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New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy"

NoLsAfterMid — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:09:26 +0000

I have a pretty high quality blu-ray, it's not just on legacy media.

EDIT: it occurs to me that "legacy media" means "not available through streaming/rental services/stores", my bad.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker"

NoLsAfterMid — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:26:42 +0000

> Quite often laws will issue punishments for some behaviors, but also issue things like funding for programs that work on the roots of why particular crimes occur.

That still requires enforcement. The existence of a law does not imply existence of enforcement, much less wide-spread enforcement (see e.g. wage theft, auto breakins, petty theft, etc).

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

NoLsAfterMid — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:57:23 +0000

> Everything else the same, would you rather live in a world where the average person makes $100k/year and the richest person is worth $1T, or a world where you make $1k/year and the richest person $1M? Because if you're focusing on minimizing "wealth inequality", I guess you'd choose the latter, which is clearly the wrong choice.

It depends on the wealth curve, obviously, and how the rest of the market is structured. But in neither scenario are you going to see the problems of wealth inequality relaxed. Wealth inequality doesn't seem to offer society any benefit and creates the problem of poverty.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker"

NoLsAfterMid — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:24:10 +0000

Oh well if there's jail time, surely people will be dissuaded and follow the law.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

NoLsAfterMid — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:35:21 +0000

> Because I think those aren't really necessities, yet the average person in the US has them. We're just quite spoiled in the 21st century, and many would argue (including clearly OP) that the reason for this abundance is (at least in part) free market capitalism.

If you want to consider that "spoiled" you're more than welcome to, but it doesn't change decades of increasing wealth inequality, nor the fact that we have no choice but to live in the 21st century.

> The difference is now you can work reasonable hours (40/week) doing a low-skill job and still have all those things.

My point is that that's no longer possible to achieve this with just 40 hours.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Until the 14th century women dominated the field of beer brewing"

NoLsAfterMid — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:16:13 +0000

So—beer was certainly the primary beverage, but people still drank water without boiling it (which is, after all, rather time and energy consuming and requires a ready fire).

I have ready links to provide better context, and this is literally the most hated question on /r/AskHistorians, so I'm sure you could get rapid replies for follow-up questions. It's an extremely useful resource to tap into to get a professional historian with training in historiography to weigh in on arbitrary questions.

On the general claim of using alcohol to decontaminate water: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/delet...

On use of aqueducts in Britain to transport potable water: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/mnlf9n/when_...

On general access to fresh water: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1svj1q/how_d...

On understanding of germ theory in water: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/676bg6/befor...

On poisoning wells: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6qljlt/when_...

2nd one on poisoning wells: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6kt7nh/poiso...

Addressing beer directly: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2bewpo/what_...

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox"

NoLsAfterMid — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:06:32 +0000

That wouldn't have been accessible via disk mode, though, so you can't write to it without first rooting it.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

NoLsAfterMid — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:36:39 +0000

> The employment rate in the USA is usually somewhere around ~5% depending on what subset of the workforce you're looking at.

Well based on the number of friends I have that work multiple jobs and can't afford anything more than a room and basic necessities, that's not a very useful perspective.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox"

NoLsAfterMid — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:28:30 +0000

This pdf[0] shows an iPod can view notes, but says you need to store them as a .txt.

This O'Reilly snippet[1] claims the feature wasn't implemented until 2003, and even then explicitly states it could only store plain text.

EDIT: The Notes app on the touch can import html files, but that doesn't sync up with either rockbox or disk mode.

So I'm completely lost at what mechanic they're referring to. Even if we assume that this was a txt file and not html, that explicitly excludes the first gen iPod.

[0]: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA282/en_US/iPod_cl...

[1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ipod-and-itunes/0596008...

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

NoLsAfterMid — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:13:23 +0000

No, we have nice things in spite of money.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Cognitive ability and miscalibrated financial expectations"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:53:50 +0000

What is the point of this finding? How is swapping out optimistic financing for "cognitive ability" helping anyone?

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring?"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:03:47 +0000

> Saying "[this is yet] another area where Linux Distros are at least 10 years behind Windows" has a certain unpleasant tone that reeks of blame.

How do you figure? This just strikes me as insecurity. Regardless of the fact that your quote represents a nonsensical claim, Linux's lack of hardware support isn't something worth dancing around, it's just reality.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring?"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:02:54 +0000

Nobody was blaming Linux developers. This doesn't change the fact that Linux doesn't support vast swathes of hardware.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:10:30 +0000

Did you ever pause to think "is this comment worth posting"? Maybe you should.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring?"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:03:34 +0000

Linux does have to run on the hardware if it wants to be used by people. Blaming vendors doesn't fix the problem or get the community anywhere. This just reeks of being blinded by pride.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring?"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:00:56 +0000

Ok, but none of modern computing was designed around this mentality. Virtually all computers are trivially compromisable if you have physical access to the machine.

New comment by NoLsAfterMid in "Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring?"

NoLsAfterMid — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:55:10 +0000

I don't get the distinction. Linux has to run on the hardware, no?