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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a possibility is a series of open source anvil or nixos scripts that you can run on most hardware with minimal changes, in an extendable architecture of some kind to add or remove functionality and they perhaps get maintained by the community or some structure of the kind of Linux distributions.

  This could enable people with minimal skills set up and maintain a reasonably useful but secure environment just by changing a few variables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PowerToys Release v0.84.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brilliant. Love the new feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel Kills 4 in Strike on Gaza Aid Convoy Led by US-Based Group⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably playing with it by feeling the sensation of the partially air filled cling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike other chat services Telegram has a “social” aspect and search capabilities for locating public discussion channels.

  Furthermore E2EE is optional and most people don’t turn it on and is certainly not on in public channels.

  While techies are freaking out about an attack on encryption the articles I’ve read so far don’t mention anything about encryption or otherwise it seems that French police is concerned about moderation or attempts at moderation of those public channels, that Telegram specifically refuses to moderate.

  Perhaps this will be an attack on encryption by stealth but at this point that’s not what it looks like.

  As a personal anecdote when I installed Telegram a few years ago and searched for my city’s name the top 20 results where channels offering to sell you heroin - which I thought was so blatant as to be certain it was police sting operations - but who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The benefit of the doubt logic here Is as follows:

  Mozilla thinks that the ad supported model of the web is essential to continuing to function.

  Mozilla knows that the vast majority of installs have an adblocker installed.

  In order to keep the ecosystem healthy they’re exploring ethical advertising options.

  Counterpoint:

  The vast majority of their income comes from the largest advertising company in the world - alphabet.

  They need to be seen to at least make some efforts to not murder the advertising model through their mere existence while not pissing off the community too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see a valid reason to guess the gender of their users other than to sell profiles to ad providers. I can’t see how discord may evolve their discussion platform differently depending on the gender mix of their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope she’s great, but I can’t imagine you’ll find more dedicated or more aligned to the cause people than those that have spent a lifetime working to build the everything that is Mozilla.

  I can’t imagine they can’t find good people from within - why do you need to inject people from outside right at the top of the foundation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus a good chunk of people only wash hands for show: the water runs for 1 sec it barely touches their fingertips, then go on to these dryers and whatever is on their fingers flies out everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t these been shown to be literally the proverbial shit hitting the fan in terms of spreading bacterial matter everywhere?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is the single greatest talent acquisition opportunity since I founded EnviroSpark. Tesla had been able to scale their charging infrastructure due in no small part to the talented employees on the Supercharger team.”

  Half of them likely already have another job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All business models are aimed at company profitability. Customer satisfaction is an expensive early necessity which you can largely do away with as you become entrenched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly certainly that’s collective action by the tech companies to lower salaries and reduce employee negotiation power.

  Tech workers need unions yesterday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly social signalling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He closed his bluesky account some time ago so he must have left then. I assume they had some dnd agreement because only after he confirmed it publicly did bluesky came out with their announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming it’s aimed at people trying to avoid tying the hosting IP to the publicly consumable service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems you’re also the product even if you pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider my $200 n95 inc. 16gb ram 512gb m2 and 6-8w idling better value than a Pi tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what they’re counting on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a nice way to tax their poorest customers more. A lot of people are keeping their machines way past what apple provides updates for, if the ssd that can’t be changed dies (because of constant swapping) faster than what they intended or could keep the machine for, I guess it’s too bad for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They certainly don’t want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enterprise versions can be customised without any of this bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The US passport will continue to work, the question is if you’d become a target because of it.

  Remember during the first Trump term all these stories of Americans in Europe pretending to be Canadians? You would want to distance yourself as far as possible from the idiot gang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the writer has them on hand - this is a news article not a review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP I think you’re on Android as I am because you mentioned ms launcher.

  I just gave it a go but it keeps on timing out (just keeps rotating) every second or third document especially in multi-page.

  I’m wondering if it’s specific to my hardware or are you experiencing anything similar? Assuming not with your glowing review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So long as they keep the Chinese government happy. That’s a big lever China has on Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading “at Bluesky” in every second sentence gave me futuristic dystopian movie vibes.

  Not sure about fediverse following along given that, essentially, creating an account on a server is adopting the server admin’s moderation policy.

  Having said that, there might be some value in being able to overlay multiple moderation filters - though not sure at what point you create such a siloed experience as to be a net negative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  W11 can run unlicensed indefinitely with the only downside being inability to customise the desktop background and a nag at the bottom right corner. They prefer to have the users rather than not. Though not sure re limitations in joining domains and the like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greece approves ending state monopoly on university education⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite being explicitly prohibited by the Greek constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Government is bad except when it comes to brutal subjugation of out-groups I don’t like, while the in-group gets protected and treated with kid gloves by the same.

  Unfortunately most of them are the dupes not the protected class they think they are - “they’re hurting the wrong people” summed it up when it was uttered…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU opens a wide-ranging probe into TikTok⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sum?