ExFed

@ExFed@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freaky ass bird⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also gonna confuse people worried about AI slop…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (not so) fun fact: tinnitus can cause chronic depression and anxiety! Ask me how I know …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have already said: take breaks. It’s really easy (speaking from experience) to “get used” to a volume level that’s way too loud, ESPECIALLY if using isolating or noise-cancelling headphones.

  Part of how your brain figures determines if something is too loud has to do with contrast with the environment. Yelling at the top of your lungs sounds a lot louder in a quiet library than it does in the middle of a live concert. Taking breaks both recalibrate your sense of loudness and gives your ears a rest.

  If you can afford decent “reference” or “studio” headphones, you’ll enjoy the same music at MUCH quieter levels than cheaper or lower-quality headphones. They are designed to be used for long periods of time by professional audio engineers and musicians, who are notoriously protective of their hearing and perfectionistic about even the most subtle of sounds.

  Although I was a broke college student and couldn’t afford hardly anything they talked about, I learned a ton scrolling through audiophile forums like Head-Fi ( www.head-fi.org/forums/ ). Now I’m less broke but somehow equipment envy and window-shopping just feels more right than spending way too much money on something I probably don’t have the time to enjoy anymore… Such is life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the democrats just did.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m accused of being a witch

  Witch? Nah. Sealion? Yah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the democrats just did.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol this thread is off the rails and should probably get modded

  My summary of the conversation so far: @PugJesus@piefed.social offered evidence of some (supposedly controversial) event. @Objection@lemmy.ml rejected it outright without offering any competing evidence. Both are, according to the other, somehow a variety of fascist bootlicker. The shitposting aura is weak; too serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also what happens when the entire world outsources manufacturing to one county: that country gets really really good at making stuff better than anybody else in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The / character isn’t a part of the base64 encoding. In fact, only one part of the URL looks like base64. No plain base64 tool (whether via CLI, self-hosted, or otherwise) will be able to decode an entire URL like that. You’ll first need to parse the URL to isolate the base64 part. This is literally solved with a single line of bash:

  echo "https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41" | cut -d/ -f6 | base64 -d
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's on your blood!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The argument you’re making sounds similar to something like “Fossil Fuels are safe, it’s just the CO2 that’s dangerous.”

  I didn’t read it that way at all. Their argument sounds more like “there’s nuance that you’re glossing over.”

  It seems that we all agree PFAS are generally nasty chemicals, some worse than others. Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) is just one of the “nicer” ones.