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- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 2 days ago:
medical stuff is very niche
Is it though? I personally feel like it’s much more down to the attitudes of people that create and contribute to foss applications. I do understand that for profit companies have more resources, but I genuinely think that foss folks don’t do enough to support accessibility, and don’t often focus on medical stuff. There are exceptions to that though, drip is an awesome app for example.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 2 days ago:
I thought Google Play Music didn’t exist anymore?
- Comment on Shout out to the USS Thunderchild, the unluckiest and toughest ship in Starfleet 3 days ago:
How long did the NX-01 Enterprise last?
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 days ago:
Daylio does not do “opt-out data collection”. IT doesn’t even have “opt-in”.
Yes, and while that’s a fine ideal, it does not always produce well-made or polished applications. For myself, Daylio is a medical/mental health app that assisted with my diagnosis of Bipolar disorder. Unfortunately FOSS apps related to medical stuff are not the greatest or most widely developed.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 days ago:
You’re right, I should just refuse to trust any developers and go back to the paper journal I never used.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 days ago:
I use the journalling app Daylio, which has a wrapped feature. It’s all done locally, on device. Not every implementation of this feature is spying on you.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 days ago:
Music players have been keeping play counts since before the invention of the iPod. It’s a datapoint that users have come to expect. I actually wish services like Spotify or Apple Music did a better job of displaying this data throughout the year rather than just in end of year infographics.
Like I dunno, Google is literally collating your location data, I hardly think music plays is top secret info.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 1 week ago:
Is that not Strange New Worlds?
- Comment on Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions 4 weeks ago:
…I meant the keep watching thing. I get that a lot if I skip to the next episode right at the outro of a show.
- Comment on Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions 4 weeks ago:
Nah, I think that’s an issue with the jellyfin server. It happens to me too, using Swiftfin on AppleTV.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, but this is about facial recognition, not an AI that can figure out if someone is shoplifting? They don’t pay someone to sift through all that footage and note down when someone is actually stealing, that just doesn’t happen. Let alone that the cameras don’t have full coverage of the store. So your statement is just not accurate.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 1 month ago:
Rack server on a lack IKEA table.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 2 months ago:
Whether they actually get used for it or not is immaterial. People like to believe they will go out bush with them.
- Comment on Parents of malnourished girl were warned she could die, but father dismissed concerns as 'crazy', court told 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised, after reading all about the situation, if the girl was also being sexually groomed, and this was all an elaborate act to keep her looking a certain way.
- Comment on Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’ 2 months ago:
No, she got some swimmers to write in saying her portrait should be removed.
- Comment on Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’ 2 months ago:
that last one looks like Hosier’s lane!
- Comment on Someone got woken up on Sunday morning 🤣 3 months ago:
I don’t ride either anymore, but it’s not that hard to just cover the horn while you’re around more dicey situations. I loved my CBR500 because it actually sounded like a car horn.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 4 months ago:
Ya know, I somehow managed to forget it was in the meme when I saw that person repeat it. Thanks for pointing it out.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 4 months ago:
You still didn’t comment on including VOY & ENT as “NuTrek” era shows. Would love to hear the justification on that one.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 4 months ago:
DS9 Season 1 is 20 episodes? The way I read “20+” is 20 or more…
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 4 months ago:
Okay, sorry to be pedantic, but you’ve said DS9 a couple of times and I just, who categorises them like that? Voyager and Enterprise are both after DS9 and I don’t think most people would consider them “NuTrek”.
Also, this is a pretty silly argument, you’re right that “nu” means “new” in English. However, I wonder if it’s starting to become a bit like “Modern” in reference to art or architecture. Nu-Metal is actually a pretty old genre these days, and there are newer, more popular ones like Baby Metal.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 4 months ago:
What’s wrong with the magic mushrooms? It’s not like Trek was ever hard sci-fi when it came to how the ships fly. For crying out loud, in Voyager they went so fast they were everywhere at once, then Tom Paris and Janeway had salamander babies.
- Comment on GitHub - timelinize/timelinize: Store your data from all your accounts and devices in a single cohesive timeline on your own computer 4 months ago:
The dev of this developed Caddy? Hmm… at least there’s talent behind it. I’m a little worried about creating that sort of record, but this guy seems earnest in wanting to liberate personal data.
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 4 months ago:
Hey, that’s really fair, thanks for being honest :)
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 4 months ago:
Except that doesn’t at all explain the wider recall of 100 million units. Not every single one of those airbags were faulty. First of all, how could we know? Testing an airbag is a potentially dangerous thing to do, let alone on an enormous scale that would require under-qualified persons to run the tests. Secondly, it’s not a 100% failure rate. If it were, it would have been picked up far sooner than it would take to sell 100 million units. If it happened just as severely no matter the unit’s age, it would have been picked up during crash-testing. What actually happened was an analysis of statistical averages that showed a far higher rate of failure than there should have been.
The similarities to me come from a comparison to Schrödinger’s cat. In the airbag example, you don’t know if the unit in front of you is going yo fail until you “open the box” by crashing. With the AMD vulnerability, you don’t know if ur motherboard has been infected by any virus/worm/etc until a “crash” or other signs of suspicious behaviour.
In both cases, the solution to the vulnerability removes that uncertainty, allowing you to use the product to it’s original full extent.
Look at it this way, imagine if this vulnerability existed in the ECU/BCU of a self-driving capable car. At any point someone could bury a piece of code so deeply you can’t ever be sure it’s gone. Would you want to drive that car?
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 4 months ago:
Sorry, I reread it and I understand now that you were referencing the AMD chip in a comparison. I guess I still would compare it most to the Takata airbag situation. You’re right that nothing happens on it’s own, but once you’ve “crashed the car” then it kind of is a lot like an airbag not going off. It infects your computer on a hardware level, and any future OS running off that motherboard is potentially vulnerable in a way that’s impossible to tell.
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 4 months ago:
“this window only breaks if you’ve already crashed the car”
No, it’s usually more like “this thing will break and cause a car crash” or “this thing will murder everyone in the vehicle if you crash”. And companies still will not fix it. Look at the Ford Pinto, executives very literally wrote off people’s deaths as a cost of doing business, when they’d turn into fireballs during even low speed rear-end collisions. Potentially burning down the car that hit them too.
- Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 5 months ago:
I always did? A friend pointed out to me once the “correct” pronunciation. I like this way more.
- Comment on How my family got to Star Trek 5 months ago:
There doesn’t to be precedent from case law, the DMCA already allows for copying something for the purposes of backup for personal use only.
- Comment on Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host 5 months ago:
Ah okay, thank you heaps for clarifying :) That’s awesome that you’ve been able to limit the overhead like that, I’m excited to test it out!
