floquant

@floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have a ton more questions, but I’m not sure if I want to ask them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 reports its name as Microsoft⟪AE⟫ Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000, encoding the registered trademark symbol ® not as UTF-8 as required by the specification but in code page 1252” is a sentence that seems to have come straight from unix_surrealism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse to live in fear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Just don’t play into their hand. The “post-truth world” is not inevitable, some “people” are just pushing really hard for it to be that way. Keep bringing up things that were said and things that were done, with receipts. Think and teach about the differences between facts, beliefs, thoughts, and opinions. Do keep making compilations of all the evil and insane shit they’ve done, with rigor and composure. They will be unable to come up with anything more than boogeystrawman arguments and hate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No offense taken! I just believe that a subtle difference does not mean unimportant and wanted to be precise. I didn’t take you as someone who doesn’t understand analog and digital, especially considering your instance :) I edited my previous comment for some additional clarity. I just think they’re neat ^^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  With “binary” I mean “has two states”, as in discrete, as in digital. You can represent binary bits using analog circuits, but it doesn’t make those circuits binary. What makes these chips different is that they are able to not only represent but actually model continuous functions and values, like physical models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This has nothing to do with retro technology. This is about thinking “is using binary really the most efficient way to run every computation we need to do?”, which is really relevant today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have had it all⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This shitpost feels like a hug. Thanks fren, real art

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “malicious communications” reads like something straight out of Orwell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oi! You got a license for those photons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the point of posting an LLM response to “what is web development”? Seriously? I don’t get it. If you don’t know and wanted to ask it, fine. But why copypaste it to c/technology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The “dark” side of the moon is a bit of a weird thing, both linguistically and for its tidally locked orbit ^^ The moon revolves around earth at the same speed it revolves around its axis. This “tidal locking” means that it is always showing the same “face” to the Earth, so that it doesn’t appear to be rotating from our perspective. timelapse showing the precession of the moon This doesn’t mean that one side is always dark and the other is exposed to the sun - just that instead of days, the moon has phases! So the situation of being “on the dark side of the moon” while the Earth is visible is not possible, but earthlight is very much a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Just regular sunlight. The “night” sky might throw off your intuition, but no atmosphere = no sky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't spend your life in front of a live camera⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who says that he valued “open debate and the exchange of ideas” either had never actually listened to one of his “debates” or has no idea what healthy discourse looks like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do school shooters know how to use guns?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Groyper angle explained - 'this assassination was a shitpost'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I didn’t notice this was a tiktok link and now i feel dirty. Be a G and reupload it next time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venn Diagrams⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  angry upvote

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the internet actually enforced copyright to the letter of the law

  Whose law? Whose enforcers? The Internet is fundamentally incompatible with traditional sovereignty and jurisdiction concepts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. The problem is that that system was created and lobbied for literally by Disney and other big “IP holders” like music labels. That “while” after the holder’s death has been increasing to ridiculous levels. They are not getting special treatment by abusing the system, they’re changing the system to their rules. Image (source)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FreeIPA + any mechanism to deploy configuration files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is “fair compensation”, in this case, for you? Does bringing joy to millions of people entitle you to more money or do you see the happiness you shared and subsequent fame as part of your “payment” - what you get out of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I don’t have an issue with individual intellectual property, it’s the acquisition and trade of it by corporations that I have an issue with. For example, I believe no copyright should last after the creator’s death. Disney is dead, Tolkien is dead, many musicians are dead, let alive creators contribute to their worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funerary Engineering⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with a button? What’s this rube goldberg shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your signature will never be unique, each time you sign there will be small variations. It’s really not that hard to produce a convincing signature if you have good penmanship, and even easier if it’s a digital scan.

  I’ve owned fountain pens since I was little, and I usually use some deep blue ink that fits the “only black or blue ink” criteria but is particular enough that I am able to tell with confidence if it is or not the ink I was using, and forensic analysis could verifiably tell. The one I’ve used the most oxides into copper colors, I love it so much.

  For digital documents, I use PGP. I don’t care if it’s dorky, if I think I could have the need to demonstrate that I said or was told something at a specific date, I will generate and store a signed version, or attach it to an email as appropriate. I care more about the cryptographic guarantees of digital signatures than the legal guarantees of paper signatures anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The original Kickstarter price was around 120

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hallelujah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this damage control propaganda after the popular Benn Jordan video?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at history

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit lost it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. I’m with you on the “nothing is illegal on the internet” stance, but at the same time I think it’s ok to fight against “bad”/dangerous things and make them harder to access. If someone really wants to have an AI lover, let them download a model and write their own system prompt. At least then they would have a better idea of what their “lover” actually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Billionaires gather to praise Trump⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking up? They’re living the dream. I’m sure all of them think he’s a stupid asshole, but also glad they can keep expanding their surveillance capitalism empire