AggressivelyPassive
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Yes. Usually you have a brightness and sometimes also a proximity sensor. Proximity is usually used for phones so they can deactivate the screen if you hold the phone like an actual phone against your ear.
The sensors are usually pretty close to the camera, so the chances of taping over it are relatively high.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go?English373·11 months agoI find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.
Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.
There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company saysEnglish0·11 months agoNo.
Interoperability is only required, if you have a significant market share. Apple does not have this in the EU. iMessage specifically doesn’t fall under this regulation, since hardly anyone uses it.
And since Apple plans to publish an SDK for their intelligence anyway, you can’t really regulate them for being too closed.
So either that’s a purely political retaliation, or their “super privacy friendly” services aren’t as privacy friendly as they claim.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of TreesEnglish0·11 months agoSSH, OpenSSL, LibreSSL, pf …
There’s not a single web server without some code from them. Every single phone, every Linux machine, and probably even Windows (citation needed) ships with some of these tools.
And you didn’t hear a thing, because the OpenBSD guys just sport a smug smile and don’t care about our plebian fame.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The VergeEnglish0·11 months agoI don’t think it’s validation in the sense we normies felt. For regular, sane men it’s more of a fitting in and being desirable kind of validation, women do the same in that age.
For him and other powerful people (but also some regular men) it’s a power thing. Many powerful people are narcissists, and they live constantly under the dissonance of illusion of grandeur and inferiority complex. Essentially forcing their will onto others is a way to mitigate the latter.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The VergeEnglish0·11 months agoEspecially in terms of “legally not rape” charges, even the average man has to face terrifyingly few consequences. So many women report assaults, unwanted aggressive advances and “not exactly consensual kinds of intercourse” without the men ever facing anything serious, not even stigma. Banging blackout drunk girls is a sport for some people.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The VergeEnglish0·11 months agoTruth is, it works often enough that they’ll keep trying.
Whether it’s fear, greed, or actual attraction doesn’t matter to them, in their world they scored a win.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plansEnglish0·11 months agoThe AI will take care of it.
No humans, no hunger.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of TreesEnglish0·11 months agoThe OpenBSD folks are a weird bunch. Literally the entire Internet is built on top of their tools and libraries, and they just ignore the fame and keep dwelling in their basements.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'English0·1 year agoThe part is what drives me mad. Podcasts and audiobooks are not that hard to do properly. You could very easily separate them into distinct apps or at least a special tab that acts like a proper player. Instead audiobooks are basically albums.
There’s a shuffle button.
On an audiobook.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'English0·1 year agoSpotify actually doesn’t make that much profit, if any.
But the record labels are major shareholders and definitely influence the pricing structure. Spotify is essentially a marketing frontend for the record industry.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck31·1 year ago2.4 is the tipping point. Mark my words.
Any day now, it’s gonna be the year of the Linux handheld.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•only as in free beerEnglish3·1 year agoAgain, that’s not what obfuscation means.
Also, what exactly is the difference between cat and journalctl? You can’t read a text file without a program either.
Of course, raw text files are more common, but what you’re drawing up here is a mixture of old man yells at cloud and tin foil hat territory.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new reportEnglish0·1 year agoThe alternative to nuclear isn’t coal…
And if you seriously think regulations are the problem, you’re denser than the lead shielding you want to get rid of.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•only as in free beerEnglish1·1 year agoSo literally every program on your machine is obfuscated. Linux kernel? Obfuscated. Wayland? Obfuscated. And even VIM: obfuscated.
You’re creating problems where there are none.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•only as in free beerEnglish5·1 year agoAre you really sure, you’re using “obfuscation” right? Because that implies that someone intentionally makes something harder to read to hide something. That’s not the case here. Nothing is hidden, it’s all there, the formats are well defined and easy to read.
AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new reportEnglish0·1 year ago“Base load” is not that much. Off shore wind is almost always blowing, and all the other renewables can be stored via batteries or hydrogen (or tanks, in case of biogas). Yes, that’s a whole lot of stuff, but the technology exists, can be produced on large scale and (most importantly) doesn’t cause any path dependencies.
Nuclear is extremely expensive, as the article highlighted. And to be cost effective, power has to be produced more or less constantly. Having a nuclear power plant just for the few hours at night when wind and sun don’t work is insane - and insanely expensive.
Counting on other people’s hate for your own gain, isn’t that stupid unfortunately.
Or at least it can be quite profitable. See all the grifters in the space.