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sgibson5150 OP ,

GTFO! TIL.

sgibson5150 OP ,

LMAO have an upvote. Happy Friday!

sgibson5150 OP ,

We are asking the tough questions today. I’m proud of us and I think we should take the rest of the day off.

sgibson5150 OP , (edited )

To paraphrase Professor Farnsworth, “That would require tiny hadrons. Do you know how much those things cost? I’m not made of money.”

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sgibson5150 OP ,

Is that what the kids call it these days? 🤭

sgibson5150 OP ,

I took their comment as a joke. Please be nice to @Thorny_Insight. ✌️

sgibson5150 ,

I’ve threatened more than once that I was going to quit and take up potato farming. Potatoes are good. 👍

sgibson5150 ,

I can’t remember exactly when I stopped installing mIRC when I built a new PC, but it’s been a while. Is DALnet still around?

sgibson5150 ,

Ah, far out. Thank you for the info. Maybe I’ll load up an IRC client and check them out!

sgibson5150 ,

Doesn’t seem to have impacted Wireguard.

sgibson5150 ,

Mmm what?

WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends…

sgibson5150 ,

Mossad has entered the chat.

sgibson5150 ,

I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.

sgibson5150 ,

I like the joke but I suspect the levels for “young programmer”, “adult programmer”, and “old programmer” would all look a lot like “programmer”. It’s true at least in my case. The occupation does seem to attract the more spicy-brained among us. 😆

sgibson5150 ,

Don’t stop I’m almost there. 😆

sgibson5150 ,

This is fascinating! Thank you.

sgibson5150 ,

Mazel tov!

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)

Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...

sgibson5150 ,

I had anticipated that there would be an uptick in cryptographic signing to combat the problem as this sort of fakery has become ubiquitous, which in my mind would assure the recipient of a file that

A) the file is unaltered after the date/time of the signing B) that the file was created by the named photographer or videographer

This is not proof of authenticity but with a verifiable source, the file recipient could at least judge for themselves based on the reputation of the file creator (say, a notable AP photojournalist vs. some random schmoe).

Thus far, whenever I have raised this idea in a public forum, it has met with silence or even derision. What am I missing?

sgibson5150 ,

I suppose you are correct, but it seems like a standard could be adopted to automate the process for both the creator and the consumer. And while the system would work for any creator, it seems most important to be able to ensure the integrity of the work product of journalistic professionals.

sgibson5150 ,

You seem to be conflating NFTs and digital signatures. Any file can be signed, unrelated to any sort of block chain technology. See PGP and related for more information.

Edit: fixed a typo

sgibson5150 ,

If I generate a key pair and use it to sign a file and distribute it and then I publish the public key somewhere like Facebook, any recipient of the file could be assured that the file originated from my Facebook account. A commercial certificate is not required to do this. As to whether the Facebook account holder is actually me is another problem, but hopefully major social media platforms require at least a photo ID.

Edit: Sorry, I said public certificate when I meant commercial certificate.

sgibson5150 ,

Biden’s original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn’t resolved until last September.

www.politico.com/…/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/

sgibson5150 ,

Indeed.

sgibson5150 ,

Love all of Jay Foreman’s videos. ❤️

sgibson5150 ,

Will it have enough storage space to update itself if you have more than four apps installed?

sgibson5150 ,

Sorry but I’m not sure I understand you. I haven’t had mine on in a while (got a Roku) but I recall that there were apps for all the major streaming services.

sgibson5150 , (edited )

Maybe it’s gotten better since they first dropped, but this article alludes to the storage limitations. I ran into the problem with mine. I remember I had to delete apps and clear app data to get enough space to install an update.

The article also speculates the lack of storage may be why they Android version hasn’t been updated on them since release.

arstechnica.com/…/rumored-new-4k-chromecast-may-f…

Edit: Here’s another link describing the problem around the time it launched. androidcentral.com/chromecast-google-tv-update-ex…

Edit #2: They may have received an Android update the first year after launch, but not since? Sorry but I’ve gotten a little fuzzy on the details.

sgibson5150 ,

Ah I feel you. Now that you mention it, I may have had to cast something when I was using mine because it had a phone app but not a Google TV app. Syfy maybe? It’s been too long.

Android app dependency? (slrpnk.net)

I have found the translation from camera source feature useful in Google Translate and I use it from time to time. Last night was one such occasion, yet when I attempted to enable camera mode, I received the message shown in the screenshot, “Please install the latest Google app in order to use camera translation”. I...

sgibson5150 OP , (edited )

I haven’t had the opportunity to test on another brand phone but atm I’m assuming from the developer statement that this will be true of Google Translate on all Android phones. Thanks for your contribution, though.

Edit: If the Google app is disabled on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, the same behavior occurs.

sgibson5150 OP ,

Interesting idea. Have not tried. Currently installed version is 8.6.69.622227155.2-release if that is helpful to anyone making the attempt.

sgibson5150 ,

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sgibson5150 ,

Took me three days to scroll through this post on my subscribed list in Photon on my phone. 😆

sgibson5150 ,

Not your fault. I was surprised at the behavior. Lemmy should handle that better. A post in the subscribed list IMO should be more like an abstract or excerpt, with the full text only available when viewing the post.

sgibson5150 ,

I just did this. Yes, leaving kbin.social was a bit of a pain since I had to resub to my communities manually, but it is a one-time cost. I think it has been worth it because I’ve been able to be way more active just because the Lemmy instance to which I moved is actually usable. The learning curve is not steep at all and the optional photon and alexandrite front ends are terrific. I’d encourage anyone to make the move.

sgibson5150 ,

Don’t get me started. For years people corrected me when I said LEE-nooks instead of Lennox. I finally gave up.

sgibson5150 ,

Every English speaker I know. 🙁

sgibson5150 , (edited )

I’ll admit that this approach did not occur to me. If it worked for genre television…

🎶 Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes. They’ve got those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what’s with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anywayyyy? 🎶

Edit: To be perfectly clear, I’ve not looked at bunnies the same way since. I suppose we can add that to the list of the many crimes of Joss Whedon, somewhere after “mental and physical abuse of cast and crew” and “killing off Tara and Anya”.

sgibson5150 ,

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sgibson5150 ,

We’ve had mixed results. Wife and I both had Galaxy Z Flip4. I dropped mine repeatedly and it’s still going strong (though I have since upgraded). Wife never abused hers and the inner screen started dying right after the warranty expired. Probably more luck of the draw than flip related.

sgibson5150 ,

I really don’t miss DB15. Too many times when disconnecting, one of the standoffs would come unscrewed. Then you have to shut down, take the side off of your case, find the stupid nut, then screw the standoffs back in. Only finger tight, though, so it would all happen again the next time. 😆

sgibson5150 OP ,

Check my last edit in main post.

sgibson5150 OP ,

😆

sgibson5150 ,

Oh WOW. I’d not seen that! Thank you.

sgibson5150 ,

Dark but oddly relatable. Have an upvote.

sgibson5150 ,

In 2015 we actually looked into The Netherlands a bit. At least at the time, under the terms of the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty it was possible to invest < €5k to tick the “benefit to Dutch national interests” requirement for long term residency (and thus a path to citizenship). Not sure if this holds true today.

And yes, the name of the treaty spells out “DAFT” haha.

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