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Zacryon ,

Attack is the best defense?

Zacryon ,

50 miles = 80.47 km (rounded)

Zacryon ,

Double fuck

Quite literally, isn’t it?

Zacryon ,

How do the authors know what a dragon speaks like? Were speaking dragons a common thing back then or…?

Zacryon ,

Tramp stamps are out?
Trump stamps are in?

Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia (www.theverge.com)

“We’re aware of reports that access to Signal has been blocked in some countries,” Signal says. If you are affected by the blocks, the company recommends turning on its censorship circumvention feature. (NetBlocks reports that this feature lets Signal “remain usable” in Russia.)

Zacryon ,

Is it?

Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner (www.democracynow.org)

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become “a network of torture camps,” where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine....

Zacryon ,

Israel just improved on the things the nazis did to them in ww2.

Not quite yet. Nazis did extremely worse. But they are surely on their way getting there. >.<

Zacryon ,

I’ve read the announcement. Sounds reasonable and sufficiently private to me. So saying “Mozilla wants your data” sounds misleading and like an overreaction to me. Also might help to mitigate the arms race in privacy protection versus tracking for ads and worse stuff.

Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future.

How do you know that?

Even if, there will still be alternatives. But right now, Firefox is the best browser with regards to privacy and security. It even passed minmum ratings by the german IT security authority, contrary to other widely used browsers.

Zacryon ,

I’m with you on the opt-out vs. opt-in part. That’s not a nice move. Regardless of that, Firefox is still the best choice. I hope they will continue to improve.

Zacryon ,

You can easily look them up using a search engine of your choice. But I understand the lazyness.

Zacryon ,

Sounds negative to you, but really good to a bunch of other people.

Zacryon ,

They ditched that in 2018. It was long overdue. At least somewhat honest about themselves.

Zacryon ,

From a broad technical perspective “human” “art” is also a process of observing, learning, and recombining to make something new out of it. There is also experimentation which can be incorporated into AI models as well, see for example reinforcement learning, where exploration is an important concept. Therefore, I don’t see how that’s different from “AI” “art”.

However, that should not defend how morally questionable training data is sourced.

Zacryon ,

raise lifestock in a species-appropriate manner

Who decides what “species-appropriate” is?

If we would base that on the nature of animals, we would have to let them roam freely and not actively breed or kill them. Consider for example how short the lifespan of cattle has become. In nature about 20 years iirc and now 5 years tops.

Doing so would collide with an efficient meat industry and in the end raise prices. Nobody would want that who isn’t a vegan, vegetarian or someone who has other reasons not to eat meat or consume animal products in general.

I wonder how far more advanced aliens would decide to raise us in a species-appropriate manner if they would visit us and came to the conclusion that there is no reason to respect our free will.

We are basically doing the same with animals and I find it curious how we as humans come to decide what the best way to captivate, breed and kill animals is.

Eating animals is natural

And if something is natural, does that always create virtue?

It is also natural not to brush one’s teeth, or to have sexual needs or not to wear pants. Does that imply that it’s okay to go around and rape people or flash them?

It’s also only natural to have the urge to kill someone sometimes if one is especially angry. Why are we stopping them?

We as humans are at the capacity to derive ethical values and decide whether something natural is also “good”.

And animals in nature are eaten far more brutally and painfully than even our mass-produced lifestock.

How is this relevant?
Yes they die in nature and get killed by predators who need them to survive, which can help to stabilise ecosystems (see for example how the reintroduction of wolves has helped in some problematic regions).
But:
Do we need them to survive? Are we stabilsing eco systems by breeding and killing animals? Are we living in the wild nature like those predators or do we have gained a lot of control over it and have the privilege to live in an established society?

Zacryon ,

General fact:
People need a specific set and amount of nutrients to survive.
Specifics:
Amount and composition is influenced by individual factors.

Various nutrient sources exist and you can cover all your required nutrients from non-animal sources if you want to.

Zacryon , (edited )

Where is the line going to be drawn?

As far as I know a lot of vegans for example draw the line at a specific set of complexity of the being. Usually the property “has a central nervous system” is sufficient, which is why some vegans even eat oysters. The wording “sentience” is also used often.

The argumentation is also that emotions are tied to higher processing capabilities. A lot of animals fear joy, pain can get sad etc… Plants don’t. Reactions of plants to external stimuli are rather very primitive reflexes than the result of active processing and reflection about stimuli, i.e. thinking, which is something only observed in animals with brains.

Don’t pin me down on that, I’m not a vegan. That’s just something I picked up through discussions with them.

