KillingTimeItself
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- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
there are two big arguments for a denser layout, notably you move your hands less, which means you can type faster, statistically speaking. It makes it easier. Generally you see typing speed track roughly with this over time.
And since you move your hands less, it’s ergonomically better for typing, so you get less strain, you have better ergonomics in general, you can type longer, and even faster since there is less strain.
Different layouts optimize for different things, some optimize for efficient roll combinations, some optimize for switching between hands as optimally as possible. Some don’t really do any of that (qwerty) which also have a significant impact on typing.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
you think i was saying they would manufacture hydrogen from natural gas?
ok.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
yeah thats pretty much the TL;DR here. It’s complicated since oil is complicated and there isn’t really a “insert oil” oil to talk about, there are a lot of variations of it, and a lot of ways to refine it, and a lot of different resultant products from it as well.
The fact that the modern petro industry even works is kind of insane.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
ah yes, wait until you find out about the qwerty keyboard. Or better yet, the fucking ABCDE layout for some godforsaken reason.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
all freight traffic is a pretty significant dent, i think the net total for all of transport is something like 15-20% of total emissions, so.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
actually, it’s already happening, why do you think LNG is such a massive export from the US right now?
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
yeah, free market economies baby, making everything more efficient!
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
the problem with tar sands is a fundamental energy conversion issue. It’s really hard to refine because you don’t get nearly as much energy out as you put in, compared to something like fracking.
It may become reasonable in the future with really cheap renewable energy and higher oil prices for example, but as of right now, it’s economically unviable.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
bc local supplies would generally be sufficient for industrial, non-fuel uses
this is assuming that its not just cheaper to import that needed oil? This is always going to be a fundamental problem, though maybe we already happen to produce plastic with native oil idk.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
it’s also to do with prices. There is a certain amount of this that is true, but the primary reason is oil prices.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
to be perfectly clear, this probably wouldn’t help much, since we would likely just move to shipping something like hydrogen across the ocean anyway…
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
well yeah, you can’t just try, you need to actually do it.
Stupid title, grammatically at least.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
I’m going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like “seamless screen sharing” or “video conference” doesnt really matter.
this definitely makes sense in the OSS community, but i feel like someone should’ve already done it as a semi pet project already. I know i would’ve done it.
And IMO, that’s good if we want to Recover the Web.
that’s an interesting take, but personally i think the web should stick to pretty much static web pages, the browser is turning into a secondary operating system, which is being run on an operating system, which is just, stupid.
Personally i don’t think any of this stuff should be done over the web, period.
The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.
yeah, my main complaint though is that we do have things like jabber, this is already incredibly accessible, there is almost no need for expanding the current landscape because it’s been around for like 30 years now.
In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can’t really “push to talk” three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won’t want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time.
no but that’s not the immediate use case either, something like mumble is really nice if you’re playing games with other people and just want to VOIP so you don’t have to use a text chat, you can talk and play video games at the same time pretty easily. It’s also nice if you just want to casually hang around other people without having to be physically near them, or at a keyboard typing on it constantly.
For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.
i mean, you don’t need a camera, maybe in a professional setting, but in a casual setting, screensharing something to show someone else for example, you don’t even need a camera.
Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on “debt”, which is what “Foo has to have ‘screen sharing’ because Discord has it” ultimately boils down to.
this is fair, and tbh i don’t even really want a discord clone, you could very easily just adapt one of the many existing text chat protocols IRC being the most obvious, and VOIP is basically a solved problem, that’s not hard either. Mumble has a pretty good low latency implementation of it, but you don’t always need low latency. Video sharing/video conferencing is harder, but we have things like youtube and netflix, so the actual video streaming part isn’t the hard thing. We have entire video manipulation libraries like FFMPEG as well, which will do everything you need it to do.
Mumble i think is the perfect example of a “minimalist” application, it does VOIP and it does it really well. I pretty much just want mumble but for video sharing and i’d be happy.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
yeah, and discord slack and basically everything based on electron is a fresh hell.
I love having three separate instances of chrome running the background while just using my computer, such that they all consume an entire gigabyte of ram for no particular reason.
TBF i wouldn’t do much if any troubleshooting over RDP or anything similar, i use SSH for all that stuff lol. I’m just confused that nobody has put together a “relatively” functional version of this yet, it seems like it would be prime realestate.
- Comment on Octopus 1 month ago:
what kind of octopus are we talking? How big?
It’s a known fact that as long as their mouth fits through the hole, the rest will follow, but it must be pretty small for it to move through your entire GI tract.
