davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 2 days ago:
Everyone is mentioning email. I also use the World Wide Web.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 days ago:
Lens flairs, but in IR they look different.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 6 days ago:
There’s not much Krebs in it
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 1 week ago:
In a way, so is everything else.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 week ago:
No I didn’t, but you made me curious so I just looked it up.
It’s not a sound I remember hearing anywhere, but I certainly could have and not known what it was at the time so ignored it.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
As far as I know it’s not commonly used anywhere, and is mostly used for effect.
I think it used to be more common in my parents’ generation.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
English.
The word that’s throwing you off is probably wont
wont
(archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. - Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 2 weeks ago:
Australia.
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 2 weeks ago:
What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!
Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)
- Comment on Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets 3 weeks ago:
Wooo!
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 3 weeks ago:
True. Maybe ‘9 of 10 participants’.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 3 weeks ago:
The women are unlikely to think so.
It’s like the reverse of the well known statistic that nine out of ten people approve of gang rape.
- Comment on You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature 4 weeks ago:
" He… He’s a special ops trainer.
What was his name?Yeah. Jack Trainer.
So he’s a trainer named Jack Trainer?That’s how I have everybody in my phone. See, “Janice Mom.”
“Larry Doorknob.” “Stacy Butt Stuff.” "
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I do think it’s interesting that the original case was a person being refused service by companies instead of the other way around.
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
This is one of the things that could have been a nice feature, but the devs never fixed it.
It should let you set a default, and options in the list should include ‘detect from browser settings’, and ‘most recently selected’. (Default should be that one probably, but on the very first post it should detect it automatically.)
If they had done that, and encouraged the same in apps and other clients, then filtering by language would actually work and not exclude the vast majority of posts.
- Comment on When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch. 4 weeks ago:
Empirically it would seem that India is the most popular choice, followed very closely by China.
Amusingly, I think those are two of the places with a high percentage of belief in reincarnation.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
There are hundreds (at least!) versions of the bible, and that’s just in English. Would have to make sure it’s exactly the same one.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
It looks like a code even when not trying to.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
The concept for this is called Steganography and that article has several examples, but most would be difficult without tools/references.
The easiest would be stuff like using certain letters of words or word lengths as mentioned in some other comments here.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 1 month ago:
I’ve never liked this explanation because if that was all there was to it, it would still only localize to a slanted line in front of us.
Say for example the right ear is higher (I tried finding which one normally is, but couldn’t find a good answer) in this case it would not be feasible without other clues to tell the difference between a sound being higher up and slightly to the left, or lower and slightly to the right. It’s not a significantly different situation from the ears being the same height.
In reality there are other clues, largely based on the shape of our ears slightly changing the sound in learned ways based on the angle it comes from.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 1 month ago:
Toss a coin to your stripper, Oh valley of chintzy
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
That’s obviously not how the billionaires who create it would train it.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
I don’t get it.
Are you perhaps calling all of humanity a dragon?
- Comment on New Apple technology could allow social media apps to tell whether users are under 16 1 month ago:
Actually doesn’t sound too bad, just makes it a parental control thing.
The Google system mentioned at the end sounds like a nightmare of false positives and negatives.
- Comment on Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog 1 month ago:
That’s insane that they apparently replace the subject line. Completely irresponsible.
Should also be labeled as AI regardless. (Or ideally disabled, especially after incidents like this)
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 month ago:
The GPS ‘time zone’ does not account for leap seconds at all and is currently 18 seconds ahead of UTC. The GPS navigation messages from the satellites do however include the current offset.
- Comment on star bae 1 month ago:
Yes. 1/2 c is super fast still and gravity that strong would have effects like noticably bending outgoing light.
Neutron stars are right on the verge of becoming black holes and are incredible.
- Comment on HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Game Bundle - $25 for 30 games 2 months ago:
For some reason they don’t mention in the description that most or all of these games are not videogames, they are tabletop role playing game manuals. (The digital downloads are .pdf files)
Nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly seems like an important detail.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 2 months ago:
Whatever that is, I’d assume it’s a bad idea to drink it.
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 2 months ago:
The electrocution risk would actually last even after it’s unplugged: Power supplies can have big capacitors in them.