mo_ztt ✅ @ mo_ztt @lemmy.world

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Nope. The airlock effect inside the mechanism produces an additive effect with each coil that builds the pressure way beyond what a normal screw pump is capable of (he shows a friend who has one that pumps water to a garden 8 meters above just from the force of the river spinning it). That's what makes it worth its own whole Steve Mould video.

Surely it is plausible that an organism that evolved vision under particular lighting conditions would develop vision adapated to those lighting conditions.

I'm not telling you it's not worthwhile to come up with ways to test the claim if you want to be rigorous (e.g. you could measure the wavelength sensitivities of the vision of nocturnal or underwater animals and see if there's a pattern). But to me it's pretty self-evident as a starting point at least.

Many apps do that to circumvent the update delays that apple and google put in place.

Source?

Browsers also download and run code from any website you visit.

Accurate, yes.

The security measures make sure that this code can’t just do anything, just like on android.

Lol can I send you an Android binary to run which has the ability to use your camera and microphone and read your text messages, files, and contacts? Like Tiktok does. Don't worry, it can't just do anything.

So the argument isn't that downloading a running a new binary will somehow give Tiktok new capabilities within the security model that weren't there for the previous code. The argument is that (a) the security measures in place are way too weak and (b) the ability for any individual device to download and run new custom functionality on-demand enables someone to add new functionality to any individual device, outside the main channel of updates for everyone's devices. What do you think the word "backdoor" means, if not that?

This is a long time coming TBH. It hasn't made sense for at least 10-15 years for Microsoft to still be trying to "win" against Linux. To me when I see it it seems weird. It's like your old grandpa who still talks about the "japs" when he sees someone driving a Toyota.

Linux runs most of the smartphones in the world, and a BSD fork runs the rest. It's done. No one is going to deploy Windows Server 2023 edition to run their web services unless something's gone pretty badly wrong. We're all focused on AI and cloud computing now, and have been for some time.

The most critical thing a business can do to remain successful is recognize and adapt to the new reality.

According to this guy, that's exactly what it is -- he claimed that at least on the Android version, it's got functionality to download arbitrary new binaries and start running them when instructed to by its central servers. That's alongside other worrying things like always-on location tracking and storage, code injection to any web site you visit through their browser, and perusal of all your contacts and messages.

I remember seeing the same thing claimed in more authoritative analyses of the thing, but for some reason I can't find them now, so we have to take it with a grain of salt I guess. But in my mind (based on my memory of reading things like the link above) it's extremely maliciously designed.

Two SDNY prosecutors involved in the charges against Trump resigned, and a third who refused to resign was fired. By Trump. Just like in Georgia, you don't get to illegally delay and interfere with the proceedings against you and then complain that they're taking too long.

Deeeear Daily Mail

I don't really know, any more than you do, but I assume that this is true yes. There's a whole fascinating story to be written about it. This story isn't it. Among other things, blaming Apple for that situation when they've explicitly told the US government to get fucked in re its surveillance requests when they had no reason to, is obviously misleading to the reader and unfair to Apple.

(Actually I'd take issue with "just as hard as Chinese stuff," since Tiktok is more explicitly malicious than pretty much any other category of compromised software, which is saying quite a lot. But in general I agree with you.)

This is a masterclass in how to write a slanted story.

It's definitely interesting that MI6 spied on the PLA through an Apple smartwatch. Did that happen because it was an Apple smartwatch? Or did they just break into it the same way they would break into a Microsoft, Samsung, or Jetstream device?

I don't actually know the answer to that question, but the way the story is phrased makes me think that if it was the first one, we definitely would have heard about it explicitly.

Apple does have the ability to track at least the geolocation of its gadgets. As well as access other data, especially those stored in cloud services. Apple specialists can also remotely install any software on their gadgets, including spyware and malware, under the guise of updates without the owner’s knowledge.

I had the ability to wake up and eat a pile of wood chips this morning, but I didn't. Has Apple actually done any of these things? Or are you just trying to make them sound shitty by implication, for reasons of your own?

I thought they liked bootstraps though

"Don't Tread on Me" and like that

I had someone watch me edit a URL in the address bar and she clearly thought I was just fucking around, because there was no possible way that any human could edit the Matrix language up there and accomplish anything productive.

Yeah, I really like Audit the Audit. I think it's literally the only police-centered media I've seen that evenhandedly acknowledges both the possibility that the police might be right in a given situation and that they might be wrong. Almost everyone else seems to think only one or the other outcome is possible (with the latter being the general Lemmy view).

