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- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 2 days ago:
– and use emdashes.
That’s more a matter of 95% of people not even knowing how to type a ‘–’ with their standard keyboard layout.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
Same as the ergonomic mouse. Natural poses are less stressful.
Which means palms facing each other instead of facing down in one case, and hands should-wide apart with relaxed shoulders instead hunching in the other.
- Comment on Ford is fighting against physics to build affordable EVs 2 weeks ago:
EVs are inherently cheaper that CE-based alternatives.
So unless this isn’t about stopping the 24/7 propaganda of fossil fuel lobbyists, it’s just some useless PR stunt.
- Comment on vibes based astronomy 3 weeks ago:
Not that people could discern Uranus and Neptune based on those pictures without finding those exact ones in their respective Wikipedia entries…
- Comment on Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
Trust the slob! Learn to love the slob! Slob is life!!
- Comment on Not that limit 4 weeks ago:
It should be +/-∞
Minus or plus depending on the side from which you approach the limes.
- Comment on Bugger! 1 month ago:
The quality of that picture copied and compressed time and time again is fitting the age of that joke.
- Comment on Real and True 1 month ago:
Half of those setups make zero practical sense and are only there because someone thought symmetry would look cool.
Either one secondary monitor that can be pivoted 90° or two, one being horizontal, the other vertical…
- Comment on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news 1 month ago:
The ‘O’ stands for manipulation…
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 1 month ago:
“We want to show the automotive industry that sustainable and practical design really is achievable”
Funny to think they don’t know already. But sustainable isn’t the goal, maximising profits is.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No, this coding just is actualy complex and low quality pictures don’t show enough
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 2 months ago:
Just set the timezone environmental parameter accordingly. Librewolf might pretend to be in UTC but doesn’t care if the time given by your system is wrong to get the correct time again.
- Comment on Nature 3 months ago:
buttsecks
I would have guessed a different age… 😜
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 3 months ago:
Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized
Because the idea is pushed on commercial platforms that would suppress the idea otherwise.
- Comment on Hate it when that happens! 3 months ago:
Someone does this in times in increasing Iridium prices? What a waste…
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Element uses the Matrix open standard which supports bridges. I don’t know if the WhatsApp bridge uses the web interface or API for the PC desktop app, but that one is working for quite some time already.
For people not wanting to configure it all from scratch there are already pre-build complete packages bundling up all your usual messengers in one location/app like Beeper.
- Comment on Inspirational 4 months ago:
Unless you use modern artillery. Then you want to aim ever higher because at those ranges/heights it’s beneficial to reach less dense air layers quickly.
- Comment on Le Penguini 6 months ago:
But the bear referenced there is not the animal but the constellation…
Arctic = towards the bear, so north
Antarctic = the opposite (=ant[i]) direction
- Comment on Le Penguini 6 months ago:
“Arktos” is greek for bear.
The arctis is the region towards the bear, meaning the constellation so north… while the antarctis is the opposite direction (ant(i) = opposite).
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite 6 months ago:
Don’t Look Up was a documentary…
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 6 months ago:
But is it vegan?
- Comment on FBI Warning on IoT Devices: How to Tell If You Are Impacted 8 months ago:
For the majority there is sadly a very simple answer…
Reason #1 to be at risked of being impacted by that malware? You don’t care and won’t read a technical article either.
- Comment on Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry 9 months ago:
And adhering to the law would kill my thriving “pay me a dollar and I allow you to club a billionaire to death”-business. So what?
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 11 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies “looking for alternatives” was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?
- Comment on Gaming on Linux, How openSUSE Stacks Up for Gamers 1 year ago:
I actually like what Steam did for Linux gaming in general, but in the end it is slowly becoming a crutch. Why should I spin up the Steam client (that is neither fast nor easy on resources, too) every time I want to play a non-steam game?
Again… it’s nice what Valve is doing in general and that most of the stuff is open source and thus can be back ported to Wine.
I however find it concerning that the number of people doing so seems to be constantly decreasing. And I don’t actually understand why the majority of gamers -people that are insanely obsessed with very small FPS or other perfomance increases sometimes- seems to be content with using Steam as the one-size-fits-all solution for games. Just simple Wine Staging can often match the performance for older games, for all games once you start backporting some patches and fixes developed for Proton. And yet the contributors seem to get less by the day and a lot of projects pre-compiling patched Wine versions are vanishing for a lack of interest.
- Comment on America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion] 1 year ago:
Activists and consumer groups can do a better job exploiting social media virality to reach young Americans.
I actually doubt they can, as the algorithms controlling visibility are all about money and they can’t compete in that regard with those big actors actively working for the stultification of people.
Also: not an US problem at all, but a global one.
- Comment on Testing how unique you are online (web fingerprinting) 1 year ago:
I am very unique… solely based on the the referer 🤣
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 year ago:
einmal den Certbot umarm
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 year ago:
130% production on average, with excess being stored, minus losses in conversions, transport and storage = 100% demand covered all the time.
Or the longer version: For a stable grid I need to cover 100% of the demand in next to real-time. This can be achieved with enough long- and short-term storage, plus some overproduction to account for storage losses. The 115% to 130% production (compared to actual demand) are based on studies for Germany and vary by scenario, with the higher number for the worst case (people strongly resisting all changes to better balance consumption and south Germany keeping up there resistence to diversify by only building solar while blocking wind power).
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 year ago:
Why is nuclear+short term storage not an option
Because cold winter days exist. Yes you can only build nuclear capacities for the average day and then short-term storage to match the demand pattern. But you would need to do so for the day(s) of the year with the highest energy demand, a cold winter day. What do you do with those capacities the remaining year as throttling nuclear down is not really saving much costs (most lie in construction and deconstruction)?