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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe people finally understand that it is useless to swap the phone every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.

  True, we need the Fediverse, but the Fediverse is only a little harder to knock down, not impossible.
  Expecially in the US where fighting in court could simply (and often) bankrupt you. All it is needed to take down and instance is asking the provider the owner of the IP and then sue him for something. A company could fight, a private owner no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Elections are run by the individual states (unless something egregiously unconstitutional is going on) which allows the governor and even local election officials to make decisions that affect how hard it is to vote almost down to a street level basis.

  Same here, it does not seems to be a problem.

  If you don’t want people from blue areas to vote, you just put in fewer polling stations, and make them in less convenient places for areas that skew blue on the map.

  That assumes that you already know how people would vote. Yes, historical data could give a hint but not a certainty. It is some times that polls are spectacularly wrong.

  So adding 30 seconds to the voting time doesn’t really matter for a rural station that might need to service 100 people in a day, but for an inner city location that might need to service 100 people a minute those 30 seconds per person really add up.

  True, but think about who could spare more time when voting (hint, probably not the people you want to vote) and you will realize that it is a stupid idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you in principal, verifying your identity before voting is important because elections are important. We should be having a conversation about creating a system that is both comprehensive and also doesn’t impose a burden on people without means. For example, a lot of people don’t have an ID to satisfy the proposed requirements and would have a difficult time getting these credentials before election day.

  That is your problem number 2…

  In addition, in order to get these documents a person would have to jump through a lot of bureaucratic loopholes and pay fees. Many of these people are poorer and are more affected by the dire economic situation. The systems are complicated and despite being involved in this sphere for a few years I couldn’t tell you the steps and fees required to get all of the documents. This isn’t a simple system where a person can just walk into a government office and walk out with a working ID.

  and that is you problem number 1.
  It is inconceivable to me that a situation like this could even exist in the US.
  I get that many US people would start crying about “freedom” and everything else but the basic line is that a ID should be mandated by law for everyone. And it should be easy to obtain, I mean how difficult could be to do it ? Seriously.

  It seems to me that these are not real problem, other countries solved them dozens of years ago, it is just that you people (assuming you are from US) don’t want to solve them.

  If we’re going to have a system requiring Secure IDs (I’m not sure the EU analog, but you guys have a similar secure identity scheme being pushed) then we need to make getting Secure IDs dead simple because the average citizen needs to be able to vote and also shouldn’t be subjected to heavy administrative burden in order to participate in the democratic system.

  A card with a chip and all the information in that chip, to read it you need just a reader.
  Or a qrcode with all the information encoded ?
  Even the old Italian ID (made of paper) was secure, it does not seems to be a problem without solutions, just copy from someone who already did it.

  As for the problem with electronic black box voting stations, yes, they are a problem per se irregardless of who propose or built them. They would be a problem for the exact same reasons if they were proposed by Biden. But I still belive that a selection of who can vote done as you suggest is impraticable, you have no way of knowing who vote what before. A massive refusal to allow a certain population to vote would be noted in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The check in the US is done when you register to vote. Once you are registered, a variety of proofs of ID can be used to vote at your polling location.

  And why the double check ? It would not be better to just go to the polling station, show your id and then vote ?
  (I undestand that it is a simplification, in the US people move way more often that here and this add some other problems)

  Requiring a passport and birth cert or some other strong ID are unnecessary at the actual voting site. The main reason for doing this is to make voting take longer,

  Considering that if I have no one before me to vote, it take about 30 seconds from the moment I enter the polling station and the moment I am handed the cards to cast the vote I would argue that saying that this way it will take longer is not really true.
  And, btw, we do the check of the document against a printed list who containt all the names of the people who can vote at a polling station, splitted between man and women.

  and be more strenuous, which means that you can have a greater effect on election results by manipulating the number of polling stations for an area.

  Every difficulty you build to try to make harder for your enemy voters to cast their vote is a difficulty you set up also for your voters.
  And simply manipulating the number of polling station in a certain area give you nothing: people who want to vote against you will come anyway and you cannot know if they will come before your voters of after and which voters eventually will lose their patience and just go home without casting a vote

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Changing the system do not make it more secure by default. Here the SSN equivalent is calculated with your name, surname, date and place of birth and a check code, and it is not a secret how to calculate it (it was the very first program you write if you study IT at school for example).

  The problem is not SSN number itself, but the fact that you need only it to do everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Trump administration is building a computer system so that States can ‘verify’ a person’s citizenship prior to allowing them to vote.

  As an Italian (but think most of EU citizens) who need to show my id card to vote, I don’t really see where is the problem if there is a check if the person could vote or not. I can agree that using the SSN maybe is not the right way but why should people who are not citizes allowed to vote ? For context, in Italy if I have my legal address (residenza) in Milan I cannot vote for the mayor of Rome, and btw, why should I ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly have a very restricted imagination about what ideas people could come up to use such hardware…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not this case, I agree, but to be honest it would not be the first time that some company create an artificial scarcity to keep the prices up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP has laptop subscriptions now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.

