absGeekNZ
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- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Got very excited
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 4 days ago:
Well, obviously.
Completely restricting, potentially the biggest and most accessible corpus of knowledge ever created, is not my goal.
I’m trying to balance the good with the bad here.
Example:
Lichess training embedded videos are hosted on youtube; but can just be watched on youtube directly. - Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 4 days ago:
uBlock is my go to for killing the ads.
I’ll look into freetube, my 9yo has some cool interests but YT wants to drive engagement through whatever means necessary.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 5 days ago:
As a parent of young kids…youtube is a complicated mess.
It is full of really great content; but YT kids sucks…so if you want access to the good stuff it is standard YT.
But the utter shit that shows up in the side bar and suggested videos is insane.
For older teens/adults; you don’t have to worry about the shit tier garbage that is suggested.
I block the ads, but that is a whole other level of cringe/inappropriate content that just gets shoved into videos; completely unrelated to what is on.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
You can, and do.
It helps set the bar, it is a tool for determining how to assess what level of imbalance is reasonable.
It’s not the only tool, nor an I arguing for it to be.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
Nothing about gender wars here.
Just because Facebook is shit, doesn’t make this any better.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
I was making the point, that despite the fact that this is mildly ok. The test for anything that gives one group power over another, is to switch the groups.
If it’s still reasonable, than it is probably OK to keep it. If however it seems wrong after the switch, the bar to keep the power imbalance should be very high.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
Agreed, but it is worse the way I put it…
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
Change the target to any other group and the outrage would be 100-10000 fold bigger.
Try it out, instead of Women rating men, try subbing in various minority groups or races.
Bonus points for the most offensive combinations…
e.g. Russians rating Ukrainians in your area…it can get pretty bad…I can think of many worse combos.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 1 week ago:
New one is supposed to have a 30 day battery life… That is amazing, my OG pebble is only getting 5 days now.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 1 week ago:
Spiderman: Emotional Damage
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 4 weeks ago:
Caution: Mermaids with strapons, waiting on subsurface rocks.
- Comment on shrooms 4 weeks ago:
Interesting; I was in hospital last year, opioid pain relief doesn’t work for me. They tried a few times at increasing dosages and it just does nothing.
Paracetamol works well, they tried ketamine and I told them to stop because it made me feel terrible.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 5 weeks ago:
Just came here to say this.
The suggested videos are terrible.
- Comment on :-) 1 month ago:
We tried a lot of techniques…
Rigid schedules, no schedules , big feeds, lots of little feeds…nothing seemed to work. For one kid, he wouldn’t sleep unless he was next to one of us; one of the others wanted to be in the same room but not the same bed…
But once they hit ~3 it was like a switch flipped, and now they all sleep with no issues.
- Comment on :-) 1 month ago:
You sound like my brother after his first, who was a saint of a child…the second however…great kid but “not a sleeper” as they say.
None of my kids slept through until they were 3…10 years of broken sleep
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 2 months ago:
“The bright side of genocide”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
😆
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
BMI is kinda like IQ, certainly useful, but it doesn’t tell the full story.
If it is high, you may be fat, if it is really low, you are definitely underweight.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I agree!
Accuracy and precision; when I used to shoot archery long ago; measure different things, accuracy is a measure of the spread of your shots, precision is a measure of how close to the middle your shots are.
- Comment on No we can talk here 2 months ago:
I’d start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I’d avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.
- Comment on No we can talk here 2 months ago:
I’d start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I’d avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 months ago:
It would depend on the tech.
Low tech: e.g. detect and destroy incoming weapons…if a single major power had this, it would bad. They maybe emboldened to use their weapons (both nuke and conventional), as their perfect defense would keep their assets (people, places, weapon systems) safe.
High tech: e.g. directed EMP type weapon that could eliminate any weapon world wide at launch, this would eliminate the MAD doctrine. No-one would be able to launch nukes at anyone. Conventional war would likely have the same driving factors that it does today. But also, it may not get “car bomb” nukes, so nuclear war still possible, just in a very different mode.
Super high tech: e.g. some crazy quantum detection and elimination of weapons that haven’t been fired. This would be terrible, basically the group/state that has this power eliminates its rivals ability to retaliate with a proportional response. They instantly become the major threat in the world, this would destabilize any alliances that they have, no one would believe them if they said that they also disabled their own nukes. This would put the world on the edge of WW3 in a heartbeat.
- Comment on doctors 2 months ago:
Risk/benefit ratio.
The benefit is X the risk is Y, but the risk increases with excess weight, at some point Y exceeds X. Once the risk exceeds the benefit, it no-longer makes sense to perform the procedure.
From the patient point of view, the likelihood of a bad outcome is above the likelihood of a good outcome. They would be worse off getting the procedure; but likely they are only considering the good outcome and wishing away any bad outcome.
From the doctors point of view, they are considering both outcomes and trying to communicate to the patient that it’s not a good option for them. There is also the opportunity cost to consider, they could be helping someone else that is more likely to have a good outcome.
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 2 months ago:
Take over Greenland, and rename it Red,White and Blueland
Oh wait that one is already taken!
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 2 months ago:
TOR Browser, based on firefox
- Comment on Helpful tips 2 months ago:
Fae
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FaeElvesare marvellous. They cause marvels.
FaeElvesare fantastic. They create fantasies.
FaeElvesare glamorous. They project glamour.
FaeElvesare enchanting. They weave enchantment.
FaeElvesare terrific. They beget terror. - Comment on Socialism bad 2 months ago:
Perfect community post
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
Mistakes aren’t stupid, they are human. Hell we are even making our AI in our own image now…
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 months ago:
Was using Ligma in the 80’s, glad to see it still in circulation.
Ligma balls / Ligma sweaty balls / Ligma sweaty (sports clothing you happen to be holding) e.g. Ligma sweaty socks