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- Comment on Can we put shitjustworks behind a captcha? 6 days ago:
I’ve noticed the slowness too. It’s lousy, because this is the instance I recommend to normies.
But picking a solution without knowing the problem is a bit premature.
- Comment on Not the same 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
Isn’t that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
they made a whole movie out of this one
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 3 weeks ago:
Dude is right: parental controls suck. I suspect that’s because they kind of take a back seat in most purchasing decisions. Of the various platforms I’ve enabled parental controls on (Apple, Nintendo, Android, Xbox, Epic, Roblox), I’ve found Epic’s to be the most straightforward.
It’d be nice if there was a mandated API that any kid-platform had to support, and a nice simple app to control it.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 4 weeks ago:
Is this new? Aren’t most tracks already available in torrents?
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 4 weeks ago:
The Fuck Monks?
- Comment on What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of? 4 weeks ago:
This is huge. With a couple of kids, a spouse, and everyday responsibilities, it’s easy to get stressed and be a dick.
I find it takes conscious effort to switch away from whatever is under my skin to deal appropriately with the folks I love.
- Comment on New To Android? What Apps to Choose? 1 month ago:
Yes. I prefer AntennaPod. I can’t remember why. I switched a few years ago.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
lol
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 2 months ago:
This post has a lot of serious answers to what is essentially a “no”:
In the UK, there is a non-virtual contingency plan, or at least there was. If the internet shuts down, the people who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do, says Murdoch.
“I don’t know if this is still the case. It was quite a few years ago and I was never told which pub it was.”
- Comment on They locked me in a room with stab rats 3 months ago:
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 3 months ago:
What? Taiwan doesn’t want to give up its only strategic advantage? I’m shocked.
/uj
I’m curious how long it would take to build the supply chains and fabs to make the 50% things a reality.
- Comment on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus 4 months ago:
The Wired story says the same thing but with more context and less “trust me, bro”.
They are both interesting reads.
- Comment on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus 4 months ago:
Everything that dude says passes the sniff test: it seems like it could be explained as a run of the mill criminal spamming operation. The Secret Service story doesn’t offer evidence that there’s anyone extraordinary about it.
FWIW the dude also makes a number of unsupported statements that seem to be “trust me bro, I’m a hacker”. The statements aren’t outlandish, so maybe.
- Comment on xkcd #3144: Phase Changes 4 months ago:
No, it’s angry you didn’t give it a little jacket, now it’s very cold and angy, so it’s trying to stab you.
- Comment on what replacement to nova launcher would you recommend? 4 months ago:
I like Square Home. It’s like the old Metro windows UI.
And yes, you can change the icons.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 4 months ago:
The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.
- Comment on The AI vibe shift is upon us 5 months ago:
I’ve heard it likened to the dot-com boom: yeah, we’ve got a tonne of e-commerce today, but the stars hadn’t aligned in early 2k.
- Comment on The AI vibe shift is upon us 5 months ago:
Seems a bit early tbh. But I’ll take it.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 5 months ago:
In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second. The company also provided average estimates for the water consumption and carbon emissions associated with a text prompt to Gemini.
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 5 months ago:
It would be fantastic if our other GHG-producing activities were held to the same level of criticism as AI.
You’re gonna get downvotes defending AI on Lemmy - our Overton window is ^tiny^.
A ChatGPT prompt uses 3 Wh. This is enough energy to:
Leave a single incandescent light bulb on for 3 minutes.
Leave a wireless router on for 30 minutes.
Play a gaming console for 1 minute.
Run a vacuum cleaner for 10 seconds.
Run a microwave for 10 seconds
Run a toaster for 8 seconds
Brew coffee for 10 seconds
Use a laptop for 3 minutes. ChatGPT could write this post using less energy than your laptop uses over the time you read it.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 5 months ago:
Doesn’t Codeberg have private repos? I could’ve sworn I’ve created one.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 5 months ago:
Nice!
I enjoyed reading your blog. It’s been a while since I looked at an honest to goodness enthusiast blog. Thanks for writing it!
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 5 months ago:
Pretty wild that the author didn’t set up app notifications. Getting specific notifications from specific people on my wrist is a big part of the reason I use a smartwatch. But to each their own.
It’d be pretty cool to get a significant use case of my pricey pricey Garmin for ~CAD$40.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 5 months ago:
Recognizing from history the possibilities of where this all might lead, the prospect of any serious economic downturn being met with a widespread push of mass automation—paired with a regime overwhelmingly friendly to the tech and business class, and executing a campaign of oppression and prosecution of precarious manual and skilled laborers—well, it should make us all sit up and pay attention.
- Comment on Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England 5 months ago:
That article needs more excerpts. Four volumes and we get two sentences?
- Comment on go to sleep 5 months ago:
oh shit
- Comment on Christ, Conquest, and the MDGs (Part 2) 5 months ago:
“shall be slaves”
It’s the next line in the song.
