apparently google has been putting their software in everything including the kitchen sink since 1798??

read for yourself if you don’t believe me - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel

the source is a little known but nifty website that desperately needs funding so if you go there you should give them like a dollar or whatever your local equivalent is, like one peso or a bitcoin or what have you

apologies for the english I am an american

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Unrelated, but anyone else think it’s really weird that we just casually accept our food utensils containing chromium? Like, I know it’s an alloy and not just free chromium, but would we accept a lead alloy spoon? Probably not, especially with most food being acidic. Honestly I’m just waiting for the paper that says we’ve been slowly poisoning ourselves with stainless steel every time we eat.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 hours ago

      The primary cause of lead’s toxicity is its interference with a variety of enzymes because it binds to sulfhydryl groups found on many enzymes.[22] Part of lead’s toxicity results from its ability to mimic other metals that take part in biological processes … Among the essential metals that lead displaces in this way are calcium, iron, and zinc.[186]

      The brain is the organ most sensitive to lead exposure.[77] Lead can pass through the endothelial cells at the blood brain barrier because it can substitute for calcium ions and be taken up by calcium-ATPase pumps.[203]

      The targeting of NMDA receptors is thought to be one of the main causes for lead’s toxicity to neurons.[202]

      The half-life of lead in bone has been estimated as years to decades, and bone can introduce lead into the bloodstream long after the initial exposure is gone.[182][183][184] The half-life of lead in the blood in men is about 40 days, but it may be longer in children and pregnant women, whose bones are undergoing remodeling, which allows the lead to be continuously re-introduced into the bloodstream.[26]

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

      Stainless steel is generally considered to be biologically inert. However, during cooking, small amounts of nickel and chromium leach out of new stainless steel cookware into highly acidic food.[115] Nickel can contribute to cancer risks—particularly lung cancer and nasal cancer.[116][117] However, no connection between stainless steel cookware and cancer has been established.

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

      Lead is very different in its toxicity. Chromium is not nearly as toxic, and in fact trivalent chromium is an essebtial nutrient:

      Trivalent chromium is a trace mineral that is essential to human nutrition

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

      Of course wikipedia isn’t an official source, but almost all statement’s link to reliable sources

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
      5·
      16 hours ago

      Chromium is only dangerous (in reasonable quantities) when its Hexavalent (meaning it has 6 missing electrons). Trivalent chromium (3 missing electrons) is actually essential in trace amounts. Stainless steel has trivalent chromium. Exposure to high temperatures (welding, plasma cutting, maybe grinding) can oxidize it from trivalent to hexavalent but your kitchen utensils aren’t going to be exposed to that. I’m not an expert though to be clear.

        • saigot@lemmy.ca
          2·
          8 hours ago

          I am not a doctor, I just find steel interesting. I also prefer leaf to hash. but I think it’s going to take more than 1000C to create the fumes osha is mainly concerned about, which would make the steel yellow with heat, Even for welders it’s the sort of thing that should concern only people who do it professionally. That said you are kinda directly huffing whatever is coming off it (hypothetically of course). If it’s getting red hot, then it might still be having some oxidation, but it probably isn’t getting into your lungs and it probably is going to stay put in the metal, Probably…

          If it’s not glowing at all you are definitely good.

  • Mr_Anny@lemmy.world
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Browser? No.

    What you tried to say was a spying malware disguised as eeb browser that spread the way every other viruses do.

    • Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Chromium is the open source base without the google spyware on top, kinda like AOSP vs. “Stock Android”. Still sucks that Google has so much control over it, but it’s a solid web browser.

      • Mr_Anny@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Ohh true. I made a hasty comment. Yet because of Google, I never got to like any single chromium based browser.

        It was like hundreds of computers I cleaned from Chrome which installed itself through bootstrapped or sideloaded in other applications’ installers and setting itself automagically as default.

        Well. It wasn’t automatical, but used human lazyness or non-awareness that made them rigorously spam the ok button.

        Was it 2008, or 2009 or something like that.

        Even now when people ask some Chrome related problem, I reject them and give the only solution, uninstall.

        • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          The proportions used in the alloy don’t matter. Rust is a build dependency of Chromium, which only makes sense if Chromium itself contains Rust, however little it may be. Thus, whenever an amount of Chromium is added to a substance or application, a small amount of Rust will also be added.

          When Rust is introduced to software, it tends to grow in size and often in proportion too, compared to the rest of the codebase. For example, in the Case of Chromium, the amount varies depending on the age of the Chromium used. In samples of young, and even fairly mature Chromiums, no Rust is present, but resent samples show an ever-increasing amount, though I’m not sure how the Rust was initially introduced to the project.

          Depending on the piece of software in question, it may start completely Rust-free, like Chromium and Linux, or it may be composed of almost pure Rust, like Servo and Redox OS. 100% pure Rust is, as of now, mostly theoretical, though tiny projects requiring manual invocation of rustc have been observed. This is due to the small amount of configuration for a build system, for example, TOML, in the case of Cargo. This allows Rust to be developed easily & ergonomically, even in large amounts. Though recent efforts in Cargo script have sought to alleviate these problems and enable true, pure Rust to develop.

          In short, like life, software naturally evolves into the form of a crab. This process is called carcinisation.

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    23 hours ago

    In UI jargon, “chrome” means the non-content UI that frames what you actually care about, by analogy to the decorative chrome trim on old cars: shiny, attention-grabbing “window dressing” around the “real” thing. Mozilla documentation from 1999 talks about “window chrome” as the browser’s UI framing.

    Google named their browser “Chrome” as an ironic nod to minimizing UI chrome. So the name literally comes from the use of the metal chromium on cars.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    24 hours ago

    It’s so big knife can enshitify the knife market with unnecessary AI integration.

    • Mesa@programming.dev
      2·
      24 hours ago

      This isn’t what I meant when I told Samsung to cut it out with putting WiFi in everything.

  • db2@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    I can make sure your bitcoin gets sent to them. Trust me, I’m also an American and we can’t lie.