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- Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic. 4 hours ago:
Ah, so it’s started now. Good to know!
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 2 days ago:
That has been around for decades.
TIL! Then it’s interesting that it didn’t get bigger faster, since the idea of locking people into your product isn’t new. Like, Dell could have been doing in 2000 what Samsung is now with it’s phones, and Linux would have been dead in the water.
Should we ban printers because you may print a news article without buying the rights? Should we ban pen and paper because you could use it to infringe on a trademark by drawing it?
Of course, history is over, and all governments and corporations are 100% trustworthy. We don’t need to consider that opportunity for evil can’t actually be eliminated, just moved around. /s
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s a little bit of a funny example when “but child porn” is an argument used a lot for this kind of thing.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
So now you can be a cyberpunk black market tech peddler for real?
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
There are devices now that have a SoC that’s completely locked down at the factory. It deserves more attention as the massive threat to digital freedom that it is.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
Yes. They should require a certain number of significant digits, ass opposed to just the nearest integer. Although someone’s saying that they actually let you round down from as many as 5 to 0, which is insane if true.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
WTF, that’s dumb. Like, sure, if you say “no decimal calories needed” it would make sense at the time, and could lead to this by accident. But that’s silly.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
They have some of the best accessibility regulations in the world.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
Canada, at least, follows the US convention on this one. IIRC serving sizes are set by the government, though, if that’s different.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
The downside there is that if it’s, like, Marmite, you’ll never ever eat 100g in one sitting. So, you have to do a bunch of math to figure out how much salt is in the actual smear you’re using.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
They customers would take bars that cost the same and are imperceptibly smaller. At least, better than a price hike, I’d expect. Then the Karens come out.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
Translation:
we have made a number of updates to our bar sizes and pack formats to reflect consumer demand
People don’t by Mars because it’s Gucci.
alongside considering wider external factors such as manufacturing costs and the price of cocoa
And if we stayed the same size, it’d be really expensive, because among other things the global climate no longer supports chocolate production.
TBF none of it is a lie. That’s as close as corporate-speak comes to “yup we did that”.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
Food products probably. In clothes or cars, for example, it’s a bit harder to pull off. With clothes, it seems more like skimpflation - some items definitely had thinner-feeling fabric right after COVID, although it got better again. With cars, they just raise the price, so that’s inflation.
If costs go up you have to do one of the three. You’re probably not getting angry phone calls because your Mars bar went down by 1g, but might if it’s more expensive or tastes like shit, so that’s the advantage there.
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 1 week ago:
Lots of things are, decent and not.
- Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic. 2 weeks ago:
The whole idea plastic waste is bad doesn’t seem to have made it over to Asia.
- Comment on This shit's stupid as hell 2 weeks ago:
Same vibe as the parkinglot princess pickup truck.
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 4 weeks ago:
For the children.
- Comment on Protect consumers my ass! 🤦🏻😡 4 weeks ago:
It would make it pretty hard to do some kinds of research for a living, though. You’d basically get a small number of open source nerds fully in charge of, like, curing cancer.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 4 weeks ago:
What kind of token rate do you get if you try to run them in swap space?
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 4 weeks ago:
They were wrong, and they know it, but also you’re not allowed to say that.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 4 weeks ago:
It should be said that there’s a lot more people who actually could find someone, but think they can’t.
Still, China likes to ban things almost for it’s own sake, and this is an example.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 4 weeks ago:
That’s hard to say, at this point. A cheap, always available and completely sycophantic AI seems like it would be hard for a lot of people to resist.
What is clear, is that contraceptives existing is responsible for almost all of the decline since historical times.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
If that cost/benefit ratio is correct for this situation, you must never have a use for information.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
Why does every discussion, especially on Lemmy, eventually turn into “it’s run by a pedophile” or “it’s owned by billionaires”?
It’s the jerk. Everything is the fault of billionaires (never mind that they actually don’t own most stuff), and every billionare has all possible negative personality traits.
Occasionally, we manage to have actual intelligent conversations, in between all the huffing our own upvotes.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
Does it work again?
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
Everybody in here that’s saying “don’t use Reddit” is either posing, or never has to troubleshoot or research anything.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
Yep, just checked it as well. Clearly it’s not across the board.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
It still has tons of information that’s hard to find anywhere else.
- Comment on Electricity Does Not "Split" H₂O. And That's VERY Useful. 1 month ago:
That’s some nice DIY. Also cool you can actually see plain hydrolysis working with the ph indicator.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 months ago:
It’s responsible for a lot of unnecessary death, and the splintering of a lot of organisations that could have done good otherwise. Often both at the same time. That’s because everyone has a slightly different idea of righteousness.
Shitty historical events seem to relate to either too much or not enough of it.