tokai's comments

On: Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

[tokai]

Realistically Stallman would start lecturing them on how his licenses are not open source.

[kibibu → tokai]

Richard Stallman would most certainly not use the term open source to lecture somebody about free software.

On: As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating

[tokai]

That you spew bullshit about something you clearly don't know anything about. You can look up the basis funding is given on. HFSP needs novel basic research methods and international collaboration. The other funding is from Irish groups that fund Irish researchers. Besides those requirements seniority of the researchers involved is one of the most important factors, thats were any bias in funding actually lies. HFSP even states that preliminary results are not needed for applicants.

On: NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

[tokai]

I can really recommend the documentary It's Quieter in the Twilight. It covers the flight-team operating Voyager, and shows in-depth what they and Voyager is doing.

[DriftRegion → tokai]

Thanks, I enjoyed that.

On: There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

[tokai]

And the amount of people that can recite Homer by heart has collapsed since writing came along.

[SamHenryCliff → tokai]

…and we are worse off for celebrating that instead of considering the utility of reaching our intellectual potential as individuals and society.

[goalieca → tokai]

And now the number of people who car read Homer and study it are dropping to 0. They just want the summary notes without any deep thought and the reward that comes with it.

[red-iron-pine → goalieca]

someone out there, probably a professor of classics, can pay for a house with Homer.

I never will. I'll take the summary notes.

[ethanrutherford → red-iron-pine]

Basing what you consider important to know solely on "what can make me money" is a very self-sabotage way to live life.

On: Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]

[tokai]

Racists are hilarious. They will twist and bend anything remotely applicable to fit and underpin their prejudices.

On: AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you

[tokai]

>A local model or Venice are still platforms, just local.

Sure but you can delete the logs yourself.

[wat10000 → tokai]

Just make sure you do it as a matter of routine policy, rather than in response to a legal issue, lest you get hit with a destruction of evidence charge.

On: Cal.com is going closed source

[tokai]

Security through obscurity has been known to be a faulty approach for nearly 200 years. Yet here we are.

On: Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem

[tokai]

>because anyone who can succeed in academia almost certainly has the brains and credentials to get a decent non-academic job.

That's not obviously true at all.

On: Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)

[tokai]

Isn't the wound much much older than 90 years?

On: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

[tokai]

In other news NY is working on banning air guns that are not transparent or brightly colored and have plugged barrels. Yes plugged, making them useless.

Which oppressive bureaucratic state are we talking about again?

[lostlogin → tokai]

You’ll take my air gun out my cold dead hands?