Zworf @ Zworf @beehaw.org

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most personal trips can be done safely and easily using an E-bike (much smaller batteries that can be produced en mass with existing supply chains) and cars should be reduced in usage outside of particularly rural areas where they truly are a necessity (which is a tiny portion of the overall population).

E-bikes are often not an option for many reasons. Needing to bring cargo, bad weather, danger from other traffic. If they were actually such an amazing option everyone would be using them because they are hella cheaper than cars. Even in the netherlands where bike infrastructure is great, people are extremely car-centric.

Personally I think subsidised public transport is a much better option.

And nuclear is not cheaper and it doesn't even factor in waste storage and decommissioning otherwise it would not have been viable. Right now when a nuclear plant is closed the operator walks off scot free and the cleanup costs are borne by the public. The mining of the uranium is also pretty polluting. There's a lot of this externalisation to make it viable.

The only reason it worked in the past was that the governments were building nuclear arsenals and invested in nuclear industry (note that this industry was not necessarily capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium but still, it was about building up an industry). It's no coincidence that most countries relying heavily on nuclear power are also nuclear armed.

Also, environmental pollution is also a safety issue. Don't just look at human deaths. Even Fukushima was a major disaster despite not leading to many deaths. The regulation is there for a reason and that still didn't manage to prevent Fukushima (not talking about Chernobyl there because that was just human idiocy fucking up at its worst). And other first-world countries have also had meltdowns.

Personally I also feel bad about dumping our waste problem on future generations. That kind of thinking is exactly what led to the climate crisis. But admittedly this is a lesser issue for nuclear in particular because we do this with pretty much everything (as this article also mentions)

Maybe this research and language is intended to suggest that there is a point past which “confusingly and unintuitively designed” strongly resembles “intentionally deceiving”? We’re probably not going to get internal emails saying “make it complicated so that we can collect users’ data”.

This is Apple that pride themselves on UX as you mention. They mainstreamed opinionated design. If they do it a certain way there is a reason, which is not always with the user's interests in mind. It's not because Bob in development couldn't think of a better way. Other brands might get away with that excuse but not Apple.

Depends on whether you consider dark-patterns to be “lying”

https://www.apple.com/privacy/ "Apple, that's privacy". That and then doing dark patterns, I consider that lying, yes.

Much better for sure.

Also a lot less functionality of course.

Actually the ansible playbook creates a bundle of docker containers so you get the best of both :)

It's not as snazzy as Discord but it's fully open-source and federated. So everyone can run their own server (I do, too). If you don't care about running your own you can just sign up at https://app.element.io/ . It's free of course. It basically is for chat what lemmy and mastodon are to social media.

It also offers many "bridges" to other protocols, like WhatsApp, Telegram, even Discord. Those are not quite as mature and mostly third-party provided but they generally work well.

There's a really great ansible playbook for installing your own. If you would like to have the full bridged experience, beeper is probably best.

All these maintainers of all these lemmy servers would have to do the exact same thing if Nintendo came to them.

yes but then the community would move to another lemmy host and it would turn into a game of whack a mole for Nintendo. There is no other Discord host.

In other words: Matrix.

On telegram it's one of the many things you get if you pay for premium.

I really like Telegram, they are really thinking about what the user wants. Live translations, icon packs, bots that can add amazing features to channels. I gladly pay for it because I use it so much, most of the communities here use Telegram.

Whereas the signal devs are just sitting on their high horse and doing nothing but stupid cryptoscams.

Yeah I understand, Kagi is a good service!

Ah I see. I didn't really understand the requirement. That would indeed be a nice one though pretty hard to configure for general search because the results can come from so many sources.

As well as that, for special-purpose things like movies it does in fact have a ranking for those by querying common sites like IMDB directly as an engine. So in that case you can use the weighting system to show preference. It doesn't seem to support letterboxd as a source but it does some others:

Yeah but accuracy isn't a given with the other methods either. If I ask some randos on reddit I won't get a perfect answer either. If I google specs or reviews online they are often biased, wrong (think the magical Chinese lumens of torches) or even literally fraudulent paid reviews too.

So yeah for me the LLM output is more than good enough with a bit of verification if necessary.

I don't really understand why people are suddenly hung up about holding LLMs up to this lofty ideal of an unbiased super-truth. Where did that requirement come from all of a sudden? It's not really realistic and not something we've ever had in the past.

I feel the same about self-driving systems. People get all hung up if they crash once in a while, expecting them to be 100% perfect in all situations. But ignoring the concept that they already might be a hell of a lot safer than human drivers. They fail in different situations generally but why do we suddenly demand perfection?

I know. But I'm often not really looking for accuracy. I just need to know something for myself. Most of the stuff I look up is absolutely not critically important. It's not like I'm trying to write a PhD dissertation or something.

I know it can be inaccurate but I can verify the results (and they usually are totally fine).

I put in the name of my home town and the first 2 links were escort sites offering ladies in that town... Seriously.

Not really impressed so far.

Yep I hosted it on my VPN server so I can reach it from all my devices. Love it. Learned about it here and I'm really happy I did.

Not infallible truth. But very often it's something that is just for personal use.

Some things I've asked it recently were like "Which torch is smaller out of these 5 models?". Once I find which one I want it's easy to verify. Or "what does this Spanish expression mean?" or "how do I do ...".

Not everyone uses it to try and write authoritative stuff. And Google is full of clickbaity "comparison sites" that are nothing but fake advertising.

It's in the UI on the Engines tab. However, you can only see it there, you still have to use the config file to actually change it, sorry. That's not hard at all though.

If you don't see this option, perhaps you're running an older version? I'm running the latest docker.

Which on its own will help to mitigate the problem. This is why it's not an extinction event.

It's just that it's not really a very good "solution" because of all the misery it causes.

Yes but the outcome is just as bad.

But politics is us. This is what democracy is all about.

The problem is the population at large still doesn't understand the gravity of the situation.