ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 2 days ago:
As a listener, if a band I like is touring within 2 hours of where I live, I go see them live and get a shirt
I hope that’s helping them more than whether I listen to a scraped digital copy or not
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 3 days ago:
The high-res one also removes all the shadows, I assume the upscaling algorithm believed they were blur
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 days ago:
What this essentially means is that when the taskbar sits at the bottom, Windows and third-party apps know exactly how much horizontal space they have to work with.
Ah, so I assume they will remove support for any resolutions other than 1920x1080, since they need a consistent horizontal size, and that’s the most common.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 5 days ago:
On Roku branded TVs, it sounds like that just means you can’t use it for anything
If it doesn’t connect, it won’t let you switch inputs or anything until you connect your account
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 1 week ago:
I’m sure all the Tesla apologist that kept saying “it only has to be safer than a human” whenever we pointed out how poorly the Tesla self-driving system works will change their tune now.
… Right?
Some of the lidar based systems might work, but Musk’s “humans only have eyes, so we only need cameras” is unlikely to ever work
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 1 week ago:
I put the curl command to update my duckdns IP in cron about 13 years ago, and have never needed to touch it once.
It’s just worked for me
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how you got to “cars bad” when it explicitly talks about an increase from 2009, and that it’s the largest increase of vehicle fatalities.
Modern cars have significantly larger blind spots than cars from 2009, which is part of what they’re suggesting is the cause.
I’ve also seen other reports pointing out that the taller hood height is more likely to kill a pedestrian, rather than just injure them, in the case of a collision
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 month ago:
Valve doesn’t have stocks
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 month ago:
It’s been a few years, I dont know if they ever fixed it…
However, at least as of 2022, Wells Fargo (the 4th largest bank), had case insensitive passwords.
If you made your password
hUnTer2, you could also log in withHUNTER2,hunter2,HUntEr2, etc. - Comment on If it's the lower jaw doing the biting, are we using underbite and overbite, backwards? 1 month ago:
Wait, you lost me. Which is on which horizontal plane?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
*backed off on 7 ?
I think you’re also overlooking that the driver model changed for Vista, so tons of hardware listed as supporting Vista was just extremely unstable at release until hardware vendors figured out the new driver model
- Comment on LineageOS 23 2 months ago:
They’ve been working towards killing it for 10+ years.
It does seem like we’re nearing the completion of their goals
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
You’ve always been able to navigate to
about:profilesas well - Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 months ago:
We’ll just set up another retrospective meeting and have a lessons learned.
Then we won’t change anything based off the findings of the retro and lessons learned.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 2 months ago:
343 needs to go back and rewatch the VODs Bungie put out explaining their weapons triangle, and the reason for shields and armor
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 2 months ago:
Frets on Fire is the one I knew of back when Guitar hero was at its peak
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 2 months ago:
Don’t forget to hit the sigils with lightning
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Canceled that one back when they fired Jon Stewart because he wanted to report on China and Israel
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Their point is Disney owns 100% as of 2023
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 months ago:
I moved somewhere where signs over a certain height (maybe 8 feet?) are illegal.
It’s glorious
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 months ago:
That is part of the genre, yeah.
They’re procedurally generated within a range of possible effects and damage based off the “manufacturer” in-game
You’ll end up finding one you really like and using it for like 5 levels, while selling other loot, until you find one that jives more with your play style and is more powerful than your current loadout
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 months ago:
::: spoiler If you’re having trouble with red flower buds, maybe explore a different area.
I found them much easier after I unlocked some other things :::
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
If you truly understand the historical context of how calling it “jaywalking” rather than what it was at the time has been used to change the cultural narrative, and you understand how Google (and Apple) are trying to say “sideloading” is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed on their devices, but can’t get to how that shift in narrative is being used… I agree, there’s no point in continuing
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
If you actually care, you can start with things like “walkable cities,” look at city planning before Ford made it illegal, look into how NYC has made it no longer a crime, etc.
It doesn’t actually seem like you do, though
Ford’s work to reframe the action caused massive changes to urban planning, mostly for the worse.
Their work to change cultural views are apparently so strong, you can’t see how changing the language around it was “inaccurate or inappropriate”
That’s what Google is doing to the average user for “sideloading” - in a few generations, people will be saying it shouldn’t be allowed
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
It wasn’t a word for crossing the street until Ford wanted to make it illegal to cross the street.
Maybe that’s the historical context you’re missing
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
Which is why I linked two articles discussing the history of the term “jay” and how and why it was used to essentially mean “a stupid person”
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
It’s extremely on topic for the thread you responded to.
Google has a concerted effort to make “sideloading” bad, so they can remove it without public backlash
The next comment in the chain mentioned how auto manufacturers did the same thing, villainizing people using public spaces by calling it “jaywalking” until it became illegal to walk on public roads
That was done to take public spaces away from pedestrians and give it to cars
This is being done to take software outside of Google Play away and give the only profit to google
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
I assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like
The industry hired actors dressed in old-fashioned clothing to illegally cross streets, making the behavior seem outdated
missedhistory.com/…/lobbying-trick-blamed-pedestr…
“Jay” had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road
jaywalker was pre-dated by jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws by driving on the wrong side of the road
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 3 months ago:
Even with the PS4, the bluray couldn’t play the game.
It had to install to the internal drive and download updates
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 3 months ago:
Their point is that you don’t understand why you can’t cite any encyclopedia, not just Wikipedia.
It has nothing to do with the reliability, you just need to cite their source (the primary source) instead of citing the middle man.