herrvogel

@herrvogel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you’re talking about Sagrada Familia, not Barcelona Cathedral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Limiting the bandwidth use of individual devices is pretty easy, and basically standard procedure for public networks. Even cheap consumer routers that come with ISP subscriptions can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The water thing is just a quirk of capacitive touchscreens. The same happens on the most expensive watches too, which is why there is usually a water mode that you can put the watch into. It sorta locks the touchscreen until you disable it using one of the physical buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale funnel is made for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keyser Soze did it, so can you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨change_org⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To think an evil African warlord was allowed to get away with it because of some silly laws against public masturbation or indecent exposure or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going to know it’s VPN fairly easily because it’s fairly obvious what you’re doing when all or most of your traffic is encrypted and is directed at one or two addresses. Even more obvious if those one or two addresses happen to belong to known VPN or VPS providers or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I hacked my washing machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly my experience. I was super confused by the timer on the dryer. Then I called support and they said it was normal for where I live and where the machine sits in the house. Air too humid and spot less than ideal for moisture to be taken away from the machine in a timely fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They wouldn’t block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That’s very easily doable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not gonna be lining a flexible handheld device with the kind of solar panels that can achieve such efficiencies even under ideal conditions. If you want an actual parasol rather than an unwieldy, rigid, parasol shaped bed for a bunch of solar panels, this is a job for the more alternative solar cell types that are cheaper and less efficient, but can be made thinner and lighter, and can be stuck on something like that. Unfortunately those generally have piss poor efficiency and they degrade to near uselessness very quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mess with DRM stuff? Or do they keep working because it’s the same hardware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever been invited to a search party?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was. We walked around aimlessly in the forest, occasionally yelling out the missing girl’s name. Then it turned out to be a drill and the girl was fine. We were yelled at for being shit searchers, and were told that she’d be dead if it was real. I thought it was an extremely unreasonable thing to do, because we were just a bunch of teenagers on a camping trip and nobody had ever told us how to do a proper grid search so how the fuck were we supposed to know how to do it? It was a surreal experience.

  Anyway we were mostly dressed in what we wore into our sleeping bags because we were pulled out of our tents in the middle of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It’s not your job to enforce traffic rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip: you can probably uninstall Gemini via ADB. Android won’t let you uninstall it using your phone’s UI, but since it’s just another package you can probably use the old ADB tricks to wipe it from your phone. Use your favorite search engine to figure out how, it’s not exactly a secret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cow eggs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the tampons they stick into female bulls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🧊🧊👶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2023, the on-time arrival percentage of ICE trains was 60something%. That’s not exactly a number that screams reliability. I don’t remember the exact number DB had to pay out for delay compensations that year but it was an embarrassing sum. Just today 2 separate people in my group chat were saying unsavory things about DB’s mother because of 30+ minute delays on two separate ICE trains.

  German trains being on time is a myth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is and it isn’t. Again, the whole thing is super vague. Machine vision or pattern seeking algorithms do not try to imitate any human behavior, but they fall under AI.

  Let me put it this way: Things that try to imitate human behavior or intelligence are AI, but not all AI is about trying to imitate human behavior or intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are one of the approximately one metric crap ton of different technologies that fall under the rather broad umbrella of the field of study that is called AI. The definition for what is and isn’t AI can be pretty vague, but I would argue that LLMs are definitely AI because they exist with the express purpose of imitating human behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mothing phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a nothing phone. The glyphs were a neat gimmick the first few weeks I had the thing, but now I only use them as a softer flashlight. They just don’t really add much value to the thing.

  Still like the thing very much though, overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they do switch but for like 1 day and then go back to messaging you on WhatsApp. I tried switching to signal at least a couple times, even convinced a couple groups to move, but not a single chat lasted more than a couple weeks. Eventually they all went back to WhatsApp. Every single one. It’s extremely difficult to get people to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw a girl very abruptly stop walking on a rather busy street, throw herself down on a nearby bench in a hurry, take out her stuff from her tote bag and just start knitting with an oddly peaceful expression on her face as if nothing happened. I was left wondering what the fuck I just witnessed. Happened in the span of like 4 seconds.

  Yes she was barefoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which part broke exactly? Because I can confirm the one on my tablet, which I installed a long time ago, still works. Haven’t installed it on my current phone which I got not too long ago, so I’m wondering if it’s gonna be a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I still use rif. You can get the app as an apk, and patch it to replace the original API key with your own using something like vanced. I already had my key from before the debacle, not sure how you get one these days. Anyway, it did give me some trouble while logging in, but eventually it worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a fine game that was tanked by the massive inconsistency of its quality as you progressed. The game starts out absolutely fantastic, but the quality takes a very sharp and sudden fall after a few hours, and then it just sorta ends not long after. It was a very weird experience. Definitely felt like something went very wrong during development and they had to make big changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't all act like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have removed my car’s muffler and modified it to be even louder.

  I skip rope in my apartment in the middle of the night.

  I walk right towards the front of a queue pretending to only have a quick question to ask and then I get my job done while I’m there.

  I do use my indicator lights, but only 0.46 seconds before I actually turn.

  I flush used cooking oil down the toilet.

  I yell at the screen throughout the entire movie at the cinema.

  I feed people’s pets without asking.

  I accelerate when approaching a pedestrian crossing.

  I empty a full can of axe body spray onto myself before using crowded public transportation.

  I stop showering 6 days prior to attending cultural events.

  I do not wipe down the devices at the gym after using them.

  I think the last Star Wars trilogy was the best of the three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you’re doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you’ll find you can do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s an Apple keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the painting and detailing that can be quite expensive and time consuming. You obviously don’t have to paint your minis, but that’s the entire point for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is like LLMs are massively overhyped and can't even do half the things its advertised...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fifth Element depicted a straight up utopia where gift wrapped Milla Jovoviches fall from the sky. I do not need any more than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metamorfuckthis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry Boss, can’t come in. The half-eaten apple lodged into my exoskeleton has become infected.