simplejack
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- Comment on If I wanted to, hypothetically, guarentee that I shit my pants 2 to 6 hours from now, how should I do it? 1 day ago:
This is easy. Google “miralax colonoscopy prep solution”
Enjoy!
- Comment on Discovering what this man has done has ruined my day 6 days ago:
What happened to today? Are you a student?
- Comment on Field Guide 1 week ago:
Looks like it’s legit. Amazon has paperbacks.
- Comment on Ideas 1 week ago:
Looks like a shit post to me. I will allow it.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m just saying that some exceptions break through. Some YouTubers make content that is so good that people outside of YouTube consistently share the shit out of it. They don’t need the click bate for the initial boost, they get the boost from sharing off the platform.
- Comment on Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity 1 week ago:
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 1 week ago:
I’d argue that there are a couple of studios that are still mostly focusing on making good content, not click bate.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I think YouTubers like MKBHD are generally playing it straight. Trying to stay on top by getting better and better content.
Although, these people tend to burnout eventually. They have to keep running a faster mile.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
Sure, but infrastructure is not just fiber, and there is a lot of stuff in between your long stretches of fiber.
I’m not a sys ops guy, but I can pull from different data centers and see measurable differences
This is a pretty well known phenomenon. That’s why we have cloud data centers located close to major metro areas.
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- Comment on Is this really the final laptop you will need this guy is claiming? it is completely customizable. 1 week ago:
Something not mentioned in the video.
A second Boeing whistle blower just abruptly died.
- Comment on Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon 1 week ago:
Wait. I thought you said “Drone. Be evil.”
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
One of those cities is pretty close to Redmond. The other 2 are 2-3 hours away from a major population center. The San Francisco equivalent would be data centers in Sacramento. Not exactly next door, but close enough to ensure that latency isn’t terrible for loading an e-commerce site or something.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
IMHO, data centers kind of need to be somewhat close to important population areas in order to ensure low latency.
You need a spot with attainable land, room to scale, close proximity to users, and decent infrastructure for power / connectivity. You can’t actually plop something out in the middle of BFE.
- Comment on Breaking the news 1 week ago:
Whistle blowers getting killed, an authoritarian running for office, new laws targeting lgbtq+ people. The USA is starting to feel a lot like Russia these days.
- Comment on Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs 1 week ago:
This is a very common misconception. These vehicles will not have access to the full network. They’ll have access to about a 1/3rd of it.
Telsa’s North American network is over 50k chargers, but these companies are all advertising that they’re going to have access to just over 15k chargers.
Moreover, if you look at Telsa’s network map, they have already defined which charges are all EV, non-Tesla NACS, and Telsa Only. And Telsa only is exactly what it means. No Fords or GMs.
- Comment on Your memory will live forever in textbooks. 1 week ago:
I choose “tulips.”
- Comment on OpenAI Introduces the “Memory” for ChatGPT Plus Users 1 week ago:
Remember that time I told you to draw Guy Fieri with frosted tip hot dogs for hair?
- Comment on Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs 1 week ago:
Charging is literally the only reason why I would ever consider a Tesla over another EV. The non-Tesla networks are often significantly underpowered for fast-charging, or straight up broken. And not all of Tesla’s network is open to non-Tesla EVs and or non-Tesla NACS EVs. If you want full access to the largest, fastest, and most reliable network, you need a Tesla.
But I guess Musk now wants to put that at risk too.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
Maybe I skimmed that too quickly, but it looks like this is just the execs on top of those departments, not the people working within them.
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- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe the company that puts ads on the remote would do this to me.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
I want to run unsigned apps on iPadOS, just like MacOS.
That said, regarding support for “slightly older” hardware. For all that Apple sucks at, they have usually been good about supporting older hardware. iPads have historically received 5 years of major releases, and then a couple years of security updates after that 5 years. The big exception being that very first iPad which was cut off after 3 years.
Moreover, software support for an old OS tends to become an issue after 2 or 3 years. Those of use who are developing iPad apps look at the traffic and start to deprecate support legacy OS versions that are in the low single digits.
Realistically, it’s about 7 to 8 years before I start to think about new hardware. That said, I still have an old ass 2013 iPad Air that I use for web browsing and messaging. Thing still works fine for that, but the third party apps are kind of stuck in 2020 / 2021 land.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
Apple:
Opens iOS third party App Store rules.
Command+F
Replace “iOS” with “iPadOS”
Clicks Replace All”
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see why they wouldn’t be. iPadOS is still basically iOS Double Wide.
The rules will almost certainly be the iOS rules, but find and replace iOS for iPad.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
We take on risk every time we decide to wake up and start the day.
I live in a place where I’m considerably more likely to get hit by a car while walking than thrown in jail as a political prisoner. That doesn’t mean I’m never going to go for a walk. I’m going to live life.
Leaving my phone at home seems pretty silly when the risk is very low in my nation and I do riskier things while cooking dinner.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
IMHO, as someone that works in security / privacy, I tend not to view it as a binary thing. It depends on where you live, what you’re protesting, what you look like, who you are, etc.
Are you in Russia or China and are protesting the government? Yeah, I might leave that thing at home. Are you a white lady in San Francisco marching with a pink knit cat hat during brunch hours, then you’re probably well on the other side of the risk spectrum. You might actually be introducing more risk by having less immediate access to communication or a camera.
IMHO, it’s nuanced.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
You can also just hold a volume button + power. That will bring up the power / emergency screen and will require a non biometric password for the next unlock.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
If you’re going somewhere where you think you might be at risk, IMHO, it’s probably just easier to turn your phone off. Android and iOS both require a non-biometric passcode after boot.
Or, if you want to keep your phone on, enable lockdown mode on Android, or tap power 5 times on iOS to require a non-biometric password at the next unlock.
- Comment on Living in a forest without any technology also works, since you will have no internet access anyways. 2 weeks ago:
It’s also a good way to get out of attending unwanted events.
“I’d love to attend Braxton’s graduation party, but that weekend I’m going to be building a personal security and privacy model.”