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Cake day: November 7th, 2024

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  • if you have an oled display, then if a video game is brighter it costs more energy because the LEDs turn on more.

    if have an lcd display, there’s a backlight that always has the same brightness and crystals blocking the light, which makes the image. meaning a brighter scene doesn’t take more power, since the backlight doesn’t use more energy.







  • appliences that connect to your internet are supposed to be secured, but cheap Chinese ones usually arent. this means they can easily get hacked and added to a botnet thats used for DDoS attacks. I once saw a screenshot of someone whose washing machine uploaded ~30GB of data per month.

    the best thing to do against this is to just not connect them to the internet.







  • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemerry holidays!
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    3 months ago

    in the Netherlands we have a guy named Saint Nicholas that gave money to prostitudes and other poor people to save them, who then decided to join him. The best translation for their names i have is ‘squires’ but not really. Because they go down our chimneys to deliver gifts it’s tradition for them to have ash on their face, which some are calling blackface.


  • Unix computers store time in seconds that have passed since january first 1970. one there have been too many seconds since 1970, it starts breaking. ‘signed’ is a way to store negative numbers in binary. the basics of it are: when the leftmost bit is a 1, it’s a negative number (and then you do some other things to the rest of the number so that it acts like a negative number) so when there have been 09999999 seconds since 1970, if there’s one more second it’ll be 10000000, which a computer sees as -9999999.