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- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 days ago:
This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I’ve got a donation to go make.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 1 week ago:
Who are you calling buster, buster?
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 weeks ago:
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you’re alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they’re doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It’s like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn’t need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there’s no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
You don’t know why they might want to do this thing. I also don’t know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don’t 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of they’re reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.
And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If you can’t understand that basic fact, then I don’t know what else I can say.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 weeks ago:
what reason would anyone have
That’s none of your business. You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn’t need to justify themselves to you.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 weeks ago:
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 weeks ago:
Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would they need to limit you?
- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 1 month ago:
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).
Ummm, wut? I’m going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
ValueValve - Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
Friggin hell. Thanks.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn’t understand what’s happening. Their are hints of what’s happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don’t think any fresh water is being used. I think what’s actually happening is…
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that’s saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
So, then why are you confused about what’s using power at night?
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 month ago:
Do you go to bed at sunset?
Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter? Maybe you do, but most people don’t.Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it’s in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. … at night while the owner sleeps.
- Submitted 2 months ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study 2 months ago:
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve walked away from some online product or service that I was interested in but refused to publicly disclose a prices beyond, “FrEe TrIaL!”
Nah thanks. If you’re playing mind games like that right off the bat, that tells me everything I need to know about the experience of using the product.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 months ago:
3.1
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 months ago:
threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry
No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they’re not dependent on stealing other people’s work.
- Comment on Making the most of a totally dead cabinet corner? 2 months ago:
What’s on the other side of that wall? Maybe that room could use some extra (secret/hidden?) storage.
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 months ago:
JTC, as if this guy wasn’t already the poster child for cringe.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 months ago:
Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.
and some guys anonymously posing as women online to undermine the competition.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 3 months ago:
What they’re not designed to do is give factual answers
or mental health therapy
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 3 months ago:
for reviewing gaming handhelds.
No. That’s not why. Click-bait headline.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 months ago:
It depends on what info you’re trying to find.
I was recently trying to figure out the name of a particular uncommon type of pipe fitting. I could describe what it looked like, but had no idea what it was called. I described it to chatgpt, which gave me a name, which I could then search for with a normal search engine to confirm that the name was correct. Sure enough, search results took me to plumbing supply companies selling it, with pictures that matched what I described.
But, asking it when a particular feature got added to a piece of software? There’s no additional information one would get from the answer to help them confirm that the answer is correct.
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 months ago:
That’s absolutely not the point. I was criticizing the journalism, not technology. 🙄
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 months ago:
without human help
…
responded to and learned from voice commands from the team
🤨🤔
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 3 months ago:
I was going to calculate how much electricity this would consume and how expensive it would be, but the answer to that is plainly “too much to imagine”.
Purely hypothetically speaking, but, what if someone had their own private Dyson Sphere generating electricity? (Asking for a friend.)