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- Comment on What is this, a crossover episode? 2 weeks ago:
There are so many different images you could show in panel 2 and it would work just as well
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 2 weeks ago:
Interestingly there is a body of research that suggests enjoyment of music comes from having exactly one of two things, never both:
Familiarity and predictability
If it’s neither familiar nor predictable, it is inscrutable and therefore discomforting to listen to
If it is both familiar and predictable it is boring
If it’s familiar but unpredictable, it feels like a journey through known emotions
If it’s predictable but unfamiliar it feels like ‘logical discovery’ and is fun and satisfying
A bit reductive but I love this idea
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 1 month ago:
I’m curious what you mean by “better moderation”? Are you comparing to specific instances? Or do you mean consistency, because it’s more centralized?
- Comment on How should one access their servers when in China if at all? 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, no, not really. They are absolutely able and willing to confiscate your devices at any time once you’re on Chinese soil, and once you’ve lost physical control, that’s the end of trust for that device. Even beyond that, it’s not unheard of for there to be vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc that make your device susceptible to wireless attacks. IMO it’s not worth the risk.
Here is just one example of this type of thing uncovered by The Guardian, New York Times, and others in a joint investigation: theguardian.com/…/chinese-border-guards-surveilla…
- Comment on How should one access their servers when in China if at all? 2 months ago:
Do not bring your normal personal devices to China. They are notorious for injecting spyware on foreign devices at every opportunity. Use a freshly formatted device and create all new accounts to use with it.
Regarding services: do not use self-hosted services unless you are extremely confident in your network security OR you spin up fresh, isolated instances of your services for use while abroad and spin them down afterwards, including formatting any OS they were hosted on.
Regarding VPN: because we are aiming that any device used in China is compromised, do not connect to your VPN unless you have set up a segregated VLAN and are connecting through a VPN server instance created specifically for use while in China.
Basically, assume anything you use in China is compromised. And assume your connections are being monitored. And assume that any device you are connecting to from China is at risk of being compromised. So everything needs to be segregated from the rest of your network and set up specifically to be deleted after you’re back home.
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
For anyone questioning this logic, try running your “idle” CPU without a heatsink of any kind.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 2 months ago:
Hahaha I figured something like but couldn’t resist the opportunity :D
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 2 months ago:
For those following along: SEAWATER IS NOT SALINE EITHER. Just making sure we’re clear on everything
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 5 months ago:
You’re correct on all fronts, but I guess what I would point out is that those design elements were a staple of the FF franchise long before 7. It was another turn based strategy role playing game in a series of turn based strategy role playing games. With OOT you had a real time action adventure game with design elements you’d expect from…well, from a turn based strategy role playing game xD
That’s where I have issues with OOT in hindsight. It stumbled in executing on its own self-image, whereas FF7 did a better of job of understanding itself
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 5 months ago:
OOT is objectively bad in hindsight, desire having played it like 20 times myself because of the place it holds in my memory as being something I’d never experienced before. Here’s the argument: youtu.be/XOC3vixnj_0?si=xnuSdmY942tBQGpp
FF7 has its flaws but IMO is a better designed game
- Comment on (looking for) specific type of web chat 5 months ago:
My solution for this type of situation is MicroBin running on my home network from a non-standard port, with a port knocker to open and close the port when needed.
My router handle DDNS so I can always contact my home network easily. I port-knock to trigger an iptables command on the router to forward traffic to the MicroBin host.
I also have my phone set up to connect via openvpn to my home network so that I can remotely do things like start and stop services, set port forwarding rules, etc.
- Comment on Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering 5 months ago:
So I’m Federated, So What?
Definitely this one lol
- Comment on Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering 5 months ago:
Precisely
- Comment on Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering 5 months ago:
Truck-kun trying to make a new fediverse themed anime
Reincarnated to Save Social Media
- Comment on Suika's too wide 5 months ago:
Shika. Shika shika shika.
- Comment on shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 6 months ago:
Just got back from visiting Japan including Nara Park. Can confirm all of the deer had antlers. Every single one, accounting for age
- Comment on soon 6 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Oh boy, let’s take this piece by piece…
DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LAWYER AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE
First: let’s talk about the difference between copyright, patents, and trademark
A patent protects a method of doing something - like a novel piece of code, or a newly invented drug formula - from being duplicated and used or sold without your consent.
Copyright protects creative works - like art, books, and computer software - from being mimiced. It literally deals with the rights to copy something
Trademark protects brands - like a logo or company name - from being used by other people for profit. It usually deals with marketplace confusion, as when someone creates a competing product with a similar logo to try to benefit from the logos recognition and popularity.
So, with that said, what are YOU dealing with?
Well, since you’re not selling software or utilizing anything from the WatchDogs game universe, you’re pretty much free and clear on both patent and copyright.
What about trademark?
Well, on the one hand, you are not competing with Ubisoft in any way, nor are you attempting to represent yourself as related to WatchDogs. So, by the letter of the law (in the US), they don’t have a valid complaint.
