kevincox

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I should absolutely be able trust my phone to store my private data. If my phone isn't trustworthy that is an issue that should be resolved. I mean sure, every copy of data is a risk, but there are a lot of more valuable data (in my opinion) on my phone than nudes.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It sounds like these aren't still on the device somewhere, but re-downloaded from iCloud.

So presumably the device ID is somehow being used to incorrectly "authenticate" to iCloud and old images are being restored.

This definitely raises some major concerns about how iCloud authentication works.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have to say that I have mixed feelings about the Ninja Creami blender-style ice cream maker compared to a churner. But holy shit it makes perfect milkshakes with near zero effort. Makes it completely worth it.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, not only are there a dozen platforms that you need to search but they all suck. I have seen so many instances where people download videos for a vacation and then they can't be played. I can't even share screenshots to advertise the shows that you are selling to my friends for free!

Funny enough when I have a video file sitting on my computer it just works, all of the time, super fast. And instead of using services that tell me what streaming platform a given show is on it is easier to use a service that tell me the infohash of the file.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funerals are one thing. That is basically a party and I think people can choose to do what they want. But I think that basic body disposal should be provided (and separated from any funeral provider as much as desired).

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah seriously, everybody dies (for now at least) let's just provide basic disposal for bodies as a government service. If you want to have a funeral or other celebration you are welcome too and if you want a "fancier" disposal (like burying in a cemetery) you can pay for that. But it seems like basic disposal should be provided.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure some people will demand it. But for 99.9% of the population you don't need 1000Hz content. The main benefit is that whatever framerate your content is it will not have notable delay from the display refresh rate.

For example if you are watching 60Hz video on a 100Hz monitor you will get bad frame pacing. But on a 1000Hz monitor even though it isn't perfectly divisible. the 1/3ms delay isn't perceptible.

VRR can help a lot here, but can fall apart if you have different content at different frame rates. For example a notification pops up and a frame is rendered but then your game finishes its frame and needs to wait until the next refresh cycle. Ideally the compositor would have waited for the game frame before flushing the notification but it doesn't really know how long the game will take to render the next frame.

So really you just need your GPU to be able to composite at 1000Hz, you probably don't need your game to render at 1000Hz. It isn't really going to make much difference.

Basically at this point faster refresh rates just improve frame pacing when multiple things are on screen. Much like VRR does for single sources.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I'm using Kagi. I find that it does a better job at finding "legitimate" sites rather than blogspam and content marketing. However I'm not sure I will stick with it a long time. I seems like it has mostly stalled and the team is getting distracted by making a browser, non-relevant AI (I have no problem with the few AI experiments tied to searching) and other side projects. We'll see. I really hope that they pull themselves together and focus or it might not last. But for now they seem like one of the better options available.

Bing's new "Deep Search" where it has some sort of LLM refinement iteration process has also been helpful sometimes. Probably the best AI search product I have seen, but definitely doesn't replace most searches for me.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I bet someone will have it running on Linux within a week.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My problem is that I do red, blue, green then can't think of any more clearly visible colours.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because some people want to filter it out. So it gets a label.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Because once you have a taste of power you want more. She wants to use her position of influence to propagate her beliefs.

I'd be happy to retire to a small cottage on a private lake, but maybe I just haven't been sufficiently corrupted by power yet.

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