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- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
can’t ban pages anymore with https, and while they don’t want to be lumped in with the authoritarian states that ban all on Wikipedia, they are like them at heart
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
The point of sanctions is to make it harder to run a country, part of that is making the citizens angry with the government
They don’t target Russians outside of Russia, and do target non-Russians in Russia, because they’re meant to actually be somewhat effective rather than just inciting hate
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
For mammals we are, sure, but there’s loads of things that’d kill humans that other animals chow down on perfectly happily, especially when it comes to microorganisms, mushrooms and the rotting things they’re often found in/around
I don’t think scavenging is right also given that, humans used to mainly pick fresh fruits and persistence hunt, both of which are very fresh food which is not overlooked or left by others
- Comment on Effort require Effort 1 month ago:
Dominance over the food chain; dominance over the environment; dominance over where other species (and their own) are even allowed to live; dominance over the genetics of other species, etc.
- Comment on Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past 1 month ago:
I doubt society will go fully paperless, there are times when you need a thing that can be crushed, folded, whatever and doesn’t run out of battery, so unless e-ink technology develops in a very specific way I don’t think every eventually will be replaced, and even without purely functional applications I think art would never ever go fully paperless for many data security (leaking art before it’s complete), economic (things are more expensive when they’re limited in supply, and making either legal or illegal copies of digital things is so much easier) and sentimental reasons (it’s just nicer to have something physical) reasons
- Comment on Infinity 1 month ago:
you can change the relative size of things with zoom
- Comment on Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers? 1 month ago:
The UK’s average energy price is high, but it’s also very variable as when it’s cloudy and calm 20% of demand needs to be imported from France/Norway so wholesale energy is very expensive, but when it’s sunny and windy wholesale energy is free or even at negative cost and 20% of generation gets exported to France/Norway, where their energy is more expensive
If you have the option to run datacentres at minimal or even negative energy cost maybe 20% of the time, then shift load elsewhere the rest of the time, then that may be a reasonable proposition
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
How is 0F 100% cold though, most places will never get that cold, so it surely makes more sense to have 0F at freezing point of water and 100F at 38C?
- Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty? 2 months ago:
Storage forensics can look into variations in charge to suggest “this used to be a 1” or “this used to be a 0”
To store more data that way, it’d have to be analog data in reality, as otherwise data loss due to charge decay would be immense so you’d need so much error checking you’d lose most of the storage savings
- Comment on Comedy shows have laugh tracks cuz they aren't that funny 2 months ago:
The reason they have to manipulate the audience is because people look for validation and so feel good when other people react to things in the same way as them. A laugh track can’t save a terrible show, but it can manipulate people into finding a mediocre show funny, but a mediocre show will make people laugh organically at least a few times anyway
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
As a follow up, to get a third (and more) term would it be possible to run for vp and have a contract with someone who agrees to resign immediately after inauguration, or is there a law against that?
- Comment on You don't say 2 months ago:
more science facts, if you were to put earth as close as you could to saturn without them destroying each other, they would orbit each other as a binary planet rather than earth being a satellite of saturn
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Outside of Continental Europe
Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
They didn’t want France getting wind of their cheese and declaring war on Norway for having the audacity to have non-french cheese
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Or just bring an empty bottle through and fill it up at the tap/water fountain?
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
I mean sure, but it theoretically stops people arguing and threatening to try and bring stuff they shouldn’t really be bringing through, as being able to point at that will end a lot of arguments… Equally though, it makes a lot of sense as otherwise you’d have “ah yes this bomb isn’t banned because I’ve switched out a molecule in the explosive for an analogue”
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 3 months ago:
Liberalism is just letting people do what they want so long as it doesn’t interfere with letting people doing what they want
Support gay marriage? That’s liberal Support corporations paying people 30¢ per hour? That’s liberal
Support people having access to HRT? That’s liberal
Support people owning guns? That’s liberal
Support unrestricted immigration and trade? That’s liberalThe problem is it doesn’t fit in with the US definition of “left” and “right” - it’s economically far right but socially far left, and most Americans just cannot understand that
- Comment on First-time buyers spending 40% of pay on mortgages 3 months ago:
Yeah either you live in London so are paying at a minimum 1600/month or 20k/year for a 350k mortgage, or if you live in the north or less desirable parts of the south you’re gonna be paying 750/month or 9000/year for a 175k mortgage, either way if that’s 40%, once you consider bills, heating, food, transport (because no way can you afford to live within walking distance of work as a first time buyer) and whatever else you frankly don’t have a whole load left all in
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
what like “Tommy Robinson, Whose Real Name Is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon”, where you have to use the full name at all times
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’d love to see Bing or Qwant or Yandex (to be honest ideally Bing as they share their index) get a similar deal for StackOverflow or Github just to give Google a taste of their own medicine now
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
If you’re in the UK or I expect EU, I imagine if it’s due to oxidation you can get it replaced even on an expired warranty as it’s a defect which was known to either you or intel before the warranty expired, and a manufacturing defect rather than breaking from use, so intel are pretty much in a corner about having sold you faulty shit
- Comment on Uses for local AI? 3 months ago:
Yeah even gpt4o couldn’t keep track of encounters, run battles etc. in my case…
I think if you wanted to do it mechanically consistently you’d probably need to integrate it into a vtt where you give it context and potentially fine-tune it to give quest related summaries & gming rather than just “stuff”
- Comment on Llama 3.1 is Meta's latest salvo in the battle for AI dominance 3 months ago:
At least you can (theoretically, if you have your own datacentre or botnet) run, finetune and play with this yourself, so at least it’s somewhat useful, especially if you finetune it for applications where word predicting is actually exactly what you want
- Comment on And why your brother is your father and the father of your child😂 3 months ago:
Apart from tigers and a few others which went through even worse bottlenecks
- Comment on Mario for president 3 months ago:
The Democrats stood behind a zombie for way longer than they should have… I think the politicians in the party are just as small brain
- Comment on Why is Google takeout so bitchy? 3 months ago:
Yeah, of course it varies place to place but I think for the majority of at least somewhat developed countries and urban areas in less developed countries 50Mbps is a reasonable figure for “normal home internet” - even at 25Mbps you’re looking at 4½ hours for 50GB which is very doable if you leave it going while you’re at work or just in the background over the course of an evening
- Comment on We really need a political video community. 3 months ago:
Works on jerboa, not your instance. The default web front end doesn’t support it, and it’s not in the specification, so it’s good to have the bot
- Comment on Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business 3 months ago:
That’s not even applicable here, and I thought we’d moved past spouting that on every post when it became apparent that meta actually weren’t trying to kill the fediverse
The whole point is developing products to an open source standard, adding unneeded or complex features to ensure competition can’t keep up and gain market share, then shutting down your product and killing the whole standard.
How does buying a company that makes proprietary products then closing down that company even come close to being the same thing?
- Comment on Why do people stupidly pay for Whatsapp business instead of using free Telegram API? 3 months ago:
Why do supermarkets stupidly pay rent in Manhattan, London, LA or Singapore when they could pay next to nothing to have a store in the Outback or Siberia?
- Comment on Have fun with this one 3 months ago:
“Lucky cucumber” is as close as I can get but needs some mispronouncing of cucumber