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- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 days ago:
Don’t worry, review was done By an LLM AS well. ;)
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
This is what all the listed password manager claim.
- Comment on DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
You cannot self-host teamspeak… Use Mumble or Matrix instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 month ago:
Carbon needs to be captured were there is a lot of carbon in the air. So especially around cities with lots of car traffic, or around fossil fuel power plants…
So… It would be better to stop car traffic and fossil fuel power plants first, before doing carbon capture…
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 1 month ago:
It really depends in the purpose. Sometimes you can hide stuff in unexpected places when there isn’t much interest for other people to find it, or if they don’t even know about it’s existence.
Also sometimes it is good enough to just delay the discovery of something for a while, because its value after a certain time diminished completely.
So, I would argue that sometimes security by obscurity can be useful. But I agree that it generally shouldn’t replace proper encryption.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 1 month ago:
IDK, OSM is much more detailed and up to date.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
Testing SPECIAL with games seems boring. They should do a multi layered social deduction game instead, where everyone has different goals, lies to another and nobody really understands what is going on until the end.
So some contestants are actors, and think they know where the show is going, but they are tricked as well.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 month ago:
So like syncthing but you have to pay for it and requires a server. Seems useless…
If you want to sync while not all devices are online, just spend 50$ or something and get a RPI and put syncthing on it.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 1 month ago:
Recently deepwiki links started popping up in my search results, when I wanted to research some software. They offered so much genenerated ‘documentation’ that it caused so much confusion and irritation to me, I installed an extension just to block this site from my search results.
Why do I ever need to read the ‘architecture’ or whatever from an ancient no longer maintained project. The deepwiki page didn’t mention that it isn’t maintained, but the readme.md in the repo states it clearly at the very top with big letters…
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 months ago:
IronFox
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 months ago:
Basically, I couldn’t claim capitalism is perfect, but whether replacing the system or not, you need to address the greedy human culture beneath it.
Chicken, egg.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 months ago:
No. There are no perfect systems. Every system will require constant vigilance and adaption to work. The point is that the goal of disincentivizing greedy behavior is actually clearly stated and done.