adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Mac Pro, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It falls over?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Mac Pro, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple 2: the search for more money aired in 1977.

  We’re WAY into the Apple Universe at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So how about this scenario: someone with a terminal illness has access to the files. Said person sticks their copy in a timed release, so when they die, the documents are distributed everywhere.

  At this point, enough people have access to the files that such a thing is feasible.

  Of course, it’s also possible that enough of the files are so boring and inconsequential that nobody would see the value in releasing them like that; the main power is to leverage the innuendo to direct public opinion in a timely manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel intense fear when in the presense of any sort of yelling / loud arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope; I have no idea why. Cough seems hardwired to my “this person is about to die!” reflex, compounded with “…and they’re transmitting whatever is killing them to me!”

  I can’t think of any traumatic childhood events that would have conditioned this response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel intense fear when in the presense of any sort of yelling / loud arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in a house where my parents intentionally never raised their voices.

  It’s made me unflappable in the face of shouting, but also resulted in years of misery as I learned a constructive way to handle raised voices outside of the safety of my home.

  Coughing on the other hand… triggers my fight/flight every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the name of this 80s song sang by a solo female singer? I only remember her saying "nothing really maaaa-tters" or "nothing truly maaaatt-ers". Has a vibe like I Feel For You by Chaka Kahn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it something by BKS? www.discogs.com/artist/14346-BKS This was early 90s, but the feel seems about right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some Spanish were French-pasty; others were Berber-brown. This is because there were lots of waves of people from Europe and North Africa and the Middle East who settled in Spain.

  But the Spanish were also known for being pretty rapacious in the New World; this would mostly have resulted in Spanish blood in people who were indigenous by heritage, but I’m sure over time some of those “Spanish-looking” indigenes would have passed themselves off as Spanish for a better station in life, rejecting their heritage in the process. The Spanish didn’t do the whole “reservation” thing after all, they just moved in and set up camp where they wanted and mixed with the locals — kind of like the French in Canada.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A helicopter emits sound in the 85 (max 40 hours a week) to 110 (WILL cause damage, even in bursts of 15 minutes or less) dB.

  So a helicopter mother’s yelling is likely more damaging to your ears than the headphones if it is prolonged ;)

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: noise cancelling works by playing the inverse waveform to cancel out the external one. That’s still pressure waves in your ear; they’re just no longer registering as sound.

  There have been plenty of studies in this area; to minimize the risk of hearing loss, keep the headphone audio between 60 and 85 dB (remember: it’s a logarithmic scale)

  Anything from 70dB down should be safe; you want to listen to 70-80dB a maximum of 40 hours a week, and 80-85 a maximum of 8 hours a day.

  It doesn’t matter where the sound is coming from; those are just the guidelines for sound waves in your ear canal. Headphones can actually muffle external sounds louder than 85 dB, protecting your hearing.

  Most phones have a setting somewhere to prevent the headphones from emitting sound over 85dB; this is required to be the default by law in the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a realistic, low-power home server setup in 2025 for Plex/Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and reliable backups?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a beelink minipc with NextCloud and Jellyfin and external multiTB HDDs. Works for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, this agentic stuff… if it isn’t aimed at home users, who is it aimed at? Because it’s not compliant with any of the security programs IT departments are required to comply with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably right, but steganography with FEC should be enough to do the job; any predictive text errors would be caught with the checksumming.

  After all, Phil Zimmerman got the entirety of the PGP source code from the US to Germany as a book. OCR combined with predictive text reconstruction has come a LONG way since then. The big problem today with OCR is that it often corrects errors that were present in the original document.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the recipient.

  And you could always encrypt a message against your recipient’s public key, print it out, and then mail it from a random drop box. You could even include a public key in the message so the recipient can send you back letters, and include an address in the letter they could reach you at.

  It’d only really work if enough people were sending such letters to enough recipients though, or the act of encrypting your messages in such a manner would itself be a data point.

  Also, you could print the messages on thermal paper, so they fade over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨52 year old data tape could contain Unix history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, it could be random noise at this point.

