-existent) opponent. And they use the term “Anti-Woke”, because it just makes sense for an imported word. - Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 weeks ago:
You have some autocorrect typo there:
“That’s all I was singing when I saw the hole.” - Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 weeks ago:
Mandatory soundtrack:
youtu.be/34CZjsEI1yU - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
what is needed to run win 11.
And that would be?
x86 processors are fairly standardized, I don’t see anything that could be the reason for such exclusions…? - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Well there is a big difference between switching the CPU architecture altogether and just arbitrarily declaring a slightly older CPU with the exact same instruction set to be “outdated”.
Also, the customer profile of Apple users and Windows users is somewhat different. You won’t find a lot of Macs at normal peoples homes in e.g. Indonesia… - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Well, we are talking about half the active PCs still running Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.
That’s a lot more than just the few “I don’t care”-people.Instead it consist mainly of the “I don’t have the means” people, that don’t have the Hardware required to upgrade and also not the money to quickly change that.
Microsoft screwed up here. There simple was no need to demand such harsh hardware requirements and especially no need to enforce them that hard.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
I agree that would have been the sensible way to go… Together with an “Install at your own risk” message when trying to upgrade a PC containing an older CPU…
I really don’t know what their reasoning is to enforce the requirements so hard for everyone. - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
First major requirement is the presence of a recent TPM module, which is absolutely not required performance-wise, but only for DRM-reasons (and read that as “Digital Restriction Management”).
Second even more arbitrary one is that they excluded all CPUs before at least Coffee Lake generation. Perhaps half of the PC stuff people I know to be running at home is still from the mid-2010s, so practically completely pre-Coffee-Lake.
And the IT infrastructure of the e.g. the German executive government branches is on average probably more in the range of 15 years old. A surprising lot of that isn’t even fully switched to Windows 10 yet… (hey, at least we are increasingly migrating away from Telefax…!) - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Wait…
Excluding half of the active PCs or so from upgrade due to arbitrary hardware constraints didn’t push upgrading?
How can this be??? 😯🫢 - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Well, a mindless, repetitive task prone to errors and a task requiring obscure knowledge (“d” as a synonym for dick… one of those self-censoring Gen-Z things?)
Nice to now have tools to solve these tasks and gain some time to do more interesting stuff instead. Lively discussions on Lemmy, e.g. ;-) - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t understand your comment, so I asked the same LLM as before.
It explained it and I think that I get it now. Low-grade middle-school-“Your Mom”-joke, is it? Ha-ha… 🙄This also means that AI did better than myself at both tasks I’ve given it today (I found only 9 states with “d” when going over the state-list myself…).
Whatever. I’m gonna have second lunch now.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No, this is Google throwing the cheapest possible shit at you that is barely capable of stringing together 5 coherent sentences but has the reasoning capability of a tapeworm.
Here is the output of the output of the minimalist open Chinese model Qwen3, that runs locally on my 6 year old mid-end PC:
The US states that contain the letter "d" (case-insensitive, as state names are typically capitalized) are as follows. I've verified each state name for the presence of the letter "d" in its standard spelling: Colorado (contains "d" in "Colorado") Delaware (starts with "D") Florida (contains "d" in "Florida") Idaho (contains "d" in "Idaho") Indiana (contains "d" in "Indiana") Maryland (ends with "d" in "Maryland") Nevada (contains "d" in "Nevada") North Dakota (contains "d" in "Dakota") Rhode Island (contains "d" in "Rhode") South Dakota (contains "d" in "Dakota") Total: 10 states.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, will try that!
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 weeks ago:
And Reddit completely.blocks you from reading when coming from a VPN exit, unless you are logged in (at least with. MullvadVPN).
Brave new world… :-( - Comment on TSMC is Set To Raise Prices of Cutting-Edge Chips By Up To 10%, As It Tries to Maintain Profit Margins With 'Hefty' US Tariffs 4 weeks ago:
10% higher prices for the US, right?
…RIGHT?? - Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 4 weeks ago:
Google <-> Browser
[Add “They are the same” Meme here]
- Comment on Indoor lettuce growing in 3D printed pots 5 weeks ago:
Sure… a typical setup strictly for growing “lettuce”. Nothing else to see here…!
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 5 weeks ago:
Not only the U.S. grid is weak compared to China’s… Strategically China seems to be outpacing the U.S. on many fronts, being much more stringent and focused on long term goals than the chaotic U.S. at the moment. I really don’t like the idea of living in a world with China as the leading nation, but it increasingly seems like the most probable development in the mid to long run. And transition will likely not be smooth…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.
- Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
That surprisingly wasn’t that hard, actually.
One side of the family already settled on Threema for communication years ago, the other side I had to first show it to and help with installing, but now they are even using it in other contexts.
And apparently I live in a bubble that is quite open to Signal, so most of the people I know at least use it in parallel to WhatsApp. And for the rest there is still RCS.
The actual hard part are (since I became a parent) all the WhatsApp groups that exist for most kinds of organized child activity, including distributing much of the crucial information regarding school.
Also at my wife’s work WhatsApp is standard for coordinating with the colleagues.For that purposes we use an old customized WhatsApp-only smartphone, that is used by the family like some old-fashioned fixed phone-terminal, only for messaging…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I already hate peanut butter, you don’t have to convince me any more! ;-)
- Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just weird hobbies here, but basically all that are somehow organized.
Also a lot of relevant school information is only shared within parent groups within WhatsApp.
My complete WhatsApp-boycott lasted exactly until the first of my childs entered school… :-( - Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
No, in a very private part of the Cloud, so don’t be afraid!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If we allow for scientific names, the winner would probably be “Aa”, the name of a type of plant.
But I personally would not count them, as not part of everyday language.
I asked an AI if it could come up with other suggestions. It burned up 5000 tokens while thinking and successfully found “Alabama”.
So I think banana lost its first place in any case… - Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“Strange times for the berry club…”
I love that comic strip! :-)
