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- Comment on CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company 4 weeks ago:
My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.
Her phone storage was full, so:
- Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
- Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
- It then demanded payment to get access to her files.
Google Photos is ransomware by definition.
I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.
Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.
I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.
- Comment on CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company 4 weeks ago:
I’m in Australia. The only thing higher than the mercury is the power bill.
I skipped on solar when building the house. Maybe I should look at doing that. My whole cabinet idles at 100w. The RAM is in an old Cisco 1U server that idles at 130w and is actually slower than my 4th gen core i5 server. It’s never going into prod.
- Comment on CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company 4 weeks ago:
I have 96GB of ECC DDR3 laying around with nothing to put it in. I should find some low-power hardware that will take it.
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 4 weeks ago:
It needs to function like a casino so that Trump can bankrupt it.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 4 weeks ago:
Nope. I habe GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9a with everything backed up over NextCloud on a headless Ubuntu rackmount server.
You were waaaaay off 😆
- Comment on Intel is reportedly preparing a 10% price increase for consumer CPUs 4 weeks ago:
Price increases when demand goes up, or supply goes down.
It’s only cheap when supply exceeds demand. They’re cutting supply here.
To win the AI pop, you gotta have a supply of ECC motherboards ready to go when it all gets scrapped.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 5 weeks ago:
They need to separate gecko properly so we can build things using just the renderer.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address? 5 weeks ago:
Mine would go years without changing. The last few changes were caused by things like the upstream DHCP server failing and being replaced.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 5 weeks ago:
Even if the data comes from kids, it’s not identifiable or personal. It could loosely fall under unpaid child labour if the in-game task is actually just a job in disguise.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
From someone who asked ChatGPT? Unlikely.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Did ChatGPT mention that a vaccine won’t work if the dog already has cancer?
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 1 month ago:
When it’s overrun by bots, the only valid complaint about the content is that it was generated by bots.
Whether the bots are bigoted or racist doesn’t matter.
- Comment on One-fifth of Australian imports have probable links to forced labour 1 month ago:
K-Mart must be edging past 90% at this point.
- 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 1 month ago:
A hardcoded IP is even easier to block.
- Comment on Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds 1 month ago:
No they’re not right. That fuel all ends up in the atmosphere, and the spent rubber ends up in the sea. It costs money to clean all that up.
- 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 1 month ago:
You need plain DNS to resolve the DoH server. Just block that.
- 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 1 month ago:
The TVs absolutely have automated content recognition.
web.archive.org/web/…/vidaa-partnership/
I also stumbled across a diagram lately that showed how this data eventually flowed into displaying ads for medical products. The size of this platform behind the scenes would be huge.
- 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 1 month ago:
changing the TV’s DNS servers or disconnecting it from the internet entirely.
Chiming in as an Australian budget VIDAA owner.
I spotted that this TV attempts to query 8.8.8.8, regardless of your DNS settings. I implemented a port 53 (DNS) redirect so those queries get resolved by my local server.
I also figured out which servers are serving up ads/tracking. I fired an email to Pete and got them added to his list. You’re welcome.
pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php
I didn’t install the latest update, and probably never will.
- Comment on Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns 1 month ago:
Whatever hurdles apply to 18+ media should also apply to online gambling and alcohol stores.
It won’t apply consistently because SportsBet are behind this entire operation.
- Comment on Australians will have to verify their age to watch pornography from Monday. Here’s what you need to know 1 month ago:
Won’t this mean people are pushed onto dodgier sites that refuse to comply with the law?
See you all on tor.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 month ago:
That’s why I have multiple.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 month ago:
The lesson: AI cannot bride an air-gapped backup. This could all be prevented with a crappy portable hard drive from costco.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 month ago:
Yes. It’s like this for close to half the product range at both Coles and Woolworths.
“50% off” I consider to be the normal price. Every price is either doubled or not. There are no “specials”.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 month ago:
Even at $3.60, the supermarkets are pissing on you and telling you it’s raining.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 month ago:
Coles Trend.
You might need to upgrade your browser 😉
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 month ago:
I actually saw Tim Tams on the shelf at a Morrison’s in Northern Scotland, and it was cheaper than Coles in Australia. It’s absurdly priced here.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 1 month ago:
Moto have been making phones for as long as there has been phones. Software issues would get fixed. I don’t think hardware issues are likely.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 month ago:
No, that’s different. Displaylink is basically KVM over USB-C.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 month ago:
DisplayLink. The Dell box I use to hotdesk my office laptop by day also works as a KVM on my pixel 9a. I get power, monitor, keyboard, mouse and ethernet on one cable.