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- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 days ago:
Yikes, that’s ridiculous. Microsoft incompetence and greed at its finest.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 days ago:
Ah, I misunderstood. If there’s no Internet, pretty sure it’ll just default to using local. I’m not 100% certain, though, as I’ve not setup a totally offline install in a long time.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 days ago:
Afaik, it’ll just use a cached login
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 1 week ago:
These companies don’t care about combating bots. They don’t even care they’re directly enabling the rise of fascism across the globe. It’s typical short sighted capitalistic greed that’s driving their lust for higher and higher engagement to sell more and more ads. They simply don’t think about that once fascism is fully in place, capitalism goes away and their companies are at the complete mercy of whatever dictator takes over. And since it’s a global phenomenon, there will be no where for them to flee to.
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 1 month ago:
What if it’s tied to your new identity? But idk, starting your whole library over from scratch… Better hope that insurance payout is nice.
- Comment on V Rising 1.0 review: one of the slickest survival games gets even slicker 1 month ago:
Oh damn, I didn’t realize this was out of EA. I impulse purchased it a couple years ago and it felt pretty lackluster, but I recognized it had a lot of potential so I shelved it rather than refund. Looks like they’ve added a ton of content and gameplay changes, so I’ll definitely check it out again. Hopefully they implement native controller support, as it seems like a perfect candidate for Steam Deck (yes, I know about Steam Input configs, but those are sometimes pretty hacky and don’t feel all that great in a lot of games).
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 month ago:
Our SSDs just have to be wiped but we still have to document and provide proof they were wiped and turned in. HDDs and tapes are a different story and a pain in the ass, though.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 month ago:
I’m super jealous. Whenever we decom servers at work, we’re required to fill out paperwork and provide proof that all HDDs and SSDs were properly destroyed (i.e. rendered completely unusable and wiped) and turned in to our disposal department. The servers themselves also have to be handed over to them. I’m not sure what they do, but I’m guessing they either repurpose them as emergency replacements for other sites that have hardware failures or they bulk sell them at auctions or something.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
That’s a deep rabbit hole (no pun intended). I know it’s blasphemy to mention the other site around here, but check out the r/locallama subreddit. It covers more models than just LLaMA. There are literally thousands of variations at this point, so preferences are quite subjective based on your use case and your best bet is just to begin researching on your own for your intended purposes and available resources.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 month ago:
Which coincidentally you need to do to cash out or cash in.
Yes, and no. You do need to cash in at some point, but you don’t have to do it thru a public exchange. People do sell physical wallets for hard cash. And even if you do use an exchange, when I last looked into crypto the common currency for drugs (monero) was obtainable on exchanges that didn’t have KYC rules. Outside of exchanges, you can also transmit currency directly to other parties, and once you use tumblers and other anonymous platforms, tracking becomes extremely difficult. It’s not impossible, but it becomes troublesome enough that unless you’re a big fish/crime lord/whatever, the FBI isn’t going to be bothered wasting resources.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 1 month ago:
Being able to send pictures and videos without SMS/MMS downscaling them to like 144p (hell I’ve had it be even worse than that for videos sometimes) is incredibly handy. That’s the main benefit for me. Others have commented about the other features. And I’m fairly certain the article did state E2EE will be implemented.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
You’re also missing my original point. The argument that Congress is making is that TikTok is a dire threat to national security because: a) it’s entirelt owned by a Chinese company, b) it is egregiously invasive, spying on its users and logging the data, c) it’s very addictive, and d) it’s algorithms are so effective that it’s capable of mass targeted propaganda distribution that can impact elections, radicalize, etc.
Please, tell me how that is different than YouTube, Facebook, etc. other than the core ownership? We have literal fucking proof that Facebook collaborated with foreign agents in 2016 to influence our elections, for fuck’s sake! And Congress did nothing to them besides a half-assed Q&A session with Zuckerberg and Co! But nope, TikTok is entirely about ethics and a sense of patriotic duty to keep our country safe, not about money and protectionism at all.
And yes, I realize Fortnite and TikTok are different. But it doesn’t take a genius to see a pattern in Tencent buying as much stake as possible in every major trending Western company. It’s pretty obvious that they’re buying influence and power vs caring about just profits, similar to China’s whole silk road or whatever the fuck they call that program that lets poor countries borrow money. TikTok is a drop in the bucket when you consider how beholden we are to China in so many other far more immediately dire areas, e.g. critical medicine and medical supplies, critical technology components, etc etc.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
You’re missing the point, though. China has sizable stakes in multiple social media platforms and popular videogames (like Fortnite). But the fact those are all primarily owned by US companies makes it okay.
TikTok is a threat to Meta and Co’s dominance and American companies can’t simply buy it out to make it go away or at least make it directly benefit them. Don’t mistake me in saying it isn’t a national security threat. What I’m saying is, if TikTok is a threat, then all of these corporate platforms are a threat. The government should targeting all of them! But they’re not, and the reason seems pretty obvious to me.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
To be devil’s advocate: We already know China loves to be meddlin’ in Western elections, so both parties have a vested interest in getting them out of their pants.
That being said, China can easily meddle all over the place, so I don’t consider that the primary motivator. Like I said before, this is 98% about protectionism.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
it’ll go to a rich white fuck first and they’ll be the ones to sell it to China instead.
