Limonene
@Limonene@lemmy.world
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 4 days ago:
Sapphire Safari is sorta like that. It’s basically Pokemon Snap, but porn.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
Has any software ever entered the public domain through copyright expiration? I think software at least 70 years old (125 years for corporate created) when its copyright expires prevents it from being any benefit at all.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
Remember Memristors? They’re commercially available today, at 200 EUR per bit.
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 2 weeks ago:
Three years ago, I replaced a failing SATA SSD in my personal laptop with a new SATA SSD. That laptop had plenty of power, and I’d still be using it today if the keyboard still worked, and the screen hinges weren’t cracked. It had no NVME slots.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 3 weeks ago:
Corn ethanol isn’t really renewable either. It works better if made from sugarcane, but it’s still a big food-vs-fuel problem.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 3 weeks ago:
Renewable liquid fuels have the same energy density.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 3 weeks ago:
I believe two reasons: first, political will. Fossil fuel companies are large and entrenched, and have lots of experience lobbying governments. They block things like carbon taxes.
Second, a strange sort of game theory where each player (each country) thinks “My individual contributions to greenhouse gasses are just a small part of the total. They won’t cause global catastrophe. Just an incremental increase in the existing catastrophe. The incremental harm won’t fall directly on me; it will be divided among many countries. If continuing to use fossil fuels provides some small economic advantage, it outweighs the portion of the harms that will land on me. As for the harms I experience from other countries’ carbon emissions, there’s nothing I can do to prevent them.”
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
This is illegal in some places. It should be illegal everywhere in the US.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 4 weeks ago:
The usual way for me is to give certbot write access to a directory in the HTTP root, so the server can keep running.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 4 weeks ago:
For internal stuff, it may be easier to set up your own CA.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 5 weeks ago:
A pretty piggy A pretty Polly (a common name for a parrot)
- Comment on Radon 5 weeks ago:
“Refrigerator Wifi Firmware”
3 words, but my job is still bullshit.
- Comment on 🚣 🚣 5 weeks ago:
Hell no. I want to be unable to use that emoji for at least a year, preferably a lifetime.
(The Unicode consortium betrayed us, and themselves, by putting emoji in Unicode.)
- Comment on I knew it 1 month ago:
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
Yes. But it keeps going forever, and eventually some chaotic-evil person will kill choose to kill 2^43 people, which is a thousand times the world’s population.
- Comment on Ah, progress. 1 month ago:
If any cops or cop apologists wanna disagree with this: show me a good cop who arrested an ICE. Because ICE is breaking the law, and as far as I can tell, nobody’s arresting them.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 1 month ago:
They used to use analog computers to solve differential equations, back when every transistor was expensive (relays and tubes even more so) and clock rates were measured in kilohertz. There’s no practical purpose for them now.
In cases of number theory, and RSA cryptography, you need even more precision. They combine multiple integers together to get 4096-bit precision.
If you’re asking about the 24-bit ADC, I think that’s usually high-end audio recording.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 1 month ago:
The maximum theoretical precision of an analog computer is limited by the charge of an electron, 10^-19 coulombs. A normal analog computer runs at a few milliamps, for a second max. So a max theoretical precision of 10^16, or 53 bits. This is the same as a double precision (64-bit) float. I believe 80-bit floats are standard in desktop computers.
In practice, just getting a good 24-bit ADC is expensive, and 12-bit or 16-bit ADCs are way more common. Analog computers aren’t solving anything that can’t be done faster by digitally simulating an analog computer.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 2 months ago:
Inkjet printers are good for furry artists who sell prints at conventions. Hmm… that’s actually so specific that it reinforces your point.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Everyone already had the choice to use this before. You can visit any site with a search box, and add that site as a search engine to Firefox.
This is forcing it down people’s throats.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
How do I prevent new antifeatures from being added? How do I even know about the new antifeatures as they are added? Does Mozilla publish an RSS feed of each antifeature like this that they add, that gives a quick explanation of how to undo it?
- Comment on What ever happened to Nicole the fediverse chick? 2 months ago:
Maybe it was a phishing scheme to identify people’s IP addresses based on where they loaded the image from. In that case, each person would only receive one message. Fortunately I use a proxy, so they got nothing.
- Comment on Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI 2 months ago:
Qualcomm won’t send you a datasheet unless you can promise an order of 100,000. Arduino has always been open specification, and this is totally incompatible with Qualcomm.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 months ago:
I would never subscribe to Crunchyroll, because they use DRM.
- Comment on What are the visually-best anime you're seen? 3 months ago:
Promare is the most visually intense anime I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 3 months ago:
I have self hosted my email since 2006. I gave up on self hosting outgoing mail in 2021, but I still keep the server up for incoming mail, and still set up throwaway accounts on there.
The hard part of hosting email is getting Google and Microsoft to accept outgoing mail. Tons of businesses that do not have visibly “outlook.com” or “gmail.com” addresses are still hosted by those servers.
I had SPF, DKIM, and a static datacenter IP address with no reputation problems. I still couldn’t get through to Microsoft, not even in people’s junk mail directory, until they manually whitelisted my address. Microsoft didn’t allow them to whitelist a whole domain. Google was a little easier, but they added new demands monthly.
- Comment on How does streaming compare to "analog"? 3 months ago:
Yeah, true, but that’s mostly fixed costs, and has a pretty low incremental cost for each video delivered. The fixed costs we have to pay regardless.
- Comment on How does streaming compare to "analog"? 3 months ago:
Electrical engineer here. There is almost no difference.
The cost of streaming video from a server to your computer is pretty small, basically just transferring the bytes from a hard drive to a network card. This happens in a datacenter on a big server designed to be efficient at it, and serve a ton of people at once. Your own electricity consumption on your viewing device is likely much higher than that. You can calculate your electricity consumption using a Kill-A-Watt or similar device, but here are some averages of measurements I’ve made on my devices:
PC with 27" LCD monitor: 150W 50" TV: 300W Laptop with internal 14" screen: 40W Phone with 5" screen: 10W roughly, but it’s complicated Phone with screen off, speaker only: 2W (guessing here) Handheld FM radio: less than 1W
If you look at your computer’s CPU usage while watching video, it’s mostly idle. So most of the power consumption is the screen’s backlight.
Assuming worst-case coal power, releasing 0.4kg of carbon per kWh, and a large TV, and let’s say 10% overhead for the server’s energy cost, that’s 0.13kg of carbon per hour. So don’t worry about it.
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 3 months ago:
Doesn’t it freeze there? It’s in northern Illinois.
- Comment on No brainer 3 months ago:
Could we put Einstein’s bones in a centrifuge, and run at 200km/h?