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- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 days ago:
Why are you even on here if it hasn’t?
- Comment on E-Paper Display Reaches the Realm of LCD Screens 5 days ago:
I’m very curious about the actual latency.
The refresh rate certainly impacts latency, but there are other factors that can effect Time To First Update, been if it can play quickly after that.
Exciting though, even a relatively low res e ink screens that’s fully viewable in daylight would make an amazing portable monitor.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 5 days ago:
They didn’t care about this system. It just got caught up in their news sources.
This isn’t funny, it’s just a thing that happened.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 6 days ago:
So it’s funny because the fediverse is so niche that no one designing automated copyright systems care about its odd and unique addressing system?
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 6 days ago:
This is honestly a dumb post. It doesn’t say anything about “Microsoft” understanding or not understanding anything.
It just shows them using an automated system to try and take down an account that they think is infringing on their trademark rights. There are legal protections for parody accounts, but they are not absolute and it’s possible that Microsoft could get a court order compelling the owner to cease control of the account.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 6 days ago:
It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn’t live in one place.
The point is that encrypted messaging is not a hobby for anyone but Moxie Marlinspike. It’s just a tool that people use for communication. WhatsApp and iMessage are both encrypted and have relatively seamless backup solutions and do not require any extra thought or effort.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 6 days ago:
Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?
Obviously not.
Do you change your air filter, clean your keyboard, floss your teeth, derust your tools, organize your files, respond to all your messages, keep on top of available tax breaks and deals, dust under your bed etc?
No one does every random maintenance task as often as they should meaning that everyone is letting some slip occasionally which means you should expect that no, not everyone is periodically backing up and transferring their DMs to a different device.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the situation.
Did you buy a single family home / house that you’re living in, and renting out part of to help pay your mortgage? Then it depends on the rent you charge.
If you charge market rates and you can afford to charge less than market rates, or if you hire contractors and maintenance people for the unit that are cheaper / worse than the ones you use for your own unit, then yes, you are being exploitative and hypocritical.
If, however, you treat the unit like your own and charge below market rates then no, you’re not.
If you build an addition on your house, or build a laneway house or something, then it’s more reasonable to charge market rates for rent because you’ve actually added new housing to the area, an act that in itself should help to slightly drop rents. Same thing if you buy vacant property and build rental units on it. However, if you continue charging the most you possibly can long after you’ve made your money back then you’re back into the territory of being an exploitative hypocrite.
And if you’re just in a hot market and buying up houses / condos, and renting them back to people as is, or just doing the cheapest and shittiest job you can turning them into apartments, then yes you are being a hypocrite. At that point you’re just using your capital to buy up a limited quantity item and sell it back to people at exploitative rates. It would be like being stranded in the desert and buying up the remaining water and then selling it back to people for a profit. You’re providing no value to society, just using past success to force people into a corner where they have to pay you for a necessity that’s in limited supply.
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 1 week ago:
I honestly cannot fathom why people buy body wash… Shampoo is basically the same thing.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that either are supposed to be slimy, I think that’s usually a sign of an algae or health problem, so both would fit that corner, which then leaves the open corner as Legs=4, Slime=Yes, and House=1
- Comment on That one Pokémon 2 weeks ago:
Coral?
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, another one of these “there are only anarcho-capitalism and socialism and nothing in between” types.
Not at all what I said, I explicitly references the real world system being more complex and nuanced than the model systems that show the basic pros and cons of the systems.
There is no viewpoint-independent logic behind capitalism because capitalism wasn’t designed. It’s a natural function of trade. As soon as you have the concepts of property and trade, you have capitalism. The ancient babylonians had capitalism, and so did the ancient egyptians.
So in your mind only things that are intentionally designed by humans can have viewpoint-independent logic?
There are no naturally arising systems I nature that have viewpoint-independent logic?
Again, if you do nothing, capitalism will emerge. If you continue to do nothing, monopolists will emerge. If you continue to do nothing, these monopolists will take over the government, and you get feudalism.
So you’re arguing that stable trade networks and relationships have never existed and are impossible to exist?
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 2 weeks ago:
No, and I would argue that most people who are actually small-c conservative capitalists don’t actually like businesses growing to the point of monopoly, and especially conglomerizing and crossing industries.
