ByteJunk
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- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 1 day ago:
Maybe this invention revolutionised how we clean our butts, or maybe it was utterly trivial and 20 different ways of cutting paper rolls were patented that same year (note that present day rolls don’t even use this method).
But that’s irrelevant to the point that seems to be implied here that patents somehow contributed to it’s success. They don’t, an invention will be useful or not based on its own merits, not on the fact they’re patented.
They exist to ensure whoever registered it makes a profit, which is why they’re being exploited way past the point of making up for any good they were supposed to bring…
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 days ago:
So the innovation that was patented is literally “cut it partway through”.
Patents are inherently stupid and only serve to stifle progress. Change my mind or otherwise just downvote away, works as well.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 days ago:
People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?
It’s a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says 1 week ago:
Data privacy AND not having to deal with more bullshit AI? Oh my, how will we ever cope with this… /s
- Comment on What a Hobby 1 week ago:
This is what they want you to believe…
- Comment on Cursed Milk 1 month ago:
The secret ingredient to turn "Instant Spoiled Milk into a great beverage is chocolate syrup??
- Comment on MFW my friends try to get me to leave the basement 2 months ago:
Techtonica is my new love. It’s like I’m still in my basement, but eerie, bioluminescent plants claimed everything.
Early in development, but really good IMO, even the story they have so far is really great.
- Comment on somewhere a postdoc is crying 2 months ago:
I would only trust the 0%…
- Comment on Give me Options or give me death 4 months ago:
I couldn’t care less about crashes, that’s an end-user problem. But do you expect me to go to sleep while that squiggly line is in my IDE??
/s just in case
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 4 months ago:
I feel like you missed the point.
Webengines are not more complex than a full OS, and yet, Linux works as a community driven project and Chromium does not.
The difference is that Linus is the one with final say in Linux, and he never sold out to a company. Chromium is Google.
It will never be a “community” project, because Google pumps so many resources into it. The goal is obvious: to make sure that it’s always ahead of any competitors, and anyone willing to catch up would have to match Google spending.
The brilliant move here by Google was making it open source. This ensures that no other megacorp needs to fight them, as long as their interests are aligned.
Edge has died already. Safari will follow. The future is grim.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
I feel the same. I’m too traumatized by a couple of my playthroughs to play it anytime soon… But what a great game.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
I was going to mention this game, +1.
Trying to desperately survive in a world that’s upside down, fighting the hopelessness and trying to survive just one more day and slowly realising the you’re just one day closer to death…
Man, it’s a really great game, but I can’t play it again anytime soon.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
Depends on the kind of games you enjoy.
While not particularly about consequences of decisions, I highly recommend Frostpunk. It always feels like any decision is about trying to choose the less horrible one, but without ever knowing if it will work out or not. The atmosphere of that game is just superb.
- Comment on If only it was like that 5 months ago:
The hero we needed.
- Comment on 1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly 6 months ago:
How many for bad apple
- Comment on Temporary pull-up during boot (ESP-01) 6 months ago:
Uh yes, pin to base.
I still couldn’t come up with a way to make it work using a resistor-capacitor circuit, but I did learn a lot (that particular rabbit hole led to me an article discussing capacitance in potato tubers…!).
There is probably a better way of solving it, but at least I got it working with another transistor to “decouple” that sensitive pin from the base. I’m not exactly sure why there’s a negative voltage across base and emitter, but it was preventing boot.
I’d be very interested in hearing any criticism you would be willing to share. I have hopes of moving this from my breadboard and solder it to a PCB so I can put it into a paper-cut lightbox that will be controllable from HomeAssistant, but I wouldn’t want to risk setting anything on fire…
One thing that concerns me is that 7333A. I only have it in a TO-92 package, and while it’s only powering the ESP-01S, which doesn’t really draw that much current, it still gets uncomfortably hot to touch (I can hold it for a few seconds, but not much longer). Is there a better alternative, or is it supposed to get hot?
Thank you!
- Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems 6 months ago:
I really want to ditch Google, but DuckDuckGo aint there my brother.
