Godort

@Godort@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As with most things of this nature, it’s presented in a way that makes it difficult to argue against, but the evil will come with how it is enforced.

  Basically everyone agrees that harmful content should be harder for children to access, and reigning in social media’s exploitation of psychology is laudable.

  Right now, there isn’t a good way to control access without handing a ton of personal information to a 3rd party agency with questionable oversight. When you want to access pron in meatspace, you share your name and age with the store clerk, who will promptly forget it. The system doesn’t translate to a digital medium with permanent records.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like a Peter Molydeux tweet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People use their phones primarily as media consumption devices. That means bigger screens are desirable to the public at large.

  We were well on our way to miniaturization until your phone also became a pocket computer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With how much they’re trying to integrate copilot, I imagine they tried to remove a bunch of settings to make them accessible through copilot only

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like us, I wonder if other animals are kept awake by embarrassing memories⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Squirrels are known for storing large amounts of nuts all over the place, hense the term “squirreling away” but they often forget about stores, leading to new trees sprouting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Consider it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have considered it. I agree to your proposal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just finished world 2 last night. So far this game does all the things a sequel is supposed to. It feels like more of the first game, but with new content added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder what the specs are on the technology that disables shopping cart wheels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not sure exactly how the system works, but if I were designing one, there would be 3 approaches I can think of.

  The first is to equip the lock with a GPS system and dictate that it locks if it’s not within range of a particular location. This one would be the most expensive to implement, but should come with minimal opportunity for messing with it.

  Next down the list is each lock is equipped with a radio to connect to a wifi or sub-GHz broadcaster, and as soon as it misses enough heartbeats to a central control point, it locks the wheels. This could be disrupted by jamming the signal, but jammers of this type are highly illegal, and easily trackable.

  Last is the cheapest option, which is to include an RFID module tied to the lock and a system to broadcast a signal at the perimeter. If a cart comes within range for a long enough period then the RFID tag is activated and the wheels lock.

  I suspect it’s probably a sub-GHz radio situation, with the broadcast power tuned to be within a few 100 meters of the store. If you had some kind of SDR you could probably pinpoint the signal they use and repeat it, letting you wheel a cart outside the zone, but as soon as you stop the signal the wheels will lock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)

  Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid game review: Brütal Legend (2009) PS3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I pre-ordered this game because I loved Psychonauts and this game was marketed as a sort of heavy metal themed Zelda game.

  I then learned about 2 hours in that its also an RTS, which is a genre I never got along with and set it down never to be played again. Thankfully, when you’re a patient gamer, you can’t be lied to by advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm making a hedge maze in Inzoi - Check my work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.

  Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.

  Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.

  On the other hand, the reason it’s failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.

  I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop having expectations at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

  How do I stop having expectations?

  This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

  If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it, not to remove them altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That whole album is full of bangers.

  From the somber Father of Death, to the jazzy sounds of The Hounds, to the very 80s rock of Breaking out and Light up the Night. Every track on that album is good.

  It’s far more polished than the noisy, almost punk vibe the first album has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, The 4th directive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.

  It also depends where you are. For example if you’re in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar enterprise-grade SSDs go for around $16K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hollow Knight fans were, of course, let down with the lack of a Silksong appearance again, but I hope they expect that by now.

  I’m already wearing my clown makeup, you don’t have to be so hurtful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this was already the case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are lying to us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the thing labeled “What the Fuck” a mercury rectifier?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this doesn’t really change anything from a practical perspective. It just highlights that the verbage in the press release was alarmist.

  It’s still a security concern that most users will be unaware of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Things get a little nebulous when you’re talking about microcode running on a proprietary IC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don’t understand. He’s rich and white, so he shouldn’t be subject to those pesky regulations.

  That’s how it works in the US, so obviously that’s how it should work in South Africa too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When do we start needing active coolers for our drives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current World situation has me like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your magic number is “64517”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are complicated and can carry multiple, nuanced beliefs. There are people out there that support LGBTQ+ rights, think that drag is fun, and believe that people of color get treated unfairly systemically without also wanting to take up arms in a violent revolution against the established systems in America because social progress is still happening, albeit slowly.

  Every social media platform(Yes, even the independent ones) tends to remove all nuance and push every issue as binary, and sometimes worse than that, it will bundle issues together. There are people here that will argue in all seriousness that if you voted for the candidate that would’ve pushed forward progressive policies, that you also support the genocide in Gaza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever wonder how the right seems to move in lockstep while the left constantly debates between themselves about the details?

  It’s shit like this that fosters that attitude. If some people on the right can look at something like this and then really examine their positions then thats a win.

  The goal with something like this isn’t to get someone to 180 on their beliefs, they know that the government is untrustworthy. It’s to have them really look at what they’re supporting, and if they truly want those changes, after learning what it might cost them.