To be fair, is as “new” as what the major record labels put out!

Hey now! This design met all the PM’s requirements 😤

The most European meme.

If you’re putting in a dishwasher just drill the holes. Your landlord will thank you for saving them the trouble of having to do that themselves some day.

I don’t think any normal landlord would give two shits about some dishwasher-hose-sized holes drilled under a sink, between internal cabinet walls, that no one will ever see. Such holes are so far back and out of the way… No one would ever notice unless they’re missing.

Wait: Do the times listed on the screen of your washer/dryer actually reflect reality‽

My dryer will say it’s got 20 minutes remaining for like an hour and a half. And yes, I clean the lint screen and vent regularly (all the way up to the roof!).

This is a great idea! Lock picking is fun and super impressive to laymen (haha).

Just don’t tell anyone but your closest, most trusted friends (haha). Also, tell them to keep it a secret! Why? So your neighbor doesn’t knock on your door at 2AM because they locked themselves out of their apartment.

Also, you don’t need cutaway locks! They’re neat toys but nothing more. What you really need is a variety of locks to play with.

Head to your local hardware store and pick up a bunch of cheap locks. Or just ask friends if they have any old padlocks they’re not using (most people will have one or two).

It’s probably not that the light is losing energy it’s just that the distance it travels over time (the time we “know” is supposed to take for a given distance) appears compressed because of unknown/unseen gravitational forces.

Think of it like this: If there were only one star in the universe and it emits a particle of light we could calculate the distance it would travel over time. Yet we know that star will still have a gravitational effect on that light… No matter how far away it gets.

That’s what they mean by light “losing energy”. Is the energy actually “lost”? Not really. Is this slowing (aka appearance of lost energy) caused by dark energy/dark matter or something more fundamental like spacetime itself being stretched or compressed due to the gravity of astronomical objects we can see or “dark matter”/“dark energy” or… ? We don’t really know for certain yet!

Docker containers aren’t running in a virtual machine. They’re running what amounts to a fancy chroot jail… It’s just an isolated environment that takes advantage of several kernel security features to make software running inside the environment think everything is normal despite being locked down.

This is a very important distinction because it means that docker containers are very light weight compared to a VM. They use but a fraction of the resources a VM would and can be brought up and down in milliseconds since there’s no hardware to emulate.

An electric version of any instrument can be as small as you want it to be. It’s just a matter of training and ergonomics at that point.

For example, if you’ve got 10,000 hours playing the cello it wouldn’t be very easy to translate that into having equivalent skill playing a tiny electric version. But it could be done. Nooo problem!

The technology is there, it’s just that there’s no demand 🤷

Linux never ran on the Commodore 64 (1984). That was way before Linux was released by Linus Torvalds (1991).

I’d also like to point out that we do all rely on non-proprietary protocols. Examples you used today: TCP and HTTP.

If we didn’t have free and open source protocols we’d all still be using Prodigy and AOL. “Smart” devices couldn’t talk to each other, and the world of software would be 100-10,000x more expensive and we’d probably have about 1/1,000,000th of what we have available today.

Every little thing we rely on every day from computers to the Internet to cars to planes only works because they’re not relying on exclusive, proprietary protocols. Weird shit like HDMI is the exception, not the rule.

History demonstrates that proprietary protocols and connectors like HDMI only stick around as long as they’re convenient, easy, and cheap. As soon as they lose one of those properties a competitor will spring up and eventually it will replace the proprietary nonsense. It’s only a matter of time. This news about HDMI being rejected is just another shove, moving the world away from that protocol.

There actually is a way for proprietary bullshit to persist even when it’s the worst: When it’s mandated by government.

This wasn’t a failure of AI. It was just a low-effort charade. If you want to put in the least amount of effort possible in such things, AI is there for you.

If they had put in any effort whatsoever they would’ve taken the first “draft” BS generated by the AI, made some minimal changes, then fed it back into the AI for further improvement.

