AndreasChris's recent activity
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Comment on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Teaser in ~tv
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Comment on Britain mandates heat pumps and solar panels in new homes from 2028 in ~enviro
AndreasChris Link ParentNice. There are already so many other good reasons to push renewable energy, but if it takes a major geopolitical conflict to make politicians/people see renewables as a strategic resource,...Nice. There are already so many other good reasons to push renewable energy, but if it takes a major geopolitical conflict to make politicians/people see renewables as a strategic resource, there's at least some positive sideeffect of those I guess.
Is this actually a step towards a major shift to renewable energy in Britain or is there some catch to it?
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Comment on Tom Scott: England — Official teaser for Nebula in ~travel
AndreasChris LinkThe trailer and episode 1 are now also live on Nebula btw. (Released 7 hours ago.) -
Comment on New York Times quiz: Who’s a better writer: AI or humans? in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentI'm not convinced that's true. A lot of discussion/reasoning about rejecting AI writing primarily focuses on how to detect wether a text has been (partially) generated by an LLM. But let's assume...I have a suspicion that if AI output wasn't bad (or societally we hadn't come to associate it with being substandard), the would be far less objection to AI output being used.
I'm not convinced that's true. A lot of discussion/reasoning about rejecting AI writing primarily focuses on how to detect wether a text has been (partially) generated by an LLM.
But let's assume for contradiction that quality was the primary and only concern here. Wouldn't the natural thing be to evaluate a text based on qualitative metrics as usual and accept any text that passes the qualitative review? If AI writings aren't good they shouldn't be accepted by such review processes anyway, and if they are accepted they were considered good by the accepting entity and it shouldn't matter who they were autored by.* Hence identification wether a text was authored by a human or an LLM would be obsolete. Yet the mere inablility to reliably distinguish LLM generated text passages from text passages created by humans is usually perceived as a problem, implying that LLM generated text passages are not acceptable for different reasons anyway, which contradicts our assumption. q.e.d.
*Please don't interpret this as a statement of my general opinion. The statement is conditional on the assumption stated above.
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Comment on Proton Mail helped US FBI unmask anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ protester in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentThe Mullvad situation is no different though. If you pay Mullvad via Credit Card, the same link to your identity will exist as in Proton's case. You need to put exactly as much thought into using...The same with Mullvad.
The Mullvad situation is no different though. If you pay Mullvad via Credit Card, the same link to your identity will exist as in Proton's case. You need to put exactly as much thought into using Mullvad anonymously as you have to if you want to do so with Proton.
Both Proton and Mullvad are transparent about what data they have to keep and you can draw your conclusions from that. Feel free to correct me, but I have yet to see a case where an explicit privacy guarantee Proton has promised to uphold is broken.
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Comment on Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was 'strategic mistake', EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says in ~society
AndreasChris Link ParentMeaning?This has security implications, though.
Meaning?
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Comment on Proton Mail helped US FBI unmask anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ protester in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentThing is, no service in existence will be able to account for any and all user error. It's common sense, that if you pay someone with a credit card, this entity will have access to some pseudonym...Thing is, no service in existence will be able to account for any and all user error. It's common sense, that if you pay someone with a credit card, this entity will have access to some pseudonym uniquely identifying the credit card due to the way credit cards work, and they will be legally required to keep this identifier for payment processing reasons. And due to banking laws there will always be a tracable link between a credit card and the legal entity owning it. So no matter how good your service is, if you choose to pay there via credit card it's just common sense that it is possible to identify you via this link.
Privacy is still maintained with regards to the actual usage of the service. Proton would not have been able to tell anyone what the mail address was used for, butin this case that is information that was already available from a different source.
If you are afraid of being linked to something, either use the basic free account for which no payment is required, or pay with a payment option that's not linked to your identity. It's not like these options weren't both available to the user. So the way I see it it's completely fair to advertise their service the way they do. It holds what it promises if you use it correctly.
