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- Comment on UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations. 7 hours ago:
I too love a heavy dose of whataboutism with my science.
I think we all know petrol is worse by a huge margin. More knowledge about electric vehicles and their effects is just more good for engineers.
- Comment on UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations. 7 hours ago:
Dafuq.
This is the craziest reaction to knowledge
Knowing something new we didn’t before means… We know more now.
Stop trying to politicize this.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 7 hours ago:
Why too narrow of a use case?
Imagine federation with text linked to other text, that’d be crazy, right?
Wait, it’s actually more complicated than that 🤔
But FR using existing federated protocols to build something like this is EXACTLY what the protocols are for. You don’t need to implement the federation yourself, you can use an existing network
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 7 hours ago:
When the feds come for you for using it
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 7 hours ago:
- Is it open source? (No)
- Is it’s publishing and build pipeline open? (No)
- Can anyone audit it? (No)
- Does the author make unreliable claims of privacy? (Yes)
- Does the author detail how data privacy and security is implemented? (No)
It’sprobably not a honeypot. But it’s also likely to be negligent enough in implementation that it might as well be.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 7 hours ago:
Lol, called it.
Incompetence and false bravado is all but guaranteed with development teams. Especially when it’s closed source, not audited, and has minimal room for feedback loops.
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 10 hours ago:
Samesies
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 1 day ago:
The non-technical public is scared of the word “AI”. When it has a whole spectrum of meanings and implications.
AI has been in use in medicine, engineering, municipal infrastructure…etc long before LLMs/GenAI.
Even new products today (Like those assistive exoskeleton legs) use AI to interpret and extrapolate bodily functions l. And wouldn’t work without it.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 1 day ago:
It’s closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn’t transparent.
For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 2 days ago:
Only if you don’t have the critical thinking to understand how information management is a significant problem and barrier to medical Care
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 days ago:
Moving/copying/reading/deleting tonnes of tiny files isn’t significantly faster on an ssd because the requirements for doing so are not limited by HDDs in the first place.
You mean the actual physical actuator and spinning platter? A hard drive has which limits its traversal speed over its physical media?
You mean that kind of limitation?
I would highly recommend that you learn what a hard drive is before you start commenting about its its performance characteristics. 🤦🤦🤦
For everyone else in the thread, remember that arguing with an idiot is always a losing battle because they will drag you down to their level and win with experience.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 days ago:
This is like asking for a source for common sense statements.
HDDs are pretty terrible at random IO, which is what reading many small files tends to be. This is because they have a literal mechanical arm with a tiny magnet on the end that needs to move around to read sectors on a spinning platter. The physical limitations of how quickly the read right head can traverse limits it’s random I/O capabilities.
This makes hard drives, abysmal, at random I/O. And why defragmenting is a thing.
This is common knowledge for anyone in it and easy knowledge to obtain by reading a Wikipedia page.
SSDs are great at random I/O. They do not have physical components that need to move in order to read from random locations they generally perform equally as well from reading any location. Meaning their random I/O capabilities are significantly better.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
No, I shouldn’t know, IDFC.
Let’s have some actually useful YSK and not celebrity birthdays.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 1 week ago:
These are all holes in the Swiss cheese model.
Just because you and I cannot immediately consider ways of exploiting these vulnerabilities doesn’t mean they don’t exist or are not already in use.
This is one of the biggest mindset gaps that exist in technology, which tends to result in a whole internet filled with exploitable services and devices. Which are more often than not used as proxies for crime or traffic, and not directly exploited.
Meaning that unless you have incredibly robust network traffic analysis, you won’t notice a thing.
There are so many sonarr and similar instances out there with minor vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild because of the same"Well, what can someone do with these vulnerabilities anyways" mindset. Turns out all it takes is a common deployment misconfiguration to turn it into an RCE, which wouldn’t have been possible if the vulnerability was patched.
This is an example of a close to home Swiss cheese model type situation.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 1 week ago:
Please to see: github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
Someone doesn’t necessarily have to brute Force a login if they know about pre-existing vulnerabilities, that may be exploited in unexpected ways
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 1 week ago:
Fail2ban isn’t going to help you when jellyfin has vulnerable endpoints that need no authentication at all.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 1 week ago:
The jellyfin has a whole host of unresolved and unmitigated security vulnerabilities that make exposing it to the internet. A pretty poor choice.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 week ago:
Wayyyyyy less than 20%.
Even removing, incredibly liberal, bot percentages from reddit Lemmy is still < 0.001% of the audience
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 week ago:
It’s a solution to a problem Lemmy will soon have in that case.
Which is bots.
Lemmy isn’t flooded with bots and astroturfing because it’s essentially too small to matter. The audience is something like < 0.001% that of reddit.
Once it grows the problem comes here as well, and we have no answers for it.
It’s a shitty situation for the internet as a whole, and the only solution is verifying humans. And corporations CANNOT be trusted with that kind of access/power
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 2 weeks ago:
2 years ago I talked about the core problem with federated services was the abismal scale ability.
I essentially got ridiculed.
And here we are, with incredibly predictable scaling problems.
If we refuse to acknowledge problems till they become critical, we will never grow past a blip on the corner of the internet.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 3 weeks ago:
Or peach.
Kind of dumb really, I hate censorship.
- Comment on TubeArchivist alternatives that store data in an archive friendly manner? 3 weeks ago:
Oh it’s definitely an easy to read DB. But that’s still beyond the point IMHO.
If you can’t reconstruct the state of your files without 3rd party software to interpret them, then they are not in an archive format.
One should be able to browse their data using OS native tools on an offline device push comes to shove.
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- Comment on OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
I mean at this point you’re just being intentionally obtuse no? You are correct of course, volatile memory if you consider it from a system point of view would be pretty asinine to try and store.
However, we’re not really looking at this from a system’s view are we? Clearly you ignored all the other examples I provided just to latch on to the memory argument. There are many other ways that this data could be stored in a transient fashion.
- Comment on OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s more complicated than that.
Of course, data is persisted somewhere, in a transient fashion, for the purpose of computation.
And then promptly deleted or otherwise garbage collected in some manner.
A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 4 weeks ago:
Ever is this data dump so I can mirror it?
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 4 weeks ago:
Yep, just like electron or Tauri. A web view wrapped in a native application.
These are very common these days. Mainly because it’s just easier to develop UIs with web technologies that look the same everywhere, never without the app.
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 4 weeks ago:
You do know that a pwa can be packaged up in an app container and you won’t even be able to tell the difference?
It doesn’t actually have to operate like a pwa, and require native pwa sport.
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 4 weeks ago:
There are tons of apps that you use that are just well packaged PWAs, packaged as an app store app, and you don’t even know about it.
PWAs only suck on when they suck, just like everything else.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 4 weeks ago:
Did I say that it did?
No?
Then why the rhetorical question for something that I never stated?