JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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I'd say we need to go at least up to 63 rules.

Very few, as North Korea hand picks everyone who gets to leave by essentially keeping their entire family hostage, and any "traitor family" will find them sentenced to life in prison/labour camp - including any children born in those camps.

And they are places you wouldn't wish for anyone to end up in, especially your loved ones.

Surprisingly low.
Those 59% with Xbox controllers probably wouldn't even need to use it, and neither do most of the PS users either as most games would support them natively already.

Though I have to wonder how much of that data is actually accurate - for example my setup would most likely show up as two Xbox controllers, but in reality it's a Dualshock 3 and Dualshock 4 masquerading as Xinput devices through Vigembus and DS4Windows.

Capacitive analog sticks usable for enabling gyro, and four (afaik) fully Steam input API rebindable extra buttons, two on the back, two in front.
Also 1/4th the price of a DualSense Edge (which I believe is the one with the two back buttons?)

Sci-fi has made me believe something small going that fast would just punch a nice clean hole through anything it hits.
Now, I realize it most likely isn't quite Hollywood clean, but the Resurs P is (was) basically the size of a small bus (8 by 3 metres) and 7000kg, so I'd imagine it would need to get hit by quite a big thing to cause it to actually properly explode.

It's an Apple device, what did you expect?
The thing even has an external battery pack, and instead of using USB-C so you could use any power bank you already own, they designed a completely new proprietary connector. In 2024.
Who the fuck does that anymore, except Apple?

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OTOH it weighs almost 7000lbs (~3100kg) so it's going to plow through most of everything with its sheer mass.

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1.8 billion is around 2% of their last year's net income. At least it's a bit better than the insignificant wristslaps companies tend to get.

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Can't wait to have to get a mandatory firmware update before my eyes or legs or something like that works again. I just hope Microsoft doesn't get in on the cybernetics business or it'll randomly happen while driving on the highway or forcefully fill your vision with blinding light for half an hour when you are trying to sleep.

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Ah, but you see, his reasoning is that what if the camera and lidar disagree, then what? With only a camera based system, there is only one truth with no conflicts!

Like when the camera sees the broad side of a white truck as clear skies and slams right at it, there was never any conflict anywhere, everything went just as it was suppo... Wait, shit.

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And finally: "Did the popup and the massive media attention to it cause an increase in overall adblocker usage that will do more harm in the long run to Google/Alphabet than they could ever recoup from Youtube whitelisting or Premium sales."

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Maybe even F13 to F24 if more is needed?
Because they used to exist, and support for them still does. Really handy for macro keys.

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It's not "like", that has been the argument with these piracy cases for ages. If I pirate 100 movies, it obviously means that if I couldn't have I would have gone to the shop to buy each and every one of them. It's even worse for anyone caught distributing the downloads, where a site host can be hit with this logic for every user download ever.

Apparently these days they are claiming that movie and TV piracy costs the US film industry $29-71 billion a year and the US GDP a cool $115 billion in total
Because, you know, we have all that money just floating in our pockets now thanks to piracy.

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...while flying in a helicopter introduced in 1968 and last manufactured in 1998 in a country that is sanctioned and most likely can't reliably get spare parts for it.

"Known for: ReiserFS, murder" kinda makes it sound like the dude invented both.

Here in Finland handheld scanners have been getting added to more shops, you grab one, scan and bag as you go, and at the end you return the scanner and pay it all at once.

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I can as all the buttons are in a row. Same for the AC and heater controls. I pretty much know them by heart so it takes a fraction of a second to glance where to roughly put my finger, and then I can count them out by feel while looking at the road.

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The Huyndai N vision 74 looks like the future, and it looks amazing.

The Cybertruck just looks like a bad Playstation 1 game model.

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Ukraine had one of the largest nuclear weapon stockpiles when the USSR broke with around 1900 warheads and 4000 tactical nuclear weapons. They de-weaponized themselves and got rid of them all.

And how'd exactly that go for them, hm?

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Apple spending 3 years researching and determining it is not doable due to technical limitations:
We've tried nothing and we are all out of ideas.

The "puncture marks" shown in the article are caused by some sort of grounding connectors/lever thingies, most likely for the capacitive touchscreen. So they aren't some random "components" poking through.

How unsurprising, a headline that technically doesn't lie, but also gives a completely misleading impression. At least it has been fixed since: the current, accurate one is "Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used"

Because your files only get sent to the AI search service if you use the AI search feature, which it tells you will send the one specific file you are asking the AI to analyze to OpenAi. Which, you know... Duh?

