cley_faye
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- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 days ago:
Also it’s fully legal for the end user to modify stuff on their own end
Although I 100% agree with you, the whole premise of this post is that laws can change. What’s legal now is not a good basis to say “it’s legal, so it can’t be illegal later on”.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 days ago:
Screen reader? You better make sure it only works on a site that explicitly allows them, and no reorganizing these sections, or else!
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 days ago:
Another way to subsidize a very small handful of extremely large businesses that are already richer than some countries, and outright kill small actors? Sign me up.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 days ago:
Ads that hide the content, ads that hijack your navigation, unwanted ads that consume your bandwidth which may or may not be on a paid plan, ads that will slow down your device, increase battery usage, or plain crash the site you’re trying to see, all of these are just malware. There’s no excuse for malware.
For a time, adblockers had a provision to allow non intrusive ads. The mere idea is so dead that the option doesn’t even make sense anymore.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 days ago:
How? Simple. A parliament of sort writes the law, it gets accepted. Then, the thing, whatever it is, is illegal.
It have no bearing on your ability to use the thing, of course. However, people providing the thing, people that are found out of using the thing, and people that facilitate using the thing are now easier to arrest.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 1 week ago:
Sell it to who? Most business must keep records of the stuff they use in their books. A roll of optic fiber this large would cost a substantial amount of money, so using one “off the books” would require some creativity. And I’m not sure there’s much use for individuals for that much.
Copper is interesting because there are business that buys it by weight for recycling purposes.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
It’s not a matter of “getting better”. It’s a matter of having the bandwidth. You can’t serve a video to ten of thousands of people from one or two servers. And you can’t do it with P2P at that scale either. There’s nothing technical to do about that; it’s basically a physic limitation. To address that you’d have to publish your video in dozens or hundreds of servers beforehand, and the system have to handle load balancing and source lookup efficiently. Basically, work as a full CDN. And that’s expensive to do. The reason youtube can do that is not that they have wonderful, almost magical software running on their servers, it’s that they have a lot of them.
And, sure, it doesn’t apply to most people. Which is irrelevant; most people are not what are driving the masses. One large enough youtuber going peertube would give it more visibility than thousands of individual people. That’s the reason people are still using youtube; because people go where the content they want is.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
Beside a big whack behind the head, Ublock Origin Lite is supported on chrome. You lose some features, and it is slower to update, but should still mostly work. Unfortunately, the youtube/ublock fight move quite fast, so results won’t be as good on that front.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
WE DONT FUCKING NEED GOOGLE!
Unless you make extremely popular video with hundred thousands views in the first day, in which case, yeah, good luck with peertube.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
Imagine using Adblock/Adblock plus in 2025.
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 1 week ago:
A more secure solution would be to implement proper security server side, use simple (and cheap!) heuristics to weed out impossible movements and actions, not offload critical gameplay processing client side, and only send relevant data. Some, if not most of that, was how things were done before. No way to teleport wherever, no way to see people across the whole map, and so on. It would not be perfect, but no solution is. It, however, would be very easy to upgrade, and not be a privacy shit-show. But that requires a bit more work from the devs, so I guess the only solution is to give absolute total control over our devices to them.
I can’t wait to see the moment we get cheap devices good enough to process in realtime video input and produce adequates outputs. Get that enclosed in a device that acts as a passthrough KVM for the display, but auto-correct user aim, movement, toggles, etc. As long as there’s a market, I’m sure people will think about it.
Good luck detecting that with any kind of client-side anti-cheat.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 1 week ago:
There is an “All” feed? I just subscribe to funny stuff.
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 1 week ago:
Sure, knock yourself out.
old.reddit.com/…/the_eu_commission_refuses_to_dis…
Lots of on-topic discussion, with links to many, many site, including official ones, clearly angling for the “it’s for your safety” proposal.
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 1 week ago:
They’re sacrificing privacy for playing a video game with moderately less cheaters sometimes when that works, not for security.
And although sacrificing privacy is rarely good, I believe there are some situations that could be acceptable. Playing a video game isn’t one of these (to me at least…).
- Comment on Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos 1 week ago:
No joke, when asked about it, they produced a PDF page with a table full of black redacted squares. And by full I mean every single cell was blacked out.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
So, are you not understanding that other people work differently, or are you just not using that skill?
The very first five words of my message was that this was useful to some people.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Their public, reviewed 2023 financial statement and their official documents about administration salaries and bonus.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
In the datalake? :D
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
It is to some people. My approach though, when I happen to have multiple “work group” to organize, is just to use my OS ability to have multiple windows. No need for any extra bloat, the feature is already there, and it works as I’m used to.
But apparently, using the tools already available to you is not a common skill these days :(
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
They haven’t needed donations for years. In the current situations donos are, at best, part of the CEO and top-brass bonus.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
Ha, computer bro upvote for you.
I learned programming with my Amstrad CPC (6128!) manual. Some of it I did not understand at the time, especially stuff about CP/M and the wizardry with
poke. But the BASIC, that worked very well. Solid introduction to core concepts that didn’t really change much, really. We only expanded (a lot) over them. - Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
Don’t mention it! I’m glad I could help you with that.
I am a large language model, trained by Google. My purpose is to assist users by providing information and completing tasks. If you have any further questions or need help with another topic, please feel free to ask. I am here to assist you.
/j, obviously. I hope.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
sigh yes, you’re smarter than the bingo cage machine.
- Comment on OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners 2 weeks ago:
It’s just so sycophantic.
That’s what it is, really. Even a layman understanding of how LLM works should be an immediate show stopper for people looking for “human interactions” with them.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
More money. More power. More control over millions of people. Control over what you say? Not their problem; just control everything.
The ability to deny other what they want is a drug to some people; make them feel superior.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
As long as owning a device that allow full E2E encryption without spyware isn’t illegal.
It bears repeating a lot of time : the technology to circumvent these things exist, and will continue to exist. However, there’s nothing preventing obtuse lawmakers from making it illegal to own. And then, it’s just a matter of catching someone and finding some rooted android phone in his pocket.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
but so far nothing happened
Things happens frighteningly fast these days. It’s not a matter of being complacent; it’s a matter of budding things in the nip. Which won’t work. Then tirelessly fight back against it.
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock these last few… weeks. Not even months. Some legislation can go from 0 to 100 extremely quickly if left unchecked.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
The EU decides what’s GDPR. And it seems recently it decided to not be buggered by those old ideas that are privacy, freedom, etc.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
And Gmail can retrieve your mails from proton using IMAP. It’s even in their own (proton’s) documentation.I don’t think it can. Where in the documentation did you find that?
An online search brought me here : getmailbird.com/…/access-protonmail-com-via-imap-… which did looks like a documentation page about how to do exactly that. Obviously, it has nothing to do with them, and the actual details makes no sense the lower you get in the page. I’ve been had :)
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
I’ll just repost the same message here, for completion sake.
Well, I’ve been had. There is no IMAP support indeed, during my quick lookup around it, I ended up on a website that does look a lot like a real documentation that claim it does. My bad.
The point about sending and receiving messages in cleartext stands, as SMTP works that way, but at rest it is possible they’re keeping them encrypted.