Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valve Engineering 22 hours ago:
It doesn’t need an update, it needs enforcement. The law is about copyright holders losing rights at time of sale, not the specific media that the copyrighted material exists on.
The EU enforced their first sale doctrine on Valve.
- Comment on Valve Engineering 1 day ago:
The physical media is whatever is playing the content. The law doesn’t specify the media.
1909, one year after the Supreme Court ruling: “Your honor, I know that the Supreme Court ruled that publishers can’t add a shrink wrap license that prohibits cheap resale of copyrighted work but you see, I delivered the content on llamas where it was printed onto scrolls at the customer’s home so the law doesn’t apply. You wrote the laws thinking about trains and ships transporting books and I use neither.”
- Comment on Valve Engineering 1 day ago:
maybe more to the publishers not allowing that
It’s not up to publishers. Publishers tried to put a disclaimer on books preventing cheap resale. The Supreme Court struck it down and it was written into law over 100 years ago.
- Comment on Valve Engineering 1 day ago:
tech feudalism
I use Steam but Gabe was one of the original tech feudalists.
Valve ignores the First Sale Doctrine, a law for over a hundred years. So now instead of being able to resell your games for whatever amount you want, your games are forever under the control of Valve.
- Comment on A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure 2 days ago:
Carnot is 1 - T(coldside)/T(hotside) in Kelvin.
For a heat pump dumping heat a couple C above ambient (typical of heat pumps which is why people coming from furnaces complain that the air coming out isnt hot) that’s n = 1 - 298/300 = 1-0.9933 = 0.67%
That means you’d need a machine that is more than 99.33% efficient to get any work out of that heat difference. For comparison, an engine losses 15-30% of energy just from the friction of polished metal cylinders and cams gliding close to another polished metal wall with a layer of oil in-between. The metal isn’t even touching.
- Comment on A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure 3 days ago:
Heat pumps work by using a high power pump to compress the working fluid from its gas state to liquid. This compression heats the gas to 30 C over ambient. That high temp is then cooled through coils to air temp (30C on a hot day). In the winter it runs in reverse. It takes expands gas which in the case of a heat pump fluid like R-410a boils at -48C, runs that -48C gas through the coils which picks up heat from the outside at -1C (48C hotter than the gas). It then compresses that fluid to 20C which is then released into the house. That’s why heat pumps can freeze up in the winter. The cold cycle is so far below freezing that ice will form on the coils. So heat pumps switch to AC mode every now and then in the winter to warm up their coils to melt the ice off (while turning off the fan in the house). The need for a large temperature difference is why heat pumps don’t work if it gets below -20C.
So a heat pump moves heat but requires a large temp difference which comes from the electric compressor. You also can’t extract significant work from that heat difference once you factor the energy input of the compressor. Otherwise heat pumps would have a device to power part of itself from the heat that it is moving.
- Comment on A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure 3 days ago:
Not really. Despite the CPU running super hot, the water in a water cooling loop is a couple degrees C above ambient. Carnot’s law, which provides the theoretical maximum energy extraction not accounting for any real world loss, means you can’t get significant energy from a couple of degrees C temp difference.
- Comment on A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure 3 days ago:
The data centers they are building are mind boggling huge. Imagine Manhattan in NYC.
The Utah data center will be 2.5 x the entire size of Manhattan in NYC.
- Comment on Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI 1 week ago:
I think the entire PC industry is next. PC cases, fans, heat sinks, and all the YouTubers that review them.
I stopped watching many tech YouTubers because there’s absolutely no point in knowing about the latest hardware when I am absolutely not going to buy a PC until things normalize.
Before, even when I wasn’t in the market for a new PC, I’d still keep up on news because I might get one in the future.
- Comment on Pine64 teases PineTime Pro with AMOLED, GPS and ‘custom’ chip 1 month ago:
As long as it’s open source, it doesn’t matter if it has an operating system. A watch needs to be as lightweight (software wise) as possible.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 3 months ago:
Do you want to be the one holding the bag in 20 years?
- Comment on Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See 3 months ago:
When he talks about ticktock he talks about Lemmy. He is against media delivered as a feed that you scroll.
