nucleative
@nucleative@lemmy.world
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 4 weeks ago:
This. Your data is stored in .md text files so even if Obidian somehow stopped being the best your data is so easy to move around.
Also add to your list mega.nz works for syncing Obsidian across many systems.
- Comment on What is going on behind the scenes when searching for a lemmy post in a search engine? 4 weeks ago:
I think most search engines are not optimized for this. I’m sure it’s changing but might take some time.
Google historically penalizes duplicate content and selects one source as canonical, usually whichever domain is the most authoritative. When it comes to lemmy, whichever instance hosts the community should probably be the canonical source.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 4 weeks ago:
Fascinating… I knew some of this and it is indeed troubling.
It seems that Brave’s mission is actually about generating revenue by any method possible (including manipulation of end users) more than anything to do with privacy.
If you’re cool with all that then Brave is for you I guess.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 1 month ago:
Because spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 1 month ago:
Haven’t checked in a while but is there any hope for cloud storage of the image library yet? I’m kind of holding out for S3 support because I don’t want to manage multiple terabytes locally.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Obsidian has a plug in for this… here is an announcement from the plugin author: reddit.com/…/alpha_release_of_my_handwriting_plug… (sorry for a reddit link)
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Switched from Onenote to obsidian. There was a small learning curve and I had to install some plugins, but I love it. It looks amazing and runs so much faster than OneNote ever did.
- Comment on 3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain 2 months ago:
Smart move by the new owner, anything else would have looked out of touch
- Comment on Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet. 2 months ago:
If you start a competitor that starts to gain some legitimate traction, Meta will offer you more than your company is worth to sell out.
You’d be insane to not accept the offer and retire to only fun projects for the rest of your life.
Because if you refuse the offer, they’ll put an army of software developers 10x larger than your whole company on their team replicate your product to kill you before you can hope to reach escape velocity.
If you had investors, or a spouse, they will kill you for not having made the right choice.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 4 months ago:
I guess this device needed to connect to some remotely hosted server that enabled its functionality. And the company was losing money and hoping that sales would eventually pick up enough to make them profitable. But their latest investor decided not to put any more money in, and the company ran out of cash and can’t pay its bills anymore.
The entrepreneur thought he could get more investor cash and ran the business in such a way that it would fall off a cliff if he didn’t. And… He failed to secure more financing.
I have mixed feelings about products like this… If the device somehow needed to host an entire internet’s worth of data to function, it certainly wouldn’t have cost only $800. But when you buy a product that depends on the ongoing viability of the seller, you’re in a position of caveat emptor - You better vet them out yourself, especially if they’re new.
Hopefully the founders feel some emotional attachment to their product and the trust bestowed upon them by their unknowing customers, and release whatever on the back end makes the thing work so that motivated customers could reactivate their devices somehow.
- Comment on Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing 5 months ago:
The buyer of chrome could make bing the default search engine and re-enable whatever broke Ublock origin (the ad blocker)
They could also cripple gapps and gmail a bit. It would also be harder for google to unilaterally develop new web standards.
That would no doubt consternate a few at Google and knee cap them forcing web shit down our throats that only improves their ad business.
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 5 months ago:
Me too but here’s one useful function:
Perhaps you are aware there is an ongoing event, say for example a football game, or an election, or an outage of your email service provider. You go to one of these “scream into the void” social sites, search on the topic, and learn what people are saying about it. Maybe someone knows what’s really going on, maybe some of those people have some interesting insights and you engage with them, not unlike you and I are engaging right now. Others can observe, perhaps contribute, and after the event has concluded, everyone goes their own way. Hopefully in the end the interactions are beneficial for all.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 5 months ago:
Could build a reverse proxy to mask Lemmy links behind something that seems more legit
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
And if you work for a company that supports causes you don’t agree with… Move on.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 5 months ago:
I could lend out my old computer with old games installed to somebody else to use, right?
What if instead i lend my hard drive, is it still the same thing? Or what if I lend out my remote access screen sharing password to my old PC. Still the same?
Maybe the legal workaround is to game the system here a bit - forget downloading executables which feels a lot like pirating and just lend access to a system that is legally running the original license.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 5 months ago:
You are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.
- Comment on Help Identify This Connector 5 months ago:
Yeah there’s so many manufacturers of various connectors that it can be really tricky to nail down the exact model numbers
- Comment on Help Identify This Connector 5 months ago:
Looks a lot like MX23A series
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 5 months ago:
It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.
- Comment on China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband 6 months ago:
Meh, your phone probably is. Also likely whatever else you use for connecting to the internet in the west too.a that irony isn’t lost on the local but we’ll educated in china, they just use a VPN. Those who aren’t educated, well, they just don’t know what’s out there.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 6 months ago:
There is a Russian captcha solver bot called xevil that costs under $100 (I think, last time I looked) that has been able to solve nearly all captchas for years. You just have to supply it with relatively expensive proxy IP addresses because Google rate limits solve attempts.
So the title of this article has been true for a long long time. Capatchas are absolutely useless except against poor or uninformed script kiddies.