Takumidesh
@Takumidesh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 4 weeks ago:
Let me just rake up all this sand and grass clippings.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 weeks ago:
Generally pedestrians have the right of way at crossings (unless it’s controlled with a light) in my state and neighboring states, most crosswalks even have signs that inform you to yield to pedestrians.
- Comment on Day one and done 5 weeks ago:
You go to new York and just immediately get bombarded with pizza, when you get off the plane they put a pizza around your neck.
- Comment on Day one and done 5 weeks ago:
Well, it would be faster if I didn’t need to drive 4 hours for a 7/11, but I get ya.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 month ago:
So the scenario is A) you have transitions that work 90% of the time and a pair of prescription sunglasses for the times they don’t Or B) you have regular glasses, and still have prescription sunglasses.
Option a means 90% of the time you don’t need to carry an additional pair of glasses with you.
I used transition lenses for a decade, they are great.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 month ago:
They influence the people watching them.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Well traditionally, cars only had one trunk, now it is common that they have two. The need arose to distinguish them, and ‘front trunk’ easily collapses into a nice single syllable portmanteau that makes communication simple and concise; the language evolves and a new word is born.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 1 month ago:
I wasn’t attacking you, or even referring to you as a dev, though it would have been a fair assumption regardless given the topic at hand.
I also wasn’t claiming ‘hard labor’ is better or anything, just that there is a large discrepancy between the quality of life and work of the jobs the article is referring to and the jobs that the majority of people actually work.
Many software developers need perspective on the privilege they have, this is coming from someone who has worked a variety of jobs in different industries, attended trade school and university, and is currently a developer.
Fwiw I was generally agreeing with you.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Generally green means go and red means no-go, regardless of which is the desired outcome.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 1 month ago:
devs are such babies. I went to school and got licensed as an a&p (9 part proctored exam with written, practical, and oral components) and was working in the weather for $16 an hour, working my way up and dodging layoffs (which dont make it in the news because blue collar) to 25 an hour after years and years.
This is working as an aircraft mechanic, at various levels. This is a high hazard environment filled with carcinogens (solvents like methyl ethyl ketone), fall hazards, operating heavy equipment.
I got qualifications like engine run and taxi qualifications that result in $0.25 raises.
Mandatory overtime, busting knuckles, freezing in the cold, boiling in the heat, standing on concrete all day.
Oh and if I fuck up, planes crash, people die, and I go to jail.
I got a job as a software developer in the same area working for a medium sized company no one has heard of (300 person engineering department) and I work 8 hours a week, with no deadlines, at home, and make 3 times the salary. The worst I have to do with is identity politics and stupid meetings, 🤷.
These jobs are absolutely dream jobs for people who have perspective on what bad jobs actually are.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Dark souls players in shambles.
- Comment on President Biden is now posting into the fediverse 2 months ago:
Because it’s his title. Regardless of where you live.
We still say King Charles or President Macron.
- Comment on Finland detects more GPS jammers as drivers increasingly try to hide their tracks | Yle News | Yle 2 months ago:
Can you elaborate? Is it illegal to have security cameras in a business if that means that an employee may be on it?
- Comment on Finland detects more GPS jammers as drivers increasingly try to hide their tracks | Yle News | Yle 2 months ago:
When you have a fleet of 500 vehicles all over the place at various stages work. Calling each one isn’t really practical.
Managing fleets of vehicles is greatly helped by knowing where the vehicles are.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
But that will only happen when the user base falls, so enough people will have had to move on organically, for popular tools like web browsers to give up.
Firefox didn’t end windows 7 support until July of last year. 3 years after eol for 7 and when 7’s market share among windows was around 3 percent.
And just eol’ing Firefox doesn’t immediately break it, you will have at least a couple years before the browser becomes functionally useless.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
Some very small percentage of people will switch to Linux, the majority of people will just continue to use windows 10.
- Comment on Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery 3 months ago:
Ok I’m pretty sure I understand most of who you are talking about, but can you tell me who the conspiracy theorist was?
And with the alcoholic I assume you mean Geoff? It’s funny, because he ultimately became one of the only few people I actually really wanted to listen to in the last 4ish years, I don’t think his sabbatical and ultimate recovery is much of a controversy, more just personal issues that he dealt with. He seemed to be one of the few that really still believed in the company.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
The cost of the cable maybe, not the cost of all the ancillary work.
Most people have or want cameras in places where it won’t be particularly easy to run wires, like door frames for door bells, and outside walls with insulation and various utilities in the way.
Other people live where they can’t do it at all (an apartment)
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
Most regular door locks are easy to pick.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
I don’t love somewhere where people dress up as Scooby Doo villains to break into houses, I live in a place where people go house to house at 1 am and try door handles on cars and garages. A motion light and a camera does more to stop those people than anything else.
If someone wants to stage an organized heist, then yea, my camera isn’t doing shit, but neither are my door locks, or a bolted down safe. At that point it is just an insurance game.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
I think the most primary thing of all is that, most people don’t have the means to run Ethernet cables to places that typical cameras are installed (doorbells and garage floodlights)
It’s a catch 22 though. Ok one hand, every single person in my neighborhood has multiple cameras on their property now and even when I lived in an apartment complex, everyone had a camera at their doorbell, but they all are usually ring or some other subscription based, phone home type.
Do WiFi cameras present a new attack vector, yea for sure. Is having a WiFi camera that could be disabled better than not having a camera at all (what was the reality 5 years ago), hard to say.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yea android was the same, those huge changes were the result of an emerging tech that we (the population at large) hadn’t really figured out yet.
Smartphones are entering maturity so it makes sense to me that changes become smaller and move slower, any given update pushed out affects a billion people.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 4 months ago:
It’s pretty difficult, you need to get the rolling code from the fob, but you also need to jam it so it doesn’t reach the car.
Then you have one opportunity to replay the code before the holder of the fob hits the button in range and rolls the code over.
So even if you manage to set that up that only gets you in the car, it doesn’t get it started.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 4 months ago:
People on here are wired.
Air pods just look like regular apple headphones just without wires.
They sure as shit look less goofy than my huge pixel buds that stuck an inch out of my ear.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 4 months ago:
I’m sorry, but do you just talk to strangers on the subway?
We already have smartphones that everyone is looking at anyway.
Before that we had newspapers.
You are making up an imaginary dystopia to peddle fear for no reason.
- Comment on Oui 4 months ago:
They are replying to the story, which is what has the pics, so the pictures belong to the person on the right side.
- Comment on Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue 4 months ago:
Yea, the government never, ever, ever has outdated definitions, and moves sluggishly in relation to changing technology.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
A radio station is a small selection of music curated by an individual and meant for the masses.
Modern music streaming has dynamically curated music from a nearly infinite source, it’s really not the same.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February 4 months ago:
It’s actually making me mad how close this was to my onboarding experience when I first started working with PLCs.
The test setup especially. Having to create this complex pseudo machine in order to make a preliminary proof of concept, only to find my IO block poached off my desk the next morning because someone else needed one.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February 4 months ago:
Also, fuck having to deal with stl and ladder logic, if the industry minded towards more common languages and frameworks, you wouldn’t need to have mechanical engineers learning plc programming, you could have actual developers working on it.
Every second that I had to spend on software like tia portal drove me further and further away from industrial automation