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Zacryon ,

In case you are serious or someone else is serious about this:
Masks, just like underwear, are permeable. If they wouldn't be, you would suffocate as no air would be able to reach your lungs. (At your rear, that's just a consequence of low requirements towards the material, which mainly serves as a covering and being able to dry.) So gas molecules are usually not stopped to pass through your underwear or masks.

The main difference between, e.g. FFP2/3, masks and your underwear is the size of particles that are able to pass through. Your underwear will be able to catch some moisture of a juicy fart and probably some shit particles. However, most of the gases and smaller particles can pass through.
Filter masks are able to stop most particles down to a certain size. For FFP 2 masks at least 94% of particles down to a size of 0,6 micrometers can be stopped. Particles smaller than that are likely to pass through. FFP 3 masks block at least 99% of particles down to the same size.

The thing with viruses like Covid-19 is, that they are usually expelled from an infected person via the respiratory system, that means, your mouth and nose. There, the virus cells are mostly soluted within the moist air you breathe out. Moist air means: there are very tiny (mainly) water particles which are spread over a certain volume of gas. And they are floating with the currents of the gas. That's what basically constitutes an aerosol. Particles, tiny and lightweight enough to float with a gas (for a while).
You can see that clearly with spray cans. With breathing air it's not so good to see with the naked eye.
Those moist particles, loaded with virus cells, are usually large enough to be filtered out by FFP masks. It's not perfect of course, but it can help a great deal and contribute to prevention measures.

The stinky stuff in farts is afaik a pure gas and not an aerosol. (Did you know that in terms of gas volume, just about 2 % of a single fart contains the smelly chemicals?) Which is why neither masks, nor underwear help so much against stinky farts.

FFP masks are mandatory in jobs where dangerous smaller particles can enter your body. They help against dust, smoke and a lot of aerosols. But they don't filter out pure gases. That's what gas masks are for.

In terms of infection spreading, a neat side-effect of masks is that they can slow down the velocity of exhaled air, which helps to reduce how far the aersol spreads around a person. Trying to blow out a candle while wearing a mask isn't as easy as without a mask, which demonstrates this effect.

Futhermore, there has been a study suggesting that wearing a mask for a while or wearing it during rainy weather can - up to a certain point - further improve the filter capabilities of such face masks, since the moisture accumulates on the surface of the mask (in- and/or outside) and by this forms another protective barrier.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Zacryon ,

Please provide an explanation, preferrably with sources, if you think my explanation is wrong.

Zacryon ,

I see. Thanks for clarifying that! I already thought you were joking, but wasn't so sure. Seems a lot of people didn't get it as you intended.
You could consider adding a flag like /j, /i or /s (depending on context) to such comments to avoid confusion.

Zacryon ,

Shouldn't be so frustrating in the first place.

Zacryon ,

it is wrong to want to be spoonfed your computing needs

Why though? It's not like you are building your own OS every time on assembler level, or do you?
Making software more convenient is one of the reasons for having software at all.

That doesn't mean turning it into an "opaque box" where company interests will be pushed. Having a more user experience oriented design in Linux distros can save a lot of time and frustration as well as make it more attractive to average users.
Even power users, who work with Linux professionally will benefit.

And it just might start with something as simple as proper documentation of a package.

Zacryon ,

Yes.

Zacryon ,

FUnitedStatesofAmericaK Biden?

Zacryon ,

That's why we shouldn't generalize so incautiously and shove all people of group X into one drawer.

Zacryon ,

Seems like you speak out of experience. Sorry for you. It's sad that so many people forget how to treat each other respectfully.

Zacryon ,

Geometric series disagrees.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

Zacryon ,

Samsung smart TVs already show a small ad on the home menu.

Zacryon ,

Your relatives should stop using facebook.

Zacryon ,

To be fair, you don't need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.

Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.

Zacryon ,

Hahahaha absolutely. :D
The difference is, that they come from a 3D printer and that's cool.

Zacryon ,

You get AI tools shoved down your throat everywhere nowadays. Whether you want it and it's useful or not.

Zacryon ,

It's not just text generating AI, like those transformer models, but also image classificators and generators, time series predictors, and a bunch of other stuff you get.

But yes, even though you seem not to like it, it is AI.

Copilot is no more “intelligent” than Clippy from Microsoft Bob in 1995.

I can't share that experience.

It just appears to be to people who also have low intelligence.

That's a bit condescending, don't you think?

Zacryon ,

Yes. I think so.
It just takes an exponential amount of energy and/or time. At some point it will stop due to energy limitations. Or will be stopped because computation time approaches infinity, even if all energy in the universe is available.

Also, now I think about the movie "The Thirteenth Floor".

Zacryon ,

For those, interested in an overview about more criticism, just head to the according section on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Zacryon ,

Yes, let's just shove everyone into one drawer and completely forget that some do it for fun, some out of financial necessity, and let's also forget all the problems it can cause when using such an image in lectures, research and similar professional settings. /s

Zacryon ,

I wouldn't say that it necessarily expresses a certain opinion towards women. I think a lot of people used it just because that's how it's done. It's a piece history, a "fun" tradition.
A lot of people didn't even knew that this was taken from a pornographic magazine.