It is why every country has some form of anti-competition regulation, because capitalism is not a perfect system and can run amok if the appropriate guard rails aren’t in place.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a fundamentally wrong understanding that capitalism follows ideals or a viewpoint-independent logic.
I have just explained the viewpoint-independent logic behind capitalism.
You are stating problems with our current system, that is different from the underlying ideals and viewpoint-independent logic that people use to justify and advocate for capitalism.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 2 weeks ago:
At it’s core, capitalism is system of resource distribution. It’s in contrast to other resource distribution systems, such as how indigenous people and early human tribes are often thought of as using various system of resource distribution that are collective in nature, where everyone shares all resources and people take only what’s needed (though this was far from the only resource distribution system used by those peoples), and it came about primarily in contrast to feudal systems of resource distribution, where powerful kings and lords would collect resources from the broader public and then spend them however they wanted.
Let’s say you have an anarchist / libertarian resource distribution system or lack thereof, where most people live in small individual plots of land, grow what they need, and in general don’t share or distribute resources. That means that each individual family / plot can be strong, but as a collective they will struggle to move as one when they need to. If an invading army shows up and they need every single potential soldier to fight to their death or risk conquering and enslavement, they’re going to have a hard time convincing everyone to do so. If they need some people to stop planting crops so that the soil can rotate, they’re going to be unable to because that’s the only land and resources those people have. These systems fundamentally lead to game theory coordination problems.
In contrast, feudalism is a centralized system where one person controls everything (it’s more distributed in actuality, but that’s the basic structure it takes). This creates the opportunity for efficiency, and to move quickly, but also creates massive opportunities for human fallibility to waste and ruin everything.
Capitalism on the other hand promises to be a distributed, decentralized resource distribution system. Everyone just has to behave according to their own self interest, and resources will flow to where they’re needed. If I make a better product, then you, that should prove out that I’m better at making products, and should thus get more resources so that people who are better at making products make more than those who are worse.
Does it work out that way in practice? No, not always, this is an incredibly simplified model system, but the core idea behind capitalism, is basically the same core idea that’s behind lemmy and the fediverse. Decentralized, distributed systems. They’re hard to design, and they require everyone agreeing on standards, but they are more flexible and don’t have the fallibility of central authorities.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
I don’t fault researchers for publishing novel research that might not go anywhere. I explicitly understand the scientific value in doing so.
I do not think it’s valuable to breathlessly regurgitate those claims to the broader pop-sci public though. A) It’s boring to read the same overhyped battery press release every single week. And B) it shakes people’s faith in science, in the same way that people’s faith in medicine has been shaken by bad reporting on every study that says X could give you cancer or make you live longer.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
Not any more waste of time than reading 90% of other tech news (or any news in general). It’s basically entertainment, not education.
I agree, but if I want to read 90% filler I can just pick a tech news site and read everything.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
I don’t expect them to come to market faster than that, I expect people to not believe and post headlines about a battery technology revolutionizing things when it’s early stage research and most likely will not.
If you spent your time reading about every novel research battery since ether dawn of Li Ion and today, all you’ll have succeeded in is wasting a lot of time.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
Yes, progress in the manufacturing and refining of Lithium Ion batteries.
This is not that. This is a research lab trying a new idea that will go nowhere and then issuing a press release that talks about the positives and ignores the showstopping negatives.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
Bruh I’m an electrical engineer. I’m interested in new technology. I’m not interested in journalists regurgitating mindless research paper fluff.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
Yes, Lithium Ion batteries did. Do you know when their lab experimentation equivalent to his article occurred? The 70s and 80s.
Do you know how many labs have experimented with new battery types that have some benefits in some areas since then? Literally thousands and thousands and thousands. Most go nowhere.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
My current batteries are Goodenough.
- Comment on New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries 2 weeks ago:
It has been 20 straight years of “this new battery tech COULD revolutionize everything”.
No. It won’t.
Do not talk about battery tech revolutionizing anything unless your innovation is in mass manufacturing it, cost effectively, and reliably, at scale.
Anything else is just another early research project jerking itself off before it goes nowhere.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I mean, no you don’t given that they’re being used in virtually every call centre and help desk these days.