ChaoticNeutralCzech

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
  • Do you think developers have any say in this?
  • They have Reddit Premium for free, and most likely an internal version too.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The hole in the fuselage that caused them to be sucked out was actually made by one of them in a suicide/homicide. Very tragic. Somebody invest in mental health please!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

A powerbank is another step in energy conversion and the cables are annoying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's fun but the temperature needs to be correct. With rising temperature, the paper goes black, light gray, brown and then glowing orange.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I am not aware of any receipt printers using lasers - thermal printers have an array of resistors that get hot when necessary. I know how a laser printer works and it is hard to explain in 12 or so words. Inkjets are way easier, you can just say "squirt squirt oops". Anyway...

  1. A photosensitive drum gets a negative electrostatic charge.
  2. A laser shining through a rotating prism scans lines across the drum's surface. This removes charge from parts of the drum that should not be covered in toner.
  3. A high-voltage corona wire inside the toner reservoir charges an amount of toner positively.
  4. The charged drum rotates past the corona wire, getting covered in toner where its negative charge remains.
  5. Paper is pushed against the drum and the powdery toner is transferred to it.
  6. The paper continues into a fuser, a little oven where a heating element briefly makes the toner so hot that it melts, its powder particles making a permanent bond among themselves and with the paper. (The heater is usually stationary and heats the paper from below. The fuser drum that pushes paper against the heater can get sticky and pick up some of the toner, making images repeat down the page. This is the most common failure mode that cannot be resolved through regular maintenance such as replacing the toner cartridge and printing cleaning pages. However, almost all laser printers have a cheap fuser module or its drum available so it is usually worth replacing.)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Time travel is a prerequisite but don't worry, you can just

from __future__ import antigravity
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, no algorithm is able to extract any more information from a single photo. But how about combining detail caught in multiple frames of video? Some phones already do this kind of thing, getting multiple samples for highly zoomed photos thanks to camera shake.

Still, the problem remains that the results from a cherry-picked algorithm or outright hand-crafted pics may be presented.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Laser printers more accurately "bake paper so that number powder sticks to it"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That’s exactly what Microsoft did in the 1990s after an antitrust lawsuit for hindering free browser selection: integrated Internet Explorer into Explorer to have an excuse for having it preinstalled.

The EU is taking similar steps but I tgink Edge WebView will stay essential. Removing it on a laptop broke biometrics (aka Windows Hello: fingerprint sensor and face recognition) and I had to use a restore point. Seems sketchy to use a browser engine for essential security features – at this point, I would hope I had triggered some OS tamper-detection because the alternative is an OS whose login system is infected with an unpopular browser not because it enhances security but out of spite, and I don't think exploiting legal loopholes leads to most secure solutions.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Duh. To be honest, should have checked before making the post.
Are you WestEnd?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I once got Top 7 Luxury Cruise in (Landlocked) Czech Republic from Microsoft. Also, The Flight Price From %user.location% (village of 200 people) To New York Will Surprise You

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Thanks. I should have checked earlier before making a fool of myself. A lesson for me, I guess.

 

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Edit: Folks, I keep telling you it's VERY unlikely to be malware.

I’ll update you and apologize to each if my credit card gets wiped or something but I’m quite sure I’m safe, don't worry.

Also sorry for blaming Microsoft for what is apparently my fault.


I accidentally clicked Microsoft Edge on my work computer with Windows 10 and couldn't close it — it just keeps reopening. It takes File Shredder to stop it from opening again, at least until the computer restarts.

Notice the ads, most are extremely sketchy (my frequent reload in previous takes caused the ad server + my work VPN to rate limit me):

  • China warns: %user.currency% is dead! (Yeah, sure. Obvious propaganda. Generic pictures or faked images of a worthless banknote giveaway.)
  • 63-year-old figured out! (Does not say what but a pic of obviously young-looking feet.)
  • Make boatloads of money with AI! (aka auto-trade very uncompetitive options, no guarantees on withdrawals of any wins)
  • Save money using solar! (The company is legitimate but the deal on panels is probably not great)
  • Buy yourself a great new FPCEILPTBSP! (You can't tell what it is and neither can we! (Apparently TV wall mount))
  • Losing hair?
  • Millionaire has genius method you can try (but give us money first, making his pic transparent so we can put him in front of %user.country.flag% was difficult)
  • Game! Yay! (Microtransactions galore!)
  • Get EVERYTHING in your car fixed (by a stock photo mechanic!)
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