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- on Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1h ago
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on Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1h ago
You better hope all the kids’ parents keep their credit cards locked up in a faraday cage. All it takes is waving the controller past, and the charge is made. It’s a lot different than having to take the card out and type in the numbers.
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on Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
All we had to do was follow the damn Train, CJ!
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on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
What’s crazy to me is how this insurance database lookup even makes sense… Most insurance companies give you a grace period to add new vehicles if you have an existing policy. For mine in Washington, I have 14 days to tell my insurance if I’ve bought a new car, and it’s covered under my existing policy until then. Flock would have no way of looking up this information and has no justification to flag a vehicle like this…
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
Trigonometry functions are still just a hardware lookup table in most scenarios I believe. One example I’ve noticed is that you’ll get slightly different sin/cos results on AMD vs Nvidia GPUs due to either different lookup table values, or different interpolation functions being applied on top (I’m not sure it’s possible to know for sure exactly which without internal knowledge)
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
If it’s running on the client, just use whatever.
Because who cares if it’s the user that has to buy more RAM or gets terrible battery life, that’s not our problem. /s
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
I remember this from back when it was still called Minetest. I’m actually surprised the name change doesn’t seem to be because of Microsoft lawyers, but just that they wanted to get away from being considered a “Minecraft Clone”.
I’ll have to check out what’s been happening with it the last few years, it sounds like there’s a lot more to it now.
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on World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
The device also has to account for the location of your mom.
/s
(sorry, I couldn’t resist)
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on World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
We really should still be calling this machine learning… Calling stuff AI has so many connotations that aren’t really applicable to this type of software. We’ve had image recognition and other matching algorithms for years before LLMs came along.
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on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
A permissive license is a specific category of open source license. As I said, all official repository software is free and open source. If the terms of the license did not allow it to be freely distributed or was a revocable license, it would not be allowed in the arch repository.
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on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
All packages published to the arch linux repository are free software that can be built from source and have permissive licenses. Non-free software such as nvidia drivers and other things are distributed separately through the AUR, and aren’t managed by the Arch Linux team.
I would consider the collection of software provided to be no different than any other OS with optional packages. There are several forks of Arch Linux like EndeavourOS that have more complete defaults.
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on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Arch Linux has no EULA because it is not sold software like Ubuntu Pro.
They have a Terms of Service for the online services, which you can be banned from for misuse, but this does not prevent you from using the software. You can legally obtain it through any of the hundreds of mirrors, or even compile it from scratch.
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on English ↔ Claudish Translator in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 23 Aug 2026
How to remove all entropy from a sentence…
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I had to look these up, and it looks like it’s Adaptive Cruise Control (regular distance based), and Intelligent Cruise Control (ACC + lane keeping). Most likely it switches between if it can’t find the road lines.
I only have ACC in mine, and there’s still situations where I turn it off like in heavier traffic. It reacts too slowly so it ends up braking harder than it needs to, and then waits to accelerate and leaves a huge gap. It effectively makes traffic worse than if I drive manually.
I’ve also turned the lane departure system to warning-only because I’ve had it try to push me off the road before while I was towing a trailer. On narrow windy roads, it’s basically required to hug the lines so I don’t end up clipping trees with the trailer.
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on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Neat, I might have to set this up for myself. It sounds like it could get around some of the VPN blocking I’ve seen while traveling through airports.
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on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
It’s honestly impressive what you can do with under 3W of power these days
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
To be clear, this is the theoretical minimum amount of energy to lift a mass straight up. I’d be surprised if an airplane moving sideways would hit even 30% efficiency in comparison.
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on Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
How have I not heard this before… It seems more relevant then ever these days
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Now that you mention it, they specify a maximum total weight of 25,000 lbs, so at 100% efficiency it would take 339MJ of energy to lift the fully loaded plane to 10,000 ft. That can be converted as 94 kWh, and at the current cheapest electricity price in the US of $0.1235/kWh, that’s $11.63
Therefore, it is literally impossible for this plane to reach 10,000 ft for $5 fully loaded.
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on 3 days ago I said I needed a new hobby... in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I find the easiest way to think about it is kind of like email. You can have an account @gmail.com and still send mail to other servers @outlook.com. Your posts and comments will be stored on your local instance, as well as any instances that are subscribed to the community. When you post to a community on another instance, I think the text will be stored on both instances, but image uploads point back to the copy on your local instance.
