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- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
In the Netherlands a number of cities were banning fossil fuel for deliveries in the city. It was in planning for years, easing into implementation.
Our new government just scrapped all of those plans because the largest party doesn’t believe in climate change, and another party in the coalition is the “farmer’s movement” party and opposes environmental regulations.
😢
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
I work at a company big into AI. We build our own models. Our senior management drank the Kool-Aid. We don’t have search on our Intranet any more, just LLM chatbots.
Our TLS certificate expired last week on our main web page. I tried to find the contact details for the team responsible and the thing just hallucinated e-mail addresses.
Needless to say, I’m less excited than you.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
There are infinite prime numbers. This has been known for thousands of years. You can find numerous proofs of this online, and go through them until one makes sense to you.
Also, quantum computers are on track to make division-based cryptography useless in the next decade or two. (Note that this only affects public key cryptography, and not shared key cryptography. So your online backups should be safe as long as you have a password for them.)
- Comment on Br*t*sh 1 month ago:
The Scots are a violent, savage people. I was attacked there and beaten, and everyone I met on the rest of my week stay regaled me with stories of people they knew who had been similarly brutalized. “Oh yeah my sister got a kicking last week.” “My mate Barry tried to pull some geezers off a bird and then she helped them give him a kicking!” And on and on. Amazingly even more vicious than the English, which hardly seemed possible.
- Comment on Br*t*sh 1 month ago:
Except the water faucets (“taps”) come in pairs, one with cold water and one with hot. So, not so much like going into the future, but more like some primitive land too stubborn to change for the better in even the most straightforward, obvious ways. 😆
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
Bill Gates signed his pledge more than 10 years ago. His wealth doubled in the last 7 years, meaning that he’s gotten average increases of like 10% per year.
Mr. Gates, you’re going the wrong way!
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
Didn’t Bill Gates sign a pledge to give all of his money away? And he is billions richer than last year? Huh.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
I’m learning Chinese now and it seems to have a similar change in pitch as European languages when asking a question. 你说汉语吗？
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Is it? I mean, 100 years ago you might all be reading different things, with either a record on or possibly the radio. Why is it terrible that now you’re all… reading different things together in one room?
- Comment on Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio 1 month ago:
The first rule of Christianity is, “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
There is no probation against killing in general in Christianity, only murder, which makes an appearance as the 5th commandment. Murder being unlawful and/or unjustified killing, so clearly wartime killing is a-okay in Christianity.
Now, you could argue that “love thy neighbor as thyself” might implicitly forbid killing, but if you start looking to Christianity for morality or even simple consistency you’re going to have a bad time.
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 1 month ago:
Which is why the Supreme Court is hearing the case. Two wealthy industries fighting out who gets to extract the most wealth.
- Comment on Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. 2 months ago:
I shouldn’t feed the troll, but…
Why are vertical videos bad?
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
This was my first thought. I guess if you’re replacing a coal plant it’s not completely terrible, but be prepared to turn it off in 10 or 20 years.
- Comment on why not 3 months ago:
I don’t understand ice in drinks at all. It displaces what I want (a delicious cold beverage) with what I don’t want (blocks of ice and watered-down drink).
Cold brewed coffee: delicious. Iced coffee: no thanks!
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
i2p is a bit like Tor. Both are overlay networks, meaning that they use the “normal” Internet as their lowest layer. They use similar method of obfuscation using multiple hops.
i2p doesn’t rely on special nodes, I think, which Tor does. i2p also does not connect to the “normal” Internet (basically).
Like with Tor there is no need for a VPN (or rather, little need for a VPN… probably both i2p and Tor are safer than any VPN, but nothing is 100% safe, so some people use double VPN, or Tor over a VPN).
Tor is not designed for torrenting. It assumes TCP connections - mostly for web stuff - and doesn’t handle torrent well. They also don’t want you bogging down the system with your filthy porn. 😆
i2p solves this by forcing you to send data for other users in order to download anything. This helps make your traffic harder to track and helps the overall network. It also means that downloads are slow. Very slow. Like, basically start your download and come back in a day or two. Not a problem if you have four or five downloads in progress, but it makes spontaneous watching impossible.
Anyway, I’m hardly an expert but this is my understanding!
- Comment on Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams 3 months ago:
People tend to hire people that they like. You don’t really know who is best for a job unless you’ve hired multiple people and they have been working for a while.
Having employees who happen to have the same background as hiring managers is not the same as having the best employees, but that’s what we have.
If you’d had DEI training you’d know this. 😉
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
I don’t watch a lot of TV so it’s enough for me. Although to be honest if my partner ever gets smart and leaves me I’ll drop all streaming and just use i2p. 😆
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
Maybe a lot of their content is terrible but Delicious in Dungeon is a work of art!
- Comment on YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age. 3 months ago:
100 Gbit? Is there even such a thing as a 100 Gbit link? I want to know more!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Banking is completely different from voting from a security point of view. None of the parties in a bank transaction are anonymous, and there are numerous ways to retry or roll back a transaction. Computerized voting is more like crypto currency. 😝
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 4 months ago:
Forcing is absolutely good. We force companies to do all kinds of things, in terms of corporate governance (publicly traded companies must have their finances audited, for example), ownership (banks used to be prevented from buying stock so that they would not avoid calling in bad debt), and how they do business (collusion between big tech to keep salaries down for example).
- Comment on What makes it “Legitimate Interest“? 4 months ago:
I use Consent-o-matic.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 4 months ago:
Meh. I lose power every 3 or 4 years on average. A UPS just doesn’t make sense for me. (When I lived in Virginia it was once a month on average, so for sure it made sense…)
- Comment on Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees 4 months ago:
Can’t you make one atom thin sheets of carbon with a pencil and tape?
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 4 months ago:
The sequel films are trash, but a lot of Disney’s Star Wars stuff for the small screen has been really good.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
Police don’t even really have a duty to enforce the law, at least not in the USA:
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 5 months ago:
I have a friend who unironically believes in expensive services for this reason.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
Companies are willing to pay so they can fire people!
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 months ago:
New Zealand stopped subsidizing farmers, and survives. So we have at least one data point showing that it is possible.
- Comment on Passions. 6 months ago:
I mean, it does also cause visual, aural, and olfactory hallucinations. Plus mess with how you perceive time.