Treczoks
@Treczoks@lemmy.world
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 6 hours ago:
Yes, but some devices simply don’t work without calling home, or have 99% of their brain in a cloud. For those cases, the vLAN does not help.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 9 hours ago:
Well, yes, that’s what those cheap “smart” devices do. Or does anyone think cheap smart would fit into that device? Rule of thumb: if a device needs internet access, it is spying on you.
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 9 hours ago:
It’s Twitter, give people a break.
No. People who still use Twitter/X are already broken…
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 days ago:
In the original post, this was 2.7m, but has been fixed since then.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 2 days ago:
Linux server administration tool, web interface based. Makes managing servers way easier.
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook are breaking the EU’s illegal content rules 2 days ago:
Now that they realized this, which was blatantly obvious for quite some time, will they throw the book at them? Or is it just a stern look again?
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 days ago:
You might be a few decimal places off.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 days ago:
Oh, there is. I love having a set of controls separate from the passenger side.
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 3 days ago:
Sometimes they use the oddest hardware in such a machine for which only windows drivers exist, at least for the moment. Hardware shops manage to fuck this up especially with wifi cards.
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 3 days ago:
Well, using markdown on a phone is like hammering screws into a wall, so don’t complain when the pictures fall off the wall.
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 3 days ago:
Does it run Linux?
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 3 days ago:
I just repurposed one of our older PCs for that task. Slap Ubuntu on it, install webmin, and you’re set up.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 days ago:
Well, the Thorn character is the one that the English language transcribes with “th”. I see no problem with that.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 3 days ago:
Maybe they should put some I into AI first.
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 3 days ago:
That nutritional values are given for 100g/100ml is standard here, but the topic was the crazy measurements applied to the brand-defined serving sizes.
The brands usually abuse this to claim some crazy things like nonsensical health things (see TicTac).
- Comment on Due to Federal Government Shutdown, SNAP Benefits Suspended Beginning November 1, 2025 3 days ago:
Reminds me of a story of a “poor family” written by and elementary school kid:
“There was a poor family. The father was poor. The mother was poor. The butler was poor, the maids were poor…”
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 3 days ago:
That’s a lot for a drop of black paint…
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 3 days ago:
Basically that.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t it make a good court room for a Nuremberg-style trial to hold the current Junta responsible for their crimes and treason? And remember: “I was just following orders” is not a valid excuse!
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 4 days ago:
Pro tip: take frozen sperm/eggs with the ship. Can be used to infuse the population with fresh genetic material.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 4 days ago:
Even better if the sample is not random, but at least screened for some genetic issues.
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 4 days ago:
Serving Size: Two Tic Tacs (to stay under the “it contains sugar” limit)
Serving Size: 1/3 Pizza (who the f. eats a third of a pizza?)
Serving Size: 250ml (on a 330ml can of sugary soda)
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 4 days ago:
Like the average American with an 8th grade reading comprehension.
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 4 days ago:
Worse: One third of adult actually believe the shit the AI produces.
- Comment on How much more progressive are European views as compared to progressives in America? 5 days ago:
We have many of the items on the list. I think UBI will take some time, and while the current government is still fighting it, we’ll have to go back to tax the rich before long.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 6 days ago:
So they finally found a business case for their AI.
- Comment on Bet you didn't know that before Excel, people used Lotus 1-2-3 6 days ago:
Don’t remind me of that. I wrote a spreadsheed spread over about ten files (for memory size reasons, and they had maxxed out the memory on the machine already). Every month, some poor being had to type in the results from the mainframe printouts into one sheet, then the data was referenced through a bunch of intermediate sheets that distributed the numbers in very creative ways, and then a final spreadsheet was called up to get all numbers referenced together to print them into the proper forms. Luckily there was some field referencing across files, or that would have become a real nightmare.
- Comment on Load bearing Tupperware 6 days ago:
Just wait until 8.8.8.8 dies.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 6 days ago:
Well, it actually has a few more circles and lines, but yes.
- Comment on do it cowards 6 days ago:
Let me guess: this is all requiring cloud services.