benzoate (u/benzoate)

benzoate commented on 41% of French pop in favour of limiting everyone to 4 flights for entire life twitter.com/spignal/statu... · Posted by u/amilios

benzoate · 2 years ago

I understand the poll is misrepresented but I find the proposition to be extremely anti-human in the first place — climate change is a real threat, but any directives need to take in to consideration the death and misery caused by restricting the opportunity to travel freely.

The focus should be on reducing the average emissions for each mile travelled — reducing private flights, improving electrified road and rail networks and improving the economy of commercial flights.

I would also wager that the political and high business class would also not face this restriction should something like it ever come to exist.

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yarekt · 3 years ago

I've been told that in the army (UK) its illegal to park forwards. They had so many accidents that they banned it.

But yea, definitely easier to squeeze into tighter spots going backwards, and not that much harder after you've done it a few times.

benzoate · 3 years ago

My first employer had this rule — reverse parking only. If you parked the wrong way then reception would send you back out.

Their argument for it was basically the same as the Army’s — with so many people working for them it became significant enough where it prevented a tangible number of people getting injured.

The other argument was that if you were getting attacked / mugged you could get away faster!

benzoate commented on The record-breaking -108.00 diopter myopia lenses (2016) pointsdevue.com/article/r... · Posted by u/jsnell

BrandoElFollito · 3 years ago

So how would you rate that impact? Was surgery worth it? (it probably depends on your level of myopia)

benzoate · 3 years ago

Same as Boruto, worth it without a doubt. The quality of vision is better than with glasses or contact lenses.

benzoate commented on The record-breaking -108.00 diopter myopia lenses (2016) pointsdevue.com/article/r... · Posted by u/jsnell

BrandoElFollito · 3 years ago

I am around -5 and it is stable; I think this is not far from the limit where wearing glasses starts to be annoying (chromatic aberration, distortions, ...).

I could consider lenses but I am always wondering how air conditioning and the fact that I cover my eyes with some plastic works long term (well, I am 52 so it may not be that of a concern, finally :)).

At some point I considered lasic surgery but wearing glasses still trumps the risk for me (this is really a personal opinion, I know people who are really happy with the change)

benzoate · 3 years ago

I recently had laser eye surgery and subsequently re-evaluated my relationship with glasses over the previous 15 years — obviously I was frustrated enough to get the surgery but hadn’t considered their impact holistically over my life.

My feeling is that glasses are annoying from -1, but their impact is tolerated as being able to see is a net gain.

If I had known of their existence beforehand I might have sought out Ortho-K lenses — you wear them whilst you sleep and then take them out for corrected vision during the day. They are more expensive than surgery in the long term (10+ years), but they are less invasive and might be something worth considering.

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benzoate · 4 years ago

I made a rudimentary iOS Shortcut that will get one of these and let you send it to either iMessage or WhatsApp.

Go nuts: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a49a1e9e05844a16a98a41cad93...

benzoate commented on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08... · Posted by u/bbatsell

pzo · 5 years ago

for 4chan maybe that's true but I'm not sure what about some public whatsapp group? I have been part of few public hiking/travelling group and even though I have most of them muted (to avoid distraction) all pictures end up in my Photos 'Recent' Album.

benzoate · 5 years ago

If you see something, say something, and report the person sending that stuff.

benzoate commented on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08... · Posted by u/bbatsell

Waterluvian · 5 years ago

Okay. For now. But it’s a trivial change to begin reading my cache.

The technical details and current policies don’t really matter. The bigger picture is terrifying.

Sex crime accusations, even if nobody is convicted, completely ruins lives. I don’t want a robot on my phone doing that.

benzoate · 5 years ago

I don’t think it’s as trivial as you suggest, but yeah they could do that – they always could have made changes to flag crime or give access to criminal’s devices but they still refuse to do so.

The barrier for being accused by someone who matters is quite high, you’d need to breach a certain threshold of material. That material is then manually reviewed by a human and only then if it appears to be CSAM do they refer your details to the police. The police would then presumably also check the material is bad before arresting you and ceasing all your devices.

benzoate commented on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08... · Posted by u/bbatsell

Waterluvian · 5 years ago

If I go on 4chan and an illegal image loads and caches into my phone before moderators take it down or I hit the back button, will Apple’s automated system ruin my life?

This kind of stuff absolutely petrifies me because I’m so scared of getting accidentally scooped up for something completely unintentional. And I do not trust police one bit to behave like intelligent adult humans.

Right now I feel like I need to stop doing ANYTHING that goes anywhere outside the velvet ropes of the modern commercial internet. That is, anywhere that cannot pay to moderate everything well enough that I don’t run the risk of having my entire life ruined because some #%^*ing algorithm picks up on some content I didn’t even choose to download.

benzoate · 5 years ago

> If I go on 4chan and an illegal image loads and caches into my phone before moderators take it down or I hit the back button, will Apple’s automated system ruin my life?

No, only if you save multiple CSAM images to your photo library and have iCloud Photo Library turned on.

benzoate commented on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08... · Posted by u/bbatsell

hungryforcodes · 5 years ago

Am I bring cynical?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/apple-record-china-2021/

Apple's iPhone revenu just doubled from last year in China -- now 17 billion. Thats not a small number. The play against Huawei has done it's job, apparently -- it's quite mortally injured.

For sure the CCP would love to scan everyone's phones for files or images it finds troubling and for sure every country will eventually be allowed to have its own entries in this database or even their own custom DB.

So my cynical side says...Apple just sold out. MASSIVELY. The loosers -- everyone pretty much that buys their phones.

benzoate · 5 years ago

The CCP can already scan everything server side – iCloud encryption is weaker in China and the servers are controlled by a different entity than Apple. Getting iPhones to scan for illicit content doesn’t help the CCP.

benzoate commented on EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint cnbc.com/2021/04/30/eu-sa... · Posted by u/headmelted

nodamage · 5 years ago

I paid for Spotify directly with a credit card on their website and then logged into my existing account inside the app. So, by definition, I wasn't forced to subscribe through Apple.

It's true that you're not allowed to advertise that you can do this inside the app itself, but that's not the same as saying you're not allowed to do it at all.

benzoate · 5 years ago

Spotify even ran an email campaign to tell users that they can save money paying outside the App Store.