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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What crystal ball told you this was temporary? Every day for the past few years the consumer market moves further and further into serving only the wealthy. The people in power don’t care about selling RAM or other scraps to peasants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much earth would compress and expand if all of it was 50°C⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The earth’s core is about 5500C and is mostly composed of iron and nickel, probably. Presumably, it would shrink tremendously going from 5500C to 0C so in theory you could calculate the rate of shrinkage using iron’s rate of thermal expansion. However the core is also under immense pressure which makes iron much denser (smaller) than on the surface of the earth. The immense temperature and pressure is a result of the action of gravity pulling the core onto itself.

  The short answer I think is the earth cannot exist as we know it at anything below its core temp of 5500. Suppose we waved a magical wand that set it’s temperature to 0, it would implode on itself and heat right back up to its current core temp of 5500 before you could measure the effects of thermal expansion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Society has been steadily forgetting the importance of reliability, all in the name of convenience. And in the end, you get neither.

  “They don’t make it like they used to”. Sure. Sure. Old man yelling at clouds. Blah blah. But when your light switches stop working because of some overly complex system that requires the switching data to travel twice around the world just to fucking turn a light on (or an AI to invent 15 Python scripts and a mathematical proof just to add two integers together), you’ve got a really fucking fragile system.

  And you know what isn’t convenient? Fucking fragile products that break as soon as you touch them. Who the fuck wants a hammer made out of salami? Sure, it might look like a hammer, it might taste great, but it can’t drive a nail for shit. That’s a garbage product that belongs in the garbage.

  An LLM can tell me a (lame) joke. So can Bob. Bob can also turn on the lights, and is pretty good at that. But those things together don’t automatically mean an LLM is good at turning on lights. They are fragile, by design, like the salami is!

  Stay in your fucking lane tech companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA and Europe are now enemies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but suddenly there is very little that connects both continents.

  I think the Nazis would disagree with you.

  Communism, brown skin, religions other than Christianity are still public enemy number one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification is the specific process of capturing a supplier/consumer market through short term subsidies, squeezing out the competition, and then squeezing the suppliers and consumers directly.

  Increasing prices alone isn’t enshitification. But increasing prices after sustaining artificially low prices for the purpose of creating a monopoly or quasi monopoly is enshitification.

  Plex most definitely was providing a good quality product but was not generating revenue, and has little to no competition (Jellyfin is a bit debatable) as a result. Was it intentional or just incompetence? Hard to prove either way. I’d say the biggest argument against enshitification is that Plex is mostly a product instead of market space hosting suppliers and consumers, like Google, YouTube, AirBNB, Uber, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historians never talk about the "good old days".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Broadly speaking this is probably true. In a smaller context, though, there are tons of counter examples. The internet for example, from just 10 years ago, was unquestionably better. AI slop, bots, enshitification, social media and browser monoculture…

  The anti science trend of MAGA over the last few years…

  Etc. Regression does happen, and we should not take things for granted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear they are a solution to the problem of increasing mileage/efficiency. I am no fan of Tesla, but we have to admit, there is some merit to that argument, however debatable the efficiency benefits are.

  That’s not to say safety isn’t a serious issue. The biggest problem is the reliance on electronics. Now if someone can reinvent the design with a highly reliable mechanical system, with multiple redundancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why stop at appliances? By that logic, humans are nothing more than self-propelled heaters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not try to create a separate path to ground. The ground should be bonded to neutral at one and only one place: at or just behind the main panel.

  GFCI is rated to protect two wire receptacles downstream of the GFCI, but check with the local authorities on the subject. Since this is an outdoor circuit, you want GFCI there anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The plastic in your car was most likely derived from petroleum. The car parts were most likely shipped around during manufacturing using combustion engine vehicles. The energy to cast those car parts, probably some of it comes from non renewables.

  That “100%” renewable energy? The installation and maintenance of it was/is almost certainly done with large industrial equipment and vehicles burning fossil fuels.

