Synthead
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- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 11 months ago:
That’s mean 😐
- Comment on Learning the Python 11 months ago:
Aw what a beautiful snake
- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 11 months ago:
I’m not an anti-car person. I also understand that we live in the world we are presented with, and there is a significant systemic oil culture that is difficult and expensive to not consume. I just thought this photo was a little ironic.
- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 11 months ago:
You wouldn’t happen to be taking a picture of a screen from a gasoline-powered car, are you?
- Comment on can chromeos be hacked?? 11 months ago:
Exactly. Just be responsible and don’t do anything dumb with your security. Do the typical stuff right like using a password manager and updating your software often. With your programming, don’t skip ssl validation, don’t have unauthenticated connections that matter, don’t shell out, etc. On your local system, use permissions correctly, keep a local firewall, and all that good stuff. You should be fine, but it’s never 100%.
- Comment on Creating a torrent that includes all of humanity's knowledge/art/entertainment? 11 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Why does markdown always format bullets wrong? 11 months ago:
It’s due to shitty rendering of Markdown. You’re doing it right. File bugs where you see it rendered funny.
- Comment on Consumer Reports tests VPNs... but won't allow you to log in while using one. 11 months ago:
Nice to see Firefox in the wild 🙃
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 11 months ago:
I sure do, although OLEDs pretty much have an infinite black level, and the color range is unparalleled to LCDs.
- Comment on Warranty question about SSD upgrade 11 months ago:
I’d ask Valve.
- Comment on Paypal won't let me remove by Debit card 1 year ago:
Call them
- Comment on Youtube Depends on Ads to work 1 year ago:
Firefox and uBlock works great, here. Not only do you not get ads, but it cuts down on the tracking and metrics a lot, too.
- Comment on Facepalm 1 year ago:
for YouTube the advertisers don’t pay as their adverts are never compiled into the magazine
This is true. It does still line up with the freedom of consuming content the way you want on your personal browser, however.
Imagine playing a browser yourself. You use telnet to download the HTML for a video. You inspect it, and find that there is a JavaScript asset in the HTML. You make a GET request to fetch it. A dozen requests later, there is a link to an ad.
What do you do now? Are you obligated to submit a GET request to it? Do you not have a right to choose to skip it? Earlier, in telnet, you skipped downloading thumbnails that you didn’t care about, so how is this any different? Shouldn’t you be able to choose this? Say you didn’t have freedom, and you actually were obligated to type out a GET request to fetch the ad. After the ad has been downloaded, you are technically consuming the content offline in a cache. Now what?
Are you obligated to view it? It’s a stream of data. You could inspect the content in a hex editor as a way of viewing it, but it’s that enough? Did you actually consume it? Are you forced to use a functional media player on your personal device to play the ad? How much of the ad are you forced to watch? What difference does it make at this point, since you’ve obtained the data, and you’re left to your own devices? Shouldn’t you have the freedom to do what you want?
If YouTube does some ad payout stuff behind the scenes, server-side, then that’s server-side, and it isn’t any of your business. It’s the same as their data collection, sharing with third parties, building a profile on you, tracking hit counters, etc. In fact, they spend a lot of effort ensuring that it doesn’t become anyone’s business but their own. Just because the asset is an ad versus a JavaScript asset you also didn’t care about doesn’t matter. You have the freedom to consume the content that’s given to you in the privacy of your own home.
You could liken ads to free physical mailing list forms in the free magazine. Just because you obtained the magazine and the publisher makes money off you signing up for junk mail doesn’t mean you’re obligated to do it. You are given the option to request more media, and you are not forced to make any effort to cut it out of the magazine, fill it out, and mail it in. You’re also not obligated to read any amount of the junk mail that you receive as a result of the form. This is your choice, and you should be able to flip to the next page instead, which is equal to not being obligated to type GET requests by hand in a telnet console, which is equal to choosing not to make the requests in your browser.
- Comment on Facepalm 1 year ago:
You’re getting my two points mixed up.
For my first example, paying, let’s say you subscribe to a newspaper. You pay a monthly fee, and the newspaper comes to your house. Nothing special.
For the second example, let’s say you have a free, ad-supported magazine. Once you obtain the magazine, how you read it and what you do with it is up to you. If you want to go as far as to cut the ads out before you read it, you can do that. And you should be able to do that if you want to, because the magazine is in the privacy of your home.
Ad-supported websites are no different whatsoever. The web server gives you HTML, JavaScript, some media, and together, it suggests a way for your browser to render the page. Once you download the assets, you’ve acquired the “free magazine,” and your personal browser, in the privacy of your home on your own machine, decides how it should be displayed.
