tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 minute ago:
The person you replied to is referencing findings made by the author, in the article.
The author tried plugging a PD charger into the watch to charge it, and it wouldn’t work. It’s probably not PD as a specification couldn’t work, but that the watch failed to negotiate with the charger.
Whatever the reason, the findings were that trying to charge this cheap little watch with your PD laptop charger does not work.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
It’s really interesting when you think about that.
In the video world, we’ve had an arms race all throughout the last 25 years for the lowest possible file size at the best possible quality, with new codecs and containers constantly coming in and out of favour. Hardware playback has always been spotty at best, with little guarantee you’ll get a file to play on any device in particular.
Meanwhile I could rip a CD and put it on even my first-generation MP3 player from the year 1999, and it would work. A blessing we rather take for granted.
I guess there just hasn’t been sufficient pressure to toss MP3 out completely. From an evolutionary perspective, just like the horseshoe crab, it is “good enough” and so it endures.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.
Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.
Why are we changing the deafuly SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.
More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 4 days ago:
100%.
I haven’t bought a full price game in a long, long time.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 6 days ago:
One twenty-ninth of a cent? That’s cheap!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
There’s no strict rule, either is acceptable.
“Write down the age of everyone here”
“Write down the ages of everyone here”
Equivalent, and both equally fine.
When we are talking about a group of two or more people either singular or plural work, and singular doesn’t imply they have to be the same either.
- Comment on Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos 6 days ago:
For broadcasts yes. The autoplay for trailers keeps forgetting its setting constantly and there’s nothing you can do about all the embeds - which are really the worst offender.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 days ago:
That page won’t open for me because it’s http only, won’t upgrade to https, and my browser won’t allow it.
But I know the story you mean and it’s brilliant lol.
Here’s another report on the same: Welsh translation gaffe
- Comment on Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos 6 days ago:
If you’re the sort of person who likes to take in plenty of trailers when you’re hunting for new stuff to play on Steam […]
How about if I’m the sort of person who hates it when a bunch of shit starts autoplaying and there is a dev stream popping up and 10 embedded animated images in the product description?
Got any features for me?
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 days ago:
Bizzarre mistakes in signage, just like in real life! Realism++
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how you can make the points you make, and still call it a “generally brilliant solution”
The entire point of this system - like anything a giant company like Hertz does - is not to be fair to the customer. The point is to screw the customer over to make money.
Not allowing human employees to challenge the AI decision is very intentional, because it defers your complaint to a later time when you have to phone customer support.
This means you no longer have the persuasion power of being there in person at the time of the assessment, and means you have to muster the time and effort to call customer services - which they are hoping you won’t bother doing - who even if you do call can then easily swerve you over the phone.
This is all part of the game plan.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 week ago:
I haven’t even tried it yet, but just from the video you can tell it’s going to be insanely good.
It’s the first bit of software I’ve seen in a long time where I took one look and immediately thought “Fuck me, I need that!”
I use Unraid and just on the off-chance I went to the Unraid community ‘app store’ and someone’s already created a Docker definition for it, published today! The hype is real
I’ll be giving this a shot latrr
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 week ago:
Should be like “it even works with browsers from the future!”
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
Sure, but it’s multi-modal.
If you’re having a conversation, or doing some other task that makes sound, or scrolling social media and a video starts playing, there could be a noise that momentarily covers up the audio and you miss something. If there are subs then you can also quickly glance to see what was going on.
Listening to spoken dialog allows you to look away, but subs let you catch back up if you miss the spoken dialog.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree with that, all I’m saying is there are additional factors in play which also account for at least some of the rise in subtitle usage. It’s not all down to a single cause.
Volume normalisation is a problem, but it’s also true that people aren’t the same as they were 20 years ago and don’t behave the same as 20 years ago.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 week ago:
You being lucky doesn’t necessarily imply that other people will be equally lucky, though.
Plus, what we may not have thought about is that the triggers for a financial institution to review your account will happen due to a change in circumstance. Address move, insurance change, employment change.
Since you left 25 years ago, there have presumably been basically zero changes to your personal status as far as the bank is concerned. They aren’t hearing about it because you don’t live and work in the country anymore.
So your account is just sitting there, quietly unnoticed and unbothered.
To.make them want to close it, something would need to happen to make them want to review it.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
Dynamic range and loudness normalisation is surely the main reason people are using subtitles, but habits are undeniably also changing too, as is the way people consume media in general.
