TimeSquirrel
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
- Comment on Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free 5 months ago:
You're welcome, how's the free cable too by the way?
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
Apple IIgs was alright.
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 5 months ago:
Wat? I can't hear you over the eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeEeeeEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUMMbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 5 months ago:
No we obviously need more cheap plastics that will dry rot in your shed and shitty rubber grips that will turn to sticky goo in five years, as well as lowest bidder designed control circuitry with a dozen corners cut.
I get what you mean, modern power tools feel like Fisher Price toys. They're disposable.
- Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 6 months ago:
So your results are biased, because you're not going to see the decent programmers who are just using it to take mundane tasks off their back while staying in control of the logic. You're only ever going to catch the noobs.
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 6 months ago:
If every time an OS had to delete something it had to fill the space with zeros or garbage data multiple times just to make extra sure it's gone, we'd all be trashing our flash chips very fast, and performance would be heavily degraded. There really isn't a way around this.
The solution to keep private files private is to put them into an encrypted container of some sort where you control the keys.
- Comment on MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! 6 months ago:
Wonder what the reason was for so much being in raw assembly when C existed. A basic library/API would be one of the first things I'd tackle in an OS. Move on to a higher level as soon as you're able.
- Comment on Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability 6 months ago:
Meredith Whitaker, the president of Signal, said “I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS [free and open source software culture of shitty behavior and abuse.”
“What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”
Emphasis mine.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 months ago:
Everything's "techbros living in a sci-fi novel", until one day it isn't.
I'm only 42 and I have seen very incredible advancements made in my lifetime that I never thought would be reality as a child.
- Comment on Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? 6 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. 6 months ago:
Did you forgot about Tamagotchi? It would just be the next iteration of that.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 6 months ago:
I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later "vintage". "Garbage", yes. It's just not the same when it's just a mass of dry-rotting composites and plastics.
- Comment on Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims 6 months ago:
They probably meant things like monopoly breakups, wage increases, lowering healthcare costs, you know, things that directly affect the average person. This isn't going to affect my life in any way whatsoever. This squabble is between governments, not us.
- Comment on Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill 6 months ago:
Meh, the weed thing isn't that exciting anymore, I'm in Baltimore and pass five dispensaries on the way to work now.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
I meant PCBs. I design custom circuit boards.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
Haha, I'm still over here messing with 10/100 Ethernet and USB 2 on my home projects. I'm used to bigger tolerances than the truly high tech stuff.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
the lower voltage they operate at calls for more attention to be paid to signal integrity between the CPU and memory
And they aren't kidding around, modern high speed signals are so fast that a millimeter or less of difference in length between two traces might be enough to cause the signals to arrive at the other end with enough skew to corrupt the data.
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 6 months ago:
And if someone chooses to watch that, that's their business. Not nanny government's.
- Comment on TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment 6 months ago:
I was under the assumption that the Constitution applies to all within the sovereign territory of the US, not just citizens. That's why undocumented immigrants are still given trials for crimes.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 6 months ago:
I'm 42. I always got systems later than other kids. The Atari was in the house ever since I could form memories, and I finally got an NES in 1990.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 6 months ago:
Parents?? That was my first console. How young is everyone here?
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 6 months ago:
Does anyody really look at anyone in an ad and say, "Yes, that's a fellow human, I connect with them on a personal level"?
I've been perceiving them as robots since 1986.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 6 months ago:
Ever watch somebody who doesn't know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It's amazing how people can just sit there and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 6 months ago:
Right up until the first of hundreds of change orders.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
We already know how to take care of this in big capacitors. You put a breakaway vent in.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 6 months ago:
I think there's already a way to forward Google Home requests directly to ChatGPT.
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 6 months ago:
Yeah it's like what happened to toasters, refrigerators, and home computers. Nobody gives AF anymore.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
That might be because of how it works under the hood and how it tokenized words, characters, and sentences. It may not have anything telling it that a specific word starts with a specific letter. It might only have the whole word. That's my guess.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
Why is it so common for Apple users to replace their devices every 1-2 years then? Theres a reason it's a meme. Regardless of what Apple does with old hardware, they promote this mentality of always needing the next new shiny thing. They're the pioneers of that.
- Comment on Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity 6 months ago:
Incredibly advanced AI, yet it couldn't remove the German accent.