zaphod
@zaphod@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 day ago:
That’s the mother.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
No, that’s because they’re racist. They can have different motivations to do what they do.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
The right loves meritocracy. To them it means everyone got what they deserve, from the homeless to the billionaires.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yes you should.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Remember not so long ago when people noticed that Rise Against makes political songs? A lot of people are blind to stuff like this until you point it out.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yes, it’s from Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 6 “Trials and Tribble-ations”.
- Comment on Public service announcement 6 days ago:
It’s called digital exam.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
Does it actually get more popular? I see Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin together at around 40k monthly active users. It hasn’t really gained a lot of new active users, the peak was 50k monthly active users a while ago, so it seems to get less popular.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 weeks ago:
If I’m thinking about it correctly then either the standing wave is intentional or the oven is designed badly. You know the wavelength so you can make sure the oven is not an integer multiple of it and the hot spots move around on their own, no fancy frequency shifting required.
- Comment on Any swifties here to verify this? 2 weeks ago:
There are like two good songs on it. She peaked with Folklore.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Elite Extreme
Sounds like it focuses more on shiny RGB than performance.
- Comment on transformation 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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! 5 weeks ago:
The photo is old, so I think not.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 month ago:
Roko’s Basilisk is about halfway there.
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 1 month ago:
Holds up spork
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Assuming it’s 768GiB, then it would be 824.6GB, not 832GB.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes.