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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My workplace configures edge and chrome by default, were very office365 integrated and support chrome for some dates specific thing.

  Now i am privileged with local admin powers so i have firefox. Still the integrations with edge run deep so i still have to use it lots of times. There are plans for copilot (which i find very dumb personall.

  I will however never use chrome (anymore). Google was the second tech giant i dropped after facebook. They cannot redeem themselves for destroying the web (opinion). I rarely use search engines anymore but i rather use bing and bing sucks. (duckduck is also based on bing)

  Sorry for the rant, but that was relieving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So now only criminals will be able to steal peoples cars. Well done.

  They wont even be banned (which would be stupid) Its on the owner to proof they have it for legitimate reasons. The end result will mean the devices will be more hidden in everyday seeming devices. And if they do eventually ban them fully that legal local technological knowledge will be dragging behind criminal innovation.

  You want these devices out there to increase awareness of their existence and to pressure manufacturer to make their devices more safe.

  Example: Remember how Tesla can remote (un)lock cars? Exploit waiting to happen and the potential ban on encryption is going to make it so much worse.

  Ostrich politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which softwares can I self host without public IP?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You usually only need to specify the internal host ip to setup a port forward. It should forward that to whatever the public ip is at the time.

  If the isp is providing the model/router and generally being oppressive i highly recommend researching if you can place your own router behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which softwares can I self host without public IP?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe duckdns has a tool that checks your public ip on a schedule to update your subdomain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard of the opposite. Mastodon users can see and comment on lemmy posts, but i have yet to discover how to view mastodon post from lemmy.

  If it is indeed possible can you or anyone elaborate how to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I stole the image from fuckcars so yeah. Its a no roads kinda deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me want cookie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the bottom pic must have had some special coockies considering the eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do use LXC but those are still pretty much a virtual machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I unironically do this in proxmox. Keeps things nice and separate and i still have plenty ram left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost in translation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you befriend gen z and autists. You wont have this problem with them.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way they can but the rich live in a very weird world of pretend so depending on what their answer is there may be pretend consequences and altered perception of their worth.

  Altman responded that simply their charter of “for benefit of all man kind” is enough reason to decline but he carefully mentioned that the actual bidding price would not matter to come to that decision. He is friends with fascists but not stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For context:

  This bid is an attempt at a threat because it overvalued the perceived value of the non profit side of openai.

  Openai has a known perceived total value. (dont know how much exactly) Musk wants to lay the argument that by refusing his bid. Most of that value is in the non profits side and thus less in the for profit side.

  This is a threat because the profit side is where openai partners, like Microsoft have their stake. So its lowering the perceived monopoly money of those shareholders.

  Of course can be ignored. OpenAi has stated they can refuse on many other reasons unrelated to the bidding price.

  Also OpenAi is a fascist collaborator just like musk.

  Source: ai explained yt channel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EPIC, Democracy Forward, and Federal Worker Sue DOGE for Illegal Seizure of Personal Data From Treasury, Personnel Systems.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because they tricked half the population into becoming collaborators doesn’t mean it’s not the owning class versus the common people.

  Don’t get me wrong, there will be fights along political lines, they will be used as cannon fodder but just like any war the opposing soldier is not your enemy, those that guide the actions of those solders are. Propaganda will do one heck of job making sure gullible people believe they have no choice.

  Racism is form of cancer but it has been demonstrated many times that on a individual level it can be cured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “When it detects a user may be under 18, Google will notify them that it has changed some of their settings and will offer information about how users can verify their age with a selfie, credit card, or government ID.”

  Selfies are useless as proof for young adults and people with a young face. No algorithm can tell a 17.11 yo from a 18 yo so it will flag every single one of them.

  This is a way to normalize handing over your details for the next generations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t seem like that was his goal.

  Feels more like a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ reaction on the bid.

  That said, cant rule out that its all theater to obscure the fact that Sam recently endorsed Trump and is working close with government, just less visibly then Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone call Mario with a tip about where his brother may be kept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Bowl halftime performer detained after unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian flag⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich nazi advertising a Swastika t shirt. Cool and normal.

