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- Comment on Is there an independent model database? 23 hours ago:
Many models on Thingiverse and Printables are released under a CC-licence, so it would be possible to use that as a basis for an independent model database or some kind of decentralized fediverse STL databank, however that would work
- Comment on Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives 1 day ago:
Be the chance you want to see in the world and email him?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 day ago:
I don’t think phone makers are that close to ad companies
Google?
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 day ago:
Yeah, LLMs could really help. Other tools without AI are also helpful. The problem with all those companies is that they don’t want to do moderating for the public good at all. Reddit could kill a lot of Fake News on it’s platform, prevent reposts of revenge porn or kick idiots just by implementing a few rules. They don’t want to
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 1 day ago:
Yeah, high-res video will eat those TB quick. I started to clean up my collection - if something really was not good, I stopped watching or lost interest, it goes into the bin. Collecting is great, but there is no reason to keep some mediocre Netflix shovelware around that was canceled after one season.
- Comment on nets 2 days ago:
Why shouldn’t it be relevant? The waste is out there, is being found on our beaches and the industrial plastic waste is not swept up as often? So why would a regulation to prevent the most common plastic-items on our beaches from being there be bad?
- Comment on nets 2 days ago:
It’s kind of crazy - those plastic Q-tips are only better if you want to totally wreck your ears and every doctor is warning against that. For every legitimate use, those paper variants work perfectly well
- Comment on nets 2 days ago:
If it gets swept up on the shore, it’s in the ocean. So it totally makes sense to prevent it from being there.
- Comment on nets 2 days ago:
Just FYI:
Single-use plastic products are used once, or for a short period of time, before being thrown away. Under the EU’s rules on single-use plastics, the EU is tackling the 10 single-use plastic items most commonly found on Europe’s beaches and is promoting sustainable alternatives. The 10 items are
Cotton bud sticks Cutlery, plates, straws and stirrers Balloons and sticks for balloons Food containers Cups for beverages Beverage containers Cigarette butts Plastic bags Packets and wrappers Wet wipes and sanitary items
…europa.eu/…/less-plastic-waste-means-cleaner-bea…
So yeah, nets are bad, but straws, plastic bags, cigarettes and packages are also a problem.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 3 days ago:
Yeah, that is also a factor. You can’t expect good work from somebody who has been working for 60 hours for years without having a vacation.
- Comment on No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code 3 days ago:
It doesn’t have a paywall for me. Paywalls are a plague, but are impossible to control if you’re submitting posts here. Some pages are putting them in after a while, others after a certain amount of views or social shares, others have soft paywalls that come up after a user has read a certain amount of articles, some are based on the location of the user and others are there on mobile, but not on desktop. Use the usual paywall killers like archive.ph or ByPassPaywalls Clean if you’re having problems
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 3 days ago:
Digital Packratting is the antithesis of this trend. It requires intentional curation, because you’re limited by the amount of free space on your media server and devices—and the amount of space in your home you’re willing to devote to this crazy endeavor. Every collection becomes deeply personal, and that’s beautiful. It reminds me of when I was in college and everyone in my dorm was sharing their iTunes music libraries on the local network. I discovered so many new artists by opening up that ugly app and simply browsing through my neighbors’ collections. I even made some new friends. Mix CDs were exchanged, and browsing through unfamiliar microgenres felt like falling down a rabbit hole into a new world.
I’m really not sure here - that was true back in the days. But today? Just buy a 5TB harddrive for ~130€ and you can save several years of music there. And that part about “devoting space”? A raspberry pi with an external 2,5" hard drive is cheap and does take the space of one book or less than one shoe. Modern tech is amazing.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 3 days ago:
Just for information: We know, from multiple studies, that working more than 40 hours a week for longer periods of time is extremly unhealthy for you. A week has 24*7 = 168 hours and you should sleep 8 hours. That are 56 hours and if you’re working 60 hours, that leaves you with 52 hours or 7,5 hours per day for stuff like “commuting to work”, “buying groceries”, “brushing your teeth” , “family”, “friends”, “sport” or “this important appointment at the dentist”.
And that 7,5 hours are without a weekend. This will kill you. You might be younger and feel strong, but this will kill you.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 3 days ago:
He just wants more money and doesn’t want to pay his workers. Google has been laying off thousands of people in the last year, so there really is no shortage of applicants. They could have just kept their current workforce, maybe?
