Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 days ago:
nah it’s a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they’re either cheap or friends of friends or both) “truth” can easily have a totally new security issue
maybe the server has a root password that’s “trump454748$$$”
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 3 days ago:
And then retrain on the hallucinated knowledge
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 4 days ago:
From the color and the amount of liquid in the result picture I seriously doubt that the core went even over 40 C
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
the channels you follow
I knew they would use that info for targeted advertising
It’s Facebook 101, let the users themselves tell you what they like
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
But the world’s best professional bullshitter wrote on Truth that it’s built in the USA, it’s not a China phone
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 1 week ago:
Ugh at work I was forced to use MacOS and i find i3 + arch way more intuitive than that.
Very nice eye candy but every keyboard shortcut is stupid on MacOS, productivity is ruined
Also window tiling is stupid too on MacOS
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 week ago:
Can’t wait to read from which part of China this “American built” phone is made
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They saw the horrors that our species can do in wars and promptly left the planet
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
It depends by the size (smaller is less taxed), but the law is old and it’s exempt only if under 1gb
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
70s? My country every year still steals from everyone millions of euro “because that phone can be used to watch pirated content”
We pay 7 euro on each smartphone, 7.50 on each USB drive, up to 18 euro on each internal drive (sata or name, but under 160gb is free) and products are castrated with regional firmware because if it’s just a TV then it’s 4 euro tax, but if it allows recording it’s the 5% of MSRP
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 2 weeks ago:
So it will censor stuff as requested by governments
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
I think it is extremely hard because they are served from the same servers (technically, ads are YouTube videos)
And if the logic on the client isn’t removed, it will hang waiting for the ad
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Android, option 3 (Better): newpipe from fdroid. 0% algorithmic feed, exclusively show who you’re following, in chronological order
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 2 weeks ago:
It is a serious problem when it’s not possible to know if a screenshot of a “truth” is actually true or it has been faked
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
When phones were made of plastic, yes
Like the Google Nexus 5X (with a vinyl on the back because they chose the shittiest rubbery coating that get sticky with permanent fingerprints)
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 3 weeks ago:
The headline seems to imply that the real news is that the “Obese woman” has FIVE lovers
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
Problem is that it had bidens sign on it, so he was forced to kill it without even taking care of its contents
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
Well, technically, any kind of tariff added to the import is always paid by Apple, who else would pay it? Some unrelated company? A foreign country?
They will simply increase the price by an amount that will keep them making the same amount of money. The main problem is that because they like to do a round price worldwide, we European we’ll pay more too, so they can make more money. Assholes
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (16 May 2025) 5 weeks ago:
Trakt raises the VIP subscription to $60/year? Are they crazy? They really think that a service that simply tracks what movies you watch is worth that price?
There are streaming subscriptions cheaper than that
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 5 weeks ago:
Can someone explain me how xai raised so many billions that they could have purchased xitter for an even more ridiculous amount of billions?
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They are not a public company so there’s no stock manipulation
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They are not selling API access to the public
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They don’t have some sort of crypto coin scam that they could print when need some cash flow
Where those billions come from? It’s just melon charging ridiculous prices to his own companies? Like if Tesla needed some sort of ai api Key they’re going to pay xai 100000% over the market value? Isn’t that illegal, money laundering or something like that?
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- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 5 weeks ago:
Especially denying/deporting refugees that will otherwise be killed for having helped the American government (example: Afghanistan)
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 5 weeks ago:
For fdroid the app is compiled on fdroid servers when dev tags a new release on GitHub. So the app matches the source, it’s not possible to put a tainted APK to download
Now, if the malicious code is slowly added to the source over the course of an year like it happened with the xz utils, this won’t change the result, but it’s easier to do so with a compiled binary. Release clean source and infected binary, it will take a longer time to get caught
For the closed source app stores, on iOS there’s the manual inspection (which is not infallible especially if they timebomb or geofence the bad feature) and for Google there’s the automated inspection (which fails often seeing the news) that should find problems
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 month ago:
No it’s a thin layer of steel hot glued to a plastic shell
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 month ago:
AND complete it 1-2 months before release date to allow manufacturing and shipping.
They complete it 1-2 months AFTER release date now…
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 month ago:
The worst part is that it’s technically possible to do that using the bd-live 2.0 specification
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 1 month ago:
When I saw the process to add Google drive support to an app I thought: “wouldn’t be easier to just discontinue the public APIs?”
If I was a dev I would immediately remove the integration instead of paying the required thousands (yearly!) to keep it. Then in the app explain the situation to the customer, add a referral link to Dropbox, onedrive or other competitors
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 1 month ago:
You get apps a couple days earlier
But it comes with a huge downside: if dev goes rogue or gets hacked, you could install a malicious version of the app that doesn’t match the source
- Comment on Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal 1 month ago:
But then they counted how many zeroes there were on the check, and suddenly they were totally fine in assisting genocide
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 1 month ago:
This is pure speculation, the language in the t&c describes what happens now: the console and/or the account gets banned from online gaming
