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- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 5 hours ago:
Does common sense no longer exist?
Yes. A government that’s out to get you is pretty much outside Western living memory, and people seem to think that their rights are a law of physics now.
I wonder what the conversation about digital privacy is like in former East Germany.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 5 hours ago:
Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they’ve been using for a decade that we didn’t even know about.
Except that’s not what did it, and I suspect any such thing is shitty corporate bloatware. In the end, distinctive eyebrows and a good-old-fashioned snitch did him in. He wasn’t anywhere close to the radar before that.
Privacy defeatism was already fully going in the days of MySpace. That should tell you a bit about how empirical it ever was.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 5 hours ago:
Mostly the latter. Name a private thing, any private thing. most people will punch it into GoogleMetaX without skipping a beat.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 22 hours ago:
I’m not sure there’s any way you could make a computer work that non-technical people would question, at this point.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
That’s actually pretty unusual in the big picture. I’m guessing you’re North American, maybe European? In East Asia, no such thing ever happened, and historically even in the West immigration and free markets were championed my the liberal parties. Ditto from what I know of other regions.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Nationalism and communism have had pretty heavy overlap over the years, even if it didn’t start that way. If you accept conservative communism as being a thing, sure, I guess you could argue that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s more nationalism. Not all conservatisms have been nationalist, and not all nationalists are conservative.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
Yeah, not surprised. An experienced software engineer in the US won’t have to do unskilled labour unless there’s something else massive going on.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.
- Comment on 'About Us' page locked behind a paywall 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s better, though.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like you’d know better than me, haha. Since they’re talking about being capital-lean I’m guessing they must outsource the frame pressing. Having a rare super-specialty injection molding machine would not be lean.
IIRC they mentioned fibre reinforcement, but it couldn’t possibly be the aerospace-style precision product, exactly because that would cost a lot.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
Hmm. Well, plastic can have a pretty good strength to weight ratio. Famously the best if you include fibres. If sheet metal can do it maybe they went all-plastic.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
And breaking. There’s no turning it back into petrol.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
Why not? I’d assume there’s a cast frame, and a thick piece of plastic will hold a person just fine (although I do wonder about bed durability in the back).
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
Dope. I wonder if there’s a way to customise it into a sedan. I can speak less to the mechanical aspects of having a super-bespoke super-integrated manufacturing process, but I’m confident the electronics need to go back to basics like this.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
Quite possibly. They’re gambling on a market for a no-frills car existing, but it might just be too small. That’s what killed economy cars the first time.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
As I understand it, the aerodynamics can be no joke on EVs. The motors are very efficient, and there’s very efficient regenerative breaking. That means drag is pretty much where your whole battery charge goes.
For an example off the top of my head, the Arrow concept car manages 500km by not having side mirrors.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 5 weeks ago:
I’ll second the mom-and-pop thing. It’s a lot more realistic than the average Joe having to configure and manage things, but still will kill monopolies and associated fuckery dead.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 5 weeks ago:
It’s one of those strong network effect things where nationalisation makes the most sense, for sure.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 5 weeks ago:
It will cost way more and work significantly less. There’s a reason networks are built like they are.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 5 weeks ago:
Do they get sore all the time? That sounds like a lot of weight on not much area.
- Comment on Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers 1 month ago:
Somehow, they missed all the actual disturbing things about Roblox here.
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 1 month ago:
Hmm. Reductionist design probably has gone too far if you start to require radial symmetry.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 month ago:
Why thank you Snot Flickerman, I think you’re pretty random yourself.
- Comment on No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Not buying their shit, hopefully.
- Comment on No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
So by agent, they mean the same AI but they’re doing all the things you shouldn’t with it? Great…
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 2 months ago:
Has anybody actually followed the links? I’m mildly curious.
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 2 months ago:
Amazing. I’ve lost count.
- Comment on German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests" 2 months ago:
And they experiment was to figure out if they can actually do it without getting sued?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I mean, yes. In reality it might well be that there’s not many good black CEO candidates because they’re still stuck in poverty somewhere. Really, DEI would have to start in early childhood education if you want to keep it fair at every stage.
There’s no way I’m diving immediately into nuance with a guy like we’re talking about, though. Lol!