adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay... so how do depressed people even have relationships? Did they get depresion after they already got into the relationship or did they actually went dating while having depression?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Depression is a clinical chemical state; people respond to it in many different ways; some respond by chasing dopamine highs.

  Many socially active people are actually depressed, and the activity is their way of attempting to deal with it.

  Many introverted people aren’t depressed at all, and enjoy their own company more than that of others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US bans all new foreign-made network routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this means the rest of the world gets cheap routers for a while, or whether prices go up because the demand isn’t there to make them available at volume anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They said your statement was incorrect; either there’s a way to salvage the planet in a habitable form, or there isn’t — but “indistinguishable from magic” doesn’t come into it.

  Personally, I think energy is only a portion of the problem space; we need to slow climate change enough that humanity can continue to adapt with it.

  After all, we survived multiple ice ages; will the climate destroy our technological advances, or will those advances enable us to adapt to a changing world?

  The world is likely highly overpopulated at the present, but we can lose a significant chunk of humanity and still preserve the body of knowledge and many of the technologies that we currently enjoy.

  Collapses are inevitable, but total collapse is still avoidable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mitigation is always possible. If we don’t do it intentionally, eventually the climate will force our hand. This will result in billions of human deaths, extinction of many organisms, and massive destruction of the current global ecology, but it will happen.

  Remember, the Sahara wasn’t always a desert, and North America was more than once covered in ice.

  We’re likely to die off due to poisoning the environment long before the climate makes a significant dent in our 8bn population.

  We’re not going to escape sea level rise or some places becoming uninhabitable, nor a redistribution of water and total destruction of all weather models. But we can slow the changes to the point where we can adapt faster than the climate changes… and the more we mitigate, the more lives we save along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it a disgrace? Systemd is open source; you can fork it to ignore the field, or hard-code the value if you want.

  This lets OS vendors/developers distribute Linux Oses that want to support this in countries that demand it, after which anyone can modify it however they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of Netanyahu visit, Human Rights Watch urges Hungary to arrest Israeli premier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would he do that? Netanyahu and Orban are cut from the same cloth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, president says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it hopes none of them ever seek Iran.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strava's Fitness App Exposed the Real-Time Location of a French Aircraft Carrier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were in the military, I’d be making heavy use of Strava.

  With faked GPS data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shooting a rocket directly into the sun would waste as much energy as current AI data centers, because it would have to shed all the earth’s momentum.

  Better to just use a volcano.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli reservist detained over alleged leak of Iron Dome secrets to Iran⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I’ve always reflected on… mandatory military service means a guarantee of hostile actors in your military.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our commitment to Windows quality⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of “Security security security.”

  Now, with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Canadian… Americans pretend to be Canadians abroad all the time. As a result, everyone thinks I’m American at first, until they realize I behave differently.

  I can usually spot the American in a crowd, no matter their skin colour. It’s generally in the worldview they project.

  I can also usually spot the Chinese in the crowd for the same reason.

  Unless you can fake the “We’re the best” attitude instead of the “nobody’s better than I can be” attitude, I wouldn’t try to fake being Chinese in many places. You’ll just come off as fake.

  Better to just be yourself and hold the views and attitudes you actually hold. If you’re worried about how others will receive that, just be more private with the personal information you share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great… so now workplaces will have to default-block Firefox to lock down their networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US-Israeli actions ‘have no basis under international law,’ says Scottish leader⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad that someone has finally said it out loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit is big enough that it’s a microcosm of humanity. The Fediverse hasn’t reached that level yet.

  When I was on Reddit, most of the subreddits I hung out on were small, supportive, and friendly. A few I monitored weren’t — on purpose, so I could see what was going on in other places.

  Funny thing is, for the most part, I’ve found matches for all those subreddits on Lemmy communities— although I had to browse through a bunch of hosting services to build up the same level of diversity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over 'Myspace Dragon Hoard'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jason definitely isn’t fully innocent here on the grounds stated, but if the songs were delisted when DMCA was used, that’s no different than taking an unauthorized copy off of YouTube; IA shouldn’t be held liable unless the infringement was willful.

  Also, the song and extra data was obviously imaged from MySpace before 2011, so any collector would be unaware that the license had changed after the fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 49MB Web Page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You say “after all, the Internet that shaped me no longer exists.”

  In a way, that’s true, but the reality is that most of it is still there; it’s just dwarfed by what came after.

  I can still log on to mume.org and play on a Middle Earth-based MUD. I can still connect to IRC.

  FirstClass BBSes, Hermes BBSes, Hotline servers and trackers, a plethora of self-hosted HTTP1.0 compliant sites, Gopher servers, FTP sites, and more.

