RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on In old movies, it's only creepy rich people who have cameras in their house watching everything. Now everybody's creepy. 1 week ago:
Cameras in the house is still creepy. Even baby monitors have been getting hacked for many years already.
Here’s a good example why not to do that: friend was in the process of divorce from a douche spouse, who was technically skilled and had installed security cameras inside and outside the house. They all left them in place knowingly, and the douche spouse who had to move out kept watching the family inside the house and bringing up things that happened in private. I was like “WTF unplug that shit”
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
Yep the difference for our setup was going from 12-18 hour full charge times (Level 1) to about 6 hours on Level 2. L1 charger could only put out 12 amps at 120v, and while the L2 charger can do up to 50A of 240v power, our vehicle can only use about a third of that capacity at max draw.
So as the video’s topic covers, we didn’t need a 50A circuit for Level 2 charging on our limited vehicle. But I put in a full 50A circuit anyway so now I can eventually upgrade our other car to electric or PHEV and be ready for whatever those need.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 1 week ago:
MP3 players aren’t bad, they’re just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.
I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music if I pay at all.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 1 week ago:
Quite possibly so. The real question is where in the shit are those motherfuckers gonna cook a pizza?
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Update 1.1 (Beta) 2 weeks ago:
The scroll duping was patched but there’s a similar one you can do with dropping item stacks into an empty container. Holding shift and dragging a multi-stack over to the container, clicking another item to dupe.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
That’s technically true but the default experience would be a challenge for most noobs. It takes a bit of work to get apps for typical stuff, have to go get Fdroid and allow install from other sources etc
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
They have always had good hardware I think, but their firmware and apps went total shit years ago. I liked their old ones like the S5 and S4 that had notification LEDs and unlockable bootloaders for custom ROMs
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
Novels are also not made to teach people how to read, but reading them does help the reader practice their reading skills. Beside that point, Wikipedia is not hard to understand in the first place.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Yes, because here in the capitalist USA I am free to choose what phone and carrier I use, and what OS and software my phone have on them. The free market decided that I should have access to bootloader unlockable phones with open source OS and zero shitty Facebook apps spying on me.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Reading skills are improved by being challenged by complex language, and the effort required to learn new words to comprehend it. If the reader is interested in the content, they aren’t going to skip it. Dumbing things down only leads to dumbing things down.
For example, look at all the iPad kids who can’t use a computer for shit. Kids who grew up with computers HAD to learn the more complex interface of computers to be able to do the cool things they wanted to do on the computer. Now they don’t because they don’t have to. Therefore if you get everything dumbed down to 5th Grade reading level, that’s where the common denominator will settle. Overcoming that apathy requires a challenge to be a barrier to entry.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
If people use AI to summarize passages of written words to be simpler for those with poor reading skills to be able to more easily comprehend the words, then how are those readers going to improve their poor reading skills?
Dumbing things down with AI isn’t going to make people smarter I bet. This seems like accelerating into Idiocracy
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
Good News! Cigarette Juice!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Send a DMCA takedown notice. If you are the copyright holder, it should be legit and they will have to process it quickly.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
Dude we only need a few small nuclear reactors to power this new chatbot though
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
IDK that kinda depends on the writer and their style. Concise is usually a safe bet for easy reading, but doesn’t leave room for a lot of fancy details. When I think verbose vs concise I think about Frank Herbert and Kurt Vonnegut for reference.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
I agree, when the government is inherently immoral (currently being run by fucking Nazis) the moral act is to defy it.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s only more difficult for those without the skills to use the Index or Table of Contents in a book. Which is not really much of a difficult skill to learn. You pretty much need to know about alphabetical order and how one is at the front and the other is at the end of the book.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
Well, here’s how you figure that out - think about it with your brain. Should children and young adults be given materials and assignments that require them to use thinking and develop their brains, or should they be given machines to do their thinking for them so that it’s easier to complete schoolwork?
One route develops valuable brain skills that can be useful for life, and the other teaches dependency on fancy machines to accomplish the same.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
AI is bullshit and has no place in a school curriculum outside of computer science. Keep that shit away from children if you want them to have any critical thinking skills.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 5 weeks ago:
Micro solar is doable for anyone with yard space though. Forget the grid and buy some battery storage, put all the electronics into a small shed (like a garbage can box or something, an enclosure to keep out rain). Put up panels anywhere you want. Run the inverter output into your house.
- Comment on Good shit 1 month ago:
Apparently it’s a manly man who does note receive negative man points for eating yogurt like a sissy. Non-yogurt males can only eat manly meats and must achieve constipation.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic 1 month ago:
Norman Reedus and the Funky Feetus 2: Death Gear Boogaloo
More Metal Gear-like sounds awesome. Article mentions equipment customization, more weapons, camo options for stealth etc.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 month ago:
That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn’t buy any of those but the butter.
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 1 month ago:
That’s a good point, that is possible but not absolutely certain. I could probably get a smaller version of the wikipedia dump to fit on a BD-R disc but not 69GB.
USB drive or SD card archival might require a 6-month maintenance routine of inserting into a computer and verifying the files are still present etc.
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 1 month ago:
Surely that won’t rile up any conspiracy theories
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 1 month ago:
I did already, tried the XOWA client to run a local copy on my PC. Wasn’t as easy as I hoped but it worked.
Planning to get a couple of USBs stashed away with full copies of Wikipedia and the reader app for knowledge security. You can fit the whole thing with a working installation onto a 128GB USB or less. My install dir was about 69GB total.
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 1 month ago:
The difference is that in the USA about 10 million Americans have been out in the streets protesting all of the fascist regime’s abuses. The judicial branch of the US gov’t is also making efforts to block illegal abusive actions with moderate success. The difference is that in the USA we have the rights to fight these things.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 1 month ago:
Correct, I have let gas sit for over a year and it still works fine in carbureted engines like my mower and motorcycle. I just pick up the gas can and swirl it around vigorously to stir up the parts that might have settled. Also this is only non-ethanol gas being stored, probably would be worse with the ~10% ethanol blends that are standard.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 1 month ago:
How did that process work? Did you just connect the +/- ends of the cell to the +/- 12v wires of the PSU and let it feed from the high-amp outputs? Imagine there’s plenty of amps on the GPU and CPU power wires
