davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 days ago:
Clearly the directors are either making bad choices or choices that only make sense in an actual theater. (In my opinion it’s that first thing)
However this is implemented, it wouldn’t be the default volume control on the remote - that would stay as-is. I’m thinking an on-screen menu with clear labels or something.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 3 days ago:
I guess I’m not understanding your concerns. People with artistic skill can already do anything they want to any audio they want. (Note: that was Way before all this AI junk existed) And I don’t really see how this affects that much.
As for settings, I’m thinking three/four sliders. Much less than a graphic equalizer. It’s just volume control.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 4 days ago:
Here is my preferred solution that will never happen:
Divide all media audio into separate tracks for dialogue, music, sfx, etc., and let the users control the volume of each separately. To avoid having an easily ripped pure music track, perhaps premix the other tracks in at 10% or so (in a logarithmic scale) and make that the minimum volume of any track other than music.
- Comment on New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer 1 week ago:
It is very clearly written so individuals won’t be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can’t even be bought online in NY.
- Comment on Proof that the ICE victim was shot AFTER he was already disarmed 1 week ago:
The two that fired the shots have been named.
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 week ago:
Thankfully Costco stations don’t do that. I’ve not seen an ad at a pump in years.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 week ago:
That somehow doesn’t surprise me
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 week ago:
That’s true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the ‘normies’ (and to a lesser extent still are)
I actually did find “warez” on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ah, that makes sense
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 week ago:
Security by obscurity would have made a lot more sense before global communications allowed people to share the results of poking around like this.
Even after the Internet was invented probably 99% or more of users would have no clue about digging into the systems.
I’ve mentioned this before, but on one of my early contracts I found an ‘encryption’ function with a keyspace of 32… values. I don’t mean 32-bit. The key was prepended as the first byte to the stream, and the decryption function could accept the full 8-bit range.
Fortunately that was replaced by real encryption some time before I left. But I’m pretty sure nobody actually cracked it before then, because I think nobody thought to try it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What about a maze that adds a few hundred ms to the response time with each request, so the load gets less the longer it’s trapped?
- Comment on Booting from a vinyl record 3 weeks ago:
The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 3 weeks ago:
The title made me think you were looking for stuff like QWOP.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 weeks ago:
This is from November, and is about the ‘student accounts’ thing which doesn’t at all help the central issue of being forced to make an account to distribute your app
- Comment on pro choice 4 weeks ago:
… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)
- Comment on pro choice 4 weeks ago:
On the other hand, he Doesn’t think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there’s that.
- Comment on If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart. 4 weeks ago:
So clearly, Lasagna is a fruit cake.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 5 weeks ago:
If you are genuinely asking:
Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
What is it?
I know that Python is a programming language. I know what notebooks are generally, but I don’t know if there’s a more specific meaning for the two words together.
The community sidebar is also empty, at least in my client.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 month ago:
Genuinely surprised that nothing old-school made the list: NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, A2600, etc.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 month ago:
Interesting. Hadn’t heard that one. (Or the sentiment)
On a side note, these days I feel like something affecting someone personally means it’s more likely to move them left - see leopards and faces.
(Unless it’s a tax or regulation, perhaps that’s what Phil was thinking of)
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 month ago:
To most Americans (including myself before reading into it due to Lemmy) Liberal is simply a synonym of ‘left-wing’ and has no distinction at all from that and other terms like ‘leftist’, ‘progressive’, etc. All of these terms mean exactly “not conservative” - mostly in a social sense.
My (weak) understanding is that outside the US, Liberal is a (mostly) economic position - specifically one supportive of capitalism, which both major parties in the US are. (With slight policy differences.)
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 1 month ago:
I will never buy a phone directly through a carrier instead of the OEM. They are offering me some nice discounts right now, but I have no interest in a phone where I can’t unlock the bootloader. (Or the carrier lock!)
- Comment on The Necessity of Supernodes 2 months ago:
I don’t see a published date, but the newest reference listed appears to be 2004.
Seems to me like in the 20+ years since, DHTs were fixed to be more useful. (The one it describes sounds like Freenet instead of say tracker-free BitTorrent.)
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 months ago:
Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that’s not much more.
Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.
- Comment on We need a tag like /s but for non-rhetorical questions 2 months ago:
There’s [serious] - it started on Reddit (I think) but doesn’t need to stay there.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 2 months ago:
I think it’s because the studios/cable/etc tried to charge extra for 3D content compared to 2D. Ensured that demand for 3D was insufficient to make more content available for it.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
Ah, I got into the dailies immediately in both games, just part of playing for me.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
For me it’s Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It would be super easy to whale out and spend a bunch of money to get the characters and weapons I want, but I (almost 100%) limit myself to the basically fixed monthly costs.