FelipeFelop

@FelipeFelop@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that calling the computer storage less is what’s wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see two issues here:

  It’s not really a storageless computer. It’s using EFI as storage to build the ramdisk.

  What happens if you need to change things because of a change of cloud account, change of cloud API etc etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s exactly the point. Combining data is something that must be considered. (And in some jurisdictions like the EU you even need to consider if it could be combined in future with other data)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I agree entirely. The actions I take are definitely data about me.

  Also, in many jurisdictions data that could be combined (even in the future) with other data to identify you or something about you, is considered personal data.

  For example, Device ID is AstridWipenaugh’s device and they use the app in the morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve missed the point. It’s not the data they are collecting but the fact they say they don’t collect data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if Tyrannosaurus Rexes moved and walked like chicken do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t actually tiny, they were about a metre long. But they do seem out of proportion.

  They were very muscular and ended in very sharp talons, so pretty deadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scroll⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This story has been popping up every few months for about the last decade. Usually prompted by someone with something to promote (a dumb phone, a book about downtime, some course )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨@pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted. You are completely correct. There is a trail of partially finished projects. Pixelfed itself is in beta after years and years (and competitors seizing the opportunity with more polished products) , there’s SUP, Loops and that fedi directory to name three more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t feel much difference because they aren’t ten degrees hotter. OP is mistaken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dogs are 1 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than adult humans not 10. A temperature above 104°F needs urgent veterinary help.

  Note that human babies and young children are also warmer than adults by about a degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not right Matrix was never going to become Element.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign up on services without phone number? Is it possible?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally, the reasons for a phone number are:

  Account recovery 2FA

  If you don’t want to use your number then consider a pre-pay sim. Depending what country you are in this will cost pennies per year.

  I would suggest something like ProtonMail or most paid email services won’t require a number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t mean this rudely, struggling to find a way that doesn’t sound condescending because I know things can be different in different regions. Didn’t realise that still happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to remove mold stains from clothes?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope so, good luck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience all of this has been done wirelessly for several years.

  The risk of malware means you aren’t allowed to plug in sticks. For business use you share a document or wirelessly connect to a display.

  In fact our local library didn’t USB sticks eight years ago when I was researching our family tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to remove mold stains from clothes?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mould eats the fibres and dye, so it might be a permanent change I’m afraid. There are specialist mould removers but they might bleach coloured fabric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An interesting point not touched upon is that the types of people using USB sticks has changed. Because the use of technology filters down from tech savvy, to general population, to people late to the scene or can’t change.

  We are in that last stage now. They are buying by price and so easier to take advantage of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the UI hasn’t been finalised yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m uncertain about this. It doesn’t seem much different than things like Inoreader and seems to lack as comprehensive a search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  scientificamerican.com/…/how-do-i-know-im-not-the…

  It’s impossible to prove that anyone else or anything else exists. It’s also impossible to know whether my brain is deceiving me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how to deal with what to me is a thin skinned and gossip coworker.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this depends what country you are from. Generally, most countries it’s the normal thing to be pleasant and show an interest in people. It actually helps you as well because being insular ultimately ends in loneliness.

  But no one should pressurise you into doing something you don’t want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why were online subscriptions once rare, but now they are everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say companies THINK they will make more money. That might be true with big, complex software that can be sold as a service that people will use (Photoshop, Windows, Office etc) or services that offer a lot (like the original version of Netflix or Amazon Prime)

  But it’s not true for things you can take or leave. (Such as most mobile apps which now have to really on sales to boost conversion rates from Free tier to subscription).

  Then you also have the issue of a fragmented market so even previously successful services like Prime are looking to get more money by adding extra costs (eg Prime Video will have adverts from the summer unless you pay $40 extra per year as a new top up subscription)

  So it’s more of a theoretical reliable income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough battery charges in minutes and lasts thousands of cycles⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember fuel cells? One tiny drop would power your phone for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over-70s are UK’s most online adults after twentysomethings, survey shows⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the problem with every survey I’ve seen is that it does something like

  <20 20-30 30-45 45+

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have an internal monologue?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We do actually know quite a bit about the Internal Monologue and other forms of intrapersonal communication.

  There isn’t one single use for it or benefit of it (in the same way water has many uses)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi is 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1 was in 1978⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its strength was in running the same operation on large sets of data rather than general purpose computing. So specialist hardware would need to be developed for real time input and a graphical display (which would need to be able to draw the screen from the data the Cray produced. )

  I think a better comparison would be a modern GPU.

  A Cray 1 could do approx 160,000,000 floating point operations per second. A modern GPU can do 1,600,000,000,000 per second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Purported Discovery Season 5 episode titles⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting links to Three Body Problem there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every anthropomorphic character is some kind of animal-ape hybrid⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hyperloop was always a scam⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes no sense. It’s been repeatedly tried and failed for very obvious reasons.

  Technically it’s very very hard unless you spend so much it’s uneconomic and takes too long to develop.

  Secondly, its investors who were scammed. Yes they could have done better due diligence but they were still scammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to remove smell from lunch box?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, only HDPE is suitable for vinegar. Other types of plastic react with even a weak acid causing swelling/softening.