travysh

@travysh@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty familiar with how one particular brand of TV works, and you’re right, it’s absolutely not screenshots. It’s a handful of single pixels across the content. By matching these pixels against known content it’s possible to identify what was being watched. Not too different than how Shazam can identify a song.

  That’s not to say all TV manufacturers work that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played somewhere around 1500 hours across multiple systems. There’s really nothing else quite like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government bonds anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.google.com/search?q=checking+account+dividend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Buying the individual albums is still an option. The benefit of renting through Spotify (or any similar service) is that it’s dramatically cheaper than owning the same amount of music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At my office, you badge in to any of the side doors, but can walk right through the front door.

  So it’s the same problem, but the opposite. Go to the office, don’t badge in, be productive all day. Badging in is not productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I paid for it when it was bundled with Google Play Music. It felt like a great value.

  Too bad they abandoned GPM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading through all the comments, this is the one.

  I would prefer it to be my choice, not the choice of the instance admin. That has too much possibility to result in an echo chamber of somebody else’s preferences

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going on with the number of active users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be interesting to see numbers from the Digg to Reddit migration. There was a lot of pushback initially. Reddit was “confusing” and “ugly”. I used both for a while but didn’t fully abandon Digg for at least a few months.

  Lemmy on the other hand, Reddit made it very easy for me. I’ve been using Sync since at least 2014. Once it went dark I was full Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to Look for in a NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran a Synology setup that ultimately I replaced with Unraid. I love the flexibility that Unraid provides, but Synology’s software really is top notch. I’ve pieced together various docker images with Unraid to make something comparable functionality wise, but no where near as integrated or seamless