LostXOR

LostXOR , 1 day ago to Privacy in As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

I'm no expert in biology but the way I understand it our brains all work in roughly the same way, so I don't think that would be possible.

LostXOR , 1 day ago to Privacy in As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

Reading thoughts remotely is a no-go, you need very precise measurements of the brain's electrical activity and that just can't be done with distant sensors.

LostXOR , 6 days ago to Technology in Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat

Does this have any benefit over just using friction to convert the rotation into heat? I suppose it would suffer less wear, but it also seems way more expensive.

LostXOR , 8 days ago to Technology in Finally a useful feature (no)

Why did they put that button in such an annoying spot to press? If you're going to add a pointless button at least put it on the thumb side, like almost every other mouse in existence.

LostXOR , 10 days ago to 196 in 4 year ruled Lemmy meme to put things into perspective

As an actual human, can confirm I use my human fingertips to press the upvote button on the posts and comments I enjoy.

LostXOR , 13 days ago to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

Even better, use an AI to generate the misinformation to save you time (and get even dumber misinformation).

LostXOR , 17 days ago to Technology in Desk read error occurred.

Don't waste your money. If the data is really important, send the disk to a data recovery service to avoid risking further damage. If it's only somewhat important, use a (free!) tool like ddrescue to attempt to recover the data.

LostXOR , 24 days ago to Technology in GPS interferences affecting tractors on Finland's eastern border | Yle News

That's definitely possible, but is way more expensive than using an existing system like GPS.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to Memes in Seems fishy

From what I know that is somewhat true, the current will disperse through the water relatively uniformly. But it'll still create voltage gradients that will probably kill any fish nearby.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Stack of floppy disks: Am I a joke to you?

Better than eating a full sized SD card, at least.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to Privacy in Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

I've never had them ask for a photo ID so idk.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to Technology in Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to Technology in Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses?

That's a pretty cool idea, though I think it would be a challenge to align the plans perfectly with the actual construction site.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to Privacy in Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

I've had that a few times on my accounts (I scrape content so they get suspended relatively often) and I always just grab a photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com and crop out the watermark. It hasn't failed me yet.

LostXOR , 1 month ago to Memes in I‘m running out of titles

Could always use a nickel, they're a nickel copper alloy IIRC which should be more resilient.

Edit: I'm dumb, older nickels don't have a date on them. Quarters or dimes should work though.