boatswain
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- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 1 week 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 2 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
It is banned; they’re talking about un-banning it
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 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 2 months ago:
That’s the Washington Post
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 3 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 3 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. 3 months ago:
This is trademark, not copyright
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 5 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.
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 months ago:
Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: forums.somethingawful.com
- Comment on Lending e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems 6 months ago:
I don’t think this is a case of trying to make more money.
Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual Is Publicly Available 6 months ago:
With the U.S. government now in total control of a political party …
The quoted text means that the government controls the party. I believe what you mean to say is “With the US government now totally controlled by a political party …”
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 9 months ago:
My understanding is that intention is not uncommonly litigated; I believe the question of “intent to deceive” is central to trademark law, for example. That’s also what the the “degrees” of murder etc are about.
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. I do read an awful lot of contacts and talk to lawyers.