cmhe

@cmhe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you are joking? And mean “side-loading” as in injecting custom code via LD_PRELOAD and not the strange definition phone makers use for describing ‘installing an app’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are seem to disagree with yourself… On the one hand you say I should ask them to make a case for their argument, but on the other I’m not allowed to ask for proof.

  But instead I need to provide a proof for… them not providing proof that their argument is not a non-sequitur? Crazy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  most people can get behind parental control. that is why bad actors are pushing for age verification everywhere nowadays.

  Yes. And I would complain if there is a requirement to need third-party for-profit companies in order to verify peoples ages. Companies want data, and government want control. Both are bad in this case.

  i think the issue many people have with that field is, that it enables bad actors to do things.

  This needs to be proven. Currently it doesn’t do anything. But there is work to integrate it with flathub, that would allow administrators e.g. parents, to limit access to certain apps. Maybe later there could be some kind of web interface, where a site that offers adult content, would ask the browser, and the browser would look into the account data and then respond if the logged in person is an adult or not. No third-party required, just the person that locally set the date of birth on an local account.

  all the while, it does not really do the thing it is supposed to do: if i trust my kid with sudo, the field can easily be altered. if i do not trust my kid with sudo, it cannot install anything either way.

  Many apps can be installed without root privileges, for instance via flatpak. And in the future it might prevent certain apps for kids.

  with your last paragraph i (and probably most people) agree. but we already have those tools, right?

  IDK… I think there are more tools available on Windows for that then on Linux… But I my parents never deployed those and I also never had the need for such tools.

  But I guess, very often DNS block lists can be used to block adult content… But knowing the internet and adblockers based on DNS alone, that will often lead to many false negatives and positives. So I would argue that we don’t really have anything like it right now for Linux Desktops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do people so often invert the burden of proof?

  If someone says “Picking your nose will cause brain-cancer in 40 years.” Then they have the burden to proof that. Nobody has the burden to disprove that.

  They made the accusation that this is a step to make this age fields mandatory, and controlled by third-party age verification services, so they have the burden to proof that there is way to do that.

  I find it highly unlikely, because most people using Linux systems at home have admin privileges. Which makes this whole point moot, since they can fake whatever they like to the software running on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this is the issue. I have no problems with parents setting the age of the children in their account in order limit their access to certain content.

  And there clearly exists a use-case for that.

  My main issue is when it comes to third-party age/identity verification services. Centralized age or identity verification is bad.

  I’d rather give parents the tools to set individual restrictions locally on their devices, then pushing for a global internet based age filter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know that this is a slippery slope argument, right?

  You would have to demonstrate that there is an intention there to require third party services to validate the age of users using Linux… Or that there is an intention to do so by systemd and the broader open source developers.

  I don’t think it will be easily possible to lock out every Linux system from the internet that doesn’t implement some kind of hardware DRM mechanism to make sure that the user cannot just change the date of birth with root permissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RetroDECK Is More Than Emulation: An Interview with the Devs (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe just put all roms and savegames into a syncthing directory?

  It’s not really multi user, since everyone has the same savegames, but maybe a start?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Better” is in the eye of the beholder. DLSS 5 is optional, as are the shader and texture mods that are available for many games for ages. They both change the look of the game in ways the people creating them didn’t intend. I don’t really care about what the creators of games intended, I want to have fun playing it, and I’m okay with changing/modding the game until I have more fun. That is “better” to me.

  DLSS5 probably doesn’t matter to me anyway, since the Nvidia together with their AI business centipedes actually don’t want to sell GPUs to consumers anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hallucinations of LLMs are just one class of errors, and the most dangerous one.

  Other stuff like garbeled or repeating output are other errors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, review was done By an LLM AS well. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kurzum: Erst wenn Sie mit der Ware an die Kasse gehen und eine eindeutige Kaufabsicht mit Preisvorstellung abgeben, entscheidet sich, ob Sie den Artikel auch wirklich zu diesem Preis erhalten. Sie haben kein Recht, den angegebenen Preis einzufordern.

