pHr34kY
@pHr34kY@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 22 hours ago:
The top result is always some AI-gen, 2000-word essay response to a simple yes/no question like “Can a dog eat onions?”
I swear they do it to train us to just use the shitty AI summary of the shitty AI essay.
- Comment on Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides 3 days ago:
The bill would jeopardize rideshare services in Colorado “to an untenable degree, and could very well lead to companies that Coloradans rely on exiting the market, raising prices, or reducing the number of drivers,"
What a bizarre statement. If they exit the market, everything will improve.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 5 days ago:
It was previously a “thread.sleep(5000)” in the client code IIRC.
- Comment on Taxing actual rather than unrealised super gains would mean ‘significant’ costs for millions of Australians, Treasury says 1 week ago:
Typical Mercer FUD.
It’s bugger-all work to slap those calcs together. The ledgers are already unitised at member level and it’s only a couple of function calls to calculate unrealised gains for a given period.
Even for defined benefit funds, you can pull quotes at two different dates to calculate gains with very little effort.
- Comment on climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1. 1 week ago:
Threw them over the wall.
- Comment on Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves 2 weeks ago:
If you extend the handle to be about 15cm long, it would be a perch and easy to operate.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I have one. I installed Rockbox on it so it can be used like a USB drive. I have no idea if my car will talk to it over the iPod Accessory Protocol. I never tried.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 4 weeks ago:
Done! I’ve been selfhosting for over 20 years now.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 4 weeks ago:
I would argue that it adds a new failure point, and a catastrophic one at that.
Yes, many hunans don’t monitor their oil properly. I’ve seen some destroy engines because they thought the low oil light could be ignored for a week.
Even if you still had the dipstick, owners would become reliant on the sensor and grenade the engine when it gets it wrong. Remember how Teslas had hoods that flew open while driving? The problem wasn’t the latch. The problem was owners relying on a crappy sensor.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny because any Aussie would read that and know exactly what he means.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 5 weeks ago:
My current server is just my previous desktop PC hardware. $0 when you repurpose while upgrading your desktop.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 weeks ago:
It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. www.plex.tv/plans/
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 5 weeks ago:
And after you install your monthy server update, things break because Grandma’s client is suck in the Obama era.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 weeks ago:
They won’t even get to the login screen.
All my relatives seem to have Hisense VIDAA TVs. There’s a plex app on the store. Jellyfin would require an external device like a Chromecast or HTPC to use it.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 5 weeks ago:
So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They’re just gonna stop backing up?
Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 5 weeks ago:
Android without Google services is basically taking the capitalism away.
Install LineageOS or GrapheneOS without installing Google Play.
Slap on F-Droid for apps and you have a phone that doesn’t talk to Google at all, and is completely beyone their control.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 1 month ago:
I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.
I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.
The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive.
- Comment on Far Out, Brussel Sprout 1 month ago:
I had both books as a kid and I have no idea where they went.
- Comment on Unfortunately happens too often I think 1 month ago:
My neighbours were like that. I saw them walk their dogs once in 10 years.
Their dogs are long gone and mine turns 18 in July.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 1 month ago:
Almost all of selfhosting is editing config files, setting permissions and starting/stopping services.
Setting it up so you can administer a server by desktop is probably as hard as learning how to edit config files from a terminal. Maybe harder.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 1 month ago:
I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.
- Comment on Digg's reboot homepage design 1 month ago:
I like it, but it’s a desktop layout and they’ll get no adoption until it’s available as a native mobile app
My work PC is so locked down these days that social media happens on my phone even when I’m at my desk.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 1 month ago:
I can be absolutely certain no apps can access my mic in the background. Even when in the foreground, there is a hot-mic indicator.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 month ago:
It’s such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friend’s OC (not reshared garbage).
It’s about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I’d take it.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month ago:
You’d think they would make it increment every half mile instead of doing something stupid like this.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 month ago:
Not because of advancements in technology, but because of erosion of regulations.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 2 months ago:
Ray tracing at 24fps is not a big ask for a modern gaming PC.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 2 months ago:
So, the manufacturers can pollute as much as they want and push the guilt on us?
This is a regulatory problem on the supplier side, not a consumer problem.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 2 months ago:
It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.
- Comment on The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2 2 months ago:
Google has found exactly what you’re searching for. It’s just they can make more money by suggesting something else.