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on 3 days ago I said I needed a new hobby... in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I ignored all the email setup because I disabled signups anyway on my instance.
For DNS on my home server I use ddclient. It supports a ton of different DNS providers, so you can have your server automatically update its DNS record as soon as your IP changes.
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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
Anyone know the terminal velocity of a falling Porsche 914? lol
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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
It’s not a question of where he grips it! It’s a simple question of weight ratios. A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut!
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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
Well, the data we do have is that the flight was just under 30 minutes and very likely under 100 miles.
From the Wikipedia on airline fuel efficiency:
The worst-performing flights are short trips of from 500 to 1500 kilometers because the fuel used for takeoff is relatively large compared to the amount expended in the cruise segment, and because less fuel-efficient regional jets are typically used on shorter flights.
In the example values table, the most efficient plane for a 560km trip burns 0.92 kg of fuel per km, so doing some rough math and assuming the electric plane travelled 100 miles, that would be roughly 148kg of fuel, or 50 gallons (190L).
At current jet fuel prices ( $3.76/gallon ) that’s about $188 US in jet fuel as a rough estimate. It’s unclear if the test flight went up to full altitude or if the plane was at full weight, so a fair comparison might have used even half as much jet fuel.
Edit: From some of the other comments, it seems like they might have only considered flight time as cruising time, not takeoff and landing, so my numbers will be quite far off if that’s the case. My gut feeling is that this is probably the case, because this seems like too big a difference otherwise.
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on Avoid this very common mistake in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
I wish I could give you a second upvote, that’s hilarious 😂
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on You have lost CPU time privileges in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
I guess swap can still be useful for background browser tabs and apps. I haven’t run swap on my machines for years now, so I can’t really remember how and when it decides to start moving stuff there.
The last few times I ran into OOM killer it’s been from compiling/linking some huge project that used up 90% of my ram on its own… so I’ve probably been having a different experience than most people.
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on You have lost CPU time privileges in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
That sounds to me like it’s basically the same as turning off swap. I don’t think oom killer activates until you fill up your swap as well.
I guess it could still be useful since it’s more tunable than the kernel oom killer.
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on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
This isn’t about speed cameras, it’s about “safety” surveillance cameras. No laws have to be broken. Evading Flock isn’t illegal
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on SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
It’s only clean when you compare it to the fossil fuel alternatives it replaces like coal.
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on Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
How about…
- ICE kidnapping citizens off the street
- DOGE dismantling government services
- The blatant scams and rug pulls Trump is pulling to rob taxpayers
- Companies getting billions of tax breaks to build AI datacenters nobody wants
I could go on…
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on Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Seriously? Flock is the only problem you have with America right now? You must be living under a rock.
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I think you’re missing the space after > for the quote syntax.
Like this
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on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
With how big the cab is, it almost looks like they took an SUV and bolted on a tiny truck bed sticking out the back. The proportions are very strange.
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on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
It’s got 50% more range, so it’s probably got a bigger battery. Lithium is expensive.
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on DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
This being partially right is probably exactly how it ended up in the training data. But AI is too dumb to understand which parts are relevant/important.
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on DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
Polarization is kind of just magic. Which means these sunglasses might actually require mana points to use.
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
Well, it really depends on how the notification is sent. Most people don’t have push notifications set up on YouTube, so the spike wouldn’t be crazy high there. Even a few 1000 people requesting a video at once could overwhelm a single server’s bandwidth though.
I completely guessed at the 2% number if they were on another platform that sent out emails or push notifications. But I’m sure they’d also lose a huge chunk of those subscribers when moving platforms.
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
25M subscribers means 25M people getting notified to come watch a video all at once. They could easily end up with a half million requests to buffer the new video all at once, and that would take down anything short of a full CDN to handle local geo-caching. It wouldn’t be cheap to handle the burst loads of new releases.
My point is, it’s hard to read the credit card numbers when they’re not visible inside a wallet or pocket. It’s the difference between having to ask to use the credit card and just using it without the parent noticing (until it shows up on the bill). Point-of-sale equipment to charge credit cards by tap aren’t exactly something people leave their kids unattended with.