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- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 21 hours ago:
Back in the day I used iTunes to manage my mp3s, used it to properly fill out their metadata, and then used it to rename all the files appropriately, but there’s tons of other software to do that.
I also lost the last 1/3 of my music library when my roommate spilled beer on my laptop (frying it), and then midway through transferring the files off I tripped on the usb cable and shattered the hard drive.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 days ago:
Did you read that link before posting?
In comparison with other construction materials (aluminium, steel, even brick), concrete is one of the least energy-intensive building materials.[2]
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 days ago:
I understand the distaste for the aesthetics. But it’s a pretty inarguably better material from a structural, cost, sound blocking, etc. standpoint.
Don’t get me wrong, I love red brick, and personally want a red brick house, but I also recognize the sheer practicality of concrete blocks and would probably pick that with a brick veneer if I actually had to pay for it.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
That’s not an excuse to have a false and misleading headline.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
What’s your gripe with more than three windows?
Window management is usually not a complaint of Windows…
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
Yeah, this author is the pop sci author on Ars Technica, not the actual science coverage one, and you can tell by the overly broad, click bait, headline that is not actually supported by the research at hand.
- Comment on Google will now let you pick your top sources for news search results 1 week ago:
I mean, no you don’t given that they’re being used in virtually every call centre and help desk these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, they did not.
It’s not until the very last 12min of that podcast that they even talk about the question at play which is the sustainable carrying capacity of earth.
And they do not even remotely seriously cover that topic. They literally just mention that estimates are all over the place and one is a billion and then cherry pick the most optimistic one that says a trillion and literally do not remotely talk about why there are differences or what those estimates are measuring.
That’s 1.5hr of them covering the history of politicians talking about overpopulation and being like ‘haha Kissinger said it, therefore wrong’. It does not remotely cover an actual scientific understanding of what the earth’s sustainable carrying capacity is or even broach that question in a real way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Right, but we could have the same number of people while being ecologically sustainable.
What are you basing that on?
We can live more sustainably than we do, but that doesn’t mean we can support this level of population sustainably on the earth’s systems.
And besides, what’s the alternative? So I think it’s ok to say it’s a good thing the population outlook is downward while recognizing we’ve still got problems
The alternative is to frankly acknowledge that the earth can’t sustain our current population levels, so policymakers and voters should be focused on increasing economic output with fewer people, and individuals should not be maximalist when it comes to number of children.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for that?
Literally just the amount of fertilizer that we need to produce to grow crops at our scale causes downstream environmental harms. I fail to see how you could sustain 7B people at anywhere close to a comfortable modern lifestyle.
A more just economic system doesn’t even necessarily reduce emissions. Yeah it’s wasteful when a billionaire takes a private jet, but it’s also incredibly wasteful when a million people install air conditioning.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
We are though, by any objective measure of our planet’s health and sustainability.
The only measure that you could look at that would suggest we weren’t overpopulated is the billionaire musk view of ‘but more indentured servants mean that I get richer’.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t mean we’re not overpopulated though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
We’re already over populated. We’re no longer about to drive off a cliff due to over population but we’re still continuously damaging the planet with the number of humans we have.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, this is objectively wrong.
First of all, our current level of population is already overpopulated. We would do immense damage to the earth at our numbers regardless of how our society functioned. 7 billion indigenous people would also be making an enormous impact on the planet.
Second of all, we could never support 7 billion indigenous people. The literal only reason we can support our current population levels is because of industrial farming and our ability to make nitrogen enriched fertilizer.
Thirdly, there is nothing about capitalism that necessitates those thing, and nothing about communism or dictatorship or any other form of resource distribution that inherently avoids them.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
That seems absurd, we’d never build a civilization if everyone was at this level of dysfunction or anywhere near a majority, nevermind one with such rigid specific rules.
Yeah, we would.
A) ADHD does not prevent most people from living a normal life
B) most of human society throughout history has not required the level of planning and attention that modern society does
C) ADHD does not matter if you’re a slave or indentured servant who’s going to get beat if they don’t do their job
D) ADHD symptoms tend to lesson with exercise and hard physical labour
And recent surveys have as many as 25% of people suspecting they may have undiagnosed ADHD:
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
The diagnosed ones generally are, the others are often self medicating in a variety of ways.
