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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re about to go through about 10 years of vibe coded garbage aren’t we.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You’d land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.

  Unless we’re talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn’t have too many problems like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a case of stupid laws that still don’t understand the internet.

  If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not “operating in country A” and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.

  If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.

  All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was Donnys way to scratch Elon’s back for helping with the campaign. After the back stabbing and subsequent fall out, I’m sure Elon took all his people out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer to the question comes from understanding the marketplace.

  Microsoft’s vision in the '90s was a computer on every desk and in every home.

  In the late '90s and early 2000s, devices like TiVo came on the scene and disrupted the living room. Microsoft started experimenting with Media Center which was a PC that would sit between your cable box and your TV.

  Also remember that Microsoft has been in gaming forever. You certainly heard of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Microsoft’s acquisition of various game studios in the '90s cemented their presence in the space.

  Anyways, at the time it was theorized that some company would eventually control media flowing into the household through the TV screen and Microsoft absolutely wanted that.

  The media center only found limited success, and was kind of a kludgy solution. The first versions of Xbox attempted to overcome some of this by having some media capabilities. The peak of that effort was the first version of Xbox One which actually had an HDMI input and the ability to control your cable box. Had that reached widespread use, Microsoft would have had lots of data about what TV channels everybody was watching and who was watching (remember the first version of Xbox One rolled out with a camera that could recognize who’s watching) and for how long.

  Unfortunately for them, that tech was too little too late and streaming services like Netflix were already catching on. Now you can see in later versions of Xbox Microsoft has pulled back and developed game pass which is a steam-like subscription service, and hasn’t really tried to be a TV media player to the same degree anymore.

  When a company gets huge, like Microsoft, they can’t really waste time chasing business efforts that might only have revenue potential in the low billions. It just doesn’t move the needle. The problem is that innovating brand new ideas that will eventually become multi-billion dollar businesses is phenomenally challenging. And people who can do that don’t work for companies like Microsoft.

  So the entrepreneurs who can potentially dream up multibillion dollar disruptive business ideas go do them on their own and then companies like Microsoft snap them up as soon as they’re able to (if the founders allow it), allowing dominant players to remain dominant without needing to innovate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beholden to the AAPL ticker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to make Fusion 360 run under wine and just couldn’t get it reliably working.

  There were problems logging in, problems with resolution, issues with fonts and DLL errors. It just wasn’t stable enough to rely on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces 50% price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I’m paying for any kind of Xbox subscription is to keep a few older COD online unlocks available. I wonder if I could use my pihole to intercept that and replay something back to the Xbox so I can still use them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another update that no one asked for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eek, I’m moving towards nextcloud (and away from Google fast as possible). Is there a better all-in-one groupware + files + collab + office apps suite out there?

  It does appear that nextcloud’s devs are eyeballs deep in php tech debt, so their pace of development and integration has slowed.

  It’s so big that none of their FOSS components are going to be #1 on their own.

  Recently upgraded the version and had to allow untested app versions (which had just disappeared) because they hadn’t been updated yet. That’s a weird problem and yeah, I don’t really want to be beta tester everytime I try and open a document.

  They also don’t really have a nice docker compose based deployment yet.

  But I couldn’t be happier to be leaving google in the dust, so there’s that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your’s is an interesting edge case but maybe the best solution is keeping a folder full of pics on an external drive and plugging it in only when you need it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a really nice Google Take-Out parser for immich that will preserve all your meta data during import. It was kind of a dream to use, it worked so smoothly.

  In my case, I moved about 100k photos and videos, and I’m still periodically finding old flash drives and SD cards laying around that were never imported, so im using the migration to catch up on decades of photo archival. So far, all good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to joining you guys in the upcoming rebellion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That on prem solution cost minimum $50k USD.

  I was in IT at the time and we’d been using a Microsoft index server solution to search our data at the time.

  IDK, I think google was never focused on anything particular except profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So do advertisers still have to pay for impressions or clicks if the viewer isn’t logged in?

  Something tells me Google’s just going to pocket the difference now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been self-hosting since the '90s. I used to have an NT 3.51 server in my house. I had a dial in BBS that worked because of an extensive collection of .bat files that would echo AT commands to my COM ports to reset the modems between calls. I remember when we had to compile the slackware kernel from source to get peripherals to work.

  But in this last year I took the time to seriously learn docker/podman, and now I’m never going back to running stuff directly on the host OS.

