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Cake day: September 25th, 2023

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  • What about privacy and bloat? Do you really need an integrated big-brother Clippy again? There’s a reason they got rid of that annoying little bugger 20-ish years ago. Even killed Cortana. How many failed experiments more do we need?

    If you need AI writing, you have it in Edge or on the ChatGPT site. Will they add AI to settings to help you turn on all the bloat and tracking for you?

    Like just give me my damn control panel which has a working search feature (unlike, say, Settings)




  • When talking about Israelis killed, the BBC used the word “grandmother” 52 times, while it used it 32 times when describing Palestinians killed. Likewise, it used the word “murdered” 101 times for Israelis killed while only once when talking about Palestinians.

    The rest of the rows are similar.

    The intended takeaway is that Palestinian deaths are reported blandly, while Isrseli deaths are painted in a much more endearing light.

    Granted, there are some considerations of possible biases towards the results. For example, maybe there were less articles about Palestinians and as such less opportunities to use the same word. Maybe there isn’t enough information flowing out of Gaza as opposed to Israel or BBC. There are also the more extreme options of the authors of the data trying to paint the BBC negatively and the BBC strategically painting Israeli deaths as more tragic and brutal than Palestinian desths.

    Which option you take as the most plausible is your call tho.









  • I’ve seen a video with some electric mopeds that had very easily removable batteries. Like you just pop it out and exchange it at a gas-station equivalent.

    It’d be ideal if we could settle on a few sizes - kind of like how we have AA, AAA, C, D, etc. batteries. One can be for such mopeds, one larger for cars and some smaller ones to fill various otherwise empty spaces in a car.

    So if your battery goes bad or just want to change its tech you can do that.

    For normal city driving you carge the car at home. If you go on a trip make a few stops for charging. If you’re really in a rush, you can always pay a premium for swapping your drained battery for a prefilled one at a gas station equivalent.

    To me this seems like the ideal solution for EVs and I wonder what facts make it unrealistic.