BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket 5 days ago:
So does every city, suburb, town, factory, mine, processing plant, farm, etc.
That’s hardly a datacenter specific issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Different people like different things. Even despite my super busy life I still read a lot. It allows me to slow down a bit.
Try different types of books. I’m currently reading a lot of litrpg which is a fun genre related to fantasy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, chemistry was not your strong point. The sugars produced by photosynthesis are the ones that get turned into coal and oil. Plant respiration actually is the reverse of photosynthesis (it’s essentially human respiration) and is done for exactly the same reason that humans use it for, to produce energy for use by the plant. A plant just does more photosynthesis than respiration, which causes it to grow over time as it accumulates carbon based molecules and stores them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you take the holistic view, servers are already powered by photosynthesis. It just happens that most of them are powered by photo synthesis that occurred millions and millions of years ago.
- Comment on A kid in my semi hometown in arkansas said he was going to shoot up a wal-mart if we went on a hanta lockdown. He was arrested and everything. Can you really be charged fed for typing? 4 weeks ago:
The fact that instead of typing this into google, you posted to lemmy makes it a stupid question.
Yes, there are laws against making specific threats of violence. Free speech isn’t as universal as people seem to believe, the courts have placed lots of restrictions upon it.
- Comment on Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad? 4 weeks ago:
Because it hasn’t been trained on significant amounts of dialogue as a primary source for speech patterns. It also isn’t meant to be distinct unless the instructions make it distinct.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 4 weeks ago:
Canada restricts hate speech, as does most of Europe.
Yet its the US with the speech suppression issues going on right now.
- Comment on Does traning AI/ML-models on AI-generated content causes collapse on the quality of the output? 1 month ago:
To some extent, yes, however, the companies building these systems are using heavily curated data for most of the things where that would matter. They aren’t just letting it free on the whole internet at this point, it would be absolutely useless.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 1 month ago:
What defines an ethical company?
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 month ago:
That’s an example of a false choice.
The most practical distribution is actually a mixture of the three systems divided up based on industry and other factors.
There is no reason we can’t have communism for the food industry, socialism for housing, and capitalism for clothes and movies.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 month ago:
Marx while influential isn’t the defining authority.
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 2 months ago:
Now THAT’S a stupid question.
Good Job.
The answer to your first question is yes.
Children don’t get to set their own boundaries, that’s why we consider them children. Once they’re ready we call them adults.
If I allowed them to set their own boundaries, they’d probably already be dead. They get some pretty stupid ideas sometimes.
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 2 months ago:
I’m laughing so hard right now.
You’re so idealistic. When you grow up and join the real world you’ll realize that what you said was funny too.
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 2 months ago:
A) You clearly don’t have kids.
B) If everything they did as parents was perfect, people would have felt it was unreal, more so than even the super powers part.
C) It’s a TV Show, conflict and drama keeps people paying attention.
D) Homelander… you’re a fucking idiot.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 2 months ago:
100% inheritance tax on any value over 5 million, and slam shut any loopholes that get found.
Force them to either spend it stimulating the economy or give it up to society directly.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 2 months ago:
The whole thing with religion is not needing to prove or justify anything to other people.
It’s a social “team” and teams need goals to exist.
When it wasn’t the Gays or abortions it was something else.
The crusades are an obvious example.
The church has cycled through enemies for the entire time its been around. Hell, they even split the religion into different religions just to have someone to play as the “other” and to consolidate power under new leadership.
- Comment on What should Israel have done in response to October 7th? 3 months ago:
Opened the gates to Egypt, and pushed every single Palestinian out of Gaza.
There is no peaceful end game here, it will never happen. Both sides hate each other and no amount of talking is going to change that.
The least deadly option is to remove the smaller group to other places. Especially since those nearby places are far more culturally similar, and many Palestinians have family or historical ties there already.
- Comment on Can turkey motion machines be used for producing electricity? 4 months ago:
They’re a type of heat engine using evaporation.
Technically it would work, but it wouldn’t scale up nicely no.
It would be far less efficient than everything we currently use for power.
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 4 months ago:
You need to use minecrafts game files to access minecraft servers.
There are hundreds of browsers available, and since the standard is open it’s easy to create a new one.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 4 months ago:
My authenticator app requires my fingerprint, which is biometric, so fingerprint plus device for the MFA.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 4 months ago:
Fingerprint + Authenticator as well.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 4 months ago:
Fuck passwords, use proper MFA.
Phishing training is good though.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 months ago:
I don’t see your argument against teams.
It sounds like:
“It’s all together in one place, how dare they.”
At this point I don’t even bother using the desktop version of outlook, the web app is easier for emails and my calendar is in teams.
You act like cloud services are bad, they aren’t. If they were terrible, people would be switching away from them. They’re adding value beyond their cost and everyone knows it.
Could Microsoft be better at some things? Sure.
But they’re already far better than the alternative, which is a janky ass system of 30 different products from 30 different vendors.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 months ago:
Total number of businesses maybe, but they account for something like two thirds of all employees.
You can’t really say it’s much of a business IT stack if it’s just a single freelancer using a Mac.
They wouldn’t be setting up teams in the first place.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 months ago:
“lots of businesses operate on macOS”
No, they definitely do not. If you go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees, they are running windows on the computers sitting in front of every office drone they have.
Very specific industries or business may, especially those who are stuck on Adobe’s software, but “lots” is extremely far from the truth.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 months ago:
There’s no mass exodus towards Linux in the business user space.
It’s still 99.9% Microsoft Windows.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 months ago:
Lync, not Lynx.
And technically Lync got birthed from the corpse of Office Communicator, not MSN messenger.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 months ago:
I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.
People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.
Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.
It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.
Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.
Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.
Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?
- Comment on I just went to the doctor's office and my copay is up $5 compared to last year 4 months ago:
America is funny.
And by that I mean you’re the joke.
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 5 months ago:
A single person, or small group, control everything.
Dissention is not allowed. Those people are removed via various methods from threats, to the jailing, and potentially all the way up to accidentally falling out a window or off a balcony.