  In short: Only when you take the goods to the checkout and express a clear intention to purchase at the asking price will it be decided whether you will actually receive the item at that price. You have no right to demand the stated price.

  focus.de/…/falsche-preisauszeichnung-muessen-sie-…

  To me, that the price label is accidental wrong doesn’t really matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure there is a difference between those things in the German law.

  As I said, in Germany the price tag is a mere price suggestion, the final offer and transaction happens on checkout.

  In my case it was an electronic article, where the price tag showed a much lower price and the cashier then demanded much more. But it turned out that they can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… In Germany apparently they can.

  The price tag is not binding, it is a mere price suggestion. The final price is the one when you actually buy it at the checkout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haggling is legal in Germany. The cashier is making the offer.

  Wherever it is discrimination or not would probably depend on the metrics uses to decide the price.

  If someone is really desperate for an article, then I could imagine that the cashier can raise the price.

  But I am not a lawer. This is just my assumptions on how it could be implemented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if they do it on an individual basis.

  Like do they detect that a shopper is in a hurry, or if they just need one more ingredient for their cake so they are willing to pay more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure… If you even notice it. And if enough people will care and if there are still stores around that don’t do that, clearly superior profit maximising scheme.

  I’d rather want this stuff to become illegal. So calling your representatives, make news and go to the streets about this would I think help more that yet another boycott.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Issue is that haggling is actually legal in many countries.

  So at the cashier they will make you an offer, which, if you pay, accept.

  Now with technical support making individual offers becomes pretty easy and effordless on their end, but if you are in a hurry you don’t have that technical support to make a counter offer that effordless… So the shopper is at an disadvantage. Either way, your reaction, wherever ypu buy or not will train the AI of the store to extract the maximum amount of money of the broad customer base. If some people are priced out of living, they probably don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Germany the price is actually set at the cashier, not the tag. I found that out the hard way once, where the price tag was wrong and I had to pay more.

  So dynamic pricing wouldn’t even require deploying these smart tags, the cashier or the ‘smart’ self-checkout could just do it on their own. They could just use their cameras, analyze your face to figure out if you are in a hurry or not, or in any other way willing to accept a higher price and then offer you the ware to something you are probably going to accept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That would actually be the wrong thing to want. In an ideal system trust would always begin by the owner of the hardware, where possible, not the software or vendor they decide to trust.

  First the person that bought the system should take the ownership by overwriting the previous owners keys, and from there start signing the vendors key, they decide to put their trust in. Because it is important that the system is trustworthy to the end user/owner first.

  Any anti-cheat mechanism relies on not trusting the person that owns the hardware, and why would that be good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t really saying that much. It could still be a creation engine that has a UE5 renderer on top. Like the Oblivion remaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers are less secure than promised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Security through layers. The flaws are about compromised server, so hosting your own server is a good first step. Next step is making the server only accessible via your own VPN. And of course hardening the server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers are less secure than promised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what all the listed password manager claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH, paying for every RGB combination would have been a bit funnier, as the ridiculous next step of paying for retextures.

  Letting people pay for every change is just too lazy and uninspired…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But isn’t that the wrong approach?

  If you want to choose something better, shouldn’t be ‘enshittificationability’ be the main point you want to address? That is the reason discord is doing most of the bad stuff. Proprietary software is about enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If there are NPCs, there is AI.

  You should be more specific. Ask about machine generated content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The point I am making is about protecting teens from adults. So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented. Either allow no teens on your platform, or teens have to proof that they are teens first.

  Adults (and teens for that matter) are pretty good at obfuscating grooming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So an adult could just create two accounts, one to access teen spaces, where they don’t verify their age l and one for accessing adult spaces, where the age gets verified?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot self-host teamspeak… Use Mumble or Matrix instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an ad for Tuta, which server side software it, AFAIK proprietary. You cannot self-host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it shouldn’t be carbon neutral… It should used to get carbon out of the atmosphere and into a less damaging substance.

  Carbon capture does not replace getting rid of our dependency on burning fossil fuels.

  We wouldn’t get back the same amount that we are burning anyway. So this approach is worse, because dumb people think it would save us, without us changing the way we produce energy.