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- Comment on US Orders Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Halt All AI Chip Shipments to China 5 weeks ago:
Kind of.
r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then. I have noticed Reuters to be misleading in the past in their headlines.
- US Orders Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Halt All AI Chip Shipments to Chinawww.reuters.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 16 comments
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 1 month ago:
A close friend in a long term relationship told me his partner wanted kids but he wasn’t sure he would make a good father. My advice was along the lines of Douglas Adams.
Both kids are now in their 20’s and doing fine.
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 1 month ago:
Thanks. Despite my scepticism I have sought out such communities and had not heard of those two.
There is also Mondragon in Spain…
I know of only one community in my country of Australia: Tuntable Falls. I can only find pages related to the school or real estate. It is 20 minutes drive from Nimbin which in turn is 40 minutes from Byron Bay, NSW.
I suppose there is Kibbutzim in Israel.
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 1 month ago:
The only place I have seen that work was the Internet in the 90’s. Nowhere in the real world.
- Despite Malaysia’s U-turn on web traffic rerouting, the ‘damage has already been done’www.straitstimes.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr [404] 3 months ago:
Telegram group chats are unencrypted
Not quite true. They are server-side encrypted, not end-to-end. Still bad and I had no idea until I looked it up just now.
I use Gboard keyboard on my phone which undermines my Signal privacy. I could use my laptop instance of Signal to prevent leakage.
- Comment on How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr [404] 3 months ago:
I heard Russia once blocked all social media for three days except Telegram, claiming that could not. Sounds like a deliberate exemption to bolster its reputation. China had no problem blocking it.
- Comment on The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con 3 months ago:
Can someone please paraphrase the following which I didn’t understand?
Somebody raised to believe they have high IQ is more likely to fall for this than somebody raised to think less of their own intellectual capabilities. Subjective validation is a quirk of the human mind. We all fall for it.
But if you think you’re unlikely to be fooled, you will be tempted instead to apply your intelligence to “figure out” how it happened. This means you can end up using considerable creativity and intelligence to help the psychic fool you by coming up with rationalisations for their “ability”.
And because you think you can’t be fooled, you also bring your intelligence to bear to defend the psychic’s claim of their powers. Smart people (or, those who think of themselves as smart) can become the biggest, most lucrative marks.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 6 months ago:
I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular phones require three wires while charging only requires two. Ingenious really.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 6 months ago:
The guy is having a funny geeky bitch. He is laughing at himself. He doesn’t expect Apple to change anything.
Maybe the humour just doesn’t work unless the reader is a geek too.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 72 comments
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
It isn’t “action” to recognize a borderless state. Or are we talking about a government? A dictatorial, bigoted, racist government in the form of Hamas.
Supplying weapons at this point I believe to be unethical because the invasion of Rafah is futile except as an excuse for ethnic cleansing. The same kind of cleansing that Hamas have been hell-bent on for decades. I am not in favor of either.
Israel isn’t committing “genocide” though. That is not what the UN called it and for good reason.
lsrael could kill every Palestinian if they wanted to but don’t.
Hamas wants to kill every Jewish Israeli but cannot.
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
That is simpleton level of simplicity.
Penny Wong went to the region pushing the 2SS. That is about 15 million.
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
Because I imagine a state needs to be defined physically before it can be recognised.
Labor seem to be working on the hard yards, Greens are trolling with theatre.
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
You still haven’t told me what the borders of that Palestine are.
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
I am not asking for opinions. I am asking what were Greens proposing?
I recall that when Labor first rejected the call for peace talks and Greens walked out of Parliament. The document Greens were expecting Labor to sign contained no acknowledgement that the October 7 massacre even happened (let alone condemning it).
A few weeks later the document was amended and Labor signed on.
- Comment on ABC says Laura Tingle's Sydney Writers' Festival comments did not meet editorial standards 6 months ago:
I expected more analysis from her in her printed statement justifying her comment.
She didn’t even try to debunk the notion that reducing migration would ease housing pressure.
- Comment on Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood 6 months ago:
What are the borders of the proposed Palestinian state?
“From the River to the Sea”?
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
Aren’t ads dispersed throughout the discussions? If not, then why not?
- Comment on Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens 7 months ago:
I would prefer promotion of humility and a frugal lifestyle which values relationships, nature, personal time etc
However banning materialist fetishes will probably do more good than harm anyhow. Slippery slope though.
- Comment on Rupert Murdoch is now a shadow director of the ABC after completing a takeover of ABC news programs 7 months ago:
It is disingenuous to call facts alarmist. It is alarming.
The example I gave from Insiders is what is alarmist, using lies. As is the example of ABC pretending Albo hijacked the DV rally whereas the full video which ABC deliberately cropped shows the truth.
- Comment on Rupert Murdoch is now a shadow director of the ABC after completing a takeover of ABC news programs 7 months ago:
“AustralianPolitics”
- Comment on Rupert Murdoch is now a shadow director of the ABC after completing a takeover of ABC news programs 7 months ago:
- Rupert Murdoch is now a shadow director of the ABC after completing a takeover of ABC news programskangaroocourtofaustralia.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Should we allow job-sharing in parliament? 8 months ago:
They wouldn’t have two votes in parliament if they win a seat as you seem to have misunderstood. They said that whoever of the two was rostered that week would vote on a bill.
reddit.com/Australia is very hostile to the idea but I am partial to it, especially because it makes campaigning feasible when it otherwise might not be.
The main problem I see (which nobody has mentioned) is that politicians develop relationships with each other, even sometimes with opposition members. These relationships are important but the job-sharing thing weakens the chance of rapport.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 8 months ago:
Soulism is a school of anarchist thought which argues that reality, the laws of physics, and the limitations of our bodies are unjust heirarchies which must be abolished.
www.reddit.com/r/serioussoulism/
I think I am done chatting with this person after starting in good faith. You spotted the kookiness quicker than I did.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 8 months ago:
That Lincombe guy who said it was a famous dude for being smart and shit apparently. What do I know?
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 8 months ago:
TBH I didn’t understand your soulism comment or how it is connected with your original comment.
I was really just supporting your original comment.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 8 months ago:
He probably was drawing the analogy with the landowners exploiting black people.
