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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also why the seemingly arbitrary graduations, 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds. If it was say 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute, seconds would be close to the same amount of time. Same with latitude and longitude, why 360 degrees in a circle with 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Barbie’ Becomes Biggest Warner Bros. Movie Ever at Domestic Box Office, Beating ‘The Dark Knight’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes female action heroes are a trope now. They’ve over-played it, but of course anything from Marvel or DC is going to be shit. These days they’re just movie mills pumping out the same old rehash.

  The Alien movies made a female action hero seem natural. They did it right. There’s been a few others that have done it right. More have done it wrong.

  I don’t know anything about the Barbie move since I haven’t seen it. I would like to see it but will wait until it comes to streaming. My wife saw it with a group of her friends and said it was cute and weird, but definitely worth the watch. So evidently it’s not in the same caliber as Legally Blonde.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this instance have a stance on right wing disinformation communities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The admin here takes a conservative stance on defederation. He doesn’t do it unless there are lemm.ee rules violations or network abuse. I haven’t looked at any explodingheads content, but if does not violate any lemm.ee rules and presents no network abuse it will probably not get defederated.

  I agree with the lemm.ee’s admin philosophy on defederation and that’s one of the reasons this is my home instance. In general you can’t call for defederation just because you don’t agree with content. If it’s blatantly offensive then I suppose that would be valid grounds, but I would hope that reason is used sparingly. I mean discussion that’s offensive to you may not be offensive to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maryland police are using drones from a Chinese company that were banned in four states⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like when USA police agencies only bought Harley Davidson motorcycles because it was politically correct to source equipment from domestic sources. Once they realized what over-priced and poor performing machines they are, they gave up on the idea and went to foreign sources.

  Personally I think the taxes we pay to support government organizations should go toward domestically sourced equipment. They should be supporting the local economy, but it’s so one sided now they don’t really have a choice. However with some industries it can be a slippery slope. There was a recent USA ban on telecom equipment from Huawei related to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see much of a difference between this and current technology. NASA has been using nuclear reactors in probes and rovers for quite some time. Presently deep space probes use nuclear reactors to generate electricity. Propulsion is produced by using electricity to accelerate ions. The ions come from gas stored in cold liquid form. I don’t see any breakthrough technology here. From what I can tell reading the article, it’s just a lightly different way of creating propulsion, pressurizing the gas with heat instead of accelerating it with an electromagnetic field. Seems like a step back actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Big corporations have been battling for control of the internet through browser market share since day one. We can’t let any one corpo gain control because it will destroy it with proprietary standards, it’s already suffered untold damage. MS almost got control when IE reached a vast majority of market share. Google is in the same place now with Chrome.

  As consumers we have some control over market share through product selection. Of course an anti-trust lawsuit will help the cause as it did when MS was in position to take control. Time for Firefox to take the stage now, it’s ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you taught ethics to an AI based on the Bible and gave it the power it would quickly destroy the world. Oh that’s right, they made a bunch of sci-fi movies about that starring an Austrian body builder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Create a filter for uBO maybe? I run a number of specialized filters in uBO. A “block the rich filter” would be good. The advantage there is content can be removed from view completely, not just blurred.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is legally disabled and we’re constantly going through that pharmacy crap It’s criminal how the medical system operates here in California. The runaround with doctors and filling recurring scripts on time never ends. Problem is we have no options. My wife’s medical insurance greatly limits doctor choice and forces us to use a particular pharmacy chain. That should be illegal and is not. Even if that wasn’t the case the pharmacy we’re forced to use (CVS) has established a local monopoly by buying out all competing pharmacies in the area. We’d have to go all the way across town to find a different one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah makes a lot of sense. I know, pay an exorbitant price for a ubiquitous brand then change it to something obscure. Sounds like a great business plan to me. You go Elon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always say that about conspiracy versus ineptitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmusks new ideas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not what Musk’s bullshit. It’s a permanent base with people on Mars.

  I once watched a press conference with him talking about his plans for SpaceX. The responses he gave about human factors were making cuckoo clock sounds. When asked about the issue of solar radiation exposure his response was along the lines of we don’t need to worry about that. What!? That’s one of the major engineering and safety issues in long duration space flight and habitation. You’ve not even thought about it? So basically he’ll be sending people into space with no concern about turning them into crispy critters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rules for bots on lemm.ee & Lemmy programming stream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some bot content is okay, but I agree it should be moderated. Thanks for your effort on this, no disagreement.

  Also, thanks for your contributions to making Lemmy great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Electric boats are not something new. Pre-nuclear military submarines were electric with batteries charged by diesel generators. There are some industrial boats that use electric motors powered by diesel generators. Same for freight trains which have been using that configuration for many years.

  A substantial generator is required for a large electric power boat, no way around it. It may not need to run full time if there’s a battery, but it would still need to supply the bulk of consumed electrical power. Not really any environmental benefit. Though there are some other benefits in terms of operating costs.

