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GreyEyedGhost
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- on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago
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on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago
That seems way easier than answering 50 stupid questions. Verbally. To a person I don’t even know.
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on Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
From what I can see, one of two things happens. First, the main cloud communications are intercepted and handled by Valetudo. It replaces the cloud infrastructure with the firmware it adds to the vacuum. Second, some require connectivity to your router or the internet in general. Connections to your router shouldn’t be harmful, and he specifically leaves blocking connections to the internet (which shouldn’t be required for the vacuum to function). I’m only speculating here, but given the open-endedness of the comment I’m guessing explicitly blocking certain connections could be considered an illegal circumvention by laws such as the DMCA. I’d like them to note which vacuums those are so they could be more easily avoided.
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on Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
The code is open source. Like any open source software, unless it’s been vetted, you’re relying on trust. The premise is that the software is running on the vacuum, so there is no cloud or remote storage. So, just like anything else self-hosted, unless your network is compromised or you configure it to allow it, nothing external is accessing it. If you don’t trust it, vet it. Read the code or check your network logs.
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on Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
One of the reasons I bought the (smart) car charger i did was because it supports OCPP (open Charge Point Protocol) and a vendor-provided secondary firmware that more easily supports OCPP (and the ability to rent out your charger to people on the network).
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on Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
From what I gather, valetudo sits between the firmware and the cloud, co-opting cloud functionality and serving that from the vacuum. Since nothing is going to the cloud, only the information stored on the robot, or that you’ve stored yourself, can be used against you. So while your vacuum may have a microphone or camera, it shouldn’t be recording what you say or do anywhere. I have yet to start my valetudo journey and have barely started my robot vacuum journey precisely because of scenarios like this.
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on Not my Best Work [Rule] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
More like, “Yeah, that was my best work.”
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on yeah ok rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 Sep 2026
I had that going when I was younger. Premature greying and no lines on my face, I went to a carnival game where they guess age, weight, or height, and he basically just gave me a prize.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 Sep 2026
Sure, and you have radio waves and microwaves, but you also have VHF and UHF TV, ULF radio for submarines, and even radio stations are given by their frequency (even if people these days don’t think about what those numbers refer to).
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Whole grains stay fresh longer…
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Waves have both wavelength and frequency. Increasing one decreases the other. High frequency light and short wavelength light means the same thing.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
You’re getting a lot of down votes not for being wrong, but for being right.
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on Texas A&M physics prof writes: In ten years, light diffused by satellites will erase the the stars for the vast majority of humans. Save the night sky now. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Sorry your education didn’t work out so well for you.
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on Texas A&M physics prof writes: In ten years, light diffused by satellites will erase the the stars for the vast majority of humans. Save the night sky now. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
That is a nonsense statement. The vast majority of stars are already erased for the vast majority of humans. 57% live in cities, 80% live in urban areas. You’re lucky is you can see constellations in many cities, let alone the dimmer stars.
I’m not saying this isnt a problem, but this is possibly the worst framing of it that you can give.
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
As I said in another comment, this is a step towards making a more efficient hybrid plane for trips under 500 miles, of which about 4 million are made per year in the U.S. alone. Having enough battery power to take off efficiently makes those trips a lot more economical. On longer flights, fuel for takeoff is a lot smaller portion of the overall costs and doesn’t matter as much. Except for all the fossil fuel burned, of course.
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
According to this NPR article there are 4 million flights under 500 miles in the U.S. alone. Based on my quick estimate of the chart in the article, that’s about half of the flights made. Other parts of the world may be better or worse depending on terrain, etc. The number of short flights is going down due to efficiency. They mention pilots, but everything else indicates fuel costs. If these hybrid planes took over those flights, and are as effective as projected, they could maintain equivalent or better fuel efficiency on short hop flights, making them more viable.
Now, the point about trains is quite relevant, but the infrastructure for planes is already there and I don’t see regional train routes filling that gap any time soon. This would also make synthetic avgas more viable since you would already be using less overall.
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
The terminal velocity of a penny is at least 40 km/h. A Porsche would be much higher. Assuming the Porsche fell that slowly and reached terminal velocity instantly, the cliff would have to be 20 km high for the Porsche to fall for 30 minutes. Given Mt. Everest is just under 9 km high, you would need more than 2 Mt. Everests of height for your cliff to make this happen.
Based on all that, the terminal velocity of a Porsche is irrelevant.
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on Why nano gets used in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 9 Aug 2026
I’ve programmed in notepad. Not often or very much, because even though I operated in a Windows environment, I didn’t hate myself, but simple edits or creating small files was possible if you knew what you were doing. More could be done too, if you wanted to pretend you were a caveman programmer.
“Here’s a 50-question survey.”
“Was 50 chosen for a scientific reason or just because it’s a round number?”
“No, we usually have it figured out after one or two, the rest is to see how far we can push you before you finally refuse to answer more questions. Never had it finish at zero before, though.”
“Oh. Alright. Well, let’s get started.”
“…and still waiting, I guess. Anyway, the first question is…”