acosmichippo
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world
- Comment on OSTP Has a Choice to Make: Science or Politics? 1 day ago:
did we read the same article? this author was overtly critical of trump and never mentioned democrats.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 4 days ago:
because the republican party has split the lower and middle classes with emotionally charged cultural wedge issues.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 4 days ago:
“Tread on me! Tread on me!”.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 4 days ago:
most areas have ISP monolopies, which is somewhat understandable given the high infrastructure costs etc. For that reason they should be regulated as utilities, but aren’t.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 4 days ago:
I don’t think psudonyms are an issue, but verifying that a user is an actual person vs an AI chatbot is absolutely something that social media will need to tackle at some point.
- Comment on Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears 5 days ago:
it’s only meant for temporary situations, 10 total days per year. I guess the idea is you’d use loaner PCs to access this while getting repairs done or before you’ve gotten a new PC. but yeah i kinda doubt there’s a huge market for this kind of service.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 5 days ago:
Mac is only a safe platform due to obscurity.
- Comment on Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation 6 days ago:
they have also shown willingness to dismantle federal agencies for whatever agenda they want to accomplish.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 week ago:
agreed, the overall point is that sports leagues definitely do want sports betting. more engagement, more ad sales, and they can even get in on the action directly.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 week ago:
Sports teams don’t want it because it incentivizes cheating / rigging games.
this isn’t true generally speaking. some individuals may speak out against sports betting, but in the aggregate the players and leagues are happy to take the revenue it generates. If they really took issue with it they could address it in their collective bargaining agreements, but it has never been a contentious issue as far as i know.
- Comment on Capcom spent 2 years trying to get permission to use Toshiro Mifune's likeness in Onimusha: Way of the Sword 1 week ago:
he’s arguably the biggest Japanese film actor of all time.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
I agree with this youtube comment:
As an electrician (in Australia), I agree with your basic premise. However, if you are asking me to install an EV charger, unless you tell me “I want it to charge slowly with a limited current capacity”, I am going to assume it is to charge an EV under ALL situations - fast to slow, for whoever may drive one today or in the future, even with a potential new homeowner. We generally do our work with the priority order (1) safety - nobody gets an electric shock and nothing catches fire; (2) avoidance of nuisance i.e. the thing you just installed doesn’t work and keeps tripping the breaker 😑 (3) avoiding needing replacement electrical work for at least 25 - 50 years
Also I live in a townhouse with no garage. Our charger is between the neighborhood sidewalk and our parking spaces, so I’d prefer keeping it unplugged as often as possible to minimize any issues with foot traffic (neighbors, delivery people, garbage pickup, etc). I’ve seen other people literally run an extension cable over the sidewalk to do an L1 charge for their EV and that’s just asking for trouble.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
No mention of who it is even being sold to, so bizarre.
- Comment on Fans spot bizarre mistake on Disneyland poster... sparking theories the company used AI to create it 1 week ago:
jfc we are going to be stuck with “this looks slightly weird. is it AI?” articles til the end of time.
- Comment on Meta publishes V-Jepa 2 – an AI world model 1 week ago:
unsubscribe
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 1 week ago:
Videos are allowed if “freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk”
oh it’s that easy huh. why didn’t we think of this before lol.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 1 week ago:
Discouraging use of artificial dye is a good idea. It interferes with people’s ability to make health conscious choices. Requiring labeling would be a great start.
Except they want “natural” dyes used instead which do the same thing. but “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.
Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime.
source?
Most of us wouldn’t eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren’t dyed, if we had a choice.
so you could argue food dye prevents food waste. if there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
dude seriously you need to chill.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
okay ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
i mean yes, but this is a more dynamic transperency that reacts more to backgrounds, merging/separating with other elements, etc.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
jfc relax. it’s a number.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
what would you have them do? anything else would be just as arbitrary.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 2 weeks ago:
what, the yearly release naming scheme? not sure why you find it so ridiculous, i think it makes a lot of sense as opposed to having a differeent release number for every platform. it’s also not that unusual, lots of software is named by the date.
- Comment on Google updated its ranking algorithms for explicit videos and explicit content 2 weeks ago:
the real turing test.
- Comment on Please Don't Preorder This... 2 weeks ago:
i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
The main benefit of not preordering is consumer protection, so we can judge a game’s quality after people who we trust have played and review it.
- Comment on Please Don't Preorder This... 2 weeks ago:
it doesn’t really matter what, but the youtuber almost certainly did that to get clicks.
- Comment on Please Don't Preorder This... 2 weeks ago:
but now you get special armors that are only relevant for 10 minutes of game time.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
for example, say you are waiting to make a left turn, it would be nice to know if oncoming cars are braking or not. if they are stopped and you start seeing their brake lights turn off, you can judge if you should hurry up or not turn at all.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
and honestly i have the same problem with that intended use. it often looks like a stopped car is attempting to turn out into traffic. IMO emergency lights should have a faster blink pattern or something to differentiate from turn signals.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
okay, pick a different color then. it’s a solvable problem.