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- Comment on UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED 1 year ago:
Lazy motherfuckers on this site can’t even use proper grammar when being a snarky asshole. That shit you wrote is barely coherent.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
Using a phone that long is risky due to the lack of security updates, especially if you’re using it for work. People not using phones longer is a problem, but the bigger issue is manufacturers killing support so quickly to force people into upgrading.
I recently upgraded after 5 years on an iPhone because it reached the end of its support cycle. I considered another iPhone because 5 years of support is great, but really didn’t feel like paying another $1000+ for what is essentially the same phone I was already using, just with a different body. So I went with a used Pixel 7 on ebay and installed GrapheneOS on it, and I’m very happy with it. I’m getting the same 5 years of support, a more secure OS, and I’m recycling at the same time!
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
In the US at least, I think most people get their phones through their carrier and are stuck on a contract paying it off for ~3 years. I think rich people and enthusiasts/fanboys are the only ones who upgrade every year or buy it unlocked at full price from the manufacturer.
- Comment on Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI 1 year ago:
These types of projects are driven by metrics, and teams have some kind of quota/goal that they need to reach by a certain date to keep the project on schedule. Bonuses or job security may be on the line here, and so you may see some desperate employees “going the extra mile” to reach their goals.
Relatedly, Alexa’s voice activation sensitivity is essentially a tunable number. It can be changed to be more sensitive, so that it will activate more easily (e.g. maybe you say “Alex” instead of “Alexa”). The people who control this are likely on the team with that deadline, so the incentives are there to lower this value in order to collect more data by recording personal conversations “accidentally”. Maybe a bad update goes out that causes Alexa to activate randomly, and they quickly fix it after a few days when they collected all the non-Alexa personal conversations they need for their AI.
That’s maybe a bit too deep into the paranoia/tinfoil hat spectrum for some, but history has shown that you can’t give big tech the benefit of the doubt. Especially when you see some of the documents from the Google trial, where executives discuss rolling back new features to improve arbitrary metrics in the short term so that they can get their bonuses for the quarter, even if it hurts consumers.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
It’s for privacy purposes. An online translator requires that all the text you’re reading be sent to a third party, which may or may not use it for nefarious purposes. E.g. maybe you translate your bank account’s web page because there’s a word you don’t know, and not Google knows how much money you have in your bank account.
If you don’t care about that kind of privacy, then there’s no reason you couldn’t use an existing online translator. Firefox has always supported that.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
If you want to dig into it, I believe this is the core project for the translations.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 1 year ago:
If you want to use C/C++ you may be more interested in O3DE, although it’s a AAA specialized game engine that’s not very user friendly. If you’re new to game dev in general, then Godot is definitely the easiest to get started with, but you should use GDScript and not C/C++.
- Comment on Mastodon gets better search, onboarding, and cross-server interactions 1 year ago:
And Lemmy… stays the same
- Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras 1 year ago:
Are you sure? I currently have an online account (because it was easier to give other people access and I too only have these watching my yard), but I remember when I first set it up in my home I was using a local account created in the DVR’s portal (a Cloudkey Gen 2). The web portal is hosted on the cloudkey, you can access it via any web browser, and the cameras will record to it without an internet connection.
I could’ve sworn you could host the camera server without a Unifi DVR, but apparently not. The network stuff can be though. I guess that’s important to keep in mind, although I’d be surprised if they removed the ability to use the DVR without an online account.
- Comment on Does it matter if I skip sponsored ad segments in YouTube videos? 1 year ago:
Don’t worry about channel creators losing money. It may seem like a dick move, but it’s the right thing to do. When channels see that they aren’t making money on Youtube ad revenue, they’ll be forced to either find another source of income (merch, patreon, alternate site, etc), or quit.
That’s better for you, them, and society as a whole since it reduces the power of a monopoly owned by an evil company.
- Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras 1 year ago:
Any specific reason for the mixed brands? I went 100% Unifi in my home (cameras and networking equipment) and it’s amazing. Everything just works, and the apps are great. While I haven’t bothered to go through the effort of setting up a VPN so that the NVR is disconnected from the internet, I know it’s doable.
- Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras 1 year ago:
Switch to Unifi. It’s enterprise-grade hardware and high quality software at consumer prices. If you know networking, you can set them up without connecting them to the internet while still being able to access them outside your network. If not, you can just use their free web portal to access your cameras. It’s probably easier than Wyze, and it’s certainly more secure.
I don’t normally like to shill brands on the internet, but for these people I make an exception.
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 1 year ago:
Right? It’s a good thing this judge is asking questions.
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 1 year ago:
A music folder is like a zen garden. Where’s the zen in automating it all?
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 1 year ago:
His job is to ask those questions. If he doesn’t do it, his reasoning will be flawed and then the case will restart with a new judge when appealed, wasting everyone’s time and money. I gotta imagine that’s more embarrassing to a judge than asking these questions.
- Comment on Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own 1 year ago:
Go with Unifi then. They’re pretty much the only network equipment company with good software. The NVR (the computer that records/stores the camera feeds) can be used with or without internet access. If you know how to setup a VPN, you can connect to it without giving it internet access. If you don’t know/want to do that, you can use their free web portal to access it remotely.
Cloud key G2 (NVR) is ~$200 and includes a 1tb HDD, G3 Flex cameras are ~$80 each. If you want to save some money, you can skip the cloudkey and install the software on an existing computer on your network.
All you need for wiring is to pass a single ethernet cable to wherever you want to place the cameras since they use PoE (power over ethernet). You’ll also need a PoE adapter for each camera if you don’t have a router that supports PoE. They also sell really awesome routers with PoE, but if you’re new to PoE be careful and do your research because it can permanently damage incompatible equipment. The older EdgeRouters are an incredible value, but the PoE variants use a non-standard and more dangerous PoE implementation than the newer ones. The EdgeRouter X SFP w/ included power adapter does work fine with G3 Flex cameras though, since that’s exactly the setup I have (I don’t think it’ll work with the Cloudkey G2 tho).
…also yes, I’m a bit of a fanboy.
- Comment on Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own 1 year ago:
A camera not connected to the public internet.
- Comment on EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power 1 year ago:
Is Bytedance really in the same league as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta? I know TikTok is big, but didn’t know it was that big.
- Comment on New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift 1 year ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it. Nintendo are cheap bastards, and if they fix the drift issue then they’ll likely cause it to fail prematurely somewhere else. Maybe the rubber will be cheaper so that it wears down and has to be replaced anyways? Or the plastic will be thinner so it cracks sooner, etc.
- Comment on Japanese YouTuber convicted of copyright violation after uploading Let’s Play videos 1 year ago:
Copyright law doesn’t exist to prevent spoilers.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
This guy looks like a cadaver.
- Comment on Business Accounting/Taxes 1 year ago:
I’m a fan of beancount and it’s corresponding web interface fava.
Since the underlying format is human readable text, it’s easy to edit by hand, and you can send the raw file to your accountant as-is and they should have no issues understanding it.
- Comment on Selfhosted private/secure blog/journal 1 year ago:
TiddlyWiki might interest you. It’s an entire wiki stored in a single HTML file. You can even use it without a web server if you want (although a web server makes editing more convenient)
- Comment on Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI 1 year ago:
If you train on AI generated art, you get bad results.
- Comment on Saying Goodbye to WordPad: Windows' Staple for 28 Years Gets the Chop 1 year ago:
Sublime Text is where it’s at
- Comment on Mxene recyclable phone batteries extend battery’s life by three times 1 year ago:
Not on my iphone
- Comment on Mxene recyclable phone batteries extend battery’s life by three times 1 year ago:
That will come in handy after this cancer website destroys my current phone battery with all those fucking advertisements.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
You’re right, just checked my emails and saw that the code is for “Overwatch 2 Invasion Ultimate Bundle”, which I guess is DLC or something. It was bundled with a Zotac 4090 on Amazon.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I’d disown you if you were family and I found out you were hosting my email on a VM in a 5 years-out-of-date windows PC. Some things are simply unforgivable.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I got the premium edition when I bought a new CPU and it came bundled, so I still have my Hardcore Gamer Badge.
…I also got Overwatch 2, but I’m not even going to bother redeeming that one.