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lolcatnip ,

Office lights tend to be a lot more blue than what's used in homes.

lolcatnip ,

I'd be really surprised if people who have a neurological abnormality also happen to have a difference in eye anatomy, especially when the neurological anomaly is associated with other sensory processing issues. Occam's razor suggests that all the sensory processing issues NNT people have are a result of their brains being different.

lolcatnip ,

I feel like if browser history was invented today people would have the same reaction to it.

Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)

A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...

lolcatnip ,

What is the purpose of accountability other than to force people to do better? If the lack of accountability doesn't stop a computer from outperforming a human, why worry about it?

lolcatnip , (edited )

That is simply not true. The law since basically forever had held that manufacturers are liable if their product malfunctions and hurts someone when it's being operated in accordance with their instructions.

Edit: I hope all y'all who think the rule of law doesn't exist are gonna vote against the felony party.

lolcatnip ,

People change. They discover things about themselves. Their goals change. Of course anyone thinking of getting married should try to uncover any potential deal breakers before committing, but it's still no guarantee they won't encounter unsolvable problems later.

lolcatnip ,

They're talking about wanting children. Disagreeing on that is absolutely an unsolvable problem.

lolcatnip ,

Buddy, let me explain something to you. I do not want children. Ever. If I were married to someone who decided they wanted children, I would for sure get a divorce, because there is no compromise to be made. Having a child is all or nothing. You can't halfway become a parent.

Of course, anyone I might marry would understand why a divorce is necessary and wouldn't fight me on it.

lolcatnip ,

OMG, so evil!

lolcatnip ,

There's the "Google can do no right" attitude I come here for!

lolcatnip ,

I love Gimp but I would never suggest it as a Photoshop alternative for professional users.

lolcatnip ,

If the software is much more expensive to develop, most is it just won't exist at all. You can get the same effect by just not using software you feel is bloated.

lolcatnip ,

At a certain point it makes more sense to subsidize better low-end hardware than to make every web site usable on a 20 year old flip phone. I'd argue that if saving 32 kB is considered a big win, you're well past that point. Get that homeless guy a £50 phone and quit wasting the time of a bunch of engineers who make more than that in an hour.

lolcatnip ,

If it was for surveillance, do you really think they'd tell you about it?

lolcatnip ,

I'm all for ending homelessness, but that's really a different problem than we were discussing. I'm pretty confident jQuery isn't stopping anyone from being housed.

Anyway, there's no way you're gonna convince me 32 kB is a lot of data. It's just not. Even the slowest 3G connections can download that much in half a second. Just the text of this thread is probably more than 32 kB. If you can't download that much data, you only technically have Internet service at all.

lolcatnip ,

At least in the US, the reason 3G isn't available is that it has been phased out, as has 2G. You may as well complain about how slow it is to send data with smoke signals, because 4G is table stakes for an internet-capable device now.

lolcatnip ,

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lolcatnip ,

Sometimes a program is slow to start up because it's so boated that just loading it from the disk takes multiple seconds. Wasting a few kB doesn't hurt anything, but if you're doing it thousands of times in one program, your users are gonna have a bad time.

lolcatnip , (edited )

I just wish Linux partisans would acknowledge that Linux has serious shortcomings rather than constantly shouting about how there is literally no reason to ever use Windows.

I greatly prefer Linux for tasks like software development, but when I sit down to pay a game, I don't want to have to debug it first.

lolcatnip ,

It's not funny at all if you know any actual cyclists or vegans.

lolcatnip ,

Leads!

lolcatnip ,

I still maintain the correct version if the saying is a "stopped" clock. A clock can be broken in other ways that make it almost never right.

Also I'm not sure analog clocks should be considered "regular" at this point. If seems like they're mostly decorative items now, and most actual timekeeping is done with clocks in phones and computers.

lolcatnip ,

And stop making it political

It's political because caring about people who aren't rich is political.

lolcatnip ,

I'm not talking about just politicians. I'm talking about all conservatives. And yes, only one "side" is like that. It's their defining trait.

lolcatnip ,

Mandatory service that you can pay to get out of is literally just enslavement of poor people.

lolcatnip ,

That particular model makes my wrist hurt almost instantly.

lolcatnip ,

Sorry, the great prophet Jobs (pbuh) has decreed that one button is all you need.

lolcatnip ,

I've used a few trackpads on PC laptops that were almost as good as on a MacBook, but yeah, most of them kind of suck.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

lolcatnip ,

If someone wants to pay that much for energy and it's priced at a level that makes it sustainable, who are we to say it's not worth it?

