WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 day ago:
Current building codes allow the construction of wood frame buildings up to 18 stories tall. You need to expand your knowledge of wood construction beyond what you learned reading The Three Little Pigs.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 day ago:
I agree. Wood is clearly the superior material.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
It’s not even about needing to exceed the speed of light. Once you cross the event horizon, spacetime around you is so warped that “out” doesn’t exist anymore. Point your ship in any direction and fire up your FTL engine; it doesn’t matter. No matter which way you try and fly your ship, you’ll be getting closer to the center. Once you cross the event horizon, there is literally no way out.
- Comment on Thinheritance 3 weeks ago:
You might find some inspiration in this desk I built.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 weeks ago:
We should demand mastercard shut down all payments to everyone, as their very business model clearly falls afoul of the laws of the People’s Republic of North Korea.
- Comment on Be nice 3 weeks ago:
500 cigarettes.
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- Comment on Antidepressant of the masses 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I have been looking for a cult to join, if you were looking to start one.
- Comment on functional 3 weeks ago:
Your ass is Gabriel’s Horn.
- Comment on VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in 3 weeks ago:
We need to cut the UK off from all global trade and communication. A total global naval blockade. We can make it a joint exercise between the US, China, and anyone else that wants to come along. Same thing with the internet. Cut off all lines of international communication. The people of the UK are infected, and the whole island needs to be quarantined like in 28 Days Later. Worse still, the UK’s pestilence of censorship and transphobia threatens to infect many other countries. For the good of the world, we need to metaphorically, and perhaps even literally, wall off the entire UK from the rest of the world. Or possibly just England. That’s where the real pus and boils seem to be. We need to cut England off from all global communication before anyone else gets the idea to try this crap. Hell, maybe we just need to go all in and bomb English power infrastructure. The English clearly can’t be trusted with electricity. Let them go back to heating London homes via coal furnaces in every building. Maybe we just need to lower England a few rungs back down the tech tree. The English are just not responsible enough to be trusted with modern technology.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 4 weeks ago:
Get the audiobooks. Listen to it in the car. But yeah, one of the plot points is basically exactly this, where people can effectively have a “save point” in life. I won’t spoil it, but it’s great.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 4 weeks ago:
Read Peter F Hamilton’s Void saga.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 4 weeks ago:
I think the US should become militantly anti-monarchist. We should make it a capital offense for any monarch, or anyone with an inherited title of nobility, to set foot on US soil. Banish the rats from the land.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 4 weeks ago:
Every 10 years the Israelis have to all move to Gaza, and the Gazans get to move into Israel. They trade places every ten years.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 5 weeks ago:
Let’s leave the border the same. But just to spice things up, we’ll move all the South Koreans to North Korea and all the North Koreans to South Korea. Then they’ll just swap places every ten years. It will so whimsical!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Start a YouTube channel where you go around trying to get people to sign your petition to give you a Wikipedia page. If you got big enough, eventually you would get a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia wouldn’t even have to accept the petition; it might be a bad precedent to set that people can get a page just by submitting a petition. Instead, they could give you a page simply because you became mildly famous for trying to brute force yourself onto Wikipedia.
- Comment on In the cave 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I recommend. The chief antagonist of the series, Morning Light Mountain, is one of the best examples of a truly “alien” alien that I’ve read in sci fi. It’s about as far from the trope that aliens are just humans with crap glued to their foreheads, or stand-ins for various real-world human cultures, as you can get.
- Comment on In the cave 5 weeks ago:
I loved the concept of Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga. People invent wormhole technology. Interstellar colonization is done by opening wormholes directly to alien worlds. Except the tech isn’t cheap or easy. IIRC they described an interstellar generator as made of half a cubic kilometer of intricate machinery. They’re giant machines that can open portals to distant star systems.
Because of the immense expense, they need to make maximum use of these gateways. The generators operate on regular schedules, connecting to different worlds in the human sphere of colonization. And to make maximum use of the gateways…they run trains through them. You travel to a distant star system by buying a train ticket.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I have a subscription there. I recommend it.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 5 weeks ago:
I would say it’s not a community just based on the fact that you can’t have any kind of actual conversation in the comments section. Commenting on YouTube videos is just screaming into the void.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 5 weeks ago:
Most creators on YouTube make their main money from patreon/merch anyway. No reason you can’t do that on peertube.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Think you want to be bred now? Wait until you have SRS, if that’s your cup of tea. T_T
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 5 weeks ago:
Oh, the CEO should also be caned…rectally.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 month ago:
We need to start taxing companies more that put undue burden on the infrastructure and environment. Do you require your employees to come in to an office for work that could be done from home? You should have to pay a double employer payroll tax for every employee you do this to. We need to start taxing the vanity of CEOs.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 month ago:
This CEO should be immediately canned for incompetence. Anyone who can’t understand the sunk cost fallacy has no business running any organization.
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 1 month ago:
Meant to post that somewhere else?
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 1 month ago:
No, you read it the right way the first time. The site thought I had uploaded the image of a child, and then it accused me of being a creepy pedo that’s searching for images of kids. As though I had taken a picture of a random child in public then uploaded it hoping to find more. And it threatened to refer to me to law enforcement. Remember, the site works by uploading an image and then using an AI tool to find other images of the uploaded face that have been posted elsewhere on the net. Their AI thought I had uploaded the image of some kid and was trying to find more of their images posted to facebook or other sites. Their AI accused me of being a pedophile.
All for uploading a picture of my own face. I honestly don’t know whether to be flattered or terrified. Frankly, I feel a little bit of both.
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 1 month ago:
I do get told I look young for my age. But that’s no excuse for the software. I get told I look 30. I don’t get carded while buying alcohol. My husband, who is the same age as men, never gets dirty looks when we’re out in public like he’s with someone half his age. People may read me a little bit younger than I am, but no one is mistaking me for an 18 year old.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 1 month ago:
How did Plato trap all those people in his cave?
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 1 month ago:
This morning I experienced this tech going wrong first hand. Someone mentioned and I decided to try a site called pimeyes. It lets you upload a photo, then it will try to find other examples of your photos posted online. Well I uploaded one of my photos. And it returned this:
I am a 38 year old woman. I don’t recall using this site before, and I sure as hell have never used it to search for kids. I uploaded another photo, and that one worked. But still, that is a fucked up message to send someone just based on some shitty AI age estimation algorithm. Someone with a different face might always trigger the “minor” filter.
And while this was just for an image search site, it’s much more serious on other sites. People do a lot of essential communication on social media platforms. What happens if you’re completely shut out of all social media sites because you have a face that the algorithms decide look under 18? What happens if it’s something even more important, like your bank’s website or a government service page?
It’s ridiculous that that they would claim 85% accuracy as some great success. That’s a horrible success rate in this context. That means millions of people will be incorrectly flagged as minors and potentially lose access to entire regions of the internet. And how long until they start using this facial recognition, not as proof of age, but as proof of identity? How long til you have to scan your face to apply for government benefits, retirement, or access other government services? And what happens to those people who the face scanning algorithm just fails at? A 15% failure rate is awful. When you’re imposing something on the entire population, you shouldn’t even consider applying it until the success rate is more like 99.99% accurate. If the tech just isn’t that good, then it simply shouldn’t be used.
