Drunemeton
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world
Just your average urban druid interested in technology and quantum field theory.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 4 weeks ago:
Sorry you unknowingly took a stress bullet for the team! However I really appreciate the heads up.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 4 weeks ago:
One thing I am always aware of are apps that want permission to access Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi and/or Networks.
Even though Bluetooth is very short ranged it can still be used to tie you into a location within a database based on other database records that are more detailed.
Yeah, I love playing you “My Great Dog-sitting Simulator” (not a real app) but you do not need access to my BT. The OS handles sending your audio to my headphones!
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase 1 month ago:
Ah, the ol’ “Brute Force” hack.
- Comment on Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats 1 month ago:
I got as far as Tom Cotton. Everything else in that article is just going to be a waste of time to read.
The man is without ethics or morals.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
While you’re there try the Apple Fritter! It’s like monkey bread* made with apple cinnamon bits, then deep fried and dipped in glaze.
*=Monkey Bread is just pull-apart bread made from large chunks of dough.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Is that Ed!? Holy shite he’s really changed his look!
Tap for spoiler
/s
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Okay. So how do we turn it off!? I’ve read nothing in my Samsung manuals about this “feature” and here no instructions for turning it off.
- Comment on Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community? 1 month ago:
I think you may have replied to the wrong post.
- Comment on Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community? 1 month ago:
I’m not going to pretend I have my finger on the pulse of ‘gays everywhere’ but I’ve never heard, read, seen, or experienced that word being used as anything other than the common usage for a food item.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 1 month ago:
The town I grew up in had a college and a university! I don’t think my parents bought us kids any new furniture until my dad built his own woodworking shop. I was a teenager by then!
We always got new mattresses, because NO FUCKING WAY was mom letting us sleep on a used, adult’s, student mattress. (I never knew you could stain them, that way, in those amounts…)
My sister still has a beautiful solid oak desk…
- Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive 2 months ago:
How would that support “First Sale Doctrine”?
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
Your answer was concise and succinct, for such a complicated topic. Thank you!
- Comment on Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs 2 months ago:
Put on some headphones and de-stress to a seamlessly looped track of walking in the rain. No footsteps, music, etc. Just a stereo mic moving through an environment capturing exquisite aural details.
- Comment on Happy Star Trek Day! What was your first contact? 2 months ago:
My divorced mom was a big fan of TOS, so much so that I was almost named Kirk.
Being divorced w/ 3 kids the TV was a pretty good babysitter. Something to keep us distracted while she did cooked and cleaned.
I’ve seen every episode of TOS at least 20 times, over the years, so remembering the first one is impossible. However as a kid my favorite one was the one with Gorn!
- Comment on End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell 2 months ago:
“cmdrtaco”
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a great long while…
Time…is a very strange thing.
- Comment on beans 2 months ago:
Altercation at Arlington National Cemetery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week to honor service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal, a defense official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
- Comment on X to close operations in Brazil 'effective immediately' 2 months ago:
Too wordy. Try: Naxi.
- Comment on If you could substract* a leader from this world which one would you choose ? 3 months ago:
Putin
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI by default setting | Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules 3 months ago:
You’re being very generous to say it’s a, “step above…”.
- Comment on On Lemmy can we use the NA word or do we get ban? Not going to type it out because I do not want to get banned. 3 months ago:
Those are actually quite astute considering the subject matter!
(That teapot question is going to stay with me a while… 🤨🤔🤭 )
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 4 months ago:
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says the planned transformation of American governance will be bloodless, ‘if the left allows it to be’.”
See? It won’t rip the country apart just as long as ‘the left’ let them implement it without putting up a fuss! (sarcasm tag folks)
SO GO VOTE AND NEVER GIVE THEM A CHANCE!
I was at a Pride event and a long time activist said this (about gay rights and what happened with ‘Roe v. Wade’):
If you take it for granted, they’ll take it away!
- Comment on Water refill stations that force you to watch ads at Philly Airport 4 months ago:
Hang on!
This is for flavored water. Commenter in that post states that plain water is still free without ads, dispenses any amount, at any temperature.
- Comment on New Type Ia supernova discovered 5 months ago:
Does that exactly the same sentence in the first two paragraphs indicate an AI writer?
I stopped reading at that point.
- Comment on Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense. 5 months ago:
Poster link mentioned in the article: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/downloads/
- Comment on Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint? 6 months ago:
The ‘canvas’ which everything else resides upon is currently thought to be Quantum Fields: Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong.
A Field is something that permeates the entire universe. There’s thought to be a field for every particle in the Standard Model. Electron, photon, charm, up, etc. A particle forms when the field is excited, and these particles interact with each other to form the universe.
- Comment on FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks 6 months ago:
What a great look for such a deserving company.
- Comment on Waymo arson in San Francisco sparks new debate on self-driving cars 9 months ago:
The incident in Chinatown was due to the fact that Waymo AI expects everything to follow the law. Therefore driving through a busy part of the city should be fine because the streets will be clear as pedestrians follow the law.
Was the Waymo AI wrong? No. Does it need to learn human behavior? You bet!
The cyclist was hit because the rider failed to follow the law and maintain a “safe clear distance” from the vehicle in front. It was literally a few feet behind the big truck. By the time the AI saw the cyclist it was too late, because nothing should have been that close to the truck.
The AI we have now is perfectly fine as long as every sentient creature out in public knows and follows the law. Therein lies the next part of AI training…
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 9 months ago:
IIRC he was fighting “tooth & nail” to get out of the deal…until they made a request for some of his e-mails.
Suddenly he’s done fighting and carried through with the purchase.
(Sorry but I’m going into an appointment so no time to look up this new event…)
- Comment on How important is vitamin D drops to be under the tongue? 9 months ago:
Interesting report. Two concerning bits though:
No attempt was made to distinguish between vitamin D2 and D3 because there was not always a distinction in the literature. However, vitamin D2 is less effective at raising serum 25(OH)D concentrations than is vitamin D3 (13).
And that the group sizes (“n” values) top out in just one at 1653. The rest are usually under 20.
Which doesn’t matter in the slightest as my post was to simply make the OP aware that too much can be harmful.
Your post simply raises the bar on how much is too much, but doesn’t change the underlying point I was trying to make.
Thank you for posting that report!
