Nawor3565
@Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What devices should i look for to get a -30V power supply. 7 hours ago:
You just need to be careful that the supplies’ outputs are completely isolated from mains. Otherwise you’ll end up with a lovely spark show.
- Comment on What a beautiful romantic comment by Rishi Sunak 1 month ago:
Even then, anyone can use inspect element to make it look like it says whatever you want.
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 1 month ago:
Funny enough, a number of years ago a giant 4chan archive surfaced which included a lot of the very first SCP posts that had been lost. It actually confirmed that 173 was posted after Blink aired, meaning it was almost certainly inspired by the episode. Not that it makes the SCP worse, but it’s some interesting lore.
- Comment on MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead 2 months ago:
Perhaps, but Nintendo also seems happy to let people forget that the Wii U ever existed. Also, they seem to not care as much about non-piracy/CFW releated hardware mods- take the 3DS capture card as an example, AFAIK it was never targeted by Nintendo since it very clearly was not meant to facilitate piracy.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 months ago:
They don’t really need to associate it with a specific person (although I’m sure they’d love to)- they can get plenty of data just within the context of what a single person buys in their store.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The funny thing is that standard human operating temperature is much closer to the coldest you can get than to the hottest. Absolute zero, when all thermal motion stops and it’s literally impossible to get any colder by definition, is only -273.15°C. We can reach it fairly easily, and we know that weird stuff does happen at low temperatures such as Bose-Einstein Condensates, but the universe really can’t cool a few orders of magnitude- there isn’t that much more cooling for it to do.
- Comment on A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store 2 months ago:
I highly doubt it. The NES has been completely reverse engineered for decades, there really isn’t any reason to use proprietary code for an emulator for it.
- Comment on Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal 4 months ago:
I mean, they never claimed it was to protect users. It was to protect their user’s data from being used without paying Reddit. They didn’t like that AI companies were using Reddit content as a free source of training data, they never gave a shit about their users’ privacy.
- Comment on Dishwasher guide: salt will harm the stainless steel lining. What about salt water in stainless steel pots? 4 months ago:
Even stainless steel will corrode, and salt especially will speed up the process. Solid salt is much worse than salt water, because the concentration of solid salt is 100% vs a fraction of a percent for pasta water. Regardless, leaving salt water sitting in your pot for days on end is definitely going to make corrosion occur faster, although by how much I can’t say.
Although, I will say that needing to buy even one additional pot might offset any environmental benefit from reusing your pasta water. Industrial manufacturing uses a ton of water, so if your goal is to preserve it, you’re likely better off just washing & drying your pot out between uses so that it lasts longer.
- Comment on How to stop privacy/security theatre? How to stop worrying? 4 months ago:
And an ad blocker. Always an ad blocker.
- Comment on A 28-ton, 1.2 MW tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t expect much sound, water is very dense so only very low frequencies can effectively travel through it. From the pictures, this thing doesn’t seem big enough to make much of an impact in that regard. As for marine life, it would probably be a matter of how fast it travels underwater, which the article unfortunately doesn’t mention.
- Comment on If it's not bad for the lungs, we should fluoridate vape juice. 4 months ago:
What we REALLY need to do is limit the concentration of nicotine in vape juices to no higher than that found in a “standard” cigarette. Part of the problem right now is that you can easily buy vape juice with waaaay more nicotine per puff than any tobacco product so it’s much easier to get addicted.
- Comment on Enjoy a little conspiracy, as a treat 4 months ago:
That article is bizarre. I do admit that it’s kinda weird that Google keeps messing with the image, but it’s very clearly just some celestial body(s) with a ring of light around it from either a gas cloud or lens refraction.
The tone of that article almost seems schizophrenic, saying that the “the problem is that the dragon is peeking” at us and that the “censor” might be to “hide how much we know from the dragon”.
- Comment on I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist 4 months ago:
Funny. That sounds exactly like how they tried to use “intelligence tests” to prevent Black people from voting. The questions didn’t explicitly exclude Black people, but we’re written in a vague and subjective way so that the test-giver could claim that any answer was right/wrong and thereby exclude anyone they wanted.
- Comment on Simultaneous joystick 3-axis protocol 5 months ago:
Honestly… I kinda think three microcontrollers is way overcomplicating things preemptively. I would try just a single MCU first, and see if the response time is adequate. If there’s any sort of noticeable input lag or delay, then try the multiple MCU route.
- Comment on Imagine if all this discount programs were linked not to the card, but to the bag. Bringing the same rugged bag with a chip could've become a new normal. 6 months ago:
That actually sounds like a pretty cool job! I only said something because unfortunately a lot of people tend to use that fact to put down reusable bags, which sucks because even though they’re far from perfect, they’re still the better alternative (assuming you don’t buy a new one every time you go to the store).
- Comment on Imagine if all this discount programs were linked not to the card, but to the bag. Bringing the same rugged bag with a chip could've become a new normal. 6 months ago:
It’s important to note though that emissions are not the only thing to consider. My state banned single-use plastic bags a few years ago, and the number of them you see caught in trees or thrown away as litter has dropped to almost zero.
