JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 4 days ago:
Only if mandatory rear lights come back as well. Having them animate in the direction they are going to turn are very helpful when the car has no other rear lights whatsoever.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 4 days ago:
Which are really easy to use when you have to indicate you are going to leave the next exit on a roundabout, btw.
So easy that Norway is banning the use of Teslas for driving schools.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 4 days ago:
Also it accelerates the design-to-manufacture cycle of a new model - just slap a huge touch screen on it and start building the car, and hope the software is ready. If not, well, just ship it as is and patch it later.
- Comment on Can you Dehydrate Food in a Filament Dryer? 1 week ago:
Anywhere from 35C to 75C depending on what you are making. 50C is just about right for most vegetables and mushrooms.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
It’s not three straight rows of keys with the other buttons on a fourth row at the bottom. That’s what BB had a design patent for.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
My HTC Desire Z (aka T-Mobile G2) got many years of extra use as a dedicated emulation machine for exactly that reason.
- Comment on Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025 2 weeks ago:
You should definitely not try to find info on how to take your Kindle on a WinterBreak ;)
- Comment on Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio 2 weeks ago:
They are also frequency-hopping, meaning they constantly switch what part of the band they use, and there are a few rc radio protocols use a dual frequency system for redundancy. FRsky has one that does 2.4Ghz and 900Mhz at the same time.
So to make sure you are jamming all (commercial) drones, you need to deafen everything from ~850Mhz up to 5.9Ghz.
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 weeks ago:
Also Android has an option to allow contacts that call you twice in 15 minutes to get through as well, which they would do anyway in case there is an actual emergency, and someone is really trying to reach you asap.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 3 weeks ago:
Sources say.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 3 weeks ago:
Because the United States Board on Geographic Names now says so, as demanded by the Trump by Order No. 3423. They are the government body that defines what places are officially called.
But unless you are a US federal employee, as Nick Fury once said, “I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.”
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, out of all the generative AI fields, voice generation at this point is like 95% there in its capability of producing convincing speech even with consumer level tech like ElevenLabs. That last 5% might not even be solvable currently, as it’s those moments it gets the feeling, intonation or pronunciation wrong when the only context you give it is a text input.
Especially voice cloning - the DRG Cortana Mission Control mod is one of the examples I like to use.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
First people didn’t really understand computers, so we taught about them to children - back in late 90’s when I was in school, we had a few years of dedicated computer classes every week.
People then started to assume kids just “know” computers (“digital native” and all that) and we stopped teaching them because hey, they know it already.And now we are suddenly surprised that kids don’t know how to use computers.
- Comment on Are 3D-printed objects waterproof? 3 weeks ago:
From experience printing a bunch of different planters with varying settings and printers, without post-processing/sealing the answer is “not reliably”. You can increase your chances by using many perimeters and surface layers, high heat, and thicc extrusions, but you are still just stacking swiss cheese slices on top of each other hoping the holes don’t line up.
With ten days submerged, even the tiniest of defects means water can and will seep in.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 3 weeks ago:
LLM is a type of a machine learning model, which is a type of artificial intelligence.
Saying LLMs aren’t AI is just the AI Effect in action.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
Something that pretends or looks like intelligence, but actually isn’t at all is a perfectly valid interpretation of the word.
- Comment on xkcd #3034: Features of Adulthood 1 month ago:
Middle names are a neat backup you can use if you want to be slightly more anonymous as they are still your legal names after all.
Back when my mum went for (alcohol) rehab, she used one of her middle names instead.
- Comment on For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit 1 month ago:
Depends when all of that functionality was added in. Honey started as a legit coupon scraping extension back in 2012, and was sold to PayPal in 2020. Somewhere in the last 12 years, someone got greedy.
Reminds me of the story of AdBlock - helpful extension gets a huge market share, people get greedy, it gets sold to a for-profit, and starts doing shady deals with the people it’s supposed to be working against.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 1 month ago:
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 1 month ago:
Inattentional blindness is a bitch.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 1 month ago:
- It thinks your connection comes from Virginia for some reason, 2) You aren’t, 3) They really shouldn’t. But the sites are asking for them because they are required, by law. The alternative is to block those connections, as PornHub decided to do.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 4 months ago:
That’s what happens to all alternatives at the start, only the content that isn’t suitable for the main platform migrates there. It requires a mass exodus because of something major, like what happened with reddit and twitter, to get enough regular users there.
Lemmy literally exists literally because Dessalines, a “long time Marxist-leninist” decided that “Fuck the while supremacist Reddit admins” and made a federated alternative to host r/communism because reddit is run by an “anti-tankie scum”.
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 4 months ago:
Denuvo is an interesting one, as it’s both very hated, but also rather effective - in the last four years, only around 25 Denuvo games out of a hundred have been cracked. So with that, pirates can’t even rely on waiting as something you want to play might get cracked next week, or it might take years or simply never get cracked - poor Tourist Bus Simulator, nobody loves you.
So it turns in to a fairly simple math problem, though one with both variables being unknown (to me at least) - how many people who would buy the game don’t because it has Denuvo, vs how many people that would pirate the game buy it instead when they can’t. - Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 4 months ago:
Illegal like sharing pirated media.
It can’t be commercialised, but if you just “happen” to find the software somewhere, you are allowed to use it. - Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 4 months ago:
Personally, I’m okay with Denuvo and other similar DRM when it’s used for the intended purpose - to prevent launch day hype piracy. The first few weeks/months are crucial for sales, and I can understand why developers do it.
But after that, especially after the game is cracked, remove the fucking DRM as it’s now useless and only makes the experience of legitimate customers worse.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 months ago:
1, 2, 4. Then it’s 2028 and ESU ends.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 months ago:
The paid extended security update program is going to run until 2028, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC is going to have extended support all the way until 2032.
They have stated that ESU is going to be available to consumers as well, though not for how much - but somewhere between the $61 of the commercial, and $1 (really) of the education license, with the price doubling every year.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 months ago:
Pidgin. Before that it was called Gaim.
It still works, as there are plugins to integrate it with almost everything. - Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 4 months ago:
You can disable the AI stuff if you do a “web” search, it’s in the list with images, videos etc. Theres also a thing you can add to a search url to do it -
&udm=14.
