JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta keep the investor money flowing.

  “Trust me bro, I know x didn’t work but y will, give me a few more billions bro, AI will make us rich bro”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmh, could be, though both are “from the factory”, the winter/summer tires are slightly different sizes. But the allowed error in the EU is 10% +4km/h, so it’s still well withing “spec”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it didn’t, it would be pretty damn annoying as cars always show higher than actual speed. I’ve had to set our BMW to do +8km/h so that it actually does 120km/h on GPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van#Line-scan

  You can’t really detect “TV signals”, but you can quite easily detect the 10.125 kHz horizontal line-scanning deflection coil of a CRT. Though I’m fairly sure even if they did originally start effective back in the 1950’s because people had very few elecronic devices around, actually detecting anything accurately must have been increasingly difficult as time went on, and a lot of the newer models must have been more about being a scare tactic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers' Alliance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I think the workers at ZA/UM all agree that we have something unique at the studio that we want to preserve for years to come.” Marketing manager Poppy Ingham handles social and communications for the studio behind politics-laden RPG Disco Elysium.

  The studio behind it technically, yes. They did kick out the main people responsible for Disco Elysium few years back after tons of drama and massive legal kerfuffle though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Free trials have a catch! Once the free trial runs out, it isn’t free any more, and it starts costing money!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusa3D Core One assembled from kit in roughly 36 hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The assembly instructions PDF is 210 pages long.

  If you own a 3d printer, imagine entirely disassembling it: take out every single screw, nut, bracket, motor, pcb, wire, bearing, belt, panel - literally everything - and put them all in a box. That box is what Prusa sends you when you buy a kit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one exception - when they are self-sufficient, or even net positive, with renewables.
  One example is the Google datacenter in Hamina, Finland. They build it in an old unused paper mill, built their own solar farm, and they use the cooling loop for district heating for the city. That extra heat provides around 75% of the required heating, meaning the city could stop relying on their old natural gas heaters so now the district heating runs on renewables as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just -P “profilename” to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.

  You can have as many running as you’d want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When to use exhaust/intake fans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can wire the fans together as long as the exhaust is stronger than the intake, as you want to ensure negative pressure in the chamber so it sucks air in through the gaps, and not blow the out. You might need to add a resistor or something to the intake to achieve that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve seen, most issues with Waymo are that they are too careful, too rigid with laws and too easy to fool with things like traffic cones and lines of spray paint. Meanwhile Teslas speed past school buses mowing down children and crash in to walls and parked cars at highway speeds.

  Imma take my chances with the car stuck in the middle of the road because someone plopped a traffic cone on the hood, thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No real drama.

  They wanted to make a car channel but LTT couldn’t finance it due to the recent allegations and resulting revenue loss, were allowed to try it themselves but due to an employee no-compete clause it caused issues and they were given the option of either stopping or getting fired with a huge severance package and stuff. It was essentially a silly legalese way for LTT to pay them to go be solo youtubers chasing their dreams.

  As they say themselves, getting fired was a positive thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally, no.
  And this data breach wasn’t technically to Discord either, it was to a third party company that does some part of customer support for them. The data and IDs leaked were from people who had contacted support because they were flagged underaged, and sent their ID to verify they weren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren’t welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to be really hilarious if my account gets flagged by the AI.
  I made it in 2004, it’s old enough to drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the “kids” section of youtube an entirely separate thing.

  That’s exactly what they did.
  Ten years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, at one point Youtube in their wisdom decided that toys are for kids, so anything to do with them got forcefully marked as “for kids”. I remember many LEGO and RC channels have issues with it. And having your video or channel marked as “for kids” disables 90% of Youtube features - comments, likes, notifications, saving videos to playlists or watch later, end cards etc.
  But eh, in the end it is FTC and COPPA telling them what they have to do.

  But even then, Youtube basically has only two age ratings - either the content is suitable for everyone (but you do have to mark if it is specifically aimed at kids under 13), or it’s age-restricted to adults only. Imagine if movies only had the options of “G” or “NC-17”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The automated captions have been there for ages, and yeah, they often have a lot of mistakes especially if there are other sounds in the background.

  But what sucks even more are those auto-dubbed videos, because often they are made from those subs. So now they speak in AI voices using a broken translation from a faulty transcript. Great, thanks youtube, very helpful.

  Years ago, there used to be community subtitles as a feature - people could submit translations and corrections and creators could then allow them on the video. Why they removed that I don’t know, but those would be really fucking handy now that you want to auto-dub the videos eh, youtube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YT Revanced is not a 3rd party client. It (and all vanced patches) work by taking the original app and patching the code directly, often simply to bypass sections of it entirely.

  Let’s take backg ground playback for example, the app has that functionality but it checks if the user has a premium subscription or not before allowing it. Revanced simply removes that check by jumping over the code and always returning true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are actually using it a lot, yeah, definitely.

  But a hobbyist that wants to print with support interfaces, or occasionally do some small multicolour prints, or just wants the ability to swap between PLA and PETG without material swaps, they are still pretty great and inexpensive solutions you can bolt on as a simple upgrade.

  I kinda view them more as a spool holder upgrade than a proper printer one. And some you can actually swap between printers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scam Warning: there's a false-flag crypto coin scam campain on GitHub right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1 bitcoin is currently $112000. Yeah, they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Assistant does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really a hot take, especially with a used cheap Ender 3.

  They are great if you want your hobby to be 3d printers. If you instead want a tool to do 3d printing, you should get something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google fined EUR 3 billion by EU for blocking competition in online ad sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t believe that the anticompetitive ad stuff Google has been doing for 11 years approached 2.5% of their one year profit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google fined EUR 3 billion by EU for blocking competition in online ad sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it doesn’t, Google is currently the most profitable company on the planet, with them making 120 billion in pure profit 2024 and estimated to make even more this year, so this fine, for anticompetitive stuff going back to 2014, is less than 2.5% of their one year profit.
  And there’s absolutely zero chance that they gained less than 3 billion from that anticompetitive stuff, so this fine is just part of the cost of doing business.

  That’s like the median income family in the US ($84k) getting hit with a $2.5k fine because they didn’t pay their taxes for over a decade, with no requirement of actually paying any of those taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Without the lens, exactly.
  Realistically, cameras can be put into two categories - they either effortlessly fit in your pocket, or don’t, and any that don’t tend to get left home unless you intend to specifically go take photos.

  And if you have a high end smartphone, you probably can’t get a camera that fits in your pocket that would be significantly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply wouldn’t. A dumbphone does mostly the things I don’t use a phone for.

  And I don’t mean fortnite and tickytocks, I’ve grown up through (most) of the history of mobile phones, I started with my mothers old Nokia 2110 back in like… 1998? I remember how awesome it was to finally have a phone, then to be able to get the bus schedules with the painfully slow WAP connection so I didn’t have to call home, then to have navigation, replace the mp3 player, camera, and eventually even mostly my laptop.

  I want to have a datapad with access to all the devices and information in my pocket at all times. If I need it to do something, I know there’s an app for it probably. It’s awesome.

  I’d really prefer that the datapad wouldn’t then leech all of my information in return, though.

  Oh, and bring back physical keyboards. I’d give my left nut for an HTC Desire Z with 2025 hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with printer recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For your PETG trials, few things to know: it likes to bond with glass buildsheets permanently, so if you use one, always use a layer of gluestick. And it absorbs moisture - though really slowly compared to actually moisture critical materials like nylon or tpu - and prints really stringy when wet, so getting a food dehydrator or a filament dryer is probably a good idea.

  And the “replacement” for ABS is ASA - similar material properties (actually superior UV resistance) while being easier to print.

  Each material has specific strengths and weaknesses, but a good start is to have PLA, PETG, ASA and TPU. That way you can print most of anything reasonable, except living hinges (nylon) or really strong parts (PLA+, and filaments with carbon fibre).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really that different, the exact temperatures are slightly higher but most intel processors will boost up to 105C, then start pulling the boost back and throttling to maintain that 105C as a maximum, and if that’s not possible they’ll halt at 110C.

  AMD does the same, just the temps are (for the one specific CPU I remember them for) 80-85C for dialing down the boost, 90C for throttling below the normal freq, and 95C for TjMax which either halts the system or just drops the power usage so low it doesn’t matter - I’m not about to take a heatgun to my CPU to see what it does as it isn’t capable of hitting that on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of people developing apps that require root, and users who run those are already jumpung through a million hoops of cat and mouse to keep their fucking mcdonalds app detecting it.

  Like seriously, wtf McDonalds, your app is like the ultimate root/safetynet/device id detection tool, I don’t think there exists even a banking app that is as hard to fool.