UnspecificGravity

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Cities at Risk of Sinking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. i don’t get the methodology here. Sea levels could increase ten feet and Seattle would lose like 5 city blocks. The AVERAGE elevation of Seattle is 180ft above sea level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1) You don’t. 2) Easy. The device constantly captures images of the user and checks them against the user image on file 3) By scanning a government issued ID and checking against an online database with poor security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And seeing her breast was like seeing an MRI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Roblox literally monetized unsupervised access to children as a premium feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference being that the Hindenburg was a perfectly functioning rigid airship that had a lot of inherent risks due to the nature of its design.

  AI isn’t good enough at its actual job to be in this position. The risk of AI is people pretending that it works when it doesn’t. It would be like if you made a blimp and filled it with carbon dioxide and people kept buying tickets and just sitting there waiting for it to take off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I still have to get into the terminal pretty routinely to do things that don’t have an effective GUI (let alone a touch capable GUI) and that would just be a deal killer for any kind of mass market handheld device. The steam deck is the closest thing that I can think of to something that could sorta be considered a proof of concept for Linux consumer devices and that took a LOT of money to develop and a massive built in revenue stream to support.

  If I got a free wish for a new valve product it would probably be for a vertical Gameboy pocket (or even folding Gameboy advanced) sized hand-held steam deck with a sim card and a mic. Probably only about a hundred people would buy it, but I would be one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is that there is already a bunch of shit developed for Linux so you aren’t really starting from zero. But yeah, I agree with your overall assessment. No one is going to be making hardware for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨misleading cover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced that there isn’t a whole lot of gay minotaur sex in this book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double standards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally every single halal certified carcass was joined like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung knows exactly how you'll use Galaxy S26 Ultra's 'Privacy Display' in teaser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when narrow viewing angles of an LCD screen would cost you ratings on a review. Good move marketing it as a “feature”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even figure out what “rougelike” is supposed to mean anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the scientific community would be pretty happy if you could share a better quantification of intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This article starts out by observing that Zuckerberg committed enough crimes to be sent to prison under existing law and then argues that the only solution is more laws?

  How about we just start making rich people subject to the same set of laws as everyone else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “find lost dogs” thing was likely the result of a single meeting with the agenda item “how do we sell this thing we are already doing as anything other than mass surveillance for state actors?” They probably ended it early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit, I'd pay $9⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those people are doing you a favor by letting you know that its not important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit, I'd pay $9⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that what your voicemail does?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Teach it the answers to the turning test and boom, “ai”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of it is that Reddit has gotten so bad that even casual users are noticing that it’s basically indistinguishable from any other corporate social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are suggesting that going to open source solutions won’t result in new industry in their countries (i.e. that Google won’t be opening offices and data centers and such there).

  It’s a pretty bogus statement anyways, but it’s not COMPLETELY senseless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends on your source.

  If we are talking about a downloaded good high bit rate MP3 and a FLAC, then yeah, I can’t hear a difference.

  For streaming, I CAN hear a difference between the default spotify stream and my locally stored lossless files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I buy headphone cables based on how nice the cable feels, if it transmits noise when it rubs against stuff, and how well the connectors fit into the devices I am using.

  My favorite is when people get picky about cabling for digital transfer. The ones and zeroes either get there or they don’t, nothing in-between. They work or they don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outlawing pedestrians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Geographic obstacles exist in other countries too. No country on earth removes every geographic obstacle to create a shortest possible-straight line walking path between every structure that exists. The idea that literally anyone would do this is absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outlawing pedestrians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there are plenty of countries on earth that don’t pave over their rivers so that you can build a business wherever you want without obstruction. What a stupid fucking notion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest mistake that the current administration is making (at least in terms of domestic commerce) is the complete failure to understand that consumer protections are NOT altruistic services given away to people. They are devices intended to increase consumer confidence and therefore consumer spending. A properly regulated market means that customers are confident that they will be given fair terms and will get what they have paid for. If you erode those protections the result is that consumers spend less.

  The governments role in a capitalist nation is to serve as a guarantor of the integrity of transactions within its jurisdiction. If it abdicates that responsibility people will curtail their spending commensurate with their perception of increased risk. In short, people stop buying shit when they view those purchases as risky.

  Since Trump and his cohort have never actually engaged in LEGITIGIMATE business they view these regulations exclusively as impediments when the reality is that they greatly benefit corporations in a consumer driven economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a NEST camera from Google, which is only a meaningful distinction because it means they ALL do this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t really making a ton of games that justify a costly upgrade anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Your data is stolen and it’s never going to be used in a way that benefits you unless you’re really fucking important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are desperate to make it look like the google cameras aren’t recording and saving data 24/7 regardless of whether you have an account or not.