Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 5 hours ago:
Desktop computer: Installing a keylogger, for example, is cheap and require skills like “can purchase a cheap and simple technical part” and “can plug in a USB”, which are skills you can assume a CS student will possess.
Laptop: Same, but have to open the laptop and install a less standard straightforward loggrr on the internal cable. This require more effort and patience.
Phone: I have no idea, and I am a computer scientist who spends time thinking about this. I mean, all phones can be opened with corresponding equipment, and the touch screen is connected to the internal computer with a cable, but they differ in details per model and the space to work with is tiny. The research investment is significant and model dependent. Meaning, the effort cost is quite high and they’d need extremely strong motivation.
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 3 days ago:
A bookie is needed. Betting requires odds and bookeeping, plus a prize pool guarantor.
The movies either leave the bookie out of shot for dramatic brevity, or, equally likely, have no idea how betting works but just copy other movies.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 days ago:
Their bullshit causes a risk that someone else hesitate or pass on vaccination. You did an attempt at convincing. The responsible alternative is to make them feel uncomfortable bringing up the subject.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 days ago:
A pregnancy is not a person to count. That’s anti-abortion rhetoric.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 4 days ago:
That just sounds confusing. You’re putting me off murder now.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 4 days ago:
Ah, so the chance of rolling a 7 changes to 1/20?
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 4 days ago:
Your question is already answered correctly, so I’m just chiming in with thoughts on a similar situation :)
If you weigh both dice, it gets interesting again.
The obvious is to make one die roll always 3 and the other always 4, and get 1/1 chance of 7 but that’s boring and you’ll only get a few throws in before you’re obviously cheating.
Dice are arranged so that opposite sides always add up to 7, meaning you can get 1,2,3 around one corner and 4,5,6 around the opposite corner. So if you weigh opposite corners on each die, you get a 1/3 chance of rolling a 7 by varying combinatons. You might get away with a few more rolls like that.
- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 5 days ago:
That is a strange way to say she’s 57…
But anyway! Range varies wildly with age. 6 years is something you at least ponder at age 25, but will feel like “same age” around 50.
My feeling based on what people seem to at least not care to even gossip lightly about: max 1 year at age 15. 5 years at 40. 10 years at age 60+.
Wider ranges are not problematic, but gets into at least “interesting to talk about”. E.g. “They are 33 and 40! Huh! Good for them.”
- Comment on Why do websites now prefer IP-based geolocation rather than the `Accept-Language` HTTP header? 1 week ago:
It’s also such an broken idea that I can only imagine it comes from american tech bros who have a childish view of the world.
“Yes this area is germany people in germany speak german so websites must german problem solved”
No:
- I am Norwegian. I sometimes gasp TRAVEL. Taking a train through Germany to get to France doesn’t mean I want Google to go all “Dieses Suchenwiegenflassen gewürst fleinmescht bitte” at me when I search for pictures of cute cats.
- Some countries have multiple official languages.
- Some people technically in Norway living close to the border just speak swedish.
- Expats.
- I don’t want badly translated websites in Norwegian. Just give me English. Microsoft Bing for years had a setting that when translated back to English said “Number of results: Car”.
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 2 weeks ago:
I am a bit confused here, because what you describe is what is currently happening. :)
A multiplication of any number of factors is a product.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Your fanfic of people’s inner dialogue may not be canon
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Depends? You can also copy a book exactly (i.e. word for word, not photocopying), and digital media also deteriorates.
Digital media deteriorates faster in cold storage than a physical book, but is easier to copy.
Properly stored: CDs die anywhere between 10 and 30 years. Some flash drives last 10. Magnetic storage 10-20 years. Books hunders of years.
I’d say physical books are safer against deterioration because it can handle a few generations of “forgetting about it” while a physical copy needs regular backup maintenance.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 4 weeks ago:
Lack of official support for a lot of devices does not make it “not released”.
I can get it right now and install it on an AMD 'puter. I expect to manually install some drivers at least to get it fully working, but since the base OS is Arch, that’s pretty explored territory.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 4 weeks ago:
This saves me from accidentally installing a rootkit or other software.
This sentence surprised me a bit. When and how often do you run that risk?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
These days I see it used in a derogatory way to describe countries and their culture more than the genetics of the people living in them.
E.g. even though I am genetically identical to white Texans, I’d happily call Texas uncivilized because it lets assholes with guns override government.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 5 weeks ago:
You make it, and now it’s a somewhat safe place for people to form discussions that validate pedophilia. Several discussions now are adjacent to that topic, via adoption discussion, sneakernet dissemination, countries with lax laws, discussions around age of consent, definitions of nudity, what is considered public spaces for photography…
At some point it is no longer pure philosophical discussions in neutral faith, but a breeding ground for pure shit. How do you determine if that point is reached? How do you decide where the line goes? How do you adjust the rules to adjust for this?
The above is not hypothetical. It specifically has ruined a few online spaces. Other topics like the Trump cult has a different pattern.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 5 weeks ago:
Each type of topic needs a different style, tolerance and shape of moderation for this, so it’s more effective to look for this per topic instead of a general solution.
