JohnEdwa

You don’t believe that the anticompetitive ad stuff Google has been doing for 11 years approached 2.5% of their one year profit?

Sadly it doesn’t, Google is currently the most profitable company on the planet, with them making 120 billion in pure profit 2024 and estimated to make even more this year, so this fine, for anticompetitive stuff going back to 2014, is less than 2.5% of their one year profit.
And there’s absolutely zero chance that they gained less than 3 billion from that, so this fine is just part of the cost of doing business.

That’s like the median income family in the US ($84k) getting hit with a ~$1k fine (remember, profit comes after expenses are paid) because they didn’t pay their taxes for over a decade, with no requirement of actually paying any of those taxes.

Without the lens, exactly.

Realistically, cameras can be put into two categories - they either effortlessly fit in your pocket, or don’t, and any that don’t tend to get left home unless you intend to specifically go take photos. Doesn’t really matter how much bigger it is at that point.
And if you have a high end smartphone, you probably can’t get a camera that fits in your pocket that would be significantly better.

As the saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you.

I simply wouldn’t. A dumbphone does mostly the things I don’t use a phone for.

And I don’t mean fortnite and tickytocks, I’ve grown up through (most) of the history of mobile phones, I started with my mothers old Nokia 2110 back in like… 1998? I remember how awesome it was to finally have a phone, then to be able to get the bus schedules with the painfully slow WAP connection so I didn’t have to call home, then to have navigation, replace the mp3 player, camera, and eventually even mostly my laptop.

I want to have a datapad with access to all the devices and information in my pocket at all times. If I need it to do something, I know there’s an app for it probably. It’s awesome.

I’d really prefer that the datapad wouldn’t then leech all of my information in return, though.
Oh, and bring back physical keyboards. I’d give my left nut for an HTC Desire Z with 2025 hardware.

For your PETG trials, few things to know: it likes to bond with glass buildsheets permanently, so if you use one, always use a layer of gluestick. Also good in general with PETG, it often has trouble sticking to the buildplate.
And it absorbs moisture - though really slowly compared to actually moisture critical materials like nylon or tpu - and prints really stringy when wet, so getting a food dehydrator or a filament dryer is probably a good idea.

And the “replacement” for ABS is ASA - similar material properties (actually superior UV resistance) while being easier to print.

Each material has specific strengths and weaknesses, but a good start is to have PLA, PETG, ASA and TPU. That way you can print most of anything reasonable, except living hinges (nylon) or really strong parts (PLA+, and filaments with carbon fibre).

It’s not really that different, the exact temperatures are slightly higher but most intel processors will boost up to 105C, then start throttling to maintain that 105C as a maximum, and if that’s not possible they’ll halt at 110C.

AMD does the same, just the temps are (for the one specific CPU I remember them for) 80-85C for starting dialing down the boost, 90C for throttling below the normal freq, and 95C for TjMax which either halts the system or just drops the power usage so low it doesn’t matter - I’m not about to take a heatgun to my CPU to see what it does as it wasn’t capable of hitting that on its own.

But it shouldn’t be possible to break your CPU from over temperature, no matter what those temps are, because they should be capable of protecting themselves, even if that means dropping to 386 speeds when you are running them in the Death Valley with not cooler whatsoever.

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There are plenty of people developing apps that require root, and users who run those are already jumping through a million hoops of cat and mouse to keep their fucking mcdonalds app detecting it so they can get cheaper coffees and free fries.

Like seriously, wtf McDonalds, your app is like the ultimate root/safetynet/device id detection tool, I don’t think there exists even a banking app that is as hard to fool.

It is, because it’s actually the term that defines the process of transferring files not from an external networked device - downloading - or to an external networked device - uploading - but between two local devices - sideloading.

It’s over two decades old, you downloaded an mp3 from kazaa, and then sideloaded it to your player.

For android apps, I believe the term originates from the method of using ADB to directly write the app to the phone memory, the command of which is “adb sideload filename”

It’s a launcher, it can do a heck of a lot of things, and needs permissions to be able to do so.

But you don’t actually have to allow any of them in modern Androids if you don’t need those features. Nova Launcher also has quite a list, but I haven’t actually enabled any of them, it has never asked to, and everything works fine.

We do, but in the last decade youtube has doubled its yearly user count to something like 2.5 billion. That’s a lot of more people-hours to spend as well.

Because that works so well with the pirate bay. And with Mastodon or Lemmy, just having access to any one of the instances would enough.

Thorn.

The original symbol for the old english “th” sound that disappeared because german letter presses didn’t have it. Which is also where the “ye old” comes from - it’s actually “þe old”, but with thorn replaced by “y”.

A simple line of code that goes “if moisture < 0.25 then loaddone” of “water = weight * 0.43” isn’t AI, true.
But when you start stacking enough of them with the goal and results being “We could get a chef to check how the pizza is doing every few seconds and, and control all of the different temperatures of this oven until it’s perfectly done, but we have made a computer algorithm that manages to do that instead”, then it’s quite hard to argue it isn’t software that is “performing a task typically associated with human intelligence, such as … perception, and decision-making.”

Especially if that algorithm was (I have no idea if it was in this case btw) not done by just stacking those if clauses and testing stuff manually until it works, but by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself. Because at that point, it definitely is artificial intelligence - it’s not an artificial general intelligence, which many people think is the only type of “true AI”, but it is an AI.

It’s AI in the actual wide technological definition, not AI in the current marketing hype bubble way.

See also: the AI effect .

“Grey if it’s in England, gray if it’s in America.”

Same as tire vs tyre, center vs centre and so on.

X11.

One notable difference between X11 and W3C is the case of “Gray” and its variants. In HTML, “Gray” is specifically reserved for the 128 triplet (50% gray). However, in X11, “gray” was assigned to the 190 triplet (74.5%), which is close to W3C “Silver” at 192 (75.3%), and had “Light Gray” at 211 (83%) and “Dark Gray” at 169 (66%) counterparts. As a result, the combined CSS 3.0 color list that prevails on the web today produces “Dark Gray” as a significantly lighter tone than plain “Gray”, because “Dark Gray” was descended from X11 – for it did not exist in HTML nor CSS level 1 – while “Gray” was descended from HTML. Even in the current draft for CSS 4.0, dark gray continues to be a lighter shade than gray. Some browsers such as Netscape Navigator insisted on an “a” in any “Gray” except for “Light Grey”.

I’ve had to translate a whole bunch of letters from English to Finnish for my grandparents, and doing it using a translator saves a ton of time as I don’t have to actually produce the text, I can just read both sides afterwards and as long as every sentence matches in meaning, I can move to the next one.

But I wouldn’t trust it to actually be correct for the entire thing, because it never is, and if someone who doesn’t understand one of the languages would do it they would never spot the mistakes either.

More of the first, but not exactly. It’s “Other people should see and know about this too” and “This isn’t worth anybody’s time/is factually wrong and shouldn’t have been posted.”

Because that’s what upvoting does, makes it higher in the page so more people are able to see it.