blind3rdeye
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- Comment on Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline 4 weeks ago:
There is some misleading information in there. Probably better to just get straight to the point with the ‘standard’ joinmastodon.org link.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 4 weeks ago:
I’m mean life on Earth, obviously. No one is saying that the planet is going to explode or disappear or anything like that. We’re talking about the climate, and life that depends on that climate.
And before you start coming at me with some “but but such and such life will still…” I’ll clarify again that there is a matter of scale here. A very large number of species that have been around for a very long time will soon be extinct (many have been lost already). So although we might still have mosquitos and jelly-fish for a long time to come, a lot of the complex life that is currently enjoying a comfortable and otherwise-sustainable life on Earth will no longer be able to do so; because of us. That’s what I’m referring to.
Yes, humans have does this to ‘ourselves’, but we are nowhere near the worst effected life in this situation. In fact, most of the ill effects on humans are just knock-on effects from other life failing. (In particular, reduced capacity to grow food is likely to be a problem for humans.)
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. I’ve been mourning the loss of Earth’s future for some time now. It’s very sad.
That said, we are not in a simple binary fucked vs fine situation. It’s a sliding scale. So even though things are very bad, we can always still take action to make them less bad. That is never not an option.
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 5 weeks ago:
There are a few different physical systems that people are trying to build quantum computers with. Superconducting loops are one of the most promising ones, because of a halfway decent decoherence rate. And yeah, superconducts needing near 0K temperature to operate is a problem. It’s just hard to scale up while everything needs to be so cold. Room-temp superconductivity would be a huge advantage.
But even then, the decoherence rates are still too high for any long quantum computation. Last I heard, the best qubits are maybe barely getting to good enough errors rates that quantum error correction would be possible - which is great, but ‘possible’ and ‘practical’ still have a significant gap between them.
So in short, basically everything about the hardware needs to be better; and its just very very hard. Probably too hard to ever achieve the dream of having arbitrary quantum computation. (But there is always the possibility of some big new idea that makes everything work better.)
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 5 weeks ago:
We aren’t talking about security though. We’re talking about what information should be presented on lemmy.
Let me put it this way: have you personally ever tried to see who upvoted or downvoted a particular lemmy post? And if you did, did you talk about what you saw?
My point is that currently basically no one sees the data. The expectation is that no one is looking. And it is not socially acceptable to discuss who is voting for what. But if the votes were changed to public then everyone would see it, the expectation would be that it is common knowledge, and so obviously it will be discussed. Is that what we want on lemmy?
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 5 weeks ago:
I’m seeing lots of comments here saying that server admins can already see vote data, and therefore it is not private.
But from my point of view, having a handful of people able to extract voting data using their position of trust on the lemmy network is very different from broadcasting voting data to everyone on lemmy. And although you can argue that it is possible to create a new server and federate and blah-blah-blah to create votes; that argument sounds to me like “don’t bother locking your front door, because that type of lock can be defeated by a lock-picking tools.”
And even aside from all that discussion about who can access what; there is another key point that I think is overlooked: Making voter information public makes it ‘normal’ thing to monitor and discuss. Currently there is an expectation that people won’t look at or discuss that information (even if they hypothetically could get access). But by making it public, the expectation then is that everyone will look at that information. That would create a change in tone and meaning of votes and discussion around votes.
- Comment on Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton 1 month ago:
Your response makes it sound like you’re responding some kind of rage-rant. But from my reading, the post you responded to basically just lists a few things they like and dislike - clearly given as personal opinions. So your response reads as unprovoked hostility.
- Comment on pringles 1 month ago:
With the stuff about ‘super computers’, this seems more like a shitpost than a science meme.
- Comment on Aluminum 1 month ago:
Perhaps so, but one might argue that human tech relies more on iron than any other metal - because of its magnetic properties. We need iron to generate and manipulate electricity.
