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- Comment on doctors 12 hours ago:
Huh? Joke? On the Internet? No way.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 23 hours ago:
I see here no-one has a clue and expects Italian farmers to behave like american businesses, so I’ll have to explain. The ideology of Italian farmers (and pretty much all euro farmers) is pretty ugly, but also different from your typical murican grift.
In the specific case, Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are obsessed with the idea that they are losing billions to “Italian sounding” products like american Parmesan. Which they believe are sold interchangeably.
The thing that guarantees the absence of fraudolent data is that only “legal” Parmigiano producers from the Modena-Reggio-Parma area would be allowed to enter data in the system, and your american counterfeit Parmesan would be barred. Of course such a system is blind to the fact that they themselves are likely lying about the origin of their milk, but that’s a feature, not a bug.
Unfortunately this is not even peak farmer craziness around here, but that’s a different story (the farmer parties e.g. the dutch one are really ugly).
And this is all beside the obvious fact that Parmigiano-Reggiano is indeed the finest cheese in the world, so far ahead of the Parmesan competition that no person could mistake one for the other in a blind test. And the French and Dutch can bite me.
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, did the Chinese invent a mechanism for rapid growth of 3D printed ladies?
Because since the change in policy was 10 years ago, your 23yo chinese factory worker better like his ladies very young.
But I would also be careful attributing all the selective abortions to the OCP.
Sex ratio in live births was still something like 110% or 115% in 2020, and looked stable.
India also has a sizable sex imbalance in live births, and never had a OCP.
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 2 weeks ago:
All the girls that just do not exist because of selective abortions?
- Comment on Can't understand why they fired me 3 weeks ago:
That face is so Dutch I can practically hear the accent.
- Comment on Oh no, Nicole's plan is entering stage 2 4 weeks ago:
There’s an argument to be had that it is a little harder to censor on Lemmy, and also I expect that it does not e.g. scan all PMs by default to detect >!!<spam as some big techs might.
So, if tech savvy people are harder to fool (but it’s definitely not impossible, see Cory Doctorow’s recent post) but the cost of spamming is a little lower… maybe it still works.
- Comment on Appers 4 weeks ago:
Can’t even tell if serious or what.
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 1 month ago:
Not sure what you’re talking about.
I was just saying that rounding is a normal thing to do and not lying.
Also Jesus was born in like 4 BC.
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 1 month ago:
But more importantly, who cares?
I lived in my previous city for 9years 9m. I usually tell people I lived there 10 years, I don’t expect they’ll fell very betrayed when they learn the truth.
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 2 months ago:
And those are the night for beans n tuna.
- Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 4 months ago:
It’s a sign of how bad the situation is that we talk about car repairs in terms of hacking.
Documentation should be mandatory, and DRM on this stuff mostly forbidden.
For the FP4, I think I’m going to go for e/OS, because of the official Android Auto support. I want to degoogle, not root.
- Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 4 months ago:
That may be ok for an Arduino, but for a car I’d really like to be able to get support, which may be tough with a smaller provider, unless they really use generic components and document their stuff decently, which I’d really have to be convinced about. And let’s not even get into the software support.
And I write this from my 2yo old Fairphone 4, which I plan to degoogle during the holidays, while I sit in front of my 7yo Thinkpad.
I use Arch BTW.
- Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 4 months ago:
The Chinese ones tend to be less enshittified? Having just recently about how Xiaomi cars disable software updates if you change the headlights, allow me to doubt that.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 5 months ago:
No, the Multipla deserves better.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
a couple KDE tweaks even made PiP work fantastic
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- Comment on This is not fine 6 months ago:
Does really no one get a song reference around here?
- Comment on This is not fine 6 months ago:
It was always burning since world’s been turning!
- Comment on Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95% 6 months ago:
That wouldn’t be so bad per se… Many improvements in human conditions have been achieved by automating stuff and kicking people out. Think of the green revolution.
The problem is that the use case here is to massify the production of literal shit, like clickbaity articles on social media content, or ever larger volumes of advertisement. Those jobs don’t need to be replaced, they just need to go away for good.
Are we really going to use an AI to write motivation letters from a list of bullet points, to send it to an HR that will condense it into a list of bullet points using AI? Seriously?
- Comment on Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95% 6 months ago:
Personally, I find myself in a bizarre situation.
I have some open source ““Ai”” solutions that I find really really nice and helpful e.g. the image search in Immich, or LanguageTool which bills itself as an AI spellchecker.
At the same time I am horrified at the stupidity underlying 99% of big tech AI stuff that gets wall street hot.
- Comment on Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95% 6 months ago:
But… Isn’t that kind of the point? Slashing computational cost so that we can deploy that stuff wherever it’s needed without a tenfold increase in the world’s energy bill?
Whether we should do that at all is a very different question.
- Comment on Think anyone would notice? 1 year ago:
We don’t need that, we already have Scandinavia.
- Comment on Why does it need more than one name? 1 year ago:
Sorry Jared, I got confused there for a moment.
- Comment on Why does it need more than one name? 1 year ago:
Yeah, because Italians totally have no idea how to build a car.