hera

@hera@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What browsers does it block?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupidity knows no bounds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an old kindle and I love it. Does everything I need it to. Read books with a backlight, that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as wept

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Susie Dent mentioned on a radio 4 show that words that maintained the archaic -t ending are usually more commonly used words. Words that are used less lost their -t ending and gained a more generic -ed ending as people were not taught it and used the rule they knew. So words we have like slept, dreamt, smelt are regularly used words day to day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone might recognise your issue though and have suggestions, even if you can’t reproduce it exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems very odd, I’ve been using syncthing for a good 5 years and never had a single file corrupt - might be worth opening an issue on their github

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists '3D Print' Material Deep Inside The Body Using Ultrasound⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the plan all along. Deposit the building materials for later use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel like we’ve been waiting a long time for it :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a very experienced python developer, I have tried using chatgpt for debugging and vibe coding multiple times and you just end up going in circles and never get to a working solution. It ends up being a lot faster just to do it yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Super interesting blog, also love that there are still some people blogging and it snot an insta post or YouTube video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally can’t think of a scientific use case where lossy compression would be acceptable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's first quantum microsatellite demonstrates secure communication with multiple ground stations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood some of those words. Sounds like the future though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really surprising this doesn’t already exist. It’s such a hated piece of tech, I would have thought someome would have thought they could do better! I don’t know enough to do it myself but I’d sure as hell support a project to do it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredible to see how far blender has come. I remember using it over ten years when I was trying to get off pirated software (3ds max), while it’s still recognisable the capability has exploded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using it for 8 years and haven’t paid, is there any benefit for paying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I’ve got more than that pinned

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All HTTP requests include your ip address, you don’t “consent” to giving it to anybody. You can geolocate somebody based on ip address but it won’t be very accurate