JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on When to use exhaust/intake fans? 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 4 days 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) 1 week 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Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren’t welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace.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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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. 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions? 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 4 weeks ago:
It’s the technical term that defines the process of transferring files not from an external networked device - downloading - or to an external networked device - uploading - but between two local devices - sideloading.
It’s over two decades old, you downloaded an mp3 from napster, and then sideloaded it to your player.
- Comment on Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
We do, but in the last decade youtube has doubled its active user count to something like 2.5 billion. That’s a lot of more people-hours to spend as well.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 4 weeks ago:
The original symbol for the old english “th” sound that disappeared because german letter presses didn’t have it. Which is also where the “ye old” comes from - it’s actually “the old”.
- Comment on Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven 5 weeks ago:
A simple line of code that goes “if moisture < 0.25 then loaddone” of “water = weight * 0.43” isn’t AI, true.
But when you start stacking enough of them with the goal and results being “We could get a chef to check how the pizza is doing every few seconds and, and control all of the different temperatures of this oven until it’s perfectly done, but we have made a computer algorithm that manages to do that instead”, then it’s quite hard to argue it isn’t software that is “performing a task typically associated with human intelligence, such as … perception, and decision-making.”Especially if that algorithm was (I have no idea if it was in this case btw) not done by just stacking those if clauses and testing stuff manually until it works, but by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself. Because at that point, it definitely is artificial intelligence - it’s not an artificial general intelligence, which many people think is the only type of “true AI”, but it is an AI.
- Comment on Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven 5 weeks ago:
It’s AI in the actual wide technological definition, not AI in the current marketing hype bubble way.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had to translate a whole bunch of letters from English to Finnish for my grandparents, and doing it using a translator saves a ton of time as I don’t have to actually produce the text, I can just read both sides afterwards and as long as every sentence matches in meaning, I can move to the next one.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 5 weeks ago:
More of the first, but not exactly. It’s “Other people should see and know about this too” and “This isn’t worth anybody’s time and shouldn’t have been posted.”