However, thinking critically about it and considering a lot of good points, it's surely not "fun" anymore and I also think it's better to stop this.

Zacryon ,

Nvidia driver fucking X in the arse without lube.

Zacryon ,

Capitalism – in it's current form, a system where some exploit others in order to make profit.

Zacryon ,

That's also what I meant by capitalism "in it's current form". Yes. ^^

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

Zacryon , (edited )

What? Unbelievable. I'm shocked. Shocked, I say. This really comes as a surprise. I would've never expected this. No one would have seen this coming. This is really outrageous. They are innocent. I can't comprehend this. No way! It's not acceptable! /i

– Apple Fan, probably (without the irony flag then)

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

Zacryon ,

They just fuck with Kenyans. And that's obviously okay, because they are not part of the western nations. /s

Zacryon ,

Aaand there goes another service again, which I've never used and now will probably never even think about using.

Zacryon ,

That's not separation, but a different ethical concept or a lack of thought about one.

Zacryon ,

That's why you need several security layers and failure protection systems.

Neoliberal adaptation (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and...

Zacryon ,

Twitterix

Zacryon ,

And yet no one was able to crack it.

Zacryon ,

And yet no one was able to crack it.

Zacryon ,

Don't have friends. Problem solved.

Zacryon , (edited )

You can use E2E???? !!!!!

Zacryon ,

I'd argue that this is not an issue from a technical perspective, which would halt open hardware endeavours.

The precision is mainly a problem regarding the used motors / actuation system, which in turn is "just" a money issue, but the hardware is there. Paper handling is pretty easy.

I don't know how complicated it would be to create ink or laser cartridges, but given that there are a lot of 3rd party vendors who offer refill services, I suppose it is manageable.

My guess for the reason why there is no open hardware 2D printer yet is, because nobody has seriously started such a project yet.

Zacryon ,

x doubt

Zacryon ,

I agree and disagree at the same time.
I agree, people should learn how to use technology.
I disagree, technology should be easy to use.

Zacryon ,

You need to separate most materials in order to recycle them. The plastic of a lid is different from that of a bottle which are both different from a wrapping. Separating materials is key to successful recycling. A lot of times stuff can't get recyled because people don't separate it before throwing it away.

Or you could just use, you know, reusable materials.

Zacryon ,

Bottom left is from Drew Gooden.

Zacryon , (edited )

I already knew that the US is a third world country, but it's new to me that Europe has gotten there as well.

Zacryon ,

If it's a website which only works with a specific browser, it's a shitsite.

Zacryon ,

Putting arbitrary numbers on people to measure their matureness is weird to me.

There are 15 year old people who are wiser and more mature than a lot with 50.

You can't know without knowing the person.

Zacryon ,

Any quantitative measure of maturity is definitely correlated with age.

Is it? Do you have numbers on that?

Zacryon ,

and yes, largely correlates with maturity

That's where we disagree. You say that as if it were a proven fact. If you got studies on that, please report.

My point is, that at least from my experience there is a lot more to maturity than mere age. And you can't really know if you just superficially look at someone and their age.

Zacryon ,

I don't mind ads, I understand that websites need to finance themselves to cover their costs (and maybe build up some capital to expand). But I do mind tracking, user profiling, personalization / user targeting, trading this data with dubious companies worldwide, and obnoxious ads, for example pop-ups or auto-play videos with a 1 micron sized close button, or a forced timed ad which is hiding the content.

It's like having a bunch of people following you around, taking note of everything you do, evaluating that data, making statistics, dicsussing it with other people you don't know, etc.. Then, when you want to make yourself a sandwich, step in between you and your sandwich, taking up a megaphone and scream into your face : "OH, WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE MAKING A SANDWICH. CAN WE INTERST YOU IN NEW FANCY BUTTER KNIVES FOR ONLY 59,99 €?" [Then going on about it for 3 minutes before they are stepping out of your way].

There are laws against that in real life, and in the digital realm this is missing. Considering how much time a lot of people spend online this is something which needs to be taken seriously.

It's really scary sometimes. There was a time when I was stupid enough to use facebook, just to stay in touch with friends. Once I talked with a friend about allergies and asthma, and I told them I have a pollen allergy. A short time later an ad showed up on my facebook feed, advertising some nasal spray for allergies. Wtf?! And that's just the surface. "Harmless" ads. Who knows what else happens with that data?

And then we get stuff like Cambridge Analytica.

Zacryon ,

Filter bubbles are one thing, which I find is a huge disadvantage to personalization. You'll never learn about new stuff, because it will never be presented to you, since someone assumes that you blong to a specific box.

Another is that I value my privacy. It's no one's business what I do, when, where, with whom and how. Apart from that, there is no guarantee that this information is not being misused.

For example, I'm thinking about political campaigns, which target specific user groups on the one hand, or spread misinformation and distrust to others. I see such forms of information steering as detrimental to democratic societies. Free and unbiased information is crucial for critical thinking.

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