jqubed

@jqubed@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is something available where you live, but Replacements, Ltd. may be able to help you. That’s basically why they exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably depends if you’re getting enough. The best way would be if your doctor tests your levels. My doctor initially prescribed me to take like a 50,000 IU dose once a week with dinner or something like that, but I found it hard to remember. I asked about switching to something daily and took an over-the-counter pill every day, which became a routine and harder to miss. After another test we doubled it so I take two pills every day and now an in a better range. But there were months in between the tests, so I think it takes time to really have an impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich Is Now Stable!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As we’re committed not to add paywalls, this purchase will not grant you any additional features in Immich. We rely on users like you to support Immich’s ongoing development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Taping to the camera as shown on the left would be challenging to make work at least. The cameras don’t put out light so whatever image you use would have to be on paper thin and light enough for backlighting to work. The distortion that close would also be extreme, so you’d want to keep the main part of your image in the center and small. And yeah, it’d probably be blurry, but the resolution on most of those cameras was already pretty bad up until a few years ago so you might not notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The manufacturers were opposed to them being required. I think they claimed it would cost an extra $200-250 per car. But they sure won’t pass up on the ads if they think they can get away with it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another angle of this modern art installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very curious about who screwed up first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reuse old security system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be possible to upgrade the system but you’ll probably need to find someone who knows these systems better. There used to be a cover on this panel where the buttons and speaker are; that might’ve given a make or model number, or maybe even had a sticker for the company that installed or monitored the system. This is the control panel but there might be a hub/brain somewhere else where all the wires lead, perhaps in a closet or utility room. You might find more information there.

  The system sounds like it’s functional; in most jurisdictions the sellers should have provided you with the information necessary to use the system, like alarm codes and contacts for a monitoring service (if any). If you get a code that might be all you need to use the system (you should change the previous owner’s code).

  It’s possible to use the alarm without a monitoring service, but I feel like they’re more useful with a service. If there is a monitoring service they would be able to have someone come check out the system and reset the codes for you, show you how to use the system. Is there a sign in front of your house with the name of an alarm company?

  This looks like a system old enough that it would probably need an actual telephone line for monitoring and uses wired sensors. Wired sensors are probably a good thing. The sensors don’t need batteries and aren’t vulnerable to jamming like wireless sensors. They’re more expensive to install, though, especially in a finished home. Since yours is already installed, that’s a boon. Most current systems are probably designed for wireless but I’m sure there there are ways to use the hardwired system with more modern systems and get features like remote access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now have tables in Notepad on Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  WordPad was removed by Windows 11 version 24H2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android QuickShare is now compatible with AirDrop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the Google blog post announcing it: blog.google/products/…/quick-share-airdrop/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the very small number of books to defeat me. The narrative part was okay but every other chapter was full of wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales and their lives and I just couldn’t take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there are many jobs AI is not capable of doing but some CEOs probably do a bad enough job that an AI chat bot could probably do better.

  I know we like to dump on CEOs all the time but a good CEO does not seem like one that could be replaced by AI, certainly not by what is currently being hyped. There are just a lot of highly visible companies with CEOs who aren’t actually very good. I suspect the dysfunction of publicly traded companies and the goals of Wall Street investors (or other nations’ equivalents) frequently not aligning with a good long-term health of a company has a strong influence on this.

  And of course these guys will be happy to have AI replace them; they’ve already made boatloads of money and think they’ll be able to keep that going even if they lose their job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t work there and I also say it will be a huge mess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Mac Pro, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember if it’s announced or rumored, but I think there’s an entry-level MacBook coming with an A17?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, those were features in the most recent release, although I can’t find the announcement post offhand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless they’re seeing actual benefits for a neural processing unit, I’d guess you’re right about the processors. The ISS runs on 386 processors and those were a surprisingly outdated choice in that era. Even with the advanced flight characteristics of a modern fighter, I’d guess they don’t really need the power modern chips are capable of offering.

  But yeah, the radars and other sensors? Certainly not off-the-shelf for flagship aircraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Needy Programs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one area I would sorta disagree is on updates, although only inasmuch as they’re needed for security fixes on things connected to the internet. But if it’s not connected? No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember it looking better than this screenshot shows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To tag along with this, I remember this becoming an issue 10 or 15 years ago and a lot of the big lyrics websites were forced to reach licensing agreements with the songwriting groups like ASCAP and BMI (they collect and distribute royalties on behalf of the writers). I think a couple sites tried going to court to claim fair use but lost pretty quickly. That’s pretty established law going back to the earliest days of music publishing. Just because they were publishing online instead of printing up songbooks doesn’t mean the laws change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article on The Verge has a quote from someone at Valve saying they expect that will be among the first ones the community creates for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much work as the Verge article says they put into cooling, I’m not too worried about heat issues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marrow was interested in “how public institutions decide what’s worth showing, and what happens when something outside that system appears within it”.

