davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 21 hours ago:
“Sleepy”?
- Comment on every time 2 days ago:
You know sonic booms? This is basically like ‘optical booms’ from radiation in water that’s traveling faster than the speed-of-light-in-water (which is less than the speed of light in a vacuum)
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 5 days ago:
So I notice one bit of missing information: where is that place?
Besides curiosity, there’s also the practical question of whether it’s the right one to sign up for:
Say I encounter one named “Springfield” - how would I know which of the 93 (in the US alone) it is?I propose having a map on the About page showing the area covered, with the ability to zoom out and see which state/province/etc, which country, and which continent.
- Comment on I wonder when someone is gonna make a parody porn called "The Gooners" based on the 1980s movie "The Goonies"? 5 days ago:
I guess you haven’t heard of Avenue Q?
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 1 week ago:
It is cute when they curl up into a ball.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Basically just host a blog and on it say outrageous things about something obscure (such as yourself) and wait for it to be picked up.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 2 weeks ago:
My Lemmy client shows a page summary (guess it’s in the header or something):
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I’m not the only one.
My immediate response is: Yes of course, just ask it questions.
The actual article is interesting though. They mean poisoning the data it scrapes intentionally and super easily.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking Hammond - old and rich (at least beforehand)
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 3 weeks 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 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That somehow doesn’t surprise me
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks ago:
Ah, that makes sense
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 5 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)
- Comment on pro choice 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
So clearly, Lasagna is a fruit cake.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 1 month ago:
If you are genuinely asking:
Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.
- Comment on 1 month 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.)