SaraTonin
@SaraTonin@lemmy.world
- Comment on They were well informed. 6 hours ago:
I don’t think this is accurate. I think they’re brought in by the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 15 hours ago:
I’ll buy the VR headset if, as well as streaming games, you can also play video/mirror your desktop. I know that’s not the market they’re going for, but it seems to me that those are the main use-cases of VR headsets aside from gaming and to my non-tech way of thinking it doesn’t seem harder than streaming a game.
- Comment on Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care. 1 day ago:
The law used to arrest protesters, section 13 of Britain’s Terrorism Act 2000, makes it a crime to wear, carry or display an object in circumstances that “arouse reasonable suspicion” that someone is a member or supporter of a proscribed organization, and can be punished with up to six months in prison.
This is bot highlighted enough. What’s the crime? Is it bring a member of a terrorist organisation? No. Is it being a supporter of a terrorist organisation? No. It is a crime to be suspected of being a supporter of a terrorist organisation.
That’s what’s illegal. Having a police officer look at you and think you might be up to something. Whether or not you actually are is irrelevant. Someone else’s suspicion of you means that you have committed a crime. A crime which could see you spend 6 months in prison.
Leaving everything else aside, I’m sure there’s no way this could lead to discrimination on the basis of race or religion.
This is something the government should be repealing, not applying to grannies holding signs.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 days ago:
The promise of passkeys when i first grad about them was that it would be quick and easy - that you wouldn’t need to enter a username or use 2fa. The reality appears to be that this is that it’s used ** as** 2fa
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 days ago:
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 days ago:
Here’s a fun fact: phone manufacturers know this. So what they call “100%” is not actually 100%. Your phone will not charge your battery to full. Battery charging is already designed around this.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 days ago:
I already said you didn’t read the article. You didn’t have to prove it.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 5 days ago:
I’m not sure if this kind of thing is just about enriching himself. Of course that’s a big part of it. But he also wants to be a great man of history. He wants to be the person who saves the world. He wants to be forever remembered as the greatest hero who ever lived.
He won’t, of course. Because he’s a clueless idiot. A clueless idiot who managed to fuck up his own PR so hard that he’s burnt away the reputation as a genius that he used to have.
But he really does want to be adored.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 days ago:
This seems like a) you didn’t read the article, and b) that you yourself are homophobic.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
This is the kind of thing that a dude who’s never been in a relationship with a woman thinks
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 6 days ago:
Not any more, there’s a blanket
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
It’s tricky business. The idea has to be plausible enough to attract investors, but implausible enough not to get looked at too closely by clever investors. Similarly, you have to drum up enough publicity to get interest, but not enough to get scrutiny.
Get the balance wrong and you get Theranos.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
As an aside, you can tell how successful the rebranding of twitter as “x” has been, since even now more than 2 years after the rebranding news articles still have to add “formerly known as twitter” every time they mention it.
- Comment on This is exactly what it feels like to watch some ads with motivational slogan, by some company who want just to sell you useless shit. 1 week ago:
I remember when, to make a point,a blogger put Hitler quotes over images of Taylor Swift and people shared them around
- Comment on What 1 week ago:
I once saw a Japanese person post that if you can’t think of a word in Japanese and instead just say the English word in a really racist Japanese accent, then you’ve got about a 50% chance of being right
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
Yeah, that took a turn
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
Okay, if you prefer to frame the flaws in your reasoning like that, then I’m happy to do so. That doesn’t make the conclusion less flawed. The conversation isn’t about the hows and whyfores of formal logic, it’s about whether the conclusion is likely to be true.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
None of what you’ve said ameliorates the faulty logic I highlighted. You have instead just added more assumptions.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 1 week ago:
Ooh, I might have to investigate that. I love pomegranate, but I never buy them because it’s just so much work. If there’s a quick and easy way to get to the good stuff, I might have to revise my strategy.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
There’s a few wild leaps in logic, here.
Firstly, we know of life evolving once. Just one planet. In the entire universe. We can postulate that with such a vast universe (and possibly multiverse) that it’s probable that other life exists elsewhere, but we don’t know that. It could be a unique event or an incredibly rare event. We can’t say, because 1 is way too small a sample size to extrapolate from.
But you’re not even extrapolating from 1 datapoint. You’re extrapolating from something that you think might be true at some point in the future.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
If we’re in a simulation then we’d have no idea what’s outside that simulation, so we’d have no idea what an easter egg would look like.
But it’s not my job to find evidence to prove other people’s claims. It’s their job to provide evidence for those claims. That’s true regardless of whether the claim is that we live in a simulation, that we’re ruled over by a benevolent omnipotent god, or whether there’s a teapot orbiting between Mars and the sun.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 1 week ago:
I tend to use perplexity now. It gives me useful results maybe 80% of the time. That’s a low hit rate, but for many queries it’s better than other search engines.
Or i just search a dedicated site. If I’m looking for an overview of something i search Wikipedia directly. If i want to know what an actor has been in i stretch IMDb directly. And so on.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 1 week ago:
I once heard it described as “there’s no computer problem on Earth that can’t be solved by watching a YouTube video by a random 13 year-old Indian kid“
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 1 week ago:
Halloween has literally just happened. How many demons did you slay?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 week ago:
I mean, simulation theory is kind of a joke itself. It’s a fun thought experiment, but ultimately it’s just solipsism repackaged.
In reality there’s no more evidence for it than there is for you being a butterfly dreaming it’s a man. And it seems to me that the only reason people take it at all seriously in the modern age is because Elon Musk said he believed it back when he had a good enough PR team that people thought he was worth listening to.
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 1 week ago:
Oh, I misread the “oooaaaaahhhaaaaaaahhh” bit, so my mind went Kelis, I Hate You So Much Right Now
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 week ago:
It also puts pressure on non-AI companies to integrate AI into their products, regardless of whether or not it improves the product. If you can say “look, we’ve got AI” then you’ll find it easier to attract new investors and keep your current ones happy. If you don’t have AI, then you risk looking behind the curve.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 week ago:
Is this some strawberries aren’t berries but cucumbers are stuff?
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 week ago:
Microsoft just had a push for CoPilot in Excel. Its own promotional material said that for the tasks it was most suited to it had a success rate of 56%. For other tasks the success rate was 20%.
Imagine relying on that for anything even halfway important.