I edited my comment to a little more clearly reflect my view. I just think it's weird that you're getting almost 40% downvotes as of this writing, I think purely because you're acknowledging in your title that good cops exist, and people don't want to hear that. Framed in a different light this would be a unanimously popular video.

You're catching downvotes because this doesn't fit the narrative.

Exactly the same video with the title "POS cop violently stomps old man who's obeying his instructions" would have like 20 upvotes by now.

Mans is slippin and losing his confidence

There was a time ten years ago when Prigozhin would have ingested some wild isotope that basically nobody knows how to make, and died slowly in a hospital in horrible disfiguring fashion. Putin would have said nothing, Russian state TV would have made a couple of snide comments, and everyone would have understood and not done a goddamned thing.

Now he's feeling like he needs to emphasize it. Yes, we know you killed him, and we've moved on. It's not that we just didn't figure it out.

Just my unqualified opinion, but it probably wouldn't work the way you want it to. Just like if you ask it spatial-orientation questions or to draw a graph with ASCII, it can imitate the form of the answer, but since it doesn't really understand the domain (can't hear the music) what it outputs would be of pretty limited quality.

There are AI models that are designed to produce music though, and they seem like they do a pretty passable job. Also, for what it's worth, there's this:

Write a score for a space opera in Lilypond notation.

Creating an entire space opera score in LilyPond notation would be a massive undertaking that would require a lot of space and time. I can, however, provide a short excerpt or motif that might be representative of such a work. Here's a simple motif for a space opera, assuming a majestic and futuristic tone for a lead instrument (like a trumpet or synthesizer) and some chords for a backing instrument (like strings or a keyboard):

    
\version "2.20.0"

global = {
  \key c \major
  \time 4/4
}

leadMelody = \relative c' {
  \global
  c2. d4 | e2. d4 | c2. r4 | g'2. a4 | g2. a4 | f2. r4 |
  e2. d4 | c2. r4 | c2.
}

backingChords = \chords {
  c2:maj7 d:min7 | e:min7 d:min7 | c:maj7 r4 | a:min7 g:maj7 | a:min7 g:maj7 | f:maj7 r4 |
  e:min7 d:min7 | c:maj7 r4 | c2:maj7
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff \leadMelody
    \new ChordNames \backingChords
  >>
  \layout { }
  \midi { \tempo 4=80 }
}

  

This is just a very basic example, and a real space opera would have more instruments, voices, motifs, and variations. You could expand upon this, develop more motifs, and incorporate more instruments to fit the mood and narrative of your opera. Remember, LilyPond is powerful and can accommodate complex musical ideas, so the sky's the limit!

Usually there are a few different tuning bolts you can spin that'll adjust the resistance and some other parameters. However, it's also possible to blow out the internal mechanism by pulling the door shut faster than it wants to go. It'll stop working right and sometimes leak oil. It's possible that's happened to this one, in which case the only answer is to get a new one, but that might not be a bad idea anyway, because this one has a bent rod.

You could try unattaching the rod (to see if it can be attached in a better location or something) and playing with the tuning bolts, but it might be worth just getting a new one.

I wasn't saying it as a bad thing, just saying it looks a lot more raw and unfiltered than your standard DND sourcebook.

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master is in my opinion basically what the DMG should be. It's an excellent guide to, basically, not just the rules but how to run an excellent game. This topic is not covered in the DMG with any effectiveness, which is kind of weird when you think about it.

The DM Lair is also pretty good in my opinion, in-depth videos with a lot of experience and insight behind them. It's particularly good if you're dealing with one specific type of problem or situation you're trying to approach better in your game. There's probably a video about it.

Also, bin the DMG treasure rules. They make no sense. If you're playing a module, then you're okay, but if you're doing homebrew I would recommend just abandoning 5e's economy and using the Pathfinder 2e economy instead or something. I tried 5e's tables and they were bad, I tried rolling my own guidelines and the result was also bad, IDK, if you figure out a good system, let me know.

I upvoted this post because it was good information, and then I read you and upvoted your post also. Yeah this is stylish, but a representation that showed "rate of export" with "estimated reserves" with roughly how much has already been exported, country by country, would be pretty sweet and probably pretty doable with some effort.

Ayy, this is excellent. Double // on the Fediview link though