unexposedhazard

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wakey Wakey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tried this out. The battery was already pretty dead, but it still raised the temperature of the wire by 9°C in like 5 seconds. If the battery had been full it would have gotten much hotter much faster.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the first time you cried over an anime?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Made me thing of this little edit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCPSk9tx5A

  Always brings me almost back to tears every time i watch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As i learned yesterday, the old fully copyleft licensed code works just fine and literally nobody cares if he stops supporting it in newer versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea's Yoon resists questioning by lying in underwear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was no information on the colour of his underclothing, they added.

  That got a chuckle out of me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess i will test it again later. Thx for the heads up :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. At some point even the play store was cool, somewhat nice to use and full of good free games. It always follows the same rulebook. Sadly people dont learn from history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And it STILL doesnt follow basic video player logic.

  • Space doesnt pause the video
  • Double click and F dont invoke full screen
  • M doest mute
  • Arrow keys dont work for skipping
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨change_org⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like you will never lose your virginity by talking to a horny chatbot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada follows France and UK with plan to recognise Palestinian state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mark Carney says the move depends on Palestinian democratic reforms and elections without Hamas.

  Lmao what a bunch of idiots

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This should be top comment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty part of the week: Lian Xin XDMD camera autofocus coils⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never worked with these before, but these coils are apparently called “Voice Coil Motors” (VCM). The one from this post is big but its the same tech that is used on a smaller scale in phones.

  I went and found a “driver” for these things and took a look at the datasheet to understand how it is typically controlled. This thing is 1.5mm x 0.8mm small so something you might actually find in a phone.

  www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/drv201.pdf#page=8

  The device is used to control the current in the voice coil motor (VCM). The current in the VCM generates a magnetic field which forces the lens stack connected to a spring to move. The VCM current and thus the lens position can be controlled via the I2C interface and an auto focus function can be implemented

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty part of the week: Lian Xin XDMD camera autofocus coils⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on how its built you might be able to do adjustment and sensing with a single coil. Similar to how you can do current sensing in motors or how you can send and receive with the same coil in a metal detector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton throws shade at Apple Intelligence privacy as it launches AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, people need to stop pushing proton. Its not a good recommendation and honestly never was. Putting all your eggs in one basket is always a shit idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox 141.0 also no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager.

  This is very cool too :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty part of the week: Lian Xin XDMD camera autofocus coils⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice to put it on that sheet for a sense of scale :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words to power stuff that is a just couple meters away you would need a source so powerful that it would either kill you or all the electronic devices in its vicinity. A nice styropyro video to illustrate youtu.be/6TgrtA2wKaM?t=144

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful

  I dont think you understand how many mentally unstable people out there are using LLMs as therapists.
  There are fuckloads of cases now of people that were genuinely misled by LLMs into doing horrible things.

  I agree with your sentiment, but the thing is that the companies are selling their shit as gold and not as shit. If they were honest about their stuff being shit, then people wouldnt be able to capitalize off of malicious prompt engineering. If you claim “we made it super safe and stuff” then you are inviting people to test that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why big tech is actively lobbying for these laws because they know that they will be the only ones who can comply and therefore exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla cars have always been overpriced, low quality, unsafe toys with a shiny case around them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonderful secret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the name of epsteins island?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many Peak this season⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thönks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many Peak this season⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are they from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces £30 million funding package and tax breaks as it aims to be the 'best place in the world to make games'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of that money will go to indie projects. Most will probably just go to microsoft and amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire US food, healthcare, delivery, cleaning, packaging, etc sectors rely very heavily on non whites. Civil war over basic resource distribution would break out in days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skateboarding 50mph downhill for internet points⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This post is broken somehow. Also why does it link to another post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hair color is a spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bocchi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eksbawks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough X

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just random people with their own money. Basic webhosting is cheaper than a netflix subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastic isnt the only material that you can recycle…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, at least not most of them. Electronics recycling however is one where i wouldnt be surprised if it gets offloaded to elsewhere.