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- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
They’re not exempt from marketing. I am. I only use proof-of-use from those around me.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
I don’t think it is. I know a few people like this, and im heading in that direction myself. The only kinds of “ads” that work on me are when a number of equally nerdy people I know find a new thing, and they’ve demonstrated that it has helped them with something or they are genuinely enjoying using it. Like 3D printing. Its semi-pointless most of the time but it is a genuinely fun hobby, which when combined with 3D modeling and post-processing skills becomes an actual craft. I didn’t get into it until a good number of people around me did.
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 4 weeks ago:
Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they’re worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.
It doesn’t matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.
Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché “broken clock right twice a day” moments.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 5 weeks ago:
They support web browsers
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 1 month ago:
I wish we would all start switching over to JSON for configuration files. It’s so much easier to parse, and you can’t screw it up with too many spaces or not enough.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 1 month ago:
You are allowed to charge money for open source.
Its the recipe that makes the food you’re eating that would need to be publicly available and free to redistribute.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
Why are we not calling the CEOs and other MBA/c-suite goblins directly?
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 1 month ago:
This is some Grade-A whataboutism right here.
Of COURSE the people in that group chat deserve punishment, and probably the same 20 years that French(?) guy got depending on who all did what.
Just because that happened though doesn’t excuse that this happened. The company did a horrendous thing by holding onto highly sensitive and private data it said it should have deleted, AND the userbase was absolutely vile and abusive towards men.
All three things need to see justice brought to them, and you should not excuse one just because another happened and wasn’t dealt with properly.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 1 month ago:
Both the company, for failing to protect its users; and a large majority of its users, for doxxing and libel.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 month ago:
It doesn’t mean you don’t get those things, it just means that you don’t use them via a control panel.
There are a few solutions for shadowplay that are all decent to excellent, rtx HDR I think is automatic in Proton? Not sure what you mean by game filters unless you’re talking about reshade, and I wasn’t aware there was a video upscaler in Firefox.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 month ago:
Linux has HDR support now, and there are slightly more configuration options for it than in Windows under KDE Plasma. These are very recent developments.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 2 months ago:
Isn’t this the plot of Pantheon?
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 2 months ago:
We didn’t like it when Mark did it, why would we like it now?
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 2 months ago:
Oh I most certainly cared back then, just felt like nobody wanted to listen to me. Full Linux, grapheneos stack with no google play services, no Microsoft, nearly free of google (replacing gmail is going to be a monumental task, but it’s my last one).
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 2 months ago:
Listen, I’m extremely anti-trump but the guy has a point. Evil things can be evil regardless of who is in charge, but we only seem to care when the narrative shifts in certain directions. Why didn’t we care about this back then?
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 2 months ago:
The treaties and international laws between these countries absolutely allow the EU to enforce GDPR against companies and individuals outside of the EU if it involves an EU citizen as the victim. I know this because I have to work with it every day and I’m from the US.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
I don’t agree with the practice but I do see the point - it reduces anxiety and gives your partner a sense that you’re okay for relationships where trust is strong. For toxic relationships this should absolutely not be a thing.
As far as governments or companies selling the data… You can use some self-hosted services on a de-googled GrapheneOS or LineageOS install and use sattelite location only. Then, pipe that to a self hosted solution that doesn’t sell your data like homeassistant or whatever.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 months ago:
Support devices like the Liberux Nexx or the pinephone, especially if you are a developer!
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 2 months ago:
Pot, meet kettle.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 2 months ago:
Movies already have ratings systems and age checks.
Lol.
Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.
You realize words still count right?
The bible is just text, there’s no gore or violence that kids can see.
I repeat the above.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 2 months ago:
Movies, books, and video games all have a decently sizeable amount, yea. Especially the Bible.
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 3 months ago:
You want abliterated models, not distilled.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 3 months ago:
I can’t believe I forgot about this greentext. I knew it but didn’t catch it… I apologize
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 3 months ago:
There’s a “your mom” joke here but I’m not going to make it because you don’t deserve that.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 3 months ago:
That exists, its called GPT4chan, and it went exactly like you’d expect.
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 3 months ago:
What I am telling you is that while that sounds like an amazing idea in theory, in practice almost no stores offer it. How can we do that if its not even an option? I have literally never seen it done anywhere here or in any of the other places I’ve traveled to (I’ve been to about 5 different states this year alone).
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 3 months ago:
Most stores dont let you take the hand scanner, and it would consume that kiosk the entire time you’re shopping.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 3 months ago:
Its just whatever is built into copilot.
You can do a quick and dirty test by opening copilot chat and asking it something like “outline the vulnerabilities found in the following code, with the vulnerabilities listed underneath it. Outline any other issues you notice that are not listed here.” and then paste the code and the discovered vulns.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 3 months ago:
That seems to be the direction the industry is headed in. GHAzDO and competitors all seem to be converging on using AI as a force-multiplier on top of the existing solutions, and it works surprisingly well.