  He said using artificial intelligence to create it was “part of the natural evolution of artistic tools”, adding he sketched the image before he used AI.

  “AI is here to stay, to gatekeep its capability would be against the beliefs I hold dear about art,” he said.

  […]

  The artist, who said similar stunts he had carried out at Bristol Museum and Tate Modern were not “approved, sanctioned, or acknowledged”, denied it was vandalism.

  “The work isn’t about disruption. It’s about participation without permission,” he said.

  “I’m not asking permission, but I’m not causing harm either.”

  It’s like the same “logic” AI companies use when they take copyrighted content without permission: claim you’re not causing harm so you don’t need permission. They don’t see the harm, so from their perspective it’s fine, even if the creator doesn’t want them taking their work.

  Railing at the institution as being gatekeepers might reveal the flaw in their logic. People or institutions are entitled to decide what belongs in their collection and what does not. Random outsiders are not entitled to be a part of that collection. They can be invited in if the curators are interested in their work, but the curators are generally not required to add them just because they’ve made something. The artist can create their own collection and invite others to be a part of it, but they’re not entitled to be in anyone’s collection. They also can’t just go and take something from someone else’s collection without permission, and even taking a photo of someone else’s work and placing it in their collection would at the very least be bad form. The other artist is just as entitled to decide where they do or don’t want their work displayed.

  With encryption and encryption backdoors I often use the illustration that I put a lock on the door of my house, not because I have something to hide, but because I have things valuable to me that I want to protect. Just because I have nothing to hide, it doesn’t mean I give the police a key to my house or let them add their own lock to my door. I wouldn’t want to come home one day and discover a random policeman had let himself in and was making copies of all my documents and photos just to make sure I wasn’t doing something bad. I’d be even more upset if I came home and discovered a policeman from another country had let himself in because he’d gotten a copy of the same key, or a thief was doing the same because he’d gotten a copy of the key.

  Building off that illustration, I might have a collection of art in my house. This guy is not entitled to come into my house and look at my art, nor is he entitled to come into my house and put a picture on an empty space on my wall just because he thinks it should be there. Railing against gatekeepers keeping his slop out to me seems as ridiculous as him being mad that I won’t open my door and let him put a picture on my wall. He might not be damaging my walls, but just forcing his way in against my wishes is something I would view as harmful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sneaked is the traditional form as the past tense of a regular verb, dating back to at least the 1500s, whereas snuck only appeared as an irregular form in the 1800s and it’s not clear why. It’s very unusual for a regular verb to become irregular. Snuck is more common in US English than British English, although sneaked and snuck appear in both variants. Sneaked would seem more correct especially for British English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never written a game FAQ but when I’ve done documentation for other things on a computer I’ve found that I prefer recording myself doing the task and then writing the guide while going back through the video. It’s too easy to skip steps otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nanananana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Top right looks a little like Godzilla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to be married to have a mother-in-law or father-in-law but you don't have to be married to have a brother-in-law or sister-in-law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting; I’ve read that more and more jurisdictions are ending the concept of common law marriage. The idea is it existed in a time when a legal marriage was harder to get. Nowadays in those areas a legal marriage is easy to get so the thought is if those people never legally married it’s because they didn’t want to, not because they couldn’t, so there’s no reason to have a marriage forced onto the couple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a strong preference for Dobie Pads, and found their version inferior

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How well did they work if she still became a mom, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the birth control sponge still available?

  Yes. Though the birth control sponge was taken off the market in 1994 – and again in 2008 – it was reintroduced for a second time in 2009.

  Why was the birth control sponge discontinued?

  The birth control sponge was introduced in 1983, but was discontinued in 1994 after FDA inspectors discovered bacterial contamination at its manufacturing plant. The sponge reemerged in 2005 under new ownership. The new owners promoted the product and then sold it to another company – a business that went bankrupt in 2007. A new distributor picked up the birth control sponge in 2009, and the product has been sold nationwide since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Username relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3164: Metric Tip⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always funny to me the ways they “went metric” but things like cans of beer are 473 mL (16 US fl oz) or iced tea is 341 mL (11.5 US fl oz).