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A classic nerd from Norway.

  • Trump Lawyer Argues He Could Legally Order Assassination Of Political Rival

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  • Coward? What is it for him to fear?

  • Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works

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  • They can. But theres a reasonable level of trust that a security feed has been kept secure and not tampered with by the owner if he doesnt have a motive. But what if not even the owner know that somewhere in their tech chain, maybe the camera, maybe the screen, maybe the storage device, maybe all 3, the image was "improved". No evidence of tampering. We'll have the police blaming Count Rugen for a bank robbery he didnt do, but the camera clearly shows a six fingered man!

  • Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works

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  • How long until we got upscalers of various sorts built into tech that shouldn't have it? For bandwidth reduction, for storage compression, or cost savings. Can we trust what we capture with a digital camera, when companies replace a low quality image of the moon with a professionally taken picture, at capture time? Can sport replays be trusted when the ball is upscaled inside the judges' screens? Cheap security cams with "enhanced night vision" might get somebody jailed.

    I love the AI tech. But its future worries me.

  • temperature timeline

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  • Earth has been iceless before of course, and I've heard people claim its not a problem for it to happen again.

    But if only this heating had occured slowly over a period of ~45 million years, nobody would have panicked. We'd adapt. Fauna and flora would adapt. We'd not even notice the ice caps melting.

  • How often do you misrepresent yourself online?

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  • I don't do well with lying. Because of childhood trauma. I am an open book. Even online. A boring open book though.

    But I am sometimes a bit confused. Might say stuff I later realize I should have done a second thinking about. But I don't call it misrepresentation when I believed it myself, even if I later realize my mistake.

  • Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits?

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  • Jup, useless folder. There's one related thing I've complained a lot about lately, so I'm gonna complain some more about it:

    Microsoft got this "great" idea of trying to repeatedly trick me into uploading that Documents folder to the cloud. A folder filled with GBytes of Battlefield and Assassins Creed cache files, Starfield mods, MS database files, etc... A lot of files that are in constant change, or locked the entire session. Annoying as hell. I love Onedrive, but I dont know why its so damn important for them to have those files.

    Sometimes I really wish I could switch to some Linux distro instead.

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  • I believe MOST people have such a strong need to follow something that they will ignore or invent justification for the morality of it. And I dont think one can learn that, rather one has to learn NOT to follow. But I'm no psychiatrist.

  • Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits?

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  • Damn I've always wanted Windows to have that. Being able to put user folders on another partition, or even another drive, at install time. And being able to use "dynamic disk" (aka software raid) to expand partitions across disks as storage requirements grow. I know it is possible to setup, but with a lot of workarounds and annoying problems.

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  • I dont think theres so few. A lot of people have a need to be led. And if it isnt religion and gods it is something else. Like "leaders". Like the golden(-ish) cow the US' republicans are worshiping.

  • Fat, sugar, trash: All the weird things that may fuel planes by 2050 [Even with really optimistic availability of "sustainable" aviation fuel, the industry can't both end emissions and grow]

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  • From the TTRPG and computer game Cyberpunk 2077. Biofuel made from high-sugar wheat.

  • The yellow Gameboy

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  • The color stage is the best one. Thats when the consumer-part of a product is "done" and they dont really know what to add except advertise more. The muted colors are when they have turned corporate and are trying to get into B2B deals, and consumers dont really matter as much any more. Then return to a mono-color when they try to trim anything unecessary to earn more money without getting more customers. And two-color choice when they need to convince investors that they "are still fresh and not out of ideas".

    besides, the third party skin and case industry is thriving

    By thriving you mean the 3rdparties are only selling customization thingies for the most popular-selling products. Usually products that has gone so far into shittification that they are halfway filled with advertisement and B2B deals. Yay, I can put a red shell on my handheld advertising platform..

  • Fat, sugar, trash: All the weird things that may fuel planes by 2050 [Even with really optimistic availability of "sustainable" aviation fuel, the industry can't both end emissions and grow]

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  • Chooh2 becoming a reality?

  • The yellow Gameboy

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  • The custom color product trend goes in waves. From one default, to multiple bright colors, to a few selected and much more muted colors, back to a single white color, then they exitedly advertise black and white as two "choices". Or variations of that.

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  • Its still a perfectly good word even if not everyone is a 100% on the same page with what it means. There isnt any better word that could be used. If we stopped making up words just because a few uncultured wordsmiths might mistake part of its meaning, we wouldnt have new words at all. Enshittification has the important part down; things are getting done shittier with intention.

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  • No, im saying that if you want to say what exactly is shittified, you say whats shittified. Theres no way to make a single word contain a full definition without relying on some common knowledge. In this case saying enshittification, then both you and I have both read that blogpost and knows what the full meaning is. While someone who hasn't can at least know its about stuff getting shittier, and guess the rest from context. You can't really find a better single word than that.

    Also I've rarely heard "shit" used for its actual meaning. It is common knowledge that shitty doesn't literally mean "covered in poo". Its pretty clear what it means. And it has never been a shocking word in the 40 years I've lived. Probably back in the 50s or something they could use it for shock value.

  • Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says

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  • Oh you're wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

    😁 I'm so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

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  • Reminds me about that post about wishing humans had a dedicated sound for warning each other about bees.

    Theres no single word that can clearly communicate the entire reason, context, and meaning. If we want to tell the reason for the shittyness, then we say that in a full sentence.

    Though most people would understand from context if I just said "Bees!" instead of spending an entire sentence telling them where the bees are and why they should run.

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  • “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.”

    Platforms that over time is made shittier to serve the business before the user. What definition are you using?

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  • Human nature. Voting with ones wallet will never work as long as advertising, as we know it, exists. We can't really blame the average person to do what an average person does.