Sturgist
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
- Comment on UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request. 5 days ago:
Eh, it happens. If that was an honest attempt to troll…kids these days need to up their fucking game.
- Comment on Storage, DoGE, and cognitive biases against tape 5 days ago:
slightly less stupid
Which is why that’s definitely not what’s going to happen…
- Comment on UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request. 5 days ago:
Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court, arguing against proceedings taking in place in secret and in favour of open justice. Today, the Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s application, stating it did not accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.
Neither myself nor, I’m assuming, the person you’re replying to wants to have the government with their grubby little fingers in our data.
What the person you’re replying to was saying had literally nothing to do with what you asked. Has to do with the above. It’s shocking that a UK court actually made a sane call. In this case, they decided that no, the government wasn’t entitled to a closed case. That the proceedings would be open, and the details would be available to the public. Like in a functioning democracy. - Comment on 30 Years of PlayStation History Secured in Underground Vault with 650TB of Data | Retro Gaming News 24/7 6 days ago:
Yeah, I definitely feel like that’s exactly it. Just wish it didn’t take worrying about future profit to get companies on board with this shit…
- Comment on 30 Years of PlayStation History Secured in Underground Vault with 650TB of Data | Retro Gaming News 24/7 6 days ago:
This is pretty cool. At least they seem to be taking preservation seriously. Hopefully they don’t turn into dicks about it.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It’s built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you’d like to fully tell M$ to get fucked…I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I’m fairly fluent in Linux systems…but by no means a “Wizard”, and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.There’s other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps…
- Comment on CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
20 years, would have been better if they’d stuck with that instead of cutting it to a one year and a day, with non-custodial supervision for another year…
Usually when the USPS cops get involved The. Hammer. Fuckin. Drops.
Shame to see the sentence reduced… - Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
No worries bud! It really makes me angry what M$ is doing here, obviously they’re not alone in being a cause of our eWaste “addiction”…but this is really a situation that should be opening people’s eyes. Apple is bad for it too. Their laptops have a fairly short lifecycle, and unless you want/can to put Linux on your MacBook whatever, it’s no longer secure after usually about 5 years. Intentionally driving the disposable culture, buy, use briefly, replace for arguably too much, repeat.
Have her try Nobara for a week, but tell her it’s hardly the only option! With how easy it is to include SLK into (almost?) any distro, I really wasn’t kidding when I said the Linux Universe is your oyster! Hell, you could compile your own distro if you’re a masochist!
- Comment on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy. 2 weeks ago:
Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution?
No. Or, almost certainly no. If they were forced to sell Android, my guess would be that another tech giant, that makes most of their money from data harvesting, would be most likely to buy it. Meaning any spyware would remain, and just be pointed to different servers.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I sent my kid here! To be radicalised!
… but my kid is a cat…and has no opposable thumbs…and he was already an asshole…wtf am I doing with my life…
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
clears throat
Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.
Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:
- Based on fedora
- Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
- Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that’s the project done, this is not in the Pros section.
- for when you really just want your surface device to be running Android
- immutable distro, makes it easier to undo fuck ups, and often prevents them happening at all
- seems fairly mature and robust, I don’t know for a fact as I haven’t used it
- for when you want to put a bit more effort in
- the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
- FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN
These were the really easy to find options. There’s absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in…but that’s not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.
I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don’t 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn’t like to hibernate, and doesn’t have working cameras atm.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 3 weeks ago:
Also having your victim host the costs is an added benefit
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 3 weeks ago:
This is hardly new, they’ve been the “bad guys” for decades. They’re just masks off these days. Raw-doggin a genocide. Or whatever the fucking kids say these days.
- Comment on CNN Turns 2028 Presidential Election into a Sporting Event 3 weeks ago:
Fair dues
- Comment on CNN Turns 2028 Presidential Election into a Sporting Event 3 weeks ago:
I mean… it’s already been kinda treated that way for decades?