E.g. transgender discussion has different problems than russian aggression discussion, and are solved by very different types of moderation.
Discussing which language should take precedence in schools, in countries with multiple official languages, needs a wildly different set of rules, moderation, tolerances and even moderator knowledge.
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a computer simulation how would prove it? 5 weeks ago:
It provably isn’t, so I’d have to lean on dishonest proof. My contenders are:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic Tim Bernes Lee said the internet was’t actually feasible. They just theorized the concept. Also, the initial darpanet servers that supposedly turned into the internet were shut down in 1965. Network cables would actually melt if they transferred data on internet scale.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition Need proof? The internet’s most prominent facet is MMOs: Simulated worlds.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_projection_fallacy It’s just pixels moving on my screen, people. It’s not real in any real sense. The computer is making all the words show up on my screen by following its internal machinery.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion It is a simulation. The internet is clearly a simulation. Everyone says it’s a simulation. The intetnet is a simulation.
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 month ago:
Well, those are toy amounts and not investment amounts, so this is more of a question of whether you want to keep some BTC for fun, or selling it off and focus on other hobbies.
Unless you want to play around trading the BTC on exchanges in the near future, I’d say just sell off.
- Comment on what are your thoughts on Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces ? 1 month ago:
It can’t exist meaningfully in a world of patents, trade secrets, vendor lock-ins and closed source.
I’m not installing something that I can’t inspect, modify or service anywhere I please.
- Comment on Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
Remember that we are not players in Web3 games. We are mobs to be farmed.
“Web3 Gaming” is gaming played by speculators and investors.
The products they create are disposable tools used to manipulate and farm regular gamers for cash.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 1 month ago:
Sounds like your computer has a bit lower RAM than it needs, in which case it “swaps”.
This means taking some memory that’s not been used for a while and writing it to disk, and using the now free RAM for what you are currently doing.
When starting a game, it likely swaps out browser memory to make room for the game. It loads all it needs into RAM to make the game run smooth.
When tabbing out of the game, it swaps game memory to disk and swaps in browser memory.
When going back to the game, it will swap game memory back in in bits and pieces. Turn around, the game needs to draw that door texture. That needs to be swapped back into RAM from disk. Slight stutter, then normal. Walk a bit further, it needs to play footstep sounds. Those needs to be fetched back in from disk. And so on.
Writing/reading from a HDD makes noise and vibration, since it’s internally a core of spinning disks with several small motors moving back and forth.
An SSD has no moving parts and will not make noise. Stutters will be shorter, but still happen.
Adding more RAM will reduce or remove the need to swap to disk in the first place, and is the most useful upgrade to alleviate the issue.
- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 1 month ago:
What sort of game genre do you have experience making? Finding something within what you are able to do is important.
- Comment on 'Make America Greay Again': are MAGA monarchists? 1 month ago:
They are talking like they want to / believe they have an Elective Monarchy:
- The Elected Leader is the State and can not be restrained by any officials, government branch, or law
- The Elected Leader’s actions are legitimate because the elected leader made them
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 month ago:
In order:
- Overscoped
- Wrong people in charge on all levels
- Unfocused
- This turned out ok?
- Comment on Need help automating my cleaning business, Does this AI request make sense (tech related)? 1 month ago:
As a computer dothings maker, absolutely! I’d request a sketch or make one and ask if it fits the client’s intention as the first step of any such project.
- Comment on Need help automating my cleaning business, Does this AI request make sense (tech related)? 1 month ago:
That should be enough to get started. It can be easier if you clarify a few things:
- remove “Very simple user experience”. It means nothing.
- Mobile-friendly is fine, but you may intend “mobile first”? See it that feels right to you.
- Draw sketches of the customer’s UI, your UI, and the cleaners’ UI. It may feel like a lot of work but trust me it’s going to save ten times the effort in communication total.
- Comment on Where do I go if I want to find someone to help me make an app game? 1 month ago:
No. Learning anything is hard. It is important to accept this. There is no special explanation or trick that gives a shortcut to learning.
When people say “learning to code isn’t hard” they are also correct, but they are speaking relatively. Learning to code isn’t hard as learning things go. Compared to playing piano, guitar, doing skateboard tricks, juggling, etc… it’s just practice and focus and reading and watching and practice and time.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 month ago:
Things that can affect it, with some wild estimates on how it reduces the 800kh:
- Processors are 10-100 times faster. Divide by 100ish.
- A common laptop CPU has 16 cores. Divide by 16.
- GPUs and CPUs have more and faster math operations for numbers. Divide by 10.
- RAM speeds and processor cache lines are larger and faster. Divide by 10.
- Modern processors have more and stronger SIMD instructions. Divide by 10.
- Ray tracing algorithms may be replaced with more efficient ones. Divide by 2.
That brings it down to 3-4 hours I think, which can be brought to realtime by tweaking resolution.
So it looks plausible!
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 2 months ago:
No