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- Comment on Which grass? 1 week ago:
Who’s on first
Yes, he is.
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 2 weeks ago:
While that is true in general, combined coal power plants also only sit at about 50% on average, 65% with the most modern ones.
So burning stuff in a power plant, then adding some more loss in transfer, is not actually much better.
Which of course is not an argument against EVs but against coal and gas power plants. In the end they are still just glorified rather primitive steam machines.
- Comment on 7 things you can do with your old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in 4 weeks ago:
“…reduce…”
Sure… 😂
- Comment on Wonder why? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but that’s entirely missing the point here.
Drug research and development takes decades until final approval. If there is a decrease in the US (or an increase in China), you need to look for cuts (or additional investments) in the early 2000s.
The damage this idiot has done will not be visible for quite some time…
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 weeks ago:
A bug in Apple’s notification system allowed extraction even when the message that triggered the notification was deleted.
This means access you any text you got. This means a list of any incoming calls. This means all your appointments that your phone reminded you of.
And instead we get a story about deleted Signal messages, prominently featuring Signal in the thumbnail and picture while failing to mention any of the other notification bug implementations.
How is that accurate or even just sane reporting? Either it’s an incredibly stupid take or there is an actual agenda focusing on Signal here. And when I see several of those (including stuff like people falling for phishing attempts and giving away access to their devices being reported as “Hackers getting access to Signal account”) within just a few days I tend to assume the latter.
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t my point. What’s going in with Signal to tell the story of accessing deleted Signal messages (and multiple are Signal hack/ bug/exploit headlines seen within a short time frame) when this is exactly zero about Signal?
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 weeks ago:
There was an Apple bug that allowed restoring information from their notification system. So Apple leaked info from Apps that used the notifications. From any App. Why is this talking about Signal? Why not a “Apple patches bug that allowed access to E2E encrypted WhatsApp messages”? Why not “bug that allowed access to your call history even after deletion”? Because those are all equally true. What’s reason we are talking about Signal here.
And to add more context: the exact same was true for the other “Signal bug/hack/exploit” articles I mentioned. No actual connection to Signal at all, yet that was always the story told.
Apple fucks up an leaks all private information that passes through their notification system? “Bug that allowed to read Signal messages!” Idiot fell for phishing attempt and logged into a fake website giving someone else full access to their device? “Hacker managed to access XY’s Signal account!”. I left my door standing wide open when leaving to work and got robbed? “Doors don’t actually protect your stuff!”
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 4 weeks ago:
What actual news did I miss that triggered the half a dozen fake hacked/bug articles regarding Signal I read in the last 48 hours?
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 5 weeks ago:
But decades of media has conditioned people to believe that most tech and IT stuff is basically magic, and that seems to nowadays include tech-centric journalists.
So they simply don’t think about actual feasibility and just report omitting details because “look, tech wizard did tech-magic”.
- Comment on Rule 1: Don't talk about the 🫘 1 month ago:
Lemmy UI:
So I would guess that it’s not a client but a OS or browser issue regarding encoding.
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 1 month ago:
Shhh! Don’t let Big Clock know that we are on to them.
- Comment on Real talk 1 month ago:
Most people are not that smart and really self-centered.
From there just a little variance in the spectrum ranging from “I think as highly about others as I think about me” to “they are all inferior to me” can make a massive difference on how someone sees and interacts with the world.
- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 1 month ago:
One recent… many, many more throughout history. Terror against the population does not work, never did and never will.
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 2 months ago:
The problem is that this is not targeting the <1% that would just build their own router. Surveilance and control of the other 99% is sufficient.
- 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 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Trust the slob! Learn to love the slob! Slob is life!!
- Comment on Not that limit 3 months ago:
It should be +/-∞
Minus or plus depending on the side from which you approach the limes.
- Comment on Bugger! 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 months ago:
The ‘O’ stands for manipulation…
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 4 months 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 5 months ago:
No, this coding just is actualy complex and low quality pictures don’t show enough
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 5 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 5 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? 5 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! 6 months ago:
Someone does this in times in increasing Iridium prices? What a waste…
- Comment on 6 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.
