cley_faye
@cley_faye@lemmy.world
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
Well, too bad. Do something else.
But as long as people have some brain, if the market gets a majority of “smart” devices to the point there’s enough people looking for alternative, some people are likely to try and fill the gap. It might become a new niche market, but it’s one place where supply and demand will work to our advantage.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
The alternative is having every individual program try to store data about the user in their own, non-interoperatble formats
The alternative is NOT to store that data system wide, NOT have it made easily available to anything in the first place, and NOT normalizing having all your personal data available at will to everything.
Are you really arguing about the convenience of having personal data available system wide when it’s is absolutely irrelevant to 99.9% of running applications?
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
The biggest defense for this I see is:
- it’s not bad now
- it’s not mandatory
- it will remain unused like the other fields that were previously there
- you can put anything in it
Then, tell me, why bother adding this in the first place, exactly at the time governments are looking toward full control of everybody’s computers? If it’s that innocent and useless, either someone really likes throwing shit up, or it won’t stop there.
And given the slate of other things that “didn’t stop there” in the past few years, you know, it cost nothing to be cautious. Especially if it’s “so useless you won’t even notice it’s there” after all.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
Until the next one refuses to even pass through HDMI if it’s not connected.
Just don’t buy shitty devices.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 week ago:
I’m sure you think you’re smart dropping a short, “insightful” three word post. But you might have missed the constant falling down we’ve been having in every possible places these last few years. It’s not a fallacy when it turns out to be a series of fulfilled plans.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 week ago:
is a classic slippery slope
Were have you been the last few years or so? We’re not just “going down” one slippery slope after another, we’re speeding down them.
- Comment on You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler 1 week ago:
To look nice.
- Comment on You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler 1 week ago:
Hey, I know this place.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 week ago:
Good luck building a distro that play nice with your fork, then. Systemd is embedded deep in most distro, replacing it without breaking things is not an easy task.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 week ago:
Damn. It’s only being talked about and people have already folded.
It’s only a date field. Then it’ll only be an API for other service integration. Then it’ll only be an optional plug into a remote service. Then it’ll only be an optional, but strongly recommended, dependency in other software. Then it’ll only be a digitally signed third-party value that’s mandatory. Then it’ll only be something most installer won’t proceed without.
We’ve been jumping from slippery slopes to slippery slopes over the past few years. It’s tiring. And the coincidental timing of all this is not helping.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 week ago:
Linux Distros (so far) Refusing Age Verification
The systemd dude, ever so flexible, is already working on adding this into core components, though.
- Comment on Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations 1 week ago:
It already happened in the actual demo pictures nvidia themselves provided. Colors appearing out of nowhere, details showing up or decor elements disappearing, etc.
It’s a shitshow, and it was the best they could garner in a finely controlled environment.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 1 week ago:
You can use the web page, aka udm14. You can also set this in your browser so that typing in the search/address bar directly opens this.
I have no idea if this particular development affects these results, but so far it’s been nice. No AI summary, no “similar” advertisement, no “questions about…”. Just plain results. Like, I don’t know, that old google website.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
Post is about someone going to home depot
Post is SO NOT about going to home depot. Not even close. The exact same post would have achieved the same goal with any other name. Have you even glanced at the picture?
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
You didn’t even give a single glance at the picture, did you?
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
The customer support at the bottom.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
Quite irrelevant here.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 weeks ago:
Sam Altman saying that programmers are not needed anymore is all the confirmation I need to know we’ll be very much needed, maybe a lot more than before, probably sooner than expected.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Who actually cares?
Every people that complains, for one. And the “back” feature, with apps that follows the guidelines, is quite useful and consistent.
- Comment on so many want the body they dont have 2 weeks ago:
I mean… to begin with, sure.
^ this much haha hoho
- Comment on so many want the body they dont have 2 weeks ago:
<creep>What a coincidence, I want both their bodies too.</creep>
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 weeks ago:
Setting up DoH, I already provide the expected name AND an IP. No need for plain DNS at any step. There’s no reason a corporate TV can’t do that either.
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 3 weeks ago:
So, instead of burning your body working for miserable wages for a boss, you work yourself out taking pictures, and suddenly it’s bad?
Seriously. I know only a few people can actually get a decent living out of this, but that sounds smarter than what the majority of people struggle with in the long run.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 3 weeks ago:
How about no, for a change.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 3 weeks ago:
And everytime I get a document in a Microsoft format I send a reply asking if this or that is supposed to look that way or be that value. Yet it’s the open format and tools that’s an issue somehow.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 4 weeks ago:
Training brain-chip to Rip&Tear, I’m sure this can never go wrong.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 4 weeks ago:
Not only I consent, but I actually want it to happen. That’s the issue.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. I got a hunch of that a while ago, while trying some “old” scenarios of de-anonymization we used to do by hand. Just asking questions and posting pictures got surprisingly accurate results. A single picture with (to me) no significant landmark could lead to localizing a specific part of a city, and that was using a local LLM with a relatively small model, running on a 16GB VRAM 4060Ti.
It is now time to remember fondly the time where the younger people were warned by older people to not post all their stuff online, not over-share, be cautious about strangers, etc. I’m not sure when we lost that, but oh boy, it’s a festival.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 4 weeks ago:
No, I don’t think I wil.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft-supported formats are badly documented, and regularly broken by updates of the software before changes are understood (if there’s even an update to the loose spec we used to have). That’s a problem.