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atx_aquarian , 22 days ago

Am I understanding this correctly? NOLA was arguing that, since they tax satellite radio for listeners in their city, they should be able to tax internet streams for the same listeners? If so, I feel like the two things should be comparably applicable (if it weren't for the ITFA), but also fuck all the way off, NOLA government. Get fucked, seriously.

atx_aquarian , 26 days ago

I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics--zip and unzip--and that has made it easy for me. But I've been stuck on those.

Extract anything:

tar xf <archive_file>

Create a tbz2 archive:

tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>

(And tossing in a -v is pretty universal, if that's your thing.)

Some day, instead of commenting on a reddit Lemmy post, I think I'll Google how to tell it to use .xz.

Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It's just capital -J instead of lower-case -j! That's easy enough to remember, I guess.

atx_aquarian , 1 month ago

What would give them standing? They'd have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (Wikipedia)?

TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source

I guess I've never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn't just open shop here and start suing our government, right?

atx_aquarian , 1 month ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/077a791d-fc2c-468c-87c5-d1a083a5140c.png

atx_aquarian , 2 months ago

I want:

• Zoom's...
  • ...annotation
  • ...richer reactions
• Teams's...
  • sensible screen layout
  • richer chat content
  • chat continuity before/during/after meetings
  • very granularly customizable avatars
• Some other tool's composition interface for chat text

atx_aquarian , 2 months ago

Yeah, I remember learning about it in a CS class and, specifically, the claim that it's an ideal standard candle kind of image. I always wondered if we couldn't have found a better reference shot of a smooth flower growing in front of a rough stone or something.

atx_aquarian , 2 months ago

Well, careful there, ZZ is like :wq; ZQ is like :q!.

atx_aquarian , 2 months ago

And the thing about regulation like this is that it just resets the bar height for everyone. It's not like this doesn't apply to all competitors.

Unless we mean non-cable competition, i.e. streaming. Maybe that's not under the jurisdiction of FCC? If not, though, then I have to wonder why this has to be an FCC thing in the first place. This is about truth in advertising, in general.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

I've felt like Tidal has behaved exactly like Spotify in my use so far (which has only been a couple of months). I was doing side-by-side comparison of playing, adding to the queue, inserting next in queue, etc., and it all seemed to behave exactly the same.

edit: Oh, yeah, I only compared Windows, Mac, and Android.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

Junior dev saw it as "we can do it ourselves" until they were reminded that time is limited and we have to choose what we do with it. Then they almost seemed to have a transformation/realization in that moment, but the unexpected twist was that they were still trying to take both paths, instead of picking one, which we all know means they won't get the best of either. Or maybe they're just coyly accepting the other path while trying to keep up the original appearance.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

Hot take? This should have been a major version update.

https://semver.org/

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

Sounds like the foundation of the kind of thrilling story you can't just makeup.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

You have an older Pixel or just rooted, maybe? My 7 on the latest vanilla Android doesn't seem to have it, and this thread seems to say it's not available in the stock os.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

Ah, I see. I was focused on the 80% limiter for that "Maximum" setting, which I think is not an option on Pixel. But I see now that "Adaptive Charging" sounds like it does what that middle setting "Adaptive" does.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

Sounds like yt-dlp supports BBC iPlayer downloads.

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

"Flipper Zero can't be used to hijack any car, specifically the ones produced after the 1990s, since their security systems have rolling codes," Flipper Devices COO Alex Kulagin told BleepingComputer.

"Also, it'd require actively blocking the signal from the owner to catch the original signal, which Flipper Zero's hardware is incapable of doing.

Just politicians trying to appear to be doing something so they can keep their jobs.

atx_aquarian , 3 months ago

Good point in general, but, what they're specifically talking about here (rolling codes), perhaps what they should have said is that no one can (feasibly) do it, not just that their hardware isn't capable.

Edit: Oh, for the blocking signal, that part might be functionality that could be added, I see what I think you're saying there. Still, that would be a step towards it, but it would still require serious hardware to crack a private key, as I understand.

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

tbf, they're reporting about that place, too.

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

I'll be curious to see if anyone recommends any offline solutions for that use case. I did a Swann system awhile back, and its proprietary software sucked.

I'm thinking of eventually converting to either doing another Synology NAS dedicated to its own cam functionality or adding cams to my Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro. Those are both expensive, and out of these three, two of them only work with their own cameras, and their own cameras only work with their software (I think).

On the other hand, Arlo has been convenient and less expensive. It's internet-connected, but for exterior cams, I don't have any problem with that. I don't recall if they have a free plan, so the cost could eventually add up in the long run, but it would take 5 years of a $30 subscription to add up to about $2k.

My limited personal experience makes me think the service-based providers (Arlo, Nest, SimpliSafe) have the most incentive (recurring revenue) to make their products easy, and they should stay more fresh with improvements and fixes. On the other hand, each time I mess with the old closed Swann system, it feels harder to find compatible access. It has a web UI that's stuck on some old browser plugin that doesn't meet most browsers' security requirements, and I haven't found an app that works on my latest Android. They have no incentive to make that old hardware stay good, and every incentive to get me to buy another system.

So that's why I would only look for a mainstream, service-based system for a family member for whom I need it to "just work". I got my parents Arlo, and they send me wildlife clips once in a while. I also got them a Logitech Harmony back when those were cool, and they kept losing it and, somehow, the sub for their sound bar, reverting to the basic-assed TV speakers because for some reason the better sound system controlled seamlessly both via HDMI and with a universal remote was still too complicated. The more fiddly Swann cameras would have just been a dust heater if they didn't rip it out and toss it.

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

This is just an illustration and a claim about a trend in social media posts. Did I miss a link to an article with anything, like some supporting data?

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

Thanks!

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

🎶 go and get your mission 🎶

🎶 your mission 🎶

🎶 your mission 🎶

🎶 what's it gonna be 🎶

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

Is whatever he was holding in the video a good enough "it"? Or, like, a consumer product going all the way to market?

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

Epoch comeback!

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

I wondered how this related to Alan Turing's now-famous work cracking Enigma. TIL.

Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis (see Banburismus) contributed to its design. It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. (Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.)

atx_aquarian , 4 months ago

Isn't this just a business article?

atx_aquarian , 5 months ago

This interpretation is valid. But I recently learned to see it a different way.

If you'll humor me, please consider this. Since Santa knows if you've been "bad or good," he knows the other reindeer have been bullies to poor Rudolph. And, while a red glowing nose is cool, it's not a useful fog light. It's just not.

So Santa "uh oh!" had an emergency where, for the first time ever, the fog was going to be too thick all over the world to deliver presents?

Nope, he set up Rudolph in a position to "lead" his peers in a situation that maybe needed a little help but was not, in any way, a true, worldwide magic-assed Santa emergency. Santa knew how to guide his reindeer to accept each other. The story of Rudolph was not about Rudolph doing something to prove himself. It was about recognizing a Rudolph in need and helping him rise to the occasion to bring him closer to his peers in a way that could heal division.

Rudolph isn't about how to triumph as a Rudolph. It's about how to be a good Santa.

(Edit: For everyone who already thought this was obvious in the story, thanks for letting this Rudolph have his epiphany anyway.)

atx_aquarian , 8 months ago

Is the joke that they didn't waste any time arming with the new tech?