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ThankYouVeryMuch , 1 month ago to technology in Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail

I don't know mate, I wouldn't replace my electric tools–drills, grinders, saw... with gas ones. But these outdoors tools are a different kind of beast. I've only used an electric chainsaw and it was an absolute crap, maybe there are better ones but it was crappier than the smallest and shittiest gas chainsaws I've used, and a cord around you in that setting isn't great either.

ThankYouVeryMuch , 4 months ago to news in U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C. has died

I would very much prefer something clicks in their heads so they can see how horrible their acts are, then find an honest way of living and maybe even try and amend some of the harm they've done to humanity and the world.

Oh! And you can also add cops, that would be the population of Illinois, for a total of ~42.5 mill or the equivalent of the population of California and Utah combined.

ThankYouVeryMuch , 4 months ago to news in U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C. has died

Now if the other 30 mil military personnel all over the world follow this man's example civilians in Palestine and everywhere could, at last, live in peace

ThankYouVeryMuch , 5 months ago to news in George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says

Why is this or should be a crime? You wouldn't call an Elvis impersonator a criminal, why is it different when it comes from a piece of technology?
I get why his daughter finds it creepy, but I just listened to it and I liked it, they don't seem to be trying to fool anyone and make very clear it's an ai impersonation. I see it more like a kind of homage or something, it's not like they're putting his face on an ad. I don't think you should need permission from the dead person's family for this kind of things.

ThankYouVeryMuch , 5 months ago to news in George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says

We need but not for this, I would prefer restricting governments and corporations from using it to spy on people.

ThankYouVeryMuch , 5 months ago to news in George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says

But it's the governments the ones using AI for the most evil things. Impersonating a dead comedian is a pretty benign use in my opinion.

ThankYouVeryMuch , 5 months ago to technology in The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com

I'm using the Kbin pwa on an iPhone and it works much better than I expected it to, I don't know they must have better support now. I think the functionality should be more than enough for many companies and much cheaper than a custom native app

ThankYouVeryMuch , 5 months ago to technology in The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com

I'm right now browsing the fediverse and writing this from the Kbin pwa. It seems to work quite well, with some quirks that I guess could be polished, but overall better experience than most installed apps that should be a website instead

ThankYouVeryMuch , 5 months ago to linux in Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I just wanted to add that you can run gui applications through ssh with x11 forwarding, options -X or -Y (untrusted/trusted but at least in Debian back in the day they behaved the same). So if you wanted a gui file manager you run it in the ssh session on the remote server, sudo if you need but NEVER logged as root, and the window will pop on your local DE instead of having to run an entire desktop on each server

ThankYouVeryMuch , 6 months ago to technology in New Japanese law may force Apple to allow sideloading in iOS

That's very cool, or maybe not it seems it could only allow other stores to install software and not 'whatever you want', but are they going to apply this rule to Nintendo or Sony, whose consoles aren't a very different case to apple iOS devices, as well? No mention in the article

ThankYouVeryMuch , 6 months ago to linux in Why do you use the terminal?

For me the difference between a cli and a gui is like asking someone to do something speaking in a language they can understand and doing it just by pointing at things and doing gestures. It's enough for ordering at a restaurant, but for more complex tasks it gets ridiculous, even at a restaurant you'll get better results if you can ask for some information and understand what the server says

ThankYouVeryMuch , 6 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Current state of Reddit

Lol I left with the APIcalypse, and I was an official app user, no regrets and never looked back. Why would anyone go to that shithole when you have the fediverse?

ThankYouVeryMuch , 6 months ago to news in No more drunk driving? US to force carmakers to adopt life-saving tech by 2024

The technology will never be ready

I think you are right, I hope they don't push it in a half assed state.
Achieving the accuracy is not the major problem here, but keeping it accurate. You have to make it robust enough so it doesn't fail at random (sensors in general are a bitch in this regard) and it has to hold a perfect calibration for long enough (a assume chemical detection sensor, which again, are a super-bitch regarding calibrations), while also making it at least a bit hard to bypass. The other problem is the privacy nightmare this can be, analyzing fluids or cameras pointing to your face... are they gonna sell this data to insurance companies (just as an example, it could be other companies, your employer..)? Of course they are!
The only thing I would expect from this is a lot of people pissed or worst because of malfunctions while all the drunktards stay on the road by simply filling a ballon before they start drinking.

Mother Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

Aaaand of course this is been pushed by some Puritan-Americans lol

ThankYouVeryMuch , 6 months ago to showerthoughts in The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

That's_ not the cause though, most if not all languages have been influenced by many others. And pronunciation, meaning of words etc drift over time in all of them as well.
Most countries have gone through the process of revising their orthography, changing spelling or even adopting different alphabets to have kind of consistent writing systems for their languages.
None of this has been done in the English language, it uses the most basic Latin alphabet which was made for a very different language (when even many Romance languages directly descending from Latin have adapted it with new letters or diacritics), for example English has a lot of vowel sounds that Latin hadn't and it even went through something called 'the great vowel shift' when changes in some vowel sounds got them closer to others that were 'pushed', these pushed others causing a sort of shuffling in the (finite) vowel space, but spelling didn't reflect most of this.
In fact I think that in some cases the spelling took the more ancient version that matched the pronunciation even less like 'plumb' (don't quote me on this, its from the top of my head)

ThankYouVeryMuch , 6 months ago to technology in Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables

Nope, if we are talking about the actual speed of the signal optical fiber is relatively slow at ~1/3 c, compared to air or copper where it's almost c. They're using 'speed' meaning bandwidth. A van full of sd cards would have a massive bandwidth, but a very slow actual speed