- Comment on Aluminum 1 month ago:
Titanium perhaps - but that is more different to get.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 1 month ago:
Hey man, you’re currently posting on lemmy - and bringing up linux totally out of context. Perhaps the problem is not ‘other people’.
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 2 months ago:
Is the ‘dystopia-sphere’ trying to compete with the torment nexus or something?
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 2 months ago:
A one-off time ‘investment’ of switching to Linux will save you from all future cases of searching for how to wrestle with the latest Windows crapware. If you switch, you’ll be in time-debt for a few months, and after that you’ll be ahead - and you’ll stay ahead indefinitely. You’ll also have the piece of mind that you are not being spied on and monetised by your OS.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 2 months ago:
That definitely is not what I was saying. What I’m saying is that mocking and taunting people does not help social cohesion. It can cause reluctance and spite. We just don’t need that.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 2 months ago:
It’s good that you are getting support. I do think your jokes here are a bit in bad taste though. It isn’t likely to make anyone feel good about supporting others, or about being supported.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 2 months ago:
I’m sure congestion info on the maps is valued by some, but not all. Many people just use maps to navigate unfamiliar places.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 2 months ago:
Firefox middle mouse scroll works fine in X11. I use it all the time. But I guess that’s beside the point; I’m sure we could come up with a different example.
- Comment on History is written by the victors 2 months ago:
Attention spans just keep getting shorter.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 2 months ago:
Hmm. I just read the github thread that this is about. The devs made a mistake on this; but it seems to me that there is a bit of an over-reaction here. The people in the thread seem to be discussing it calmly and politely; and the issue (i.e. use of pronouns in the build instructions) ends up being resolved. By contrast, the reaction outside of the actual thread… is extreme.
Like I said, this seems like an overreaction to someone making a mistake of ignorance & indifference. It wasn’t an act of malice.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 2 months ago:
Their choice of programming language isn’t a ‘mistake’. It isn’t something that is ‘corrected’. It’s a development choice, nothing more. That’s the point. And if some ‘random commenter’ doesn’t like that choice, that’s their problem to fix - not the developers who are actually making the project.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 2 months ago:
Not really. They aren’t inventing new standards. They are implementing an engine that confirms to existing standards.
- Comment on gotdamn 2 months ago:
This diagram helps to show that you and Hadriscus agree on the order of the posts, but not on how to describe it. That’s pretty interesting to me.
- 4, 2, 1, 3 – labeling the posts from top to bottom with which order they should then be read. So the first post is read forth, the second post is read second, etc.)
- 3, 2, 4, 1 – listing the order that the posts should be read if they were understood to be labelled in 1-4 top-down. So we should read the third post first, the second post second, forth post third, …
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- Comment on CBT 2 months ago:
Yes - tortured using a burning hot gas-light, from what I understand.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 4 months ago:
Yeah, I will. These decisions don’t just come out of nowhere, and I think its always a good idea to try to understand why things happen. By understanding the reasons for things, the world is less likely to feel arbitrarily hostile and unfair - and I can make better informed choices for my own life.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 4 months ago:
Brand integration definitely is not neutral. Functionality to make it smooth and easy interact with nazi-central lends Nintendo’s credibility to that platform. It’s not a neutral feature.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 4 months ago:
I found this story to be informative, about why Germany closed their nuclear power plants. I think that context can defuse a lot of arguments about Germany’s decision.
- Comment on There it is 4 months ago:
Cool picture. But Chrome? Why?
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 5 months ago:
That’s my understanding too. And because people kind of like the sound of it, they might use it slightly more broadly than that - but not as broadly as ‘rad’ or ‘sick’ or even ‘pog’. I was there for the rise and demise of ‘pwn’, and it definitely was never as widespread as pog is now.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 5 months ago:
The 1% - but unfortunately this includes our leaders and lawmakers; so that puts power in the hands of those who value money above all else. And that power is used to extract more money and power from everyone else. Advertising always reinforces their message of course.