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  • Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds

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  • Sorry if my replies are annoying, I merely find this subject interesting. Feel free to ignore this.

    It is not obvious to me why a being couldn't have an "understanding" without a "thought". I do not believe it's possible to verify if a creature has a subjective experience but an "understanding" of the environment could be attributed to how a being performs in an environment (a crow gets foods that was just out of reach inside a tube of water by adding rocks to raise the water level). I have some experience on game-dev programming and limited understanding on consciousness as a personal interest, if that's helpful.

  • Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds

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  • I think we may disagree on term definitions.

    I perceive "active thought" when trying to decipher parts of a sentence I do not already have an understanding of. If I already understand a part then no active thought is perceived by me - like driving a car when nothing eventful is happening. [Note: I don't believe I have 100% accurate perception of my own subjective experience. Trying to focus on subjective experience at all instead of constantly being "lost in thought" is very short lived]

  • Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds

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  • Try to read this next part without understanding it. If you know English you will find it impossible to NOT find meaning in these letters displayed in a row. That's more like a subconscious processing. If you're learning to read English then there's likely an active "thought" appearing in your experience. See a difference?

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • If I hacked a server to get content then I would be circumventing payment at it shouldn't be up to me how it responds to requests, I don't own it. Google trying to enforce playing adverts via software running on my property is an unjust overreach. The user choosing what displays on their own monitor is not "circumvention", it's claiming ownership over your computing. Google could choose to verify on their servers if I've paid (in normal currency) but instead their servers act like adverts are an optional donation.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • I trust Linus is being sincere when he says "it's not a judgement" but blocking ads is being compared to a criminal doing copyright infringement (illegal). The word used is one originally meaning for a person murdering others on boats (immoral), and it's used because it's pejorative. It's unavoidably judgemental.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • They are similar only if you presume there is an agreement of content in exchange for revenue from adverts. If you view the internet as a place for open collaboration, or oppose (internet) advertisement, then you wouldn't presume that agreement and it looks very different.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • Sometimes people exaggerate and if you point out what they said is inaccurate then they get mad you're not addressing their main point.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • Deleted my ebay account but very rarely will buy on the site. I've yet to find a UK alternative.

  • Mint 22 external speaker static

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  • When I had static on headphones on Mint (20, maybe 21) then killing PulseAudio would prevent it happening again for a variable amount of time (minutes or weeks). I hope someone suggests something better but that might be worth trying that next time it happens: pulseaudio -k. [edit: tried that just now and had to re-select my headphones as an output device]

    I've not had to do that for a long time and I don't know what has changed (fairly sure it had stopped happening before I got new headphones). PluseAudio isn't even installed on my Mint MSI B450 machine, I assume it didn't install during boot. I guess my static issues are are hardware related: something causing inference.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • [Added information: LTT say they were unaware Honey was mistreating users. So they had no reason to make a video at the time they dropped Honey for mistreating them.]

    I don’t think this topic was worth them making a main channel video on

    Their viewers getting scammed by tech they promoted isn't worth a video on their main channel? If they could legally do it I think they should have.

    Some very vocal people on Lemmy just love hating on LTT

    LTT have made mistakes (edit: and made choices/comments I would disprove of) but the dunking here does seem disproportionate.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • non disparagement clause

    Not the level of a non-compete clause but that's a scummy thing I hope is not legal.

  • Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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  • I find it difficult to choose a motherboard because they all look shady. aSUS should be criticized for creating a bad app and installing it without consent but I feel like this could have been any other motherboard manufacture.

  • Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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  • An unsolicited Christmas card through a letterbox would have at least been less worrying.

  • PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons

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  • It's difficult for others to take advantage of you when you can learn what the software actually does and have it modified to work another way.

    Linux (for the most part) is open source but I'd argue the inclusion of any proprietary software/firmware/drivers means something ultimately isn't.

  • Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business

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  • Their profiles don't look like obvious bots :/

  • Sad State Of Anti Cheat On Linux

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  • In a never-ending arms race what can they hope to achieve by imprisoning a minority just in case they're more likely to be a spy?

    Would like to see attempts to approach cheating in a non-hopeless way.

  • Death Of A Forum: How The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities

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  • I can only imagine it's what someone uninformed on tech would want.

    Stop bad thing, help children. What? Consequences?

  • Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance

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  • Two

    dickheads

    are better than one

  • Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews

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  • It will be great to see more PC hardware reviews with Linux in mind.

    Does SteamOS offer something significant over other GNU+Linux distributions? Waiting for it to release as a catalyst to start including Linux seems a bit odd. I hope it won't be like waiting for Half Life 3.