  The only real victim that I can think of is Usenet; AIM servers are back again, as are ICQ servers, shoutcast servers and battle.net servers.

  Dialup is gone, but people have built TCP wrappers so all the old dialup stuff can be used over the Internet. You can even run the operating systems and software packages just the way they were in 1979 (or the year of your choice).

  The callenge is finding all that when your phone and computer do all they can to direct you to Instagram, Tiktok and Temu, and system defaults use add on technology that has only existed for a decade max.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people who put more than 250k in a single bank in a single account type won’t be using the bank’s insurance for protection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 49MB Web Page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to admit, I hadn’t realized it had got this bad. How did this get normalized?

  I browse with most scripts disabled, and have since JS was first introduced to the browser. What I’ve observed is that some pages contain NO actual content, or just the first paragraph, when I load them. I read what’s provided and move on. If the site is hostile to me reading their content they worked so hard to get in front of me, I’m not going to do any extra work to find out what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless that’s backed up by a wireshark session demonstrating no data sent, or a reversing analysis that shows a lack of capability in the software, the policy is just words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Computers used to work this way.

  You could even ship the computer with the USB stick pre-installed.

  And this wouldn’t be impossible with Apple hardware; it has a bootloader built in that can boot from any functional and signed OS; could be Apple supplied, or something like Asahi. Or, with such a rule in place, they may also be required to not get in the way of installing other OSes and have to fully document the boot process and driver registration process, preventing signature-based lockdown completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Motorized scooters and eBikes all have OSes too — as do most modern traffic lights, speed and red light cameras, baby monitors, alarm systems, heart rate monitors, “smart” anything, televisions, household appliances, chair lifts, city water management systems, and pretty much all other actively managed infrastructure.

  Your average car has at least three separate operating systems in it — usually a LOT more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fibre is just strands of extruded glass; one of the most common substances on earth.

  Sure beats the blood minerals needed for memory, and to scale up, you just extrude longer strands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally different. This is a multi-way religious war with Sunnis and Shias taking sides, and then Jews and Christians piling in. And on top of that is oil and nuclear weapons.

  Iran has been kept destabilized by the rest of the world for the past 50 years because it brings stability to the rest of the region. KSA, UAE, Oman and Qatar are all quite happy to have Iran playing defense, as is Pakistan (traditional Persian lands and culture overlap most of the current national boundaries).

  The main players in the Middle East have been fighting for the last 3,000 or so years, and it hasn’t been a cold fight. The US is traditionally willing to pour just enough weaponry into the area to keep things off balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a college athlete instead of accepting money out right. If I created a charity where they could "donate", and keep all the money? Is this illegal or illegal how so?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the way; study political science in university and set up a PAC towards your election for some far off date. Have anyone interested donate to the PAC, and then spend years trying to get elected after you graduate, using those funds for your campaign — many different types of activities can count as campaigning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Android phones don’t have a BIOS for the same reason that Macs don’t have a BIOS and Raspberry Pis don’t have a BIOS — they run on the ARM architecture, not the Intel-compatible PC architecture.

  As such, the bootloader system is compliant with a totally different reference system; ARM (Acorn Reference Machine) has been around almost as long as the IBM PC compatible architecture.

  As for the “why are phones more locked down” bit, it’s because they’re supposed to be appliances, not general computing platforms. You want your phone to always work, so if you receive a phone call, text or email, it’s likely going to work.

  Although the real answer is that if you buy a computer, you own the computer and get to decide what goes on it (well, unless it’s locked down to Windows or macOS). Phones contain bits that are owned by your carrier, bits that are owned by the manufacturer, bits that are owned by the software developer. And each of those groups doesn’t want anyone else messing with their private software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that old phones with no SIM are still able to call 911. You can use them as emergency call boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the “let’s get the budget computer crowd using iCloud services” solution.

  They can afford to sell at a loss if needed, because the onboard storage is just low enough to make NOT subscribing to cloud services painful after 6-8 months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to admit I’m pretty ignorant in low-end laptops.

  Business class laptops tend to be able to charge at 100W over USB-C, but often have a dedicated charging port as well (Magsafe for Apple, rectangular charge port for Lenovo, for example).

  For any laptop that draws 100W or less, I believe they’re required to charge over USB-C in the EU. Barrel jack is cheaper though, so they can shave a couple of dollars off the price by using it, which could lead to significant profits in increased sales, since most of the competition is using the same basic parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why doesn’t it mention the Fediverse at all???

  Seems like they’re advocating using a Fairphone running e/OS, Ecosia as the search engine, LibreWolf as the browser, LibreOffice as the office package, and W for social media?