barsoap

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

You know there's a seek bar on youtube videos?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Notably, he's also the inventor of the magneto-turboencabulator.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Servo should be vastly more advanced and it's nowhere near ready.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure it makes sense: Pretty much noone, but you, is going to buy them, and stocking shelves and warehouses with product costs money. All that unmoved stock would make them more expensive, making even more people not buy them. It's inefficient.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

the M.2 form factor drives that everyone is hyperfixated on for some reason

The reason is transfer speeds. SATA is slow, M.2 is a direct PCIe link. And SSDs can saturate it, at least in bursts. Doubling the capacity of a 2.5" SSD is going to double its price as you need twice as many chips, there's not really a market for 500 buck SATA SSDs, you're looking for U.2 / U.3 ones. Yes, they're quite a bit more expensive per TB but look at the difference in TBW to consumer SSDs.

If you're a consumer and want a data grave, buy spinning platters. Or even a tape drive. You neither want, nor need, a high-capacity SSD.

Also you can always RAID them up.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Not sure whether we'll arrive there the tech is definitely entering the taper-out phase of the sigmoid. Capacity might very well still become cheaper, also 3x cheaper, but don't, in any way, expect them to simultaneously keep up with write performance that ship has long since sailed. The more bits they're trying to squeeze into a single cell the slower it's going to get and the price per cell isn't going to change much, any more, as silicon has hit a price wall, it's been a while since the newest, smallest node was also the cheapest.

OTOH how often do you write a terabyte in one go at full tilt.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Knowing where people come from" does not imply ID'ing individual people, which is why I specifically mentioned that Mozilla technology. The legitimate interest is in aggregate data, and yes "lots of people come here from the brothel" is legitimate data. "This particular person did" is not: If you wear a suit and happen to come with the office crowd doesn't mean you're an office worker, you could be a travelling salesman.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You think malls don't have data on shopper movement? That a random kiosk owner can't distinguish people who come from high school from the after-church crowd from the office workers from the tinfoil-wearing nerd always coming at 2am so that they can minimise social interaction? That they will have coffee ready for the morning shift, and beer for the club crowd?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

There's legitimate interest in knowing where people come from, though, and asking on your own page "how did you get here?" is hardly going to work. Personally I don't think it's much of an issue if some random commercial site sees that I got there via lemm.ee, it's not giving away much at all, not even whether I have an account here and certainly not as much as tracking cookies. OTOH I also think it could be done better, wich tech similar to Mozilla's aggregate (i.e. you're just a number in an anonymous mass) ad clickthrough thing. Sites would see "yep we got a number of visitors from lemm.ee, and that number from lemmy.world" but wouldn't know which of their site impressions corresponded to which origin.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Users can disable referer headers in their browser settings which overrides anything the instance operators can do.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Lots of blender extensions are on gumroad, especially "pay what you want" ones.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Brazilian, eh? You mean the country with higher GDP/capita than no less than nine European countries?

Stop pretending to know, in any shape or form, what it is like to be born in Burundi. And don't pretend you're not a colonial state, you're barely better than the US when it comes to fucking over the indigenous population and that's not a high standard.

Stop pretending that 7:1 is an everyday occurrence and count those stars on your jersey.

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