ada
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Wait, am I meant to announce my departure when I’m at an airport? I haven’t been doing that…
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 5 days ago:
tfw I’m on an instance without downvotes!
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 5 days ago:
They’re also front ends. They don’t give you a single universal fediverse account that crosses fediverse platforms
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 6 days ago:
Yeah. It feels like software from a previous generation that has cool functionality, but just doesn’t have the usability it needs to be the center of a daily fediverse experience
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 6 days ago:
Friendica.
In theory, it’s perfect, and just what I think the fediverse should be, but it’s terrible to run as an admin.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 1 week ago:
There’s two things at play here.
First, www originated in a time when the web was not synonymous with the internet. Gopher, FTP etc were a much larger part of peoples daily internet usage, and servers would have different subdomain names to account for that. ftp.tld.edu, gopher.tld.edu and www.tld.edu were all domains you might see for a single server for example. Then of course, the web grew, and the other protocols became less relevant, but the www stuck around. One of the reasons you’re seeing less of it, is because that tradition is slowly fading away given its loss of daily relevance.
The other reason you’re seeing less of it is that browsers often just hide it even when it’s there. And that of course, will create more future instances of servers just dropping it completely.
- Comment on Ate there more galaxies in the universe, than stars that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, or with a telescope? 1 week ago:
There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy. There are about 200 trillion galaxies in the parts of the universe that are observable from earth. Which is to say, galaxies outnumber the stars in our galaxy by about 20 to 1.
If we limit it to stars we can see with the naked eye, then instead of 100 billion stars, you’re down to something like 5,000 to 10,000 stars depending where on earth you are observing from. In which case galaxies in the observable universe outnumber the stars we can see about 20 billion to 1.
- Comment on Why does auto focus work so poorly when trying to take a picture through smudged glass? 1 week ago:
Oops, sorry, I assumed you were talking about a smudge on the glass of the lens, not a glass window.
In the case of a smudged glass window, that’s an issue for both types of autofocus, and it occurs because the glass is closer than the subject you’re trying to focus on. And due to the way the physics of light work, it’s easier to find focus on closer subjects than distant subjects, for the same reasons that your depth of field increases the further your focal point is away from your sensor. And because the smudge itself is something that provides sufficient detail for autofocus to work, if the smudge will often become the target of the autofocus.
There are a few ways of dealing with it though. You can step closer to the glass, so the smudge is within the minimal focal point distance of your camera. If it’s too close for your camera to focus on, it won’t accidentally focus on it. You can also change the active autofocus points on your camera so the smudge under an autofocus point. You can also drop the camera down to one autofocus point, move the camera to focus on the distant target without the smudge in the way, then half hold down the shutter button, and then reframe the shot whilst holding the shutter. That will keep the focal length set to where it was, but it won’t actually take the photo until you press the shutter the whole way in
- Comment on Why does auto focus work so poorly when trying to take a picture through smudged glass? 1 week ago:
Nothing, because that’s not what happens.
- Comment on Why does auto focus work so poorly when trying to take a picture through smudged glass? 1 week ago:
It depends on the camera and the method of auto focus it uses. Older cameras and cheaper modern cameras use contrast detection, that alters the focus until the edges of an object in the focus zone are as contrasty as possible. The smudge makes it harder to find clean edges on the subject.
Old school dSLRs and modern mirrorless cameras often use a different, faster method of auto focus called phase detection. It’s more expensive, because it requires specific hardware to work. Either way though, phase detection has the same problem. It uses two different sensors (or a single hybrid sensor) to split the light coming though the lens and overlay the resulting images. When the images are identical, the image is in focus. But because of the way this system works, smudges don’t really stop the auto focus from working. The smudge will still reduce the contrast and crispness of your final photo, but you’ll still get good auto focus.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I’d like the seppocentrism rule to be more specific. Unless it’s explicitly related to Australia, I don’t want to see US related news in here at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What’s to worry about though? Remember before you were born? It’s going to be exactly like that.
