MalReynolds

@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are mass murder.

  The difference is the State claims the (legal) right to lethal force. It’s still murder. Terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on outlook) that kill people are murderers. They probably also claim the right to lethal force, which is still murder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How about requiring reusability? There is zero reason for disposables to exist and they’re a huge toxic trash issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a rabbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll love what they tried next: Fencing them in (stupid long fences) and when that didn’t work, biological warfare (Myxomatosis) which actually worked pretty well for a while. Enjoy your future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, just install paru or yay and proceed as normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t envision anything Purge style, but a C.E. (look it up, 1859) would be really bad and I expect significantly longer than 2-3 years, Means of Production (tractors, industrial equipment, semiconductor factories, transport) would all be fried too. Can’t see us avoiding mass starvation in even 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends what causes it.

  Nasty worm, no biggie, people will be confident it can be fixed quickly.

  Carrington Event (think worldwide EMP), instant collapse, planes falling out of the sky, computers fried, cars since 1990 (guess) dead, hospitals destroyed and on and on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad they're looking out for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, you suggesting KDE and Gnome (and other DEs) are religions, or defended with religious fervor? Might be something to that, but likely not what OP wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Quietly Unlocks Big Audio Upgrade for Eligible Pixels in Android 17⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve already got LDAC on mine anyway, and have devices that can use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  call out something like space whales and you’ll be good.

  Already done, The Beast Below

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Financial Review’s Inaccurate Preference Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  defective

  +1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems very topical with the rise of One Nation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tiny airplane, to complement her morals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and polluters / fossil fuels, and tax avoiders and…

  hmm, looks like capitalists oligarchs, oh my.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia sanctions Israeli extremists in response to violence in Palestine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the Onion??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)