RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 12 hours ago:
It’s a good thing that lots of people have full backups of wikipedia.
I saved a copy for myself at the start of 2025. It took about 23GB of space if I’m remembering right. Maybe I’ll burn a blu-ray copy for long term storage - Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 days ago:
Sounds like creepy spyware
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 week ago:
Everything in this post is wrong, actually. But if you buy shit parts to build your desktop, you’ll have a shitty desktop.
Simple answer is at the motherboard level - you look at your motherboard’s future expansion capability and if you started with a good foundation you can do years of upgrades. Also your computer case needs to be big enough to fit extra stuff, full ATX motherboard size is great.
For example I have a VR gaming rig that runs VR games well on DDR3 RAM and a Sandy Bridge CPU, because it has a decent modern GPU and enough CPU cores + RAM.
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 1 week ago:
Technically no, because it’s cloud-hosted infrastructure. Businesses usually call this IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service.
But it’s still a good way to build your own services that you can possibly trust more than public cloud services. IMO posts about setting up your own trusted services could be valuable content for the community even if you set it up on the cloud.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 2 weeks ago:
But you must consider the possibility that heroin and brain worms damaged his brain, contributing to the stupidity, and his own stupid choices led to those circumstances that possibly increased his stupidity. Thus he remains open to criticize on all those topics.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you’d call that a black hole instead of bubble
- Comment on Reproducible alternatives to nextcloud? 3 weeks ago:
Docker compose Nextcloud could allow you to define your standard Nextcloud server in a yml config file that’s reusable.
Example near the bottom of this page - hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 4 weeks ago:
There’s certainly more to it than just a gimmick. One of the most important things is web filtering for content, which is a useful parental control because children should not be exposed to porn, graphic violence, and other types of mentally harmful content. Controls may not be able to stop everything but they can definitely hinder and slow down the process at least.
- Comment on Can they???? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
Maybe they think they’re requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 months ago:
Had to “upgrade” my work laptop to 11 for security support. Nothing about it is better. Almost everything is slower, and many common operations take more steps to complete on 11 vs 10.
Absolute fuckin’ garbage.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 months ago:
Trusting any of that shit is the problem.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 2 months ago:
I think it’s “huge” for Linux gaming in general and for the general health of the gaming industry. It’s a Linux PC in disguise as a cool form-factor Steam console. I hope it drives more developers of all types to build Linux support instead of just Windows.
The timing of this is also great, with people getting forcibly dunked into the bullshit that is Windows 11 after the end of Windows 10 support. If all my games worked on Linux, I’d have no use for Windows at all.
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 months ago:
I started out with old Macs running System 7, and it was great. I had several good games installed from floppy disks and found some great shareware games online when we got our first modem and internet
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 3 months ago:
Just a little too unlikely to worry about. I’d rather defend my own words in court if it came to that. Yeah I said that shit, and it was fucking true and you know it.
- Comment on Crap, not again! 4 months ago:
What yer sposed to do is prune whole limbs at their bases (or start of fork if trimming a forked limb), to trim these back when needed. Amputating the limbs in the middle causes lots of little sprout limbs to come out of the stump, and makes it look shitty.
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 5 months ago:
Self-hosters are probably the type of people who are interested in getting away from “big tech” corporate solutions for everything, so it makes sense that they would prefer Fediverse versions
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 5 months ago:
You don’t have to host your whole family’s library though. You can start with whatever you want and be on the road to improving your setup.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 months ago:
When you have clothes that you want to keep and they get holes in them, just sew up the holes ya dingus! For your health!
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 5 months ago:
That is correct
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 5 months ago:
It seems like most of the big AI systems are really mass surveillance systems, or Total Information Awareness systems, which explains the fascist embrace of AI evangelism pretty conveniently. Just look at their breathless demands for unfettered access to all information in every location. They even buy data breaches from darknet marketplaces to add to their training databases (read about Flock Safety and that FYI)
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 5 months ago:
Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they’re not in US jurisdiction.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 5 months ago:
Wow great video, that’s some legit investigative journalism with some Mythbusters level experimental research added in. I hope that guy releases the patterns for noise that he came up with.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 5 months ago:
I see 2 morals to the story. Firstly, don’t work at BK for 27 years because they don’t give a shit about you, and you could probably make a better living at many other jobs in that time. Secondly, that rage-bait gathers attention on the internet and can possibly lead to riches if you promote your story of injustice to the public and solicit donations.
- Comment on We will all be slaves 5 months ago:
Arm the homeless
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 6 months ago:
Are people really spending that much on food delivery? That would be totally absurd.
In my part of the USA, a family can easily obtain take-out meals for $10 per person or less. That’s not including a taxi for the food, but picking it up yourself. Takes me about 5-10 minutes in the car to do so.
But also nobody needs a $200 phone plan. Mine is under $50/mo with unlimited data.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 6 months ago:
There is also a cultural lifestyle inflation that has infected society in the last 5-10 years. Everything that can be has been moved to subscription basis, and people all want to have the latest and greatest of everything. Hire a taxi for your burrito delivery and such.
It’s hard to watch people that I know are struggling financially continuously blow money on stuff like daily food delivery and $200/month cell phone plans. I’m just fortunate to have the perspective that comes with growing up before all that was “normal”
- Comment on "Wario" is a Japanese portmanteu of Mario and "warui" (bad), but in Finnish "Wario" is also a homonym of "varjo", "shadow". 6 months ago:
I thought it was just upside down M making a W in the name, upside-down (Bizzarro) Mario
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 6 months ago:
Even though most of the comments here point out the obvious that phones are a risk, this kind of journalism is still important for spreading awareness and documentation of illegal surveillance for the record
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 7 months ago:
McDonalds: Fuck you I’m eating! / Home of the Extra Bigass Fries
