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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a wish⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also fiddly controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a wish⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried reading a book once, but the controls were too fiddly and my progress through the main quest was too slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  and every forum had rules against bumping, typically only once in 24 hours, and only like once or twice.

  You’re talking about pure bumping where someone has a zero-content comment like “bump” and nothing else. I’m talking about the entire spectrum of low to high quality content, from “bump” to the general phenomenon of reviving old threads to soft bumps like adding additional useless information to an unanswered request.

  Other examples include stupid arguments that needed moderation to be shut down (a phpBB or vBulletin post that spanned 50+ pages in a forum where 3-4 was the norm, all because 2 users wouldn’t shut the fuck up), always occupying the top of the chronological sort.

  The point is that any active forum with more than 1000 comments per day needed to be heavily moderated. User votes allowed forums to scale beyond that limited size. Chronological sort was terrible and didn’t scale beyond a group of 100-200 users (not coincidentally similar to Dunbar’s number), which is why any decent forum today doesn’t do it by default, including any totally free and open source forums, like the fediverse forum platforms of Lemmy and Piefed and Mbin. And even choosing to put these platforms on pure chronological sort reduces the quality of the overall experience.

  Honestly, I dont know how anyone can say that the days before gamification, before adpocalypse, before billionaire hijacking of the internet for their own personal ends, is worse than what we have today. It borders on either lunacy, or propaganda.

  I’m talking about the use of user voting, which undoubtedly improved the quality of forums (along with comment threading so that each comment could branch off into its own collapsible side discussion) when slashdot and a bunch of copycats started doing similar things (see HN, Reddit). You can’t look at Reddit in 2026 and complain that the sorting algorithms they implemented in 2005 or 2007 made things worse. No, things got worse around 2015-2020 when the front page algorithm stopped prioritizing quality over engagement bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The targeted court cases are to argue that the previously passed legislation already covers these particular facts.

  If the legislature passes a law that says “making false statements to another in order to obtain something of value is fraud,” you can expect litigation about the actual contours of what is or isn’t fraud.

  Same with legislation against driving at an unsafe speed, causing a nuisance to your neighbors, discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, etc. Court cases decide the edge cases.

  If the legislature passes a law banning gambling outside of licensed institutions, and banning gambling for minors, you can expect litigation about what actually is or isn’t gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses flash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus those of us on Linux desktops didn’t love the workarounds we had to do with gnash or whatever. The rise of the mobile device cemented the need to have open web standards not tied to proprietary formats and proprietary software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet was so much better before that shit.

  No, you’re looking at it through rose colored glasses. Pure chronological sorting purely awarded the most active commenters regardless of quality, and led people to submit lots of low quality comments. Plus there was the “bump” phenomenon where a useless comment was made simply to manipulate the sorting.

  Forums before slashdot just weren’t that great without heavy moderation. By outsourcing some portion of moderation to the users, it made for higher quality discussion in the forums that allowed threading and voting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why dont android phones have a bios like computers and be able to load a generic arm linux iso or windows one,or be easily rooted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every radio band is subject to their own rules.

  Wi-Fi and Bluetooth transmit on frequencies that are “license by rule,” where the FCC license to transmit is granted to everyone who follows the Part 15 rules about the technical details. So nobody needs a separate license to use wifi or Bluetooth, and the devices themselves are only subject to certain technical restrictions, like maximum transmit power and the like.

  Ham radios transmit on bands that allow for a license for anyone who can pass the test and pay the fee.

  Cell phones operate on frequencies and bands that have much stricter licensing rules, and the devices are certified to follow the technical rules under pretty much all circumstances. They go through much more thorough testing than the radios capable of transmitting on amateur bands or license by rule bands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but very cheap and sometimes free tools help a complete beginner do both, without any real technical knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Struggle 😔⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liken it to a professional basketball player with a low free throw percentage. If they’re still on the team and in the league despite missing 3 free throws a game, they must be really good at the other stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think that accurate color representation would’ve generally required the bright lights and broad spectrum coverage of sunlight, so I imagine people just…painted during the day, by daylight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fahrenheit today is literally defined through Celsius

  The same as pretty much every unit they use

  At this point, that’s basically every unit other than the seven fundamental units. Degrees Celsius is defined from the fundamental unit Kelvin.

