Zachariah

@Zachariah@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The one where red is on the left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy to remember:
  Red is on the opposite side from Right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft with my kid

  creative mode Java through Prism on Steam Deck, connecting to vanilla self-hosted server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So that's how they do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  omg I hate how they don’t properly align the new section

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any BlueTooth apps that can connect two (or even more) inactive phones to talk with each other as if they're Walkie Talkies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a cool idea. I’ve never heard of any apps like that.

  If you could get them all on wifi, you could use an app like Threema or Signal to do voice calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is really serious about giving more products Copilot name on Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Copilot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Company That Made Robots For Kids Goes Under, Robots Die - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI company Embodied announced this week that they would be shutting down following financial difficulties and a sudden withdrawal of funding. Embodied’s main product was Moxie, an AI-powered social robot specifically made with autistic children in mind. The robot itself cost $799.00 and now, following the closure of Embodied, it will cease to function. 

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are forums like Lemmy social media? To me social media are sites where people friend/follow other people. Lemmy is more of a general purpose website with user-generated content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft: TPM 2.0 is a ‘non-negotiable’ requirement for Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  weird

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Long COVID is looking more and more like it's driven by 'long infection'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since relatively early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a recognition that in some people, SARS-CoV-2 — or at least remnants of the virus — could stay in various tissues and organs for extended periods. This theory is known as “viral persistence”.

  While the long-term presence of residual viral fragments in some people’s bodies is now well established, what remains less certain is whether the live virus itself, not just old bits of virus, is lingering — and if so, whether this is what causes Long COVID. 

  This distinction is crucial because live viruses can be targeted by specific antiviral approaches in ways that “dead” viral fragments cannot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  large tracts of land

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking Bots with Nginx⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  robots.txt is a bit like asking bots to not visit my site; with .htaccess, you’re not asking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this warms the cockles of my heart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your points are valid. And I suppose having more money improves autonomy as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s funny at all. It’s fucked that these people haven’t live in these conditions. They’re essentially living in a fascist ghetto. I’m happy they’re able to find something meaningful. I’m a bit disappointed its commerce. It could be art, music, philosophy, learning, etc. Making money is fine, and artistry and craft are better. But true freedom is so far away it’s sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  arbeit macht frei

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the radio model that was denied by the RIAA when downloading mp3s first got big.

  eff.org/…/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine has seen success in building clean energy, which is harder for Russia to destroy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one thing I rarely seen brought up in discussions of nuclear power. If every building had its own power source, then the grid no longer becomes a viable target. Funding for national security should go towards putting solar on every rooftop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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  The biggest new feature in Archinstall 3.0 is a revamped text-mode user interface (TUI) that now uses the Curses terminal control library, which allows for more complex layouts and a new but familiar look and feel of the menu-based interface.

  As you can see from the screenshot above, the new Curses-based interface now opens each main setting of the installer in a side panel rather than a separate page from the user needs to navigate back to the main menu. This should make the installation a lot easier for Arch Linux newcomers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …Unlike the Raspberry Pi computer, the Pico is a microcontroller. Mostly this means it’s not running an operating system and instead can run simple code. They are also typically less powerful with only 256kb of RAM instead of Gigabytes for the bigger brother, and have a lower clock speed.

  However, this also means the controller starts immediately running your code upon power up, and it does not have to share resources to maintain an underlying system. This results in low power consumption, making them appropriate for battery-powered use cases.

  After blinking a few coloured LEDs, we found that we could use potentiometers to control how much electricity would go through the circuit. We could then read this value from a screen. With some tinkering, we made a calculator which would multiply two numbers which are set using the potentiometer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamburger H̷̱̼̖̏̈́͘̚ͅé̶̲̠̤̙ḷ̷̠́̕p̶̹̱̩̫͊͒͊̋ ̸̰͇̘̜̀̓̒̐m̸̼̺̼̹̈̒̐ē̷̲͋̕eee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I put on my robe and my wizard hat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The wand chooses the wizard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump said he’ll end offshore wind ​“on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  better, but more conjecture than hypothesis imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump said he’ll end offshore wind ​“on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “theory”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump said he’ll end offshore wind ​“on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s hope he only plans to work one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to someone half your age?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d let them pick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever get a profound sense that everything in your life has happened before?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the last didn’t go anywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, Athens wasn't built in a day.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Achilles Matt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This button is primarily for turning the computer on.

  Sure but you still need to turn it on though?

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So many people referring to using the button to turn the computer off, but more than 95% of the time, you use the OS to turn a computer off. It’s only when there’s a malfunction you would need to turn it off with a hardware button.

  This button is primarily for turning the computer on.