paholg

@paholg@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if you use 2 factor to access the password manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss Trillian :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not be taking questions.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m finally coming around to this after decades of being steered away from it by The Simpsons (youtu.be/CQod276-7Mo?si=F5_Suzq41QAK_Wtg).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay for YouTube. I’m mildly optimistic that this won’t make it into the paid version, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it does.

  I’ve already had to cancel Amazon Prime after they made the base tier have ads, but continued to show ads after paying extra for ad-free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trains⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If physics taught you that 1 = pi, you may want to retake some classes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, sorry. Ethically, this technology can only be used for torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only selling point of blockchain is that it’s trustless. This becomes a less-useful property when it comes to things in the real world, as you tend to need to trust at least one party.

  For example, anything they achieved there with blockchain, they could have achieved with a simple government-run web service and a traditional database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not a use for blockchain.

  Say I want to say that I created an image. I could post that image’s hash to a block chain, and point to it as something anyone can check.

  But you already have to trust me for that to be valuable. So I can just host that hash in any of a myriad of conventional methods that are simpler, more performant, and less wasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Et tu Brute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The power of Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, I’ve been playing mostly fine on my Linux desktop. One crash, but otherwise no issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your white led is a blue led with a phosphorescent coating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average website visit in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average website visit in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear me out: part of me welcomes that.

  Currently, most websites are awful to browse, and a few are not. If we switch to a world where most are inaccessible to me, and a few are nice, then I’ll spend less time being frustrated by cookie popups and the like.

  Like, if a site’s going to be terrible, I almost prefer it just not let me in at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still wild to me that I visited Hawaii as a kid, and then several years later. When I went back, a road I had driven on as kid was covered in lava.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, with one huge exception. Why the hell are you wasting your lucky coin applying for jobs?

  Also, sure, do some trades once to get some starter money. But that’s a waste of your precious 12 hours a month. As is going for walks. You can be on vacation the other 98% of the time; spend every second of your penny time doing as much good as you can.

  Cure diseases, solve nuclear fusion, end wars and violence, build infrastructure. There seems to be no limit the way it’s worded. Hell, build the Enterprise from Star Trek (or a better space ship) and spend your non-penny time exploring the galaxy.

  Do physical laws even apply? Can you build replicators for everyone? How about a mansion in a tardis for every person on the planet?

  For how long do you have to try something to succeed at it? Maybe you can do each of these things in just a couple seconds. If that’s the case, maybe penny time will quickly become non-valuable if you run out of ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure. The study discusses specifically people who engage in partisan subreddits, which is not the same as being politically engaged. It also uses an AI to grade toxicity, which surely mischaracterizes many interactions.

  For example, I have been in communities of a non-political nature, where political discussions occur. These are often about real issues that affect real people in the community, and yet there are people complaining about political content.

  To complain about political content is, at best, a very privileged take, demonstrating that you are in a position where politics do not affect you much. At worst, it is actively hostile behavior with the goal of continuing the status quo and shutting down discourse. I would call most of these kinds of comments “toxic”, and yet the rhetoric is usually fine, so I doubt an AI would agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨inches plus coins equals metric system⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an aerospace mechanic, but I do have some insight.

  The formula in the image is incorrect. It depicts 7/16" - 10 cents = 10 mm, not plus. Notice that 7/16" indicates the gap in the wrench, and the dime makes that gap smaller.

  Now that that is out of the way, it seems that a dime is 1.35 mm (I love that American currency is specified in metric). So, 7/16" - 10 cents = 9.7625 mm. So, pretty damn close to 10 mm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploits of a Mom⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think that, but they aren’t. www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux gaming is already here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Science⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The yellow blocks didn’t fit the desired story, so were disregarded as outliers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go play with a cat somewhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume it’s an optical polarizer. Like on sunglasses or LCD screens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  0 should be the most comfortable, with less being cold and more being hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’m neutral evil? I call shenanigans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But more than that, I believed that I could see... five guys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are probably guides, but just pick a random TNG episode, probably not from season 1 or 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm astonished at how well this game runs for a Bethesda game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not played a lot of Bethesda games. Are you really considering 2 crashes in 30 hours a positive? I would expect the nominal number of crashes to be 0.

  Maybe it’s just that I play mostly indie games, so my standards are higher. I guess AAA studios just don’t have the resources to make working games like the little guys.