kent_eh

@kent_eh@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows MR Headsets No Longer Work In Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I choose open source whenever I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.

  Can’t think of any others from the last few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the US is really fucking hoping Putin dies of old age or is voted out domestically

  Or is killed by disgruntled Russians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the author is getting paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep digging, “Leon”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  expect quality at Amazon to decline.

  They’ll have to dig a new basement for it to get any lower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They tried to do the same to me on Instagram.

  Nope, it’s not worth that level of privacy invasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if there is a warrant issued for his arrest, his secret service detail would need to arrest him.

  Also if he tried to flee the country, I would expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, there is a very valid reason why things like batteries are so expensive to replace and why you can’t find replacement batteries for a lot of products a certain amount of time after production ends.

  On the other other hand, there are tons of commonly available industry standard batteries that a manufacturer could choose to use, if they wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But people don’t want that.

  Until something goes wrong and they discover (usually too late) that they actually did want that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, don’t connect your TV to the internet

  Until the first use menu gauntlet requires an internet connection to complete setup and enable the device for normal usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Smart” devices are getting increasingly difficult to avoid in many products categories.

  Try buying a non-smart TV without going to high cost commercial/industrial models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers.

  Stephen King is going to be in big trouble if these AI thingies notice him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: I agree about junior devs not blindly trusting them though. They don’t yet know where to draw the X.

  The problem (one of the problems) is that people do lean too heavily on the AI tools when they’re inexperienced and never learn for themselves “where to draw the X”.

  If I’m hiring a dev for my team, I want them to be able to think for themselves, and not be completely reliant on some LLM or other crutch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it also shifts their current load off the existing grid, that might be beneficial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I guess if they just replaced the control system with a modern computer that would fix most of the problems

  Introducing new Clippy for reactors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  with some maintenance and upgrades.

  Hopefully we can trust these tech bros to do that properly and without using their usual “move fast and break things” approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the hell do I sign up for facebook?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instagram wanted that to re-activate my account after they froze it due to “inactivity” because I hadn’t logged into it in a couple of months.

  I noped out and abandoned it (because I couldn’t even delete it without first going through the privacy invision to reactivate it and login…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  besides the direct deaths and injuries, this attack also targeted lines of communication and trust

  Exactly. The psychological impact of this attack should not be underestimated.

  It will have Hamas’ leadership and operatives second guessing so many of the mundane things that they interact with on a daily basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  unlike most terrorism it does not target civilians.

  Also, unlike most of the IDF attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a blast from the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you ask for a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much.

  Just reverse this shape by a few months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Complains about the crap on Facebook by re-posting that same crap to lemmy…

  .

  I manage to avoid all that crap on Facebook by… not using Facebook.

  If it’s so full of garbage, what’s the attraction? Why keep going there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump will do whatever Bibi whispers in his ear when it comes to Israel and its enemies neighbors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of his problems are also from the lack of available parts.

  Which is why he has multiples of some of the orphaned cars in his fleet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  keep an IOT connection alive to get the data they need from the car

  The data they want, not need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have zero desire for a cloud connected car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  unchecked capitalism makes everything worse.

  Both in the context of this discussion and in society in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used my religion as an excuse for the sexism and homophobia

  I’m my experience that is extremely common.