  Plus the actual definitions of those fundamental units were defined based on historical measurements tied to former definitions. Today the second is defined around the frequency of the cesium-133 atom, but it was traditionally measured as 1/(60 x 60 x 24) of the time of a single rotation of the earth, which stopped serving us when we realized the rotations had too much variation between days. The meter is currently defined around the speed of light and the second, but was previously defined in terms of what they thought the Earth’s circumference was, and then a metal bar they kept in Paris, then based on the wavelength of light emitted from a transition in krypton-86. Same with the kilogram, currently kept at Planck’s constant but previously based on a particular chunk of metal that was mysteriously losing mass over time, and before that defined from the density of 4°C water and the definition of the meter.

  Conventions are important. The history of how we got to particular conventions can often be messy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes an announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only solution is to train LLMs on more 4chan content, surely there will be no side effects from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not feasible for a mass market consumer product like Starlink.

  Why not? That’s a service designed to serve millions of simultaneous users from nearly 10,000 satellites. These systems have to be designed to be at least somewhat resistant to unintentional interference, which means it is usually quite resistant to intentional jamming.

  Any modern RF protocol is going to use multiple frequencies, timing slots, and physical locations in three dimensional space.

  And so the reports out of Iran is that Starlink service is degraded in places but not fully blocked. It’s a cat and mouse game out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d think that there are practical limits to jamming. After all, jamming doesn’t just make radio impossible, it just makes the transmitter and receiver need to get closer together (so that their signal strength in that shorter distance is strong enough to overcome the jamming from further away). Most receivers filter out the frequencies they’re not looking for, so any jammer will need to actually be hitting that receiver with that specific frequency. And many modern antenna arrays rely on beamforming techniques less susceptible to unintentional interference or intentional jamming that is coming from a different direction than where it’s looking. Even less modern antennas can be heavily directional based on the physical design.

  If you’re trying to jam a city block, with a 100m radius, of any and all frequencies that radios use, that’s gonna take some serious power. Which will require cooling equipment if you want to keep it on continuously.

  If you’re trying to jam an entire city, though, that just might not be practical to hit literally every frequency that a satellite might be using.

  I don’t know enough about the actual power and equipment requirements, but it seems like blocking satellite communications between satellites you don’t control and transceivers scattered throughout a large territory is more difficult than you’re making it sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"-⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on him, I’m putting my website at 305.domain.tld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"-⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While we’re at it, I never understood why the convention for domain name wasn’t left to right tld, domain, subdomain. Most significant on left is how we do almost everything else, including numbers and ISO 8601 dates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically, desktop RAM is slabs of silicon, placed into little packages, soldered onto circuit boards in DIMM form or similar, to be plugged into a motherboard slot for RAM.

  The AI demand is for the silicon itself, using advanced packaging techniques to put them on the same package as the complex GPUs with very high bandwidth. So these same pieces of silicon are not even being put into DIMMs, so that if they fall out of use they’ll be pretty much intertwined with chips in form factors that a consumer can’t easily make use of.

  There’s not really an easy way to bring that memory back into the consumer market, even after the AI bubble bursts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of the AI functions on phones are on-device. I know the iPhone is capable of several text-based processing (summarizing, translating) offline, and they have an API for third party developers to use on-device models. And the Pixels have Gemini Nano on-device for certain offline functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI drives 48% increase in Google emissions

  That’s not even supported by the underlying study.

  Google’s emissions went up 48% between 2019 and 2023, but a lot of things changed in 2020 generally, especially in video chat and cloud collaboration, dramatically expanding demand for data centers for storage and processing. Even without AI, we could have expected data center electricity use to go up dramatically between 2019 and 2023.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a dual major Electrical Engineering/Philosophy. The rigorous logic in some branches of philosophy was very helpful for programming principles. And the the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of mind has overlaps with and supplements modern AI theory pretty well.

  I’m out of the tech world now but if I were hiring entry level software developers, I’d consider a philosophy degree to be a plus, at least for people who have the threshold competency in actual programming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be precise, the “lossless” compression is still a compression algorithm. They just didn’t implement the steps that actually make the compression algorithm lossless.