  One of the many flags being waved is the one from a heavily oppressed people. Outragous evil.

  Not at all surprised, but just as depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ilya Sutskever's startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Israel State committing genocide is horrible but how is this relevant to Sutkevers start up and AI?

  The only slivers of an Israel connection i could find are.

  • Sutskever was born in the Soviet Union moved to Israel at the age of 5 and lived there till he was 16 before moving to Canada.

  • The picture they used in the article was taken at a university in Israel 2 years ago when he was still a part of OpenAI.

  • The startup does have a secondary office in Tel Aviv but thats a silicon valley kinda place, literally all the major tech players have an office there. And i fully agree that is something we should be skeptical about, but its not something you can single company out on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ilya Sutskever's startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Source? Suskeva is a ex OpenAi founder and the one who tried to oust Alman for being to corporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no need to communicate like this. I actually had already learned about this app and checked it out yesterday on a different community with way less people and there was no article there. I just saw the opportunity of this post as way to discuss it.

  I like to make a few things clear that seem to cause confusion.

  1. I made my post in full understanding that it probably does not feature a “preference based algorithm”, trying it out did not gave it the impression it did. But i want to be more sure there is nothing along those lines included and tried to engage in discussion about the need for preferential settings. Its somewhere between a genuine and rhetoric question.

  2. Call me Pedantric, trough i prefer autistic but “algoritm” has like i explained a specific meaning to me. Its mathematical formula for a specific purpose. The app in question is code, code is math. You can not tell me that the app uses NO algorithm, well oc you can but to my brain that does not compute. And any kind of preferential features would

  3. I disagree this (and many things) require a full fledged article, just a clear few line description or like including those quotes you put up here would do for me. I know the internet likes to make everything into “news” but i don’t have to like or partake in that. I prefer to spend my time engaging on lemmy about the topic directly because that (this diverted discussion included) helps it grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not presented as being specifically made without.

  There is plenty of room for more ethical algorithms and to get technical. It definitely does have a algorithm.

  A very basic formula that simulates randomness to pick one Wikipedia page after the other.

  I just wish i could customize that to my interests. So for example it favors articles tagged as ancient mythology and minimizes politicians from the 90s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand their stance but it is a bit sad because if i could tailor it to my interests i absolutely would use it all the time.

  Wikipedia is massive there is way more that i don’t want to read then there is that i do.

  Personally i think there is roam for a “not insane, Fully transparent and user controlled” algorithm but also that would take a lot of developer effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have an algorithm of some kind?

  I usually hate them but for something safe like wikipedia i would love to have it tailored to my interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats hilarious concept really.

  We call it “Punch Nazis” and because the Nazis claim that they are not and actually antifa is Nazis they cant possibly complain.

  Inbuild character editing screen to shape a set of bad guys however you want. Then some community page to upload/download player made presets.

  I non ironically have some experience in game development and would love to help make it real. Unfortunately my life feels like it’s collapsing on multiple fronts and i wont have the mental energy and time to do so alone.

  What we are missing is a gamplay plan cause the funny aside that is most important but i figure a modern take on wolfenstein 3d kinda game might actually do.

  Then we need a github to upload stuff and maybe a lemmy community to organize and brainstorm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Games are art and art expresses real life. But you need plausible deniability to pull sm like it off

  Teflon the Nerd and The Arch Rump the destroyer would make good boss names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their also better protected against attacks, clever evolution.

  Downside is probably seeing way less clearly but for a mostly pitch black world its plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for s second do I believe this was a accidental oversight.

  I am sure they had very good reasons, all alligned with their actual interests with no thought spared to even consider consequences for small fish users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its still somewhat online. Its a broken shitfest of course but its main purpose, being a megaphone for the supremely rich and fascist is still in working order.

  Thats exactly what they want for government, they dont care everything goes to shit, as long as it enables the corruption they want its working as intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter was both an ingredient and a practice run