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 3 weeks ago:
For countries like Finland, the Ministry of Defense is not about offense, and is very heavily armed.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
LMFAO, you take your ADHD diagnosis too seriously.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
He explicitly states that it is not 0% of his time due to being bombarded with support requests.
Read the post.
- Comment on Could someone please explain/Tldr the Subnautica 2 controversy? I liked the first one, but I'm severely out of the loop. 3 weeks ago:
Unknown Worlds was created by Charlie Cleveland and was originally a group of developers making a half life mod: Natural Selection.
With its success, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire formed the official studio called Unknown Worlds, and then hired more people to make Natural Selection 2.
After Natural Selection 2, Unknown Worlds made Subnautica 1. Charlie Cleveland was the director, designer, and lead programmer on it. Max McGuire was also a programmer on it, Hugh Jeremy was the producer.
After this, Charlie Cleveland moved into a CEO role, Max McGuire moved in the role of company President, and Trey had Ted Gill as CEO.
They released Subnautica Below Zero, which none of them were that involved in to somewhat more middling reviews.
They sold Unknown Worlds to Krafton, and in the contract it had a $250M bonus spread amongst the staff of Unknown Worlds for on time delivery of Subnautica 2.
Allegedly Krafton asked Charlie Cleveland to work on also producing a Subnautica movie, so he was focusing on that.
Apparently at a milestone review Krafton was unhappy with the amount of content that would be in Subnautica 2 early access. They asked the team to increase it by 30%. The team refused and thought it was ready to release.
Krafton then fired the two studio founders (Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire), the CEO (Ted Gill), and put in a new CEO who delayed the release past the point of the staff getting the $250m bonus.
The studio then pledged to give the staff a $25m bonus instead.
The fired leadership team is now suing Krafton, meanwhile Krafton is claiming that it was just acting in the beat interests of not disappointing gamers.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
We all imagine that, is has yet to happen. Vibe coders can produce the spaghetti code of upwards of 10 unpaid interns! What value!
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
LMFAO, bruh, your categories are 18-29, and 65+.
Your Source literally entirely skips over the age group we’re talking about. You’re not proving strong literacy skills of any kind atm.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 3 weeks ago:
No, your notion of morality is accurate, there’s no reason to race to the bottom because someone else sucks more.
- Comment on What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print? 4 weeks ago:
Yeggi for general search, printables is my go to spot for posting files.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia says that 12% of Finns own a gun, so I’m not sure where you’re getting 38% of households.
Finland also does not allow owning guns for personal protection, open or concealed carry, has mandatory military service, and most of the guns owned are long guns used for hunting and sport shooting. To get a license for a pistol you have to be over 20 and demonstrated over 2 years of experience sport shooting pistols.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 4 weeks ago:
And yet, America is still the only country with regular mass shootings.
Everyone acts like people are going to be able to start 3d printing guns and ammunition en masse, and get it doesn’t happen anywhere at any significant scale. It’s just defeatist nonsense pushed by gun lovers to convince people not to act.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on There are no happy people, only happy moments 4 weeks ago:
True happiness lies in learning to be happy with being content.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 weeks ago:
A population where everyone is armed will also almost certainly have more firepower than a single terrorist group, too.
It will also arm a whole shit of load terrorists, and people just having a bad day.
The power dynamic is between the terrorists and anyone who would oppose them, not just the state.
Yeah, and now you’ve raised the floor massively.
when terrorists are basically always ultimately handled by a military force
[citation needed]
- Comment on Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global 4 weeks ago:
It’s so wild. I vacationed in Northern England, about an hour south of Scotland, in Tynemouth, and our whole family found the offshore turbines to be magical.
There’s ruins of like a massive 4-6 story monastery from the 15th century, and it’s wild because the remnants of the one wall, are the tallest thing in town, and have been for centuries. There’s literally paintings and drawings going back centuries showing it, and centuries and centuries of people living in the shadow of this partial massive monument that no longer exists.
It’s super interesting, but there’s also something kind of inherently scary and depressing about feeling like you’re seeing ancient remnants of some massive great thing that can no longer be done.
But then at a foggy sunset we saw the off shore turbines it was genuinely uplifting a dnmagical in a solar pink way. Just the blades peaked out of the fog and similar to the monastery ruins, they looked too big to be created by humans, but these were actually still working. It was one of the most magical moments of the whole trip.