adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a Christian group - they’re more like the Mormons. They believe their founder is the most recent prophet, that his rewriting of biblical texts based off his interpretation of the King James bible is the only true interpretation, and that only the elect are going to Heaven, and that they get there by saving other people’s souls (essentially, he who makes the most JWs wins). And yes, it is definitely “he” — the women are saved through childbearing. The group commonly goes by the name The Watchtower Society. They’re famous for distributing tracts door to door. If you turn away from being a JW, all others are required to cease having anything to do with you. If you hear their teachings and then tell them you choose to belong to a different faith, you’re considered a heretic and for the most part they will try to avoid you (no more house calls).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Signal?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This got me thinking that it should also be possible to automate on iOS with Shortcuts….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Signal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And some people don’t like it because it used to handle SMS on Android, and they removed that feature for security reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Trump's "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation" order defund vasectomies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah; but does Trump’s base?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Trump's "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation" order defund vasectomies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Other issues: no more circumcision, even if medically needed, and no more other medical procedures that make the tradeoff of saving a life over surgery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people indoors at public places always listen to their phone at full volume?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to be that confrontational; if the same person is a repeat offender, listen to what they’re saying over and over few weeks, and then start interrupting them to correct them based on previous things they’ve said.

  Good way to highlight to them that they’re NOT in a private space.

  Even better if you can get a group of people to join you in this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people indoors at public places always listen to their phone at full volume?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s selection bias. Almost nobody does it, but for those odd people who do, everyone gets to hear them.

  Just like the people who speed, weave and pass everyone in traffic; there’s relatively few of them, but they affect everyone, so it feels like more people are doing it than actually are.

  All it takes is for one person who normally uses headphones to have their batteries die, forget the headphones, or something else totally explainable, and suddenly they can be affecting hundreds or even thousands of people.

  Of course, there are also other people who just regularly talk loudly on their phones and have the speaker cranked to max; I suspect these are people with ear/hearing issues that find headphones uncomfortable and don’t realize how noisy they’re being because they can’t hear it themselves when others do it (because of hearing issues or because they never shut up).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or… “To get to know you better, and your response has helped me do that. Thanks!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it isn’t, it really should be, or things will become a mess as the fediverse becomes more political. It needs to be resistant to that sort of thing as well as corporate control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The other thing I can see happening is the EU investing in infrastructure, and then leaning more heavily into how things are conducted in the Fediverse. Right to be forgotten? Applies to all instances that want to federate with EU ones. Someone says something bad about the leader of Turkiye? Their instance is defederated if it doesn’t take it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website like brandcolors.net but for video game UIs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No responses? I recall quite a few, including mine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tortoises go faster the hotter they are; comes from having a cold blooded metabolism. So to make it faster, acclimate it to hotter environments as well as putting it on a muscle building regime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The company put a number of different heat tiles on the ship, to test which offer the best protection from the forces of re-entry.

  I guess they’ll have a harder time collecting them all post-RUD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people didn’t notice it, but it affected a little of people. That was the time of supply-on-demand, just in time manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and a lot of other behind the scenes stuff that was caught up in the bubble. Despite the name, it wasn’t all about websites. It was about unregulated venture capitalism.

  Fast forward to AI, and there’s a lot more regulation, and barriers to entry. You’re not getting money thrown at you for having an idea… with AI today; a few well financed companies are spending lots of money on AI and then selling their services to established players to include the AI tagline.

  In my view, AI has closer ties to the Cloud Services bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, what would the geo-political implications be, if the United States of America annexed Taiwan (with the approval of Taiwanese people via a referrendum)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey… maybe that’s what the Greenland/Panama/Canada thing is really about!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please explain this to me. Are consumers that dumb?!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s oil… maybe fatty acids with a chemical change on the end of the molecule?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please explain this to me. Are consumers that dumb?!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious though what an oil free cream is made of that would be safe to put on your skin….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you've had or have anger issues, how did you become a better human?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that you, Neo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Asian Americans in the US more likely or less likely to get harassed by law enforcement compared to other racial groups?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an aside to this, I knew a girl when I was in school whose mother was Japanese and father was German.

  She got hassled a LOT… because the police kept thinking she was too far from the reservation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Apple kill iTunes for windows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iMazing works with old iPods too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point; I’ve used a USB extender that had WiFi at either end to handle the distance thing. Maybe it’s just me, but outside of laptops I don’t generally have a need to move my keyboards around much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did anyone here ever actually play the Mousetrap board game or use the cards in Operation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to your younger self?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take that money you were saving for university and buy Apple stock. Still move to the university town and hang out on campus, but skip the tuition fees and going to class; spend the time while others are in class working for a few years and putting more money into Apple stock.

  Cash out some of that money a few years later and use it for a cheap bachelor’s degree; leverage that to get into the field you want to be in.

  Then later, cash out some more to buy property… say, around 2008. But keep feeding more money in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a battery-free efficient keyboard already… it uses this cable connected to the computer to supply power when keys are pressed. Very energy efficient. Never needs to charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you may have missed the point I was making though— clubs and other pastimes didn’t make people less lonely; they only distracted people from their loneliness. Today the same distractions can be found via social media, so instead of all those other activities, people just need a phone.

  But the anonymizing nature of social media means people feel more free to discuss their loneliness when they do self-reflect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a theory. I’m sure it has lots of holes in it.

  Male loneliness has always been a thing. In cultures where it isn’t/wasn’t, there was a strong family relationship and older men modelling how to relate to others.

  To hide from loneliness, men were able to join clubs, hang out at pubs, volunteer, or bury themselves in work.

  In fact, those same pastimes are still available today.

  What’s changed is that it is now socially OK to talk about loneliness (at least in online forums like this), so more people are aware it’s an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… extremely useful to know and highlights the issues I have with databases like MySQL.

  IMO, a DB should always have a type defined for a field, and if that type is UTF-8, and it means just the mb3 subset, you should only be able to store mb3 data in it. Not enforcing the field type is what leads to data-based function and security issues. There should also be restrictions on how data is loaded from fields depending on their type, with mb3 allowing for MySQL transform operations and binary requiring a straight read/write, with some process outside the DB itself handling the resulting binary data stream.

  /rant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because both already exist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You said it yourself; people change managers, not jobs.

  So you’ve established that continuing to work for this manager is undesirable on multiple levels. Does that other manager want you to come and work for them? Would you want to? Line something up either inside our outside the company so that you no longer have to work for that manager; I suspect your current manager will be gone within a year if another manager was already talking to you about your file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the limiting factor than prevents software discovery of undocumented hardware registers and instructions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with the other excellent answers, both boards and chips may be designed general purpose, but often components are disabled in hardware or are unpopulated. Sometimes, a jumper needs to be applied, a trace re-routed, or a JTAG command sent to activate debug mode which allows physical access to parts of a board/chip that are gated by the JTAG controller.

  So your best friends here beyond fuzzing and probing are searching for similar schematics, painstakingly testing all I/O with an oscilloscope, and taking an electron microscope to things to see what’s physically there.

  Sometimes though, it’s as simple as thinking like the engineers who designed the component in the first place and asking yourself “If I were designing this, what shortcuts would I take, what would I want to debug / put in a test suite, and what would I make general purpose in order to cut costs on component placement and board reuse.