SkyNTP

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a tradeoff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ELI5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This situation has come to be, through the ignorance and inaction of ordinary people. Your attitude is part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t need immortal billionaires sucking up everyone’s oxygen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You would never say

  "What’s YOUR name?

  “How old are YOU?”

  “Where ARE you from?”

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up with a Nintendo controller in hand.

  There’s a very good reason I now game almost exclusively on PC. None of what Nintendo is doing is going to convince me to come back. Quite the opposite in fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cause consumers let them.

  Why do consumers let them? It’s just step one of enshittification : first, be nice to your customers until they become dependent on you and you’re the only game in town…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OG had three CD’s, three major acts, across a pretty epic journey. Breaking it up into three parts is really not that surprising.

  Personally, I love the expanded development of characters like Jessie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me take this a step absurdly far:

  You may be slightly more buoyant (and therefore apply less force on a scale) everytime you breath in. It’s not the presence of air that has this effect, it’s the decrease in density of your total body (mass/volume) that has that effect. (Helium just contributes a fractional more difference in density compared to air, but how much you breath in probably matters much more than what you breath)

  Except, maybe not. Because the air you breath in partially dissolves in your blood. Dissolved matter does not decrease density, rather the opposite: it packs tightly into the voids, increasing mass for the same volume.

  How much of an effect this has is hugely debatable, probably depends on a dozen biological and circumstantial factors, and this is where my knowledge ends. But it’s fun to imagine.

  However, if you can imagine inhaling but holding your breath at the same time, creating a vacuum in your lungs, then yes, you would be more buoyant, even more than inhaling helium, and the scale would read slightly less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Open the tv and rip out the antenna. Y’all already forgot the classic secret agent trope of checking the hotel room for bugs? Now we all get to play that game!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno. You could throw yourself down the stairs. It’s an awful choice, but you could still do it…

  The point is, a choice with all kinds of negative consequences to it isn’t really a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Canada, I find the prices pretty neck and neck. Small items tend to be a bit cheaper at the stores, since there is very little overhead for them to carry small items compared to Amazon’s picking and delivery logistics. Big items tend to be a bit cheaper on Amazon. For tech specifically, Best Buy price matches items, so it’s not that bad… Memory express and CC sometimes have lower prices than Amazon too (see PCPartPicker).

  The main reason to use Amazon is you can easily find some really obscure stuff. Then again, you can buy direct from manufacturer, like Vevor, for often cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a corner with an angle of 180 degrees a corner? If yes, then all shapes have infinite corners and infinite edges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did anyone stop to ask themselves if we even would want to watch AI videos?

  Of course not.

  I, and I suspect many other people, watch YouTube for the people in the videos and their experiences (or at least the illusion of that). Watching fake videos defeats the whole purpose.

  AITube sounds like nothing more than a kaleidoscope with extra steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what happens when you aren’t the (sole) paying customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think anyone familiar with the laws of thermodynamics could have predicted this outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not how patents work. At all.

  For one, patent owners are generally more than happy to license their technology to integrators, and even competitors, if there is money to be made.

  More importantly, patents cannot be used to get exclusivity on products. Rather, patents can only protect novel approaches to how a product is made or served.

  The patent system is designed to protect R&D costs, not circumvent anti trust. Of course, the patent office isn’t perfect, the system does get abused in anti-competitive ways. But in the end, it’s rare that that results in less consumer choice, because of licensing deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a triangle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no rule that the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees.

  I think this is debatable. If it was not, then the answer to OP’s question would be obvious, and this thread would be uninteresting. The words we use carry a lot of unwritten baggage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elements of Renewable Energy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Biomass and hydro* aren’t storage for intermittent power (*except pumped hydro). Rather they are natural sources of accumulated solar power that can be tapped on demand. In that sense, so is geothermal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is backwards.

  Marriage is more analogous to a birthday. (A personal change in status)

  Wedding is more analogous to a birthday party (i.e. the event celebrating the change in status).

  As you pointed out in your logic, the birthday gift isn’t really about the birthday party, just like the ring doesn’t commemorate the wedding celebration, it commemorates your new marital status.

  Unless of course you are the kind of person that is so focused on the wedding celebration that you forget the reason why you are celebrating to begin with (spoiler: you are making a commitment and entering a new life stage).

  I think OP is on to something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California Approves Privacy Bill Requiring Opt-Out Tools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GDPR gave us the cookie banner that both consumers and website owners hate. Legislation absolutely can affect change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do boomers hate squirrels so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-boomer here, I hate squirrels.

  If you try to grow your own vegetables, you too will come grow to hate squirrels. I promise. Ageism need not apply to squirrel hate or vegetable enthusiasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't everything mouldy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for contributing to make the fediverse a more interesting place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are “regressives”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield Update Tonight adds the REV-8 Vehicle.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wake me up when a game about exploration actually has exploration in it. Loading screens, fast travel, shallow space content, minimally consequential space ship building…

  Sure, in this game you “go places”, but you go places to be there, ignoring all the excitement of what has to happen to get there and what happens along the way. That’s not really exploration. That’s just a level select screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, more anticompetitive shenanigans.

  Break Google up. Bring the full force of antitrust down on them.

  Anything else is an unmitigated disaster waiting to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generative AI is incapable of contributing new material, because Generative AI does not sense the world through a unique perspective. So the comparison to creators that incorporate prior artists work is a false comparison. Artists are allowed to incorporate other artists work in the same way that scientists cite other’s work without it being plagiarism.

  In art, in science, we stand on the shoulders of giants. AI models do not stand on the shoulders of giants. AI models just replicate the giants. Society has been fooled to think otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said this before, I’m going to say it again: people with money spend it to save time.

  Managing 2FA, software updates, account signin, device pairing, billing, privacy policy updates, cookie notices… This shit does not save people time. It does the complete opposite.

  These products are for no one. These products are purely anticompetitive schemes, propping up crappy business models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two slightly off centre parallel universes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this meme would be 450% better with parralax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google dropping ublock origin represents a flawless David vs Goliath victory for its developer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not totally wrong, but I think if you were totally right, the internet as a world-changing technology would have never come to be in the first place. An internet operated by a single company is basically just a cable service. I think right now there certainly is apathy in the public consciousness towards the value add of keeping the internet decentralized, because it is taken for granted. But I think this is temporary, human society has always been reactionary in that way, we let things back slide, until it gets bad, and we only do something about it when we feel the pain.