  Look, I’m not saying you aren’t making positive choices by choosing renewable options. What I am saying is, while they are more renewable, they aren’t truly 100% renewable when you factor everything involved in it. Fossil fuels are so pervasive in society, it’s virtually impossible to both function in a modern society and not contribute to the consumption of fossil fuels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, setting it up at home is not the bar for decentralization. I don’t think it’s even practical to run your own self-hosted fediverse server.

  I think we can get just about all the same benefits of decentralization at the scale of the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is the capitalist trying to convince customers (investors) that they have more capital than the other capitalists. Nothing about this has anything to do with workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear me out: what if repealing section 230 would end up killing our social media monoculture, since it would be impossible for these platforms to operate. Instead, what if people had to host their content themselves, you know, like we did back in the day, when the Internet was fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all kinda moot. There will be no companies to run when the economy crashes because there is no one to buy goods (or even to pay taxes to support government spending). It’s a giant house of cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither. Version control and remote sync to your self hosted gitlab or gitea, or whatever (or no remote at all if you wanna go gambling with your hard drive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI, crypto, just like .com, are very much very real, valuable technologies that have and will continue to stick around and be used until we destroy ourselves, or something even more advanced comes along.

  What was/is a grift, is all the stupid money and people around it that don’t have a damn clue where the limits of the technologies actually lie, what kinds of real problems are solved and have been sold lies stop lies without doing their due diligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the objective to “reclaim control over your technology”, or is it to be a single purpose device? I can think of a lot of single purpose devices loaded with subscriptions and telemetry, and just as many general purpose computing platforms without that crap that let you be in control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get in the pod, inhale the fumes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Commuting to office (by car) daily is the real problem. Road trips by car are incredibly freeing and not miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP, you are in for a seriously rough time if you think containing micro plastics is as simple as removing lead from gasoline and paint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Fediverse stalling?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming a constant rate of change of anything involving people over a period of ten years is straight up nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just Bikinis. It’s all swim wear, saunas in Europe, baths in Japan. It’s just socially acceptable and expected in the right context, and that expectation plays a huge role in comfort. The context seems to flip a switch in people’s brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An AI message for dating? Have people just given up on living?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats on your five and a half twins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get over a breakup with someone who was (and is) also a very close friend?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t mention how long you were together. General rule of thumb, it takes just as long for the feelings in a relationship to fade as it takes for them to grow.

  Also, generally speaking, if the breakup is sudden, unammicable, or leaving you confused, that’s probably a sign that there was poor communication in the relationship. Relationships are built on communication, not feelings. This is a good time to evaluate how you can be a better communicator. Do not blame or wallow in the shortcomings of your ex, this will just stunt your growth as a person, and perpetuate how you are currently feeling.

  My advice, focus on you and your future. 23 is incredibly young. What you are going through and feeling is extremely common. You have lots of time to meet new people, but focus on yourself first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a different take.

  AI today is basically a mechanical school. Students are trained to give a specific answer. This is at the heart of how all machine learning works, including generative AI. Even image generators do this.

  “Here’s a million examples of what the pixelated representation of a hand looks like; now go and make a derivative copy.”

  This is fine for objective facts, like physics and history. It is useless for art.

  Merely drawing a hand is not art, it’s an objective truth (do typical humans have 5 or 6 fingers?). But art school is not about objective truths. Art school teaches creativity. Specifically challenging ideas and expression.

  AIs can’t fundamentally challenge ideas and express themselves because they lack personal experience, personality and individuality.

  Society at large has been fooled into thinking that speech (LLM) and other generative AI lead to AGI. But the reality is that these models have more in common with encyclopedias and stock image libraries than intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely the SVGO package can be compiled into a browser bundle.

  I might look into this myself…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this support SVG, i.e. SVGOMG? If not, that’s a glaring omission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. The only difference between a tariff and a VAT, is that the VAT applies to all products indiscriminately, where as a tariff only applies to imported goods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won’t face political consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a line to draw between exploiting tenants, and compensation for providing dwelling.

  You might even argue the OP creates this ambiguity based on interpretation of the wording, or poor communication.

  For a productive conversation, let’s be crystal clear where that line is drawn.