  It’s possible to go all electric without a combustion powered generator on a sailboat. That’s feasible and you don’t need a $10M boat to do it, can be done with any sailboat. Though one thing is a boat must have a reliable motor to be seaworthy. You’d still need a generator backup. In that article they state the featured boat does have one. It would have to support the full electrical load of motor, charging, and accessory so I’d expect it to be pretty hefty.

  The title of that article is a fallacy really. Sailboats are environmentally friendly anyway. Doesn’t matter if they have an internal combustion engine or electric motor. You only use the motor in situations where you can’t sail such as tight channels or doldrums. That’s infrequent enough to be negligible. Though I have seen people who own sailboats just motor them around all the time. You gotta wonder why buy a sailboat if you’re just going to motor everywhere, but people do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s crazy when you think you might not be able to tell you’re talking to a bot. Just the other day I saw a TV commercial that was using an AI generated narrator. I had to listen close to tell for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These gaming companies have no moral bounds in what they’ll do to manipulate people into giving them money. It really is criminal, but law is usually ten even twenty years behind tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopify Employee Breaks NDA To Reveal Firm Quietly Replacing Laid Off Workers With AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that always goes well for your company when you replace customer service with bots outsource labor to cheap markets. But then the customer is always shit, so standard practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how it is in the USA, an employer can fire an employee for any number of reasons that don’t involve a crime.

  An employee does not get any guarantee of employment. Getting convicted of a sex crime will definitely get someone fired, but an employer can fire someone simply for being counterproductive. Though most government jobs do require a number of official complaints first.

  For contract work common in entertainment there are legal obligations. An employer can break a contract at will, but it may end up in court if not settled privately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I didn’t spend a that much time on Reddit, I actually spend more time here because I reply a lot more and find stuff I’m more interested in reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just an avoid for me. Marvel and DC were fun and entertaining when they first came on the film scene, but now they’re just movie mills rehashing the same old slop. Box office performance indicates I’m not the only one who feels that way. But nothing against people who like their stuff, I’m just done with it, like listening to the same old song too many times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only instances with a “.ml” at the end of the name may or may not be affected. Lemmy is a collection of instances so the loss of a few will not cripple the whole thing. Content over the whole is not greatly affected.

  If your home log-in instance is one that’s affected, you’ll have to find a new one. You’ll know right away because the instance will be unreachable. Not a big deal, last time I looked there was over 1200 instances to chose from.

  Another consideration is any communities living on an affected instance may have issues. All communities are common to Lemmy, but each originates from a particular instance. We’ve not yet seen a major instance go down so I don’t know how Lemmy deals with communities getting orphaned like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.ml is still up as of right now. Possibly they contracted a subscription to the domain name to keep it up. They had to do something to retain it otherwise the site would be unreachable. If lemmy.ml does have to change names it will be a hassle since I’ve got a good number of community subscriptions there.

  This wouldn’t happen to an instance with a regularly subscribed domain name. Problem is the .ml domains were free and the associated country decided to claim them back. The risk of using a free top level domain is something that should have been considered. I don’t think it’s worth the risk versus the cost savings considering how difficult it is to migrate a Lemmy instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that, was concerned about keeping my subscription to that community. Keep us posted and let us know where you end up so I can change over my community subscription.

  Anyway I think the lesson learned here is don’t use free TLDs. Lemmy is not at all designed to deal with domain name changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Reddit was in the advantageous position of being “it”. People promoting spez hate must realize they’re never going to get Reddit back. They’re just doing it out of spite for losing something. The best protest is to just move on and forget about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya'll do realize you can customize what you can/can't see on kbin/lemmy, and your experience is about about how you make it right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is working well for me with my front page set to “Subscribed” and “Top Day”. Of course you have to subscribe to communities. I went to lemmyverse.net and sorted by the biggest then went through the list picking all the ones of interest. I’ve got about forty communities and I get a healthy front page that keeps me occupied. I usually run out of time before content.

  I don’t see how “All” or “Local” would work as well. If you’re on a smaller instance you won’t get much action with “Local”. With “All” you get inundated with stuff that’s not of interest. Curating the All feed is going to be a bit tedious as you have to block all the communities you don’t want to see. I feel using the inverse logic of viewing only communities you select is quicker and easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it’s hard to remove harmful content when you’ve sacked three quarters of your staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fran Drescher On Bob Iger: He Says “We’re Unrealistic When He’s Making $78,000 a Day”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but being a union leader is a segway into politics. Fran Drescher for President! Seriously, I’d vote for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing to hide until a person has something to hide. An attitude of “I don’t have anything to hide” may catch up to a person. No one knows what the future holds. One day they might start tracking private information a person does not want tracked, for example financial or medical data. So better to put the fence up now than try to put it up during a stampede.

  Personally I keep my personal data private with a reasonable amount of effort. I try to keep a small internet footprint and there’s stuff I won’t do for the sake of privacy. Going some years back the only social media I engaged in was Reddit until coming here to Lemmy. These are anonymous mediums. It blows my mind that so many people are willing to completely splay out their lives non-anonymously on social media.