Deebster
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
It’s not e-ink though, which was one of the defining features of a Pebble (and why the battery life was so good). Also, the Pebble guy is back with some new Pebbles: repebble.com
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 1 week ago:
I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don’t want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
Whereas I just assumed it was suggesting that the parent comment also was in the awful social skills group.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 1 week ago:
That’s a more beautiful looking game than I expect from retro graphics. A good write up, thanks for sharing.
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
I think OP means it’s above on a map, i.e. north, like how the Mediterranean is above Africa.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think that PSU is larger than necessary for running a PC with a single graphics card - I haven’t done the maths but it’s probably comfortably under 850W (a common PSU size).
The memory is huge but fractionally “slow” at CL32 - I’d say 32GB of CAS latency 30 memory would make more sense (or even CL28). With such premium kit, you might even be able to use DDR5-6400 (running at 1:1 mode).
It’s a huge price though - a really good PC should cost about a half of that (or even a third depending on your local prices), those components are in the “money’s no object” end of the range. It does match what you asked for, so if you don’t mind the price it’s a solid build using all of the latest and greatest speeds and versions.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 1 week ago:
I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a utopia.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 1 week ago:
The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
When I say accept, I don’t mean live in denial, I mean acquiesce. I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.
I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I’m on cameras, but I’m not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.
- Comment on 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming this is a young group, and they’ve grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.
I’ve met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.
- Comment on We spoke with one of the founders of DICE about their first game 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was Pinball Dreams from the thumbnail, I loved that game! I played it to death on the Amiga. And Pinball Fantasies too, but I don’t recognise the name Pinball Illusions.
We knew that the game was going to be cracked, given that we ourselves did some cracking and distributing of cracked copies. So was not really a big thing, but we did put in some crack detections that altered some of the scoring and ball physics in later games, that was never fixed by the crackers so they played worse than if you owned the original game.
That’s quite funny.
- Comment on Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks after sex with thousands of videos 3 weeks ago:
Looks like the BBC reworded this title, I assume so that my fellow readers don’t also get confused about this woman that had sex with thousands… of videos‽
- Comment on xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign 4 weeks ago:
Where I’m from it’s spelt centring, but I think Randall’s referring to “doanate”.
- Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights 4 weeks ago:
Businesses like having an app on your phone because they can update it to fix bugs, add features, track your activity and send you notifications/ads when they have something new to sell.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 4 weeks ago:
To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 5 weeks ago:
Some of this is paving the cowpath - the animated PNG stuff is 20 years old and e.g. Firefox has had support since March 2007.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 5 weeks ago:
APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.
* surely that’s easy, right?
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 5 weeks ago:
FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the
[and]()around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: arstechnica.com/…/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudfl… - Comment on xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons 5 weeks ago:
It seems reasonable given that
spacethe atmosphere is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. - Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 1 month ago:
Ah, Randall is alive! I kept thinking my bot had broken as it’s so rare for him to miss an upload.
- Comment on Look, I just really don't like working with soil in my apartment [DWC with Caladium, Tradescantia, Hawaiian "Ti"] 1 month ago:
I like the idea of hydro since watering plants is a bit of a dark art (your plant is unhealthy often means you’re watering too much or not enough).
I had to look up DWC (Deep Water Culture) and the page was talking about fast growth as one of the benefits. If you’re not growing crops, I can see that being bit undesirable - have you noticed high growth levels?
- Comment on JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports 1 month ago:
OP’s link is just an incomplete summary of the real article
That source post has this Bluesky quote:
Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored and verified
Also, that it would have been heavily flagged by users was probably part of it.
- Comment on xkcd #3104: Tukey 1 month ago:
This reminds me of Charles Babbage’s response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I’ve been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.
- Comment on The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology 1 month ago:
It’s more about things similar to Microsoft Recall, I don’t think whistleblowers are going to send their messages where other people can see their screen.
- Comment on Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft 1 month ago:
innocent until proven guilty but when an algorithm, a camera and a facial recognition system gets involved, you are guilty
Just the algorithm is needed for that, for example the Post Office Horizon scandal.
- Comment on The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology 1 month ago:
That was my first thought, but it’s actually a library for newsreader-type apps that lets a communication happen without exposing a whistleblower (it’s like a digital deaddrop).
I had a quick look and they’re going the things they need to like certificate pinning, so even corporate-level MITM wouldn’t be seeing any unusual traffic. I assume they’re also blocking access to the screen like banking apps do, which is more secure but annoying for normal users.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 month ago:
This reminds me of those games where you start of with water, wind, earth and fire and combine them to make new elements, which you them combine to make new elements, etc.
I wonder how the code works on emojikitchen.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 month ago:
Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I’m happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 2 months ago:
Also there’s that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there’s a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.
E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to “The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)”:
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