  I love it because I can deploy instantly… Oftentimes in a single command line. Docker compose allows for quickly nuking and rebuilding, oftentimes saving your entire config to one or two files.

  And if you need to slap in a traefik, or a postgres, or some other service into your group of containers, now it can be done in seconds completely abstracted from any kind of local dependencies. Even more useful, if you need to move them from one VPS to another, or upgrade/downgrade core hardware, it’s now a process that takes minutes. Absolutely beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  15 years is too long, it doesn’t match the state of the industry or technological progress.

  If anything this slows down innovation which leads me to suspect the 15 year idea was though of by someone who dislikes any technical changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, somewhat cheaper than the other way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  States have always been able to do these things.

  Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP: constructive addition to thread You: nah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wire is pretty much never removed once it’s laid out and I’m sure a lot of DSL based internet connections still run over same twisted pair that would have carried POTS lines.

  But you’re probably right that there’s a VoIP device keeping these up and working, maybe just more than 6 ft away and instead in some Telco box down the street.

  I think POTS installations will remain for decades more in niche cases - emergency backups in elevators, security systems, hospitals, fire departments. And evidently Grandma’s AOL internet connection up until this month haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay for it, also no ads except the sponsor plugs, which are pretty easy to skip. Overall a better experience than the non premium. I don’t live in the USA so my cost is like $5/month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting this take. The topic of AI taking jobs seems to garner a lot of emotional response but not much of a technology discussion.

  There were people who were negative about using websites to place orders in the 90s in part because e-commerce killed order processing jobs and the need for phone reps at mail order catalogs.

  In this case AI is being used as just another e-commerce UX, so it’s really just a continuation of what’s happening already.

  People used to do things like put 18,000, or -1 and all kinds of other garbage in the fields on website order forms as well. That’s just a programmers job to fix with reasonable input validation.

  It wouldn’t surprise me if drive-thru like Taco Bell started doing license plate recognition and reputation checking. So if you order and dash more than a couple times they might not take your order from outside in that car anymore.

  On the upside they might be able to greet you by name and recall your last order:

  Hello Mr Smith… Nice to see you today, would you like 10 cheesy gordita crunch tacos and 1 large diet Pepsi again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A more sophisticated query system would be interesting.

  For example if I want to see every picture with Joseph in it, that’s really easy. But what if I’d like to share those with Joseph along with the albums he’s in?

  Similar to that would be a query by location and person. Or a query that includes two people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their policies, verification systems, KYC/AML processes, risk aversion, and customer support leave many PayPal users with unmet expectations, especially when there is an issue with the transaction and PayPal is asked to assist.

  The company has found ways to avoid some of the regulations that banks are held to which is partly the reason for the issues.

  If you search the web for PayPal experiences, you’ll find concerns such as their 1.3 star rating with almost 35,000 reviews on Trustpilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eBay is a major pain these days for small sellers that just want to unload some stuff.

  A lot of people go there first to run scams, and eBay just blocks sellers left and right.

  Try apps like Mercari, Whatnot, Posh/Vinted (for clothing), and Facebook marketplace. I think you’ll find all of these are friendly to one-off sellers and easy to conduct business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does quicken still sync well with most American banks, investment accounts, and credit card companies?

  I used to be a power user as well but then moved overseas where is syncs with nothing.

  Now I use gnucash with a ton of custom python scraping and importing scripts. It isn’t perfect but as close as I have been able to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was traveling internationally recently and returning to the USA I didn’t even need my passport to clear through immigration. They had a camera which recognized me and gave me the green light to pass as I approached.

  The agent had a few questions and I was on my way.

  It was convenient as hell, but the fact that their system can link me to whatever data is stored with my passport records based on a second or two of recognition out of all the faces that must be in there…

  actually kinda blows.

  It means they can definitely put a street camera system in place and see oh, there’s /u/nucleative. Wonder why he’s at the protest, bank, with that person, driving that car, near a crime scene, or anything else.

  Somehow we have zero privacy yet the enforcement hides behind numbers and masks.

  I expect that this will just continue to go further and further.

  Kids, this is why we needed to push back hard on privacy, random cameras, and facial recognition 20 years ago.

  The metaphorical horse is already out of the barn and removing or disabling these systems will probably never happen now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any resources that compile a good counter-argument to this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife asked daughter to create deepfake AI video of mom asking for chemicals, daughter says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep