Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Convergence was, if you go back and re-watch that video from the iPhone launch linked above, the big selling point of the iPhone. It is a media player, an internet browser, and a mobile phone all in one. And these days, it is a camera
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yes - but I also don't care, because an older browser without JS and without lazy load support can still render the site. Perhaps a bit slower than a modern one that supports the tags, but it's not going to break. Even browser
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Which browsers implement this? I've not seen that behavior in my testing. I was saying that "You don't need Javascript to do lazy loading," not making any claims about the privacy or lack thereof.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that in the slightest, given the way the tech industry has gone with software sizes/complexity/etc. I fundamentally use computers to do the same things I did in the late 90s - IRC, chat, some web bro
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Interesting - thanks, I'll take a look at some of these ideas. I don't care a bit about fade-in effects, though it looks like I might still have a "text shift in" effect I can get rid of. It's a nice looking templ
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> For starters: a lot can be done natively nowadays I learned this recently on my personal site when I was going through and de-javascripting stuff. I more and more frequently run without scripting enabled, and it felt very wrong that
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> It's entirely a byproduct of a lack of trust in management intentions. Usually the result of past "Say one thing, do another" sort of experiences. Once bitten, twice shy, and all that. In the past decade or so, for in
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I may not have explicitly stated it in the parent comment, but it's quite explicit other places. Either a system is sustainable or it's not. If it is, it can continue forever. And, if it's not, it won't. One way or
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Climeworks is doing some work with atmospheric capture and sequestration in basalt via underground water injection (I believe they site with hydroelectric plants which gives them the reinjection well infrastructure mostly for free). You can
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Under what logic does "Remove oil from the ground, process it into something, and then bury that something" count as actual carbon sequestration? You've not removed anything from the atmosphere in any plastic cycle I'm
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by Syonyk 4y ago
First, there's a lot of energy in the chemical bonds, so depending on how you're incinerating it, you can get some useful energy out of it. The Hefty Energy Bag program does this - they did a lifecycle analysis on various plastic
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Why does the US/California make it seem like recycling is a magic trick to save the planet? Because it's the most profitable step of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, [some people add other entries] chain, so it's in their i
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> At this speed of advancement in less than 100 years I am sure we will have figure out something for the plastic we have generated meanwhile. The problem is that today's plastic, in far less than 100 years, is reasonably likely
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That most of it burns is part of why "go burn it to offset coal" came out so well in some of the lifecycle analysis for end of life program I'm familiar with: https://www.hefty.com/sites/default/file
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I sure hope so. And I hope that future is an awful lot closer. The past decade or so of teenagers can speak to just how nasty smartphone addictions can be, in terms of mental health, suicides, etc. I grew up with the internet, but we did
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> The solution is to actually recycle plastic, build circular supply chains, and use biodegradable materials as much as possible. This assumes that: (1) Plastic can actually be recycled. Unlike a lot of other materials, it degrades ra
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by Syonyk 4y ago
And most older engine will float the valves and, assuming nothing collides or comes apart (floating valves isn't good for the rest of the valvetrain), self limit that way. But almost any engine with electronic ignition (so early 80s or
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> ...the single greatest abomination I’ve seen a corporation claiming to support the LGTBQ+ community commit. Just wait a few months, something else will probably show up. Remember that "claiming to support the LGBTQ+ community&q
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I would go further. At this point, the "sneaky snacky smartphone" approach to data collection (in which everything that can be collected is being collected, and probably used for things you can't imagine it would be usef
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Just read anything from a privacy policy in a Nixon-intonation "I am not a crook!" style and you'll get what you need from it. A touch of Futurama-Nixon jowl-flapping adds much to the imagined statements. They're all wr
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I usually don't run it actually to the end of the battery, but with the screen at mid-brightness, 6-8 of estimated use is pretty common, and I'll often see 10-12 if I'm fully charged. I just don't know if those are accu
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Not in the same way it's true of the Pi. On most computers, the CPU is the main controller of the system, the GPU is a peripheral. On most of the Pis, the GPU is the main controller of the system, with the ARM CPUs as a peripheral. M
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I've been using Pis around my office (and various other ARM small board computers of similar capabilities) for quite a few years now, and as they've become more capable, I use them for more. I've spilled quite a bit of digita
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I've seen the more directly tech version of that: Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands v
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> P.S. FWIW, in my limited experience, it is typically the most technologically savvy amongst us that go through incredible effort to discover, purchase, setup, own, operate and integrate retro/Luddite devices in their lives Oh, a
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> ...but maybe they did mean in their specific life, rather than every human's life. Yes, it's something I can do in my life specifically. I recognize not everyone is able to do it depending on work (I couldn't drive fo
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Your post seems a bit "I couldn't use my phone responsibly so I got rid of it", which is fine... I was perfectly fine with my smartphone, I had it greyscale, heavily restricted in terms of what was installed, etc. It
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Indeed... I want one too! Pocketable rotary dial phone? Just, $400 can cover a lot of other things. I consider carrying something like this (I carry an AT&T Flip IV at the moment if I remember the thing) to serve as a reminder to othe
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Serious cyberattacks on industrial equipment aren’t common and take significant knowledge to prepare, according to security experts. Nonsense. All it takes is "caring enough to put in a bit of effort to figure out how to do it.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I'm quite familiar with Clever's work. I understand how it's put together at a pretty deep level - and it's still weird. It's not the slightest bit like anything else that is used as a general purpose computer i

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