Wispy2891

@Wispy2891@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google also extending this to things like fireOS

  it would not, because fireos was based on ancient versions of android like android 11 or earlier, and the block is enforced via google play services which isn’t present on there.

  but new fireos doesn’t run android apps at all. New devices temporarily run android apps on a VM hosted on AWS servers and then stream the video, but only if those apps are distributed on the amazon appstore, and it’s a stopgap until the devs make their apps compatible with the new OS.

  And old fireos devices will start to gradually uninstall “dangerous” sideloaded apks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  so why hibp calls them data breach??? Ultra misleading, almost defamation, everyone including me only reads the headlines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me think: if chia and similar coins simply generated the monopoly money by “finding the right numbers on the right rainbow table” … were they a covert way for some government to have a distributed password hacking network?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  HDDs used for chia mining or similar shitcoins have been used for just a full wipe to create the huge rainbow table or whatever the shitcoin needed and then left on idle with very little read activity for years

  It’s not the typical “end of life” server HDD with 80k hours of 24/7 full use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s exactly how it worked. A company called synthient made a master list with all the leaked emails + all leaked passwords. Then they were hacked and it leaked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The shitcoins were a thing also without ethereum, there was even a shitcoin generator website, pay 0.1 BTC (when it was worth like $100), upload your icon, choose the name, and download the compiled clients for mining that shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of “refurbished” drives from when the Chia bubble popped (a useless shitcoin that wasted HDD space with garbage data as a proof of cryptographic work)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s make a master list of all the emails leaked with their passwords, what could go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it changed in the recent years? I remember clearly it was forbidden by FDA for sale without prescription

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It already happens with nano-hydroxyapatite pastes. In Europe you find them at the supermarket for 5 euro, in USA you need a prescription and it’s sold for $$$

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing Israel is sending bogus copyright strikes over content that they dislike, taking advantage that YouTube is 100% run by bots with no way to contact a human supervisor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? The line goes up? Where I can invest my life savings in the IPO?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  zipline.diced.sh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's role in world’s first AI-driven genocide, in Gaza, exposed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the AI? It seems to be “if it moves, then it’s a target”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use cachy on my laptop but I wouldn’t call friendly an arch based distro that during setup asks the user “which of those 19 desktop environment do you want? Choose wisely only one”

  It doesn’t even have a gui to install new software (at least, I am not an expert, I chose hyprland and it didn’t install that, and when I manually installed KDE Discover and the GNOME software manager, they only show and install flatpak apps - but because I’m not an expert I might have messed something up)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a chance it will happen outside the USA.

  Deciding to send to the landfill every PC sold after 2018 is a decision that they saw analyzing only numbers from big American corporations. “Anyway they lease the computers and have a refresh every 3-5 years”

  But the rest of the world?

  Here in Italy I still see people on Windows 7

  When I traveled in southeast Asia I saw people using windows XP

  Or Brazil, where the import taxes make a windows 11 compatible PC ultra expensive

  Regular people and small businesses , especially outside the USA won’t simply buy a new PC just because Microsoft and Intel needed the line to go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  afaik the lidar data is crunched locally, then sent to the remote server for easy consumption

  when those vacuums are flashed with valetudo, they can still make the map with lidar without internet connection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADVICE: Running out of storage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany, it was “brand new” and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died halfway during a dd wipe operation within the “first” day of life.

  Conclusion: the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life

  Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse “it’s them, they packed it like that!” if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it’s indestructible and will outlast the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓

  Nowadays I couldn’t afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why this people never get cancer or horrible accidents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no but i mean that if the user internet is down, the same problems would came out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fix is investing in redundant internet at house from multiple providers. Satellite+fiber and achieve 99.99999% uptime so the bed won’t Crash and allow you a good night of sleep.

  Because it’s unacceptable to send commands directly from the phone to the bed located in the same room, they need to transit between a dozen server farms to gather the delicious telemetry

  Also: local=no subscription and that’s so bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do it cowards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because now you need an app to know if you have diarrhea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure

  1. Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
  2. Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
  3. The system drive wasn’t covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
  4. The data drives also couldn’t get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What’s the purpose of the “home server” if it couldn’t pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
  5. They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
  6. They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center… but 6 years after they killed windows media center
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy

  Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and “improvements” in Windows home server 2 completely killed it

  Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.

  But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.

  For example, I don’t think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems nice, it’s even on gog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sticker “pressure tested” on the camera housing is not lying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They seem to not care, some methods are even server side, they could have patched hwidgen a decade ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes the stores are filled to the brim with low effort mobile games ad viewers