cole

@cole@lemdro.id

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  right but unless you sign a contributor licensing agreement when you contribute then the copyright owner can’t relicense code you contributed.

  so if you contribute to a GPL codebase it’s pretty legally perilous to try to unilaterally relicense code that isn’t “yours”.

  this is pretty nebulous territory anyways, but I’d argue it’s pretty unethical to relicense to a more restrictive license essentially “taking” the GPL code from contributors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I work with a lot of gen z engineers that are very competent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, with the current network this is true. I guess it feels like you’re discounting the future growth of the constellation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beam steering largely mitigates most of these problems. Fiber is definitely more scalable, but also far more expensive (somehow…) to provide last mile to the entire planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that might as well be AI generated. there are no numbers, just some dumb matrix with arbitrary reasoning and now evidence. I’m all for evidence to the contrary, but this is not that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to know a lot about these limits, can you elaborate?

  I don’t think there are actual physics limitations on network capacity right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ah. tailscale is great for that. I personally just leave my home assistant exposed behind a reverse proxy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need anything other than home assistant though, right? the companion apps already just do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google map’s location sharing does not even impact battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I just edit Google maps when it’s wrong.

  I’d rather be contributing that effort to open street maps, but there just aren’t great turn-by-turn apps for that imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they do that without any monetary incentive at all?

  I mean, I guess what I’m saying is if you can post to YouTube and get paid, why would you intentionally choose to post to PeerTube and not get paid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree! I love this effort, but haven’t been able to switch off of Google Maps yet since I don’t find them to work as well for public transit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite apps for public transit and bike navigation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly? I just use Google Maps. It prioritizes putting me on protected bike lanes and even shows me on my route where I’d be protected, just in a painted bike lane, or amongst cars.

  I’ve never been unhappy with Google Maps public transit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mullvad's ads are good⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only use SponsorBlock because I do not use adblock. I pay for YT Premium, and YT Premium views are worth far more than ad-driven views. I don’t like paying for something and seeing ads so I skip sponsor spots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  categorically false. literally do a little bit of research. it is stored on-device entirely now, and Google has no access to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  source: xkcd.com/932/

  (for those that want to read the alt-text)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  100Mbit/s is plenty for streaming even 8k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking for a “gotcha” here but my whole point is that people are judging SpaceX entirely on Elon being involved, rather than it’s actual merits.

  My opinion shouldn’t matter here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please read a bit about Gwynne Shotwell. She’s amazing and runs the company very competently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  SpaceX ≠ Elon Musk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s not fair to say that iteration doesn’t ever include any steps back. Development isn’t always straightforward and it doesn’t always go perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  repeating the same thing does not make your point stronger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not evidence to the contrary, especially when the company is intentionally trying to find the limits on a development article.

  Falcon 9 (the only rocket they actually sell launches on) is one of the most reliable launch vehicles in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to be this guy, but this is just… not true. That’s not how this works at all. How is the government giving SpaceX money outside of a contract? They aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry… dick rocket? Your issue with SpaceX is that the rockets are… rocket shaped?

  Like everything else notwithstanding, physics dictates the shapes of these things. That is why they all look rather… dick-ish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which… is mostly what SpaceX already is. It’s a privately owned company, and the employees own a huge amount of the shared

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry… you don’t think employees who are achieving world firsts are allowed to celebrate?

  You must be fun at parties

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they all burn up, that article does not dispute that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to hear more about this conspiracy theory, can you elaborate?

  I think it’s hilarious that you think some Starlink satellites AREN’T designed to burn up. They all will, someday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It means it burns up on re-entry and doesn’t litter the earth