zaphod
@zaphod@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 days ago:
Yeah, lack of empathy on her side, I know. If you think your date is a potential rapist/murderer/… then why are you trying to date them?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 days ago:
If you can’t trust a stranger even a little bit then don’t date complete strangers. Limit your dating pool to your circle of friends, friends of friends, people you already know or that your friends vouch for.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 days ago:
Trying to start a relationship by playing games is very much a good place to find red flags.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 6 days ago:
Not even proprietary, just niche things. In other words anything that’s rarely used in open source code, because there’s nothing to train the models on.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 1 week ago:
Elite Extreme
Sounds like it focuses more on shiny RGB than performance.
- Comment on transformation 2 weeks ago:
Well, this is the darkest timeline, turning evil is just natural now.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be less of an echo chamber that way.
It’ll be defederated and just create new echo chambers.
- Comment on International travel 2 weeks ago:
anytime abroad I tell people I’m from Jersey
You tell me you’re from Jersey, I’ll ask you about a tiny island in the english channel.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 2 weeks ago:
Sounds plausible, TNG, DS9 and VOY each had around 170 episodes, that’s already around 510 episodes. I checked the actual numbers and if you consider Short Treks as actual episodes then it’s indeed exactly 950.
- Comment on Dazzling! 2 weeks ago:
The photo is old, so I think not.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 weeks ago:
Roko’s Basilisk is about halfway there.
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 4 weeks ago:
Holds up spork
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 4 weeks ago:
All these Wifi for tracking people methods use the channel state information (CSI) that is used to help decode the transmitted data. CSI is obtained from pilot signals that are transmitted as part of a regular transmission. This is done in basically all digital communication standards, so you could do this not just with Wifi but also with 4G or 5G or older mobile communication standards. This is all not very surprising, there is a lot of research in contactless radio based heart rate monitoring, they usually build on radar systems not communication systems though. The buzzword for 6G for all this is joint communication and sensing.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 4 weeks ago:
Assuming it’s 768GiB, then it would be 824.6GB, not 832GB.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
It only has to be compatible with Mastodon, not necessarily be an actual Mastodon instance, see Meta’s threads.net.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 weeks ago:
You have to pay google to use it (only works on pixel phones afaik).
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
Aliens.
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 1 month ago:
Probably, which means the developers (or managers) didn’t really identify the problem.
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 1 month ago:
And GTA Vice City was originally planned as an expansion to GTA III, then turned into an independent game and released just a year after GTA III.
- Comment on What’s the plan? 1 month ago:
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes.
- Comment on What’s the plan? 1 month ago:
I have to return some video tapes.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 month ago:
That’s the fun part, you don’t.
- Comment on So apparently the wifi can see my dick now? 1 month ago:
No, that would be a Wiener, a Weiner is someone who cries.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 1 month ago:
Visual snow is different, it’s constant and looks more like tv static or film grain, fun stuff, not.
- Comment on that's a sunday night 1 month ago:
Looks like a normal friday.
- Comment on Day 392 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I think it suffered from being named after another game and a lot of people being confused or disappointed by it having nothing to do with Prey from 2006. It should have gotten a different name. I played it for the first time last year, can recommend.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 1 month ago:
Ils sont à jlai.lu.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 1 month ago:
The french memes on !rance@jlai.lu are more about stuff and less about bakery, but they’re not that active lately.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 1 month ago:
Two things come to mind, spotify was always a browser based app on mac/linux/windows, I think that was way more inefficient in the early days of doing apps that way. The other thing is that spotify originally used its users’ computers as cache to serve other users, that might’ve caused some additional load.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 month ago:
It was braindead when MS bought it and kept artificially alive.