  No, this is just a company that is trying to rename the old leasing concept.

  This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.

  In the enterprise world this is already a thing, companies already lease many devices (pc, laptop, copy machines, cars, phones etc), it not seems to be that much different.

  In the private world, if you have the option to keep the laptop at the end the the rent period, you basically paid for the laptop in instalments, which again it nothing really new, it is already used for phones.

  In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Sovereignty - Germany plans a breakthrough from M$⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to start somewhere.
  If it work, maybe the same solution will be adopted from other parts of the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of EU countries has some sort of electronic identification system (in Italy SPID and CIE). You can simply ask to validate against it when creating an account and then you are good. You are verified and there is no dato to be leaked aside the data you decide to put into the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of reasons that wouldn’t fly in the US:

  I don’t think that Dacia target market are the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today in “Google Broke Email”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Correction: Google backs everyone who let them to do what they want, they don’t really care if they are fascist or pedos as long as they don’t interfere with their money making machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, me too. But home automation has its usercase: just think about an holiday home where you want to turn on the heating and the boiler the day before you arrive.
  Sure, you can ask a local friend to do it for you but being able to do it remotely is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More than that, it is the need to continually sell appliances. If you care to build to last (and we still know how to do it) then in the next quarter you sells will go down, the profit will go down and the board will go down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that it is more like a software company putting in their TOS that you cannot use their software to do a specific thing(s).
  Would be correct to sue the software company because a user violated the TOS ?

  I agree that what happened is tragic and that the answer by OpenAI is beyond stupid but in the end they are suing the owner of a technology for a uses misuse of said technology. Or should we sue also Wikipedia because someone looked up how to hang himself ?

  That’s like a gun company claiming using their weapons for robbery is a violation of terms of service.

  The gun company can rightfully say that what you do with your property is not their problem.
  But let’s make a less controversial example: do you think you can sue a fishing rods company because I use one of their rods to whip you ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tonight alone, I created dozens of JSON files using an LLM for a game mod I’m developing that would have taken me days if I had created them manually.

  You don’t need AI to do this, just a few dozen lines of Python…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Dell machine from that time (like the XPS 9550) is pretty easy to upgrade the Ram, the storage or replace the battery. On some models you can sacrifice battery life (using a smaller one) for a second ssd.
  On some model also the keyboard is pretty easy to replace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If (and is a really, really big if) this open the door to a better understanding of this type of pathologies and a way to somewhat cure them, I would say that it would be for the better.

  But of course I am sure it will not end this way…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Needy Programs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.

  Fine, but maybe the update fix a bug that hit other users and that still not have hit you, be it for sheer luck or any other reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be terrified of using a bluetooth mesh network in a situation where private, encrypted communications are illegal. That would be literally walking around transmitting your intent. It’s a great idea in a free country though.

  You have a point but that would means that the only other solution is to fall back to personal comunications, every electronic channel is unusable in such situation.

  In a dystopia, you want to blend in.

  Or you can simply have so much irrelevant data that the few important bits are lost in a sea of randomness if you don’t know where to look.

  Something like deltachat has the right idea there - you have to look like boring email on the network. Maybe even layer on stenography -sending boring emails with cat pictures, but your messages are hidden inside them.

  The main point of using bluetooth is to not rely on a centralized server that can be compromised and/or shut down.
  If you still use email as transportation layer you could just write an app that really has e2ee, plausible deniability or any other feature you want since in the end you are relying on the same centralized infrastructure.

  Honestly, I would probably go with sneakernet. A microsd card can be hidden very easily, are difficult to detect electronically, transport virtually unlimited text, and be encrypted in-case the mule gets caught to prevent networks being exposed. The latency is just a necessary evil.

  The latency is not the problem, it is already known that to move large quantities of data the fastest method is to send an hard drive (or whatever else).
  The real problem here is where the mule can go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which would not be that much of a problem if not for the first 2 weeks, until someone put out a GUI to do it, with integration with app stores to download automatically the app…

  oh wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch to mesh networks could be an idea. It is not that difficult to send messages with bluetooth, problem is adoption: a system like that works only if there are many people using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time did not end well for about 6 million people…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously not the personal password, but sometimes you need to share a password. Think about the password for a remote desktop your team may need to connect to for troubleshooting a problem for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone can gain physical access to your PC you are done anyway, he van simply copy the file or do whatwver he want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D design software for 3d printing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I was thinking of it but wrote down wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D design software for 3d printing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FreeCAD aside, if you want to go somewhat commercial there is “Moment Of Invention”. I tried the free 90 trial and it was really powerfull and somewhat simpler than FreeCAD.

  Additionally, no subscription, no cloud, just the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you really think that they can pay 5 trillion dollars, or even the 20% of this, to the the shareholders ?