TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 1 hour ago:
Yeah, uBlock Origin not working would take me from liking YouTube a fair bit to making it unusable.
- I use Proton but keep legacy Gmail accounts around to ensure I still have access to accounts I may have forgotten about or people I knew a long time ago sending a stray email. The only other usage is logging into YouTube.
- I use a Captcha solver extension.
- I use uBlock Origin to block all their ads.
- I don’t use their DNS.
- I use DDG over their search engine and Firefox over their browser.
- I don’t use Google Drive or their office suite (I think the latter is abysmal to use tbf).
- I use DeepL over Translate.
- I use NewPipe for YouTube on mobile and have a subscription to Nebula.
- I no longer use Google Maps, opting for OSM instead.
- I still use Android and unfortunately can’t unlock the bootloader but have degoogled as far as I know how, including never even registering a Google account with it (F-Droid + Aurora Store).
YouTube is far and away the biggest means by which I interact with Google, and that falls off a cliff if I’m forced to interact with a mess of their ridiculously shitty ads every time I have to use it. uBO has likely saved hundreds of hours of watching ads over my lifetime (and probably thousands of dollars from not being subconsciously influenced by ads), and I’m not paying a subscription fee to such an unethical company to get rid of the ads. This would bring me from YouTube as a timewaster to YouTube only as strictly necessary. Even though I don’t support them directly through ads, I do support them by supporting creators I like monetarily, by sharing links and maintaining the network effect, and by giving them plenty of metadata by interacting with their service. If they do this, they ensure that I continue to monetarily support competitors like Nebula and permanently lose a grip they’ve had on me since I was a kid.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 8 hours ago:
From snatch you came, and to snatch you shall return.
- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 11 hours ago:
GeoGuessr mfs inventing the first time machine to have this job:
- Comment on This should be the right address.... 11 hours ago:
- Sexologist’s Stone
- Chamber of Testicle Experiments
- Prisoner of Chastity
- Goblet of Siring
- Torture of the Penis
- Half-Cum Prince
- Deathly Swallows
- Comment on Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion. AI is making things worse. 22 hours ago:
- Comment on Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee 6 days ago:
- Comment on The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter 1 week ago:
Is there such a community here? Maybe you could start one.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 1 week ago:
13 words per minute isn’t impressive
Worse than that, it’s abysmal. That would’ve been a failing grade back when I had a few months of mandatory typing classes back in 6th grade. 40 WPM was an A, and arguably that was overly generous due to factors like 1) most students weren’t nearly as exposed to the keyboard in their daily lives as they are today, 2) the testmakers probably didn’t fully grasp how important the Internet would become, 3) the test intentionally obscured the keyboard so you had to go by feel, and 4) because of (2), the class was very short despite taking you from knowing no typing to using all the English-language keys. (I just barely passed it IIRC in the 45-ish WPM range.)
On a whim, I decided to pull up a typing test – something I haven’t done in probably 5 years – and tried to see how I could do by simulating the speed of hunt-and-peck, and it came out to just under 20 WPM. Next, I tried to see what I could do if I only had my left hand, and it was 35 WPM with 97% accuracy. If you chopped off one of my hands, I could still type 2.7x faster than the average kid in that school’s fourth grade could – bearing in mind that that’s the average, meaning as long as the data is roughly normal, about half of the students fall below even that.
That’s completely insane in a world where this iPad generation almost assuredly has tons of exposure to the QWERTY keyboard layout. It’s just inexcusable, it’s absolutely not the kids’ fault as them doubling their average typing speed after actually being taught to type shows that, and it totally tracks that it’s in Oklahoma.
- Comment on Karaoke place 1 week ago:
SingStar Splenic Flexure
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 1 week ago:
The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets.
Suspicions immediately confirmed that the principal is a complete fucking dipshit who just wants to chase whatever trends sound futuristic. What an awful person for putting kids through this garbage.
- Comment on title 1 week ago:
Who’s manually wiping with this when they could be using the attachment that pokes the brush out and then rotates it?
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company 1 week ago:
He actually threw $44 billion at it because he’s a fucking idiot who wanted to manipulate stock prices and then was masterfully forced into the purchase by Twitter’s legal team.
