Overzeetop

@Overzeetop@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't even need that. Meta crosses multiple platforms now - Instagram, FB, WhatsApp, etc. All you need is for someone you know to have you in their contacts list, and the hit the "allow access" a single time. All of that data is then scraped, cataloged, and cross referenced with everyone else. Name, address, phone numbers, birthday, work address - anything your contact felt it convenient to add about you in their phone. From there it's just a matter of time until data mining of second and third level contact - or outright data leaks - fill in the rest of your profile and demographic information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More of a boil situation. Nothing's getting golden brown and delicious in this scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts on photosynthesis ?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's magic and we don't know how it works*.

  * as of my latest coursework in Biology; IDK if anything has been discovered since the 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it doesn't go far enough. Straight up, no one should be permitted to create or transmit the likeness of anyone [prior to, say, 20 years following their death] without their explicit, written permission. Make the fine $1,000,000 or 10% of the offender's net worth, whichever is greater; same penalty and corporate revocation for any corporation involved. Everyone involved from the prompt writer to the work-for-hire people should be liable for the full penalty. I can't think of a valid, non-entertainment (parody/humor), reason for non-consensual impersonation - and using it for humor or parody is a slippery slope to propaganda weaponization. There is no baby in this tub of bathwater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut up and take my money!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Itemized invoice:

  Fan $ 7
  Design & overhead to incorporate fan into design $ 13
  Value of increased performance, as judged by the accounting department $480

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are 144hz screen possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that's just a shitty (or out of spec) time base. My Seiko watch gains 1-2 minutes a day, but it's completely mechanical so it depends on temperature and winding/mechanism tension for accuracy. There are electronic timing circuits which are resistance and capacity based, and as the resistance and capacitance of the system drift (time/age and temperature) they also drift. A crystal, made to vibrate at high frequency (piezoelectrically, iirc), will provide a much more stable time base and be accurate to seconds over many days' time.

  Interesting aside - time keeping is how ships at sea used to determine where they were in the ocean. Latitude can be found from the stars, but longitude can't so it needs a time reference standard. The book, Longitude tells the story of the search and the competing methods for determining location prior to the invention of crystal/electronic time bases and modern GPS. I won't say that the storytelling is particularly gripping, but the actual path to discovery is fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are 144hz screen possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That's probably just fluctuations in the line frequency and the method for keeping time varying between the two (one might use a crystal that drifts). Being on the "wrong" frequency will have it shift by hours every day. I had a (US/60Hz origin) microwave in my apartment in Bonaire (50Hz) last year that never seemed to have the right time, and when I did the math I realized it was the frequency - it was behind by ~4 extra hours every day (50/60 x 24 hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are 144hz screen possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny effect, though - many cheap electronics (think coffee makers and microwave ovens) use the line frequency as a time base. Taking a 60Hz or 50Hz appliance and plugging it into the other causes the clock to be off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You sully the good name of Internet Pirates, sir or madam. I'll have you know that online pirates have a code of conduct and there is no value in promulgating an anti-ai or anti-anti-ai stance within the community which merely wishes information to be free (as in beer) and readily accessible in all forms and all places.

  You are correct that the pirates will always win, but they(we) have no beef with ai as a content generation source. ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  SMS and (at least for craigslist) voice 2FA doesn't work with VoIP (Google Voice numbers, including numbers ported from mobile operators). IRS 2FA via SMS definitely doesn't work, nor does Dunkin Donuts (which invalidates use of their entire app on all mobile platforms). Some services offer voice 2FA which will go through, and some offer email, but many don't. Of course the vast majority of 2FA over SMS work with the major VoIP providers, but if you hit one where it doesn't...there's either no way around it or you have to wait for a snailmail 2FA token (IRS).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I currently have (almost) only VoIP numbers. My cell phone technically has a carrier number, but only my immediate family and two friends (8 people in total) actually have that number for my contact, and I keep it that way for safety/security purposes. As a result, I already can't do things like try ChatGPT, use the some vendor apps, or get quasi-2 factor codes from several businesses - including the IRS. Their systems simply can't interact across a VoIP gateway. There really should be a certificate authority for these things, but the POTS system is just so fucking old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This it the reality of right-wing neuropathy. Republicans will go on for days about how checks and balances (regulations) are bad and being successful and safe is about personal responsibility. But when something bad happens to them, suddenly the entire system is bad and should have been keeping them safe. Musk's complete lack of empathy shows in his hubris and his political associations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hydrogen locomotive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Storage and transport of H2 is a big deal because of the unique properties (very low transition temp/very high pressure for liquid). That generally means for a non-pressurized, non-cryogenic storage it has to be combined into another molecule and then catalyzed back out, real time, for use. And, of course, the ignition ratio range (4%-75% in air) means that it's very easy to accidentally ignite a H2 leak; substantially easier than most other fuels, though this is mitigated by it's density and ability to disperse in an unenclosed area.

