purplemonkeymad

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this the reason that I see massive full page ads saying that WhatsApp is secure? They are worried that introducing ai will make everyone worried it can read all the messages? Or is it that just that they now have a way to read your messages?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dots!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  According to your table, it’s not as bad as that, just not a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give them props that they are going to refund owners for the bit they can, I would have expected most stores so to go “oh well! we have been ordered to remove it, sucks to be you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally gets a gf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a look for a local one, you’ll probably have an upfront cost for analysis, but they should be able to give you a cost estimate after they look at it. Good ones will always give you the opportunity to say no and stop trying, either due to cost or if you want it back.

  I would think you can get the analysis for less than 150 USD or equivalent.

  That said, if it was grinding or screaming when you turned it on, the data is probably already gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The printed sheets on the wall looks a bit too good as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saving it for what? If they are not using it anyway it’s not going to get used later either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually looks like an anti removal screw. The inner edges of the plus are sloped, but only in the direction to unscrew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, and added.

  Although it would have been nice if I could “upgrade” from email based 2step instead of having to disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always use info@ and then whatever domain I’m visiting. If they want to send emails to it, then they best be putting up with it themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only by very badly designed systems. Most are not truncated but hashed. Those hashes are much longer than 8 characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some other ways posted in the comments, but I used an Extension called Stylus and added the following to youtube.com:

  @-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.youtube.com/") {
      ytd-rich-item-renderer{
          --ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5;
      }
  }
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got this a while ago, it made me find the css variable and set it back. I have 5 across now, but could set it higher if I wanted.

  You still get a few gaps where the shorts would be, if I didn’t block those as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This not a Meme but the spectral view of "Barcode Brothers - Tele" a song from 2008, how many DTMF code tones can you find?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, if you use a non-linear scale, it comes out properly as his face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe page that crashes when you try to unsubscribe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I think it’s right, but double check your ad blocker didn’t block the request. Often they use the same services as ad companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky may soon add blue check verification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming from a technical side, I don’t think that would be difficult. It’s not like you would have to hand control of the subdomain over to them, DNS verification codes can just be given to those who’s control the domain, they are public information. But that’s just my opinion.

  Thanks for the info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky may soon add blue check verification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was the point of the domain verification for your handle? That way you can be verified as you have the same handle as your official website or business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PC for the Game, Laptop for Satisfactory Modeller, tablet for wiki, and a paper notepad and pen for writing down numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WWYD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That might not rule out hidden variables, the position of the lever should be determined by the polarisation of photons from the other side of the universe. That way you can at least rule out local variables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Youtube Web Update Requires HTML5 Canvas⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably more of a scale thing, going a conversation server side need CPU time, if it can be done prior to upload then server time is reduced. I think a lot of websites do client side processing so they can do more requests per server instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like those 6, but was not the mnemonic that was advertised around me. In general the order follows the life cycle of the minerals, so reduce is first as it means you dig up less. Reuse/repair is after it has been dug up, so less goes to disposal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that repair is part of re-use, since you are allowing it to be used again. So would be part of the second r. The first r is reduce, which would boil down to: if you already have one, don’t buy another. It’s more effective to not need the resources in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of having a high entropy password is to protect against hackers brute forcing a leaked database of hashes.

  I don’t think you need to worry about that in this case, the special character restriction suggests to me that they don’t hash it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to go back! Back to the terminal!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vim is a TUI, that’s basically the same, they should be writing that config file using echo, sed and redirects!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe someone else got gunman chronicles. Although mine looks more like a half life cover than yours.

  Rtcw is also my goto memory whenever someone mentions Wolfenstein. The modded 64 player servers were a blast despite the lag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, the concentration of energy trapped in matter is immense. People say matter is energy and e=mc^2 but you really have to do the calculations to see how much work that c squared is doing. A small grain of sand is probably more energy than the largest bomb, but the hard part is converting that matter into energy.

  A hydrogen bomb (even bigger than a nuke,) converts less than a percent of the matter in the bomb to energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of AI Datasets Now [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably even easier than places like twitter, as your can set up a server and others will even push all the data to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You got it on the nose, only one device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This map will hopefully clear up any further confusion.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Venice is Leith.

  Getting all the locals priced out due to rich people pushing up housing prices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meal prep⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is probably for safety. If you microwave water without anything for it to nucleate on, then it can be liquid above the boiling point. If you then put a tea bag in, it will explode into steam in your face.