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 3 weeks ago:
what’s been built is a glorified homework cheater and an
betterunreliable search engine. - Comment on The Forever Winter's water will no longer drain away while you're offline 5 weeks ago:
I was hyped when I first heard about it. And with them dropping the shitty mechanic that was putting me off, I’ll definitely grab it at some point.
Looks like it’s 20% off right now, but reading through the recent(ish) reviews, it looks like it’s still in a state that I would likely find aggravating. Namely AI jank, and enemies spawning/despawning while in view.
That said, a positive review makes an excellent point:
@Mango-killa
We bullied the devs into releasing the game early and are upset that it’s unfinished. I love the concept, but still needs a ton of polish and tweaks to be perfect. Give em time to cook.
It’s been on my wishlist, despite the now defunct water mechanic, since I heard about it. And I’ll give the Devs the time they need to cook.
- Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I should have been clear, I by no means thought you were hating on it!
I’m literally just hearing about Revolt now. And I’ve had a bad day so far, that obviously came through in my previous comment. I’m sorry, rereading my last comment, it’s a bit belligerent.
Thanks for taking the time to explain like I’m 5 and throwing a tantrum. 🤦 Sorry again. - Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. 5 weeks ago:
- File size limits on the default instance are 20mb.
But it’s configurable right? Should be looking through configurations anyway.
- Its not federated.
I’d argue that not everything needs to be federated. Some things would definitely benefit from federation, but I’m not entirely sure that this is one of them.
- It’s not encrypted.
This IS a bit of a major negative. But point 2 and point 3 seems to be in conflict. I’m definitely not an expert, and don’t pretend to be. But to my limited, layman’s, knowledge wouldn’t being federated and encrypted not really work out? What would be the point in encrypting all communication between the server instance and client, to then federate it out to other servers?
I’m not trying to be contrarian here, I’m really asking, is that something that would:
- Work.
- Makes sense to do
Or is the lack of encryption a security risk for server operators? I’m not getting the point, obviously. And I’d like to know what your thinking on this is.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that works too
- Comment on The Forever Winter's water will no longer drain away while you're offline 5 weeks ago:
It was a stupid mechanic, and the reason I lost interest in the game.
- Comment on I firmly believe all 3-4 letter acronyms will eventually be used for evil. 5 weeks ago:
⅗ of those already fit the statement. No I won’t be elaborating on which.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 5 weeks ago:
That’s the thing. They always were shit, just with Trump’s War on Woke, they now feel like the money they’ve always spent on good will of the public, DEI programs, keeping a muzzle on the racist/misogynistic/bigoted person running the company isn’t really needed. Now all that “wasted” money can go where it belongs…into shareholder profits.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 5 weeks ago:
@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
@sibachian@lemmy.ml
@AnotherPenguin@programming.dev
@catloaf@lemm.ee
@fatboy93@lemm.eeSo…I guess it kinda seems like a .gif vs .gif sorta situation, we’ll never come to a consensus, there will forever be disparate camps chuckling under their breath at all the “idiots” that can’t even pronounce SearXNG right…the fools…
Well, guess I’ll sleep on it and join a camp some day… le sigh
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 5 weeks ago:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fuck! I’d completely forgotten about that! What a fucking mongrel…
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 5 weeks ago:
SearXNG
Always wondered how the fuck I’m supposed to say that.
Seeks’nn’jnn?
Sur X N G?
Search engine? - Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 5 weeks ago:
Righto, pop that on the list. Thanks 👍
- Comment on Google’s 'consent-less' Android tracking probed by academics 5 weeks ago:
Significantly more.
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure the synthetic oilly shit has a wonderful reaction with that unprotected stainless steel.
Not to mention that depending on force of the throw, and precise angle of the impact of cheese slice, the thing could start falling apart.
… which now I think about it, also explains the:
“hey police, someone threw cheese at my car, I’m in fear for my life.”