However, trademark under US law has this funny feature where an entity that holds a trademark is required to vigorously defend it when they become aware of potential infringement. This is to prevent the selective application of trademark. That is, if I know John is using my trademark and I don’t go after him, then Steve uses my trademark too, I can’t suddenly claim to have an interest in defending it when I didn’t care before. Steve can point at the fact that I didn’t go after John and say “you already have up your trademark by falling to enforce it”.
So how does this impact you? Well, unfortunately, even if you are technically allowed to use “dedsec” under US law, if someone at Ubisoft became aware of your use of their trademark, they would likely come after you for trademark infringement just to cover their ass. You might even win in court, but it would cost a whole lot of money that you would likely never be able to recover.
The good news is that the very first step in a trademark dispute is a cease and decist letter. They’ll demand you stop using their trademark. At that point you can either comply, refuse, or offer to settle the matter by selling them the domain.
What you do with this information is up to you.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 8 months ago:
Troll mode: Rip the first 5 minutes of each movie then splice in Rick Astley
Troll activist mode: Rip the first 5 minutes of each movie then splice in Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion live reading
Troll comedian mode: Rip the first 5 minutes of each movie then splice in Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
Activist mode: Find a set of movies to rename that teach about the harm religion has caused
Ethical absolutist mode: Refuse to host them, and explain why
Non-confrontational familial support mode: Give Mom a unique user and make the god movies only accessible to that user
I’m all seriousness it depends on what your priorities are. Is it more important to you to provide judgement-free support to your mom so she knows she can rely on you, or is it more important to try to reduce harm in the world by deplatforming harmful media? Or maybe it’s more important to try to teach your mom what’s wrong with those movies and you can come to an arrangement where she can watch those movies only if she agrees to watch movies you choose in equal amounts (since you can track it) to counteract the propaganda?
What is most important to you?
- Comment on self hosted newbie question about moCA router 8 months ago:
That’s a non-trivial number of devices, so I would recommend a decent router that will last into the future, including service upgrades. Especially if anyone in the house is gaming and streaming movies at the same time
I recommend purchasing the modem and router as two separate units.
For the modem, because you have symmetric gigabit service, you’ll need one that supports gigabit upstream. That means the less expensive SB8200 is out. Instead, you’re looking at the ARRIS SURFboard S33. You can also find a comparable product from Netgear, the CM200
For your router, I personally like and trust Asus. Their user interface is robust but user-friendly, and their firmware is well supported by the home networking community (including a stellar ‘expanded’ version called AsusMerlin that frequently has features pulled into the official firmware)
While you could go with an older model that only supports WiFi 5 (AC), those models have reached end-of-life and will only receive critical security updates. Instead, it’s worth spending a bit more for the WiFi 6 (AX) version.
The minimum you’ll want to support a symmetric gigabit connection like what you have is the Asus RT-AX86U. However, to support possible higher speeds in the future, and to get the most rock-solid performance, I personally recommend the Asus RT-AX88U. This is what I personally own for my symmetric gigabit connection
NOTE: There are older versions with the same model number that have extra LAN Ethernet ports (8 total) and no 2.5Gbps port. Do NOT get them! There are known issues when using ports 5-8 on these units
Again, you could find a similar product in the Netgear Nighthawk brand.
Anything above that is going to be extra bells and whistles. Things like extra WiFi bands, stronger radios, more 2.5Gbps ports, support for link aggregation, and some one-click gaming features that I personally think aren’t worth the money.
Depending on the size of your home and your personal use case, you may also find value in adding mesh WiFi nodes to your network. Asus and Netgear both have their own implementations here. Asus’ version is called AiMesh and is pretty seamless. All of their modern routers can act as the primary mesh node.
Personally I do not game in WiFi, so I went with 3x Asus ZenWiFi AX Mini (XD4) mesh nodes. They can be connected wirelessly to the main router, or by Ethernet to reduce latency. If I were going to be gaming on WiFi, I would have gone with the beefier ZenWiFi AX (XT8) nodes instead
Hope that helps, and let me know if you have any questions! Happy to go into more detail on whatever you need
- Comment on self hosted newbie question about moCA router 8 months ago:
Based on your edit, what you need isn’t MoCA. What you need is a cable modem and a router (preferably as separate units, not a combo one like you have. Happy to explain why if you care)
What is your ISP? What is your current advertised upload and download speed for the internet plan you have? Do you get TV or phone service through the same provider? Is your house wired for Ethernet? Coax? Both? How many people live with you? How many sqft is your home? How many devices well be connected? How many are wired? How many on WiFi? What is your use-case? Simultaneous streaming in 4k and latency-sensitive gaming? Mostly non-competitive gaming? Big downloads? Do you plan to stream content from your home while traveling or similar?
Help me help you :p
- Comment on self hosted newbie question about moCA router 9 months ago:
Just to make absolutely sure: you are POSITIVE that the device you’ve been renting is a MoCA-WAN router, and NOT a cable modem?
