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- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 3 days ago:
The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.
- Comment on MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries 1 week ago:
The article does mention this problem and they claim to have been able to pull it off somehow.
“Mammalian cells are orders of magnitude more sensitive than algae cells, but even with those cells, we were able to detach them with no impact to the viability of the cell,” Vandereydt says.
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 3 weeks ago:
I… really wonder who in the administration is coming up with all these ideas. It’s gotta be someone who has a staff, and that staff must feel like the most useless people in policy since their boss must be coming up with these ideas while cracked out and not running them by anyone…
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 4 weeks ago:
Inside Games claims a 50% drop in views from July. PC users were 27% then and is now down to 21%, but that doesn’t account for the drastic drop in viewership overall. Video on it here:
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 4 weeks ago:
There was. Some channels even saw most of their decline from mobile/TV viewers.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that wasn’t also related to the adblocker issue, though. How the algorithm reacted to the dramatic change in views could have made waves that saw channels de-recommended or caused it to ignore sections of a viewer’s watch history and thus the recommendations shown to them as well.
With the algorithm everything gets tied together so much that any disruption can have unpredictable effects.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
it would be cool to have some sort of optical displays based on interference (suppose, two lasers at the sides of the screen) or whatever, allowing similarly agile resolution change, and also more energy-efficient than LCDs, and also better for one’s eyes. I think there even are some, just very expensive
I think you’re just describing laser projection TVs ( though the projection is from the front or back, generally). They’re not that expensive — just huge. For their size, they’re much cheaper than LCDs and OLEDs, but they only come in about 100+".
www.walmart.com/ip/…/5003861077?classType=REGULAR
Scanning laser projection is also used in virtual retinal displays, but that’s for stuff like HUDs or a head-mounted display since it projects on a person’s eye instead of a screen.
Any kind of scanning display will probably have poor latency compared to LCD/OLED flat panels, I think, though.
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 5 weeks ago:
Norway is not EU
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 5 weeks ago:
Fuckin Shakespeare is screwed.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 5 weeks ago:
The benefits of having a full-featured computer in my pocket are just too many for me to ditch it permanently if I have a choice. While it’s certainly able to distract me if I let it, I don’t think I’ve ever had it disrupt my sleep (aside from late night phone calls).
I think it’s better for most (and potentially easier) to keep to the smartphone and just better control the applications that are on it and the notifications that they raise to make sure it isn’t overly distracting you. This may require disabling certain pre-installed apps (e.g. Facebook is one I always disable and just interact with via browser when I want to). Another pattern to follow is adding barriers to the things that distract you most so it takes a little more effort to interact with your distractions. Hank Green’s Focus Friend app that got popular recently is an example of that – placing an emotional barrier on getting distracted when you need to focus.
But ultimately, we all need to do what’s best for ourselves. Everyone’s suceptibility to distraction is different and if a dumbphone is what works best for you, then by all means, go with that for as long as it’s useful.
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 2 months ago:
Industry growth. Turns out it’s a lot easier to “think of the children” when the industry is small and niche than it is when it’s making investors billions of dollars a year. Turns out capitalism makes problems harder to solve once the problem itself makes money (see also: tax preparation)
That’s also why the moral panic people switched from trying to censor games through government to trying to do it via finance (e.g. Collective Shout lobbying banks, credit cards, and payment processors).
Though if your question is about why the contrast between moral panic over game content and the lack of moral panic over actual victimization — I think that’s always been the case, unfortunately. People seem more fearful of their children losing their morals than they are of people with no morals harming their children.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 2 months ago:
Methane is just the primary compound in natural gas.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 2 months ago:
Some, as prepping the carbon and hydrogen will take energy. But it wouldn’t be hard to be way better than the emissions associated with dairy farming for butter. Cost could still be higher, though depending on how much material is needed for the process.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
Is TwinAphex still involved in Libretro? Can’t seem to find evidence of them from the last few years.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 2 months ago:
The founder is a well-known Christian “pro-life feminist” from Australia.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
It’s easy enough to fork the code as it existed under GPL3.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 months ago:
High likelihood this just some AI bot with no oversight fucking up than something malicious. Outlook.com’s support system is atrocious and devoid of humans at this point unless you’re an enterprise.
I tried to go through their support to tell them their junk filter was fucking up (bank alerts being marked as junk with no way to override) and got nowhere after like two months. Had to change the email I use for banking.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 months ago:
Very little gaming still requires Windows since the development of Proton. The main compatibility problems that remain seem to involve kernel-invasive anti-cheat systems.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
They know. The PKGBUILD they provided is exactly the kind of thing that’s in the AUR. The dev’s PKGBUILD wasn’t in the AUR because they didn’t want it to be — instead hoping arch users would go to the repository and use their maintained one. Arch users continued to try to use AUR instead, leading to the dev’s frustration.
I don’t expect this will help anything. If the AUR maintainer is active, they will probably just patch that restriction out.
- Comment on OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
With how expensive AI seems to be, it’s baffling to me how companies expect to turn a profit on it. 30B as a year sounds more like the budget for an entire government scientific agency. And if that’s just for the data services…
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 2 months ago:
The act itself still appears to include the language excluding wifi spectrum.
Certain frequencies used primarily by the Department of Defense and unlicensed devices, including Wi-Fi, are excluded from auction eligibility
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 2 months ago:
Wifi6e/7 6ghz spectrum that was reserved for wifi got approved to get auctioned off
I don’t think that’s exactly right. Spectrum that’s already reserved for unlicensed use (wifi) was explicitly excluded from the auction directive.
There may be some spectrum in that band that’s not already reserved for wifi yet that will end up auctioned, though.
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 2 months ago:
The main advantage of 5g was never really speed, but rather efficiency. It allows the same speed to use less spectrum.
- Comment on Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat 3 months ago:
EU is also the second largest economy after the US in the world. Vacating the region would cost way more than compliance.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 4 months ago:
Nokia switched to Windows Phone in 2011, just before the N9 came out. They weren’t bought by MS until 2014.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 4 months ago:
I had a similarly high opinion on Meego’s future at Nokia and then they suddenly went all-in on Windows Phone.
I also had a somewhat high opinion of Windows Phone before MS killed it.
No one wants to maintain an OS for any less than like 25% of the market — which pretty much only leaves room for Abdroid and iOS… and KaiOS I guess, though I don’t know how much effort the put into maintaining that. webOS and Tizen (resting place of Meego) are now pretty much only in TVs.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 4 months ago:
The pace at which a takeaway container degrades from the salty food may be more than slow enough for it to not matter for that use case — especially if the container uses a coating.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 4 months ago:
Colorblind person here. If we’re talking about limited visibility differentiation of front and back, the color of light is way less noticeable than whether we’re looking at headlights or not (based on intensity). There would be no issue telling whether we’re looking at a front brake light or a back brake light so long as the front brake light has headlights around it.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 4 months ago:
This was my first thought as well. Both sodium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate seem like they could have a signficant environmental impact. We’d some good studies on that before committing to this idea, I think.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 4 months ago:
The technology plans for these fuel cells aren’t “for now”. They’re for a future where we’ve hopefully already decarbonized most of the electric grid, as doing so is way more important than decarbonizing aviation. Converting fleets of airplanes to electric is a long process that will probably not be started for a while yet while there are more important carbon emission sources to tackle (aviation is only 2-3% of the emissions right now).
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 4 months ago:
Terminator 7: Robot Pirates