agressivelyPassive
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- Comment on Thanks, Amy. 4 months ago:
Yes. Usually you have a brightness and sometimes also a proximity sensor. Proximity is usually used for phones so they can deactivate the screen if you hold the phone like an actual phone against your ear.
- Comment on Thanks, Amy. 4 months ago:
The sensors are usually pretty close to the camera, so the chances of taping over it are relatively high.
- Comment on Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go? 4 months ago:
I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.
Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.
There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says 4 months ago:
No.
Interoperability is only required, if you have a significant market share. Apple does not have this in the EU. iMessage specifically doesn’t fall under this regulation, since hardly anyone uses it.
And since Apple plans to publish an SDK for their intelligence anyway, you can’t really regulate them for being too closed.
So either that’s a purely political retaliation, or their “super privacy friendly” services aren’t as privacy friendly as they claim.
- Comment on Yass Queen 5 months ago:
That sentence had several aneurysms.
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 5 months ago:
I also promise, to pay you back, if you give me 10 million. No contractual obligations, but I totally promise!
- Comment on The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced 6 months ago:
How many companies need such a scale, but are not able to provide it inhouse for less money?
Everyone wants to be Netflix, but 99% of companies don’t even need close to that amount of scalability. I’d argue, a significant part of projects could be run on a raspberry pi, if they’d be engineered properly.
- Comment on MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! 6 months ago:
Because Ryan wrote it like this 10 years ago and nobody bothered to rewrite it in C.
Back then, I’d guess most developers were relatively fluent in assembly, so if there’s only a small change to make, they’d just change the assembly and move on.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
I’d say the former.
Many queries don’t find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I’m having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
To make money. If user engagement drops, revenue drops. The existing content is the only real asset this company has.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
It won’t. Some people will scream bloody murder, most people will ignore it.
SO was in decline anyway. Most answers you’ll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.
So now a few people will leave, the spamming idiots will keep spamming the platform with low effort nonsensical answers and its relevance will dwindle just a bit faster.
Look at Reddit. Last year there was a huge outrage and today it’s pretty much the same as before.
Most people don’t care. Most people feel so powerless, that they’ll accept every privacy scandal, every exploitive business strategy, every sellout of their platform.
- Comment on How to sync Akregator across devices? 6 months ago:
Have you considered something like tailscale?
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 6 months ago:
It’s a waste of computing power, though.
I have an M1 MacBook Air and barely ever actually used the CPU. Putting these chips in iPads, which are mostly used for drawing at most, is just a waste, and one of the reasons they’re so incredibly expensive. Apple could have just kept producing M1s and putting those in current iPads.
The reality is, there’s zero innovation in Apple products. The switch to M1 was really great, but everything since then was just “more M is more better”, utility stayed the same, price went up. Awesome.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Not really, especially not in countries with sane workers rights. Google won’t just fire a bunch of people because a project is a bit late. They’ll finish the project, eat up the costs and maybe decide later on what to do.
Of course, given the absurdity of the US labor laws, big corporations will also fire people, but ceteris paribus, a larger corporation will be more likely to be able and willing to keep you employed than a smaller shop.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Smaller companies offer much less safety, though.
If a project is late at Google, you can pull in resources from other projects, delay the release, etc.
If a project is late at a small company, that could mean bankruptcy, even if everyone pulls 80h workweeks.
I personally would prefer a company that is just small enough not to require much corporate bullshit, while still having enough buffer to survive rough patches.
My current project is together with Cap Gemini and holy shit are those guys corporate drones. Absolutely horrible.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
But I want clear black and white distinctions and outrage!!!
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
I still don’t understand, why this is seemingly no problem in any other application.
Desktops, servers and even some chonkier laptops manage to work with regular (SO)DIMMs just fine.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 6 months ago:
It’s not gatekeeping, but a frustration about a new generation coming to an obvious conclusion, that they already had.
- Comment on The one your friend borrows 6 months ago:
Aren’t the PS symbols copyrighted/branded? I read somewhere that there’s some IP involved, so you can’t use the standard symbols.
- Comment on Ok, $23. Final offer. 6 months ago:
Or sellers obviously don’t know, what their stuff is actually worth.
Some want to sell used goods for more than the new price and three times what other offers are.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
And I have yet to encounter a single smug vegan. Not online, not offline.
But I’ve seen countless people like you fighting the just fight against vegan windmills (awesome Rügenwalder double reference for the German people here).
So where exactly are those vegans? Are they in the room with us right now? Or are you defining every mere mentioning of veganism as an attack because you deep down are afraid of actually having to confront the cognitive dissonance you’re living under?
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
Can’t or won’t?
Seriously, though, I wouldn’t be surprised, if a bunch of suicides or “retractions” are happening soon.
How about 2 million if you shut up? No? How about we publish this dirt on you? Would be a shame, if some nameless robber orphans your children.
- Comment on War 6 months ago:
God those guys are stupid. I’ve seen one literally having an aphid on its head and ignoring it.
But seeing them “hunting” is actually kind of scary, I almost feel bad for the aphids.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
16 years ago was 2008 (which is shocking in itself, I’m old), SSL was seen as very very optional until 2013, when Snowden dropped his CIA/NSA leaks.
I wouldn’t be surprised, is the security is “trust me, bro”.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 6 months ago:
Even doubling the salary is far less than what you’d pay in the US, and as a rule of thumb, German labour, including all the indirect costs, is about twice the gross salary.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 6 months ago:
Compared to Valley workers, Germans are still cheap. 100k is a very very good salary over here.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 6 months ago:
No, since most cities are not fully air conditioned.
- Comment on Physics 6 months ago:
In the sense, medicine is applied physics, just as everything else.
Thing is, you always break down a problem into just enough details to solve the problem. Not more. No physicist studying, say, airflow over the Atlantic will take quantum effects or relativistic effects into account. Magnetic fields are also ignored. Even clouds are surprisingly “low res” in most simulations.
- Comment on Carnivores 6 months ago:
So you’re telling me, they kill beings because they are bad at proper due diligence while soil scouting?
- Comment on Physics 6 months ago:
Maybe having halfspheres at the top and bottom? So more like a gas tank, less like a piece of sausage.