paraphrand
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- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 3 days ago:
Ironic.
- Comment on Starfield's abandoned gore and dismemberment system sure would have made it less grey 6 days ago:
Tech issues! It’s the most advanced version of their pile of tech ever, right?
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 week ago:
They are also important for VR content. You need a lot of pixels to fill someone’s Field of View.
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 2 weeks ago:
They basically walk through all that in the video version. Including playing clips of companies saying their raised prices are sticky, and they expect more profit as a result when inflation cools.
They should that percentage stuff in an animated graphical explanation of passing costs through to the customer.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Social media should never be someone’s primary website too. IMO. But people are lazy.
They don’t even want email anymore, they want you to message them with X or Instagram or whatever.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
RSS really should be more common.
You use your get RSS feeds for Twitter accounts. AFAIR. So Twitter accounts were effectively RSS notification feeds at one point.
Aaron Swartz was involved in developing RSS v1.0 too, cofounder of Reddit.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
I hope many organizations and groups follow suit.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
This is part of the fall of Twitter.
There were two paths for Twitter, in the eyes of many idealistic people like me. One path was something terrible like what happened with Musk. The second path was one that treated it as a public commons of the world.
That second path is how many grew to understand Twitter during its rise and peak. This is why there are so many situations where various public and governmental groups used it as a notification feed/system.
You can go on about how they should just start their own ActivityPub based solution, or move to bluesky or whatever. But it’s not that simple.
The article could have easily been just as absurd if it was about how people didn’t get the alert because the alerts were moved to a mastodon instance and people are upset because they don’t want to have to go through the trouble of picking a server. heh.
It’s so unfortunate that Twitter went this way. No more free and easy api, no more third party apps and tools. No more expectation that everyone is there. No more expectation that public alerts make sense there.
Yes, centralizing all of this is a big problem. And musk is just one example of why. But, it could have gone the other way.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
Well, now that everything is C we can have bidirectional cables.
Eventually we will have devices with just USB C on them. And many chargers have USB-C on their end now too.
It’s going to all shift to USB-C. And A will slowly go away. Maybe very slowly, but it will.
USB-A ports will go away in cars. And then it’s again just C on both ends.
You don’t see this transition happening around you? I sure do.
One Cable and Connector to Rule Them All.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
Did I get micro wrong? I mean the one the PS4 controllers had. I’m just comparing it to past standards.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 2 weeks ago:
Fuck that. Not cool.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a weird state of things. But not really, when you think about other cable standards.
It’s interesting how USB, and now USB-C is becoming a standard power delivery interface. Even for things that have no “smart” features. I’m actually interested in getting USB-C wall outlets. In a few places.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m not use to having this variability in build quality of USB ports, or Lightning ports.
I’m use to it either always being shit (micro-usb) or almost always fine unless an incident damages the port. USB-A is rock solid, relatively speaking.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, in my case I legit thought he intentionally didn’t mention PayPal. Turns out I stopped watching the video _just _ before he does mention it, in the last minute of the video.
- Comment on Alcohol should have cancer warning label: US surgeon general 2 weeks ago:
Not drinking might be a key reason the guy is still alive.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
You have to admit, it seems very unlikely though, right?
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
Lightning and barrel connectors are pretty solid.
Micro USB is worse than USB-C for sure. See my other comment on this post.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 2 weeks ago:
Anecdotally, both Valve and Meta have struggled with the durability of USB-C on their Index Controllers and Quest headsets respectively.
When used with a device that will move around, and maybe bump into things, USB-C can be easily shorted out leading to melted connections.
I also find the USB-C port on the PS5 controller isn’t 100% stable too. I use it with a cable on my PC.
Micro USB was worse about connection stability. But I’m not aware of it easily melting ports.
The USB-C connections Apple makes seem to be to a higher standard than all the ports I just mentioned. It is possible to make solid ones. But it seems you need to intentionally do so.
Does anyone else aware of anecdotal USB-C durability issues? It seems like the port is fine, but only when it’s reinforced/high quality.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit, I missed it then.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
When MKB commented on the situation, he avoided dropping the name PayPal. Seemingly on purpose. Just in case it would help him in the future.
- Comment on GTA3 on the Sega Dreamcast is incredible 2 weeks ago:
I like how he mentions the fact you can’t save yet near the end of the video, and frames it as maybe just him. “Oh, it’s an alpha of course”
Impressive port, for sure. But YouTubers…. Optimizing scripts for runtime engagement.
- Comment on UFO expert not ruling out Russia or China links to drones seen at RAF bases 1 month ago:
They like to rule out debunks, often times.
- Comment on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers 1 month ago:
Nice
- Comment on Finally found it. Darmok and Jalad would be proud. 1 month ago:
I accidentally watched this episode while half asleep the other day.
- Comment on ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year 1 month ago:
Two years is fine.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 month ago:
I didn’t say it was an issue. I just said it was a strange feeling to know AI is watching us talk past each other.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 month ago:
I’ve found myself thinking “well, you just helped teach the AI about that one…” various times when reading content online.
It’s a strange thing to know that a form of the basilisk is real. Things posted will help AI get better, if only my teeny tiny increments each time.
- Comment on Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage 1 month ago:
Sounds like something someone blindly mocking Apple would joke about them releasing
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 1 month ago:
I’ve never heard this before. And I use it on a VR headset. It’s actually louder than another option I have.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
The USB-C one is a great deal, and good quality. If you need one for other devices too.