CrayonRosary

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It also wasn’t worthwhile because a shitty two pin speaker

All speakers are two pins. 🤔 They were crappy because they were most often little piezoelectric speakers, or otherwise very small where they couldn't play low frequency sounds well.

CrayonRosary ,

On Android, entering lockdown mode does the same thing. You can do it by pressing volume-up and power at the same time, then tapping Lockdown.

CrayonRosary ,

It's not, I assure you. It uses psychoacoustic properties of audio to simulate actual surround sound. I've been using it in gaming for years. You can literally hear when an enemy is behind you vs in front of you, and anywhere in the 360° around you. You can easily pinpoint their location in your head.

Pixel Buds Pro have this same kind of programming and you can enable it when watching surround sound content on your phone. You can even have it play regular audio but make it sound like it's coming from the direction of the phone. When you turn your head, the audio follows the phone and it sounds like the audio is coming from the phone in 3D, not just panned L or R in stereo. (I haven't played with this much, and I hope I'm not misremembering that last part which iPhone also has.)

Here's a computer generated example using these techniques. To my ears, it sounds like the 3 channels of the source audio are little spheres rotating around the top of my head like a halo. The music sounds distinctly different when it's behind me or in front of me. The distance away from my head is not far, though.

https://youtu.be/LpMsqFc7-Z4

A technique like this will never be perfect, and this is not the best example I've heard. The best would be uaing my Logitech gaming headset in a game. It's not perfect because everyone's ears are shaped differently, and your brain learns the microtonal differences which your specific ears cause, as sound echo's around your outer ear and ear canal. This might be why I hear these music examples as above my head while others might hear it revolve directly around the head or perhaps a little lower than their ears.

I enjoy how ignorant people who don't understand a technology dismiss is with snark and get upvoted by others. Wait, what's the opposite of enjoy?

It's like how religious fundies with little education make fun of our best scientific theories with arguments that boil down to "I'm ignorant, so I don't believe this". Congratulations on being on the same level.

Is there a launcher for me?

I've tried a lot of the launchers I see talked about frequently- Nova, Niagra, Smart Launcher, Action Launcher, etc. but they all seem to not be worth the hassle of switching away from pixel launcher. Also none of them have the Google News feed that the pixel launcher has. I feel like I'm losing features when I switch. Perhaps...

CrayonRosary ,

Lawnchair is almost exactly like Pixel Launcher except you can do things like remove the search bar, change the icon counts, and stop the app tray search bar from searching the web (or switch it to another search provider).

I've been using it for months and couldn't be happier.

Incidentally, it wasn't until about 10 minutes ago that I realized "Lawnchair" is just "Launcher" if you pronounced it in a French accent.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

CrayonRosary ,

if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

Firefox let's you add arbitrary search URLs to its list of search engines.

CrayonRosary ,

Veritassium ignores a bunch of stuff in that video and hand-waves it away.

I only hear about his videos from other, better channels that correct his mistakes. He's dead to me ever since that "faster than light" electricity video where he didn't once use the word induction and made it sound super mystical. Fuck that guy with a thousand meters of wire.

Here's the video I saw on it. Anyone watching the Veritassium video should watch this after:

https://youtu.be/8Ks680LaL-Q

Or better yet, find a different video on the relativistic movement of electrons and electron holes in wires, and how it causes magnetism. I don't have one handy.

It's a really bad sign when half of his videos need corrections by other channels. Sure, you could say they're just riding on his popularity, but the fact that he needs corrections is the problem.

CrayonRosary ,

Wegmans Ethiopian beans. Under $0.80 an ounce and delicious as iced coffee!

CrayonRosary ,

records everything you've done

It records the past!? Holy shit! That's amazing!

How is this not bigger news? How does it do it?

CrayonRosary ,

More importantly, we need to stop ignoring criminal case eye witness' hallucinatory testimony.

CrayonRosary ,

If technology survived, it wasn't a Carrington event.

CrayonRosary ,

And you can't unlock their boot loaders. You must suffer their changes to Android, their assistant, their UI, their spyware, and bloatware. You don't own the device.

CrayonRosary ,

Well, congratulations, hacker.

CrayonRosary ,

Not in the US

CrayonRosary ,

pro Hamasites

Student protesters are not pro-Hamas. Few Palestinians are even pro-Hamas. Most Palestinians are under 18 and couldn't even have voted for Hamas 18 years ago. There have been no elections since then.

Protesters are against killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children by bombing literally everything. That's it. That's the issue. If you think it's OK to bomb children, say so, because that's what protesters are against. So if you're against the protesters, you're for bombing innocents.

CrayonRosary ,

We've all seen

Don't try to tell people what they've seen.

clearly demonstrates that you don't have a problem with what they're saying.

Now that is foolish rhetoric. Protesters can't control who walks among them. There are counter protesters who walk among them, too. Does that mean the anti-genocide protesters don't have a problem with the counter protesters? Nonsense.

The vast majority of student protesters are anti-genocide of Palestinians. Full stop. If you say or imply otherwise, you are not arguing in good faith.

Even civil rights protesters in the 1960's had individuals among them who thought they should "kill all whites". That doesn't say a thing about the ones who were there simply for equal rights. It's a fallacy to ascribe the beliefs of the extreme minority to the beliefs of the majority just because they walked or sat together.

CrayonRosary ,

LLM's work on multi-dimensional search spaces

You're missing half of it. The data cube is just for storing and finding weights. Those weights are then loaded into the nodes of a neural network to do the actual work. The neural network was inspired by actual brains.

CrayonRosary ,

I have no idea. Maybe someone with a larger neural network than mine can figure it out.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

CrayonRosary ,

I don't subscribe, bit I wouldn't think about it compared to the price of physical media. I would compare it to satellite radio. Or cable radio. (Does Spectrum still do that?)

All three are paid, ad-free radio, sorta, though streaming services are on-demand.

CrayonRosary ,

30g of beans once a day. 4-6 shots would kill me.

It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

Most people have extremely weird ideas of what's considered piracy and what isn't. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that's somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not piracy...

CrayonRosary ,

You're missing some key facts:

  1. A lot of music on YouTube is fully licensed and uploaded by the owners or Google themselves. Like VEVO music, for instance.
  2. Google runs a content match algorithm on all uploads to detect music and movies. If you upload more than four seconds of a song, Google will detect it and transfer all monitization of that upload to the rights holder. This is why music documentaries like Trash Theory only have frustratingly short clips of the music they are talking about, and why channels like Techmoan, which documents weird music formats and playback devices, can also only share extremely short clips.

The rights holders are getting any and all money on music uploaded to YouTube, and your entire premise is flawed.

CrayonRosary ,

False. When bricks stop working they cannot be used as bricks.

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