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- Comment on Bet your car doesn't have a special lip balm holder 3 days ago:
The penis mightier.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 6 days ago:
Never said it was impossible, but more and more it requires you to further and further isolate yourself to have any meaningful privacy.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 6 days ago:
Some yes. Some no. Most of the the WiFi and BT can, but the car IMEI, usually no unless you yank the fuse/module.
Now even if you disable your car stuff. It can still track those same things for your personal phone. Have an Apple or Google Watch, Bluetooth is enabled. Little things like that, which make it worse because now instead of tracking a car, they’re tracking people/personal devices.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 week ago:
Flock also captures WiFi and Bluetooth MAC addresses and IMEI from cell phones. Even if they don’t get a license plate if your car has wireless CarPlay or Android Auto, if you’re connected via Bluetooth, if you have an in car hotspot, or if you have any connected services (remote start, phone app, traffic), they can track you by that.
A license plate is no longer the only identifying piece of information.
- Comment on Felt cute? 1 week ago:
Shittles™
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 1 week ago:
That’s something else he brought up. How common farmers are getting pushed out because of mega-corps. It’s worth watching at least the first season as most of those questions are answered
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 1 week ago:
That’s actually his entire point. He is fully cognizant of the fact that he is rich and wants to help be the voice of the common farmer that doesn’t have the resources he does. He said as much in his series.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Seriously? Who did she think would have the power to even do that?
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 3 weeks ago:
Because I am one of the experts. I’m not going to share exactly who I am, but I’ve been in IT for 30+ years. I’ve worked on everything from development, to infrastructure to hardware design for the Open Compute project and at major cloud companies as an architect. So no, it’s all magic elves if you understand what’s going on and I will never equate it with that.
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to be pedantic, as I understand what you’re saying, but they way I interpret that is it’s still deterministic, we just don’t know all of the factors that are currently contributing to the outcome. It’s not magical, it’s just lack of full understanding of all variables.
I get how it can be thought of as non-deterministic, but I think the reason why that bothers me is I’ve seen it used as slippery slope territory into “see, so god must exist!”. I think I was just triggered more by the eventuality and not your specific statement.
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 3 weeks ago:
Nah man. I’ve been a programmer and it’s very much doing exactly what you told it to. The issue is you (general you) did not do a good job of telling it what to do. It’s like speaking to a five year old realizing the instructions you give it are going to be literally executed, loopholes and all.
- Comment on Is this sufficiently advanced technology? 3 weeks ago:
Normally I laugh at these as they have some merit, but fuck this one. The right end of the curve isn’t some Jedi understanding of things, it’s tech bros that think AI is alive and they want to enslave us.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 3 weeks ago:
You know, I’m very much for equality, but in this situation a woman can do exactly that and get loads of dates.
It’s the initial connection that is the highest barrier for men, after that, yeah, kinda need to leave the house to get a partner.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 3 weeks ago:
Feeld is there too. Their matching and like system is very much weighted towards paying not-cheap monthly prices.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Now what happens if you put it on a treadmill?
- Comment on New Star Trek Movie Gets First Official Details From Writers 3 weeks ago:
Lower Decks movie please!
- Comment on Republicans in North Carolina Try to Reduce Early Voting on Sundays and on Campuses 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget one of the final steps. Get things down to one voting day/location and then send in ICE to disrupt things.
- Comment on Mmm dessert time! 5 weeks ago:
“Are you going to explain to the doctor why you have frostbite on the tip of your penis, or will I?”
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 5 weeks ago:
Did any of the information it’s requesting have to be valid? I doubt they were cross referencing it against anything. So go be John Doe, a 69 year old Female with a birthday of 1/1/1970.
- Comment on Prairie Dogging 5 weeks ago:
Told my wife I was parrie dogging one time and the transition from a look of confusion to disgust was glorious.
- Comment on Who does Temu think I am? 5 weeks ago:
Wow. Not the part of the body I expected it to go over.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 5 weeks ago:
When you translate it out it bits it’s the number of bits that are active in the net mask
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is a /0
0000 0000 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /24
0000 0011 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /26
And since it’s used for marching, it follows how many there are.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 5 weeks ago:
I can’t tell you the number of devs I’ve met that know jack shit about infrastructure and networking. Even simple questions like understanding their subnet or how a load balancer works.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 5 weeks ago:
I like enameled cast iron pans. Le Cruset has a set and i love it. No seasoning or maintenance, washes right off with soap and water. 6+ years later and still looks like it’s new.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 5 weeks ago:
I literally saw a job on LinkedIn that started with “Must have 30+ years experience…”, then gave a highly specific laundry list of requirements and was only open for 3 days. It was obvious that was a mandated post for an internal promotion they were doing.
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 5 weeks ago:
Frankly I’ve never liked the idea of guilds. Why do I need to be tied to one group? I’d prefer to come and go among different ones as I see fit.
- Comment on ACAB, bite the system! 5 weeks ago:
How hard is the bite of a turtle? I know it varies between type, but let’s take a more common one like a Red Eared Slider.
- Comment on Rejected :( 1 month ago:
Hermosa!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Probably do something stupid like individual bit fields for every possibility instead of a bit string. Or having it i a json wrapper for every single variable and combination, without any compression.
Thoguh save states in general grow more complicated as games become more complicated too. Think about early games, all you needed to track was… what level you were on, number of lives, and maybe a list of weapons.
Now you need things like the time of day in game, the weather, what interactions with other npcs you’ve had, multiple stats on every character in your party including customized outfits and accessories, etc. and just like the games themselves, they’re probably not using pointers but actual data too sometimes, which sucks.
- Comment on May not buff out 1 month ago:
Incidentally that’s a German car that’s sold worldwide with that feature. Japanese, American, Chinese, British and other cars have that feature too.