Imagine if there was a way for the ad-supported magazine to attempt to force you into spending 10 seconds on each page with ads. This sounds silly, but this is what Google is attempting to do. HTTP responses are nothing but simple chunks of data. You can use telnet to retrieve it without a browser, if you wanted. It’s simply a virtual analog to pages in a magazine.
- Comment on Facepalm 1 year ago:
You can pay for things you want. That’s fine.
Google is attempting to remove the freedom of viewing HTML the way I want to view it from my own devices. While they’re free to run their website the way they want to, the principle of attempting to remove your freedom of choice is not only a bad look, but violating.
These two things are different, and one does not negate the validity on the other.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Not really. Windows has libraries, also.
- Comment on What impact would reversing the Earth's rotation have? 1 year ago:
Full 360 degree turn, eh?
- Comment on How does "Splitser" app make money? 1 year ago:
Write them and ask
- Comment on How can i become a best friend for someone ? 1 year ago:
You’dbe surprised how much more excellent your friendships become from being patient, attentive, and engaged listener. Let them say exactly what they mean to say with no interruptions. Don’t make suggestions or opinions. Let them be heard, and occasionally comment on what they’re saying so that they know you’re listening.
I find this to be kind of a rare thing in a lot of people. Most folks just wait for you to finish so that they can say what they want to say. Simply listening is a great way to get to know someone better and show that you care.
- Comment on Why a ton, and not a megagram? 1 year ago:
This error is so common that most folks will know what you mean. It’ll only really get you in trouble when you’re accurately comparing sizes of storage and data. There’s a good chance it won’t really matter unless you’re working code.
This is also why a “2 TB” hard drive is “smaller than 2 TB.” 2 terabytes is 1.819 tebibytes. Even Windows will call it TB and terabyte, so people have often carried a conspiracy theory that drive manufacturers “short you,” or that the missing data somehow has to do with enormous file system metadata.
- Comment on Why a ton, and not a megagram? 1 year ago:
And you might confuse MB, megabytes, with MiB, mebibytes. MB s typically used to measure storage, and MiB typically used to measure data. There’s 1000 bytes in a kilobyte, and 1024 bytes in a kibibyte.
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 1 year ago:
The voltage of your battery decreases as it is used, like pretty much any other battery.
- Comment on Why does lemmy have it, so any link takes you off the page instead of opening in a new window? 1 year ago:
At the very least, file a bug report 👍
- Comment on Why does lemmy have it, so any link takes you off the page instead of opening in a new window? 1 year ago:
I don’t really agree with this, though. I’m all about control or what have you, but I don’t feel that I’m in less control if I cannot leave Lemmy when clicking a link. I can’t see any flow where this is expected behavior other than the principle of not setting a target.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
it’s really silly when it’s simplified like that, but yeah. Slavery and racism, women’s rights, and gay rights are kind of out of style now. Rallying against them doesn’t get the voter base they used to get, so they have to lean into a new scapegoat.
Black people just want to live their lives. Women just want to live their lives. Gay people just want to live their lives. Trans people, contrary to most people, still want to live their lives.
When it’s not cool to target transgender people anymore, they’ll move on to something else. That’s what they’ve always done.
- Comment on Is Twitter/X really going to shut down anytime soon? 1 year ago:
Everybody in this thread is guessing.
Musk bought it, so it’s a private company, now. It’ll stay up as long as he wants it to stay up. How long are you going to keep your Minecraft server online? As long as you want to, right? Same thing, larger scale.
If he wants to close up shop, he can do that. If he wants to operate it regardless of revenue for the next 10 or 20 years, he can do that, too. He could also sell it, and then the next owners would decide what happens.
- Comment on In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now? 1 year ago:
Cute comic, but I don’t like the message. It completely dismisses how much injury people are sustaining from climate change by others, and blames the coping strategies on the people. And it does it in shitty ways, like encouraging travel. Are you just going to leave your job because it’s hot? And you’re encouraging this as an alternative to AC because of emissions, like traveling doesn’t do that?
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
Yes but, how did people know that time went sunwise before the sun?
- Comment on Burger King gave candy to a worker who never called in sick. The internet gave $400K 1 year ago:
This is a weird interpretation of workers rights
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 1 year ago:
Not quite. From www.logicallyfallacious.com/…/Strawman-Fallacy:
Person 1 makes claim Y.
Person 2 restates person 1’s claim (in a distorted way).
Person 2 attacks the distorted version of the claim.
Therefore, claim Y is false.
With this in mind:
Someone spoke about the ethics of food.
You claimed that plants are food like meat (both living), and we need to accept that we eat living things.
It’s silly to say that it’s unethical to eat plants.
Therefore, the claim about food ethics is silly.