9point6

@9point6@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I was more wondering why do the name change at all

  But I’ve gone and looked it up now and apparently Wally is a less common name over there, so they changed it up to something more familiar.

  Which now begs the question: is Waldo a common name over there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you guys call him Waldo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but I figured, why not? And left my likeness open to everyone, just like Sam Altman.

  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

  Honestly about as bright as posting your credit card details on social media.

  Privacy is something you can’t really get back once you give it away. Your likeness is just another part of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My favourite is the difference between French french and Canadian French.

  Many the uniquely Canadian French swears are oddly religious compared to French french

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW I think it’s mostly gone the Aussie way in the UK over the past decade unless you’re taking to a pensioner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While you were having premarital sex, I was mastering the asymptotic notation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we talking time or space complexity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be the most stereotypically American thing I’ve ever seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Us ❤️⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Beautiful ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kinda cope

  Practically everyone’s job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.

  At that point things end up pretty concrete.

  These opinion pieces that pop up saying “ha-HA! Behold the petard they’re hoisting themselves with!” Kinda miss the importance of preparation.

  They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.

  The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we’ve got something left at the end of it all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this sounds like a pretty huge deal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn you guys are sprinting towards cyberpunk dystopia over there aren’t you?

  Shame you won’t even get the cool aesthetic as a silver lining, just more tacky gold if anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital IDs to buy alcohol by the end of the year – here’s how it could work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course the, now owned by the daily mail group, i uses a sensationalist headline to imply that the ID will be required for this

  Rather than another option for people who have to carry a physical ID for age check purposes already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tried makin nookie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna start pronouncing gnocchi as nookie to wind up my partner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, there’s a whole additional angle for getting splashed by a puddle I need to watch out for now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That hook⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit, have we discovered the single good horny meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've all been watching the slow, downward spiral for more than 2 years now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been dying to hell you anything that you want to hear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's true...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, furnace me on expiration please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An eggy smell is horrible if it comes unexpectedly, but arguably pleasant if you're eating an egg mayo sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf there being lettuce in there is somewhat unconventional in the UK

  If there’s any greenery it’s often cress

  Though that’s now an egg & cress rather than an egg mayo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s ex-PM Sunak to take up roles at Microsoft, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of a more useless person to put on your payroll

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threadiverse... on ATProto?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m good with the ActivityPub threadiverse tyvm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Primary sources tend to disagree

  Here’s a study from 2019 about it that backs up my assertion that more is conservative academic.oup.com/joc/article/69/2/168/5425470

  And of that propaganda being created, that conservative inclined people are most likely to fall for it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/20563051231220330

  There seem to be plenty of other papers that more or less reach those same conclusions with a good number of citations, but I can’t find anything really at all on Google Scholar concluding the opposite with a quick search, let alone something also credible.

  The closest some papers come is saying that they try groups all over the political spectrum, as their goal is disunity ultimately, but they seemingly don’t really have any kind of continued success with misinforming those groups anywhere near as effectively. They more or less all end up concluding that most of the propaganda targets conservatives, because they’re the ones that fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At 1%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah my memory failed me then! Thanks for the correction, I guess this is technically possible then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember every time we find Putin backed propaganda outside of Russia in the wild, it’s nearly always boosting predominantly conservative viewpoints versus anything else.

  Outside of their borders they’re more interested in people fighting with each other than anything like coming together. Right wing politics is how they do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At 1%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t think there’s a 5V pin for VGA.

  I think if we had the scenario where we had a higher voltage than needed, we could have a toasty voltage regulator making something happen, but going the other way would need boost circuit unlikely to exist in these parts, in my understanding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’s like those scam emails that deliberately have mistakes so that morons end up self selecting as anyone with their head screwed on sees the obvious scam

  … OTOH that’s a level of intellect that would be surprising from a Tory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole fruits are pretty healthy in reasonable moderation

  if you gorge on 3 boxes of grapes you’re still gonna have smashed through over a thousand calories

  The big caveat is fruit juices which remove all the fiber that makes you feel full, particularly anything concentrated.

  At that point you’re getting closer to a soft drink than fruit (though you’ll still at least get the vitamins)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk's Turning Point promotes Christian 'blackshirts' in UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worm even when dead

  Get in the sea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3 Outdoor broadband hub UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 3 as my phone carrier with a high end modern phone (pixel 9 pro), so my experience shouldn’t be limited by hardware.

  I’d say in a city (Manchester, Liverpool & London mostly) I get 5g about 30% of the time, that’ll get speeds around 50-80mbps. The rest of the time I get their oversubscribed 4g which struggles to do 1mbps

  The more rural you get the chances of 5G shrink to like 5% of the time, though the 4g speeds improve a bit closer to the 10mbps mark.

  Of course YMMV, but it might be worth getting a 3 PAYG ESIM or something on your phone just to see what the signal is like by you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very good question that I’m now curious about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we have a static vintage web?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know that advertisers want the ads to be as intrusive as they can make them? Right?