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New comment by jjcon in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

jjcon — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:00:21 +0000

> “My minority opinion isn’t shared by the users on a subreddit… must be astroturfing…”

Or you know... maybe people just disagree with you

New comment by jjcon in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

jjcon — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:53:35 +0000

I find that discord has far better communities than Reddit ever did

New comment by jjcon in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"

jjcon — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:13:48 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene

> Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene. It belongs to the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)) and has numerous applications. The commonly known brand name of PTFE-based composition is Teflon by Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont, which originally discovered the compound in 1938.

New comment by jjcon in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"

jjcon — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:09:29 +0000

What is it made out of? I feel like all the ones I've seen are made out of plastic.

New comment by jjcon in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"

jjcon — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:08:39 +0000

The funny thing about most of these systems is that they are all made of plastic. For towns with bad water quality I understand it but for most towns with limited or no PFAS I feel like there is the risk that you could be making the water worse

New comment by jjcon in "$10M says we won't see human-superior AGI by the end of 2025"

jjcon — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:01:25 +0000

To be fair, I've never met a human as knowledgeable as ChatGPT before but I've simultaneously never met a human as dumb as ChatGPT before.

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 02:35:13 +0000

That just plainly isn’t what a theocracy is though- by your definition the US could easily be called a theocracy for most of its history and even today. Beyond that you continue to ignore my other point - the people in Israel are less religious than the US/Canada and much of Europe. They are a less religious democracy than the US and yet you continue to call it what it just patently isn’t?

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:13:52 +0000

It is true… that is literally their governmental type. There are religious parties in Israel (just like the religious are largely in the GOP in the USA) but that doesn’t make it theocratic… unless you bend the definition of theocracy beyond all meaning.

That is all not to mention my second point which is that Israel isn’t even a particularly religious country compared to the west.

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:48:35 +0000

Huh? Israel is a parliamentary democracy not a theocracy. It is more irreligious than USA/Canada and plenty of Europe:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irrelig...

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:19:16 +0000

I guess you are just ignorant of the facts then. Israel only provides a portion as part of their humanitarian aid (but it isn't their responsibility to power Gaza.. just as no country is held responsible for anothers electricity?). I'd start with this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_electricity_crisis

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:58:26 +0000

The people voted for Hamas = Hamas government. Just because some Israeli politicians were at one point supportive of Hamas is relevant how?

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:56:03 +0000

Goalpost moving aside, that statement is definitively untrue.

For one, Israel does not control the Gaza border with Egypt (which shocker... Egypt does). Israel has provided a ton of humanitarian aid to Gaza over the years including water and electricity but they do not control their water or electricity (kinda hard to do that or even claim that is being done since they don't have a presence in the country).

New comment by jjcon in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

jjcon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:27:18 +0000

> where they were before October 7th except civilians would be much worse off. Still living under Israeli occupation with limited freedom of movement

Israel hasn't had any presence in Gaza for nearly 20 years.

New comment by jjcon in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

jjcon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:06:50 +0000

Android has 72% marketshare so even your made up stat would suggest it is safer than iOS

New comment by jjcon in "OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT"

jjcon — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:56:20 +0000

Have you never used the open source models? They are getting really good - better than 3.5 for sure not as good as 4 except when domain trained in my opinion

New comment by jjcon in "Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family"

jjcon — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:38:06 +0000

In my experience infuse only technically worked on about half my library, the other half caused crashes and the UI is definitively not streamlined for the media server use case (it feels like I should just be using VLC on iOS via DLNA or something at that point)

New comment by jjcon in "Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family"

jjcon — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:18:01 +0000

I’m not convinced they are correct about the feature being opt out rather than opt in - I just checked on my server and I am opted out and this is the first I’m hearing of this feature.

Also is there some astroturfing from 404media going on? This is the third link I’ve seen from them today on HN and I’ve never heard of them

Edit: According to the roll out post they will prompt you to opt in when you log in to Plex after the roll out but you do have to opt in, it’s possible I just missed the prompt and others opted in without reading? It may have been different for beta users as well

https://www.plex.tv/blog/discover-together/

New comment by jjcon in "Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family"

jjcon — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:14:10 +0000

In my opinion if your use case is watching your small collection of your own tv shows and movies on your computers use jellyfin, for anything else use Plex.

I love and have used both and while Jellyfin is great at that one thing if you need good mobile support or Roku/Apple TV support or similar it just fails miserably. If you want to have a music or audiobook collection it does even worse.

New comment by jjcon in "I made a website that tells you which human foods are toxic for dogs"

jjcon — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 01:35:19 +0000

This seems to be the answer to why my initial query of apple was reported as fine but apple juice was reported as toxic

New comment by jjcon in "Welcome to the New GamersNexus Website v5.0: A Message"

jjcon — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 02:56:16 +0000

> that had loaned them it to test

No they gave it to LMG to test, then asked for it back which is the source of the miscommunication