potatisgris

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[–] potatisgris 1 points 2 years ago

I am only going to give clarification on the small part I feel confident about. They do not save while videos, photos or sound that they record secretly. They somehow condense it onto what I imagine to be some kind of tag system. So rather than saving the raw sound of you talking about something they just record that you said that word X times or at timestamps a, b and c.

I think Google records sound constantly when you have chrome open or from your android phone but they do not save everything they record. Only what they think is important enough to keep on record. I also have no clue if they ever throw anything away after some time.

[–] potatisgris 2 points 2 years ago

Very handy, thank you.

[–] potatisgris 1 points 2 years ago

Ive seen that hp has custom Linux kernels on their support websites and I've seen news about dell selling laptops with Ubuntu. I've never bought one though.

[–] potatisgris 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where's the bell pepper from and how is it related to gimp?

[–] potatisgris 2 points 2 years ago

I thought you'd done something wrong at first, but the image shows up when I went into the post itself.

It should not show text as image preview but yeah, I see it too

[–] potatisgris 23 points 2 years ago

Sadly, it could mean that Linus has teched his last tip

[–] potatisgris 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] potatisgris 3 points 2 years ago

All three images are from an electron microscope that has captured a section of each type disc. I don't know if they are all zoomed in the same amount but I think it is implied that they are. The black bar tells you how much they are zoomed in by showing you a line that I 1 micrometer long.

Maybe the image of the CD is the background because they want to show us the black bar from that image specifically. Perhaps they were just a bit lazy with the cropping or thought it looked cool that way.

I'm the images I can see that a DVD is a flat surface with lines of 'trenches'. That's probably how they do either a 1 or a 0.

The CD has a much larger pattern and has hills instead of trenches. The size of the pattern is probably what decides how much data you can fit on a disc, smaller is better.

The Blue Ray uses trenches, like DVD, but with a smaller pattern.

I know nothing about the community.

[–] potatisgris 2 points 2 years ago

The one who is chosen, by a garbled mess.

[–] potatisgris 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't even seen alt text like that

[–] potatisgris 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh right, the blob emojis. I had forgotten about those.

[–] potatisgris 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

someone wanted change for change's sake?

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