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- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 15 hours ago:
Maybe Cory Doctorow can? pluralistic.net/2024/…/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 1 day ago:
Pretty close! It’s tar-soaked hemp fibers (rope traditionally being hemp), called oakum. Sometimes cotton under that for filling if needed. To me it still feels more about carefully easing out, particularly since paying out also has other uses that aren’t rope related, like falling off to leeward after a tack.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 1 day ago:
As long as we’re being pedantic, when you pay out pitch, you’re not covering the deck with it. You’re making lines of it that go in between the deck planks. It’s basically caulking. You actually have to be careful to not get it everywhere (not least because pitch is really hot when you’re paying it out), so just like when you’re paying out a line, there’s a sense of careful control and easing out the pitch.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
I’ve been on the $5 a month plan, and go over probably half the time. The months when I do go over, it just means I start the next month a couple of days early. I’m probably actually somewhere around $6 a calendar month; my Kagi month is probably only 28 days or so.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 3 weeks ago:
Ah, but “Planter” and “Palantir” have most of the same letters!
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s what my dad says, and he’s a medieval historian, so I believe him. I guess it’s possible that lifespan in 1901 was much shorter than the middle ages, but that seems unlikely
- Comment on GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit 1 month ago:
NIST says 2035 should be the target date for organizations to get to something quantum resistant. The talk I saw at DefCon this year laid out a very convincing argument that due to advancements in the implementation of Shorr’s, as well as one other algorithm, that’s not an aggressive enough target and we should really be shooting for 2030. Apparently IBM has never missed a target date, and they’re looking at having enough logical Qubits by 2032 or so.
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 2 months ago:
Still seems like voodoo to me
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 2 months ago:
I’ve heard this before but I still can’t wrap my head around why some money counts and some doesn’t
- Comment on OpenAI Boosts Secondary Share Sale to $10.3B, Presents Offer to Employees on Wednesday 9/3 2 months ago:
This is the opposite of bag holding though, isn’t it? Since it’s an expanded offering to sell?
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 2 months ago:
He got it right (which makes sense; he coined the term); OP didn’t.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 months ago:
Sauerkraut is apparently a reasonable way to store vitamin C for a long time. I imagine cabbage in its own doesn’t keep too well.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 3 months ago:
This right here. Unions are a much more potent way to tell management “that anti-consumer idea is bullshit and we won’t do it.”
I’ve been tech conferencing all week and I’ve already seen two talks about unionizing tech workers. Maybe the tide is turning?
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 3 months ago:
People don’t just look at the TV for an hour straight - they are doing other things, or second-screening, or having conversations, and multiple methods being available to pick up on the show dialog is helpful.
Wouldn’t this make subtitles less useful rather than more? You can’t see the subtitles if you’re not just looking at the TV. For second-screening, it would be more helpful to listen to the audio while you’re also scrolling Lemmy or whatever.
- Comment on Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global 3 months ago:
Windmills can do things other than grind flour. Both terms are correct.
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 4 months ago:
I think I’ve got right around there where I’m living now; that’s part of what makes it hard to contemplate leaving the country, even though this place (US) is turning pretty terrifying: I know if I leave it’ll take years to build up friendships like that again, if it ever even happens.
- Comment on Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals 4 months ago:
Scheduling would not be fine; under HIPAA “provision of healthcare” is considered PHI, so knowing that person x had their care at a certain time and place would be a problem.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 4 months ago:
This appears to just be a compilation of other leaks: bleepingcomputer.com/…/no-the-16-billion-credenti…
Still not a bad idea to change passwords and make sure MFA is enabled.
- Comment on Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos 4 months ago:
It is banned; they’re talking about un-banning it
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 5 months ago:
Because of studies like arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622:
Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 5 months ago:
That’s the Washington Post
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 5 months ago:
That would be equally annoying. Probably a better signal to noise ratio on IRC though; Discord descends into memes almost instantly.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 5 months ago:
Seriously. It’s beyond painful when some open source project only uses Discord for communication. You have to hope that you post your question at a time when the right people are online, and that there’s not a more interesting conversation going on, otherwise it just gets lost. Index that whole dataset.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 months ago:
This is trademark, not copyright
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 6 months ago:
I don’t know why you’re being down voted; here’s an upvote for being sensible.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 6 months ago:
This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I’m not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.
- Comment on Trump Admin Will Garnish Struggling Borrowers' Wages as Student Loan Payments Resume 6 months ago:
Why would this be a bad thing? I assume that’s the connotation for posting it here
Because people who are struggling financially already shouldn’t have money taken out of their paychecks by the predatory student loan racket.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 7 months ago:
It’s also about control of the Northwest Passage IMO; that’s why he’s interested in Canada and Greenland.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 7 months ago:
What games do you play? I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux since Windows 7 went EoS, and especially since the Steam Deck came out, I’ve had very few problems. That said I don’t play competitive stuff, which is what tends to have anti-cheat rootkits.
- Comment on Toward a Passwordless Future 8 months ago:
Anyone who starts off telling you that they’re the most popular and trusted should probably not, in fact, be trusted. Especially if they’re calling for not using password managers. Passkeys are interesting in theory, but my understanding is that most of the implementations are just another way for big tech to track you.