Phrodo_00
@Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 8 months ago:
If it’s a verb it should be a button, not a toggle
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
when you format a 256GB drive and find out that you don’t actually have 256GB
Most of the time you have at least 256GB. It’s just you 256GB=238.4GiB, and windows reports GiB but calls them GB. You wouldn’t have that problem in Mac OS that counts GB properly, or gnome that counts GiB and calls them GiB.
(This is ignoring the few MB that takes to format a drive, but that’s also space on the disk and you’re the one choosing to partition and format the drive. If you dumped a file straight into the drive you’d get that back, but it would be kind of inconvenient)
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 10 months ago:
Because they get paid to endorse it.
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 11 months ago:
True, but that’s more about the relationship between Google and phone manufacturers and and carriers. As far as a party like Epic is concerned, it shouldn’t have any relation. As far as epic goes, they’re only affected by the opt in process to install apks, and apps not being allowed to install apps (which I hope has a way more complicated opt in process or malware will be rampant among casual users)
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. The only available information is the metadata, not messages
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
Not really, they’ve always been big on being incompatible for the sake of locking in people: adb, FireWire, iPod requiring iTunes, etc.
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
You mean all that metadata? As far as we know, all messages are e2e encrypted and no one has proven it otherwise.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
It’s because that’s not a common definition and it’s not even a good one. No normal person would call cloning stealing. Also, this completely misses lending, gifting, downloading a webpage or even renting. All of those would be stealing under this definition.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 11 months ago:
Yeah, it’s been a while so it’s time to drop it. I don’t think you can even buy a new ps4 at a major retailer anymore even.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 11 months ago:
It’s got poor visibility but so does every other truck/suv being sold in America.
Maybe, but the cyber truck has especially bad rear visibility. Worse.than any of its competitors
but it’s still longer than the average person would realistically drive in a day.
I must be a special, fantasy person that does road trips with 700mi or longer drives
Not to mention it’s 3000 kilos. They really need to start adding vehicle weight limits to licenses. The US license test is a joke in most states, and then people are allowed to drive 3 metric ton vehicles from a 10 minute drive.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
AND all the emissions associated with mining, refining and transporting the fuel
Highly dependent on the grid you charge the car.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
I didn’t do it so take it with a grain of salt but people were saying they saw improvement in loading when changing the used agent to chrome.
- Comment on New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter 11 months ago:
The point is that they can show anybody interested the original with the signature from the camera.
The problem is that you can likely attack the camera’s security chip to sign any photo, as internally the photo would come from the cmos without any signing and the camera would sign it before writing it to storage.
- Comment on AAAAtoms 11 months ago:
Never understood the fidelity argument. It’s not like decimals suddenly stopped existing because we’re dealing with temperature.
As far as measuring weather, they’re more or less the same. Fahrenheit is handier on the high end but useless in the low (0F doesn’t mean anything). Celcius is a lot more useful at 0, and then the higher temperatures are around 30-35 which is fine, but as cool.
Where celcius shines is when you start combining it with other units like calories and then Joule and Newton, etc.
- Comment on A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly 1 year ago:
It’s not about the App Store, it’s mostly about the 30% commission both companies take on app sales [in the app store] AND in app purchases [through the app store].
How is it not about the app store?
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
No, just fat fingered a bunch of words and didn’t check.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Why are you arguing against yourself? In the comment I replied to you asked if we didn’t have a word for South American, and we do, it just doesn’t tenant the same. I’m not sure what your around anymore other than trolling.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer 1 year ago:
Book piracy was huge I don’t know what you’re talking about. You could get professionally printed books or you could always just photocopy them.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Huh? That article backs me up?
Most English-speaking countries recognize seven regions as continents.
Different variations with fewer continents merge some of these regions
The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Greece and many Romance-speaking countries—including Latin America.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
It varies from country to country. Can be either.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
It would be like telling French people they’re not allowed to call their arm a bras because it refers to an article of clothing in English.
And yet I’ve seen so many Americans chastising Spanish speaking people for saying the color black in their own language.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
No soy mexicano, pero hablando en español, si (en los mismos contextos que un francés diría que es europeo, por ejemplo). América es el nombre tradicional del Continente completo.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
In southern European tradition (which ends up in Latin America), those are not continents but regions. America is the Continent.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
Most carriers support it. When they don’t, the protocol can use a bridge. Google hosts a bridge. I guess you could also use the bridge if the carrier is trying to charge for it.
- Comment on An efficient C++17 GPU numerical computing library with Python-like syntax 1 year ago:
So looking at it it has no resemblance to python syntax, but it does use typical python library semantics.
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
Yes, but that’s a different, independent problem.
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
NFTs or blockchains are not needed for this. You could just implement selling or transfers in the content platform.
I do think using contacts for escrow and having the SEL being independent from the vendor are cool features, bit not at all essential ones.