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- Comment on I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath 1 day ago:
Props to Sponsorblock. Hells to the yeah.
- Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.iowww.hackster.io ↗Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 days ago:
Yes a big risk. Both natsec and IP theft are major concerns and cars are fully mic’d and compromisable.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 week ago:
Or I expect compromise of anything on the LAN that can create a rogue DNS server that can override the routing table.
But I might be missing something
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- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 2 weeks ago:
And lacking destructive impulse and intent
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 3 weeks ago:
Overnight charging doesn’t even need 50A L2. Less than half that is plenty for most users.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 3 weeks ago:
FYI thecooldown.com is a solid site with consistently good info.
I haven’t dug into this particular story though.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 3 weeks ago:
Legit query. and it’s true as a stereotype of many cultures.
And this particular aspect is also at the heart of global capitalism that is wreaking havoc on the world.
- Comment on Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family 4 weeks ago:
Just got an Intel Z84 NUC so maybe that’s where the upgrade went
- Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that already an option - alerts only?
What other alerts pop up? KFC ahead?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t this a black mirror episode already?
- Comment on Traveling personal cloud options? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks but looking for offline solutions
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- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 1 month ago:
Yea, but nah. Went through all that no luck.
Resetting the gear toggle fixed it, though.
- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 1 month ago:
My Brother was giving a toner end of life message and refusing to print.
I took the toner end cap off and reset the gear toggle, and now it prints again.
Cool story.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 1 month ago:
Electric dryer can still catch fire on heat mode by lint accumulation.
Rather safe on no heat mode, though.
- Comment on Replacing CD Collection 1 month ago:
FYI ripping wise, FLAC is the way to go.
And there are guides to using EAC and similar ripping software to get perfect rips.
Well worth the effort to do it once and perfectly.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
It’s just the 2.9kw should be kWh. Everything else is correct.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 2 months ago:
Link to a good example of a mind melting AI made video please so I can avoid it for science?
(actually serious this time)
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 2 months ago:
The really old Disney stuff is loaded with canceled everything just FYI
Give them divinchi and a camera and let them make their own
- Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried 2 months ago:
Geek out question: is radiation much of a factor in degradation given: . It’s moving further away from the Sun
. It’s traveling down solar wind so the total exposure is less than something in solar orbitAnd how damaging is background cosmic radiation compared to our Sun’s?
Fun to ponder
- Comment on Modeling shows green roofs can cool cities and save energy 2 months ago:
They work great together. Bifacial PV panels let enough light through for growing, and make perfect vertical edge barriers.
- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 2 months ago:
Used Moto G then
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 2 months ago:
The supposition currently is Russia is a huge emitter, especially Siberia as the permafrost melts.
It will be very useful to track this over time.
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 2 months ago:
That written looks way more impressive than 0.5 Mega tons, or 0.0005Gt, which is how global emissions are often noted.
Now I’m curious how it ranks in scale with other emissions
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
Just thought of a nasty hack the browser makers (or hackers) could use to scrape unlisted sites - by surreptitiously logging user browser history for a crawl list
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 2 months ago:
Yea, now $30B will buy everyone on earth a McDonald’s hash brown, including tax.
- Comment on Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times 3 months ago:
… unzips?
- Comment on Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars 3 months ago:
Somewhat true in the short term. Also very appropriate to electro for an EV future.