  From the write up:

  JBIG2, the image format used in the affected PDFs, usually has lossless and lossy operation modes. Pattern Matching & Substitution„ (PM&S) is one of the standard operation modes for lossy JBIG2, and „Soft Pattern Matching“ (SPM) for lossless JBIG2 (Read here or read the papery by Paul Howard et al.1)). In the JBIG2 standard, the named techniques are called „Symbol Matching“.

  PM&S works lossy, SPM lossless. Both operation modes have the basics in common: Images are cut into small segments, which are grouped by similarity. For every group only a representative segment is is saved that gets reused instead of other group members, which may cause character substitution. Different to PM&S, SPM corrects such errors by additionally saving difference images containing the differences of the reused symbols in comparison to the original image. This correction step seems to have been left out by Xerox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s written up his findings in English, for anyone who prefers English over German or text over video.

  But basically the JBIG2 image compression algorithm used in those scanners looked for certain repeating patterns, and incorrectly compressed certain portions of the image into “close enough” blocks of pixels. Unfortunately, that meant that scanned number data wasn’t guaranteed to be accurate, even when the decoded output clearly looked like a number with no distortion or noise.

  It’s worth the full read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.

  Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

  I think any kind of reputation score should be community specific. There are users whose commenting style fits one community but not another, and their overall reputation should be understood in the context of which communities actually like them rather than some kind of global average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s in the middle of this Venn Diagram between “uses some kind of custom OS on their phone to where their camera app doesn’t automatically read QR codes” and “doesn’t know how to install or use software that can read QR codes”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a phone that can scan QR codes.

  QR codes are a plain text encoding scheme. If you can screenshot it, you have access to FOSS software that can decode it, and you can paste that URL into your browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Porn-related transactions have a higher than average rate of chargebacks. Maybe post-nut clarity motivates people to say “wait hold on I shouldn’t have spent that money, I must’ve been hacked.” Or maybe it’s people saving face when confronted with a transaction log from their spouse or other family members. Or maybe it’s just the type of transaction that actual card fraudsters gravitate towards, so that there really is a higher percentage of unauthorized transactions.

  Gambling-related merchants also have a similar problem with payment processors. For many of them, it’s just straightforward business concerns, not any kind of ethical issue in itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Netflix used to be too good to be true as well.

  So was Moviepass, but while they were operating it was a great deal for the consumer. I wasn’t going to sit that out just because I could see that they were gonna run out of money eventually.

  The proper consumer response to these types of models (get them hooked with a great value proposition and then try to squeeze them once they’re in) is just to leave when things get bad. Subscribing to Netflix in 2013 doesn’t mean that I had to keep subscribing through 2023. I could get the benefit of a 2014 subscription and reevaluate each year whether it was worth continuing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crikey ⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Walkman and other tape players were so much superior to CD players for portability and convenience. Batteries lasted a lot longer for portable tape players than for CD players. Tapes could be remixed easily so you could bring a specific playlist (or 2 or 3) with you. Tapes were much more resilient than CDs. The superior audio quality of CDs didn’t matter as much when you were using 1980’s era headphones. Or, even if you were using a boombox, the spinning of a disc was still susceptible to bumps or movement causing skips, and the higher speed motor and more complex audio processing drained batteries much faster. And back then, rechargeable batteries weren’t really a thing, so people were just burning through regular single use alkaline batteries.

  It wasn’t until the 90’s that decent skip protection, a few generations of miniaturization and improved battery life, and improved headphones made portable CDs competitive with portable tapes.

  At the same time, cars started to get CD players, but a typical person doesn’t buy a new car every year, so it took a few years for the overall number of cars to start having a decent number of CD players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I’m looking forward to the second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people struggle with the difference between arguing about descriptive statements, about what things are, and arguing about normative statements, about what things should be. And these topics are nuanced.

  Decompiling to learn functionality is fair use (because like I said in my previous comment, functionality can’t be copyrighted), but actually using and redistributing code (whether the original source code, the compiled binary derived from the source code, or decompiled code derived from the binary) is pretty risky from a legal standpoint. I’d advise against trying to build a business around the practice.