Also not offering credit cards as a payment option would be stupid as well. Everyone has a personal e-mail adress that's publicly linked to their identity since they advertise it as 'their adress' to other people. So for this rather common usecase I might not particularly care that the adress is in some way linked to my real identity in a tracable manner, but I will still care wether the content of my communication can be read by or provided to others. There are absolutely valid usecases where you may need to protect your identity (i.e. as a whistleblower), but in these cases you can still chose to use the service in a way so that your legal identity is never provided to them in the first place. You just need to put some thought into how you use the service.
Wether swiss officials should have approved the US court order in the first place is a different topic, but Proton's not to blame for that either way.
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Comment on California’s new bill requires Department of Justice-approved 3D printers that report on themselves in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentI see. That's probably what I was thinking of then.I see. That's probably what I was thinking of then.
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Comment on The US Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream? in ~society
AndreasChris Link ParentThere's a bit of a difference between 'homelandmaxxing' in an english sentence, which is a neologism with a clear problematic origin, and a term like 'Lebensraum' in a german sentence, which is a...There's a bit of a difference between 'homelandmaxxing' in an english sentence, which is a neologism with a clear problematic origin, and a term like 'Lebensraum' in a german sentence, which is a preexisting term that has been repurposed by Nazis but also persists in its original meanings and thus only becomes problematic in context. For example you will hardly find a german nature documentary not using the word 'Lebensraum', as one of its meanings is simply 'habitat' as in 'the natural habitat of giraffes'.
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Comment on Sweden has been part of the EU for thirty years, yet is one of the few to have kept their own currency – could global tensions finally see them warming towards the euro in ~finance
AndreasChris LinkThere's a joke in Mathematics that if a paper title is framed as a question the answer is always no. Your extension of the title in combination with your omission of the questionmark kinda made me...There's a joke in Mathematics that if a paper title is framed as a question the answer is always no. Your extension of the title in combination with your omission of the questionmark kinda made me read this as an implied yes at first, but having read the complete article it seems it's more of a "no, unless things change much more than they have in the past 20 years". So given the original title "Could global tensions finally see Sweden warming towards the euro?" it seems there may be some truth to that old joke after all.
Anyway, did I miss a point you wanted to convey in posting this article or is it just a lot of words to say 'nothing changed'.
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Comment on A rant about how devices handle users with language backgrounds other than English in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentPersonally I've switched to third party clients long ago. There are so many things that better fit my needs that the official youtube app won't provide. One thing being the option to have local...Not sure it's possible to fix in the app on your phone, though.
Personally I've switched to third party clients long ago. There are so many things that better fit my needs that the official youtube app won't provide. One thing being the option to have local subscriptions and chronologically list their uploads without algorithmic interference, but even basic stuff like how video controls work is so much more refined. (I believe some features have been added to the official youtube app since I stopped using it.)
Anyway, at the moment I use Tubular, a NewPipe fork. I recommend you check it out. You won't have that auto-dubbing problem in there.
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Comment on A rant about how devices handle users with language backgrounds other than English in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentThing is, people using the non-translated design language of a software (usually english) for its UI, typing some texts in english for internationalization reasons, but still using a keyboard...Or well, I do. I'm in such a small minority that my needs don't matter at all in the big picture. But it still doesn't mean that I'm not annoyed.
Thing is, people using the non-translated design language of a software (usually english) for its UI, typing some texts in english for internationalization reasons, but still using a keyboard layout they learned as a kid really isn't that uncommon and basically mirrors the issue you have. Still the same problems persists...
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Comment on A rant about how devices handle users with language backgrounds other than English in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentThis and being forced into the silly a.m./p.m. time system is also really annoying to me...But this forces my calendar to be in Sunday-Saturday mode rather than Monday-Sunday mode!
This and being forced into the silly a.m./p.m. time system is also really annoying to me...
