LostXOR
@LostXOR@fedia.io
- Comment on Still saying sweet things to each other after all these years... 9 hours ago:
I assume the censorship was probably done by the original poster of the image. Not much point un-censoring it in that case.
- Comment on Water refill stations that force you to watch ads at Philly Airport 13 hours ago:
Make sure to unscrew the water hose from the back and hang it on the machine so people can still get water!
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 5 days ago:
Does this have any benefit over just using friction to convert the rotation into heat? I suppose it would suffer less wear, but it also seems way more expensive.
- Comment on True story. 1 week ago:
Joke's on you, I've won the game.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 month ago:
I hear WebP can often offer much better compression than PNG in lossless mode so that could be an alternative.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 month ago:
This isn’t a graph, it’s a phylogenetic tree. It doesn’t need units or labeled axes (and they wouldn’t make much sense anyways).
- Comment on Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like valid email addresses. 1 month ago:
Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they're actually getting.
- Comment on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 1 month ago:
If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.
- Comment on Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? 1 month ago:
That's a pretty cool idea, though I think it would be a challenge to align the plans perfectly with the actual construction site.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 month ago:
Where are you located? I'm in need of some new backup drives and would be happy to pay a reasonable price + shipping if you're interested.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 month ago:
Both "color" and "colour" are valid spellings.
- Comment on ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire 1 month ago:
Just block cookies for the site and never worry about it again.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 1 month ago:
The article does say it takes five minutes to create a new story and picture. I assume most of that time is spent generating the picture. Still pretty impressive, but nowhere near the few seconds you can get with fast hardware.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 2 months ago:
Yeah, I switched to Mint back in 2019 and can't imagine going back. I have a Windows dual boot for certain games, but whenever I use it it feels like such a terrible experience compared to Linux. I don't think I've used it in a couple months because of that lol.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
Don't fat-shame the acids!
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 2 months ago:
According to every site ever I was born on Jan 1, 2000.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Freedom is still just a ribbon cable (or soldering iron) away!
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 2 months ago:
Only if someone was born in Kiribati in the first hour of Jan 1. According to Google in 2000 its population was only 89000 and its birth rate was 31 per 1000 people per year. That gives an average of one person being born every 3.18 hours. I'm not sure what the population of the countries in GMT+13 is, but I think they're also a likely candidate.
- Comment on An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields 3 months ago:
That's really cool. Much of the hype around AI tends to focus on it acting like an intelligent human (which it doesn't do very well), but glosses over stuff like this (which it can do very well).
- Comment on Fully working 270€ Nest Dropcam will no longer be supported. 3 months ago:
And to shut down the day of a total solar eclipse? That's extra mean.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I second this. Use a tool like ValiDrive to test whether that's the case; if it is, anything you've copied to the drive is unrecoverable.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 3 months ago:
Nose to the left, mouth to the right, of course.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 3 months ago:
The vast majority of cameras are 4:3, however.
- Comment on Microsoft advertising Copilot on lock screens 3 months ago:
Things like this make me glad I don't use Windows.
- Comment on Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN 3 months ago:
I was thinking more of using a debugger to see the API calls the app is making before SSL, not intercepting them over the network. Getting the secret would be harder but I assume it's stored somewhere in the app or app data and could be extracted. I'd be surprised if social media apps are storing it in the TPM.
I guess it comes down to whether it's easier/cheaper to do all of the above than to just buy a bunch of physical phones.
- Comment on Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us. 3 months ago:
I'm not smart enough to understand that, but I'll believe you. :D
- Comment on Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us. 3 months ago:
Technically the photon is being absorbed and re-emitted inside the star, so it's not exactly the same photon.
- Comment on Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us. 3 months ago:
You're partially right. Gavity has infinite range, so a distant star does exert some force on you. And that force is present regardless of other gravitational fields like the Earth or Sun. However it's many orders of magnitude weaker than the force from the Earth and Sun so it's pretty much irrelevant.
- Comment on AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead 3 months ago:
Ah yes, using AI to solve problems with AI.