floofloof
@floofloof@lemmy.ca
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 hours ago:
It’s still quite a lot nicer than reddit, even if it has its share of unpleasant characters. Whenever I read a reddit thread I am glad Lemmy exists.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It is. My phone has been warning me. It’s only password autofill that they’re removing (for now), not TOTP stuff.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
I guess the idea is you’d still do that, but have more data in each array. It does raise the risk of losing a lot of data, but that can be mitigated by sensible RAID design and backups. And then you save power for the same amount of storage.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 4 days ago:
Any sane company or government would have already done this
Only if they had no concern for people’s privacy, and no notion of compartmentalizing access to the data to prevent abuse and limit the impact of leaks.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 5 days ago:
For personal use? I never do anything that would qualify as “auditing” the code. I might glance at it, but mostly out of curiosity. I think the idea that the open-source community is keeping a close eye on each other’s code is a bit of a myth. No one has the time, unless someone has the money to pay for an audit.
- The bond market is worrying that 'something may be breaking beneath the surface' of Trump's tax billfortune.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to economics@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 6 days ago:
They project that they’ll make more money by forcing people to accept surveillance so they can run their apps, even if they lose a few users and app developers by doing so.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 107 comments
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
They also tend to be more greedy than others for wealth, status and power. So they dedicate their life to crawling up to the top of the corporate heap while everyone else gets on with actual real stuff.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
Yes, agreed, these are relatively minor levels of inconvenience. But I’m not judging anyone for using tech, just observing that it isn’t always so obvious that it’s just better to use it than not.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
Yep, three of them.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
Imagine if the human race never had to do dishes ever again. Imagine how that would create so much opportunity to focus on more important things.
What are the most important things? Our dishwasher broke a few years ago. I anticipated frustration at the extra pressure on my evenings and having to waste time on dishes. But I immediately found washing the dishes to be a surprising improvement in quality of life. It opened up a space to focus on something very simple, to let my mind clear from other things, to pay attention to being careful with my handling of fragile things, and to feel connected to the material contents of my kitchen. It also felt good to see the whole meal process through using my own hands from start to end. My enjoyment of the evenings improved significantly, and I’d look forward to pausing and washing the dishes.
I had expected frustration at the “waste” of time, but I found a valuable pause in the rhythm of the day, and a few calm minutes when there was no point in worrying about anything else. Sometimes I am less purist about it and I listen to an audiobook while I wash up, and this has exposed me to books I would not have sat down and read because I would have felt like I had to keep rushing.
The same happened when my bicycle broke irreparably. A 10 minute cycle ride to work became a 30 minute walk. I found this to be a richer experience than cycling, and became intimately familiar with the neighbourhood in a way I had never been while zipping through it on the bike. The walk was a meditative experience of doing something simple for half an hour before work and half an hour afterwards. I would try different routes, going by the road where people would smile and say hello, or by the river to enjoy the sound of the water. My mind really perked up and I found myself becoming creative with photography and writing, and enjoying all kinds of sights, sounds and smells, plus just the pleasure of feeling my body settle into walking. My body felt better.
I would have thought walking was time I could have spent on more important things. Turned out walking was the entryway to some of the most important things. We seldom make a change that’s pure gain with no loss. Sometimes the losses are subtle but important. Sometimes our ideas of “more important things” are the source of much frustration and unhappiness.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
“AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity. I’ve always encouraged our team to embrace new technology (that’s why we originally built for mobile instead of desktop), and we are taking that same approach with AI. By understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI now, we can stay ahead of it and remain in control of our own product and our mission,” writes von Ahn.
Now please explain in more detail how this advice should be followed, practically, by someone you just fired because AI was cheaper. Give examples of how they can embrace this change with curiousity so as to remain in control of the product and mission they are no longer employed to work on.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
You make it sound like it’s rare to get into good universities in the UK from state schools. But most of the students at the UK’s top universities come from state schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
It’s quite possible to get into the best universities in the UK from state school. More than 67% of undergraduates at Oxford University come from state schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Maybe they had to sell their photos to an agency so they could afford that 5th holiday. Times are hard.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Well fuck me, it’s real. Eat the rich.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
In the UK “dipstick” has been a mild insult for a long time.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
When the USA has no more industry, education, science, healthcare or employment and the American people are dying younger and younger, thousands of homeless Americans can watch Trump’s military parade destroy the streets of Washington DC and know that America is great again.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 1 week ago:
Obsidian’s only downside is that it’s closed source, but this is a big downside for some people.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 1 week ago:
Yes, Joplin achieves everything this proposal does and more.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 1 week ago:
I think you accidentally dropped your mic.
- Comment on China's Green Energy Surge Has Caused CO2 Emissions to Fall for the First Time 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t mean to criticize you. I recognize that it’s the original wording.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Some Copilot functions are done locally on some computers with the appropriate NPU chips. But it’s Microsoft, so they’ll be sending data home either way.
- Comment on China's Green Energy Surge Has Caused CO2 Emissions to Fall for the First Time 2 weeks ago:
As far as I can see, it caused China’s CO2 emissions to fall. The headline reads misleadingly as if global emissions fell. Global emissions continue to rise.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Most people don’t realize how slow Windows is. When you try something else, you realize how much time you have been spending waiting for Windows to do things.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Some senior exec at Microsoft asked for this.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes 2 weeks ago:
They sound staggeringly incompetent. And anyone who bought their software without any investigation into its quality also sounds staggeringly incompetent.