Ludicrous0251

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only because you can’t outsource door closing to the Philippines

• DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doorswww.engadget.com ↗
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• Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'www.engadget.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Build a giant animatronic ring doorbell camera with binoculars that peers into your neighbors homes, wearing a “Hello, my name is Big Brother” sticker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky Remnant update brings a fancy gravity gun and customizable trucks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whelp, time to boot this one back to again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the problem - book bans swing both ways.

  Whatever justification you use to get books like this out of the library will inevitably be contorted by conservatives to ban books on healthy transitioning.

  IDK what the solve is here, would love to hear folks thoughts. Move it to the fiction section? Staple a disclaimer inside the cover?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you have access to a power outlet but not a 7-11?

  I’m just as likely to notice an electric lighter is out of juice as a Bic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I see the value proposition of the RPi being for the developer more than the user (who gets indirect benefits from the devs).

  RPi provide a platform for testing code optimizations that is somewhat standardized. Memory leaks, inefficient code, etc. stick out like a sore thumb.

  If you can get something to run well on a pi, good odds it’ll run well everywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that would be a lot of extra storage space Disney would need!

  I know very little but I doubt storage space is the biggest constraint on streaming infrastructure- even with today’s inflated prices, they (or their cloud provider) could add a petabyte of storage to each of their servers if they needed to for like $20k each, which is pennies in the grand scheme of things. They probably pre-encode these things anyways to save CPU resources - this isn’t a home Plex server, they’ve gotta encode for tens of millions of different devices simultaneously.

  I think the bigger issue would be bandwidth - if you can’t dynamically switch streams you have to either serve them all at once or just commit to one at the start and re-buffer any time something changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The downloads themselves are signed—however some earlier versions of Notepad++ used a self signed root cert, which is on Github. With 8.8.7, the prior release, this was reverted to GlobalSign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four FINAL FANTASY games have arrived on GOG in the Preservation Program⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, now I’m eyeing buying FF8 again for the 5th time. What is wrong with me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitwarden has a account custodian feature that will give my wife all the info she needs to access essential accounts and hardware, however, realistically the homelab will only continue to work until things start dropping - there is likely no easy recovery of crashes.

  I haven’t talked to my wife about it directly, you’ve reminded me this would be a good conversation to have, but the first thing she should do when the insurance money comes in is (after paying off the assassin) buy a bunch of dumb light bulbs and pay to print any photos she cares about in case our digital backups die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I uhh… I don’t think that’s right… But I also dont know enough about the idiom to prove you wrong…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cursor is better at marketing than coding⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, are you worried they’ll sue? They don’t want to open themselves up to discovery on this one, I guarantee it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Referring to things as carbon neutral is typically shorthand for net neutral CO₂e (or net-zero) CO₂e.

  You’re pedantically right that the machine is not creating or destroying carbon atoms, but the things it does create have massive “carbon dioxide equivalence”. Or, phrased differently: the emissions of this equipment are equivalent to emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide.

  They also reek havoc on people’s lungs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any carbon it takes in will be released exactly back to where it was.

  Except it won’t be. Combustion is not a perfect CxHy O2 > CO2 + H2O reaction. Theres a bunch of other side reactions happening, NOx, unburned hydrocarbons, particulate matter, carbon monoxide. There are lots of challenges to continuing to utilize hydrocarbon fuels, especially in mobile/small scale applications where you can’t clean the exhaust stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they’d never recover their losses.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Suggest Pop!_OS for the fearful.

  Mint, I think you mean Mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Android malware uses AI to click on hidden browser ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They discovered that the malware can operate in a mode called ‘phantom’, which uses a hidden WebView-based embedded browser to load a target page for click-fraud and a JavaScript file. The script’s purpose is to automate actions on the ads shown on the loaded site.

  Ooohh nooooo. Will no one think of the poor advertisers and their wasted ad money??

  I know viruses are bad and this exploit could probably be used for more nefarious purposes, but I’m having a hard time getting upset about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help getting started with self hosting Jellyfin via NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 4 bay Synology NAS and it draws ~50W when running. Not astronomical, but if always going is potentially ~$100/yr. If the disks don’t need to be spinning, it idles at a pretty minimal wattage, so realistically maybe I’m paying half that, but if we’re being frugal it’s a lot of headache for something that’s not much less than just picking 1 streaming service/month and rotating (before you factor in the cost of hardware).

  In terms of drives, a 4k movie is ~50-100 GB, so 24 TB saves you enough space for ~240-480 4k movies. It’s up to you to decide if that’s enough. Last I checked, the optimal $/TB was ~12TB drives, so worth considering starting with fewer larger drives if it works for you.

  In terms of processing capabilities necessary, that kinda comes down to how you consume your content. Encoding audio is trivial. Encoding video is difficult. If you’ll always be playing on devices that can handle the raw HEVC output of bluray disks, then your server CPU doesn’t matter.

  If you want to play on devices that may not be able to handle the full uncompressed content, or stream outside your home network without gobbling up all of your bandwidth, you will need to transcode the video. This can either be done on the fly as content is requested (in which case you probably need a capable CPU), or you can take the time and do it in advance on a PC, and just upload it to the Jellyfin server and request the compatible version when needed.

  Getting in the habit of encoding your own files to your preferred spec or automating it with something like tdarr is time consuming but worth it in that it let’s your Jellyfin server be leaner (but takes more space on your NAS).

  For me, I only stream Jellyfin content to one client (my ShieldTV), which is always on my network and capable of playing all video/audio formats I need. For that reason, I have a raspberry pi as my Jellyfin server because it doesn’t need to do anything more than download cover art and serve files.

  I can’t speak to the sound levels of the specific NAS you’re looking at, but if you’ve ever owned a computer with 3.5"HDDs (I’m guessing you have), you’re familiar with the brr brr brr seeking hum & low grumble they do when moving files around. That’s the main source of noise and it’s primarily when you’re using them (aka watching a movie) so it’ll probably blend into the background. But I wouldn’t put one next to my bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh just microwave that moisture out, problem solved!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s even easier to just set up the right filters in uBlock and never have to think about it again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm but what if I flip my hands over - gives me 4096…

  Hands thumb towards vs thumb away from me? 16384…

  Introduce a finger bent state and now we’re at 944,784…

  Straight/bent a little/bent a lot/closed + 4 hand orientations each gets you over 16M

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, but that was more time than I was willing to invest in microslop.

• BIC Pencils as Pivots for 3D Printed Parts
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do this in uBlock Origin without having to install another add-on by adding the following to My filters and enabling Allow custom filters requiring trust

  *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "Microsoft", "Microslop")
  *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "microsoft", "microslop")
  *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "MICROSOFT", "MICROSLOP")
  

  This will probably break some things but I’m not sure I care enough to figure out what. Enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age, death, and inheritance.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it doesn’t. tl;dr - (as of 2025) $19k/individual/year is tax free (so one couple could give another couple up to $76k/yr)

  Any gifts above that limit needs to be reported but is still tax free, it just whittles away at your lifetime exclusion (which is the same bucket of money as your estate tax exemption - currently $15M).

  The gift giver pays the tax only once they exceed the lifetime exemption. There is no tax for receiving gifts.

  For 99.99% of Americans, there is no gift tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this news? This should be the default - everyone leaves platform hosting CSAM and pervy deep fakes.