archomrade
@archomrade@midwest.social
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 10 hours ago:
As a rule I don’t announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.
I’ll DM you
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 11 hours ago:
I get my linux distros via torrent networks, mostly
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 12 hours ago:
As someone who likes to have a fallback way of purchasing digital content that I can remove DRM from, this annoys me.
I can still purchase mp3 and flac files from various online retailers, and I can rip bluray for my movies and tv shows, but now I need a new place to purchase ebooks that are downloadable. Anyone have any recommendations? The first few independent retailers i’ve found seem to require their own apps.
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 12 hours ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve heard about libgen and aa - and actually i’m not sure how they operate with direct downloads of copyrighted material? I find my ebooks through more conventional p2p means, but i’ve always just assumed that was necessary to avoid sudden takedowns
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 days ago:
Lmao, yea I think they’re kind of playing a game with language here.
After doing some reading of various explanations, what they mean when they say they aren’t using electrons for computation is basically that the ‘thing’ they’re measuring that dictates the ‘state’ of the transistor is a quasi-particle… but that particle is only observed through the altered behavior of electrons (i guess in the case of the majorana particle, it appears as two electrons gathered together in synchrony?)
So the chip is still using electrons in its computation in the same say as a traditional transistor - you are still sending electrons into a circuit, and the ‘state’ of the bit is determined by the output signal. It’s just that, in this case, they’re looking for specific behavior of the electrons that indicate the presence and state of this ‘qbit’
That is just my layman’s understanding of it
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 days ago:
Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937.
Ok now i’m gonna need an explain-like-i’m-not-a-quantum-scientist on what a ‘topological transistor’ is, and what it uses instead of electrons for its compute (and, like, what is the significance?)
- Comment on Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there. 1 week ago:
I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren’t soured by moneyed interests
If work wasn’t so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren’t so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn’t also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.
Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.
- Comment on Elon Musk has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship. The risk to U.S. national security is unimaginable. 1 week ago:
I feel like we’re watching some sort of brawl between different factions of liberal and conservative rags trying to decide which foreign adversary is going to be our boogeyman this cycle
- Comment on “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed 1 week ago:
In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding
- Comment on Trump to get $25 million in settlement with Meta 3 weeks ago:
Always have been
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 5 weeks ago:
I can’t think of anything more american than complaining about anti-american bias while accusing everyone else of just being jealous
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 1 month ago:
All I know is that i can mindlessly scroll for about 2 hours before I start hitting the NSFW content, at which point refreshing the feed sifts the new stuff to the top and is still good for another hour or so
I run into a lot of the same names, but I think that’s fine (if not preferable)
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
I’m impressed that you can handle that many jellyfin users
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
The range of sofistication in this thread is actually kind of breathtaking
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
I was so close to asking what the hell that thing was
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 months ago:
You misunderstand, I only mean that it’s disconcerting that there may be some reason that cis-women do not find the hobby/group appealing
- Comment on Rested 3 months ago:
I was just asleep for three and I do not feel well rested.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 months ago:
I know ghost has a container deployment and uses activity pub
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 3 months ago:
I do wonder how many within the man/woman responses are trans, too.
Idk if that survey was mainly advertised on lemmy, but i know that at least one instance that did a survey had maybe 2% woman respondents, but more than two thirds of those were transfem.
Either way, a little disconcerting. I’m not sure what to make of that or what (if anything) to do about it
- Comment on Chinese economic slowdown deepens, official figures show 4 months ago:
They fell below their 5% target, coming in at 4.6%
For reference, the US is projected to slow to 2% growth in 2024
- Comment on Missed Connection 4 months ago:
Lmao Iowa City might be the funniest place for someone to own a cybertruck
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 4 months ago:
Pretty sure they would consider this “format shifting”, which is not a valid exception to bypassing copy protection
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 months ago:
It’s less a problem with racial profiling and more a problem with it being a poverty-tax.
Enforcing a flat-rate fee structure with speed cameras disproportionately hurts low-income drivers (who are already economically unstable), and allocating state/city funding toward road maintenance instead of public transit infrastructure pushes people into a loop of auto costs-> traffic fines -> loss of work -> more financial insecurity, ect.
True enough: reducing officer interactions is a good thing, but those cops end up spending that saved time escalating other non-violent interactions instead. If that’s your goal, you should be de-funding and reforming law enforcement, not automating fine collection.
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 months ago:
Lemmy try not to post crimes challenge - impossible. Granted, as far as crimes go, this one seems innocuous enough, but still.
I’ve been told repeatedly on c/piracy that lemmy is just too small to attract the attention of law enforcement and three-letter agencies
Paradoxically, I’ve also been told that lemmy is rife with state-sponsored troll farms, so…?
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 months ago:
You know what else would reduce police forces? Eliminating car traffic entirely.
Cops spend the most time on ordinary traffic stops.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 4 months ago:
It just occurred to me that convincing someone of leaving a social media site is a lot like convincing someone to leave a big city.
They have friends there and have grown accustomed to the vibrant and diverse activities, but realistically nothing they do or have there can’t be replicated in a smaller town, a smaller media site.
They’re liable to put up with a lot of shit to stay with their community, but eventually people get pushed out and find greener pastures and a quiet space for themselves elsewhere. At least, that’s what I attribute to what I perceive to be a higher average age on the fediverse.
I’m too old to find the constant stimulation and activity attractive anymore, and I much prefer the freedom to move around and be choosy about my media choices.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 4 months ago:
I have a Samsung smart TV that is not connected to any networks, and every few days it will display a ‘detecting device’ loading screen when switching to my input that fails after 30 seconds or until I cancel it (canceling does not seem to impact its functioning)
I have no evidence but I strongly suspect this to be related to attempting to record and send device data to a remote server.
- Comment on jealousy 4 months ago:
Because apparently some of us only eat peanut butter and never chew anything solid
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 5 months ago:
Someone didn’t read the parent comment.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 5 months ago:
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