Also add "use the correct Arabic for your target audience". "Arabic" is not monolithic and using the wrong dialect can go over as well as using Scots on a web page intended for Jamaicans.
Readit NewsCausality1 commented on Help! Is This Arabic? isthisarabic.com/... · Posted by u/davikr
I've always been a free speech absolutist. I don't think there's any speech, including hate speech, that I would ban. If I don't like it, I can offer my own opinions and try to educate people, but banning speech outright is wrong.
The problem that has occurred is that some people on the extremes now think "All the other people/children are so stupid that they will get tricked into believe all these lies. We should shut down that speech so that these poor idiots don't fall into this trap." This is thinking that I strongly disagree with. Some people may believe hate speech but I think that's a reflection of who they are, ie. they will probably believe it with or without the convincing. I personally believe that most people are smarter than this and banning speech based on "protect the children!" is a terrible excuse that both the left and right are using nowadays (more by the right a decade ago).
There is no system better than complete free speech, because it allows the most amount of information to be passed back and forth and gives people the opportunity to decide for themselves.
I would call myself a 99-percenter. I still believe in the restriction of credible violent threats, fraud, and pornography featuring real children.
Causality1 commented on 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=cwyH5... · Posted by u/hexadec
It may sound strange to people who were born later.
But in 90s these mechanisms were in infancy. It was normal for computers to auto-login and have no password at all, processes could each read entire memory on the machine. Software was cracked the moment it came out and it was assumed people bought any software because they feared legal action rather than because they had no other way to get their hands on it -- late 90s and early 2000s you could download pretty much anything you wanted, immediately, for no cost.
There really wasn't much possibility to protect your piece of software. If it was put on a CD somebody will either extract the key or modify your software to accept any key.
Windows security mechanism was no better and there were copies distributed so much that probably many people remember "standard" CD Keys even to this day.
And it was pretty much safe because most software did not have ability to phone home so the software developer would have no way of knowing that somebody used an illegal copy.
The business model was mostly companies paying for software (fearing an ex-employee reported illegal use). I remember most teens and young adults (which is most people who used computers) would never buy any kind of software, music or video. The only exception was sometimes people bought OEM software with their hardware.
Being able to just do anything you want was so incredible, though. For example, the Google Assistant DING is one of the most ear-splittingly obnoxious sounds I've ever heard and there's not a damn thing I can do about it besides stop using Google Assistant. When I had similar problems in the 90s I could just go find the audio file in question and quiet or replace it with whatever I wanted.
Either intelligent life is rare in the universe or there's something that happens to it that prevents it from what we envision as the future of our own species, i.e., colonizing and spreading among planets. Maybe 99.99% of species ruin their own climate before getting off-world. Maybe they all decide it's happier living as hunter-gatherers. Unless we're alone, there is some fate that's common to all intelligences and it isn't a Star Trek future. The universe is simply too old. If anything else like us existed and it was possible to exist like us for a long period they'd have filled every planet before we ever evolved.
Personally I think just the fact the universe hasn't been eaten by Von Neumann machines means we're alone.
Causality1 commented on AirPods don't “just work” philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
It's AD2P vs HSP profiles. One gives you good (well, compressed but decent enough) stereo audio one way, one provides shitty audio but both ways.
I'm surprised as to why Apple couldn't come up with a better protocol that would manage to do both or switch number of channels & quality seamlessly.
Nobody seems to care, is the thing. Qualcomm is now deprecating APTX-LL in favor of APTX-Adaptive even though it's 50% laggier even under ideal circumstances.
Causality1 commented on AirPods don't “just work” philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
I use Android and bought the cheapest wireless/bluetooth earphones I could find. They "just work". When I open the charging case, they connect to my phone. The bad points are the sound quality and the lack of noise cancellation
No noise cancellation is better than bad noise cancellation. The ANC on every set of earbuds and headphones under $200 I've tried is just a blast of white noise that makes it feel like someone is ramming cotton balls into my ears with a jackhammer.
Causality1 commented on AirPods don't “just work” philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment.
Courage, indeed.
And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...
Not to mention zero latency. Trying to have multiple people in a car play music/podcasts is a nightmare over bluetooth when you used to be able to just pass an aux cable around.
Causality1 commented on AirPods don't “just work” philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
if you instantly play the music you were listening to right before the call by clicking the play button on your keyboard, your music will play at a lower audio quality
I don't recall the names of the specific bluetooth profiles, but I wish Airpods and bluetooth headphones in general gave you more control over this. Sure, the older headset profile is noticeably lower quality but it's also virtually lag-free. I have a shitty old headset I use when gaming on my phone specifically because there's no noticeable latency.
Causality1 commented on mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce immunity against Omicron med.papers.bar/paper/abf2... · Posted by u/vpj
I read it as they were surprised that regular vaccinations had no effect on Omicron, but that [recent] boosters did (although to a limited extent).
That seems to jive with what I have seen on the ground, around here (New York). Dozens of friends and acquaintances are sick. None, severely. I am quarantined through Christmas weekend. Tests (at least accurate ones) are rare as hen’s teeth. The home test kits seem to be absolutely worthless. I have not talked to one single person that got a positive from a home test (some were clearly symptomatic, when they took the test, and still came up negative).
My concern is for the other symptoms of covid that could compound. Taking your vaccinations and boosters will generally keep you out of the hospital, but what of the other consequences? Cardiomyopathy, damage to smell and taste, and cognitive impairment could all be cumulative. What happens if they are and we're subjected to decades of repeated damage?
Causality1 commented on “Zero fucks given” in other languages twitter.com/AdamCSharp/st... · Posted by u/damir
I feel like these have been translated in an over-technical way to deliberately make them seem more ridiculous. Is It can oxidize on my anus not really "it can rust on my ass"?