Leno1225 (u/Leno1225)

Leno1225 commented on US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/data... · Posted by u/dryadin

anonym29 · 7 days ago

I'm referring to very real obligations that we are all held to under the justification of "the social contract" such as taxation and being drafted into military service, not social niceties.

We are held to these obligations as seriously and as legally as we are held to real contracts, but unlike the bedrock that constitutes the basis for the legitimacy of all real contracts, these obligations are imposed upon us with no opportunity for consideration, consent, or rejection.

Leno1225 · 6 days ago

That’s not the social contract, that’s the dual contracts of residency (protection from fellow residents) and citizenship (protection from foreign elements). You have the opportunity of consent; on your majority you can leave the country for another that’ll have you. There’s a cost to it, but it’s fairly minimal in most places.

Leno1225 commented on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse matduggan.com/boy-i-was-w... · Posted by u/wrxd

DauntingPear7 · 9 days ago

Pretty much all US news is just blindly stating “what’s happening” which lends credence to the current admins (seemingly) illegal/poor behavior. Just accept that the president can start a war, no notes.

Leno1225 · 7 days ago

Pretty much all US news is the exact opposite of a broad and bare presentation of the facts. It’s a narrow set of facts presented through either a partisan lens or a purely business context, the difference is in what base facts are chosen to work from and none of the news agencies do a good job presenting even most of the relevant facts on any issue.

Leno1225 commented on TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/1659447091

hogwasher · 12 days ago

Most people couldn't tell you how their car works, at least not enough to fix it. Is that handholding, too?

People can't be knowledgable about everything. There's just too much information in the world, and too many different skills that could be learned, and not enough time.

A carpenter can rely on power tools without understanding fully how the tools work, and it's fine, as long as the tools are made to safe standards and the user understands basic safety instructions (e.g. wear protective eyewear).

To me, making sure that apps don't screw with people, even if they don't understand how the apps work, is roughly the equivalent of making sure power drills are made safely so they don't explode in peoples' hands.

Leno1225 · 11 days ago

“As long as the user understands basic safety instructions” Yes, the internet has basic safety instructions, too (and probably just as many bother to read them), number one or two is “almost nothing online is ever really private”. I learned it by the mid 2000s, not knowing it in 2026 is not excusable with “people don’t need to know how everything works”.

Leno1225 commented on Does that use a lot of energy? hannahritchie.github.io/e... · Posted by u/speckx

zahlman · 11 days ago

What if you want to turn it off to have darkness?

Leno1225 · 11 days ago

Classic example of “we figured out we could, didn’t consider if we should”

Leno1225 commented on Does that use a lot of energy? hannahritchie.github.io/e... · Posted by u/speckx

noosphr · 12 days ago

Yes, we just need to build the mountains first.

Leno1225 · 11 days ago

Yeah, or water towers. No need to play god here.

Leno1225 commented on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification pcgamer.com/software/oper... · Posted by u/WalterSobchak

Leno1225 · 16 days ago

It’s a shit law, but it’s publisher- and distributor-targeted, so the overly-dramatic armchair-rebels in the forum can calm themselves; nobody’s coming after the person with a Linux machine bc it’s not compliant. Because it’s a state law, Cali will have geo-fenced app stores and this’ll just accelerate the breakout from manufacturer-maintained app stores. Websites that host downloads will just have a user attestation that they’re not Californians and be hosted abroad. There’s also no verification method; it’s literally just a requirement that account creation asks for an age - something websites do all the time and is not remotely burdensome, just ask all the ones convinced my DoB is a year and 4 months after my actual.

Leno1225 commented on The Codex App openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ioasuncvinvaer · a month ago

Of course you do!

Microsoft makes a new UI framework every couple of years, liquid glass from apple and gnome has a new gtk version every so often.

Leno1225 · a month ago

Microsoft gets largely pilloried on every UI rethink, Apple’s Liquid Glass just annoyed everyone I’ve heard comment on it, and, fwiw, YouTube Music asking if it feels outdated is an unnecessary annoyance.

Leno1225 commented on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) leidenmedievalistsblog.nl... · Posted by u/benbreen

bluGill · 2 months ago

Historians have come up with a lot of theories. There is no way to answer for sure though. General thought is they didn't even try because they had slaves they could force to do the hard labor, so there was not point. England developed steam engines in a world where slaves didn't exist. The Romans (their blacksmith god was disabled) also didn't value technology as a society like England did, and so they mostly didn't try to develop technology (except as it related to winning wars - anyone who wins wars was a big deal)

However it isn't clear if the Romans could have developed the metals needed even if they tried. There are a lot of parts to better metal alloys that they didn't know and trial and error is a slow process when you don't have why something didn't work.

Leno1225 · 2 months ago

England developed steam engines in an era where slaves were increasingly expensive and less socially acceptable than before and , contrarily, in an era where exploitation of the poor was still very normal and acceptable. Hephaestus/Vulcan was disabled, yes, but also was very powerful (governing volcanos and fire in Italy isn’t a weakling’s domain). They absolutely valued technology… to say otherwise is wild.

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pavlus · 2 months ago

I've read your comment before visiting the site, and it got me wondering -- how bad can it be? Can it be worse than those acid green on red sites of the 90s-00s?

Imagine my surprise, when I opened the site and it looked and felt just like a museum or art exhibit. This was the literal feeling I had -- being at an art gallery, but online.

I guess, these comments tell more about the commenters, than TFA. We should remind ourselves to be more critical to the content we consume, regardless where it comes from.

Leno1225 · 2 months ago

Right. I was also pleasantly surprised; it looks great, reads fluidly, and is clean on the page. It is somewhat artsy, to be sure, but nothing complaint-worthy in comparison to modern websites.

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birn559 · 10 months ago

Will we be able mid-term to rely on LLMs not hallucinating and causing crashes? Even if the probability is low, the thought that the AI might do something crazy because it's hallucinating is terrifying, so that might be a barrier for adoption. For the same reason, will a (fully) LLM driven car ever be allowed on Western streets? I have serious doubts regarding Europe, at least.

Leno1225 · 10 months ago

Large Language Models are never gonna drive cars, they’re plausible text-generating machines, not general-purpose computer intelligences