baguettefish
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- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 19 hours ago:
phones are already very full and dense, and a headphone jack is a very large component. plus, the Bluetooth is simply part of the small SoC, it’s a microscopic size. That doesn’t mean I prefer Bluetooth, but it makes some sense.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 20 hours ago:
as someone has been fiddling with dongles for years, it’s not that bad, and you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle. the apple dongle is excellent and beyond enough for iems and a lot of headphones. I personally have one dongle + iems for my phone and another dongle + headphones for my PC, and that setup works really well for me. You might want to consider it. Otherwise, those big beefy Bluetooth headphones might be semi-repairable, and there are of course also Fairphone Bluetooth earbuds that are apparently fairly repairable (though I know nothing about those). At least you can replace the batteries and the ear tips or pads, and that’s usually enough to last you a decade with these things.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 days ago:
yes but what if a company has the ability to create billions of close friends who can recommend sponsored products to you? why would it care about whether you want that or not?
- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 5 days ago:
absolutely
- Comment on The future is amazing 1 week ago:
that story didn’t actually happened the way those headlines said it did. the AI was a genuine LLM, but the company also had human contractors that could custom build features for you.
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 1 week ago:
i meant other types of captchas as well, but yes, cloudflare is fairly configurable. I also know other captchas can be more aggressive. And of course captchas can also block or harass “high privacy” configuration browsers and clients, and there’s also the strategy of infinite delay, where a captcha is never quite sure you’re really a human, so you have to work through 12 phases of it only to have to do the exact same thing again the next time you’re on the site. Recaptcha V3 with its “automatic” background captcha is also in a surprising amount of places you’d never know about unless you’re infected with some kind of The-Mainstream-Internet-Hates-You disease. Captchas discriminating against poor countries isn’t some big secret though, as far as I’m aware it’s fairly well known.
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 1 week ago:
they also often prevent legitimate traffic from poorer countries, and aggressively so
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 1 week ago:
if you do it you legally have to buy one cheese wheel at the cheese auction there
- Comment on Pikachew 1 week ago:
farfetch’d is a duck that comes with its own leek
- Comment on wtf i love capitalism now 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure Isaac Asimov said that all androids are gay so this is like a betrayal of the fundamental spirit of robots
- Comment on Israel once again openly declaring genocidal intentions against civilians from the very start. 1 week ago:
Some people just don’t have the capability to hold back, and I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to have their side lose an argument on principle just like that, especially if they do actually face an injustice. In petty drama like relationship issues there are techniques of coaxing the underlying problem out of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to articulate themselves, for example nonviolent communication. Its main system is that you find out via targeted questioning what emotions you’re feeling, and which needs (satisfied or unsatisfied) contribute to those feelings (loneliness, sadness, frustration <- the need for human connection is unsatisfied), and why those needs are in the state they are (for example your partner has paid a little less attention to you because work recently became more stressful, or the current political climate is stressful). After figuring out the root causes you do some brainstorming to figure out targeted solutions, and often you can find solutions that satisfy everybody’s needs. The key to it is its unique way of communicating with each other, which takes effort but is often exactly what you need. And as I mentioned, it often has a magical effect on people who somehow just can’t seem to solve their own problems, usually due to chronic miscommunication. It’s definitely a learned skill, but it helps a ton. 10/10 would recommend.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 2 weeks ago:
pretty sure AA and AAA studio execs can also organize and collectively agree on an $80 or higher price tag
- Comment on Bugs 2 weeks ago:
kind of small for that. I would expect more goblin size if it was a baby abyssal demon. they need the body weight to embody the abyss.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
anime protagonist and his harem
- Comment on I'm a businessman, I do business 5 weeks ago:
hey I have this epic business for you where you can be self-employed and get all the freedom of being a business owner with no downsides and all you need to do is sign up another couple people under your name and buy a bunch of shit that nobody wants
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 1 month ago:
I think you overestimate the average user
- Comment on Finally a map to show me 1 month ago:
it’s sort of not your decision though, and it can might with confidence in this twisted world
- Comment on Jar need a jar 1 month ago:
I agree with OP anyway
- Comment on Thats fair 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t be optimistic, something else may break
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 month ago:
to clarify a bit, you get both the meat of the chicken as well as the egg of the chicken
- Comment on Physical Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games are reportedly Switch 1 carts with codes in the box 2 months ago:
your name is very relevant, I must say
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 2 months ago:
frequency does help a lot with a customer actually going through with a purchase, but really this is just another way for advertisers to spend more on the same ad spot, because now your competitors can screw you out of multiple opportunities instead of just one
- Comment on Horror 2 months ago:
I doubt AI can replicate that German calligraphy
- Comment on Ain't no hate like conservative hate! 4 months ago:
i think of respect as a social contract; if you have basic respect for others then you also get respect from me, if you don’t then you don’t. exaggerating that and pretending conservatives are oppressed is ridiculous. conservative’s actions and opinions are just harmful and people call you out on it. it’s not like you’re getting mass deported or jailed. the negative consequences that conservatives in america do face right now mostly come from their own god emperor who decided that actually poor people (including conservatives) should just die.
