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- Comment on It's true. 11 months ago:
This feels like something that could be brought up on Lower Decks.
- Comment on Alexander did not like making snowmen after that 11 months ago:
Kligon kids.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws | Privacy advocates argue YouTube’s ad blocker restrictions violate the European Union’s online privacy laws. 1 year ago:
Sounds like a good time to be a VPN provider.
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
Beyond what everyone else has said, it has already been shown that LLMs have a chance of regurgitating training data, which means that someone’s personal data could get returned in a Bing Chat query.
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
Done the third
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Right? I don’t know anything about Welder’s Eye, but I know ultraviolet light is invisible to humans, so I’d imagine that most people present wouldn’t notice anything wrong until hours later. Once you know this can happen, you just have to trust that all the places you go aren’t putting your health at risk. Insane.
- Comment on WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’ 1 year ago:
Hold on, the kid from Home Alone works for Facebook now?
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 1 year ago:
ReVanced is by far one of the best solutions.
- Comment on Rather testy attitude as well 1 year ago:
I’m not a raccoon!
- Comment on YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge 1 year ago:
Nope, that’s not what uBlock is saying. YouTube rolls out new adblock detection several times a day. uBlock can’t stop it instantly, it takes time for the devs to adjust their code. So for a few hours, YouTube’s detection works. If you haven’t been caught yet, then it means you’ve been lucky to get the rollout after uBlock already had a fix. Some of us aren’t that lucky. Last week, I got an early rollout several hours before uBlock had a patch. Turned off all my extensions, used default uBlock settings, all their suggestions, had no effect. A few hours later, uBlock had a fix and I didn’t see YouTube’s block anymore.
- Comment on Parents!! Make sure you check your kid's candy thoroughly this year!! Look what i just found in my son's Reese's Peanut Butter Cup!! 1 year ago:
This sounds like something out of the Fazbear Frights books.
- Comment on I refuse to believe this show is this funny 1 year ago:
Lower Decks is like if Rick and Morty didn’t make me sick.
- Comment on Gene Roddenberry's first sci-fi show pitch from 1955: "The Transporter" 1 year ago:
The ending bits that imply a darker vision of this future suggests a very different direction for the show. Still, there are Star Trek episodes that do consider the holodeck from this angle. Maybe we need a mirror universe holodeck episode.
- Comment on Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools | Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic 1 year ago:
A couple years ago, Apple announced a program to let people buy replacement parts for their devices just as Congress was talking about right to repair. The program ended up having tons of limitations: very small part selection, and prices identical to Apple’s own repair prices, etc. It was clear that this was an attempt to make it seem like they allowed end-user repair, while doing as much as possible to prevent it. Apple still uses software pairing so that you can’t use working components from donor devices. You can’t swap the camera module between two identical iPhones without getting errors, and this can only be fixed by getting Apple’s help. They are going out of their way to stop independent repair, and have been for some time.
So what’s the catch this time? I suspect it’s probably more software restrictions. Currently, nobody can sell aftermarket parts for most phones, so any replacement parts need to come from Apple (and with Apple’s restrictions). I’d want to see legislation to ban software locks and enable third parties to make replacement parts for phones.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2 player feedback 1 year ago:
I don’t like how we have 2 games called CS2 in the same year. Since Cities has worse performance, I say we all agree to abbreviate it some other way, like 2 Cities 2 Skylines.
- Comment on Mr. Thor? 1 year ago:
…Mister Rogers in a blood-stained sweater
- Comment on Moopsy Break! 1 year ago:
My head cannon is that moopsies were invented by Section 31 as weaponized tribbles.
- Comment on Duolingo focusing on the important phrases to learn 1 year ago:
PETA, is that you?
- Comment on The citrus gives it toxic damage too 1 year ago:
Aperture Science’s legal representatives would like to know your location.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
I believe Ublock has patched this now, you can update to the newest version and reset the extension and it should work.
- Comment on Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh 1 year ago:
Tyler McVicker talks about this in one of his more recent videos, from the last week or so. IIRC, the hardware is nearly identical to Steam Deck, but slightly faster so it can handle higher resolutions.
- Comment on Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh 1 year ago:
Watch SadlyItsBradley and TylerMcVicker on YouTube, these are the guys who actually datamine SteamVR and SteamOS for themselves. They’re both saying Steam Deck 2 is not currently in developed. The thing Valve is currently working on is actually a console-like machine running slightly more powerful hardware, plus Valve’s upcoming VR headset.
- Comment on US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network 1 year ago:
space.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-collision-ale…
According to this article, Starlink satellites are involved in over 1,600 close encounters (within 1 kilometer or 0.6 miles) each week.
- Comment on US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network 1 year ago:
That’s not the Musk space debris we should be concerned about. The car is orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars, extremely unlikely to be a problem for anyone. A needle in a planet full of haystacks.
Starlink, on the other hand, is several hundreds of satellites orbiting in a shell in low Earth orbit. Close calls happen all the time with these.
- Comment on US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network 1 year ago:
That would make sense - the fine should be enough to pay for the satellite’s disposal.
- Comment on Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 1 year ago:
All of them!
Linux and Linux distros are generally designed to be hardware-agnostic, and generally works just fine on very old components. I’m currently running the current version of Ubuntu on a used U1 server from ~2013, no issues, no headaches. It just works. Grab any Windows PC from the last 20 years, you won’t have any compatibility issues running most Linux distros, though some distros might expect more performance. Linux Mint is fairly lightweight.
- Comment on Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 1 year ago:
Oh yeah, its absolutely not a huge deal if you already have a chromebook and just want to keep using it. But if I’m buying a new laptop and I know that putting another OS on it will be unnecessarily difficult, I’m just going to pick a different laptop.
- Comment on Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 1 year ago:
Possible != easy. Putting Linux on any old Windows PC is dead easy, takes not even half an hour. Linux on a Chromebook? Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.
- Comment on Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 1 year ago:
Unless you can easily upgrade the RAM, Storage, and replace the OS when it loses support, it’s still ewaste.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
I believe they meant that bluetooth headphones need to be charged, while wired ones just run off the phone’s battery. Sure, the amount of power consumed might not be that different (though bluetooth will still be more), but its easier for the user to just charge one device.