Limonene
@Limonene@lemmy.world
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 3 days ago:
I didn’t, but I’m assuming they just haven’t heard anyone say that it’s good to be nuked by NATO.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 3 days ago:
And don’t forget about people of Jewish ethnicity who are not religious. I respect them too, though I oppose Israel’s genocide.
- Comment on YSK Article Five of the United States Constitution 1 week ago:
A constitutional amendment requires 2/3 of both houses of the legislature, and ratification by the states. Passing a law with a veto-proof majority requires 2/3 of both houses. So I don’t think a constitutional amendment is any easier.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
Are any of those apps FOSS?
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad to see Visa suffer, but I’m pretty concerned that Wero requires a proprietary phone app. There is no way to shop using Wero without this proprietary software.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 3 weeks ago:
The peppery taste is what I like most about radishes.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 5 weeks ago:
I believe thay all have shitty operating systems. But some of them have an aftermarket OS available. Pick your OS first, then look for a phone that can run it. Here are the ones I know of:
GrapheneOS CalyxOS (on hiatus) Crdriod LineageOS
- Comment on What kind of resistor is this? 1 month ago:
This schematic symbol has only 3 pins, but you say the components has 6. Since this part is VR1-a, can you look around for maybe a VR1-b? That might explain where the other pins connect. If it’ a 1x6 arrangement, they may not be 2 totally electrically independent potentiometers.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 1 month ago:
Read the article. This is a MacOS problem, not a Logitech problem.
The main buttons worked fine, only the specially configured extra buttons didn’t work. Those buttons require a configuration program. There’s no evidence this program needed an Internet connection.
But MacOS blocks all software that doesn’t have an approved certificate. It’s basically the same walled garden as phones. Logitech’s certificate expired.
It only affected Mac users, and only because of the walled garden.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
How do you get this? My company has the Enterprise version, but when they forced me to switch to a new Windows 11 laptop (same model and specs as my old one which couldn’t be upgraded to Windows 11 for some reason), it came with all the crap in the article. Ads in the start menu and everything.
- Comment on Regular gym-goers probably avoid the gym on New Years Day because it's too crowded 1 month ago:
All of January, really.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 months ago:
Sapphire Safari is sorta like that. It’s basically Pokemon Snap, but porn.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 2 months 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 months 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 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Renewable liquid fuels have the same energy density.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
This is illegal in some places. It should be illegal everywhere in the US.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months 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 2 months ago:
For internal stuff, it may be easier to set up your own CA.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 3 months ago:
A pretty piggy A pretty Polly (a common name for a parrot)
- Comment on Radon 3 months ago:
“Refrigerator Wifi Firmware”
3 words, but my job is still bullshit.
- Comment on 🚣 🚣 3 months 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.)
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- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 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.