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GhostlyPixel

@ GhostlyPixel @lemmy.world

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  • For those affected specifically by Covered California, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see suits for other states pop up

    A proposed class action, the lawsuit seeks to represent everyone who had information transmitted to the tech companies by Covered California

  • uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS and macOS

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  • Yeah unfortunately this is only a safari extension

  • (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]

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  • I rip for my personal collection/data hoarding and was surprised to learn how much of a pain PSG subs are. I figured I just had HandBrake configured wrong until I started looking into it.

  • Captain Disillusion explains: blur

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  • I used to write signal processing software, fast Fourier transforms being done with “devil numbers” is completely correct

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  • Photopea has been great, probably not the best for power users, but it’s basically a clone of the Photoshop UI.

  • How long have you been sitting on that?

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  • After some googling, it doesn’t really seem like there is a lore/in universe explanation, which I find surprising after having the Disney EU and the legends EU. Some sith are named after a character quality, so maybe you could assume the dark side of the force revealed it to the master that named them?

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • They have been shilling max so hard, the practice tab now is hidden to make room for the Video Call tab (Max only) and a tab to subscribe to Max or upgrade your plan.

    Probably won’t renew this year. I have a 1500+ day streak, but a good chunk of that is just doing a single quick practice lesson every day, the gamification got me and I haven’t learned much new stuff in probably a year.

    I learned enough Italian to use it when I went on a two week trip in 2023, but the problem with Duo’s lessons is nothing is conversational. I would be able to say/ask something, understand the response, but then not really have the ability to keep the conversation going.

    The differences in languages after so many years is also a bit disheartening, I had a friend show me all the tools available in their French course that I didn’t have, it made their Italian lessons look like vocab flash cards in comparison.

    I am not a big LLM user, but I did try to use it as a conversation partner, which worked alright. I haven’t looked in a while, but my biggest issue was it would speak too fast and none of the available tools had a way to slow it down outside of telling it to add ellipses after each word.

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  • That makes the most sense

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  • Yeah I didn’t believe that amount, looked it up, and it looks like digital W11 Home keys are $139 USD directly from Microsoft.

    I’m surprised manufacturers aren’t getting some sort of license discount.

  • Hoptal :(

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  • Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns

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  • Physical copies if they are made outside the US, digital no iirc

  • Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns

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  • I think the $450 USD was just keeping up with inflation.

    $300 in March 2017 when the switch originally launched is equivalent to almost $400 today ($392 and some change). S2 is launching at $450, if they were only expecting 15%-ish tariffs then maybe, but it should then be cheaper outside of the US if tariffs were the only reason. Electronic component prices have gone up beyond inflation growth, I think it would be easier to blame it on that.

    $80-90 games before tariffs sucks, but games have been $60 for as long as I can remember, and they’re only getting more expensive to make.

  • YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube

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  • Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees

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  • I’ve also had no issues with Teams and haven’t had coworkers with issues in probably six years. I prefer it significantly over Slack, and my first job was using IBM/Lotus Notes before they switched to teams, that was a clunky nightmare.

  • Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004:

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  • My first SWE job out of college in 2019 they were still using SVN because none of the seniors could be bothered to learn how to use git.

    The “well this is how we’ve always done it” attitude had a death grip on that place

  • Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination

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  • This kill switch, the DOJ said, appeared to have been created by Lu because it was named "IsDLEnabledinAD," which is an apparent abbreviation of "Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory."

    Lu named these codes using the Japanese word for destruction, "Hakai," and the Chinese word for lethargy, "HunShui,"

    Lu]’s "disappointed" in the jury's verdict and plans to appeal

    No, this guy is cooked, there’s even evidence of him looking up how to hide processes and quickly delete files, absolutely no way an appeal would work out for him, I don’t think an “I got hacked” argument is going to work.

  • The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

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  • I wonder how moderating would work in a merged community, would mods not from instance X only be able to hide a post from that instance from the merged community, or would they have power to remove a post from another instance? I’d imagine that is one of the hiccups of a feature like this, it is a shame it has been collecting dust though

    Edit: re-read the issue, now I understand it would be more of a multi Reddit than a merged community, so mods would only have the power for their own instance/community it sounds like

  • Open Safety In The Auto Business: Renault Shares Its Battery Fire Suppression Tech

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  • Always cool to see companies opening up safety features to the benefit of everyone

    I have some friends working on EV fire suppression at another company and they said it’s a cool idea, but in practice is difficult for firefighters to reach. Renault’s is specifically under the back seat, how easy is it going to be to open up a car, potentially move a seat, and connect a hose during a big battery fire?

  • Lightning bugs!!

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  • I grew up in the American southwest and I saw them for the first time last summer. I probably looked crazy to people, a guy in his late 20s taking pictures and videos of bugs along the road to send to my family, but I was genuinely mystified

    I thought I was seeing spots on the edge of my vision or something before I realized what they were. I always thought they were constantly emitting light, not twinkling

  • Full Xbox 360 recompilation for PC debuts with Sonic Unleashed Recompiled

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  • From what I understand, it isn’t fully drag and drop yet, it took a long time to get it tweaked to work perfectly with Sonic Unleashed, and, as the tool is now, would require similar work for other games, but it’s a huge milestone