Chat AIs are just that: Chat. You’re supposed to go back and forth in conversation with the AI in order to get a good result. It appears the organizers of this event put together some terrible prompts and didn’t even bother to spend an extra ten minutes refining things.

AI is a tool like any other. This pathetic event is a textbook case of how AI can’t replace humans entirely (not yet, anyway). You still gotta put in some effort.

We are currently living in an age of literacy. More people (as a percentage of the population) are literate than at any point in human history. Even if people get dumber over time I don’t think overall literacy will change much.

In Idiocracy it seemed like most people could still read but only extremely simplified language. What I expect will happen instead–if we do indeed get dumber–is people will just become more easily manipulated. Basically, there will be a lot more suckers as a percentage of the population.

This means that as long as a political party or ideology is willing to adapt to current trends (e.g. accepting gay marriage or at least pretending to) it would become easier and easier to sucker people into voting for their candidates regardless of their actual plans or historical (voting) records. Basically, populism will take over but the specific kind where the candidates just say whatever TF gets people to vote for them and then they go do the exact opposite because the (dumb) voting base that elects them doesn’t really pay any attention to their actions, only what the candidate says.

When a voting base becomes made up of extremely dumb suckers we’re likely to see “populist” candidates that don’t actually give a damn about what they say as long as they get elected and if they do get elected they’ll go on a “government shopping spree” enriching themselves and their allies and doing things like appointing their family members to positions of power. The suckers will praise them for actions like this not because they like the results of these policies but because it’s easy for them to understand that it hurts the people they’ve been suckered into hating the most.

Nooo! The whole point of having a cybernetic arm/hand is that you can just stick your hand in a great big beaker full of liquid nitrogen-cooled eyeballs and not have to worry about getting frostbite!

You can also just grab the hot pan from the oven and not have to worry about getting burned.

You want temperature sensing? Put a thermistor in one of the fingers and a little OLED display on the arm (or even better: in a HUD that can only been seen in the user’s eye). A nice, high temp one 👍

In the 90s someone proved–mathematically–that invisible watermarks (e.g. hidden in metadata or in the pixel data itself) in photos would always be removable. I searched for it but I couldn’t find it but it should be obvious: Merely changing the format of an image is normally enough to destroy such invisible watermarks.

Basically, the paper I remember proved that in order for a watermark to survive a change in format/encoding it would need to be visible because the very nature of digital photo formats requires that they discard unnecessary information.

Also, I’d like to point out that it’s already illegal to remove watermarks (without permission) while simultaneously being trivial (usually) for AI tools like img2img to remove watermarks.

It’s my humorous manipulation of famous quote by George Wallace regarding segregation in the US. Here’s the original:

“In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” -George Wallace, infamous racists prick

You can read all about his descent into racist madness here:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wallace-quotes/#:~:text=In the name of the,segregation tomorrow%2C segregation forever."

(It is quite interesting how he changed over time… Almost like regularly spending time with racists–who you view as close friends–can lead to absorbing racist views)

It’s fine to be proud of being arrested for doing something you believe in. Like getting arrested for sitting at a Woolworths counter to protest segregation.

It’s an entirely different thing to be proud that you got arrested for failing to show up in court or for drunk driving.

Lets not make this out to be like it’s Kerberos (more complicated than rocket science)… Making available another, region-specific version of your app isn’t difficult. It’s just the developer equivalent of an extra one-time TPS report (you have to setup/modify some build scripts and make some additional tests).

It’s the equivalent of having builds for .rpm and .deb and then adding a .AppImage build. It shouldn’t be that big a deal for the Mozilla Firefox team.

In fact, I bet they’re freaking excited at the prospect of being able to make a real build of Firefox for iOS.

You can’t have one rule for one group of people and different rules for everyone else.

“In the name of the greatest smartphone that have ever graced this earth, we draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and say separate rules now, separate rules tomorrow, separate rules forever.” -Apple, probably

The AI clone wars have begun.

It’s not the cable that goes bad it’s the connectors on the ends: They wear out.