Brewchin
@Brewchin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 weeks ago:
The US$75 Lifetime price has traditionally been their Black Friday deal, regardless of the usual price.
Anyone’s guess if that deal will still be a thing, given their recent behaviour, though.
- Comment on Does AI detect breast cancer better than doctors can? 1 month ago:
If you’re going back that far, I remember hearing a story about the Australian military experimenting with immersive AI during a typical “give us money” event where a helicopter was flying over an area and the kangaroos scattered at the sound, disappearing over a hill…
Then reappeared with RPGs and fired them at the helicopter, taking it down. Lots of red faces and mumbling about working out some kinks. 😄
tl;dr: I’m old enough to remember when “AI” was a benign comic novelty. 🙃
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 month ago:
Calibre (Kindle) and Libation (Audible) are essential backup tools.
Y’know, in case their servers are down…
- Comment on UK Encryption Order Threatens Global Privacy Rights. 1 month ago:
Every serious person in law enforcement, who doesn’t have an agenda, acknowledges that the old fashioned policing methods make all of this redundant.
It just takes longer (and so costs money), which is what this is about.
These people would destroy the security of the world’s protocols just to save a few quid. It’s deplorable.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
I get what you’re saying, but I’m not sure greedy pigboy is doing that. Everything changes.
It won’t be what it was, and the grift will grow be off the charts, but I think it will evolve into a mix of what it was and grifters grifting. Just delineated by subreddit.
- Comment on I am cold 1 month ago:
It’s not often I laugh aloud at a meme, and rarer that I do so loudly. Excellent. 😄
- Comment on What's up with lemmit.online? 1 month ago:
"I don’t like it…
- “…so it should be banned” (for everyone) is never the right approach.
- “…so I blocked it” (for me) is.
It’s a simple heuristic that works in almost every situation.
You don’t know what value something you don’t like provides to others.
- Comment on Isekai genders 4 months ago:
Rimiru: IYKYK. 😄
- Comment on Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees 5 months ago:
I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.
- Comment on This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop 5 months ago:
So, the Internet of Shit is not just a euphemism now. Great…
- Comment on If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance? 5 months ago:
As with every legal topic on the Internet: depending on your (international) jurisdiction.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 6 months ago:
To add to what others have replied, Amazon have an institutional belief that everyone who makes it through the Loop is better than 50% of existing staff.
It could be post-hoc rationalising of back-loaded share vesting, hire-to-fire, and their other many practices, but that’s the position. With that kind of thinking, it makes this behaviour, including it’s consequences, a no-brainer win:win to them.
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 6 months ago:
I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.
So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.
Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.