kalleboo @ kalleboo @lemmy.world

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Cryptocurrency ruins everything

Yeah I do. Sometimes go through travel albums, but there's also a lot of "hmm when did we go ?" or "oh, you're going , we went there before, you have to check out this thing" and spur of the moment lookups of random things

One thing is that 4K video takes up A LOT of space.

I could probably reduce the storage used if I went through everything and delete duplicates but that would take weeks.

Yeah Kodak decided they were a consumer imaging company, so after the end of film they invested in stuff like digital cameras, printers etc (all dead-end products, growth-wise), and sold off all their industrial products like chemicals. E.g. they spun off Eastman Chemical which is now worth $10 billion, sold off their medical imaging stuff, etc etc.

Fujifilm decided they were a technology company and they live to this day.

I have nearly 2 TB of storage used by iCloud Photo Library and it's mostly just photos and videos of my kids and travel photos taken on my iPhone, I don't feel too far removed from the average person...

Neat - these things usually show up in the news as a render and then you never hear about it again. Being actually built full-scale is pretty cool.

Sails obviously work, the two questions with an automated metal sail for cargo ships are cost and reliability. Making moving parts that don't break down in high wind and salt water isn't easy.

You can still have protrutionless handles without making them electronically retractable. Just have a spring-loaded metal flap that you push in with your hand

As for storing the private key you could encrypt it with (a derivative of) the user’s password

And now every time a user forgets their password and does password recovery, they lose all their DMs.

E2EE chat is a difficult problem.

LLMs/ChatGPT and Midjourney/Stable Diffusion. Prompting them to get something useful out is an art in itself.

Occasionally I'll be doing something manually before I realize "wait this is drugdework that ChatGPT can do for me". I think that kind of mental shift will be difficult or scary for many people, whereas the kids who are in school now will be raised with it as a default option to do their work.

I think this is an apt analogy in more ways than one!

Older cars, you really did have to keep messing with them to keep them running and if you had to go to the mechanic every time, it would be too expensive, so it was almost a necessity. Just like with computers 2 decades ago.

These days you hear of people who drive a Honda for 100,000 miles without even changing the oil once and it just keeps running somehow. Why bother learning to fix something like that?

I dunno about the SA law but the EU law mandates USB-PD support.

Of course they can't mandate the wattage level since every device will have different wattage needs, but I can use my $35 100W USB-PD charger with any USB device I have at home just fine

USB-C has already standardized 240W charging. Apple already ships a 140W brick with their laptops since like a year or two ago, and Framework is shipping a 180W brick later this year.

Because PCs are based on a hardware standard that allows for a standard kernel and pluggable drivers. So you can just take a standard install of a new version of Windows, and toss in the same drivers from the last version, and you're on your way.

On ARM, there is no such standard that is widely deployed, the hardware is integrated bespoke for each and every device, so building a new version of the OS for a specific phone means using very specific configurations (where in memory is the GPU mapped? where is the sound chip mapped? on a PC the hardware can plug-and-play detect this stuff, on ARM it has to be hardcoded into the OS for every device). This is made worse by the chips used in mobile phones being proprietary hardware where the drivers are only released to manufacturers under NDA, and these hardware manufacturers often don't bother to supply updates at all and individual phone manufacturers don't have enough clout to force them to

Sales are "only" down 37%, it's profits that are down 95%. Which means either they've had to discount their phones, or they're not selling enough volume to make up for R&D.

Backblaze B2 for automatic syncing of all the little files

Glacier for long term archiving of old big files that never change

Why is it always DNS?

Just stupid puns that come to mind when I set it up. Synology NAS is "Rainy" since the box had "be your own cloud" written on it. M1 MacBook is "Apple Pie" because being ARM it's just a big Raspberry Pi right? Etc

Yeah I got $700 cash in hand and an upgrade to business class for volunteering to give up my seat on a flight from the US to Europe.

That makes you even easier to track since now you’re that one guy running Firefox Focus

Browsers are also trivial to track https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

In the early days of hypertext there was also a lot of talk of “the semantic web”, where one proposal was that all links should be two-way, refer may have been a compromise to let people try to implement that on top of the one-way HTTP/HTML