AnonStoleMyPants
@AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July? 4 months ago:
Probably civ 6. I have like 20h under my belt in the last two years, maybe it’ll go up during the weekend!
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
But that same argument works the other way too, no? If you define a chicken egg as an egg that came from a chicken, then if you have a dozen of eggs you cannot know whether they’re chicken eggs or whatever eggs unless you know specifically a chicken laid them. Even if you take a dna test of it and it comes back as “a chicken”, you cannot know whether it is in fact a chicken egg.
In the other definition you are capable of determining whether the egg is in fact a chicken egg by its contents.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
No, the shicken egg was a shicken egg even prior to you eating it. The act of giving it a name is irrelevant. The proto-chicken could’ve lain a hundred eggs, each becoming a new “chicken”. If 99 of them die off and are never born then that does not mean they didn’t exist. It just means they did not exist in a way where we could’ve given them a name.
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 6 months ago:
Could be fun, I’ll take a gander, thanks!
- Comment on Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 7 months ago:
The report is interesting but also a bit misleading. It includes all emissions from a product as being from the company that made it. So you buy a car and drive it around for 100 000km and the pollution from that driving is attributed to the company.
- Comment on What can I use to readd rounded part on print? 7 months ago:
Re-print the area you messed up, glue, and sand again?
- Comment on Vegan products not always safe for people with dairy allergy, watchdog says 8 months ago:
So none of the links say that the statement is “badly flawed”. Two of them arw about consultation on this labeling or in allergens in general, and two mention that the labeling is a problem because it is not required / there is no clear policy behind it.
Sure, I agree that there should be a policy about when the label is required.
- Comment on Vegan products not always safe for people with dairy allergy, watchdog says 8 months ago:
Wait why not? Or do you mean that the terminology is off or? And how is it get out of jail free card? If the label is there then it has been made in a factory where the manufacturer cannot guarantee cross-contamination free product. Seems perfectly fine to me, most people have no issue with that. If you are very allergic to dairy for instance then obviously you should not use these products. Same as with tons of allergies.
- Comment on Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform 8 months ago:
Lmao that was gold.
- Comment on Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows 8 months ago:
Thankfully you can right click the “back” button and it’ll give you a list of couple of last sites and you can just so it from there. It is still annoying though.
- Comment on Help choosing an android tv box 9 months ago:
Man, I wish I could chromecast netflix from my phone but apparently Netflix now requires you to use their app.
I should get smarttube though.
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 9 months ago:
Company does a thing required by law.
Pikachu face.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 9 months ago:
I should play Rimworld one of these days. Always heard good things but just never got around it.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 10 months ago:
Interesting material considering that one issue with graphene and carbon nanotubes etc tends to be that small defects in the crystal lattice majorly affect its mechanical properties. And it is very difficult to manufacture things with no defects. This being an amorphous material could mean that it is much more robust to local defects. Though I only skimmed the article.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 10 months ago:
Weird comment considering that graphene is regularly produced in wafer scale.
- Comment on UN banned Apollo Fusion's business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space 10 months ago:
It’s an ion thruster, not a rocket per say. You cannot use it in lower atmosphere at all (well you can but it doesn’t do much), unfortunately some of the propellant would still find its way to the atmosphere.
The market of small thrusters for steering satellites is much larger than building actual rockets that take those satellites to orbit.
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 10 months ago:
That is kinda disappointing. I had a distaste for Brave after all the initial controversy regarding the ad blocking, which only got worse from the crypto crap they now have in the browser.
I’ll still keep paying for Kagi, but this is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion. Let’s hope at least the results get noticeably better.
- Comment on One month ago, I didn't really know what 3D printing was. Yesterday, I designed in FreeCAD my first model and printed it. What an amazing experience. 10 months ago:
What a shitty limitation though.
- Comment on Making Awesome 166 - Bambu Lab, Segment about Bambu and decrypted Bambu Logs. 10 months ago:
Sure yes I agree that it is shady and weird that they just don’t say what data is being sent. Not really sure why they don’t.
It’s not that the data being sent is like too much or too in detail (though maybe WiFi ssid is unnecessary), it’s just that the company is weirdly not being upfront about this.
- Comment on Making Awesome 166 - Bambu Lab, Segment about Bambu and decrypted Bambu Logs. 10 months ago:
Yeah after reading about this I feel like this is nothing. Is it weird that the logs include stuff like sensor data of your printer? Or that they send the model? Isn’t that the entire point of the help function and logging.
The open-source copyright violations are an issue though, should those be factual.
- Comment on Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court 10 months ago:
I doubt that’s how the password is used for. More like they copy all contents of the phone and ask the password to go through encryption. The data is already there, accounts don’t matter.
This is also the reason why it’s no good to have a dead man’s switch or the like, as in a certain password just wipes everything. You’d just get arrested for destroying evidence and they continue from a copy.
- Comment on Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich 10 months ago:
Weird that people argue about this. If the value of a company is being talked about, then stocks is what people generally refer to. Now, if you’d specify and talk about some other value, then sure, but if only “value” is being mentioned I see no reason to think it would mean something else than stocks.
- Comment on Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people 10 months ago:
Good breakdown on this in arstechnica:
In a statement emailed to Ars Technica, Cox Media Group said that its advertising tools include “third-party vendor products powered by data sets sourced from users by various social media and other applications then packaged and resold to data servicers.” The statement continues:
Advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by these platforms and devices under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users, and can then be sold to third-party companies and converted into anonymized information for advertisers. This anonymized data then is resold by numerous advertising companies.
The company added that it does not “listen to any conversations or have access to anything beyond a third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted data set that can be used for ad placement” and “regret[s] any confusion.”
- Comment on McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup 10 months ago:
Big corporations doing shady shit fucking over (or buying out) small companies trying to fix the shady shit to make the lives of the customers of said big business a bit easier.
Not sure what to say. Seems like the standard nowadays.
- Comment on Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash 10 months ago:
Oh no, almost visible tits!? Nono we can’t have that, it’ll morally bankrupt our audience.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
That’s not really how they work, or that is not the only way. Their point is to put the logo, slogans, company etc into your memory. This way when you’re shopping for something specific, then the brand pops out to you because you’ve seen it and it gives you a sense of familiarity and hence, higher trust.
- Comment on Simplest For End User Wiki/Knowlege Repo for the end user 11 months ago:
Something like docuwiki maybe, it looks like Wikipedia so everyone would immediately feel at home there.
- Comment on Giving blood exception 11 months ago:
Weird that it is entirety of Europe. In Finland it is only asked if you’ve been in or lived in the UK in the 90s iirc.
- Comment on Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits | Be careful what you watch 11 months ago:
No idea, sorry.
- Comment on Hold 11 months ago:
Yeah it was a nice law but 30 days is really short time. Should be like 6 months imo.