In the US at least, most of the single-unit devices that receive a coax input are DOCSIS 3.x, not MoCA. They are combining two pieces of hardware in a single physical unit: a docsis modem and a router.
Prior to having fiber internet, when my provider was Comcast, I owned two separate devices instead of renting the single device from my ISP: a DOCSIS 3.1 modem from Arris, and a standard Ethernet router
Just want to make sure you are absolutely confident about what your ISP is actually providing before you spend money on new hardware :)
- Comment on Why do my earbuds sound better paired to watch vs phone? 9 months ago:
First, does your Motorola have Dolby Atmos? If yes, disable that crap. It is not garbage IMO, except for the built-in speakers
Second, check which versions of AptX each of your devices supports. If your watch and buds support a higher quality version of AptX than the phone does, you’ll get better audio from the watch every time.
Lastly, consider checking out the app Wavelet and its use of AutoEQ. Ever since discovering the AutoEQ project I have started using it on every device I can. It helps restore audio to “studio reference” EQ levels, which is how the audio engineers design the music to be heard in the first place.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 9 months ago:
There is no question that most myths and legends were originally an attempt to convey facts, theories, or guesses into the future.
Humans are built to be pattern matching machines and prediction engines; it’s one of the big survival traits we developed through evolution and we’re better at it than any other species we know of.
BUT objectively speaking we were still really, really bad at it. Yet that doesn’t stop us from trying.
So we tend to do the best we can with the information we have available at the time.
As others have said, “physics” - and science in general - is by definition immutable. It is the thing that can be tested with specific predictions that always turn out to be correct. If I can perform an experiment today, and you can perform the same experiment 100 years from now, and (adjusting for environmental factors and measurement accuracy) we get the same results, and we can repeat that over and over, that’s science.
But our understanding, our knowledge of it, can change as you say. That doesn’t make physics less true, it just make our knowledge of and ability to describe physics less accurate.
We can trace so many stories - including modern religions - to origins that attempt to explain our limited observations in the past. They were our best effort at matching patterns and predicting outcomes in the world around us. And the inaccuracies, the limitations don’t mean we should stop believing the things we think we understand today.
It just means that we must recognize new information when it arrives as testable data, and incorporate it into our current understanding, relegating the wisdom of the past to history.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 9 months ago:
Right? Waymo is already several times safer than humans and tesla’s garbage and municipalities keep refusing them. Trust is a huge problem for them.
And yes, haters, I know that they still have problems in inclement weather but that’s kinda the point: we would be much further along if it weren’t for the unreasonable hurdles they keep facing because of fear created by Tesla
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 9 months ago:
The shame of it is that despite this limitation LLMs have very real practical uses that, much like cryptocurrencies and NFTs did to blockchain, are are being undercut by hucksters.
Tesla has done the range thing with autonomous driving too. They claimed to be something they’re not (fanboys don’t @ me about semantics) and made the REAL thing less trusted and take even longer to come to market.
Drives me crazy.
- Comment on Holo from "Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf" Plans to Make VTuber Debut 9 months ago:
To each their own. I’m not saying you have to feel the same as I do. I’m just saying I’ll probably check it out because it’s interesting to me. And if it sucks, oh well, I just won’t tune in. No skin off my nose
For what it’s worth, I expect it’s not about making money off the vtuber account but driving traffic for the show, novels, and merchandise. The bulk of the anime industry is built around pushing traffic elsewhere; it’s why you see so many shows that never finish. Once they stop publishing the source material (manga, novel) there’s not much point to making the anymore. Obviously there are exceptions for outrageously popular stuff, and shows that are fully original, but the majority is made specifically to sell other stuff
So my guess is they think they can get people who watch vtubers interested in the franchise this way, and that’s the driving force
- Comment on Holo from "Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf" Plans to Make VTuber Debut 9 months ago:
To me, that’s what makes it fun and interesting.
If I wanted to interact with a character from Cyberpunk The Matrix there are plenty of accounts out there already doing stuff with that vibe.
I get that it feels “out of place” but I guess it’s all just fantasy to me anyway so I’m cool giving it the chance to see what someone can do with it.
- Comment on Holo from "Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf" Plans to Make VTuber Debut 9 months ago:
That entirely depends on the seiyuu. I would, for example, trust someone like Takahashi Rie to properly represent their character (or at least decline to do it if she didn’t think she could).
Honestly if the actor/actress has good improv skills, I say go for it
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 9 months ago:
Because deplatforming works. Because tolerating intolerance eventually results in the tolerant being extinguished.
If I’m hosting a party and there’s a Nazi on my front lawn, I don’t care if I and my guests can mute them, block them, whatever. I’m going to get rid of them. I don’t want new guests seeing them when they arrive. I don’t want every single person to have to be exposed to the Nazis first before they can then block them out. I don’t want the Nazis to exist at all. Nazis don’t deserve to exist. We went to war to kill Nazis and I’d vote to do it again if I could.
It’s our house. Our community. No. Fucking. Nazis. No toxicity. We don’t have to suffer them to exist.
