Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 day ago:
I love that he’s like “I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria”.
Dude’s living the dream.
- Comment on 🚀 Boost for Lemmy 1.0.20 - PieFed Support 4 days ago:
I think PieFed has only recently got an API for apps to connect to, hence the surge.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 4 days ago:
Holy crap, I hadn’t considered that we have the technology to create articles on the fly based on search terms.
That could be a serious weapon of war - you get your site to the top through SEO, then show each user personalised propoganda. You show googlebot the genuine page but adjust the page based on what you know about the user.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 week ago:
To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.
Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.
It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 week ago:
AI is driving more searches
This is hilarious. People are searching more because they aren’t getting results they need from AI, which drives ad revenue so Google’s doing great!
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s why I called it out. It seemed like it was an important part.
There probably isn’t an actual reason why you couldn’t connect it to a wall plug in a way that replicates this setup even if a bit hacky. E.g. short cable then attach the unit to the top of the plug. It’s not that heavy and may attach fine without coming out of the wall.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
How far away is the Home Assistant Voice Preview from what you’re looking for?
It doesn’t plug directly into the wall but instead uses a USB C cable (that you provide). Other than this, mine can answer questions, search the internet, turn things on and off, play music via Spotify, Jellyfin, etc. Tell me about the state of stuff in Home Assistant (temps in rooms, how the solar is doing, what’s on my shopping list and can add things, etc).
It requires you already have Home Assistant set up but it is a pretty good experience so long as you’re willing to do some amount of tinkering to make it your own.
Like other comments say it’s not general public ready but it’s pretty close and costs $69.
- Comment on 12ft.io down? 3 weeks ago:
This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?
- Comment on Do Australians in the northern hemisphere celebrate Christmas in July to have a Christmas that reminds them of home? 3 weeks ago:
In New Zealand it’s pretty common to have a midwinter Christmas, even if you have never lived in the Northern Hemisphere. Not that everyone or almost everyone would do it, but in my experience most people would have at least heard of the concept (and I know people who do it most years, and others that do it occasionally).
This is in addition to, not instead of the normal summer Christmas.
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 5 weeks ago:
I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it’s pretty easy to find them: mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants
It’s the same with Australia: mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants
Actually, the same for the US. It’s not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): www.mcdonalds.com/us/…/restaurant-locator.html
screen shot of mcdonalds restaurant search showing many 24 hour mcdonalds in chigago
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 5 weeks ago:
Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don’t actually provide it?
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 5 weeks ago:
They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.
The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.
Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it’s tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 5 weeks ago:
Their point is that (as per relatively), all movement is relative to something. So if the earth moved away then you must be measuring in relation to some other reference point. There is no absolute positioning system. So when you say the earth is moving, what is it moving in relation to? And why did you pick that reference point instead of having a time machine that uses earth itself as a reference point?
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 5 weeks ago:
From random searching around it seems technology helps a lot. There are definitely fewer icebergs at that location these days but despite many reddit commenters claiming none it seems there are a few icebergs that make it there: map of iceberg locations
Sinking location: geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sinkin…
Apparently radar makes sure ships know about any icebergs well in advance, and there are also ice patrol planes and satellite tracking to make them pretty much a non-issue. Unless you’re the MV Explorer cruise ship that sunk in the Antarctic after hitting an iceberg in 2007. But that was outside of shipping lanes and monitoring areas as far as I can tell.
- Comment on There are major holes in this theory 5 weeks ago:
For sad reasons, yes. Probably a lot lower chance than it was 100 years ago.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
Hmm odd. Maybe just try again?
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
That’s odd. Any error?
Federation from your instance Lemmy.world to the instance the community is on (programming.dev) is healthy, so that doesn’t seem to be the issue.
How far did you get? Any error?
My guess would be that you’ve tried to upload an image that is over the size limit - I think this is imposed by your own instance (Lemmy.world), and I’m not sure what the size limit is but I think 5MB per image is pretty common. If you drop the image size or upload elsewhere then link it, does that work?
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
What about !diyelectronics@programming.dev?
Or if you are using Home Assistant you could post in !homeassistant@lemmy.world
There is a Lemmy community search function here if you want to check other options: lemmyverse.net/communities
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 month ago:
Huh. Here in NZ tea, (instant) coffee, milk (and usually Milo as well) are virtually always provided by an employer (only by social convention, as far as I can tell, not a legal requirement). I kinda assumed Britain would be the same since we must have got the custom from somewhere.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 1 month ago:
I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.
- Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 1 month ago:
I cook cut off a part of myself and sous vide it at my body temp and it would cook and be edible.
Can you really? Your internal body temp? Around 37C or under 100F? I can’t find any sous vide recipes that low. I can’t find anything under 50C, which would kill you if it was your internal body temperature.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
Except the part where all incognito tabs/windows share the same session.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 1 month ago:
And you still won’t explain why!
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
It may be both a factor of who you live with (the ones itching to get back to the office either lived alone or with people they didn’t really gel with), and could have also been the length of time we were in lockdown (we had one of the strongest in the world - for the first 6 weeks or so even McDonald’s wasn’t allowed to open). After a couple of months of not being allowed to leave the house and having no face to face contact with friends or family, I can understand the desire to get back to the office. The people I have in mind mostly lived close to the office, too.
One other factor may have been that our remote working infrastructure was in no way ready for the entire organisation to work from home with a couple of day’s notice. Video calls were just not possible for the first stretch as the work computers were all VPNed through a potato.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
This was also my experience during the main sweep of the pandemic. It was so great getting to cut the commute and be home. Something I have luckily managed to largely continue. Prior to the pandemic my kid was in daycare pretty much 7:30-5:30 so it was really nice to not have to do that, plus during our lockdown we used to go for a family walk at lunchtime.
While some of the single guys I worked with hated staying home and were straight back in the office the moment they were allowed.
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 2 months ago:
Haha when they did that blog post to change the switch from 8/10 to 4/10 saying they don’t normally do that but wanted to make sure you could compare the 2 properly against the original, I thought they were making space for the 2 to be above the original, not that they were going to mark it as worse 😅
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 2 months ago:
Many of the .ee communities are in the process of migrating, so hopefully the list can be updated with their new homes.
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 2 months ago:
2 years for me as well!
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
Are there enough trampolines on earth that we could reasonably expect that at any time there is at least one person in the upper part of their jump on a trampoline?
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
I mean 30,000 feet is 9km. The Kármán line is 100km. The ISS is at an average altitude of 400km.
It’s a bit like saying people in planes don’t count as flying because then people on trampolines should count.