  Or It could be overwritten with copies of text from Richard Stalan saying “first post!” Over and over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got some devices I’ve been fast charging for 8 years; it seems to be more of a problem as the device ages; but that’s offset by having it ready to use again quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The layoffs are usually due to a race to meet quarterly projections; when the projections slip, the fastest way to match them again is layoffs. And for companies to keep their stock prices up, quarterly numbers have to keep climbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, you’re saying that deploying a docker container is too difficult, but somehow MPV assembly from the command line isn’t?

  My point was, why should people be abandoning Jellyfin for MPV when there’s no observable gain in features or functionality, and it’s significantly more complicated to set up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still trying to figure out why I should stop running a jellyfin server. It does all this too, and I just had to deploy a docker container and point it at my NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who exactly are we talking about here? Are you saying I should be harassing the people in the marketing department at my company? Or are you saying we should have visibility campaigns about the companies involved in the Internet ad networks? Or someone else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No; however, you essentially have a line between price and noise, and you need to check what they filter, how expensive the filters are, and how often they need to be replaced, as well as how much it costs to run them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s totally achievable; he just glossed over the part where most of the world’s population is wiped out by global warming and the only people who survive are Elon and those he deems worthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what the air purifier was filtering. Mine does PM10, PM2.5, VOC and NO2. That means it’s filtering out particles down to 2.5mm plus volatile organic compounds (smoke, aerosolized oils, water vapour with pathogens, etc) and nitrous oxide.

  The filter is a multi stage filter; the PM2.5 stuff passes right through the PM10 filter.

  Interestingly, if I want to clear a room of smoke, sawdust, drywall dust or similar, what works the best is running my shop vac with a HEPA filter installed until I can’t smell the dust (usually around 5 minutes) and then I turn my air filter on full blast and it clears up the air in around 20 minutes. If I just ised the air filter, I’d probably clog it up and then just have to replace the comparatively expensive filter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aliens (even illegal ones) are preferable to an asteroid strike, too.

  Too bad they aren’t mutually exclusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ISPs route data packets between IP addresses; they don’t get to see the content of what I send/receive (it’s encrypted), and they don’t get domain info without deep packet inspection, because I don’t use their DNS servers.

  It’s more like sometimes the city will put up speed cameras and ALPRs — but does that make them responsible for speeders?

  You have a point about the DMCA though; I’ve had videos monetized by a third party because of music I wrote and performed myself — turned out, the company was stealing MY music and I got dinged for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum presses charges after harassment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Er, that would be sexual assault?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US envoy calls Lebanon a ‘failed state’ and backs Israeli aggression⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the club, Lebanon!

  • a Canadian.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Religion has to do with habits and practices. So someone can brush their teeth religiously.

  Christianity is a religion, but it’s also a faith-based belief system that incorporates alternate planes of existence. Some people eschew the religion part but still have the belief system, and some people play inside the religion without actually believing in the spiritual side of things.

  I like to explain Christianity as the belief in a multidimensional being who defines the dimensions we can observe and has done a bit of mucking around in a way that was measurable by us. Angelic appearances? Most would call them aliens, as they’d be extra terrestrial intelligences. Spiritual possession? A different dimension that has an effect on the ones we inhabit, but is currently beyond our capacity to fully understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The writing was on the wall when Serif sold the product to Canva. We already knew Canva used a rent seeking model at the corporate level, so it didn’t really matter what promises they made about what they’d do with Affinity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This frustrates me so much.

  I paid for v1 and v2 of the suite precisely because I’m willing to pay for a tool that works for me, predictably and reliably and with no compromise in goals. Now I’ll have to switch platforms yet again, because they’re going to monetize somehow, and if it’s not by taking my money, it’ll be by taking something else.

  Is Inkscape a reasonable replacement for Illustrator yet? Is there an equivalent for InDesign?

  I don’t want to get stuck in a Canvas walled garden, and I’m not going to pay rent to use software.