  Production is theoretically energy efficient as you can create it with hydrolysis, but the cheapest way of producing it, by far, is cracking of methane, which requires a high temperature process to create. It may not produce a high volume of CO2, but it perpetuates the cycle of exploration and extraction of gaseous hydrocarbons and the related environmental dangers and downsides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  100% true - but if people feel the need to create so many mods, then there are probably lots of things people feel aren't good enough about the game. I'll admit my gaming time is limited, so just researching and adding mods could easily take all my time. I mean, fuck, I sold my Warthog HOTAS and went back to a cheap thrusmaster not because I liked the thrustmaster better, but because I was spending more time writing and fixing scripts and updating my bindings than actually playing the game. And every time an update would come out that would break a script I would spend pretty much my entire gaming time budget for a couple weeks just getting it running again. It got to the point where I just didn't play those games because every patch would change something and something (even something small) would break or be incompatible. I'm kind of over that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kind of hoping for fallout and elite; real space flight and exploration, but with an actual story and story line to follow. I'm mostly over real-life gaming that looks like a cartoon, so I'm glad it's not nms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods are the very first thing that turns me off in a game. I want to play a game, not go stack mods on top of mods just to fix the shit the studio didn't feel like working on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is logically efficient from a technical standpoint, but from a practical perspective is a terrible idea. You're only getting 2-2.5x th energy storage out of the process, but in return you're effectively requiring that the entire fluid system be isolated from the environment. Toxicity aside, you can't do anything with the fluid outside of the system. It's probably not something you want local fauna drinking, nor do you want even the slightest chance of this leaking into the local aquifers. I presume that, if it's not fully isolated, the fluid mix balance would have to be adjusted to offset evaporation of the water. And if the plant turns out not to be as great at you hoped hat do you do with the fluid?

  Some numbers - a quick google says "According to Ofgem, the typical household in Britain uses approximately 2,900 kWh of electricity annually." I'm going to round that up to 8kWh/day. For a small village of, say, 1250 homes and a three day storage capacity, that's 30MWh. 1MJ (MWs) is 1000kg (one metric ton) stored at 100m - the upper end of this project. Since 3600 seconds per hour x 1MWs = 1 MWh, and we want 30, that's 1MT x 3600 x 30 = 108,000 Metric Tons of this high density liquid needed for a small project to put a 3 power day buffer in place for a town of 1250 houses. WTF are you going to do with 108,000 metric tons of high-density fluid if you decide is isn't working? Your reservoir would only need to be 25% bigger (wider, longer, and deeper/taller) to just do the whole thing with water and you wouldn't need to figure out how to get 3500 full size tanker trucks to transport it all away somewhere for a different project for for de-slurry processing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a shame that once you've signed up for a community you're not allowed to make a user account on any other instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is considerable overlap between the smartest AI and the dumbest humans. The concerns over bears and trash cans in US National Parks was ahead of its time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many calories does a standard whole blood donation burn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can shotgun two pints of beer after a donation (gotta rehydrate!) and still be a couple hundred calories ahead? Win-win!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But if you close your eyes,⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, hey oh, hey oh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it's just endless drivel copied over and over again to the detriment of our society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The article doesn't actually say what is does, just that it's function is to ensure the loading of film occurs at a constant speed which, it is implied, keeps the audio in sync. It doesn't say how it does it, how it's connected, or whether it has a true control function or is just a monitoring device which is used by the projectionist to make alterations (using another part of the system) should the operation de-sync. The only operator they talked to claims to neve have interacted with the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When asked for comment a Senior Executive, who asked not to be named, responded, "At that price point we're rather have them pirate the shows than have to deal with the customer service and billing headaches."