kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 3 weeks ago:
That time was back on November 6.
Or January 20.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 3 weeks ago:
Google scans YouTube videos for information about what products appear in them
Yes, but not specifically looking for products. They’re scanning to try to learn everything about the video with the goal of better matching suggestions to the interests (as determined by watch history) of viewers.
The intention is (as always) to increase viewer session time because the more time viewers spend on the platform, the more ads they see and ultimately the more money YouTube makes.
Of course, that scanning and view history can also be used to target ads with the goal of increasing ad click-thru and conversion (ultimately also driving the profit goal)
- Comment on Inside A Fake WiFi Repeater 3 weeks ago:
Note, though, that it want the youtuber who submitted it to Hackaday.
I’ve had a couple of my videos show up thwre and I have no idea who the user was that submitted it, nor what their motivation was.
(Yes, I saw the username, I mean it was a complete stranger who did it)
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 4 weeks ago:
Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar?
Yet March 15 has come and gone yet again without Zuck having a bad day.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Starting with the late 70s then the election of Reagan
Also around that time televangelist Pat Robertson was an advisor to Reagan and even tried his own run for president.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 weeks ago:
Of you didn’t vote then you’re not a voter.
Most eligable voters stayed home
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
I trust the library a lot more than I trust Staples or a similar for-profit business.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
It’s not that hard to convert a cheap 3D printer into a pen plotter is you want to do some 2D printing.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
That’s what we did.
For the few pages we need to print, I can use the machine at the library for $0.10/page.
- Comment on YSK: If your house has a split AC unit it probably could use a cleaning 1 month ago:
Compressed air combined with a vacuum cleaner to capture what the compressed air blows loose.
- Comment on YSK: If your house has a split AC unit it probably could use a cleaning 1 month ago:
No one is telling you to power wash or scrub
No, but some people get some carried away ideas when they hear “clean that machine”.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 2 months ago:
As a european working in the weapon industry, I love reading american people thinking we make no weapons or the weapons we make are worse.
American exceptionalism has been a major feature of the Americans self image for many generations.
It’s really tiring living beside them and having to hear them constantly blathering about it.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 months ago:
Desktop unless I’m away from home or in the shitter.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 2 months ago:
will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it
Assumingbthey have any intention of rebuilding it.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 2 months ago:
will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it
Assumingbthey have any intention of rebuilding it.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 months ago:
Baton Rouge -> Red Stick
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 months ago:
(I honestly believe there’s an insecurity motive there
Once you have more money than you could reasonably spend in a lifetime, it just becomes another penis measuring contest for insecure manchildren.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
the loss of privacy of a camera looking out onto a public street.
The loss of privacy of a camera that records every face that enters your home and timestamps that data…
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
it’s a camera pointed at a public street.
It’s a camera pointed at every person who comes to your house.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
I’m in Canada, and Google maps shows me the same as what you are seeing.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 2 months ago:
A billboard in DC or someplace he is visiting
On the route between the airport and MaraLardo.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 2 months ago:
Opus is better in every way
Except ubiquitousness.
I can play an MP3 on any digital audio device made in the last 20 years.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 months ago:
If selling false hope wasn’t profitable, there would be a lot of companies (and religions) go out of business.
- Comment on As a novice at soldering, I now have an opinion about single-sided vs. double-sided breadboards 4 months ago:
Presumably prototyping boards with plated thru holes.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 5 months ago:
likely in jail too (his own words)
Yes, but not for the reasons he claimed.
He would be in jail for actual criminality, not for his political opinions.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 5 months ago:
Thanks. I hate it.
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 months ago:
Assuming he doesn’t change the rules and appoint himself president forever, then the limit is 2 terms, consecutive or not.
Even if a person started their presidential mandate partway through a 4 year cycle (as happened after Nixon stepped down and after Kennedy was shot), it’s still 2 terms, not necessarily 8 years.
If Trump dies in the next 4 years, Vance could serve out the current term and would only be eligible to become president for one additional term.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.
Exactly.
Part of the card processing system goes down often enough that it should just be good business sense to always be capable of accepting cash.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
Stores where I live have had to go cash only a few times a year when one or another issues shuts down their ability to accept cards.
You would think any functioning capitalist would have a backup method of taking your money.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
And who carries enough cash around to be useful any more?
I do. Maybe not physically in my pocket, but between my wallet and my home there’s enough cash to buy a tank of gas and a few days of groceries.
Parts of the debit/credit processing system are fragile enough that I’ve seen them down randomly for signifigant portions of a day.
Cash has got me food when other people have been stuck without the ability to pay more than once in the last couple of years.