Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 days ago:
You’re hanging out with the wrong people.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 days ago:
Didn’t BlueSky come up with their own federation system because… Fuck you?
I mean, what was wrong with using the ActivityPub standard?
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
They have mandatory service, though I’m sure very few people serving their mandatory term are a part of the invading force.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 weeks ago:
Same thing happened to the Dot Com bubble. The fundamental technology has valid uses, but we’re in the stage where some people are convinced it can be used for literally anything.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
Nah, the timeline looks like this:
- use account on main
- create backup
- use account on main
- account goes missing from main.
- check backup, account also missing from backup.
Like, it should be in the backup, I proved it was in the original before and after creating the backup. Heck if I know why they went missing.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
Dave Grossman is full of shit. This is independent to the potential trauma from killing people (there’s a wide range of reactions to that experience). Dave Grossman is full of shit.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
I used to keep a copy of my kepass file in a free Dropbox account.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
I switched from keepass to Bitwarden because individual entries started randomly disappearing. I’m still discovering missing accounts after switching a couple of weeks ago. Sometime to do with how keepass was opening the files, because when an entry went missing it was gone even from backup files I hadn’t touched since before the entry disappeared.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
Yeah, but your fridge doesn’t break every six years. I’m totally on team repair (FrameWork will be my next laptop when this one can’t go on any further, my shoes can be resoled, I just touched up my jacket, etc) but a 10x premium doesn’t exactly make sense, even when you factor in that repairability is unfortunately a niche feature these days.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
So I looked them up, and the cheapest home-style refrigerator they sell costs $10,000. Am I missing something or are they really just that expensive?
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
I really hope AI continues to have noticable failures. I have my doubts, but one can hope.
- Comment on Poggers 1 month ago:
It very strongly depends on how you’re using the word cult.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
I think there’s a difference between experiencing objectification and being objectified but not knowing.
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
Regardless, looks like there’s a plan to get everybody off the stuff by 2030.
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
I thought that you can still sell new props that need leaded fuel, is that not the case?
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
We really need to get rid of that.
- Comment on As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For 2 months ago:
That’s not how math works.
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 2 months ago:
Recently I downloaded Chrome for some testing that I wanted to let separate from my Firefox browser. After a while I realized my computer was always getting hot every time I opened chrome. I took a look at the system monitor: chrome was using 30% of of my CPU power to play a single YouTube video in the background. What the fuck? I ended up switching the testing environment over the libreWolf and CPU load went down to only 10%.
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 2 months ago:
Alternate explanation:
Hormone: Pretty much any chemical your body uses for intra-body signaling. Signaling in this case can be anything from dumping adrenaline in order to move blood preferentially to the muscles, to the production of estrogen in order to promote cell growth in certain organs.
Steroid: A particular class of compounds grouped by the existence of a particular quartet of carbon atom rings inside each of the molecular structures. They have a very wide range of roles across the tree of life. Examples include, but are not limited to: testosterone, cholesterol, ergosterol, and progesterone.
Steroid (colloquial meaning): Pretty much any performance enhancing drug, including hormones and actual steroids.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Spelling is bulshit.
- Comment on Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton 2 months ago:
They just pushed an email announcement out, which is probably where OP heard about it.
- Comment on Breakthrough barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels 3 months ago:
Now that’s what I call efficient!
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
I wonder if we could force a world where browsers are purely donation supported.
- Comment on Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? 3 months ago:
There’s only one solution for the US. The world’s fastest bullet train network. Anything less will not do.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Eyyyyy midwest.social!
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
The micro SD is 4 TB. Only the full sized SD is 8.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
Yeah I eventually picked up that that’s what you meant in your original comment, not that photons move instantaneously and that causality somehow catches up later.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Nah, you literally just ground the plane whenever someone does something that rises to that level. Any threat someone could bring on a plane that could take it down is easily found by a bomb dog.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
Those two things don’t square. If you’re moving relative to the mirror when your fire the photon, it would hit in a different place than if you were stationary. The photon can’t be moving infinitely fast in your reference frame for that to happen.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
I’m trying to understand how that reference frame works when you just just bounce a photon off a mirror and time how long it takes to come back? Like, light must have a non-infinite speed to the stationary observer, or it wouldn’t take time to traverse the distance.