papertowels

@papertowels@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I remember the dual thumb, but I just remember being amazed at how responsive it was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Typing on this thing was a dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Active noise cancelling - noise cancelling that doesn’t just rely on making a seal between your ears and the earbuds/headphones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a you problem, I have it on good authority that it’s pretty common:

  how many times does the average person use wireless charging? Seriously, I haven’t seen anyone do that yet, or know of someone who uses that.

  and yet that’s still a major feature in lots of phones

  You’ve shown everyone that you can, in fact, listen to wired headphones and charge at the same time with “major features found in lots of phones”, which solves your original complaint, which itself depends on some very specific scenarios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny you bring up wireless charging.

  Does that not solve your proposed problem? You can use a usb-c to audio dongle, which often comes with better sound quality than a phones DAC, and wirelessly charge, even via many powerbanks. These are features found fairly commonly in today’s phones, so problem solved?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’ve asked a question twice and you’ve danced around it both times, that tells everyone what your answer is.

  It appears you and I both know this is a loud but not statistically relevant need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, for simplicities sake let’s just say it’s impossible.

  How many times has the average person needed to do so in a year?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we revisit the “loud” vs “statistically significant” paradigm, while it is a shame you will not be able to charge the phone with a dac in, how often does the average person do so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a relevant stack exchange question. Regarding what an ISP can learn. Of note, everybody is ceding that the ISP can tell you’re using signal, and they’ve moved on to whether or not they’d be able to fingerprint your usage patterns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any number of other people. Primarily the government.

  Right, so if the header isn’t encrypted, it’d be trivial for them to see who you’re sending to, which is why that’s important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re talking about encryption and signal because you’re worried about folks whose network you’re connected to being able to invade your privacy, right?

  I’d say it’s a pretty reasonable suggestion to say we start with those guys. If you don’t worry about those guys, who do have access to traffic info, then why bother with encryption?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the header isn’t encrypted it’d be easy to inspect, and this easy to determine where it goes, which is why it matters.

  Based on your questions, it sounds like you’re expecting the network traffic itself to be encrypted, as if there were a VPN. Does signal offer such a feature? My understanding is that the messages themselves are encrypted, but the traffic isn’t, but I could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you? Are the headers encrypted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted

  Again, not my specialty, but signals end to end encryption is akin to sealing a letter. Nobody but the sender and the recipient can open that letter.

  But you still gotta send it through the mail. That’s the network traffic analysis that can be used.

  Here’s an example of why that could be bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How exactly do you think encryption prevents the analysis of seeing when an encrypted message is sent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for taking the time to walk through your thoughts - I appreciate the conversation.

  I think the particularly egregious problem with interpreting the comment as referring to the association of man=top=dom is that the meme has a gal as the dom, as you’ve pointed out, which does go against heteronormativity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand heteronormative to be about social norms centered around heterosexuality, and how that is the dominant cultural factor.

  With that understanding, viewing things through a heteronormative lens is to exclude the views of non-heterosexual folks.

  Then “heteronormative bullshit” is comparable to “heterosexual bullshit”.

  I might’ve missed some nuance - this is not my forte. However my naive understanding is that saying this was commentary on “cultural norms” is similar to saying to civil war was about “states rights”. States rights to do what? (Slavery) Cultural norms centered around what? (Heterosexuality)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “heteronormative” doesn’t mean “it’s the fault of straight people” are you serious

  But does “heteronormative bullshit” imply that?

  What if they’d said “I’m tired of this homosexual bullshit that glitter goes everywhere?”

  That definitely reads as “I believe it’s the fault of the queer people” to me, do you believe otherwise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reusable rockets, in particular.

  Imagine having a reusable car in a world where they were all disposable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting virtualbox for my students⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This does sound like it could be a liability issue if not done correctly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like it ever gonna happen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wut.

  Are you speeding from anecdotal experience or something?..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The self hosted community is probably the worst place you could ask about something while ruling out “privacy and tinkering”. Those words might as well be the motto here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But they’re quests

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to make sure you notice it says “encrypted messaging” meaning matrix as a service, as opposed to “encrypted messages”, meaning selling your messages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately if you take alternatives out of the running you’re kind of just left with impotent rage against one of the biggest companies in the world and their shareholders.

  Why would Microsoft ever care about some mildly upset users on Lemmy when they know said users are locked into their product for life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also learned that one today…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trouble keeping a top-heavy TPE part on the bed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the pei build plate in need of rejuvenation by chance?

  I’m not a very active printer, but everything I’ve seen about you printing on pei sheets suggests that it sticks too well - oftentimes ripping chunks of pei out.

  If your sheet is pretty old, iirc you can rejuvenate it by rubbing it with some fine steel wool.

  Also, have you tried a raft instead of a brim?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think going down on someone is only a submissive act you haven’t gone down on someone long enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GOOD GUYS, BAD GUYS, AND EXPLOSIOOONS, AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I distinctly remember learning this about myself after talking to someone on a dating app who used absolutely 0 punctuation. We’re talking like entire paragraphs-worth of text messages without a comma or period in sight.