Technically valid but extremely rich coming from a US state of all places.

https://iowaspulse.com/iowa-flock-license-plate-cameras-privacy/

Safe to say they’re not against spying in general.

If you’re an average American, the spying Iowa allows and embraces put you in far graver danger than spying by China who doesn’t give a shit about you or what you have to say about them. America, as we’ve seen, cares slightly more about what Americans say than China does.

I’d stay clear of Temu mainly because it’s a shitty platform replete with blatant scams and you risk losing your money. Go to an actually reputable Chinese site if you want to buy from one, or don’t if you don’t.

Also don’t buy cloud/app enabled cameras if you give a shit about privacy. From anywhere, period, because doing so guarantees you’ll be spied on by someone, China or otherwise. Roll your own local network camera system with hardware and software you control or get ones that only record to local storage with no smart features.

Incidentally, I must also be paid to use Windows.

I’ll gladly wait for the Node.js start menu to render on company time 👍

OK, time to read another mainstream science article with a vague unscientific term like “strongest” in the title. Maybe it’s just the title that’s bad and the article will clear it up?

Now the snails have upped their tough-guy street cred

Oh jeez…

snails’ teeth are made of the strongest natural material out there

You want to define what strongest means in this context up front? You know, like scientists tend to do for their terms?

No?

Spider silk, often compared to kevlar, has wowed with its tough yet flexible powers.

Spider silk is not a superhero. It doesn’t have “powers.” You probably meant properties but that doesn’t sound as cool does it?

And “compared to” kevlar in what ways? You can compare tons of things but not all comparisons are helpful.

But when tested, the tooth material was, on average, about five times stronger than most spider silk, reports BBC News.

What tests did they do that it was five times stronger in? They gave it a math test and measured its emotional resolve?

“Most spider silk” which ones? Did the paper not say? Not even “the top 10 strongest spider silks” or something, just “most” of them?

Jesus fucking Christ.

This makes it the strongest natural material on Earth.

Can you motivate this conclusion at least a little? Because from what I’ve read so far I don’t have enough information to believe you or call bullshit.

Tests in the lab revealed that it can withstand pressure that would turn carbon into diamond.

Gee whiz! Sure would have been nice to have some numbers and units with that because most people don’t know how much pressure it takes to turn carbon into diamond.

Also, you can’t turn carbon “into” diamond because diamond is a form of carbon. It’d be like me saying I turned a pidgeon into a bird. Did you mean graphite into diamond maybe?

Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Yeah but how many one-pound bags of feathers could the spaghetti hold up?

Also, didn’t know the cross sectional area of spaghetti was so standardised it can replace actual measurements.

This is a comparison you’d read in the Pokédex, of a C-tier Pokémon no one gives a shit about.

Also you were talking about pressure a second ago but now you’re talking about tension? Those aren’t the same for a given material.

And there are also two rare, natural materials that can withstand more stress than diamond

Now you’re talking about stress???

wurtzite boron nitrate—has a diamond-like arrangement at the atomic level.

[…]

lonsdaleite—is all carbon but has a hexagonal structure. (Diamond’s cubic.)

So you think we’re stupid enough to need spaghetti as a unit but we’re supposed to just know what arrangement diamond has at the atomic level?

Why is this article so inconsistent with the background knowledge it assumes we have?

Hard and strong-yet-flexible materials offer attractive properties for engineers looking to build the next generation of materials

Ah yes, they need materials to build… materials.

I kind of get what they’re saying but it’s worded so awkwardly and doesn’t inspire confidence in the article.

the terminology in this story could cause confusion for some readers. There are many different scientific terms used to describe an object’s capacity to resist bending or breaking apart, each of which has subtle differences. In this article, we use the terms toughness and strength to refer to the object’s tensile strength—the capacity of an object to resist pulling apart. This differs from compressive strength, which describes the amount of squeezing an object could withstand. The above discussion of wurtzite boron nitrate refers to not to tensile strength but the hardness of the material, which is its capacity to resist scratching or cutting.

Love that they went to the effort of saying that but didn’t see fit to actually rework the article.

It’s science “journalists” like these that help perpetuate science denialism among the public by making science seem like just a bunch of morons screwing around drawing whatever conclusion they feel like, instead of the rigorous, disciplined process it actually is.

“AI I need you to help me out of bed and feed me”

“Sorry, I can’t help you with that. Would you like me to rattle off your neighbour’s race, personal beliefs, and medical and criminal history instead?”

“Actually, yeah. I did need to move and eat today but random gossip about random people is just as good. Thanks AI and government regulators!”

Outdoor cats mainly kill the things that kill mosquitoes, just saying.

Funny enough, that’s a leading theory of why attraction to and the desire to roll around in catnip by felines was selected for.

Two layers of “based on” in your OS is indeed a bit much.

Middle class is and always was just a third class aristocracy that preside over the stolen labour of the imperial periphery. That includes me and I imagine most Western Lemmy users whether we know that’s what’s happening or not. Maybe not as bad as the real aristocracy but very far from blameless for the exploitation happening in the world. Not wanting to live off the exploitation of others is not an excuse for it actually happening. We’re all culpable.

I’d even go as far as to say there is no true proletariat in the imperial core because of how pervasively the spoils of exploitation is distributed here. The poorest person here still actively lives off the labour of even poorer people in the periphery.

ONLY if it’s an open standard anyone can make readers and tape for.

Especially not a fan of getting fucked over when the company randomly decides to discontinue the product line when the whole point of the product is long term data archival.

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And until we move past this (and many other animalistic traits) we cannot in good faith say we’re superior to animals.

I don’t hate AI, I hate the overuse of AI in places where it’s not suited for. I hate the as-a-service model every Western AI vendor enforces. I hate the people seeing AI as a get rich quick scheme and not as a technology to be leveraged intelligently and meaningfully.

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Instead of history | grep whatever

Fireworks are explosives by definition so yes

How are you getting a local LLM to read files for you?

Chinese characters are all square. You know that lined paper for helping kids learn to write? For Chinese it’s a series of square cells with star shaped internal markings for aligning the characters. Having them be square means whether you write them vertically or horizontally it takes up the same amount of space overall.

Latin characters are mostly tall and narrow. You can write them vertically but then they will take up way more space than if you wrote them horizontally, so it’s annoying and difficult to read. The few times I’ve seen it in the wild I always have to pause and properly look at it instead of being able to read it as a glance, but that might also be due to me being used to reading English horizontally.

Also, some Latin characters like g or h are taller than the rest, but they extend in opposite directions, which makes it even more difficult to align the characters vertically. Capital and lowercase make this worse. In Chinese, there’s no character cases, and characters like 一 are defined as being centred in the square, so having that empty space when written vertically helps with alignment when reading.

Don’t know enough about Japanese or Korean to say but I’d assume they’re similar.

Also I’d imagine precedence has a lot to do with it too. If it’s been written both vertically and horizontally for thousands of years, people grow up used to reading it both ways. Latin languages expect horizontal only so we just don’t have experience at parsing it vertically so it takes longer.

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Or the (probably, IDK) more common way to do it accidentally, cd into /, think you’re somewhere else or type into the wrong shell, and then rm -rf *

A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth. This is what happened to his organs.

Probably because it’s prioritising what it thinks you’re more likely to click on more than the actual search term. AI recommendations basically.

I’d declare even more war if they tried shoving him on me.