Now the spooky thing is that it’s probably intelligent enough to do it, assuming it doesn’t die somewhere along the way.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
this is an odd way to reference that one (theres probably a few) vsauce video on mirrors.
Not that i’m complaining.
- Comment on Gender 1 month ago:
idk dude i’m just here now, i didn’t sign up for this shit, i’m like a self replicating worm.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
it’s IRC but if it had all the features, and was monetized. It has a lot more features from what i understand, but aside from that it’s basically just a VOIP communication platform with video sharing. IDK why there aren’t any significant alternatives like we have with mumble tho.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
this is true, but for some reason i am rather optimistic about the future of this particular venture, idk why.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
obviously but VC funding is predicated on very slimy concepts and it’s pretty easy for the broad market forces to adapt away from it, as we see with current VC projects. We just need to somehow deal with that problem. That’s the hard part though.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
eventually people are going to have to wisen up to the VC funding strategy. It’s not going to last forever, i hope.
- Comment on Gender 1 month ago:
download HRT (the one trick governments don’t want you to know)
- Comment on Gender 1 month ago:
well i mean, technically not as this is actually a post on a service known as lemmy. So from that framework you would just be a string of identifiable text.
nice root instance btw.
- Comment on Gender 1 month ago:
idk i just have it, it showed up with me. I just have it now.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
What do you need screen sharing for? This comes up so, so rarely for me.
it’s convenient, also it’d be nice if it had the feature capability.
Mumble is great, but if there was something like mumble, that implemented video sharing, that would be miles better, though a lot of people would probably still use mumble, as it’s fine.
From what i’ve dug into, basically every video sharing capable setup is based on web technology, and i simply refuse to go near web technology unless i WANT to use a web browser. It’s just, worse, in so many ways.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
But people are so used to seamless voice and video chat nowadays - and that’s a technical hurdle that AFAIK, no open-source self-hostable projects have come close to solving.
this is unironically such a big problem, there are great voice chatting solutions, mumble, and the handful of other ones that exist out there.
There are basically 0 good usable video conferencing/sharing softwares out there. The same goes for desktop streaming. If we just focused like, a little bit more of our energy on these two things, i think the world would unironically get better. It’s 2024, h264 runs on a CPU like nothing, why haven’t we figured out how to do these things yet?
The ones that do exist are likely to be web based, and thus, webRTC, the dreaded behemoth of both web support and also, generally poor implementation. I just want mumble but with support for video streaming, how hard is it >:(
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
ah yes, the age old tale of “the internet sucks and people are stupid”
If you’ve ever tried hosting a web based solution you’ll know exactly what i mean. The entirety of web hosting is a disaster. The entire mountain of web code is a nightmare, and the collection of website based frameworks do nothing more than burn electricity and man hours to create a fucking button on a screen.
as for discord, i haven’t puzzled that one out yet, i don’t understand. Probably lazy developers and the community aspect, it’s a forum, but free, and worse. And now you can shitpost with random people you don’t even know!
Personally, i believe that enshittifcation is an inevitability. You put somebody in a room with something, and when you take them out, that thing will somehow have gotten more complex, and thus probably worse.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
i have no clue, but i would assume it’s native to twitter if they’re pushing it that hard, either that or someone is paying a lot of money for that captcha access lol.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
i love when websites (twitter is a really bad example) hit me with like 8 captchas, and then if i get my username/password wrong i have to do another 8. It’s just so obviously gaming for training data on shit lmao.
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
zoe bee recently posted a really good bit on media literacy, worth a watch if you have the time.
Calling back to my original post, saying that people shouldn’t have opinions, it’s a bit of a shitpost and highly satirical, but i think it would be generally productive for society if we started pushing for people to disavow opinions more generally. An opinion is more akin to a bet than anything else, it’s just a statement that you make based on preconceived reasoning. There are things opinions should exist for, shit like “i like the color blue” is a really good example.
But when you start getting to shit like “i think the jews control the world banking system” i think it’s probably good to take a step back and consider the point of an opinion in the first place.
Personally i like wacky opinions, i have a bunch, but they’re inconsequential, it’s shit like “i like linux and think that windows is bad” there’s a point where it’s not just an opinion anymore, and we should stop referring to them as such. Having a different worldview is not an opinion, it’s a worldview, and that worldview is probably based on pseudofact in a lot of places.
I feel like we’ve sort of conflated the idea of an opinion with an “idea” which is wrong.