TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update November 2024 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for these reports/updates, always nice to see, it’s kind of like a newsletter, shedding light on various new communities worthy of visiting or looking for a new mod or so. :)
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 weeks ago:
They used PimEyes, nothing new.
Of importance: they do not want to release the tool but use it as a way to raise awareness.
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 4 weeks ago:
That does not sound like a viable long term solution to me.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Wizz
- Comment on 48,000 liters of PFAS-contaminated water leaked from U.S. army base in Japan in August 5 weeks ago:
What military activity generates PFAS?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I fully understand this to be a controversial take, but I think it is important to acknowledge that not all advertisement is the same. While I dislike all forms of advertisement, I only take issue with non ethical ones, which are based on surveillance. I don’t have any ethical concern with contextual advertisement which is how some search engines provide advertisement, such as giving advertisement for food when searching for food.
But it is also critically important that extensions remain a part of the browser, to give a certain level of control to the person navigating the web instead of just allowing any website to freely track our activities.
I don’t know what the path forward is for Mozilla. Google is unlikely to be able to fund Mozilla the way it has until now as a recent ruling which has deemed google as a monopolistic actor clawing at its default status everywhere it can. This was a major founding source for Mozilla. They need to figure out financing and while it is easy to criticize, we must also recognize the challenge it is to give sustainable and important funding sources to Mozilla. I really wish I had an answer… Can it somehow depend exclusively on its users for donations? Should It sell support services? Should it branch into more lucrative areas? If yes, which ones? It may need to be a combination thereof but for now, I’m personally blinded. We need to get together on this, because if we can’t help Mozilla, can we help anyone who might fall into this situation?
- Comment on Stop killing games 1 month ago:
It’s impressive how this initiative has gathered 360k votes in no time yet completely stagnated ever since. I don’t think it means that the initiative is done, actually I am quite optimistic it can pass, but these things go in waves. I think every time there is a new coverage on the initiative it launches it higher, we just need some folks who have some local presence in the EU to get their audience to act. Perhaps some famous video game streamers? Has that been done already?
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 1 month ago:
it seems AT&T may be interested in looking for alternatives to VMware?
- Comment on Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade (7390) - Greg Davill 1 month ago:
This was already quite a significant challenge compared to socketed RAM, but now with Lunar Lake I guess this is simply impossible? The RAM chips are colocated with the CPU…
- Comment on YouTuber claims another channel used AI to clone his voice without consent 1 month ago:
I think unless they have demonstrated bad faith in the past, we should still give them the benefit of the doubt that this was an honest mistake though it raises some other concerns as to what the internal process is for green lighting this when they had worked with Jeff in the past?
- Comment on Denmark is the 5th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total! 2 months ago:
And the Netherlands are 6th! But the hardest part will be reaching that Million threshold… We still have a lot of time, but the pace has certainly slowed down the last few weeks compared to the skyrocketing in the early days. I think we will need to have more awareness spread around the campaign, perhaps try to reach mainstream media in some ways…
- Comment on Acer’s first handheld gaming PC is the Nitro Blaze 2 months ago:
Looks kind of average to me. Also, I wonder if it would not have made sense to build it on Lunar lake if it was to be announced/released this late?
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 2 months ago:
Is there any source I can read to find out more about this?
- Comment on Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable 2 months ago:
[…] after confirming the database contains images of Dutch citizens.
How could they confirm this?
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
I think early last year they hyped some potential partnership to have a custom grapheneOS device, anyone know what happened to that?
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, what? That does not make sense to me.
- Comment on Day 33 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Loved this game and the story. The second half of the game is where it really become interesting! I remember that mission in the screenshot :)
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25% 3 months ago:
This is going very well it seems! I see the next few countries close to passing the threshold are:
- Denmark (88%)
- Netherlands (87%)
- Germany (75%)
Assuming we get those, we would need one more country. The highest remaining country is Ireland (55%). Getting all those still wouldn’t reach 1M signatures, but the rest could keep being distributed across the EU (even including countries which have already passed the threshold, I’m assuming).
This is all very exciting and gives me a lot of hope! Keep signing folks!
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 3 months ago:
I think it exists and works but that its simply not in their best interest to have people use it and be found out that they used chatgpt, for OpenAI’s business/profit potential. I have nothing to back it up but have just lost all faith in OpenAI.
- Comment on North Korean group infiltrated 100-plus companies with imposter IT pros: CrowdStrike report 3 months ago:
Serious question: how does North Korea train “imposter IT pros”? Are these people working for the government who get access to the www? How do they then develop the skills to be selected as such in the first place? What kind of programming experience us taught in NK?
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
I can very much imagine this being a short to medium term issue (and still an existential threat to Mozilla), but hopefully, this improves the situation to the point that there is future company like google who artificially maintains control over browsers and search engines, rendering competitors dependent on these massive contracts? I mean, this is what got them there, right?
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July? 4 months ago:
Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 4 months ago:
I have this one sitting on my digital shelf, should probably play it!
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 4 months ago:
The Witcher 3. It’s not far from being 10, but got a very nice graphics update for free and has 2 DLC. The game and the DLC and the free graphics update and a very recent mod kit, all for around 10-15 USD right now on gog.com. it’s a steal! I highly recommend it. It became my favorite game of all time, very fast. And it will offer around 100h, and it will also offer replayability. What is there not to like?
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 5 months ago:
Why? Do Russians not deserve a good browser?
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 5 months ago:
As Mozilla, you probably don’t have much choice. What’s the alternative? Get yourself banned? How is that better? At least this way, locals can use Firefox despite not having access to those extensions. And people find clever ways to get those extensions anyway, so it’s the lesser evil I guess?
- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 5 months ago:
You’re putting a very large amount of trust on something which may simply require the flip of a switch to add the specified information to be sent back to Google along with all the regular heavy telemetry already feeding back…
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 6 months ago:
Perhaps, but this is unrelated. The magnetic charges may still be there, but if the reference to the content is deleted, how is the filesystem meant to know what file is there? This seems really suspicious to me.