Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Network question...Some sort of AP or directional antenna to connect a bit distant shed? 7 hours ago:
Yes a pair.
But consider direct bury cable. It’s low voltage so there’s no building codes to follow or even miss utility calls because you are only putting it a few inches below the grass. You can get really long flexible auger bits to run under concrete for $30.
I know it’s a hassle but it will be so much more reliable in the long run.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 2 days ago:
I would expect it to look like Israel vs Palestine.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 3 days ago:
Only after Musk stops stalking the public. Tesla tracks everywhere you drive. X tracks every website you visit using cookies.
If Musk can know where you are at any moment with a phone call to Tesla, the public should be able to know public plane records.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 4 days ago:
If you download a movie from a torrent site, you have committed an illegal act in the US. It doesn’t matter if you watch the movie and then write a fanfiction based on the movie. It’s the copying that’s illegal. It seems clear from OpenAI’s statements that they torrented the data they used to build their models.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 4 days ago:
Yes recording at Netflix stream is pirating. That you got away with it doesn’t mean you couldn’t be sued for tens of thousands of someone found out.
You don’t think it’s unethical but it is illegal in the US and people have been sued for thousands of dollars. This is still going on today: arstechnica.com/…/isp-sued-by-record-labels-agree…
OpenAI has said they need to violate copyright. But they didn’t say that the law should be changed. They want an exemption for themselves.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 5 days ago:
Did you buy the Ghibli movies you trained on or did you pirate them? Because OpenAI has argued that they are allowed to pirate and no one else.
- Comment on Advice for a newbie trying to selfhost 5 days ago:
So you are leaving your laptop behind as the server?
What’s your budget? I’d build a separate server but that’s me. I would think you could get old hardware practically free that would run your services fine by checking Craigslist and your local recycling center.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 days ago:
They already said they are going to charge $30/year for patches. They want recurring revenue from ads in 11 or from you paying yearly for 10.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
I just want a printer that doesn’t require you to upload your gcode to their cloud server before getting permission from them to print.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
I have no idea what you are talking about about and Googling didn’t help.
- Comment on Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War 1 week ago:
They’re also modified with fiber cable so they can’t be jammed.
- Comment on BREEEEET 1 week ago:
Has anyone got these working in emulators? Apparently some have been converted to work in emulators but I haven’t been able to actually find them. The Internet archive link doesn’t work.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 1 week ago:
Yes. They also added an option to pay for patches.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 2 weeks ago:
But that’s why thermostats have a range and turn on/off cool/heat as needed?
If you were gone for a day with everything off then it would make sense to not overshoot. But when you are home it’s not like it goes from 30-60F instantly outside. As the outside gradually changes, so does the amount of heat or cooling on the inside.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 2 weeks ago:
Why do you care about outdoor temps for your indoor setting?
- Comment on The Retroid Flip 2 does not support Linux 2 weeks ago:
I have a Retroid 3 plus. I’m not buying another Android handheld. They don’t make any sense. You have long boot times, and if you rely on sleep it needs constant charging. A game controller on an Android phone is a better experience in every way.
I have had several Anbernics and a Miyoo Mini. My favorite is the Miyoo because you turn it on and in seconds you are where you left off. When you turn it off, it auto saves and goes completely off so the battery isn’t dead the next time you want to play.
Linux Anbernics can do this too it’s just the Miyoo boot time is faster.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing Unreal Gold from 1998. I never finished it.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that they won’t do it. It’s that they currently don’t so it’s a good choice.
When they add ads, then we can find something else. I’m on Roku now but have been increasingly annoyed by the increase in ads.
- Comment on Donald Trump Accuses Canada of 'Cheating' Amid Tariff War 3 weeks ago:
The euphemism treadmill is silly.
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 3 weeks ago:
He demonstrated that he is senile when he blamed the current trade agreements on the president who signed the last agreement. Trump signed the last agreement. He can’t remember.
That’s why he changes from tariff off to tariff on every week. He has no plan. He has lost his memory.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using minipcs with integrated graphics ( and one with a laptop class GPU) instead of desktops for around the house and see no reason to stop.
- Comment on for real this time guys I mean it 3 weeks ago:
As Trump said, it’s not his fault but the idiot that signed the last trade agreement.
(it was Trump)
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 3 weeks ago:
Android runs on Linux. That doesn’t make you Google. There’s no reason to reinvent the wheel.
We’re not talking about hardware startups trying to build a minimum viable product,
It once worked for a publicly traded company. It was a few guys doing the custom Asics, one guy doing the board layout and two guys doing the software. This wasn’t a minimum viable product. It was a commercial product used by every large bank in the world.
Have you heard of Micronics motherboards? I knew the person who did their first motherboard. It was one person.
- Comment on Tea time 3 weeks ago:
They don’t need an account to read everyone’s posts. The real stealth is that some instances are likely run by states so they have your IP.
( I found it odd that Lemmy.world, which claims to be in Netherlands, censored many Luigi threads during the first week.)
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 3 weeks ago:
I disagree. Gmail is my email provider. I don’t pay for it. (Yeah I know they are taking advantage revenue.)
Instance is unnecessary jargon.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need thousands of employees. The Lineage group provides the os. It need only be customized. LineageOS itself is 9 developers working part time as a hobby.
Hardware design is typically 3-5 people with 10 support staff. I’ve worked for a couple hardware startups.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 3 weeks ago:
With the current Minecraft monthly updates, paper is always behind on the latest features. There are also minor problems that paper introduces with its performance improvements.
Years ago paper was critical for a good Minecraft experience, but a newer PC (newer than 6 years old) runs great on vanilla.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 3 weeks ago:
So if you’re planning to have the kid play on Switch or something like that, it’s not going to work.
You can run Geyser (a modified Minecraft server) to let bedrock clients play on your Java server.
- Comment on US blacklisting of Huthis 'devastating' for Yemen, NGOs say 3 weeks ago:
My knee jerk is to go against anything Trump but if Houthis have millions to buy missiles to shoot at random ships, they have money for food.
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry the first link was wrong but the second link showed was a research paper showed them doing it.
Just google electron microscope eeprom and you will find hundreds of documents on the procedure. The second link I provided wasn’t theoretical. It showed it actually being done.
researchgate.net/…/312551555_Reverse_engineering_… “All those parameters allowed us to obtain clear differences between ‘0’ and ‘1’ states as seen in Figure 4. It has to be noted that this image is obtained without additional image processing to highlight differences between ‘0’ and ‘1’ states.”
"demonstrate the possible [emphasis added] automating "
It doesn’t say it isn’t possible but that they have a possible way of AUTOMATING it. That is instead of someone looking at the image and reading off the bits into bytes, they could take the image output the data without human intervention.