Cris_Color
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world
Hello, my name is Cris. :)
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #145: Agentic 3 days ago:
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake,” a quote famously attributed to open source advocate Napoleon Bonaparte, has arguably never been more apropos for the self-hosted community.
Lmao, what an opening
Home Assistant is scheduled to announce the launch of their next hardware product next Thursday (11/19) at 3pm EST
Ooh, exciting! ☺️☺️
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 3 days ago:
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- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 4 days ago:
Nacent revelations allege that Donald sucked off “Bubba” (presumably Bill Clinton, former US president) and that Putin has pics.
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What…?
- Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs 5 days ago:
This was a fantastic read, thank you very much for posting
(There are many people quoted in the article, the article isn’t agreeing with this person, I just wanted to reply to this persons points in particular)
Lorenc argues back, in an e-mail to me, that “Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons.
“The position of the FFmpeg X account is that somehow disclosing vulnerabilities is a bad thing. Google provides more assistance to open source software projects than almost any other organization, and these debates are more likely to drive away potential sponsors than to attract them.”
It being a positive contribution to the commons is absolutely true, but doesn’t change the fact that you’re doing it in a way that damages the project. Google created the problem with their change in vulnerability disclosure policy, and they have the power to fix the problem they created by funding the fixes. Either don’t make the problem, or fix the problem you’re making.
There’s no way around it, google holds all the card here, I don’t know how he could fail to understand that. What is ffmpeg gonna do, magically fix more issues than theyre capable of without funding and somehow not burn out their contributors? Google can literally just either fix the problem by funding them, or not create the fucking problem in the first place. Write a different policy for projects of different scales, or just don’t make this change to the vulnerability publishing policy.
Ffpmeg has been very clear this will damage the project, that Google depends on. This is very explicitly a problem of their own creation that theyre foisting onto an open source volunteer project 😅
- Comment on Old but always funny 1 week ago:
Cuddle anyway coward. 🔫
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #141 - Bonfire Social launches with crowdfunder, and Mastodon has quote posts now 1 week ago:
Bonfire social seems cool as fuck, but I wish I understood exactly what it is a little better-
Am I understanding right that its more fediverse building tools for folks who run instances? Or is it a platform like lemmy, mastodon, piefed? Both? Something else entirely?
It feels hard to pin down what it actually is 😅
- Comment on Local hero: 'DC sandwich guy' found not guilty of assaulting officer with sub 1 week ago:
Such an important morale victory 🥹
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 2 weeks ago:
Platform in general really doesn’t bother me the same way that technology platform does. In a historical sense like you’re talking about that would mean it was built on shared structure, which is a good way to build a reliable car, since there’ll be more chance to have worked out the kinks in shared parts vs new bespoke ones. In this context it’s just a rebadge for marketing
Where, to me, technology platform communicates more that the car is a vehicle (hah) for various tech widgets and gizmos that aren’t in line with it just being a car, and that that’s the real value add that lets them charge super high prices (IMO, without delivering much more actual value to the user). Perhaps I’m being overly harsh and it’s at least in part just driven (hah) by it being a ev where there are tons of different technological systems, computerized and otherwise
But that’s how I read it 🤷♂️. But yeah I’m not surprised a CEO would talk about it that way, that’s where the industry has been for quite some time now, and it shows little sign of changing aside from novel projects like the Slate truck (which aside from getting from daddy bezos, looks pretty cool!)
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 2 weeks ago:
While that is true and it should be discussed, it is often difficult to assess a new product’s reliability unless there’s a clear existing track record from the company
But a company’s track record and the repairability of the car should absolutely be discussed in reviews
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 2 weeks ago:
Not the person you’re replying to, but “technology platform” as a way of referring to a car grosses me out, personally.
Its a car. It should take me places. The technology in it, should be technology that takes me places safely, and that’s it. Calling it a technology platform frames it like a car is a consumer electronics device, and consumer electronics are generally user hostile feature bloated unrepairable nightmares 😅
Still sounds like a pretty well made car though. I’m not surprised china has very capable manufacturers.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 weeks ago:
It very sincerly doesn’t matter, and going around being shitty to people on the basis that they’re weird and have confused ideas sounds like a perfect way to taint the culture of this space with the same bitterness and cruelty that is so ever present in other spaces online.
Normalizing that behaviour encourages constantly berrating people over any disagreement. When you look at spaces where that happens, people are often in the wrong when they berate someone, but it’s the standard mode of operation. Look at league of legends all chat. I don’t want that for this space.
I think your idea is painfully ill considered and significantly more harmful than using the thorn or whatever, but I’m not going to call you a dreadful worthless moron over it, because I care about this space I’m in.
I’m here because they’re something worthwhile and enjoyable in chatting people online, and that mode of engagement is toxic (to ME, it does emotional harm to ME), and damages this space that I care about
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 weeks ago:
I get that it’s irritating, I also thing it frankly doesn’t really matter that much, and this space is a precious escape from the shittiness of the outside world.
Ridicule makes this space worse. It normalizes a way of engaging with one another that poisons culture of the place we “live”. It’s is bad for us, collectively, to be dicks over stuff that really doesn’t matter much. Block them and move on.
