conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not going to argue business needs here. I don't have balance sheets.

I do respect coming out and directly acknowledging that the community might not be happy with pricing instead of just straight up ignoring backlash or hand waving it away.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

What's the goal?

There are extra steps you can take to try to improve the security against malware, but using environment variables instead of hard coding isn't really intended for that, I don't think.

It's just to stop accidental leaks with stuff like git and other code sharing.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Genuinely 3D audio with a full soundscape is awesome. I don't play with headphones frequently enough to comment on what games really shine there, but it can absolutely make a huge difference.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ray Tracing makes a huge difference regardless of everything else.

Games are still fun at low quality (I mostly play on steam deck), but we haven't reached diminishing returns until every game is fully ray traced for all lighting including special effects.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's the 3 book set on kindle so Goodeads* has it at 3800 pages. Unfortunately it doesn't give page numbers in book, which I find super annoying. I've been working on it since 4th of July weekend, but because most of the time I have to read is audiobooks while doing other stuff, progress takes forever.

The beauty of the large device is less about fiction, though. I also prefer it there, but being able to fit 2 pages of textbooks/programming books that rely on more structured formatting is where it really shines. (I do regret taking the heavy discount on the Max instead of paying for the sidelit Lumi, though. Needing lighting can be annoying at times.)

On topic, it really is perfectly comfortable to hold. While I do rest it in my lap a lot and set it up with a stand on a table occasionally, I have no issue with holding it either. It takes the second hand to turn pages if you hold it one handed but the actual holding it feels fine, and definitely better than a textbook in your lap.

*I want to move but nothing else works for me.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm down with that.

In all honesty, though, while you wish they didn't happen, fights in training camp are pretty common. It's not the first the Patriots have had this year, and there have been plenty this year and in the past involving guys who are leaders of the team and are big parts of the Patriots culture. Except extreme stuff like Donald swinging as helmet ( it's completely insane that the league didn't do anything about that), most of it isn't a huge deal.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

It’s too large to hold comfortably on the sofa, such as when reading an ebook;

lol I use a 13.3 inch boox max and the size is beautiful for reading.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You'd have to trust whatever host, but if the actual server was handled by the right reputable organization, anonymizing information should be relatively easy (if and probably only if you had a sufficiently sized user base). You basically would just have chunk up the data when you send it, fuzz time on the order of a minute or five, and make sure it didn't have any ID attached to it in any public data sets.

With a smaller user base, you could maybe make deanonymization significantly less valuable/harmful by allowing users to set dead zones locally that they don't share data from. So maybe in a city you set 2 miles from your apartment and in a more urban area you set 5, and the same for your place of work or other areas that you consider potentially invasive to a bad actor. A small base would likely still allow your route to be correlated, but removing enough of the ends cuts the risk down a lot in theory.

It's something you'd have to stay cognizant of, but it might be able to be done in a privacy protecting way.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yes they are.

And yes, you absolutely can use entirely New York Times articles as research material to write your own article based on conclusions from them. You can't outright copy paste their articles, but you can freely use information learned from their articles however the hell you want.

It's the exact same thing. "AI" looks at their articles, integrates information, and does not retain the actual article. That has no similarity in any way to copyright infringement.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

NFTs have never once not been very blatant fraud.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Cleaning up the key points of an original source (especially a dumpster fire product ad page like that specifically designed to obscure relevant details behind nonsense formatting) isn't spam.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It depends.

You can basically always use the crappy ones made for general touchscreens to replicate your finger. You can't use a real one with features like Apple Pencil/surface pen/wacom without an extra layer built into the screen to recognize them.

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