- No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the codeedition.cnn.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to history@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 4 days ago:
It’s amazing how they fumbled this. There was a time when video calls were Skype. Everybody was using Skype, everybody had it installed, people used it to chat and then … something happened. Microsoft did nothing. Or did the wrong kind of stuff. Software started to suck. And when the pandemic came, Zoom took over and nobody even tried to use Skype. That really, really are some bad business decisions there
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 4 days ago:
Not even the US. Most people there didn’t care at all. The religious right whipped itself into a frenzy, started a moral crusade and is now supporting a rapist, adulterer and sexuell harasser
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
I’m sceptical. Even if somebody would present a working fusion reactor today, what would the timeline to replace everything based on fossil fuels even be? Build several thousand of expensive fusion reactors in every country of the world, even in geopolitical rivals like China, Russia or North Korea or war-torn third world countries? Replace every car with an electrical one? Replace home heating everywhere? Rebuild every ship and airplane worldwide?
- Comment on Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books 1 week ago:
Seeding is something to help your fellow pirates. You donate your bandwidth to help them get their files. It’s totally in character for meta to just leech everything, take stuff, not give back anything and then to run to the bank laughing
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 week ago:
For everybody, who hasn’t that much of paperwork: I’m kind of doing the same, but without barcode stickers. Just scan the document into paperless and then stick it in a box or a folder. If you need the physical document sometimes in the future (which you won’t), paperless of course has the date of the scan / date of the document available. It then it quite easy to take your chronolocical sorted documents and find the one that came in on 2023-04-14
- Submitted 1 week ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze 2 weeks ago:
Money absolutely would help and I wish the EU would put additional funding into this.
Not only the EU. Let’s be honest: curl is used at Google, Meta, Apple and every other tech company. There is no reason why the EU should be the only entity funding them. Just funnel some of those tens of billions of revenue every quarter into the software that is essential to run your business.
- Comment on Retro tech: Using the PSION Series 5 in 2023 2 weeks ago:
I would like to have a PSION as a portable writerdeck, but they are surprisingly expensive. Used ones can fetch 100€+
- Comment on Who's making older games so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
Just to give you some background information:
In comparison, Japanese sales figures for the original Door to Phantomile on the PS1 sold 51,441 units in its first week and went on to sell 159,284 units. The original JP release of Lunatea’s Veil on the PS2 sold 45,639 units in its first week and 133,401 units in nine months.
old.reddit.com/…/klonoa_phantasy_reverie_series_t…
This one is giving you 25851 sales in north america:
installbaseforum.com/…/ps1-and-n64-software-and-h…
So there were never that much copies out there and there can’t be that many copys left. The game was released 27 years ago - discs were thrown out, were destroyed, became scratched and unreadable, house fires, floods etc. happened, but even if every copy was still in existence: You would still only need 25852 people who are trying to collect all north american PSX releases to create a scarity.
- Comment on Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really unfixable. Square Enix just doesn’t want to spend the money to update an older mobile game
- Comment on Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find 2 weeks ago:
Even if you’re capturing carbon - the average American is producing ~14 tons of CO2 per year. That is quite a lot to store if you have captured it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You could just use a computer without internet. Get something without a network card. But your use-case is quite bad as you still need access to the internet and you even want Facebook, Reddit & YouTube, which totally will send you into your doomscrolling dead spiral again.
So some hints:
- you can download YouTube videos and view them offline
- there are lots of ways to disable the internet or slow it down. Nothing will work when you’re the admin as you can and will disable them.
- if you get distracted doing your work, even black & white displays will not work. People totally didn’t do their work in the past and watched a lot of black&white television or even read some books
- Comment on Explosive Remnants in Gaza Cause Dozens of Casualties 2 weeks ago:
And they also will provide Hamas with enough explosive power to start another war
- Comment on Why do so many email apps add calendars? 2 weeks ago:
This is the answer. Mail & Calendar together in one app go back into the days before we had multitasking OS. So it does make sense to include both functionalities into one application, because you couldn’t easily switch to your calendar “app” like you can today or even share the appointment easily. And since this is going back for decades, this is also baked into users workflows. So if you don’t have a calendar, many users will not use your mail software. Calendars are quick & easy to implement and don’t need much maintenance, so there is little reason to not integrate them
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 2 weeks ago:
If you think about it:
- Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI
- Google is now showing AI generated snippets on every search page and is pushing its own AI chatbot everywhere
- Users are getting the answer they want from those AI generated answers Google generated from Reddit comments
- Traffic to Reddit is collapsing
In the meantime, spez totally trashed his site, destroyed valuable communities and pushed away the mods that keep the place clean. Really, really great business strategy there.