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- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 hours ago:
Why not having an archive of exclusively warranties? Emails can be downloaded, indexed and compressed.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 5 hours ago:
When was the last time you had to find a 20 year old email? Share your anecdotes.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 8 hours ago:
Please archive shit. It’s OK to save old data, but not on the service. There are ways. Even banks, the most obsessive and legally strapped data hoarders keep their 5+ year old data in deep cold storage, away from the active services. 99.9^% of information that old won’t be looked at by anyone.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 15 hours ago:
$80 digital. $90 physical. With the added spite that the “physical” copy is just a cartridge that loads a code for the game download. It’s just a $10 plastic box with an SD card with a download code inside.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 18 hours ago:
$90 per game. That’s an instant deal breaker.
- Comment on To Curb Online Sexual Abuse of Children, Experts Look to AI: Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work? 2 days ago:
This has already happened. There was a news article about a police force who used AI to bait groomers. This is further automation in something that’s already being done.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 3 days ago:
This is what the big deal about cookies and privacy is all about.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 3 days ago:
YouTube doesn’t share exact user info. But, google ads platform does have the metrics and can show the Amazon seller statistics of interest when buying ad prints on YouTube videos. Like search terms and referral links click right after or before the video played.
This happens automatically and virtually without human intervention though. It’s just bots talking to bots talking to bots. It all happens in milliseconds after you click play. By the time your web browser has started loading the player, yt opened a bid for the ad spot, thousands of companies chose to bid on that video based on a myriad of parameters and statistics, a winner was chosen based on pledged money, then a video ad is loaded to the server ready to play.
GAds assigns every video several keywords, based on information from the uploader, then watches user behavior to assign meta tags. Videos are scanned, to search for curse words, nudity, copyright and other offending material automatically. I don’t think they scan for objects shown in the video to assign tags about the kind of product, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 days ago:
All our modern charging methods are really bad for batteries. Wireless is inductive which means the charging voltage is noisy and very variable, this means heat and that stresses the batteries faster. But, wired charging with PD uses really high voltages, which are sometimes way too fast. Also stressing the battery. We’ll see what comes of it but the recent couple of phone generations are prone to be the ones with the worse battery life expectancy.
Companies are usually aiming for 80% at two years time. That means that a phone that barely survives a day when new, will not make it through the day two years after. As the battery loses capacity, it requires more charges per day, accelerating the degradation.
Here’s iFixit assessment of wireless charging.
This is MKHB on why heat hurts batteries and how companies try to fight back the damage of fast charging.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 days ago:
The one’s I have seen are phonn cases. You put the wireless battery in a special pocket in the back of the case that ensures perfect continue alignement and secure it in place.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 days ago:
In the world? Me and millions of other people got this info in middle school physics. Sure, maybe we mostly forgot the details by now. But it’s not arcane or ancient knowledge lost to time. It’s in your electricity bill every month. A quick visit to Wikipedia and I got the gist of it back. Every single physicist, engineer, and electrician got this explained again to them.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
Awesome, it does great at what it was designed to do. And it even does mediocre at things it was not designed to do. It even does incompetently things that aren’t anywhere in its code? Amazing piece of tech.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 1 week ago:
Sir, are you trying to sell a child?
- Comment on X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection. 1 week ago:
I just saw that joke on Silicon Valley last night. It’s on one of the episodes of the last season. It only shows the end of the joke as well, though.
- Comment on It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed 2 weeks ago:
People underestimate the huge impact and importance that people give to touch and proprioception. Physical inputs will always be orders of magnitude far more satisfying than waving hands in the air without feedback.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 3 weeks ago:
What if g is a complex number?
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 3 weeks ago:
Even worse, we know that sexual repression just pushes people into more extreme and unusual sexual practices in adulthood. Just give children comprehensive sexual education already. It prevents unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and mental illness.
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 4 weeks ago:
It’s the other way around. Low places are higher income in favelas and barrios because they’re closer to public transportation, formal services, commerces and salaried jobs. The higher you are in a favela the poorer you are and the worse are the living conditions. For the lack of vehicular access and the chaotic nature of improvised construction means government institutions have a harder time reaching people there. So there’s no service support, fewer commerce, lack of legal protection and you’re so far away from the formal city that job opportunities are meager.
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 4 weeks ago:
The fact that all the textures look painted explain why eevee was used. There are frames in this movie that look like literal oil paintings.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 weeks ago:
Corporations can’t, by definition, be victims. Fuck them all.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 weeks ago:
If I recall correctly, they were forced. There’s an obesity pandemic going on in children, mostly driven by excessive use of sugars and overconsumption of fast food and sodas. So, there were certain regulations limiting how directed at children the marketing could be. They can still charge exorbitant prices to children, their parents are the ones buying anyways.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
That’s because it’s stupidly downgraded and aimed at people upgrading from the 11. It’s a no-one phone, there just to make people think, “well, the 15 is just $100 more, let’s buy that instead”. It would be a remarkable phone, if it were $200 cheaper. But Apple just can’t let an opportunity to scalp consumers go. Only Apple charges so much for a 60 Hz screen.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 4 weeks ago:
Again? There was an outage just a week ago
- Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but then what would they do with their billions of dollars data center plugged into a nuclear power plant?
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
This is always so unfair to XFCE. Sure it is low impact on resources but it is also very flexible and customizable. Most people sleep on how good it can be outside of the low resources need.
- Comment on Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack 5 weeks ago:
I also worked on finance tech once. I agree with all you said, but the point is that a fancy sales pitch about a new bleeding edge server tech stack is not gonna change any of that because the customer doesn’t care about the same things that developers care about.
- Comment on Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack 5 weeks ago:
If your users are aware and complaining about your tech stack, you failed as a Dev. The stack had nothing to do with it, its on you.
- Comment on Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack 5 weeks ago:
Banks.
Do you know why banks are still running COBOL on new, old architecture, IBM mainframes? Sure, it’s in part due to risk aversion, ignorance and inertia. But it’s also because, if in the end result is the same, then the tech stack doesn’t matter.
Very few people are tech fanatics, most people want results. They care when the products don’t work. They don’t care how you fix it as long as you fix it in a reasonable manner, within an acceptable timeframe at an affordable price.
Doesn’t matter if the customer is a billion dollars bank or a social network. Debbie thinks javascript is when the barista puts her initials on her latte and rust is something to fear when it shows up under her car. Too many devs forget this.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 5 weeks ago:
What is a Trillium?
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Ableist, racist white supremacist doing their ableist-racist-white-supremacist thing.