JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel and current owner of 2ch.sc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you mean the fallout.wiki/wiki/Caesar's_Legion ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an addon for that, Indie Wiki Buddy.
  It tries to redirect you to non fandom/fextralife wikis if they exist, and if not, it proxies fandom wikis through BreezeWiki which just displays the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also who the hell thought Predator was an appropriate name for any commercial product, it’s pretty yikes.

  As in not prey. A line of gaming stuff so superior that it exploits the market and eats the competition, competition like the Alienware line. Alien vs Predator, and all that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In some “ecosystems” everything being free is kinda how you are compensated, instead of money. You spend time making your app for free, but so does everyone else so you don’t have to pay for those things either. The two main examples I’ve personally been involved with are game modding and 3d printing models, I use the free stuff other people make all the time, releasing the things I make for free is how I pay it back.

  But yeah, if you use something you really like, throw them a buck or two for the work.
  …although I’ve donated about as much as I’ve received as donations myself. Eh. No matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time uses a normal display connector, it doesn’t suffer from the pebble screen tear as it’s known.
  You can still damage the display, either by force or with moisture ingress, but it’s not at all the same type of an issue - zebra connectors require pressure to stay connected, and over time they lose their squishiness and the connection gets unreliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They fixed the screen tearing over a decade ago, it was only present on the original and Pebble Steel because they used zebra strips for the display connection. And unless you had the very first kickstarter edition, which was glued shut and didn’t have screws, the fix for the screen tear was to put a piece of paper inside the case to add just a bit of thickness, it took less than 5 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adjusted for inflation, $199 in 2016 would be $267.85 today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple and escalating his feud with Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One user asked X’s native AI, Grok, who was right in the feud. The chatbot replied: “Based on verified evidence, Sam Altman is right.”

  Man I love reading about Grok throwing shade at elon, never stops being funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what little I’ve researched about privately producing back to the grid here in Finland, it really didn’t make much sense. You get terrible rates and as you said have to pay the transfer fees too. It’s priced in a way that they clearly would rather you didn’t do it at all.

  But the NordPool isn’t really a system designed with tiny private producers in mind. Price goes to zero, or sometimes even negative, exactly to try to prevent having to pull electricity production down as that’s expensive and complicated. It’s clear to see that it isn’t a sustainable model in the long run, but hopefully it incentivises companies to build the solution - storage - to make use of all that “wasted” energy and stabilize the price and market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends and varies wildly based on your area and how the electricity is actually sold.
  If they are using an energy stock exchange, as many places are, then increased capacity, especially increased renewable capacity, greatly reduces the price per kWh because the price depends on the most expensive method of generation.
  And because renewables always offer their electricity for free to the exchange, as they don’t have any fuel etc costs, you sometimes end up in the peculiar situation like here in Finland (and in the entire NordPool area) tomorrow between 13:00 and 16:00, where electricity is literally priced at 0€/kWh, as there is enough renewables to cover it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, wouldn’t it be amazing if for example Apple has the monopoly on the smartphone market, so your purchasing decision would be to buy an iPhone, or a slightly larger iPhone, or fuck all? And they would have no competition - which is the definition of a monopoly - so they could price them at whatever they wanted to. They could even make the American iPhone a reality, because let’s be real, it’s kinda hard to function without a phone these days.

  Aren’t monopolies such a great thing for consumers :))))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Stripe is the reason itch.io had to pull all paid NSFW games.

  However, it isn’t exactly their fault, either:

  We spoke with Stripe yesterday about their content policies. They confirmed that they will not be able to support adult content that fits the following definition: “content designed for sexual gratification.”
  Stripe asked us to pass along the following message to our users:

  “Stripe is currently unable to support sexually explicit content due to restrictions placed on them by their banking partners, despite card networks generally supporting adult content (with the appropriate registrations). Stripe has indicated that they hope to be able to support adult content in the future.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only answer that last question with Waterfox, as I’ve been using it for something like a decade.

  My other browser is Vivaldi because of the tab stacking feature makes organising, uh, …stuff… easier…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has actually never paid for a Windows key even though I started with Win 98, and I before this Win 10 installation have never genuinely activated any them, I quite easily understand why they don’t do it that way any more. I also do remember back when Windows 7 was going through this exact same thing how trivially easy it was to get those updates without paying - so easy in fact that most people assumed MS did it on purpose just so that people would rather pirate them than run an unpatched installation for three years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pebble isn’t eink either. The B&W models use Sharps transflective memory LCDs - part number LS013B7DH01 - and the colour models ones from JDI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Reddit can blame only themselves for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A payment processor tells that they either remove the porn games, or they will remove the ability to pay for all games for them. The only company that can stand up to them in any way is one that was large enough to call the bluff and the payment processor wouldn’t be willing to actually lose.

  And that list is basically Amazon, Apple, Google and stuff like that, and definitely not a tiny thing like itch.io.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me the karma system is about quality. Not an “I agree/disagree” button.

  That’s how it was meant to be. The original Rediquette from over 15 years ago has:

  “Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
  [Please don’t] Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don’t personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you’re downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.”

  But 99% of people definitely use them as an Agree/Disagree button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now googling will just result in “I asked AI and it said X”, as the first thing you get is the AI summary shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s マリウス.com but the “internationalized domain name” system pynycodes it to gibberish to prevent spoofing urls using lookalike characters.

  Like аmаzon.com. Those are cyrillic lowercase а, not ‘a’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s like here in Finland, coverage means there’s a fibre running under the street in front but because it costs a ton to connect a building to it, especially if you want higher speeds and have to start retrofitting every apartment, many haven’t done it.

  For example our house officially has fibre coverage, but the street-to-house connection costs ~1800€ which is why we still run a VDSL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they say it’s really 19 fibers in one … It’s not that insane in perspective

  The impressive bit being that the bundle of 19 fibres is around the same overall diameter as a single regular one - “diameter of five-thousandths of an inch (0.127 millimeters)” - meaning those individual strands are unbelievably thin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ranked by Speedtest.net data for January 2025

  And the average speed of a passenger car is 170km/h, as ranked by speed data from the Nürburgring.

  People on shitty slow connections don’t have a need to go test that speed much, they know it’s shit, people who just got their fancy new 1Gbit fiber and want to know exactly how fast it is do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  <html>
    <head>
      <meta agerating="totallysafeforkidstrustmebro">
    </head>
    <body>
     <iframe src="https://www.pornhub.com/"></iframe>
    </body>
  </html>
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube has just one priority, it wants you to watch as much monetised content as possible. If you watch those types of videos, it’ll suggest them to you.

  I don’t, and I never see them recommended either - here’s my youtube homepage right now.
  DIY, electronics, cooking, gaming, science, with some weeb stuff sprinkled in - exactly what I’d expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HMD is ‘scaling back’ in the US, killing Nokia all over again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They were always going to “kill” Nokia, as it was a limited time brand deal that ends in 2026, and iirc the exclusivity part of it already ended in 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Opt-out in the EU I’m fairly sure.

  You can check here: myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more so when you ask Grok about something Elon did, as it quite often replies back in first person.

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