It may work for some simpler/lazy searches, but for real stuff, nah.
The “good” thing is that Google search is going the way of Amazon, so with Google shooting themselves in the foot and DDG catching up a bit, maybe soon they’ll level
- Comment on Temporary pull-up during boot (ESP-01) 6 months ago:
Im sorry, noob here. I don’t know what the voltage at the reset pin would be when the capacitor is discharged, my first guess would be 0v but the answers there say it’s the reverse - VCC at power on, then goes to gnd as it charges.
If that’s the case, I think it’s exactly what I need.
I’ll test it out later today (and I’ll go read more about how this capacitor+resistance circuit works…).
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- Comment on ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity 6 months ago:
I don’t think they’re really comparable?
These AI pictures are “make believe”. They’re just a guess at what someone might look like nude, based on what human bodies look like. While apparently they look realistic, it’s still a “generic” nude, kind of how someone would fantasize about someone they’re attracted to.
Of course it’s creepy, and sharing them is clearly unacceptable as it’s certainly bullying and harassment. These AI nudes say more about those who share them than they do about who’s portrayed in them.
However, sharing intimate videos without consent and especially as revenge? That’s a whole other level of fucked up. The AI nudes are ultimately “lies” about someone, they’re fakes. Sharing an intimate video, that is betraying someone’s trust, it’s exposing something that is private but very real.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 6 months ago:
Why is it unreasonable?
This isnt demanding apple to retrofit usb-c to old phones. This is telling them to stop producing new phones with lightning, and instead use USB-C.
This is highly relevant for India as it’s a price conscious market, and Apple sells a lot more older models than elsewhere, specifically Europe who passed a similar law but on new models only.
And if a student figured out how to add a fully functional usb-c port to an iPhone X, I’m sure apple can figure it out for an iPhone 14.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 6 months ago:
Yeah I thought the same, that would be wild.
But for models that are actively being produced, it’s fair game.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 7 months ago:
This isn’t the reason, it doesn’t matter if Hamas accuses them or not.
They’re considered hostages because Hamas wants to release them in exchange for something.
Israel imprisons Palestinian as a punishment or to achieve specific goals that are not met by releasing them (like preventing political prisoners from engaging with society).
I don’t think either term is morally superior to the other, but they do have some different connotations…
- Comment on You guys need to stop 7 months ago:
Yup, this is fact, no arguments here.
But it doesn’t feel this way though, because new cars kinda… crumple… in a crash.
I get that it’s how they protect the driver, by deforming and absorbing the energy instead of just thrusting all into the occupants, but really makes them feel flimsy, compared to those olds hunks of steel.
I’d rather be alive in a crumpled wreck that dead in a barely dented tank though.
- Comment on You guys need to stop 7 months ago:
I’m resigned that manual transmissons are a thing of the past, but man, it’s such a huge part of the enjoyment of driving for me.
Getting that perfect shift, especially if accelerating quicky or going up a steep hill is just so satisfying… Or the “minigame” of balancing the clutch and throttle from a full stop uphill without using the handbrake… And that feeling when you smoothly downshift going down a road and the revs pick up, while you ease up on the brake…
Yeah I really like driving.
- Comment on Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law 7 months ago:
They should preface the warnings with something like “Texas lawmakers require us to say the following:”
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 7 months ago:
The EU won’t leave Apple alone, that’s the whole purpose of the Digital Markets Act (prevent “gatekeepers” from excluding other players).
The irony here is that Google is throwing stones when they have huge glass roofs. This law will certainly bite them back elsewhere, hopefully. We need strong laws to curb these modern day robber barons.
- Comment on The Talos Principle 2 | Launch Trailer 7 months ago:
I didn’t know the first one until I got it as one of epic free games and it blew my mind. I’m keeping this onw on my radar.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
Not saying you’re wrong, but a source to go with that would be great.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 7 months ago:
It depends. Apple is a valid trademark for a computers/electronics company, despite being a common name. It wouldn’t work if you tried to trademark it as an apple pie brand however.
I assume whoever owns this threads trademark is in the software business too, they may have a valid claim if so.