SteevyT
@SteevyT@beehaw.org
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 5 days ago:
^Discontinue use and immediately contact tour doctor if any of these side effects appear.^
Ask your doctor about AI friendship today!
- Comment on Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working 2 weeks ago:
Well, as much as I hate being on Windows 11, I’m glad I figured it out a couple days ago since I have a couple programs that just don’t have versions that will run on anything other than Windows.
My old-ass laptop will be getting Linux whenever I get around to actually digging it out of the pile of shit that was my CNC router.
- Comment on A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke 2 weeks ago:
At least the front didn’t fall off.
- Comment on Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle 2 weeks ago:
I believe my car hits somewhere around 0.95g under full emergency braking, so yeah, that’s kinda a lot for regen only.
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 2 weeks ago:
I’m still confused!
You want us to explain the joke of explaining the joke?
Please?
- Comment on Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, although in this case, I’m not really sure what Strava expects to have happen. Garmin is orders of magnitude larger than them and hasn’t lost a patent lawsuit in like 15 years. The most likely outcome I see of this is that Strava goes from 26 patents to 24 patents.
- Comment on Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement 3 weeks ago:
Heatmaps is have no clue, and hilariously enough, Garmin had heatmaps before Strava.
The segments one actually has some innovative ideas when I read the claims, but they filed for it multiple years after they offered it to the public so I have no clue how that got that patent either.
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- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 4 weeks ago:
My favorite is the completely easy to remember and useful LShift + LCtrl + LWin + Y combo.
- Comment on LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles 5 weeks ago:
The true hack to get bothered by recruiters is to just not update your profile for years at a time. Not sure why they keep contacting me.
- Comment on A Deep Dive On Creepy Cameras 5 weeks ago:
I run front and rear lights on my bike, might be enough to get mistaken for a motorcycle.
- Comment on A Deep Dive On Creepy Cameras 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if those LED’s work on Flock cameras? They are getting to be dense enough that I’ve been tempted to do something to make it harder to read my plate for cameras, but there’s also one camera that needs to be able to read my plate for me to get though a gate.
Also kinda tempted to through an old license plate on my bicycle and take wacky ass routes around that cars can’t follow to put at least one bullshit data point in their data.
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 1 month ago:
Like, at least 7GB bigger.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 months ago:
Stuff.
- Comment on It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing 2 months ago:
weird-looking Ps.
Yup, everything I see this in the wild it takes two reads to figure it out. I’m about ready to see if there’s an extension for Firefox thst will convert them back to th at this point.
- Comment on This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery 2 months ago:
In the cycling world it’s kinda funny how people try to make a low climbing century (100 mile route), and where I am I have a glut of choices for centuries with well under 1,000 meters of climbing. I just cleared out a bunch of my routes, and still have two century routes with under 600m of climbing.
- Comment on Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts 14 seconds 2 months ago:
Add fuel until it stops going, add engines until it starts exploding, then add struts until it stops exploding. Repeat to orbit.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 3 months ago:
Half-assed Google search suggests he’s worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.
Astronomer as a company is worth around a billion.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 3 months ago:
Just a note on how nozzles are made, they are machined brass usually. They can wear pretty significantly over their lifespan too, especially if you run harsh materials (glow in the dark is harsh enough that a brass nozzle might not last a single print).
There are hardened steel nozzles, but even those are a wear item, they just wear slowly. As I said somewhere else, it’s like trying to chase down a ransom note by analyzing the shape of the lead of a pencil that may have been used to write it. Just using it changes the properties.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 3 months ago:
Both the ones for adjustment, and the operator.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 3 months ago:
You’d also have to use the same slicer settings, similar room conditions, make sure that you have the same filament roll (assuming it’s an FDM printer), make sure that nothing hardware wise was tweaked (eg. fixing belt tension), make sure nothing software wise was tweaked (it’s nuts how much difference temp can make), make sure nothing firmware wise was tweaked, and the nozzle cant have had too many prints between the suspicious one and now (or like half of a glow in the dark or carbon fiber filled pring).
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 3 months ago:
I can change what an individual print line looks like to the naked eye just by something as simple as tweaking temperature or print speed. Good luck getting anything remotely consistent intentionally by clever nozzle machining.
Also, nozzles are dead simple to make, it’s literally just a large drill bit (1.75mm diameter or so) with a smaller (.05mm to 1mm) drill poking the last bit through. Tip is slightly flattened off and away it goes.
Also, as someone else said, nozzles are a wear item, it’s like trying to track a car down by the brake pads, or a pencil down by the shape of the lead at the tip, using it changes the characteristics of it.
- Comment on I Signed Up for Trump Mobile So You Don't Have To 3 months ago:
At work, cant watch.
Does it still have a 5,000 mAh long life camera?
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 months ago:
We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx
- Comment on Walmart Scales Back Self-Checkout Amid Security and Customer Feedback 3 months ago:
As said elsewhere, you’re probably farther north, or in a larger city (or both) than them. Where I am I can get away with about 4 words. Even just a day’s drive south starts to test my patience.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 4 months ago:
I believe i have them in a RAID right now. At least I still meet 3-2-1 for important stuff since I have those drives in my computer, various flash drives, an external hard drive, and a cloud spot.
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 4 months ago:
I just replaced a Note 9 a couple months ago. Before that was a Note 3. I despise setting up new phones.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 4 months ago:
Do mirrored drives in a computer count as 1 or 2 locations? It’s physically 2 locations, but kinda act as one for most software type issues.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 4 months ago:
I probably should have worded that better. I found the flash drive they were on. They are now on two mirrored hard drives in my tower, the flash drive, and a cloud service.
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 4 months ago:
I have two drives in my tower that are just for my data. They are just folders of files. And there are two because I lost a chunk of data when the single drive it used to be died. Luckily most of it was also elsewhere, but I did think I had lost half of my wedding photos since I couldnt find the flash drive.