I also find it grating, but this space is full of eccentrics with weird ideas, and I’d much rather not spend my time in this space angry and trying to reach someone who doesn’t care what I think, over a thing that doesn’t matter, and if we normalize that form of engagement it makes the whole platform worse.
(I’m responding to the broad sentiment I’ve seen across many replies, not just you. Like the guy who said we should go back to shaming people for doing dumb stuff. That sounds like a good way to make this space toxic, unwelcoming and shitty.)
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 weeks ago:
If you look at that person’s profile they explain it’s in an attempt to make ai use it.
Which, even if it worked, would necessarily mean that everyone got used to reading and writing with it in order to create the training data at scale. So then it wouldn’t be weird or confusing for the ai to use it.
It doesn’t make a ton of sense. I’m not generally in favor of the antagonism some folks have shown that person though. I just think their idea on how to contest ai is a bit confused.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mostly just meant in terms of how much I directly relate with the perspectives of the protesters, it seemed at the time of my comment like most of the commenters looked at things somewhat differently to them (which is fine)
I do think you might really be underestimating how deeply addictive tech can be for many people. For people who grew up on platforms like facebook, Instagram, and twitter, and spent enough time there before reflecting on that pattern, those deeply engrained habits can be difficult to shake to the extent of causing not insignificant anxiety
I had social anxiety as a kid (still do) and so used those platforms almost none, and even I really struggle with some amount of technology addiction I’m working really hard to replace with better patterns.
I pick my phone up and check all the apps for no reason. I feel a bit anxious if my phone isn’t near by. I run out of time in one app I have a time limit set for and immediately jump to another one.
I have pretty good solutions to those problems, and think I’m making decent progress, but technology absolutely 1000% has warped my life to be about it. With me often serving it rather than it serving me. I can only imagine how difficult it might be for folks who spent lots of time on those platforms, and are less inclined to tinker with their tech and play with open source stuff, and take alternative technological routes
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 weeks ago:
There were kids in it…? Christ :(
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 4 weeks ago:
I might be one of the few in this thread who really empathizes with the perspectives of the protesters here
I’m not in a position to cut tech out of my life, but for people who are and dont need or depend on it for something important, it does do a lot of harm for little benefit.
But whether there’s important benefit will vary from person to person. I have a very isolating sleep disorder, and the internet allows me a little bit more connection than I would get otherwise. And home automation helps shoulder some of the load of managing environmental variables that impact my sleep. And there are also technological things that bring me joy.
But not everyone is in a position where their only connection to others is through the internet (if you’re queer in a small town, maybe it is, if you’re queer in a big city or you’re straight that probably isn’t an issue)
There are ofcourse benefits to technology, some of which you can better access through FOSS software, or community projects, or self hosting. But not everyone needs those things.
I don’t love creating e-waste though. I get that it’s symbolic, I still think it’s wasteful and has no meaningful upsides
- Comment on Loops is now part of the Fediverse! 4 weeks ago:
Nice!! Thank you for filling me in, I appreciate it ☺️
- Comment on Loops is now part of the Fediverse! 4 weeks ago:
Weird…
- Comment on Loops is now part of the Fediverse! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, short form content isn’t really my cup of tea either. I’m glad it exists though :)
- Comment on Loops is now part of the Fediverse! 4 weeks ago:
I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that that was only like certain libraries and whatnot?
I’m not an especially technical person so I don’t really remember details though 😅
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- Comment on Ladybird - A community to discuss about the Ladybird browser 1 month ago:
Thanks for making a comm! I’d love to see the update videos regularly on my lemmy feed!
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 months ago:
Just remember, people will be more open to trying the stuff you’re into if you’re compassionate about the things they’re frustrated with!
(This is intended for anyone who wants friends or acquaintances to try the fediverse platforms. For those who don’t or don’t care that’s perfectly valid too :)
- Comment on Nova Launcher, one of the most popular Android home screen replacements, is basically dead 2 months ago:
Yeah, I do need to sit down and do that sometime
- Comment on GNOME 49: New Apps, Lock Screen Features and Design Changes - OMG! Ubuntu 2 months ago:
What a fun graphic lol. It feels extremely y2k
- Comment on Nova Launcher, one of the most popular Android home screen replacements, is basically dead 2 months ago:
I’m still waiting for a FOSS launcher to add padding adjustments for the home screen, widgets, and dock, half grid snapping, allowing overlap, and setting any widget as a search bar
And maybe other stuff. Still really sad Nova fell into this state, I genuinely depend on settings that are exclusive to it
I’ll probably just be using Nova with network connectivity disabled for some time to come. Maybe when I blow up my home screen setup and start over I’ll try to work within the constraints of another launcher :/
- Comment on In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline” 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s an effective thing to be doing but I think that request might actually be the kind of thing ai would be awful at.
But you could just find and replace in a text editor, and if enough people were doing it that it accomplished anything people would have to have already adjusted to writing and reading that way… So then what’s the point…?
- Comment on In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline” 2 months ago:
If you read their profile it’s apparently an attempt to give ai bad training data
It is disorienting to read though, and it would take large scale concerted efforts over a long period of time by more people than even know how to type a “thorne” in order to actually accomplish that goal
- Comment on In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline” 2 months ago:
I hadn’t kept up with all this, interesting read
Thanks for posting!
- Comment on sinful 2 months ago:
This image makes me so happy lol