TeddE

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is down this morning ⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  AI: taking another hit of acid in preparation to research the reason why the last thing it did after taking acid didn’t work out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, then you’re describing bog-standard capitalistic exploitation, and it’s not exclusive to designers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In FOSS world, this is only as true for the subset of developers (including both programmers and designers) that are contributing code as their job duties. Additionally that effect is only prominent in projects that are dominated by one organization. Both those things do happen, but there’s also numerous exceptions, too.

  Some developers are paid to write unrelated proprietary code and the developer also contributes to open source on their free time. Some projects have so many corotate contributors that none of them can single-handedly direct the development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t inherently agree. Gatekeeping often is a magnified issue for novice users. Perhaps they came over with the latest reddit exodus, saw recommendations for self hosting on the new platform, got pushback and created an account to complain. I appreciate the concern, but I don’t think it’s valid to assume because the account is new, it must be a troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing /c/technology@lemmy.world subscribers isn’t exclusively populated by those users!

  Finding a group of people who don’t care about a thing is generally like shooting fish in a barrel. Caring is fundamentally hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be this guy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I contend a functional definition of privilege is the number of problems you can ignore. By this metric anon is likely privileged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the thought but which would you choose:

  Full time minimum wage US worker at $7¼/hr or $15,080/yr vs $20,000 one time purchase?

  I agree with you that these things are likely underpaid labor (maybe including literal slavery, or job conditions close enough to count anyways), but I don’t think your argument is going to be convincing to anyone actually considering getting one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Room for cream?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just label each with a cute yet distinct name. Then customers would associate each name with the blend they order, with bonus lore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨another TUI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re advocating is called genocide. Genocide is bad.

  We’ve tried this ‘separating mentally ill from society’ before - they were called asylums. We stopped doing that because they’re inhumane. (There is an academic debate on if they’re inherently such or simply attract/foster abuse, but were not having that debate today.)

  What you’re suggesting is an international crime and violation of human rights. Please reconsider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me something that I don't already know⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Left ear, right ear, left nostril, right nostril, pore, pore, pore, …, pore, iris (light only), Prince Albert piercing, earlobe …

  I disagree with this joke’s premise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. If you’re not actively using the land you should sell it - if that were the general practice, many renters would be land owners themselves and an entire layer of middle management would evaporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F dieting!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was obvious from the blooming cloud of mutant white spores in the last few seconds 😜 nuclear mushroom!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … obviously /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English moment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hose is pronounced /hōz/ and dose is pronounced /dōs/ in “Standard English” (which is a specific and deliberately invented dialect taught to news anchors to try to smooth out all the regional differences), actual english varies so much over time and space that both words have numerous variations - www.howtopronounce.com/hose, plus we change our inflection on words depending on where they are in a sentence - and plenty of context can change if the emphasis is on the vowel or the ending consonant: All my hoes know a hose is a hose.

  Simply put - as long as people understand the ideas you’re conveying, don’t worry too much about precise spelling and punctuation - it’s literally all made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and if it weren’t for the techbro nonsense, it would be tossed onto the pile of mathematical curios that don’t have nontrivial uses.

  The thing is - we often do find uses for those curiosities years later.

  In the mean time, I wouldn’t mind if a decentralized video game came along where game assets were decentralized, distributed by bittorrent, and player assets were decentralized and tracked by blockchain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much the same as blockchain - it could have been exciting and fun, but it was immediately put to work to exploit people, and in the end that’s what the tools effectively were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Working on it …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GOBLIN ASS-SHOVEL

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s step two or three, for sure. But the point being made is fascist isn’t a word that can be applied to anyone and everyone (setting aside the 2¢ insult version) - it is a specific political ideology that one earns by their words and actions.

  Unfortunately it is also complex to diagnose, particularly in early stages, especially as intelligent budding fascists will deliberately evade the formal definitions while still finding ways to accomplish similar effects.

  But yes - there’s also cases where fascists clearly and obviously are doing fascist things, and need to be stopped immediately, please feel free to give them a proper knuckle sandwich (or an appropriate grade of violence as the situation warrants)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  I’ve had this asserted before, but I’m not sure it lives up to the mathematical rigor of our conversation to this point. I recommend substantially more investigation. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize. I went back and reread from the top and I see my error.