I mean, I don’t want to die, but I also don’t understand what there is to be anxious about.
- Comment on Adding a Sever 3 weeks ago:
The person you replied to isn’t a Piefed user…
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 3 weeks ago:
It’s called remote deposit cheque fraud. It’s a fake cheque. If you cash it, it will eventually get flagged as a a fake, and the bank will take the money back, even if you’ve already spent it or sent it to the scammer. And if you never send money to the scammer, they get nothing, but it also costs them nothing to make the attempt, because you’re the one depositing the cheque and wearing the risk.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I do the same. My name is pronounced differently by hispanohablante folk, and I use that pronunciation when speaking Spanish.
- Comment on Do crooks lose the "buzz" from stealing when found a surefire way not to get caught? Like pirates are with a vpn? To me it lost the thrill once I got one. 4 weeks ago:
My “thrill” is in not funding corporations that are speed running enshittification whilst also making bank off of bigotry and hatred.
I doubt I’ll ever get bored with that…
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 4 weeks ago:
The same thing happens in trans communities, but the answer isn’t for the old guard to try and handle everything themselves, burn out and then shut down newbies that are looking for community and help.
The answer is for the crusty old guard to create the space and keep the worst offenders out, whilst letting the people that aren’t burnt out support each other and keep the community thriving.
Sometimes that means letting common questions be common, because if you’ve got a positive community, someone will always be there with an answer and a link to an even more detailed resource.
- Comment on I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner... 1 month ago:
She doesn’t care about maths. She cares about making the bigots feel confident enough to express their bigotry. She wants her voter base to feel powerful and also persecuted, so she’ll switch frames of reference as needed.
- Comment on How was a comment made five days ago on a post that was posted six minutes ago? 1 month ago:
FWIW, I’ve only ever heard it used that way…
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 2 months ago:
DARVO - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
- Comment on Why do you post here or other social media? 2 months ago:
Because I value community, and I’m not interested in a community filtered through the interests of a profit driven company
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 2 months ago:
And I’d argue that positioning their company as the moral choice makes their decision to support bigots worse than if they’d never positioned themselves that way in the first place. Which makes them basically no different to HP or DELL.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 2 months ago:
The question was are they moral. They’re not. The fact no one else is either doesn’t excuse that
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 3 months ago:
Unless they’ve walked back their support of DHH, then they’re actively supporting an alt right racist/transphobe
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 3 months ago:
Did they walk back their sponsorship of DHH?
osnews.com/…/in-bizarre-move-framework-embraces-d…
Because supporting that bigot is outwardly unethical…
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 3 months ago:
So is fanny for that matter…
- Comment on Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"? 4 months ago:
Slightly? It’s openly racist
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It will change society. It won’t improve skills.
Studies already show the opposite at play. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1
If the LLM could teach you how to code, but couldn’t do the coding for you, it would be a tool for improvement. But it isn’t used that way. Instead of saying “teach me how to code this”, people are more inclined to say “code this for me”.
On top of that, they’re controlled by corporations who are not in the slightest bit interested in your welfare, privacy or economic success. They will invade your privacy, fuck over the environment, fuck over people and load their LLMs with propoganda and barriers that serve their political and social interests.
And as a bonus, they’re a nightmare for the environment.
Having said all of that. I agree, they are going to fundamentally reshape society. But it’s like the industrial revolution. Yeah, we ended up with a more efficient society, but it didn’t make people freer, it further entrenched wealth in the hands of the wealthy, whilst fucking up the environment. That’s what LLMs are going to do.
We could do them differently. That implementation isn’t inherent in their nature. But we won’t do them differently, because the people pushing it want the shitty outcome, because it’s not shitty for them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Think of how shitty and scam filled the early internet was. Did we abandon it because of how shitty it was at first,
It wasn’t though… That was mid to late term internet
- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 4 months ago:
If you don’t know just say you don’t know or don’t engage, don’t call me or others names in the comments. Let’s keep this civil.