I simply don’t know enough about nutrition to understand whether or not humans can be ‘maximally healthy’ on a vegetarian or vegan or pescatarian or w/e diet

Idk what a “w/e diet” is, nor can I speak about pescetarians. But from what I’ve read it is perfectly possible to live a long and healthy life on a purely plant-based diet (respectively non-animal-based, bc mushrooms are not plants).

I can point you towards scientific literature on that topic if you would like to have some assistance.

It makes sense if you think about it that way:
What do we get from eating meat for example? What is it, that makes it somehow valuable for our bodies? What stuff is inside food in general which makes us need to eat?

It’s a bunch of specific chemicals, which we have come to name “nutrients”. You don’t need the flesh of the animal per se, you need the iron, the fats, the proteins, vitamins, minerals et cetera. We humans need a specific set of those nutrients in a specific amount in order to maintain a healthy and functioning body (also influenced by individual factors like whether someone has iron resorbtion issues or if someone is a child or old or pregnant or an athlete or whatever). Other animals require different amounts and possibly also different sets of nutrients.

The question for us is now whether we can get those nutrients from purely non-animal sources. And the answer is: yes, we can. That doesn’t mean eating only vegs will be healthy in the long run, as you probably need to supplement vitamin B12 and possibly more. But those supplements can be made from purely non-animal sources.

It does make me wonder if having some cows that wander around eating grass and killing one or two of the herd periodically is really worse from a moral standpoint than covering entire ecosystems in solar panels to run the scaled up meat labs.

If you are concerned about ecosystems, you know that the animal industry is one of the major contributors to climate change, right? And the fact that we use a huge chunk of agricultural land to grow animal food? In the EU alone about 71 % of agriculture is dedicated to feed animals. Source for the latter.

Furthermore, solar panels are not the only means of energy production. (And those are and should be regulated according to approrpiate environmental laws such that sensitive ecosystems are sufficiently protected.) There are also plenty of other renewables and concepts to meet demands such as rooftops covered in solar panels, wind turbines etc…

From an ecological perspective it would be best if we completely stopped producing animal based products.

Zacryon ,

You won’t have to worry about anything at all again.

Zacryon ,

Bluetooth

Zacryon ,

not in a cult

Sure? You are on Lemmy after all.

/joking. Or am I? 🤔 VSauce music plays

Zacryon ,

Mnemonics are useful for remembering stuff. (Shocking revelation, I know.) I barely know anything about history for example. But I remember “333 - Issos Keilerei”, rhymes on German and means “333 - Issos Brawl”. I didn’t even remember what this was about until I looked it up just now on Wikipedia.

The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Issus

But hey, I remembered this. My history teacher back in school did something right.

And now I know some critter stuff. Thanks!

Zacryon ,

It taught the value of mnemonics. :D

No, I don’t think it was or is particularly useful, besides things like “brain fitness”. It might have helped me back then to get a better grade, though. (Yes, we see now again how useless it is in many cases to memorize stuff for school/uni/whatever.)

Zacryon ,

He is just wet and hollow.

Zacryon ,

Which exceptions?

Zacryon ,

We consume too much salt, which has detrimental effects. Try it a few weeks with less (not necessarily none, you need at least some) salt. You may observe that you start experiencing more interesting tastes and won’t need salt as much.

Zacryon ,

Where I live, Margarine has to have a fat content of at least 80 % otherwise it is not allowed to be called Margarine. Guess what happens? Even there companies try to cut costs and oversell less fatty water as kind of Margarine.

Zacryon ,

Be part of the change! Contribute YOUR memes! Uncle Lemmy wants YOU to join!

Zacryon ,

Salt is contained in a lot of products. Got salted butter? Smear it on bread. Guess which ingredient is used in bread. Correct: salt. Maybe you put some cold cuts on it. They’ve got a lot of salt. What about cheese? Salt again. Now you move on to your coffee. You put dairy milk in it: salt. Lunch? Probably a lot of salt. Dinner? Needless to say. If you snack some chips, well, obviously it’s a shitload of salt.

Salt is everywhere. Especially in today’s food industry. Having salt is not necessarily bad for one’s health – in fact, we do need salt for our body to function – but as usual it’s the amount that matters.

And according to several dietary authorities worldwide, most people eat too much salt.