And that’s really what most politicians care about. Meta and Co. are butthurt that the new dopamine dealer on the block is cutting so ruthlessly into their numbers, especially among the younger generations. Normally, Meta et. al. would just engage in their typical antitrust behavior and buy them out, but they can’t because a) ByteDance doesn’t need them or their money and b) I’d be surprised if China let them sell such a valuable tool willingly.
This is just protectionism under the guise of national security, plain and simple. We’ve heard, “oh but national security!!!” countless times before, and if this was truly the main concern, they’d be going after all the other blatantly egregious privacy snoopers as well.
- Comment on New best friend for life! 2 months ago:
They upscaled and restored an internet artifact. A meme archivist.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 2 months ago:
In regard to Reddit having the same problem, I agree it does to an extent. But like you said, it only allows for synonyms or alternate wording for the same topic in a subreddit’s name. On Lemmy, since instances are different, the fractured communities can be named the exact same thing. Most casual users are not going to realize this and think that the one community they’re in is not active when on another instance, the other like-named community might have grown and is now quite active since they initially setup their subscriptions. They’ll never know unless they happen to run another search and see the alternate community’s user count.
Maybe I’m wrong and it isn’t a big deal. But I do agree that searching and indexing would be a great step in helping discoverability.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 2 months ago:
The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances
Agreed, and also why I think Lemmy will never progress past a niche audience despite being capable of doing so. It’d be nice if there was a feature that allowed instances to merge all like-named communities into a singular one. I know cross posting was meant to help address the problem, but that’s a manual process that falls quite short in resolving the core issue.
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 2 months ago:
I work with government admins a lot and they’ve already told me the shit show they’ve been dealing with regarding feature updates somehow installing themselves on their devices despite it being disabled via GPO. Unfortunately, I think the government will just flex on Microsoft and force them to strip the shit out for their baseline Windows images rather than move to a Linux alternative.
- Comment on Tesla is reportedly laying off ‘more than 10 percent’ of its workforce 2 months ago:
I’d say that the bulk of the sales decline are primarily rooted in the fact that the competition has outdone Tesla on pricing and quality. Way too many stories of Tesla cars dying from a simple rainy day or driving through puddles and then the company fucking the customers over by not covering those incidents under the warranty with bullshit excuses.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Even then. I won’t be excited until any of these supposed foundries are actually producing chips.
- Comment on ‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People 2 months ago:
Img2img isn’t always spot-on with what you want it to do, though. I was making extra pictures for my kid’s bedtime books that we made together and it was really hit or miss. I’ve even goofed around with my own pictures to turn myself into various characters and it doesn’t work out like you want it to much of the time. I can imagine it’s the same when going for porn, where you’d need to do numerous iterations and tweaking over and over to get the right look/facsimile. There are tools/SD plugins like Roop which does make transferring over faces with img2img easier and more reliable, but even then it’s still not perfect. I haven’t messed around with it in several months, so maybe it’s better and easier now.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What always hurts my brain is what existed before the big bang, and what about before even that and so on.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That would only rule out the creator being within the universe when the big bang occurred, right?
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 3 months ago:
Reddit’s advertising platform has been garbage the entire time, I remember randomly going down the rabbit hole on social media marketing articles and the unanimous consensus among them was how bad/useless advertising on Reddit was. One of the many reasons was due to how aggressively advertisement averse the userbase was (there were plenty of other critiques, such as how awful the management dashboard, metrics insight, etc. were).
Don’t get me wrong, I loathe advertisements, too. I think reddit is/has been going the wrong direction in focusing so much on ads as their primary method of generating revenue. However, there is no excuse for harassing an independent artist just trying to get their work out there to get discovered. Sorry you went thru that mate.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 3 months ago:
No one was saying reddit couldn’t implement API costs. In fact, every major 3rd party app developer, including Apollo, supporting reddit charging for API access and made suggestions on how such an arrangement could be made that was fair and reasonable to all parties. However, Reddit’s CEO said fuck that and wanted to charge an insane amount of money for API usage that no 3rd party developers would be able to reasonably afford without asking for an exorbitant amount of money from their users.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 3 months ago:
I mean, that’s not the worst suggestion? Drilling a hole and adding a screw could work. Now, whether that screw will start rusting and shedding rust shavings/dust into your food after a few washes is a different matter.
Honestly though, OP, it’s best to just replace. If it’s got sentimental value for whatever reason, you could try crimping the end of the tube or do go the drilling route and use a non-metallic holding mechanism (e.g. plastic screws or even a small circular plastic rod with an end that flares out after exiting the other side so it stays in place).
- Comment on Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers 3 months ago:
What’s crazy is if you read the monetary value of the biggest corps on the Cyberpunk wiki, we have corporations in real life that dwarf those numbers. Granted, Cyberpunk was written in the 80s, which had IBM as the richest corporation at the time worth around $130 billion (adjusted for inflation). Meanwhile, nowadays, Microsoft is worth over $3 trillion, Apple over $2.8 trillion, Saudi Aramco over $1.9 trillion, etc. Absolutely wild that even in the worst predictions by the Cyberpunk creator, it’s still a fraction of what reality turned out to be.
- Comment on Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers 3 months ago:
Haha right, I often think how it’s starting to feel like we’re entering the early years of the capitalist dystopian cyberpunk era.
- Comment on Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers 3 months ago:
Hahah, I think they’re implying that with their vast stores of wealth, they could spend billions on hiring assassins and/or mercenaries to take down the Russian government? Idk