Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 days ago:
Muh business model :'(
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 5 days ago:
Up and Atom: youtube.com/@upandatom
Sage the Bad Naturalist: youtube.com/@badnaturalist
Philosophy Tube: youtube.com/@philosophytube
Angela Collier: youtube.com/@acollierastro
Elly’s Everyday Soap Making: youtube.com/@ellyseverydaysoapmaking
The Poopie Show: youtube.com/@thepoopieshow
Münecat: youtube.com/channel/…/münecat
Dr. Becky: youtube.com/@drbecky
RailCowGirl: youtube.com/@railcowgirl
Ami Yamato: youtube.com/@amiyamato
Simone Giertz: youtube.com/@simonegiertz
Hannah Fry: youtube.com/@fryrsquared
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Oh this game is FUCKED
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 5 days ago:
The main risk on company laptops is confidential data on the machine itself or any access the machine has to internal resources, so most locks are designed to be hard agaist that. The device itself tends to have more “bypassable” protection.
By which I mean: If the machine is locked down, it’s usually possible to clear and reset the lock somehow as long as you’re fine losing the data on it.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
Thanks! I am starting to think a steamdeck is going to be my solution. SteamOS on my tiny nongaming Linux laptop works perfectly for 2D or light 3D games, so I expext it to be fine.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
How’s the deck for mouse-heavy strategy games like Stellaris, Civ, etc?
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
Thanks. Does it work well with controllers, or do people mostly play with the on-screen joysticks?
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
Was considering a new switch, but may hold off now.
Which tablets do you have in mind? I could not find any suitable for anything but phone games via touch screen and unimpressive battery, but I don’t really know this market
- Comment on How does Apple make its infomercial animations to be identical to its software UI? 1 week ago:
Part of the answer is that the UI is “designed first” and coded to follow the design. If changes are seen as necessary when coding the UI, the design is updated first then the code made to follow.
So any UI behavior will already have a lot of accurate design and animation resources for them to work with.
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
It is a sentiment that separates politics from the people.
I believe/hope it is not a popular term because enough people believe it’s bad for democracy.
Depoliticaztion of the populace is what allows governments like Russia’s to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
That just sounds confusing. You’re putting me off murder now.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so the chance of rolling a 7 changes to 1/20?
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 2 weeks 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? 🤔 😮 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 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] 5 weeks ago:
Your fanfic of people’s inner dialogue may not be canon
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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] 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.