simplejack

simplejack, 14 hours ago (edited 7 hours ago)

Weekly explosions on a test pad? No. None of the integrated tests have exploded on the pad. (Edit: like this one, which did)

The last starship on the pad was mid March. It made it up, but fell apart during reentry. Before that, IFT 2 was in Nov 23, and the exploded 8 min up. IFT 1 was over a year ago, and that only made it 4 min after lift off.

simplejack, 13 hours ago

Musk probably can’t get the good Kosher pickles anymore because he’s been promoting Nazis on Twitter.

simplejack, 19 hours ago (edited 15 hours ago)

I do not believe iFix it is an Apple authorized repair center. They do not sell “genuine” OEM Apple parts.

simplejack, 19 hours ago

This article is primarily about Samsung, but yes, there is a brief mention of iFix its battery prices, which are $50.

Apple charges $99 for a battery swap on a new phone. Component + labor.

simplejack, 18 hours ago

Yeah, this site is basically a way to remain compliant with right to repair laws. It’s not actually supposed to be a good experience.

I’d be shocked if any real UX designers even worked in that thing. It looks like it was designed by Lemmy’s creator.

simplejack, 21 hours ago (edited 17 hours ago)

• Pic 1: making a clog
• Pic 2: taking a shit on top of the clog
• Pic 3: taking a shit on the clog on the clog
• Pic 4: taking shit on the clog on the clog on the clog

youtu.be/YzOrj3LiT38

simplejack, 22 hours ago

Copilot hallucinates on me all the time and constantly gives me reference links that don’t actually contain the reference material.

Always cross check an LLM “search” with a real search.

simplejack, 1 day ago

Friends don’t let friends use CSS text-justify. I can drive a truck between some of those words.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4f2b90df-b554-45b4-a321-80f1ba7c5195.jpeg

simplejack, 1 day ago

Scrutinizing the big tech giants is valid, but the confirmation bias and tin foils hattery around this topic has been a little silly. In a technology community, it sure would be nice to have conversations about how the technology actually works.

simplejack, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Lemmy: Apple doesn’t care about your privacy and is secretly keeping your deleted photos because they want your data.

Reality: 1) iCloud photos are E2EE 2) Apple doesn’t have an encryption backdoor, which is why the feds keep pushing for one 3) violating deletion requests is illegal in their core markets

Aaaand… 4) your ass probably already has thousands of photos that you didn’t delete. They don’t need your deleted photos if they want to train models. They have more than enough stuff that you didn’t delete.

simplejack, 1 day ago

I’m coming to the defense of fact-based conversions.

Apple has more than enough real things to shit on. We don’t need to dumb down the community by promoting misinformation and conspiracies.

simplejack, 1 day ago

It’s not proprietary. It’s the AES 256 standard.

simplejack, 1 day ago

People were claiming Apple was secretly keeping deleted photos in the cloud. Which was what my parent comment was about.

simplejack, 1 day ago

Yes. I’m referring to the encryption standard and I’m saying the photos stored in the cloud service are E2EE.

simplejack, 17 hours ago

Media library apps have been doing this kind of stuff forever. An index of the files + metadata allows for a better and more performant experience. But, if an entry in the DB gets pooched, file remains on the drive and is hidden from the user.

Many media library apps actually have a way to repair and or rebuild the library DB if it gets out of sync or corrupted. iTunes straight up put that feature in the menu bar. The Photos app will do it if you launch the app while holding command-option.

Back when iPods were king, how many of us had old music come back to life after a fucked up iTunes library was rebuilt? It’s kind of a similar issue.

simplejack, 14 hours ago

Given the rarity of this, it could’ve just been the normal random stuff that happens in computer land. Requests that don’t complete because they were interrupted by a crash, the rare bad block, etc. Or maybe it was just a bug that occasionally reared its head under certain circumstances.

Whatever it was, it wasn’t the first time a piece of software had an index that was messed up and out of sync with the stored files.

As for the iPhone storage thing you mentioned, I don’t know what you’re talking about. There was a IOS 17 bug early on where people mentioned that the OS needed a restart to claw back space from temporary install files and caches.

That said, the corrupted DB we’re talking about appears specific to the photos app. It’s not the file system index. It’s basically a glorified preference file.

simplejack, 12 hours ago

Weird. I’d bet money on syncing issues, compression, etc. But who knows, if you have a Mac you can rebuild the library, let that sync, and see what happens.

support.apple.com/guide/photos/…/mac

simplejack, 10 hours ago

There is lossless compression. Not saying that’s the cause of the varied number, but it is a common thing.

simplejack, 10 hours ago

That’s not how lossless compression works. No data is lost.

For example, if you zip a folder of images, then unzip them, the pictures come out with their original sizes and structure. Zip is lossless.

Let’s use the analogy of a dish sponge.

Let’s pretend you wanted to make a dish sponge smaller. Lossy compression would make the sponge smaller by cutting off parts and throwing them away. Lossless would make it smaller by squish the sponge, and it would return to its normal shape once you stopped squishing it.

simplejack, 10 hours ago

Glugle

simplejack, 2 days ago

RAM makes police vehicles, but the Ford Police Interceptor tends to be more popular with SWAT.

simplejack, 2 days ago

It begins:

Me:

Have people tried using a coconut as a fleshlight. If so, what happened?

Gemini fed by Reddit:

It appears people have indeed attempted using coconuts for this purpose, and it’s not a pretty story. There are accounts online of things going very wrong, like maggots. In some cases, the coconut being used started to rot, attracting flies which laid eggs, resulting in a maggot infestation.

simplejack, 2 days ago

Pit Fall Harry won.

simplejack, 2 days ago

Funny that Blue Sky just did that same old thing. Launched like a VIP club with a limited guest list. Even though that tactic hasn’t really worked well for most people since the 00’s.