overview for XTL

How come when you look at the pixels on some tvs they're all split into the same red green blue but then it changes to the actual picture as you back away zooming out, what sorcery is this? by XTL in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

If you have some magazines or other print media around, take a nice magnifier of some sort to it. Or take a picture and zoom in

Is there a generation of gaming you're just not nostalgic for? by XTL in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Early?

What is your least favorite household chore, and to what lengths will you go to avoid doing it? by XTL in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Dishes would be the worst, though having a dishwasher it becomes emptying it. Still almost dishes.

But leaving anything in the sink is just making your life more difficult and the dishes doubly so. Your sink will be useless because there's things in it and washing anything means you have to dig out all the slimy dishes from the sink.

Sinks and corridors and doorways need to be kept clear at all times, otherwise they become unusable.

Anon's uncle is sick by XTL in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Only 93% so far.

Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result by XTL in c/andfinally@feddit.uk

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 days ago

You just need some of that real American spirit! There were no amenities in the frontier either. You build it and they will come.

This is where I would feel something if I was not dead inside by XTL in c/comics@lemmy.ml

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My thoughts would be that she'll not make it through the night in any case. Having another cause of death waiting in the future doesn't mean the earlier ones aren't as effective as without. That's not how death works.

(And, actually, if she did somehow survive, the son caused her a guaranteed death date later.)

But of course it's magic, so all bets are off unless you know exactly what the rules are and how to lawyer it.

Why is that the Normies had shifted from "I have nothing to hide" to "Privacy is not real"??? by XTL in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes. There are a lot of reasons why any one of us could turn into a high value target at the drop off a hat. If not to a government, then to an organisation or a lone lunatic.

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Cyanide & Happiness: Redditor (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/reddit@lemmy.world

17 comments fedilink

https://explosm.net/comics/reddit#comic

Kamala Harris links Trump to Project 2025 in debut rally: ‘Can you believe they put that thing in writing?’ by XTL in c/politics@lemmy.world

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 95 points 4 months ago

Can you believe they put that thing in writing?

Absolutely.

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Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school (noyb.eu)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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GDPR rights are being ignored. In practice, this leads to a situation where Microsoft is trying to contractually dump most of its legal responsibilities under the GDPR on schools that provide Microsoft 365 Education services to their pupils or students.

Trying to find out exactly what privacy policies or documents apply to the use of Microsoft 365 Education is an expedition in itself. There is a serious lack of transparency, forcing users and schools to navigate a maze of privacy policies, documents, terms and contracts that all seem to apply. The information provided in these documents is always slightly different, but consistently vague about what actually happens to children’s data when they use Microsoft 365 Education services.

Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “Microsoft provides such vague information that even a qualified lawyer can’t fully understand how the company processes personal data in Microsoft 365 Education. It is almost impossible for children or their parents to uncover the extent of Microsoft’s data collection.”

Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb: “Our analysis of the data flows is very worrying. Microsoft 365 Education appears to track users regardless of their age. This practice is likely to affect hundreds of thousands of pupils and students in the EU and EEA. Authorities should finally step up and effectively enforce the rights of minors.”

As the terms and conditions and the privacy documentation of Microsoft 365 Education are uniform for the EU/EEA, all children living in these countries are exposed to the same violations of their GDPR rights. Therefore, noyb also suggests that the authority should impose a fine on Microsoft.

Norway has some surprising stats by XTL in c/funny@sh.itjust.works

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 80 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Would be funny if it wasn't complete bs. Except for the amazing time part. They're fun folk.

Anon hates aluminum by XTL in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 111 points 6 months ago

These two clearly don't know about titanium.

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Thagomizer (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

7 comments fedilink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

This was the first result on Google by XTL in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 84 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Almost every sentence. But funny self review and other things aside, main problems:

"Watts... Contains." Is a fundamental confusion on what a watt is. It's like asking how much fast there is in a box.

The answer has a good basic idea, but also a total comprehension failure not just pulling the numbers out of thin air, but badly describing an equation with watts on one side and watt hours on another. The answer is both ignoring realities and getting the hypotheticals wrong. Sounds expertish but is both wrong and useless.

When they could have just said "yes, you could use a suitable inverter with a suitable battery and a fridge in some cases, but the math and actual connections would be more complicated than that explanation" or something like that.