Korhaka
@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 7 hours ago:
It took longer than I expected, but Humans need not apply is becoming more and more relevant. Interesting that he thought it would be the transportation sector first that sees significant job losses. Instead that still hasn’t really taken off yet at scale and its the later predictions that we are now seeing.
What do we do when large sections of society are unemployable through no fault of their own?
- Comment on UK launches consultation asking for views on under-16s social media ban 8 hours ago:
Raising the current 13+ to 16+ would be fine. What I worry about is how they will enforce it.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 8 hours ago:
We were the one of the few countries to stand up against fascism by choice.
- Comment on Farming for self sustainance 1 day ago:
Correct, you need planing permission to live there and if the land has that it will cost a lot more than I can afford.
I would be allowed to buy it and put the cabin there, up to a certain size anyway. I could even sleep in it a few times. But living there is illegal. You can only stay overnight 28 times a year.
- Comment on Farming for self sustainance 2 days ago:
Terrible idea. But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing, which is something I feel often gets left out. You have loads of people dismiss the idea entirely because surviving on your own is going to be awful. Sure, having to grow EVERYTHING you eat is pretty difficult and you have no safety net. But there is a middle ground between completely abandoning society and living in the middle of a modern city.
Perhaps I would be happy in my cabin out in the country side, growing some herbs and higher value crops. But still work 1 day a week to buy all the potatoes, oats and firewood that I need. Along with having some money for infrequent purchases of tools and materials. Problem with that in the UK is that while land I would like to do it on exists and I could afford to build the cabin and everything, it would be illegal for me to live there. Its possible to get away with it for a while, people do. But people have also had their land taken from them by the local government when caught.
- Comment on Pro-Palestine Green candidate Hannah Spencer wins UK by-election 3 days ago:
And reform are seething. I love it.
- Comment on Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs 4 days ago:
They don’t care if it’s good at the job, just cheaper and they can get away with claiming its good enough
- Comment on Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs 5 days ago:
now increasingly overworked employees
My point was that HR will replace some of the workload, and remove more of the workers. Then those remaining get lumped with an even greater workload than they had before.
- Comment on Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks 5 days ago:
That guide is interesting. Only lists brown crab though and no others, is that just because the others are unpopular enough to not really matter?
Also feel like it should be easier to legally catch invasive species to eat, salt water fine as you can just turn up without permission or permits but fresh water you need to do a bunch of paperwork to bother catching invasive crayfish. Make it easy for anyone to eat the invasive species to extinction!
- Comment on Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs 5 days ago:
“We are not replacing anyones job, this is just saving time” is something we keep hearing at work, if its saving time that means fewer people are required. I am sure it won’t replace 100% of any 1 persons entire workload any time soon, but if it replaced 20% of 10 peoples workload, HR will make 4 of those people redundant and spread their tasks among the 6 remaining now increasingly overworked employees.
- Comment on Do you like Cats? 5 days ago:
Text messages from my cat would look like this:
15:45 - Why is my food bowl empty?
16:02 - I need more food in my bowl
16:17 - Feed me, I have tried calling!
16:26 - Come on, it was dinner time hours ago
16:38 - I will start to destroy your property if you don’t feed me
16:48 - I am starving! This is neglect! I will call the RSPCA!
17:00 - Is that my food cup? I love you I love you I love you!
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 6 days ago:
Someone been playing civ again?
- Comment on Government confirms broadcast‑style regulation for Netflix, Disney+ and more 6 days ago:
Do they cover sponsorships built into videos that I am pretty sure often don’t meet UK advertising guidelines? Tbh I use sponsorblock so its years since I even saw one but I know VPNs at least used to push huge amounts of blatant false advertisement.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 6 days ago:
Yeah, stealing £25 hipster honey is just theft. Stealing some spuds could be survival.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 6 days ago:
Who the fuck is stealing cadburys since they replaced most of the chocolate with palm oil?
- Comment on Government confirms broadcast‑style regulation for Netflix, Disney+ and more 6 days ago:
What about apply advertising regulations to youtube? That could be spicy.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
If you are ok with steam despite stuff like this then why is GOG somehow worse?
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
Do you not but games anymore then, or do you think steam is better?
Though if you only play FOSS or self published games, that would be kinda based.
- Comment on People with rare genetic conditions are ‘systematically ignored’ by NHS 1 week ago:
People with common conditions are also ignored
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
Yeah, that is why I am thinking of planting mint there instead. Should come up with some ways to preserve large amounts of mint when I have it for when its dead over winter though. Mint jelly is an obvious one.
I think mint honey should have a decent shelf life too without requiring refrigeration. Probably isn’t that different from mint jelly but using honey as a source of sugar and it isn’t set with pectin, which shouldn’t really impact the shelf life. Use it like a sweet minty syrup.
- Comment on ‘Tinderbox’ UK may be one shock away from food riots, experts say 1 week ago:
A large majority of the experts – 80% – said large-scale violence caused by a food crisis was possible in the next 50 years, with 40% saying it could occur within the next decade
So most say its possible in the next half a century, most didn’t think its likely any time soon. Somewhat over dramatic headline isn’t it?
- Comment on Dentistry feels as wobbly as our teeth after a decade of decaying standards 1 week ago:
Finally got an NHS dentist after moving about 5 years ago. But I kinda worry that she is the only one as I don’t know anyone with a different NHS dentist. What if she moves?
- Comment on Why are homegrown apples in the UK more expensive than imported bananas? 1 week ago:
Always felt apples cost a lot, so I don’t buy them. Just get them when I can forage for them freely.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
Clover is native to the UK. It just didn’t really grow much in my garden. That site listed daisies though, might see if they like to grow in the lawn instead.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
The strip of land is a little distance from the house, tbh the thorns currently growing in it try and come up through the gaps in the concrete or snake their way through the gravel. At least mint doesn’t hurt.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
Mine haven’t flowered that much yet, but perhaps stress from transplanting them could be involved and they are still growing larger. Would be nice to see them flower as I have seen others that look quite nice when they do.
Will look into the bread, got sourdough starter so may use that.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
The impression I get is some types of bamboo can grow non invasively, though not native either. But would need more space to grow and may not be a great yield in the first place grown in the UK.
Helping bees is always a bonus, in my back garden I have chives and sage that both get quite a bit of attention from the bees. Also growing thyme and rosemary but they don’t seem to care for that. Poppy patch is also loved by bees, was hoping to use the poppy seeds for baking but don’t really get that much. Shitloads for growing more poppies but not very useful to eat.
When I planted the lawn (was previously concrete paved across the entire garden) I used a mix of meadow grass and clover, but the clover hasn’t really done much which is a shame. Don’t care for obsessively treated lawns, it’s a space to sit down. Not certain, maybe park grass would have been better? Don’t really know tbh, ideally want something that will grow deep roots and is never going to have artificial fertiliser or any other treatments because fuck that effort and money.
Probably never going to water it either, beyond maybe dumping not too filthy waste water on it if available. Currently got 300L combined of rainwater storage, but that is reserved for the plants I can eat.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
But the entire point of growing something is to eat it. Or be useful in some way at least, considered bamboo for free canes but it sounds like it can damage concrete around it and even clumping bamboo would try and grow larger than the space I have fairly quickly due to the narrow width.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
I think spearmint is native to the UK. Also got rosemary, thyme, chives, sage.
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 1 week ago:
Now to work out how to eat it and ideally says of preserving it too. Mint jelly but it needs apples in season really. I guess an unset syrup should also have a long shelf life as it’s the sugar that preserves it.