The third-party AI toggle is only turned on to give all eligible customers the opportunity to view our new AI features and functionality, like Dropbox AI. It does not enable customers to use these features without notice. Any features that use third-party AI offer disclosure of third-party use, and link to settings that they can manage. Only after a customer sees the third-party AI transparency banner and chooses to proceed with asking a question about a file, will that file be sent to a third-party to generate answers. Our customers are still in control of when and how they use these features

Watt hours are watt hours. Sure the compressor won't run on 12 volts as is but the energy is there, just needs a converter.

Fwiw, our 15 year old fridge uses around 1000Wh per day.

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And Air Canada is free to sue the legal entity chat bot for damages after firing them all they like, after paying the customer their refund.
Though they might find out that AI chatbots don't have a lot of money, seeing as they aren't actually employees and they don't pay them anything.

If I got a dollar every time the gallery app I like got sold to a shitty ad company, I would have two dollars. Which isn't much, but fuck Cheetah Mobile and ZipoApps.

We all know how the Russians treat the areas and civilians that they capture though, so they are hoping someone else will protect them from that fate, so they don't have to. If it ends up that there weren't enough people to do it, they will end up hoping they'd helped defend it too, but at that point it will be too late.

This is nothing but a modern spin on "hey internet, what's wrong with me? WebMD: it's cancer."

Who wants to bet a dollar that he throws a temper tantrum about it and refuses to pay?

Live Paper is not E-Ink, so it shouldn’t have the same inherent issues with ghosting or refreshing.

E-ink is a very specific display technology with ink particles floating in oil controlled by magnetic fields. They don't explicitly state what this Live Paper exactly is, but they do state it's something that solves the downsides of typical reflective LCDs, so, probably one of those but better.
Actual e-inks have the benefit of looking like ink blobs on paper and not square pixels, and the image staying even when power is completely removed, and the massive downside that because they are being physically moved, it actually takes a bit of time so they have terrible refresh rates.

It's by design, you don't need to pay taxes if you don't generate profit, you can just shovel more value into the company with investments and acquisitions that then hopefully generate you even more money in the future.
And at the same time you can point at that loss and use it as an excellent scapegoat for doing shitty things.

Because they have. A ton - they paid Spez almost $200 million last year. But when you invest, spend, or pay out all of the money you get, on your tax sheet it says you didn't make any profit, because you don't have any excess money.

They don't want to send us videos, they want to serve us ads and annoy us into buying Youtube Premium, which someone using adblocker won't see, or need. From their point of view they would win either way - if they successfully block adblockers it either converts us into ad watchers, premium subscribers, or we fuck off and stop using their bandwidth.

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CC attribution doesn't require you to necessarily have the credits immediately with the content, but it would result in one of the world's longest web pages as it would need to have the name of the poster and a link to every single comment they used as training data, and stack overflow has roughly 60 million questions and answers combined.

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Because profit requires you to pay taxes. It's not uncommon at all for growing companies to invest and otherwise use up any profit they generate so the balance sheet stays negative while the company keeps growing in value.
Also allows you to cry how those dirty 3rd party app developers are stealing all your profit boo hoo.

When you look at the revenue growth of reddit, it's not hard to see that if they were able to function at all when they had a revenue 1/10th of what it's now, they could turn profit if they wanted to.

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That's actually nothing new, it's been like that with family sharing for ages. If the family share account gets banned, the owner of the game gets banned as well* so that they can't keep making alt accounts to bypass the ban. Others in your family not being impacted by the ban would actually be an improvement - it used to be that if the owner is banned, anyone family sharing the game would be as well.

*There are exceptions with a few games, like Dark Souls 3, which doesn't ban your main account so you can use family share to play mods in coop. Elden Ring bans both, however.

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The votes are directly visible from Kbin for users as well.

Also when you combine this with some other news, like "Bots now make up nearly half of all internet traffic, and that's very bad news for our security", it skews it even further to being rather meaningless - bots are probably doing quite a bit less bittorrenting.

And seemingly nothing is actually deleted, just hidden. Boost for Lemmy currently has an interesting bug where any comment, deleted or removed, can still be seen by simply selecting "copy post text" from the menu, as the API will return what was previously there.

PSA, if you want to delete a comment or post, be absolutely sure you first edit it to be blank.

Making a VR headset from aluminium and glass with nothing to balance it in the back is yet again another perfect example of Apple going hard with form over function.

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