WHO:

The global mean intake of adults is 4310 mg/day sodium (equivalent to 10.78 g/day salt) (1). This is more than double the World Health Organization recommendation for adults of less than 2000 mg/day sodium (equivalent to < 5 g/day salt).
www.who.int/news-room/…/salt-reduction

FDA (USA):

Americans consume on average 3,400 milligrams (mg) of sodium per day—nearly 50%more than the 2,300 mg limit recommended by federal guidelines for people 14 years and older. Recommended limits for children 13 and younger are even lower.
www.fda.gov/food/…/sodium-reduction

Overview in EU:

International health-related organisations have issued recommendations to limit salt intake to no more than 5 or 6 g per day (see Table 3A). In the EU, most national recommendations that quantify salt intake recommend the same. […]
In the majority of European countries, the range of intake is 7 to 12 grams of salt per day
…ec.europa.eu/…/dietary-saltsodium_en

Salt is one of those substances which have large effects even in low doses. Therefore, being above the recommended intake on average increases risks of suffering mainly from:

cardiovascular diseases, stomach cancer and chronic kidney disease
…ec.europa.eu/…/dietary-saltsodium_en

So, if you’re interested in your health, try to get an overview on how much salt you consume on average. And if it’s above the recommended intake (which is usually the case), consider whether you really really can not live without salted butter or try to cut down on salt with other meals. And probably, taking the shaker off the table won’t be enough.

Zacryon ,

“Great wall of fuck”, that’s creative haha, I like it. xD
I’m sorry if this offended you. It really wasn’t my intention to let you feel that way. I just wanted to spread some awareness about this as it’s one of our civilisation’s great dietary problems. What you do with that piece of information is of course up to you.

and the fact that you assume some stranger on the internet has a diet so bad

I feel like you’ve not read the part where I said the following:

So, if you’re interested in your health, try to get an overview on how much salt you consume on average.

Which should show that I didn’t assume that you specifically have a bad diet. But maybe I haven’t expressed myself carefully enough.

but please, find something else to do

Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you in that as writing great walls of fuck on Lemmy, is sometimes a preferred time killer of mine. Also, my experience shows that there are also other readers on Lemmy who can be interested in such great walls of fuck.

Zacryon ,

True true. Although you don’t suck on rusty nails.

Zacryon ,

Electromigration is not the same as metal whiskering.

Zacryon ,

If you understand “car” as “hardware degradation” there is something to it, despite calling it “electromigration”.

You said it (= whiskers) can be simulated and that it’s called electromigration. From what I understood, this statement is wrong, since they are both different in both cause and effect. Metal whiskering can be simulated to a certain extent, yes. But that’s vastly different to what electromigration is and how it works.

Zacryon ,

You got a degree in semi conductor physics? Lol

Man, that “lol” really annoys me and comes accross condescending. If you’ve got no arguments, there is no need for an academic dick measuring contest. You can just leave it. To answer your question:
In parts, yes. Not my specialisation though, but enough to be able to distinguish electromigration from whiskering.

being pedantic. Engineers will call all these things whiskers.

Being pedantic is part of the job of an engineer. I’m an engineer working in research. I don’t call electromigration “metal whiskering” or vice versa.
Besides, as I’ve mentioned, it wouldn’t even be pedantic to distinguish them that way as the differences are not miniscule. They are formed differently and look differently.

I’m not saying the photo in the thumbnail is an example of electromigration.

Yes, to the post which is titled “TIL computers can sometimes grow crystals” you said:

This can happen inside ICs […] It’s called electromigration.

Which is still wrong. We can observe electromigration in ICs, or in metallic conductors in general, but this is a different phenomenon than whiskering, which can look like those crystals while conductors affected by electromigration form voids and protrusions out of material build-ups which usually can’t even be seen by the bare eye.
But maybe that was a misleading expression and you didn’t mean to equate those two.

Zacryon ,

Depending on the machine, I guess it’s likely that those aren’t using Windoofs at all. I would be surprised if there were devices in use during surgery who run on that.

Zacryon , (edited )

One thing I learned as an information technology engineer: language is a tool for communication. As long as the sender can send its message unobstructed and as long as the receiver receives and understands the message as intended, the information transmission can be considered a successs.

Zacryon ,

As I’m finishing 3 Japanese guys come in talking and laughing.

How it should be read:

As I’m finishing –– 3 Japanese guys come in talking and laughing.

What I first read:

As I’m finishing 3 Japanese guys come –– in talking and laughing.

What I then read:

As I’m finishing 3 Japanese guys –– come in talking and laughing.

Then:

As I’m finishing 3 Japanese –– guys come in talking and laughing.

Took me a while. I’m obviously tired and should sleep. Good night, internet people!

Zacryon ,

“Do you even have a dog?”
“Totally!”
https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZTYwZjA1cnh0Y3V1anhkd3J1b240MmptN3ZvcGJhbDZtaGcyOWh1aCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/QGAJLpjvhS79zPCg0z/giphy.gif

“If he can have it, why can’t I have it? 💔”

Zacryon ,

Cool. Always wanted to upgrade my Minecraft gaming rig. /j

Zacryon ,

That sounds nasty.

Zacryon ,

Totally fine by me. I was just making a bad pun. (I’m not the one who corrected you.)

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