  My mobile Lemmy client indicates replies with cycling colors, and I had the misunderstanding that your objection was to the axioms presented in Principia Mathematica. But your reply was fair in the context of the axioms you were actually replying to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Math is the philosophy department in that math is an extension of logic, which is in turn an extension of philosophy. You’d have a better chance of divorcing math from applied math (engineering/physics) than separating math from philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! I see. Thanks for clarifying.

  As to m=s(n) and n=s(m), I think that is the motivation behind modular arithmetic and it gets used a lot with rotation, because 12 does loop back around to 1 in clocks, and a half turn to face backwards is the same position whether clockwise or counter. This is why we don’t use natural numbers for angles and use degrees and radians.

  I’m terms of parallels, I personally see that as a strength - instead of having successors (a term that intuitively embeds a concept of time/progression), I typically take the successor function as closer to the layman concept of ‘another’. Thus five bananas is s(s(s(s(🍌)))) and it does have a parallel to five cars s(s(s(s(🚗)))). The fiveness doesn’t answer questions about the nature of the thing being counted (such as, "Are these cars: 🚓🚙🏎️🛵? "). Mathematicians like to use the size of the empty set as an abstract stand-in for when they don’t know what they’re talking about (in a literal sense, not broadly).

  As far as predecessors to 0 - undefined isn’t a problem for natural numbers, just for the people using them. And it makes a certain sense, too. You can’t actually have negative apples (regardless of how useful it may be to discuss a debt of apples).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree to that.

  And I also think that there’s no way I trust Alphabet (holding company of Google) to be the sole arbiters of who gets to run code - neither in a philosophical sense nor as a gatekeeper to one top five compute platforms used by a substantial chunk of the world population.

  It absolutely does not justify creating a policy that would wholesale obliterate F-Droid, arguably one of their larger competitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what you mean by ‘loops’ - except perhaps modular arithmetic, but there are no natural numbers that are negative - you may be thinking of integers, which is constructed from the natural numbers. Similarly, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers are also constructed from the naturals. Complex numbers are often expressed as though they’re two dimensional, since the imaginary part cannot be properly reduced, e.g. 3+2i.

  I recommend this playlist by mathematician another roof: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsdeQ7TnWVm_EQG1rm…

  They build the whole modern number system ‘from scratch’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole value in searching is to get me to primary sources in a reasonably efficient way. Everything about AI is inserting extra middle men. I just don’t understand how anyone tolerates it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty much indisputably better for security.

  I dispute this. While adding extra layers of security looks good on paper, flawed security can be worse than no security at all.

  Android packages already have to be signed to be valid and those keys already are very effective in practice. In effect these new measures are reinventing the wheel as to what a layperson would think this new system does.

  Adding this extra layer in fact has no actual security benefit beyond posturing/“deterrence”. Catching a perpetrator is not the same thing as preventing a crime. Worse - catching a thief in meatspace has the potential to recover stolen goods, but not so in digital spaces - either the crime is damage or destruction of data for which no punishment undoes the damage or the crime is sharing private data which in practice would almost certainly have been immediately fenced to multiple data brokers.

  And were only getting started with this security theater:

  • Nothing prevents an organization from hiring a developer for long enough to register before being flushed (or the same effect with a burner account on fiver)
  • Nothing in this program does anything to get code libraries vetted - many of these developers may accidentally be publishing code from poisoned wells that they have no practical knowledge of.
  • None of these measures make scams less profitable.
  • None of this addresses greyware - software that could technically qualify as legal (because the user agreed to terms of service for a service of dubious value)
  • All of this costs time and resources that will likely inevitably be shouldered on low paid engineers that could have put that effort to better uses.
  • Metrics and statistics may likely be P-hacked to reflect that the new system as a success (because there’s internal pressure to make it look good) this turning-security-into-press-releases would have collateral of making accountability overall worse.

  But you know what would be even better for security?

  While we’re at it we could add the tropes of removing network connectivity, or switch to using clay tablets kept in a wooden box guarded by a vengeful god. Both of those would be more secure, too.

  Users should be allowed to do insecure things with their devices

  100% agree with you here - it’s fundamentally the principle of “Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins”. Users should be given the tools and freedom to do as they want with their property - up until it affects another person or their property in an unwanted way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That was fundamentally F-Droid’s retort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll bend over in a jiffy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. I think my eyes glossed over the part where they said they where taking a second look at docker (but caught the rest about rebuilding the OS in general). My sincere apologies 😓😅