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Comment on A rant about how devices handle users with language backgrounds other than English in ~tech
AndreasChris LinkOne related issue I've run into in the past is that a device's UI language, spell checking language, and keyboard layout are governed by the same setting. Why would you ever wanna do that? Just...One related issue I've run into in the past is that a device's UI language, spell checking language, and keyboard layout are governed by the same setting. Why would you ever wanna do that? Just because I speak multiple languages I don't suddenly learn multiple keyboard layouts. And just because I want my UI in one consistent language, it doesn't mean I only ever wanna write texts in that language. It's simply painful to navigate the world of multilingual setups...
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Comment on California’s new bill requires Department of Justice-approved 3D printers that report on themselves in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentYou sure about that? Feel free to enlighten me as I have no expertise or interest whatsoever in this area, but I've had someone who's been shooting as a hobby tell me that they've made their own...No one is out there making ammo from scratch.
You sure about that? Feel free to enlighten me as I have no expertise or interest whatsoever in this area, but I've had someone who's been shooting as a hobby tell me that they've made their own ammunition because they deemed purchasing new one all the time to expensive. I suppose that's only possible for certain types of ammunition, but I've honestly got no idea about specifics.
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Comment on This video is six minutes long! in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentBeyond it being a novel, neat little trick, one usecase I can think of would be to add commentary on existing videos or put things into context after the fact without interfering with the...I'm not completely sure about the use case for these over putting up a new video
Beyond it being a novel, neat little trick, one usecase I can think of would be to add commentary on existing videos or put things into context after the fact without interfering with the integrity of the original video.
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Comment on This video is six minutes long! in ~tech
AndreasChris LinkDavie504 just released a video using the same technique inspired by this video. Maxbe we'll see more of these over the next few weeks.Davie504 just released a video using the same technique inspired by this video. Maxbe we'll see more of these over the next few weeks.
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Comment on Wikipedia blacklists archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links in ~tech
AndreasChris LinkIs there any connection between this and Wikipedia being unreachable a few hours ago?Is there any connection between this and Wikipedia being unreachable a few hours ago?
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Comment on 39C3 - Chaos Communications Congress (2025) in ~comp
AndreasChris LinkAnyone else of you guys around congress and wanna meet up IRL for a chat? :)Anyone else of you guys around congress and wanna meet up IRL for a chat? :)
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Comment on 39C3 - Chaos Communications Congress (2025) in ~comp
AndreasChris Link ParentPersonally I like to limit the number of big, recorded talks I go to and try to do more of the litttle stuff one can only experience at congress. That's also a recommendation I ususally give to...Personally I like to limit the number of big, recorded talks I go to and try to do more of the litttle stuff one can only experience at congress. That's also a recommendation I ususally give to first-timers. You can always watch recordings, but there's so much other exciting stuff to see, people to meet, and small things to attend - and four days is simply not enough. Of the big talks I only went to the GPG vulnerability one and the one by Linus and Marc-Uwe Kling yesterday.
I agree with regards to JK Rowling - what she does and says is awful. But it's also not something that just happened recently. So it's just getting exhausting that whenever Harry Potter comes up because there's some new content, the conversation is immediately burried in the same talking points about rowling's bigotry that have been already been posted the last two times something about Harry Potter came up. There is a place for people to discuss what Rowling says and does, but there should also be a place for people to discuss the content of Harry Potter books/series/movies.
Much the same it is very well possible to still like Harry Potter content and hate Rowling's actions/comments. I really dislike how some people act as if there's some moral obligation to suddenly hate anything that's been published by Rowling in the past now that she's started to publicly propagate anti-trans bs. If Harry Potter were a problematic text in itself that would be a different story, but that's not the argument being made at all. Erasing anything someone said or wrote once they fall out of favor and shaming people for interacting with it may be something that's common in totalitarian regimes, but in my ideal world that's not how things should work.
Anyway, if Rowling says something new that's despicable and awful, please post and discuss it, but please also accept that there can be discussion about Harry Potter content wise that doesn't necessarily need to include a discussion about the author's latest actions. Once the series comes out I really hope that we can somehow have the rowling discussions without reposting the same thing under every single post discussing the latest episode's content.