Synthead
@Synthead@lemmy.world
- Comment on Learning the Python 10 months ago:
Aw what a beautiful snake
- Comment on Do you actually own anything digital? 10 months ago:
I do.
- Comment on What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home 10 months ago:
Data center heat, with a little external help, warms homes of nearby residents. Nothing unusual or interesting.
Saved you a click.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 10 months ago:
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that you are obligated to host a platform so shitty people can use it to share shitty ideals. It simply means that you won’t get arrested on a federal level.
Websites can do whatever they want, including deciding that they don’t want to be a platform for hate speech. If people are seeking a place for this conversation genre to happen, and they want it enough, they can run their own website.
Imagine if you invited a friend of a friend over, and they were sharing nasty ideals at your Christmas party. And they brought their friends. Are you just going to sit there and let them turn your dinner into a political rally? No, you’re going to kick them out. It’s your dinner, like it is your website. If you don’t kick them out, then at some level, you’re aligning with them.
- Comment on Mercedes-Benz debuts turquoise exterior lights to indicate the car is self-driving | A visual indicator for other drivers 11 months ago:
You’re still the driver in the self-driving car. If someone honks, you have pedals and a wheel in front of you. It always comes down to driver neglect. It’s like blaming the cruise control for speeding, but giving cruise control more responsibilities.
- Comment on Google to pay $700 million in case over whether its app store is an illegal monopoly 11 months ago:
Wrong app store
- Comment on Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia 11 months ago:
Yep! My OLED TV has sat around at 100% with a taskbar sitting there for more than 5 years. No burn in at all. I’ve even watched those “burn in tester” videos to try to find it on purpose, too. I can’t notice a thing.
- Comment on Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia 11 months ago:
Burn in is pretty much a solved problem now. I have several OLED devices that each display static graphics and there is no visible burn in.
- Comment on FastCompany: E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance 11 months ago:
Keep your ebook readers dumb and use them offline. Load them up with books and read them.
- Comment on What are some essential browser extensions for "quieting down" the internet? 11 months ago:
Yep
- Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 11 months ago:
Yeah it’s an interesting project, but it looks bad with the printed case and exposed tract switches, and seems to have little functionality.
- Comment on How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals 11 months ago:
With plasma.
Saved you a click. The article is still good, though.
- Comment on The story of the name of the "fsck" command 11 months ago:
Yeah, this redirect is very uncool. Go to hachyderm.io/@robpike/111593487329402102 instead.
- Comment on Software update crashes city of Seattle websites 11 months ago:
Looks like they need to learn a thing or two about redundancy and fail-overs
- Comment on can chromeos be hacked?? 11 months ago:
Exactly. Just be responsible and don’t do anything dumb with your security. Do the typical stuff right like using a password manager and updating your software often. With your programming, don’t skip ssl validation, don’t have unauthenticated connections that matter, don’t shell out, etc. On your local system, use permissions correctly, keep a local firewall, and all that good stuff. You should be fine, but it’s never 100%.
- Comment on Creating a torrent that includes all of humanity's knowledge/art/entertainment? 11 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled 11 months ago:
A fuse is just a fuse. It can be used for circuit protection, but it doesn’t have to be. For example, a transistor doesn’t have to be an amplifier, a resistor doesn’t have to be for dimming bulbs, etc.
- Comment on AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled 11 months ago:
“fuse” implies that the CPU will stop working
It’s just an electronic component, like resistors and transistors.
- Comment on Why does markdown always format bullets wrong? 11 months ago:
It’s due to shitty rendering of Markdown. You’re doing it right. File bugs where you see it rendered funny.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
You do have a right to your computer. After content is delivered to you, you have downloaded data, and your own hardware and software acts to consume said downloaded data. After it is downloaded, even if it is in a browser in a cache, it is considered offline content. This also applies to streaming media chunks, too: once it’s downloaded, you have acquired it locally.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
I don’t personally enjoy the status quo, but they’re not obligated to serve me any videos of they don’t want to. However, if they have given me media to consume on my devices, it’s up to me to decide how I consume the media that was already delivered.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
That’s exactly what I said, yeah
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Yep, they can send me 500s if they want to, too
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 11 months ago:
I sure do, although OLEDs pretty much have an infinite black level, and the color range is unparalleled to LCDs.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Whatever happens on my browser is client side, which is hardware and software I own. I can make what I own do what I want. It’s a right. It’s like Google saying that I can’t skim a magazine in my home, and that I must read the ads.
- Comment on Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them 11 months ago:
What OS?
- Comment on Intel Commits Sudoku 11 months ago:
You’re awesome, thanks!
- Comment on Intel Commits Sudoku 11 months ago:
The video title is:
Intel’s Snake Oil & Completely Insane Anti-AMD Marketing
You can still edit the title if you’d like.
- Comment on Intel Commits Sudoku 11 months ago:
Intel Commits Sudoku
Making your own clickbait?
- Comment on Formally known as Twitter 11 months ago:
X is a confusing name, and news articles want to write clear content. That is all.