However, yes, he has since been destroying it, likely to the benefit of investors such as the Saudis.
- Comment on Deep Discounts 1 week ago:
Only $10,000 more until the trash build quality sort of matches the price.
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 2 weeks ago:
I trust GOG the most, but Steam is solidly second-most. Guaranteed that if Epic had their way, the PC gaming landscape would be just as trash as the console one, if not moreso.
- Comment on Measuring the Loschmidt Amplitude for Finite-Energy Properties of the Fermi-Hubbard Model on an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer 2 weeks ago:
Going to try giving an “in English, damnit!” explanation for these since I didn’t know two of them when reading this title:
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The Fermi–Hubbard model is a model of how some particles at very low temperatures arranged on a 2D lattice can spontaneously choose to localize, or condense their quantum probabilities to a small region.
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The Loschmidt amplitude is the difference between an initial state and a time-evolved one in dynamical quantum phase transitions.
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An ion trap quantum computer is one in which ions are suspended in space using electromagnetic fields.
Essentially, “we used a quantum computer to measure the quantum state difference for the evolution of very cool particles situated on a 2D lattice.”
Take what I’ve said with a grain of salt; I am not a physicist.
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- Comment on Let's Argue! 2 weeks ago:
This community in like 5 seconds (which sounds funny as fuck; amazing idea)
- Comment on Video Games - weekly active communities thread 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 2 weeks ago:
The original Engadget article which was syndicated here:
(Yahoo! News isn’t as bad with link rot as MSN is, but it’s still not great)
- Comment on What other poetry could be simplified like this? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Top Director at Bungie Was Fired After Misconduct Investigation 3 weeks ago:
asked them to play truth-or-dare
Well I guess Bungie should’ve known better when they decided to hire on an 11-year-old.
- Comment on Reasonable Blackman 3 weeks ago:
I was definitely pretty blown away by the brilliance of the 15 straight minutes of dialog on the ethics of sentient AI child soldiers between Reasonable Blackman and Hot Coldman in the Peace Walker DLC.
- Comment on Toot toot 4 weeks ago:
woosh
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
Moreover, they note that it’s a small community with three subscribers, which could actually hold weight as evidence of brigading if we were on Reddit. But on Lemmy? Nah, you kind of just see everything.
If we’re sorting by new on /r/all, I need to scroll back several pages on RiF to even see something that was posted 30 seconds ago; the chance that more than a few users will see the same feed there is tiny.
On Lemmy, by contrast, sorting ‘All’ by new gives me posts in the last 10-ish minutes on just the first page; things just move a ton more slowly. Consequently, there’s a lot more outsiders who are liable to see and interact with your post in a small community.
- Comment on Toot toot 4 weeks ago:
Most lucid Mastodon user
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
However, this particular user has deluded themself into believing this grandiose nonsense that they have a club of users who stalk them to downvote their stuff, when in reality we all come across them naturally because:
- Lemmy is a pretty small place.
- They’re a reasonably prolific commenter.
- Every time they show up somewhere, it’s a woe-is-me victim complex about how they’re being downvoted (immediately drawing attention) or making the absolute shittest political takes imaginable, which again draws attention and downvotes. This could definitely be survivorship bias where I only notice their username on comments that are doing these two things and not on normal ones.
I personally do not give enough of a shit about this user to waste any precious time or effort stalking them across Lemmy.
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- Comment on Tacoma Wept 4 weeks ago:
I feel like someone needs to adapt these faces into the virgin human vs thd chad horse
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 4 weeks ago:
I saw that too and figured it was artifacting based on the fact that the lines are rotated because I’d already found 9, but looking at it with a fresh set of eyes, it definitely seems different.
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 4 weeks ago:
- Woman loses a ponytail
- Turtle turns into a crab
- Frog’s eyes are looking a different way
- Two birds above the dock instead of one
- Dragonfly becomes a butterfly
- A seashell above the squirrel disappears
- Fisherman’s catch is different
- Beachball pattern changes
- I can’t find the 9th one.
- Comment on Just do it ✅ 5 weeks ago:
TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW, YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD!