floquant

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, combustion in both glass and joints is pretty inefficient at converting THCA to ∆9, and degrades a bunch of it to CBN and others. There’s a pretty thin section of material that gets heated to the right temperature, and quickly goes too hot when reached by the embers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Regular toslink is just plastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t they making a shitton of money? They can’t even use the usual enshittification excuses, this is just being greedy dicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They redacted the fucking bullet point? lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No AI or basic OCR would fail to recognize the words. Oldschool captchas have been inefficient at stopping bots for years now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Metaverse hasn’t really played out like they wanted it to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure there has to be some significance to this non-censor that is so common. Like a very thin line that doesn’t cover the word or a single dot that partly covers a single letter. Maybe seeing who complains to distinguish people and bots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A .Net dev in the flesh? I’ll pray for you /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like half of open source is just devs trying to satisfy their very specific needs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neanderthals wouldn't be considered a person under U.S law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This basically says that fetuses don’t qualify? If you extract them from the mother, they won’t have a heartbeat or voluntary movements

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diabolical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Paranoia? That’s just Flock cameras

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Golf??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why The AI Bubble Was DESIGNED To Burst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And I know NewPipe works with video, I meant I strictly use it for music (behind VPN) and nothing else for the reason above.

  Gotcha, I misunderstood.

  I still don’t want Google to link the IPs I use to the content I’m interested in.

  But YouTube’s servers only know that some ProtonVPN (ex.) user is connecting. They aren’t able to discriminate your music requests from those of some other user on the same VPN server - based on the IP alone at least. That’s assuming you never generate any traffic on that node while signed into your Google account of course. Is the video vs music distinction because song listens offer less bits of identifying information than videos?

  Don’t take this as preaching what you should or shouldn’t do, I don’t judge anyone’s threat model - just always curious about where people draw the privacy vs “comfort” line :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why The AI Bubble Was DESIGNED To Burst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t expose your real IP, keep a VPN on all the time and not only when you have traffic you want to mask.

  NewPipe definitely does play video. I have it installed and it works fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why The AI Bubble Was DESIGNED To Burst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use mpv on desktop, newpipe on mobile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  critical_thinking.rst

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is for like 350 days a year yeah. Eating take out food in front of the TV/PC doesn’t count? There’s someone else sharing their experience of Brits just “eating” those liquid protein shakes every day, that seems pretty close too. Of course, cultures are not homogeneous, and you can find Italians that drink protein shakes and Norwegians that are really into cooking high-quality ingredients for others. I’m not sure if you were picturing a country where everyone eats pills or what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I never said it doesn’t. Just that it is not a centerpiece of the culture. The fact that Americans have a big Thanksgiving dinner once a year isn’t comparable to the approach that the French/Italian/Greek/most Asian cultures have towards food on a daily basis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s several mentioned in this thread. Among them, Scandinavian countries, England and the US, and I don’t disagree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “easy if you have a diffraction-limited watt-scale laser” I guess

  Intentional deletion is a lot different to entropy-caused bitrot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For many cultures food is just nutrition, something that you have to do. This doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate good food, but it’s not the same as cultures where there is a lot of importance on both the food and the context of consuming it with others

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xmas at the mega church⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For-profit hospitals.

  For-profit schools.

  For-profit prisons.

  For-profit churches.

  When will Americans realise there’s something wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those viewing stats were the result of polling and maybe some heuristics, but it’s not possible to measure how many receiving stations are tuned to a TV or radio frequency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sony has already installed rootkits under the pretense of DRM. Back in 2005

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, at least you lived interesting times. I’m a bit jealous of those who saw the first digital systems take off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, the same company that screenshots your content even if you use it as a dumb display? Who could’ve predicted this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the country, but yes it is actually difficult to find a TV that is not android TV based or at least has WiFi and smart features built in, especially above a certain size/price threshold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it is connected to the internet, that’s not true. arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, LG and Samsung were both confirmed to take and upload periodic screenshots, whether you’re using native apps or an external input.

  Shitty article with guide to disable ACR: appleinsider.com/…/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung… (you might want to block traffic altogether knowing what they are ok with doing)

  Primary source for finding: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203