The scrolling I do today on Lemmy is not significantly different from the scrolling I did 40 years ago on newsgroups. The only difference is the inline images.
- Comment on Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See 3 months ago:
Odd article. Uses slop to evoke AI but isn’t about ai. It’s about media feeds.
Interesting story about how Vine was killed by it’s top creators for not sharing the wealth.
The end is sort of old man shouting at clouds with the claim that clicking links was mindful compared to today’s ticktock.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 4 months ago:
Apple doesn’t care what you do with your driver as long as you keep paying them.
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 5 months ago:
A typical microcontroller like a Raspberry Pico ESP32, or Arduino has 520K of RAM. Not Megabytes but Kilobytes. There’s no OS. There are no drivers. There’s no sound or video output. You run a development environment on your pc, it compiles the code to byte code and then you transfer that data to the rom built into the microcontroller using the development environment because in most cases the Microcontroller flash isn’t visible to Windows/Mac/Linux as a fat drive.
Using a 1GB Pi as a microcontroller means you boot Linux, run Scratch/Python, C, type your code, and test it dynamically. You are running a single simple program that would otherwise run on a 200 Mhz CPU with 520k ram. So a 2.4Ghz Pi with 1 Gigabyte ram is gigantic in comparison making development much easier.
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 5 months ago:
Yes for more money.
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 5 months ago:
You can use Scratch, the drag and drop flowchart programming language for young children to read and write to the gpio ports. My son did an elementary school science fair project with it.
A few years later I pulled out the same Pi and used it with Scratch to make a temporary cat litter box alarm when I needed a urine sample for the vet. I use esp32s for my projects but using the Pi took minutes instead of hours program.
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 5 months ago:
Because Pi programming is extremely easy. My son programmed his Pi in Scratch for the elementary school Science Fair. There’s no way he could have learned C to do it with a real microcontroller.
- Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users 5 months ago:
I don’t consider a feature that was supposed to be paywalled for years and is finally enforced enshitification. I bought a lifetime plexpass at least 5 years ago because that was one of the features they said you needed to pay for.
Real Plex enshitification is how they push their media and suggestions without allowing you to configure your own media defaults. I have a Plex setup to share home videos with my Mother in law. But Plex forces “recommended” as the default instead of library view. How do they even know what to recommend?
- Comment on 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises 5 months ago:
1gb makes it an easier to program microcontroller.
- Comment on Scientists Created a Bulletproof Material 3 Times Stronger Than Kevlar—It’s Already Breaking Records 5 months ago:
There seem to be many bot accounts posting. I’ve given up and just downvote if it’s a bad recommendation.
- Comment on Scientists Created a Bulletproof Material 3 Times Stronger Than Kevlar—It’s Already Breaking Records 5 months ago:
What’s the reason?
- Comment on China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium 6 months ago:
Yeah I did it wrong.
- Comment on China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium 6 months ago:
Not only that but as I said in my pgp reply to him, he didn’t read the Thorium fuel cycle link in the wiki he referenced. U233 is the necessary stage to get energy from Thorium. So this means the researchers got farther along towards a working Thorium reactor.
(I did the pgp to actually foil llm’s from scraping instead of his proven wrong thorn character substitution which he keeps using despite haven’t been proven wrong.)
- Comment on China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium 6 months ago:
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- Comment on China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium 6 months ago:
It is in the long term given that known uranium reserves are only good for a few hundred years of global energy requirements. Thorium is far more plentiful.
- Comment on Windows will soon prompt for memory scans after BSOD crashes 6 months ago:
??? There is absolutely no need to fake a crash to do that. The kernel has access to all ram at all times.
- Comment on Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update" 6 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on The Simpsons: Hit & Run modders have made their own Futurama total conversion, with future and ramas 6 months ago:
I’ve seen many remakes but where do you buy the pc version to play any of them?
I replayed the PS2 version on my retroid but I think these mods need the windows version.
- Comment on As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' 7 months ago:
I don’t think you can blame it all the merger when MS is 3rd behind Sony and Tencent.
In game consoles Sony outsells MS 2 to 1. MS isn’t a monopoly in gaming.