oce
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- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 22 hours ago:
You receive: Windows 95 theme on Xubuntu.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 22 hours ago:
Reverse Saruman, the money he donated turned him white.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 6 days ago:
I was surprised so I did the computation just to resolve the disk of Betelgeuse at 550 nm, and I found a telescope of 2.8 m, that’s definitely already doable. We already have 8 m in one piece and 10 m segmented, JWST is 6.5 m segmented. The ELT is planned to be 39 m for 2028. So this star is closer and bigger than I thought.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 6 days ago:
It would be the size of the telescope’s diffraction artifacts probably. Meaning the shape you see on the picture is not related to the size of the star but only to the physical limits of the optical instrument. This diffraction pattern is proportional to the color your looking at and inversely proportional to the size of the telescope primary mirror. The bigger the telescope primary mirror, the smaller the diffraction pattern and the more chance you have that this artifact will not completely hide the object you are looking at. I didn’t do the math, but I guess to image the actual disk of Betelgeuse, the size of the telescope you need is probably still science fiction, even with interferometry.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As you can see, I said “reputation”. I hate how little they innovate while still selling at premium, but similar to Disney, it is enough for the casual mass.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The fact that the Nintendos are locked down, family friendly and with a reputation of good production quality (similar to Disney), are also important points for non-nerdy parents and casual gamers who don’t want to navigate the ocean of PC gaming and its risks.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
The first step toward meaningful change begins with us. We must abandon our craving for glossy (and therefore glassy) devices, and instead embrace hardware that may not be as immediately pleasing to the eye (as it is the case with e.g. Fairphones or the PinePhone), but is built to be slightly more durable, somewhat repairable, and capable of outlasting even today’s limited commitments to software updates.
Fairphone and PinePhone being only mentioned anecdotally for being pleasing to the eye, and I guess not as sturdy as the author wants, is quite weird for an article about reducing fragility and improving repairability.
- Comment on Is it really doom scrolling if it's just true? 2 weeks ago:
I take the expression more as a warning to control it so it does not impact my mental health too much. Getting (properly) informed is good, but if I get so depressed that I can’t act positively on the system anymore or I make it worse for me and others, then it becomes counter-productive.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Also starting to spread on the cheapest plans of streaming services like Prime and Netflix.
- Comment on Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated? 2 weeks ago:
- Urban Driftwood by Yasmin Williams, light acoustic guitars
- A Plane Over Woods by The Vernon Spring, chill contemporary piano
- Tall Tales by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, melancholic electronica
- Lamomali by -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Fatoumata Diawara, French chanson mixed with traditional Malian music
- Comment on Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall 3 weeks ago:
There’s actually a lot of human intervention in the mix. Data labelers for source data, also domain experts who will rectify answers after a first layer of training, some layers of prompts to improve common answers. Without those domain experts, the LLM would never have the nice looking answers we are getting. I think the human intervention is going to increase to counter the AI pollution in the data sources. But it may not be economically viable anymore eventually.
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 3 weeks ago:
I also tried 1 long after release and couldn’t get over the clunky ness and how much studying it requires to play. But I really enjoyed the 2, I even replayed it to see the other side of the story after the big branching, which is something I almost never do with games.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The only trustworthy solution is for your son to date some distant little cousin of Trump. Then he’ll get an Ivy League diploma for free and maybe some government position.
- Comment on >:)> 4 weeks ago:
It’s Falkand now.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually funny.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 5 weeks ago:
If there’s one thing Japan loves, it is economical competition. There are like 40 different ways to pay at a shop, it’s absurd.
Image - Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 5 weeks ago:
Obviously not great if it’s punitive, but if it introduces new creative gameplay or story branching, it could be cool.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 month ago:
Don’t Let Me Down, Just Don’t Start Now
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 month ago:
I don’t think it will happen. Imgur used to be well supported by reddit because it was created for redditors. But since then they have done their own things, making the host function less convenient and they are not a reliable long term image storage anymore.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 month ago:
I think it doesn’t display because the commenter used the “album” url: imgur.com/a/XRjTyIm.
The direct mp4 link to the underlying video works better. Image - Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
What does Okular do that Firefox doesn’t? I’ve used it on some distros because it was the default but I don’t know the advantage compared to using my existing browser.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 month ago:
For PDF “your browser” should be the default recommendation. Firefox allows to add text and images now. Gimp can also be used to edit PDF.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
She uses a rowling disease distro.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 1 month ago:
And that’s how you get your own recording of a classical piece from centuries ago get taken down because it sounds like another copyrighted video. No fucking shit, we’re playing from the same sheet music.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
4chan in the past years was mostly known as a far right shithole. But I think 4chan had more than that, they also had more progressive hacktivism like Anonymous and they produced a lot of historical memes for the internet. I hope we can have some real historian work that highlights the good and the bad from it and not just its sad ending.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
They got hacked, the data and source code was leaked.
- Comment on OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
Second had nice ideas too but very different, not a coorpg anymore and more an actually MMO. PvP was very disappointing, they didn’t keep anything from the 1, probably because it was too elitist. For me the massification made me feel like I was insignificant, I didn’t like it much, I did a bit of the campaign and that’s it.
- Comment on OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
I think it’s a much much smaller player base. It was successful, but WoW was a mind blowing success.
- Comment on OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
Such a great online game with original ideas and one of the most diversed and interesting PvP of its genre.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 2 months ago:
They grew a brain organoid from his donated blood white cells that they turned into stem cells. The brain organoid produces electric impulses because that’s what brain cells do. They made something artsy out of those impulses. So it’s completely unrelated to whatever experience the musician could have had. DNA doesn’t store acquired skills and memories. They could do that with anyone’s cells and probably get a similar result.
