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- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 21 minutes ago:
Which in practice will simply drive up the price: like refundable deposits
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 22 hours ago:
Deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” tech businesses and nonprofits, including its own
I mean, how else can you deplete a non-profits reserves?
- Comment on When I upvote a post and it increments by more than 1, I feel good knowing someone else was reading and up-voting it at about the same time. 1 day ago:
What you’re describing is what I meant to communicate; but may not have used the correct word for it.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 day ago:
Yeah, I guess if you want users to keep sharing “confessions, [] difficult debases, or silly inside jokes” through a platform you’ve acquired, E2EE might give the WhatsApp user the false sense of privacy required.
- Comment on There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with. 1 day ago:
In team sports, I suspect the dynamics between different players, and their inventiveness to outperform the opposing team, is what creates an interesting match; it’s quite strategic really. Team sports I enjoy most are: ice hockey (got to love the obnoxious truck horns and organ music haha), curling (the weird sport with the brooms: which affect the trajectory and placement quite a bit), doubles tennis (especially when front players duel intensively and the back players providing support).
If Alice argues all should be black, and Bob argues all should be white, Carol may add further context to the argument: creating a grey area if you will. In this case: Alice could argue all team sports suck, Bob could argue all team sports are great, and Carol may argue things are bit more “nuanced” than that: taking into consideration, both her interest in curling and her aversion to narcissistic soccer players, dropping themselves to the floor; like every 10 minutes.
- Comment on There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with. 1 day ago:
And those that are not in full support of a cause, neither fully opposed to it; but would rather see a more nuanced approach to the cause. As for the sport example: I initially don’t care for sports either; however have learned to appreciate some sports because I took the time to understand their intricacies.
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 day ago:
One would almost start to think the lawyers were out for the settlement money…
- Comment on When I upvote a post and it increments by more than 1, I feel good knowing someone else was reading and up-voting it at about the same time. 1 day ago:
As in a validation of your opinion?
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 day ago:
E2EE isn’t really relevant, when the “ends” have the functionality, to share data with Meta directly: as “reports”, “customer support”, “assistance” (Meta AI); where a UI element is the separation.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 6 days ago:
So multiple, nickel-titanium alloy tubes are stretched and released within the refrigerator, causing a temperature change in the alloy, the heat of which (pulled from the interior) transferred to the calcium chloride fluid, running through the tubes; to be transferred to the outdoor climate by use of a heat exchanger. Something along those lines?
- Comment on Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point 6 days ago:
Reliance wouldn’t be my primary concern, but rather the privacy implication. Perhaps it should use BLE to measure the distance between devices, to be able to discern the situations /s
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 6 days ago:
So the amend alleges, Nvidia having used/stored/copied/obtained/distributed copyrighted works (including plaintiffs’), both through databases available on HugginFace (‘Books3’ featured in both ‘The Pile’ and ‘SlimPajama’), or pirating from shadow libraries (like Anna’s Archive), to train multiple LLMs (primarily their ‘NeMo Megatron’ series), and distributing the copyrighted data through the ‘NeMo Megatron Framework’; data which was ultimately sourced from shadow libraries.
It’s quite an interesting read actually, especially the link to this Anna’s Archive blog post. Which it grossly pulls out of context, as plaintiffs clearly despise the shadow libraries too: as they have ultimately provided access to their copyrighted material.
Especially the part: “Most (but not all!) US-based companies reconsidered once they realized the illegal nature of our work. By contrast, Chinese firms have enthusiastically embraced our collection, apparently untroubled by its legality.” makes me wonder if that’s the reason why models like Deepseek blew Western models out of the water.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 6 days ago:
So a Mastodon ripoff, but its instances hosted by a single entity (effectively centralized): ensuring all instances residing within the European jurisdiction (allowing for full control over it). I don’t see how they genuinely believe, to have humans do the photo validation, when competing at the scale of X; especially when you run all the instances. Perhaps they could recruit volunteers to socialize the losses, as the platform privatizes the profits. Nothing but a privacy-centric approach however: said the privacy expert…
Zeiter emphasized that systemic disinformation is eroding public trust and weakening democratic decision-making … W will be legally the subsidiary of “We Don’t Have Time,” a media platform for climate action … A group of 54 members of the European Parliament [primarily Greens/EFA, Renew, The Left] called for European alternatives
It that doesn’t sound like a recipe, for swinging the pendulum to the other extreme (once more), I don’t know what does… Because can you imagine, a modern social media platform, not being a political echo chamber: not promoting extremism by use of filter bubbles, and instead allowing for deescalation through counter argumentation. One would almost start to think, for it all to be intentional: as a deeply divided population will never stand united, against their common oppressor.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 1 week ago:
Great, more hoops to jump thr… I mean… an “advanced flow”, for gaining the privilege of installing apps of your choosing
- Comment on Since men have a longer urethra, they can experience the pleasure of urinating more intensely :< 1 week ago:
Golden shower thought
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice 1 week ago:
innovationCOURAGE - Comment on DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice 1 week ago:
Maybe the best ad is to not have AI
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice 1 week ago:
THIS is how you do it, looking at you Brave: requiring me to (re)type my queries in the URL bar (appending ‘&summary=0’ to it), without having to store a cookie storing the setting…
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Phase 1: collect underpants, phased 2: ?, phase 3: profit. Seems like the gnomes’ business plan might contribute to said problem
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Showering longer and hotter heats the room ;)
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
I can’t. I ran out of wash cloths
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Gotta have that hot Brazilian wax
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I really like to believe, he’s blissfully unaware of the scale being completely off, because of map projection distortion. But it’s HUGE, it’s bigger than the United States!
- Comment on Without vowels there'd be no singing 1 week ago:
I’m all crusted up and ready to eat
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard it’s not best for one’s outer coating, it might get flaky at times
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Interesting. If my hair is short, and I wipe most water off my body, maybe I could manage that too. I do like how the conversation is gradually shifting to drying efficiency haha
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
What is this “sanity” you speak of?
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
There you go, free to shower as inefficiently as they see fit.
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Yeah, most towels are unnecessarily big, for the amount of moisture they’re required to absorb. I simply folded the towel in half (as wash cloths are double too), which fitted 4x5 of them haha.
- Comment on There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths 1 week ago:
Can’t image what that must be like, that sound difficult…