People don’t just look at the TV for an hour straight - they are doing other things, or second-screening, or having conversations, and multiple methods being available to pick up on the show dialog is helpful.
Let’s not forget simple reasons like accessibility, either. My friend here in the UK is Hungarian, and despite being completely fluent in English he always likes to watch shows with subtitles as it helps with understanding some British accents which can be tricky for non-natives.
And people just process information in different ways. We’ve all heard by now that some individuals can be visually oriented, while other people are aural. If you get a choice, why not take it?
Not to mention that subs on streaming services are much better visual quality and timing than subs on broadcast TV used to be, which felt nasty and mis-timed, and very second-class. Clearly ‘good enough’ for hard of hearing individuals but not very pleasant.
I don’t think it’s a hot take to say that as accessibility features get better and more available, more people will use them. And accessibility is for everyone.
- Comment on Who dares disturb my liver? 2 weeks ago:
Gaying instrument
- Comment on Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow 2 weeks ago:
For me, the performance of the main voice actors is THE single most important moment-to-moment element in how an anime hits. Shows with pretty poor animation can be rescued by amazing VA performances, but even the best animation can’t save a show if the acting doesn’t land right.
And in dubs, the voice acting almost never reaches the quality of the original.
The voice actors usually sound like they are just reading a script alone in a box, with no proper context of the emotional setting or tone, or awareness of who they are saying it to, or feeling that they care about the words. The delivery is flat at times it should be spirited, or dialled to 100 at times where it should be nuanced.
Even in the cases where dubs are actually competent (Ghibli movies, as a good example) the process still introduces changes. The original casting directors chose the actors they did for a reason, and it’s those people whose performances I want to hear.
And this isn’t just true for anime, it’s true for all foreign films and shows. Just let me have it the way it originally was.
- Comment on Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow 2 weeks ago:
Subtitle gang, always and forever.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Yep. My Dad in his late 70s uses this system and it works great for him.
People make fun of it, but for people with low tech literacy this is actually far better than having a mish-mash of solutions where some their logins end up automatically saved in iOS on their phone, some are saved in Chrome on the desktop, some are just in their head, they don’t know where anything is, and are constantly losing access and resetting credentials all the time.
And it definitely reduces the burden on me of parental tech support, when its all in the book.
- Comment on Blunthead Slug 2 weeks ago:
Wild
- Comment on Blunthead Slug 2 weeks ago:
Ah. Apparently it’s called a slug snake because it EATS slugs, not because it looks like one.
Because it looks like a stick. Literally the most twig-ass looking snake ever.
- Comment on Waffles shaped like genitals 3 weeks ago:
Cockwaffles
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You just have tonask yourself “If it was a daughter asking her mother for personal grooming advice, would things seem different?” and if the answer is ‘yes’ then it’s easy to recognise there might be a double standard there in society which shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on He is cooked 3 weeks ago:
Email has bits of both in the chain.
Using the olden-days of desktop email apps as an example then:
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- You compose an email and push it to your email provider
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- Your provider pushes the email to the provider of the recipient address (including retying if necessary)
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- The recipient user “checks for new emails” and pulls down new ones from the provider to their local app
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- Comment on He is cooked 3 weeks ago:
The cause of this for SMS is not the phone, but the network, and the underlying technology. SMS is push-based, compared to Internet messaging which is pull-based, and uses a backoff-based redelivery mechanism. Once your message is sent and has been received by your carrier, deliver is attempted, but if the recipient handset is unavailable the carrier will try periodically to redeliver, and if it still fails the wait period between delivery attempts will increase the longer the recipient is unavailable. May be every five minutes for the first hour, but then once an hour for the next 24, for example.
Each message is its own distinct entity which is treated separately for delivery, just like letters in the post. That’s why it was possible to get this sort of odd-seeming scenario where you have a newer message that made it through, while an older one is still stuck in retry somewhere.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 3 weeks ago:
My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.
Weeds that are pretty might get more of a pass than ones which are ugly, poisonous or thorny, but ultimately, even the most beautiful flower becomes a weed when it’s suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it.
- Comment on Rate my one year old homelab. 4 weeks ago:
Lol, brilliant.
At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…
Love it though
- Comment on goodbye plex 4 weeks ago:
Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV
It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.
This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.