avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 1 day ago:
Well they finally delivered a decent camera. That’s what made me buy one. It’s a step down from a Pixel 8 Pro but not a huge one.
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- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 days ago:
Can’t vaccinate my ZFS pool against it…
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 days ago:
I paid 1K for a Whirlpool 6620.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 days ago:
44TB (SMR)
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 3 days ago:
I use their WiFi access points. They’re great. That’s about it.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 days ago:
I will never let you in my home.
- Comment on 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx 5 days ago:
I just got burned by accidental latest tag on a pg container for Nextcloud. They moved some paths internally and it could no longer find the db.
- Comment on 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx 5 days ago:
This is a reminder for self-hosters to put their apps (and their data) on snapshotting filesystems with automatic, regular snapahots turned on; and fix the app versions to at least the major version, across all containers.
- Comment on 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx 5 days ago:
You can get it to run at time intervals. E.g. once an hour for 5 minutes. That’s not bad on battery for me. I actually have mine once every 24 hours for 30 minutes so it can successfully transfer a few gigs of Signal backups.
- Comment on 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx 5 days ago:
Welp I guess there’s another piece of software I have to setup now…
- Comment on Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" 6 days ago:
TIL
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 week ago:
Keep talking Alex.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 week ago:
Cowon D2 brigade
- Comment on YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more 1 week ago:
Exhaustive.
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
Private US corp. Used by various gov’ts around the world, the US included. It’s how gov’ts can both “not spy on their citizens” while end up having the ability to do so and use the info - by buying it from a private corpo.
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
At this point any org or system gathering information on cis-people might be feeding into Palantir’s systems for repression use.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
I want to do the downvote thing but I can’t help but upvote this low reputation comment…
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 1 week ago:
This
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 1 week ago:
Exactly. They can’t get anything they want out of it but they can get a lot. Especially if it’s moving upwards.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 1 week ago:
They can turn their market cap into liquid cash by borrowing against it. They can also pay directly in stock. E.g. how some pay their employees with more stock than salary. They can use their stock to buy other firms. The stock price and therefore market cap is not just an abstract number.
- Comment on Does self hosting your own internet count? 1 week ago:
All good!
I still value GPL much higher than MIT, which is why I thought important for others to know, in case they have a preference too. But yeah, Meshcore is just not all open source and some people could also have a preference on that. 😄
- Comment on Does self hosting your own internet count? 1 week ago:
That’s not what I did. Not all of Meshcore is FOSS. There are proprietary components.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
I don’t mind it too much. If the community itself can deal with ir by voting on the posts, it’s a more democratic solution and it has a built-in consensus. Mods killing it makes life easier but it produces more quesrions among the community abt whether that was the best course of action.
- Comment on Immich v2.5.0 - 90000 Stars Release, with Free Up Space, non-destructive editing, backup and restore on the web, visual refreshing, and moreeeee! 🎉 2 weeks ago:
Snapshots aren’t backup. No question.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I do spend too much time here but I think it’s important to keep the community active because we haven’t won the anti-corpo social media war yet. So we have to overcontribute in content, funding, etc. From each according to their ability, etc.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
What I’ve noticed:
- The posts themselves follow almost identical structure. Large quotes with poster emphasis.
- The posting topics is almost identical.
- The reliability of sources is hit-or-miss on all posts. Some are from legit sources, some are from really questionable ones. The questionable ones are common between accounts.
- The communities where they’re all active are the same. Lately there’s a bit more separation where some accounts frequent some communities more than others. E.g. some time ago we used to get Hotznplotzn, randomname and Scotty in !Canada. Now we mostly get Scotty.
- When you engage in conversation the lang expression, attitude and arguments are identical. This when I really noticed the pattern.
- I’ve had multiple accounts from this set group up/down vote their/mine comments, deep into a discussion that didn’t attract other up/down votes.
- I’ve had a discussion that reached a dead end with one account, only for another to show up and restart it from a different angle attempting to reach a different conclusion. E.g. first discuss an economic side of some China-related issue, reach a dead end, restart with human rights abuses side on the same topic. That’s while having the group up/down voting action going on.
- Two of the accounts were created on the same date, on two different instances, a few minutes away from each other. This was the smoking gun for me that this is the same person.
Some of these aren’t damning on their own, but put altogether make me believe it’s one person. Also they never deny that when pressed. The conversation just stops and they disappear for a day or two until the next post.
a disgruntled Hong Kong exile with too much time on their hands
Quite possibly. I think they may live in Germany or be German because I’ve seen some activity in German. Who knows. I doubt they’re a paid actor because there’s enough money in the official media machine pushing this line so I think you’re right. Someone who really hates China/CCP/CPC, perhaps for a good reason of their own, with a lot of free time.
