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Buddahriffic

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  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Though I have a feeling that they'd keep quiet about what they can't break and loudly exclaim that something can't be broken when they find a way to crack it.

  • woulda been helpful right before covid

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  • Funny thing is that they really do, but that parasitic creature is us.

  • New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria

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  • It mainly has to do with an enzyme that exists in the milk (and helps digest the milk) but breaks down from heat, and then this is blamed for gut issues (and gut issues are pretty common these days and hard to pinpoint the cause of, so people will latch on to anything to try to solve the issue).

    I'm not sure about the accuracy of that enzyme thing, that's just the information that had me wondering about raw milk.

    It's completely perpendicular to whether or not there's any harmful bacteria in the milk (other than cooking gets rid of both), which means getting sick from raw milk isn't guaranteed, which then makes it go through the same pathways gambling does (and we're notoriously bad at risk assessment in gambling), so some people with gut issues (especially if it actually does help, though I bet many build the habit of getting raw milk without even confirming it does help and just keep the habit going because they feel like they are sticking it to the man) ignore that a recurring low chance of something has an increased chance of running into it over time.

    Ultimately, laziness won out for me and I never bothered trying to find a source of raw milk when I was interested in the idea, though I can't say I ever really fully bought into it as I knew that even if pasturization was more necessary because of unhygienic milk industry practices, it was still being done for a reason.

    But ultimately, both this and the anti-vaccine movement are about people losing trust in this corporate-dominated system, which I can't really call irrational on its own, even if it leads to some irrational conclusions. It wasn't that long ago that cigarette companies were sponsoring "smoking is great" propaganda, and later "smoking isn't that bad". And the opioid crisis didn't do anything to help credibility since doctors were pushing addictive drugs marketed as not addictive because they were getting kickbacks from the manufacturers.

  • Usually a horrible interaction for all involved

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  • Because the language policing trend didn't happen naturally but was another angle of the divide and conquer, deflecting people to waste time policing language instead of useful endevors while alienating not only people who disagreed about the underlying values but also people tired of people bitching about their use of language.

    They needed all of the stops to pull off the elections and one of them was amplifying the most obnoxious aspects of the left, which also affected their credibility, which was important to get the opposition to ignore the warnings about the obvious signs of fascism.

    And right now, that same strategy is being used to keep the disillusioned from joining up with the left by amplifying the "fuck you, you're irredeemable" responses to the ones starting to see Trump for who he is.

  • lightbulbs

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  • Not doubting you, but how do you define the quality of the light?

  • This is America

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  • And they didn't gaf when Spain was going through a civil war over the same shit. Hitler and Stalin both sent support for the side they were closer to, but just crickets from the rest of the western world, less than even the stern words Italy got for invading Ethiopia until the league of nations just dissolved because it was shown to be useless.

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • So yeah, they built a new product and tried to force everyone to use it, when it had no improvements for the users whatsoever. And surprise, no one is excited to use it.

  • "Capitalism rewards innovation!"

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  • Any kind of power can corrupt. This isn't an argument against trying, but for any systems of power to be built with mechanisms to make it more difficult to entrench that power so it doesn't end up used against those it is intended to help.

    Though I don't know what kind of defense there is against a cult of personality.

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • Yeah, for a while I was looking for any benefits to moving from win 10 to 11. 7 to 10 had kernel and scheduler improvements, for example.

    Only ones I could find were the virtual desktop support (though I had an alternative desktop back in the XP or Vista days that supported that, so not really groundbreaking), and WSL, which I didn't have any use cases for.

    Other than that, it was just shit I didn't want. Copilot, recall, more UI changes that don't really add anything (on my work laptop where I didn't have a choice, first thing I did was go into the UI options and undo as much as I could). One of the things I used to like about windows was that it wasn't a mac, but the UI changes look like that's their inspiration. The inspired folks porbably all left already.

  • And then Princess was the dragon

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  • What?

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • I like that Linux isn't designed for the lowest common denominator. Windows frustrated me as much with the stuff that was designed for the stupid as the stuff that was designed to make them money, just the second one ended up dominating in the end. But I remember the earlier frustrations often having the thought "I bet they just changed this to reduce support calls from people who don't know wtf they are doing".

  • And then Princess was the dragon

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  • It's called a comic, the images are in sequence and tell a brief story, though you do need to know how to read to understand what's going on, so find an adult to read it to you and explain what's going on in the last panel.

  • The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • I had an upgrade plan for my PC that involved a step up to a 4k monitor, but when the time came, it was hard enough just finding a 4k monitor with decent specs that I stopped to really think about whether I would really benefit from it. I already knew I didn't need it, but I realized that I wouldn't even really gain anything from it. I already used the UI scaling with the one 4k monitor I had at work, so that was a wash. And for games, I didn't really have any times when I wished the resolution was higher than the 1440p I was already using, but I did have times when I wished it would generate the frames faster or more consistently.

    Part of the change was a new GPU to handle 4k better (they were supposed to justify each other), but I ended up just getting an ultrawide 1440p monitor instead.

    I don't think I'll ever bother with higher than 4k for TV or 1440p for PC.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • That's the closest I've been able to think about for why people turn to puritanical values in the first place: jealousy that others can do fun things they think they can't, plus maybe a second layer of being upset that some aren't also upset about it.

    Oh wait, I almost forgot about the control angle, where if you can convince enough people that some normal and ok aspect about humanity is actually wrong, then you can catch people "slipping" and manipulate them via guilt or blackmail.

  • How is this real?

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  • Should have started with those arguments because they are the good ones. Or how it's being shoehorned into many areas where it's not wanted and likely is there to help improve and disguise data collection. Or how some AI owners are trying to use some of that money to create a computing monopoly to remove alternative options to those unwanted AI-laden products and let them do our computing for us.

    Making jobs obsolete is just what tech does over time. Our economic system is more the issue here and makes these things into a problem in the first place. It did if before AI was a thing, what with all the extra productivity without associated wage gains.

  • How is this real?

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  • You reduced the argument to whether or not someone was getting paid for the art. And I'm just staying consistent: I've never given a fuck about copyright before this and am not going to start because AI has changed the landscape. Especially not for little clip art like this that I wouldn't put much value to in the first place.

    And the whole "whataboutism" thing is a deflection used in the final stages of denial about how horrible american imperialsm has been for certain parts of the world, though it worked because it was deflecting what was already a deflection "if the US gets away with all this, then China should be able to get away with some things, too!" When I always thought neither should get away with it, rather than the "only pay attention to the one thing, let's not talk about that other thing" angle "whataboutism" invokes.

    Technology has always been about making it easier to do things so that a more skilled person doesn't need to be hired to get a better result.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • Puritanical bs has nothing to do with morals, as much as some like to pretend it does. What harm are you trying to call out or prevent?

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • They make me think of kids who hide food they don't want to eat in stupid places and get all surprised when they realize it makes wherever they were hiding it into a biohazard.

    Or anyone who thinks they are getting a free benefit from using something a certain way and completely ignoring that each use ruins it a bit more.

  • How is this real?

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  • What about all of the other free art out there? People making their own profile pics or just sharing ones for others to use, is that irresponsible art because it does dick all to strengthen the economy?