The main argument I've seen against higher prices for things energy and water is that it would place an undue burden on low-income people, but that's one of the many problems that could be eliminated in its entirety by a universal basic income program. Even if it's just a bare-bones program that only covers the cost of an average person's water and energy needs, such a system would give everyone an incentive to conserve when possible, and it would do it without burdening people who can't afford it.

lolcatnip ,

Someone else explained how a carbon tax is different than carbon offsets, but I'll go a step further and say we should be using a cap & trade system. It would go something like this (at least in my egalitarian version):

  • Require "carbon credits" to be spent to legally generate carbon and other greenhouse gasses (GHGs).
  • Have a GHG treaty where signatories collectively decide on a GHG budget, i.e. an acceptable total level of GHG emissions.
  • Issue an equal amount of credits to each individual such that the total amount issued equals the total GHG budget.
  • Let people buy and sell carbon credits in a market system.
lolcatnip ,

with the odds being good the same data could be served at 1/20th the cost today

Gotta nitpick you there. According the Moore's law (really more of a rule of thumb), the price of the silicon used to serve those videos should be 1/16 of what it is today. I'm not aware of any corresponding law that describes trends in energy consumption. It's getting better for sure, but I'd be shocked if there was a 20x improvement in 6 years.

lolcatnip ,

Quit being so dramatic. Nobody is forcing you to use those things. Lemmy in particular is full of people who talk in detail about how they've replaced products and services from companies like Google and Microsoft with alternatives they find more consumer-friendly. And I guarantee you major brands are gonna offer ways to turn off AI features, because turning them off saves a lot of money in data centers and improves battery life in consumer systems.

lolcatnip ,

They have Project 2025 and it's horrifying.

lolcatnip ,

I want to see who upvoted this comment so I can block them.

lolcatnip ,

Might want to edit your comment to mention Trump by name, because "he" was Biden in the last two comments.

lolcatnip ,

You picked a funny time to start criticizing.

lolcatnip ,

It would be nice but that's not what's being decided in this or any other presidential election.

lolcatnip ,

It's a losing strategy politically because people are too fucking dumb to vote against someone holding a gun to their head unless someone else is promising them a unicorn, but as a potential voter, it's an exceptionally good reason to get off your ass and actually vote for a candidate who can win.

lolcatnip ,

It's not a "conspiracy theory" when there's an actual well-documented conspiracy.

lolcatnip ,

The what?

lolcatnip ,

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/99f342de-218d-4f4a-b37a-b84094856c5c.gif

lolcatnip ,

Not even democracy per se; it's a basic requirement for a society that functions at more than a medieval level.

lolcatnip ,

Some cats have a way of cleaning themselves that is the most passive-aggressive thing I've ever seen. Like, they'll do it when another cat is trying to play fight with them as a way of telling the other cat to back the fuck off.

lolcatnip ,

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

lolcatnip ,

Boycotts are almost impossible to pull off successfully. This kind of thing demands legal action. IANAL but the facial recognition company putting her on a list of shoplifters is a claim that she's a criminal, which sounds like textbook defamation to me.

lolcatnip , (edited )

They've essentially created their own privatized law enforcement system. They aren't allowed to enforce their rules the same way a government would be, but punishment like banning a person from huge swaths of economic life can still be severe. The worst part is that private legal systems almost never have any concept of rights or due process, so there is absolutely nothing stopping them from being completely arbitrary in how they apply their punishments.

I see this kind of thing as being closely aligned with right wingers' desire to privatize everything, abolish human rights, and just generally turn the world into a dystopian hellscape for anyone who isn't rich and well connected.

lolcatnip ,

But it's Russian.

lolcatnip ,

I see nothing wrong with defrauding conservatives. They're gonna find some grifter to give their money to, so it may as well be you.

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