smeenz
@smeenz@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 11 hours ago:
I have never worked at bunnings, and you’re also right and wrong.
- Comment on Horse denier 3 days ago:
Found Sarah Jessica Parker’s lemmy account
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
Right. I’m not American though, so I don’t recognise any of those companies except for FedEx.
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
The cost is in the lost productivity from having someone off work with injuries. A barbecue every 6 months seems like a bargain.
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
What does LTL stand for ?
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
4 bits is a nybble
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
caused by wreckless speeding driver
The driver may have been reckless, but the incident was not wreckless (lack of a wreck)
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
There’s no need for that attitude. Keep your sarcasm and defensive knee jerk reactions on reddit.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
I think you missed a zero there
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
The blurb above says that the TVs uploads screenshots when viewing antenna and hdmi input sources, which is what most people are reacting to here. The actual article is paywalled.
However other articles go into more detail and note that only a few KB of data per hour is actually uploaded, so the TV must be doing image analysis locally and uploading metadata only.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
None, now.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
The issue is that you’re starting from earth, and the earth already has a lot of momentum that keeps it from falling into the sun. To get an object from here to the sun you would need to counter the majority of that momentum it already has.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Wine (wine is not (an) emulator) is a reimplementation of the windows api set. It’s literally starting windows again from scratch.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Isn’t that what wine is ?
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
The problem is that the settings app has consistently been a dumbed down, feature-sparse version of what was in the control panel for the bits it has replaced. Tweaks that experienced users have relied on for decades are simply missing in the settings app, forcing them to go back to the control panel
If Microsoft actually re-implemented all the knobs and dials in control panel then I wouldn’t be so irritated, but we’ve been shown for the last several years that they only bother migrating the most commonly used settings.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Maybe they’re using the phone line for their Internet ? Vsdl etc…
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I had the same experience with shitty playback buffering every few seconds on popular videos that should be cached on a nearby cdn, and then saw lots of articles about it and then boom a week later everything was back to normal
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Not to mention 50 different variants of the same annoying ad, so that even when you block it, you have to do it 49 more times to actually stop seeing it.
And the problem with the same irrelevant and animated ad repeated 5 times on the same webpage
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 3 months ago:
Clear as in all the garbage has been cleared up
- Comment on Do it 3 months ago:
In NZ, they asked what number, and it’s a single digit number number 3 or number 5. 3 is cut shorter than 5, but I don’t know what the unit of measurement is
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
You do realise that aluminium (ium) is not spelled the same as aluminum (um) ? It’s not a case of the same letters being pronounced two different ways
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
That’s not angry enough
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Over the last few years I’ve started to notice this weird increase in people misspelling the word paid as ‘payed’. Where is this coming from ?
- Comment on That sweet, sweet chemistry 5 months ago:
Gotta cover all your bases.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 months ago:
So… you’re saying that if we change the word to one that works, then the sentence is okay.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 months ago:
You’re also the weirdo using singular verbs with a plural noun.
- Comment on Whistleblower urges Boeing to ground all 787 Dreamliners after safety warning 7 months ago:
And 787 hangers
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 8 months ago:
My (work) Dell laptop charges from the usb-c dock, which it’s always plugged into because so are my monitors and ethernet etc. As a result, it’s always on charge.
- Comment on AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora) 8 months ago:
So you’re saying the people who write and tweak the prompts to create the output they envisaged don’t deserve to be called artists?
In my mind, AI just lowers the barrier required for people to be able to express what’s in their mind
- Comment on Lol 9 months ago:
I mean… the cat is obviously in charge of that house.