Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren't bound to license agreements, turns out it's actually very easy to have a "massive" content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

It sucks that we can't just have nice things any more, there always has to be some executive somewhere that just totally ruins everything for everyone all the time.

Is HA not already the mainstream option for privacy and user control? Maybe I just live in a bubble, but it seems like it's already the go-to if you care about those things.

Not to turn this into a sociology discussion, but for anyone unaware: this is a fairly common pattern.

Women often pioneer fields like this, but as soon as it becomes seen as something "important" out "respectable" then suddenly it becomes male dominated.

The opposite also happens, where as society deems something as unimportant, a male dominated field will become female dominant - see teaching for an unfortunate example of a field that used to be highly paid and respected, and is now largely looked down on.

Sorry, don't mean to go off on a tangent - it just bugs me and I think more people should be aware of it.

And the funny thing is, rather than competition driving down prices, they only seem to be competing for who can charge the most while showing more ads.

It baffles me that they sell Chrome as private and/or secure, and baffles me even more that people believe them.

Plus the Pinkerton thing.

Plus the OGL thing.

Plus...

My therapist recommended a book about how ADHD can be a "superpower," but as I read the book I noticed that nearly every single example they gave of some famous person that "leveraged their ADHD into success" was rich to start with.

Like, it obviously wasn't ADHD that made them successful, it was generational wealth - classic "pull yourself by your bootstraps" BS. I couldn't even finish the book, because it was just making me angry.

Wait, seriously? That's quite a jump from the last one I heard about.

Also: it's actually 1,121 qubits, even more impressive.

Yes. I'm a guy, and I would love to get a girl's take on this.

Do you think Fermi's "Great Filter" is not necessarily that a civilization destroys itself, but that it discovers a way to destroy the Universe?

Like, maybe the fabric of our reality is more fragile than we realize, and the reason we don't see "aliens" is that the universe doesn't get old enough for intelligent life to meet.

Of course, this assumes we are in a statistically "average" Universe, since presumably there could be a Universe in which intelligent life co-evolves within the same solar system.

I got older and richer, and I'm still just as socialist as I was then. Perhaps moreso, even.

I think the idea is that they have more wealth, and are terrified of losing that wealth. It comes down to greed and fear of change, rather than the actual amount of wealth itself.

My dad threw a party to celebrate when I graduated university with a degree in Computer Science.

At the party, my dad's friend took me aside and said "My nephew just got a degree in electrical engineering. Now that's an up and coming field, you should get a degree in that."

Like, alright buddy. Hopefully that career pays well enough for another four years of student debt. I'm still kinda in shock at how dumb of a thing to say that was.

The craziest part about all this is that they claim to have found a method to get factual information from an LLM.

I switched away from piracy to streaming because they offered a legitimately good value proposition that benefited both the consumer and the producer.

Currently switching back to piracy because these greedy fucks just don't know when to stop.

Grandpa just got scammed, and when we talked to him about it he said the bank literally told him "you are being scammed" and he insisted on sending the money anyway.

I just... what?

Back when I was a welder, I was trying to cut something with an angle grinder in an awkward position.

I guess my brain was turned off that day because I decided to grind with the sparks going directly away from me.

So of course, the disc binded, and sent the angle grinder directly at my face.

Thank god I was wearing a face shield, at least. In about 0.1 seconds, my face shield was cut entirely in half.

The fun didn't stop there, though, because I had the trigger lock on (again, genius). So it was still spinning at full force after it jumped out of my hands.

Also, I was on a ladder, so here I am, trying to throw the grinder away from my with my arms, on top of a ladder, all the while the cutting disc is going absolutely out of control essentially in full contact with my face, neck, chest, and arms.

Finally I manage to push it off of me, it falls to the floor and the disc breaks. I finally get off the ladder and unplug the grinder.

At this point, I can see that my face shield is cut clean down the middle. I'm thinking 1000% I'm gonna be needing an urgent hospital visit. I take off the face shield, and carefully touch my face... No blood... I take out my phone and use it as a mirror, not a scratch... I meticulously check the rest of my body... nothing.

Turns out, after all that, the only damage was to the disc and the face shield.

I can't even explain how I felt after that. I spent the rest of the day in an almost out-of-body experience, and was shaken for a few weeks at least. I beat myself up a lot for being so stupid, and I literally couldn't believe how lucky I was. I still can't believe it.

The question to always ask with these articles is: Is this process prohibitively expensive, or does the process output more CO2 overall than you input? It's always one of the two.

Ngl as a Canadian, I implicitly thought 8.5x11 was A4. Well that's dumb, we should switch.

And not only that, but if you spritz leftover pizza with a bit of water before putting it in the microwave, it brings out the flavour more and prevents it from drying out.

(Figure that's about as relevant.)

I don't know much about American laws, and I strongly believe that basic housing should not be for-profit.

