cygnus
@cygnus@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 1 week ago:
My expectations for this show could not be any lower.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
I’m not surprised the Corsair is better - it looks like there’s a whole nvme drive in there.
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 weeks ago:
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 weeks ago:
I can absolutely see how the greedy would get scammed by this.
Really? The only way that could sound more like a scam is if there were a chyron at the bottom spelling out THIS IS A SCAM.
- Comment on So Long WordPress. 2 weeks ago:
Kirby
I wish they had agency pricing. Buying a license for every install is a bit much.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 3 weeks ago:
That tweet has such a clinical PR tone to it that is not helping put me at ease and im probably going to be moving my vault
Calling open source a “licensing model” in particular sounds like MBA-speak.
- Comment on New "Lower Decks" poster 4 weeks ago:
This makes me want a Lower Decks movie.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 5 weeks ago:
I’m certainly not going to defend anything Israel is doing here. Both sides in this debacle are bloodthirsty maniacs.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 5 weeks ago:
It’s not only in the article, but in the excerpt posted by OP.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 5 weeks ago:
What is this even in reference to?
Seriously? Did you just see the word “Israel” and start arguing without knowing the topic at hand?
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 1 month ago:
Did they use it as a targeting reticle in 1938?
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 1 month ago:
I don’t agree with this, but I do find it idiotic and tone-deaf for pro-Palestinians to co-opt Hamas imagery and a symbol of violence as a show of support. They are either bloodthirsty lunatics or too stupid to understand the implications.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
V3 isn’t necessarily more effective than V2, it’s just less obtrusive.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Consistent duration can be assumed, because that’s how advertising works. The 15-second spot is still the standard.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Sure, in a reality where that happens, but that isn’t ours. Ads are overwhelmingly made to match the standard 0:15 and 0:30.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
I mean placement within the video timeline. E.g. do all users see the ad at 0:00 or 2:00 or does it jump around for everyone to prevent it from being tagged.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
This breaks the current SB implementation, but if the ad duration is known and consistent across the userbase then it will fix itself as users tag videos with the “new” timestamps.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Crowdsourced “tagging” of the affected area of the video timeline (like Sponsorblock) would fix this, unless Google get really devious and randomize the placement of the ad for various users.
- Comment on Australian police infiltrate encrypted messaging app Ghost and arrest dozens | AP News 1 month ago:
France isn’t part of Five Eyes.
- Comment on Australian police infiltrate encrypted messaging app Ghost and arrest dozens | AP News 1 month ago:
Col. Florian Manet, who heads France’s Home Affairs Ministry National Cyber Command Technical Department, said in a statement issued by Australian police that his officers provided technical resources to the task force over several years that helped decrypt the communications.
McCartney said the French had “provided a foot in the door” for Australian police to decrypt Ghost communications.
Australian police technicians were able to modify software updates regularly pushed out by the administrator, McCartney said.
“In effect, we infected the devices, enabling us to access the content on Australian devices,” McCartney said, adding that the alleged administrator lived in his parents’ Sydney home and had no police record.
It’s hard to parse what happened here. Sounds like a MITM attack that allowed them to view messages once decrypted by the device?
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 2 months ago:
Isn’t that just a SFF PC?
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
I did read the article. It’s a bunch of whinging and rationalization as she furiously tries to paper over the real reason she refuses to quit Twitter — her precious 70k followers. That’s all that matters to these journalists.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 2 months ago:
It’s mind-boggling. How many articles can they write about the latest Twitter clusterfuck, followed up immediately by “follow me on Twitter”, before they wonder if they’re the baddies?
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 2 months ago:
If large outlets said they were quitting Twitter and going elsewhere (Threads, Mastodon, whatever), the audience would follow. Media deserves most of the blame IMO.
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 2 months ago:
And yet if you click that journalist’s profile, the ONLY social media link is to that festering shithole. Journalists are complicit and enabling Twitter to do this by treating it as a legitimate platform and the default place for news.
- Comment on Yelp files lawsuit against Google 2 months ago:
It’s literally an extortion racket. I’ve seen it first-hand.
- Comment on [discussion] DC (direct current) power network 2 months ago:
Same, that alone is reason enough to stick to AC IMO. It’s so much safer for the end user (or their kids who stick a fork into the outlet).
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
there’s not enough lithium on this planet to store enough energy for like half of europe nevermind entire world
This is a good use case for sodium batteries. They’re less energy-dense so not great for vehicles, but for a stationary application like this they’re perfect.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Conservatism is fundamentally tied to a lack of empathy for people beyond one’s immediate circle, and creativity in large part is fueled by the ability to imagine other people’s experiences, i.e., empathy. It’s likely why there are so few conservative artists, and when they do exist, they tend to focus on literal/realistic or derivative art.