Plus, I think you could absolutely use those bags 400 times if you make good use of them. A few of the ones I have are from at least a decade ago and have probably been used far more times than that.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
A link to a different page that happens to have a download for something copyrighted is not itself DMCA-able. Well, in theory you could DMCA anything you want, and some companies are way too overzealous about it and fall into the “abusing the system” category, but I can’t imagine that this post would ever fall under their spotlight.
- Comment on Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation 6 months ago:
There is an “Adobe Master Collection 202X” crack that includes all the current Adobe programs and a custom installer made in the style of the old Creative Suite installer. I believe it’s by m0nkrus, or at least that’s who uploads it to the private tracker I use. They release several new ones throughout the year so you can keep the programs up to date, and obviously the installer lets you choose which of the programs you want to install.
- Comment on Why do new sites embed tweets? 6 months ago:
Umm… No? That’s quite a conclusion to jump to when a quick Google search would show that no such thing exists.
- Comment on Why do new sites embed tweets? 6 months ago:
Exactly. Also, screenshots can easily be doctored. An embedded tweet could not be, since you could easily click the link to see the original tweet.
- Comment on AMD says overclocking blows a hidden fuse on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 to show if you've overclocked the chip, but it doesn't automatically void your CPU's warranty 6 months ago:
No, only if you’ve overclocked and the fault is one that could be caused by overclocking. Honestly, I think it’s absolutely fair for them to not replace a CPU if you killed it yourself by running it outside of spec. Most manufacturers would just say you’re SOL if your CPU dies and it’s ever been overclocked, even if the issue is unrelated, so I think this is a pretty good policy for them to have.
Granted, it’s possible that they could always say that it was the overclocking that killed it whenever the fuse is blown, but considering how heavily AMD leans into customer good-will and positive sentiment about the company, they will probably try their best to honor any legitimate warranty claims.
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 6 months ago:
What if you just told it to exit on n = -1? If it only increments n, it should also go on forever (or, hell, just try a really big number for n)
- Comment on Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types 7 months ago:
I’m currently in engineering undergrad and this looks like it’ll be a lifesaver. Wolfram Alpha can do some pretty good work with units sometimes. But a lot of the time it’ll do weird stuff like refuse to interpret “V” as “volt”, so you have to type out the full name of every single unit. This language should handle that a million times better.
- Comment on He's in the crowd somewhere 7 months ago:
It’s funny cause according to the PokeDex, Groudon is only like… 11 feet tall
- Comment on What's an easy way to remove metadata from a .mp4 file? [Windows 10] 7 months ago:
I think it’s just that software to edit video streams is inherently more complicated than editing images. Although the metadata shouldn’t be encoded into the streams, so maybe it’s just a case of no one has gotten around to making such a program yet.
- Comment on What's an easy way to remove metadata from a .mp4 file? [Windows 10] 7 months ago:
Sorry for the late reply, but it looks like somehow Notepad++ got set as the default program to open .bat files. Right click the .bat file, choose “open with”, and you should get an option to open it with command line / cmd.
- Comment on What's an easy way to remove metadata from a .mp4 file? [Windows 10] 7 months ago:
You can try installing Handbrake, it’s basically a user interface to make using FFmpeg easier. As far as removing all the metadata with a click, I’m not aware of anything that does that.
Honestly though, I think this is a simple enough case that you could figure it out even if you’re non-techy. The basic steps would be:
- make a folder somewhere to keep everything in one place
- download FFmpeg from here (this is one of the official Windows builds)
- extract the 7z file you downloaded, there’s a folder inside called “bin” and inside of that should be three .exe files, one of which is just named “ffmpeg.exe”. Put that .exe into the folder you made earlier
- open Notepad, copy/paste the command from my first comment into Notepad, and save it as something like “remove_metadata.bat” to your folder from earlier. In the window where you choose where to save the file, make sure you choose the file type “all files” from the drop down in order to save it as a .bat.
After setting it up, you can just put any .mp4 into the same folder, rename it INPUT.mp4, and run your .bat file by double-clicking it. It should create a new file called OUTPUT.mp4 in the same folder with all of the metadata removed.
- Comment on What's an easy way to remove metadata from a .mp4 file? [Windows 10] 7 months ago:
Use FFmpeg. You can copy only the audio and video channels (and subtitles) without anything else using a command like:
ffmpeg -i INPUT.mp4 -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy OUTPUT.mp4
- Comment on Moving Outdoor Plants Indoors for the Winter 8 months ago:
After battling with mealybugs that infested almost all of my plants for two winters straight, I bit the bullet and bought some imidacloprid insecticide granules for about $15. Normally I would steer clear of pesticides, but since the plants are inside now anyway I figure I won’t be hurting any wildlife.
It’s a systemic pesticide, meaning its absorbed by the plant through the roots, so anything that tries to feed on the plant dies. Sprays tend to only kill whatever they make contact with, and so if you have bugs hiding in the soil or in the inaccessible nooks and crannies of the plant, it’s easy to miss something and end up with another infestation.