With those caveats, if a house is empty for such a long time that squatters can claim it (7-20 years according to Google), then I think it's not only okay to claim residence there, I think it's the morally correct thing to do.

Obviously, there are exceptions to anything, but generally speaking, it sounds like society could use more of this.

I was this kid all throughout my school years.

Parents never taught me any kind of personal hygiene, and my house was filled with a thick smog of smoke, so my sense of smell is still shot to this day. To give an idea how bad it was, I was asking for dentures when I was 14 because my teeth were literally falling out. The water in our house was spotty at best, on top of the hygiene thing, so baths were maybe once every 2 weeks or so. My parents always had a fridge stocked with Coca Cola, but almost never drinkable water.

Besides pointing at my parents, I don't really have an explanation for you, but I've definitely "been there."

It took a lot of effort, but I've come a looooong way since then. Like... unrecognizably so, thankfully - other than the dentures, at least.

If anyone is reading this, and in a situation where their home life or depression or whathaveyou is putting you in this kind of situation: Just know that things can and will get better. I know how difficult and embarrassing it can be when you're deep in it, but all you gotta do is be a little bit better than yesterday (when you're able). It takes time, but it's totally worth it.

I carry one with me. If I see someone else wearing one, I'll put it on. I'm not really worried about anything myself, but I'll gladly wear a mask to give someone else peace of mind.

*raises hand*

If we aren't American, may we be excused?

For anyone unaware, Ada Lovelace created the first programming language - all before a computer even existed. Absolute Chad of a woman.

Did they ever fix that issue from a while back where they started collecting personal data on users?

https://www.engadget.com/audacity-privacy-policy-spyware-accusations-data-collection-210001803.html

Give it to someone that needs it.

While I would agree this sounds more secure, I'm always worried about people getting further locked in to Google's products.

Hopefully this system won't take accounts "hostage" by requiring you use Chrome to log in to them, but it's Google, so...

EDIT: I'm wrong, passkeys are stored per-device and can be shared between devices using an open standard. Here's a video explaining the basics. It addresses my concern at around the 2:50 mark.

Some folks on Lemmy recently recommended StreetComplete, and I've been really enjoying it so far.

It's a "Pokémon Go" style thing, but you go around answering simple questions about your surroundings which are then used to update/improve the data on OpenStreetMap.

One concern I considered after using the app was that because your contributions are uploaded to OpenStreetMap, in theory I imagine someone could use that data to track where you are / where you've been / where you tend to be. So just be aware of that.

I was laid off from my welding job. My boss liked me, so he helped me get a job at another shop. But I was in a really bad head-space in that time of my life in general, so that combined with a few other things, and I quit that new job within about 2 days after starting.

I was totally unable to find a welding job after that. There was a reason the first so laid me off after all - oil markets had crashed, and I lived in a very oil-dependant city. So I ended up working temp jobs to get by, but for a solid 2 years I did nothing but kick myself for being so stupid. To this day, I think quitting that job was one of the stupidest things I've ever done.

Anyway, after 2 years of that, I finally decided to change gears entirely. I went to school, got a CS degree, and now I have a cushy, well paying programming job.

I still think it was stupid to quit that job back then, but if I hadn't, I wouldn't be where I am now. I often think about how I can apply that way of thinking to other areas of my life.

I feel like it was the shift from having many small, tight-knit communities run by passionate people to having a couple massive, impersonal communities run by corporations.

Like, for example, back in the day I spent all my time on Worm's Sci Fi Haven. I knew everyone there, and built relationships with people. It was a healthy community run by a guy that really cared about fostering that community.

These days, the closest thing you can really get to that is a subreddit or a Facebook group. Even Lemmy, for all its good points, it's built to be a massive conglomeration of users - in opposition of the more "insular" communities of the past.

With corporations so consistently and vehemently acting in bad faith, I honestly don't think we need a further justification for piracy.

Agreed. I may be principled to a fault, but I'll never go back to Reddit. It has that corporate miasma to it now.

Truth be told, it had the miasma long before the API changes, but that was the point where the boiled frog croaked for me.

Honestly I just run WinDirStat and do it manually.

Sure, but what if those countries are the only places I love tho?

Honestly I wish there were less communities. I've said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we're lucky) active members.

This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.

I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a "video games" community instead of 500 specific game communities.

As a side note as well, I don't think we shouldn't be "allowed" to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that's their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.

Seemed like fair criticism to me, honestly. I enjoy watching LTT, but if they want to be a reliable source of data with "The Lab", they can't continue acting purely as an entertainment company.

I miss when MS used to be punished for these kinds of blatantly monopolistic practices.

Facebook is literally the last place people should be getting their "political" content from.

For anyone wondering: $14.2 million of that is profit.

Seems to me like they're doing just fine.

Lmao even after providing a well explained answer, they still had to manually add the flag to their command for them.