BasicTraveler

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[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

It's software that lives in the hardware. It provides low-level control and functionality specific to that device. It runs on the hardware itself, not the CPU of the computer.

For example, a hard drive. We don't want the OS to have to know how to interact with every type of hard drive. Seagate does things differently than Western Digital, an SSD works very different than a hard drive, etc.. The OS sends the same commands to all types of hard drives, but each hard drive needs to know how to actually comply with the commands. If the OS is asking for a dozen different files all over the drive, it would be dumb to try and read them all at the same time. The OS doesn't really know where they are on the spinning disk, but the drive does. Firmware written specifically for the device can do a much better job planing how to fetch the data so the read head doesn't need to go back and forth a bunch of times, but instead make one good pass fetching all the data as it comes to it.

Hope that helps.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Or even the equipment. Some people are stuck with a hot plate and a tiny minifridge.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can reach out to the EFF. They took an interest in youtube-dl. However you have a major hurdle to overcome:

RIAA argues that since youtube-dl could be used to download music owned by RIAA-member labels, no one should be able to use the tool, even for completely lawful purposes.

This is an egregious abuse of the notice-and-takedown system, which is intended to resolve disputes over allegedly infringing material online. Again, youtube-dl doesn’t use RIAA-member labels’ music in any way. The makers of youtube-dl simply shared information with the public about how to perform a certain task—one with many completely lawful applications.

--https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/riaa-abuses-dmca-take-down-popular-tool-downloading-online-video

IANAL but probably shouldn't have video on the site showing it downloading copyrighted music. I think that's the crux here.

https://www.eff.org/about/contact

Good luck, but I think you kinda shot yourself in the foot.

EDIT: if you read the complaint, it's not for hosting content, it's Anticircumvention. 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201 (a)(2)

(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—

(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The procedural generation stuff looks amazing. It's really nice that they are tackling it and making it available to smaller devs.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like the idea behind the Media Bias Chart, but I do see an issue to keep an eye on.

The website appears to do some sort of averaging. MSNBC and Fox News score 34 and 36. If you mouse over MSNBC, you'll see only a few items below 24, and only a few above 50 but they mostly cluster between 32 and 40. There's only a few things from MSNBC that are stinkers. When I read a piece on MSNBC, I have high confidence it's decent. I would be hard pressed to cherry pick 10 BS pieces to support a BS narrative.

However if you do the same thing with Fox News You'll see a bigger swing in the extremes. They do real some journalism at Fox news, but they spew a ton of shit opinion too. Just like MSNBC they have a decent chunk between 24 and 32, but they also have a decent chunk below 24. If I wanted to get 10 BS pieces to support a BS narrative, I probably could.

Also thanks for taking this on, it's a huge task and it's appreciated.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the link. 19/20. Apparently I thought one of the real ones was fake.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Just guess based on how the titles are worded.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

If you cherry pick the dates of comparison you can probably come up with 4000%

Check. Mate.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really. Greenhouse gases don't absorb all wavelengths of light. Generally they only absorb parts of the IR spectrum. The 50-70% of light reflected isn't absorbed by greenhouse gasses because it's not in a wavelength that it can absorb, it mostly radiates back into space.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The ice isn't to cool the water, the ice is to reflect most of the incoming light.

Sea ice keeps the polar regions cool and helps moderate global climate. Sea ice has a much brighter surface compared to many other Earth surfaces, particularly the surrounding ocean. The darker ocean reflects only 6 percent of the sun’s energy and absorbs the rest, while sea ice reflects 50 to 70 percent of the incoming energy.

-- https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/sea-ice/quick-facts-about-sea-ice

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Insurance helped with most of it. It was cheap, I paid a little extra for the fun drugs.

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