MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on The Financial Review’s Inaccurate Preference Analysis 4 days ago:
Anthony Green, National Treasure. So nice to have an independent (I’d dare to say objective), statistically savvy voice amongst the shitshow of mainstream media political reporting (propagandizing).
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 4 days ago:
I assumed Linux given the specs and that Chrome works at all.
Vote for firefox as you should be anyway. Another trick to try is an explicit tab unloader extension (for fine control of unloading) and/or the built in about:unloads .
All browser seem to accumulate memory (and cpu usage) over time, sometimes you just have to shut it down and restart. (AKA have you tried turning it off and on :)
- Comment on Seems very topical with the rise of One Nation 1 week ago:
defective
+1
- Comment on Seems very topical with the rise of One Nation 1 week ago:
Tiny airplane, to complement her morals.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 weeks ago:
It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics
Or just that nuking gut bacteria messes with the gut brain axis…
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 weeks ago:
And provides fertile ground for evolution by providing space for gene duplication and divergence. Likely also for miRNA control systems.
- Comment on Anon plays Arkham City 2 weeks ago:
and polluters / fossil fuels, and tax avoiders and…
hmm, looks like
capitalistsoligarchs, oh my. - Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine 2 weeks ago:
It does say Australia in the headline.
A fair number of EU politicians have been pretty vocal.
Australia is also doing the extremism thing (see ‘Between the river and the sea’ in QLD, protests in NSW, Vic). I see that more as a part of an ongoing campaign against protests in general happening widely across the world.
- Comment on Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine 2 weeks ago:
At a guess, Europe beginning to normalize speaking up as they distance themselves from the US hegemony. Early days, and we’re unfortunately pretty damned locked in to the US militarily ourselves, which makes for a precarious position what with Trumps whims, but one (bloody) hopes wheels are starting to slowly turn on that.
- Comment on Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips 1 month ago:
Fuck SamA, no Mobo prices will not fall because it’s all supply on demand, stepping aroundfailed concepts like ‘competition’.
- Comment on Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys 1 month ago:
Not the Onion??
- Comment on Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets 1 month ago:
To indulge the thought I think you could get a fair way using LLMs and vision models (for body language) by looking at the vector space differences between human languages (and idiomatic [e.g. two fingers in different cultures] and intrinsic [e.g. smiles] gestures), a large set of annotated animal vocalizations and gestures, plugging it into a really hot cup of tea and burning a small forest.
More seriously, I think Cetaceans would be a more tractable problem, and perhaps from there other animals. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was already underway, while LLMs aren’t good for a lot of things techbros want them to be good at, they are good at modelling languages.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
I don’t have a good source, but my instinct is that ‘society at large’ in many (probably most) places is at least in majority ‘okay with human euthanasia’, and has been for quite a while. It’s the laws that need to catch up, but don’t due to lack of political will and a vocal minority.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
Valid use case, still a significant problem.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 2 months ago:
Fair cop, shall look at pipepipe, wait, that’s a phone app, I like my vidja on a larger screen, You do you, I’m good :)
- Comment on agagaga 2 months ago:
Hmfh, usually the long repeats are CGs (or ATs)
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 2 months ago:
Kudos to you then I guess. Nice offsite backup you’re not paying for, love it.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 2 months ago:
Solid. I seem to have a ~90% overlap, copying both this and the movies to my obsidian, shall do some diff / grepping later… There’s gems in there, thanks.
Sympathy for the no adblocker (moron?, but with taste), must burn.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 2 months ago:
freetube
90% of the time it works every time (OK, maybe 80), but when it does it’s great. I just let my rss queue backlog until it does. (Not on then, YT is actively rugpulling coz they hate them, which makes me like them more, shame about the electron though)
- Comment on Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most 2 months ago:
Seeing as you have a backup of your contacts (don’t you??), why not just delete it…
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 2 months ago:
Sounds like 90+% scammers…
- Comment on "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion 2 months ago:
Thanks for the perspective, appreciated.
- Comment on "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion 2 months ago:
Sure, stipulated, but in fact I’d say the more relevant analogy to today’s situation is 1930s Germany and Goebbels. (along with radio) To my mind journalism mostly evolved into profession post WW2 as a reaction to the prior corruption of reporting.
For a period there it had a strong code of ethics (professional ethics even) and served society well before concentration of media in the hands of corrupt oligarchs (e.g. Murdoch) destroyed any competition on truth (when’s the last time you heard of a scoop?) and then the internet and especially social media drove home the nails.
This is not to say that there is not true journalism still alive, but that it is far removed from the majority of society, hard to find. It needs to be sought out, ironically in an age where information flows so freely, quality is lost in the slop (even before AI). It would behoove us as a society to raise it once more from the muck, wish I knew how.
- Comment on "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion 2 months ago:
Journalism as a profession has been mercilessly crushed this entire century (at least) and we are all (save the 1%, perhaps) the poorer for it. There’s a reason it was considered one of the fundamentals of a functioning democracy.
What the article describes isn’t even reporting, let alone journalism, it’s a form of marketing.
- Comment on po-tay-toes 2 months ago:
You jest, but… likely profitable.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 months ago:
I find switching VPN endpoints works, bit whack-a-mole, but works. Actually I run a few with gluetun and just switch proxy port numbers.
- Comment on PM announces new fuel supply taskforce as price-gouging investigation launched 2 months ago:
Yup, renewable / EV (only really viable in the last half decade though) is my preferred solution too.
- Comment on PM announces new fuel supply taskforce as price-gouging investigation launched 2 months ago:
Can we get rid of the stupid petrol price cycle BS while we’re at it ?
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 2 months ago:
Happiness is fundamentally transitory and unsuitable for a goal, although setting up the circumstances for it to occur regularly isn’t a bad idea. Being at peace, satisfied, not bored, and others relevant to you are much more consistent and achievable, and you only need to rely on yourself to do so (happiness is often circumstantial).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You know, this is the sort of thing that users should really be made aware of…