In other news today...
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@dkf TL;DW: Youtube adds features to allow creators to interact with people besides making videos, then overrates the features in The AlgorithmTM. Like a channel owner commenting on their own community post apparently doubles The AlgorithmTM's rating for it.
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@dkf TLDW: there's some "community" feature that Youtube creators get, that's supposed to only go out to their subscribers and/or people interested in similar topics, but in practice seems to get spammed out to everyone on the entire platform, and it brings in huge (estimated) numbers of views as well as (real) increases in subscriber and view counts on videos.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
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I don't want to find out about youtube problems by watching a 20 minute youtube video…
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@topspin Also, whatever else their faults are, they are the producers of mobiles with the longest period of software updates. By quite a margin, to boot. (And I think that even some older iOS versions get important security updates).
Oh so, Apple slowed down older models for years, denied they did everytime they got called on it until somebody managed to prove it, but all of this is OK because they produce security updates for the longest period?
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@TimeBandit Yes. that's precisely what I said
Maybe I was talking about how those guys seem to ignore all the other companies who cannot even be arsed to provide security updates after what, one year?
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@Rhywden I guess I misread you, my caffeine system must have too much blood in it
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Yes. that's precisely what I said
Maybe I was talking about how those guys seem to ignore all the other companies who cannot even be arsed to provide security updates after what, one year?
Ah, you're talking about my samsung phone and AT&T.
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Try keeping your lawn clear if stuff starts falling from the sky:
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Is this petty? Yes, but I'm sure the zoo will see enough
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@Dragoon They should change it to
.anus
to be less naughty
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@TimeBandit But
butt
is the clbuttic replacement!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit But
butt
is the clbuttic replacement!It's time to stop worrying and embrace the new clanusics
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
embrace the new clanusics
That sounds like a slogan for modern KKK.
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@Dragoon Reminds me of the Open Asset Importer Library, or assimp for short. One of the better named libraries out there.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Reminds me of the Open Asset Importer Library, or assimp for short. One of the better named libraries out there.
Supposedly (according to a few mentions in code) Hypatia was going to use that library for UGC, but we never got to the point of actually getting it working...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
but we never got to the point of actually getting it working...
You sat on your ass for too long
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@TimeBandit on his donkey? Or on his (animated) ponies?
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@Benjamin-Hall Yes.
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@loopback0 That makes me ask how the phone detects the battery change. I don't suppose the repair shop has a way to tell the phone that's happened? ( Or, theory, turn the throttling off via secret switch before the official switch existed. )
Waiting for the phone to reprofile the battery via charge/discharge cycles would take long anough that customers would question the fix.
And swapping the battery without telling the phone, and subsequently observations of it still acting slow, would help explain the suspicions about planned obsolesence.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
how the phone detects the battery change
I'm pretty sure it has a serial number that the temperature sensor identifies through the charging circuit...
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The new Apple batteries do have enough pins that, technically, the battery's internal protection IC could be accessible, if it has one. However, if Apple has their NFC antenna in the battery just like everybody else, then the connector pins could be eaten up by just that.
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Phillips screws securing the vibrator
Use a spudger [...] to disconnect the display data cable connector.
( Apparently, a short plastic prybar. )
strip may fling the battery when it separates from the case
prepare an iOpener
( Apparently a heated pad about as long and thick ar your forearm. )
thread a piece of dental floss
Difficulty: Moderate
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 That makes me ask how the phone detects the battery change. I don't suppose the repair shop has a way to tell the phone that's happened? ( Or, theory, turn the throttling off via secret switch before the official switch existed. )
Waiting for the phone to reprofile the battery via charge/discharge cycles would take long anough that customers would question the fix.
And swapping the battery without telling the phone, and subsequently observations of it still acting slow, would help explain the suspicions about planned obsolesence.
There's a chip in the battery.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
NFC antenna in the battery just like everybody else
That's a thing?
I had no fucking clue.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
There's a chip in the battery.
Well, yes. There's always a chip in a lithium battery sold for consumer use. The cheapest chinese packs have an inline overcharge prevention IC since forever, because we're not suicidal, just criminally insane.
The real question was whether there's wires between the phone and battery for reading the chip.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
NFC antenna in the battery just like everybody else
That's a thing?
I had no fucking clue.
To be fair, my first clue was the antenna loop's outline, clearly visible through the label of the battery when I installed one into phone(n-1).
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NSFW object on the bookshelf
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@boomzilla At least it's not purple and spiky...
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@boomzilla You have something against massage rods?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
The real question was whether there's wires between the phone and battery for reading the chip.
The answer will be “yes”. If nothing else, it'll be there for reading off the health of the battery. It might just be something like an I2C bus, so very slow…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
The real question was whether there's wires between the phone and battery for reading the chip.
The answer will be “yes”. If nothing else, it'll be there for reading off the health of the battery. It might just be something like an I2C bus, so very slow…
Quite. I already linked to a page which includes this detail. There's a single pin "high-speed" bus.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
NFC antenna in the battery just like everybody else
That's a thing?
I had no fucking clue.
To be fair, my first clue was the antenna loop's outline, clearly visible through the label of the battery when I installed one into phone(n-1).
I would've guessed wireless charging before NFC, as that seems more natural to put on a battery. But anyway I've seen a lot of phone teardowns and most of the time that stuff is between the battery and back cover, not part of the actual battery itself.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I already linked to a page
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I already linked to a page
If this was shit overflow he would have been betrayed for linking instead of copy pasta the content with no reference.
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@Dragoon At least I think it was the same news.
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@HardwareGeek yes, I posted that (from a different site) in the IoS thread.
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@boomzilla I thought so, but I didn't remember for sure whether that was also Alexa, or if Alexa was now copy-catting what you posted, but to search for the other post.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
in the IoS thread.
IOW
Internet of Walruses?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Internet of Walruses?
Internet of Windows
I was going to suggest Internet of Wankers...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Internet of Walruses?
Internet of Windows
I was going to suggest Internet of Wankers...
So... the Internet?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Internet of Walruses?
Internet of Windows
I was going to suggest Internet of Wankers...
So... the Internet?
Some people need it beaten over their heads...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
in the IoS thread.
IOW
Internet of Walruses?
Internet of WTFs
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
The real question was whether there's wires between the phone and battery for reading the chip.
The answer will be “yes”. If nothing else, it'll be there for reading off the health of the battery. It might just be something like an I2C bus, so very slow…
Quite. I already linked to a page which includes this detail. There's a single pin "high-speed" bus.
Which I'd read. Which is why the question "was", instead of "is", as I'd already got my answer.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
NFC antenna in the battery just like everybody else
That's a thing?
I had no fucking clue.
To be fair, my first clue was the antenna loop's outline, clearly visible through the label of the battery when I installed one into phone(n-1).
I would've guessed wireless charging before NFC, as that seems more natural to put on a battery. But anyway I've seen a lot of phone teardowns and most of the time that stuff is between the battery and back cover, not part of the actual battery itself.
This was way before wireless charging was a thing that exists. My last phone lasted a long time.