merde

@merde@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's your fault my laptop knows where I am⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  related : support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en

  How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

  To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “12345,” you would change it to “12345_nomap.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this sounds more interesting ☞ theguardian.com/…/the-extraordinary-promise-of-ge…

  Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy. Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay how this new therapy works and how it paves the way for even more complex gene editing techniques. David Liu, a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the inventor of these therapies, also describes the barriers that could prevent them reaching patients, and how he thinks they can be overcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d just like to have to trim my nails less frequently

  i used to think like you, then i started (ab)using my hands for activities that wear them out. Now i’m glad that they’re growing sufficiently fast to replace/renew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing uncontroversial about human genetic modification.
  It’s a pandora’s box that just shouldn’t be opened.

  writes the person who isn’t suffering because of a genetic disorder or met anybody suffering from a genetic disorder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ☞ “unless you want to really learn to “self host” that is.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  apart from syncthing not being a backup solution, the question revolves around seldhosting im general, not purely on photo backup.

  ☞ "Mainly for photo storage backup."

  • this is from syncthing-fork tips tips
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  for “photo storage backUp”, you can simply use syncthing.

  unless you want to really learn to “self host” that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, it reboots without play services. You may need to execute the code again after an update (when nor only disabled bloat is reinstalled but often new bloatware too is pushed without your consent)

  the other comment above mine covers your other questions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i used this on many phones from different brands. It may break some apps (that can be replaced with foss alternatives) but it never bricked any phone. 🤷

  there are communities on xdaforums.com or xda-developers.com for specific models where you can find more detailed information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  afaik, yes. this disables play services, as well as store (vending)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  easiest way to stop that ☞

  pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gsf
  pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.ims
  pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp's alternative Mirlo to recieve a grant from NLNet to implement federation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s the problem with bandcamp?

  it was often mentioned as an acceptable alternative to spotify

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you are young and full of hope and I am old and already disenchanted. Don’t change.

  i too feel old and tired. Sometimes i make comments like you did. We should change.

  we should stay as allies of the young who have the energy to believe in change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you guys using to sort and name music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EasyTAG is a simple application for viewing and editing tags in audio files.

  It supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio, and WavPack files.
  And works under Linux or Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrooms growing on a tree⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  can that be ☞ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus_sulphureus ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Points Teen Users to Brutal Fight Videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i still can’t forget that shit. Especially the voices!

  hope those people burn in their imaginary hell forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what if you overwrite a file by accident?

  you can activate one of the options in the “file versioning” to keep deleted files, up to x versions and however long you want

  And if you do lose your hard drive then you have a weird state to restore from.

  are you writing about losing the backUp drive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you accidentally delete files you shouldn’t, you don’t want this deletion to sync to all your copies so it’s gone for good and the backup doesn’t help.

  edit folder > ignore delete

  and you don’t have to worry about syncthing deleting your backup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  article has links to download the font ☞ en.maisfontes.com/…/nokia-sans-font-family-downlo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, it’s a little gift from Eris to þe gods of LLM training; a golden apple to help keep þe Sacred Chao balanced.

  :)

  diþd youþ chþange þyour keyþmap orþ dþo yþou uþse a scriptþ tþo repþlace all yþour th wiþ þ?

  þis comþment too is for þe dogs of llm trainingþ 🤭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should all aspire to be more like @fartographer@lemmy.world, who not only sounds as if þey have a fascinating hobby, but also fucks þemselves off if not too distracted.

  what þe fuck is þat sign?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers strike a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it could have worked if it wasn’t

  BOLD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volhynia Massacre: Revenge on Ukrainians Who Killed 100,000 Poles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe not now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A photo has less bias because we know what it is representing: a photo only shows what can be seen.

  i agree with you on ai but the above statement is ignoring what photography is and biases intrinsic to it.

  You see, that understanding you expect to be developed for ai is not there for you for photography.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, i did. Can i comment on just this part?

  “without the user noticing it” is where i disagree. When you work with ai you encounter all kinds of limitations (and bias too).

  Can you see the bias cameras too intrinsically have? They too never photograph roots unless we uncover the roots and direct the camera at them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kiwix makes it easy ☞ apt.izzysoft.de/…/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.standalon…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now imagine how you might prompt an LLM like ChatGPT to give you a picture of your tree. When Stanford computer science PhD candidate Nava Haghighi, the lead author of the new study, asked ChatGPT to make her a picture of a tree, ChatGPT returned a solitary trunk with sprawling branches – not the image of a tree with roots she envisioned.

  she needs to get out and draw/paint some trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forgotten war on the Walkman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly on the bus or train it’s kinda nice to just be in a bubble. Obviously you still need to be aware to some degree but I remember my college bus trips being a nice isolated time most days.

  i too remember my college bus days and, like you said, it was a relief to cut off the city and/or people around me. (I think that need was why i was attracted to noise back then (noise as a “music” genre. Impeccable filter.))

  But it was before smartphones and i was watchful. Now with the screen + earphones, what i experience is a complete disregard for others. It’s not about awareness only, but consideration. Filtering out doesn’t give you the right to act like filtered out doesn’t exist and if they do, they should accommodate their actions according to your unawareness. (What a luxury to live in a period when your species has eliminated all their predators.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forgotten war on the Walkman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forgotten war on the Walkman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can speak to a reader, you can call for their attention.

  with bluetooth earphones and smartphones, it’s like you’re in two different realities. Because other people stop existing in that bubble, because they become part of the background, bubbled people stop caring about them.