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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Link for the lazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.
Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 3 weeks ago:
Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.
Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.
“There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist
- Comment on OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure 4 weeks ago:
Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 5 weeks ago:
Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
- Comment on Anting 5 weeks ago:
It would be funny it it weren’t so sad.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.
Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and they end up swaying them left and right.
Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.
Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness…will have a weaker hold on you.
Feel, but don’t forget to think.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 weeks ago:
Plex is more polished, but I love Jellyfin’s subtitle search; it blows Plex’s socks away.
Also, Jellyfin doesn’t nag me every effing time to enable DRM in Firefox for some unfathomable reason.
But Plex definitely wins on performance, IMO.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 weeks ago:
Take HomeAssistant for example: you’re free to use it self-hosted, but as soon as you want to expose it securely through the Internet, there’s need from infrastructure that has costs, both materials and labor. In HomeAssistant’s case, it’s NabuCasa that does it, costs money, and helps fund the work of Home Assistant developers.
Having things free (libre) and open source is a blessing, but we have become entitled to have work of very specialized people for free. That’s not always feasible.
Another example, Zabbix, is totally open source and free, they only charge for support and training if you ask for them. It has worked for them for many years, but if they start to struggle with funding, I’d understand if they charged for it.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 5 weeks ago:
It also assumes the masses behave rationally, which they won’t ever.
We’ll just get the cheapest shit with the limited information we are given, unless it is life-or-death, where we will pay any price out of fear.
- Comment on Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful 5 weeks ago:
We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 1 month ago:
They have a brain as complex as ours, they’re social, and they’re believed to be really smart.
If they’re actually dumb, very dumb, I swear to god I will buy a single non-dolphin-free tuna can out of spite.
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!
They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.
They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.
I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.
My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.
- Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
- In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to get two unanswered things.
- Two line breaks
- In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.
That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 1 month ago:
Wow. Aren’t we inventive?
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 1 month ago:
Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 months ago:
I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.
The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 2 months ago:
Guess they will start teaching vtubing in high school then.
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 2 months ago:
TBH Apple is closed mainly because it makes them boatloads of money, not because of security. It could still be open and responsible.
- Comment on Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned. 2 months ago:
Don’t blame him, they had that bias because we’re friends, and I would be perfect if not for my excessive modesty.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 2 months ago:
This is what I got from the article as well. Jesus, buy a previous gen GPU and fiddle a bit with your graphic settings, it’s just games, not life or death.
- Comment on Do spiders poop ? 2 months ago:
Adult mayflies don’t, they don’t even have a digestive system or even mouth. They just reproduce and die.
- Comment on Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted 2 months ago:
I don’t recall reporting any comment today. Can I fix that if I reported it somehow?
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 2 months ago:
They don’t even serve shareholders, they serve the money they will give them if profits increase short-term.
- Comment on Milestone: NASA achieved GPS signals on Moon 2 months ago:
I’d be okay with that, honestly.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 2 months ago:
Also, IQ tests are a learnable skill. You can become surprisingly better at them without actually increasing your intelligence, by becoming familiar with the exercises.
A smart non-native English speaker would likely score even lower the first time because many old tests tie reasoning to English proficiency and western culture.
Last but not least, being intelligent is different from being smart. I’ve seen intelligent people get left behind by regular people because they took unwise decisions and wasted their potential.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 2 months ago:
Bhank you for not doxin me pal, I would be devastated if odders knew about my low iQ
- Comment on What RSS feeds are you subscribed to? 2 months ago:
A question for the ages: why are so many young cybersecurity furries?
Does the field attract furries, or does it create them?