mat

@mat@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where you are from, but usually, taxes are a way to put money for the community and to redistribute it. In France, it happens with our social safety (health, unemployment, allocations) and to help companies (there is a lot to discuss about this specific point, but it is outside of scope).

  Within a liberal economy, you don’t want to forbid abruptely, so you increase the price of something polluting to finance a greener economy.

  Now, why this does not work is because capitalism is broken and sending us all to death in war and global warming and because we have corruption problems be it in France or the USA or wherever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is more about signal leakage between neurones. The optical nerve is closed to the one controlling sneezing so when the optical is highly excited, it can activate the sneezing nerve.

  Source : I have a friend with this and he looked it up once

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If this person is scared to have password stored, you can talk them about lesspass. It is available as a website where everything happens inside the browser, a browser plugin or an android app and it uses crypto derivation to generate unique passwords for each site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Consoles Are Dead · Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are already basic computers, only specific OS. And honestly, I have the feeling that big commercial engines support all platforms (the switch even supports vulkan api). And I feel that eventually, exclusive games end up on PC so why bother? On PC, you even have gogs which is DRM free.