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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Codeberg is great, but it is hosted in Germany, and subject to their laws. AFAIK, Germany has laws against tools for “circumventing copy protection”, or “hacking”.

  So I am not sure that they can provide a save haven for tools, where some lawyer could argue these points successfully in front of a court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  • Sometimes you need to move a thing that is oddly shaped and doesn’t fit within the confines of an enclosure

  Like what? And is that a common use case?

  • Depending on what you’re hauling, you may want separation between the cab and the payload. Like if I’m moving dirt, I’d rather not have it rolling around my cabin

  Or just put down a nylon sheet, put the dirt on top, fold the nylon sheet over it and bind it down. Now it is covered under and over and will not fly around.

  In most cases I guess people will just buy prepackaged earth in bags. That also doesn’t fly around.

  Sure, if you are one of the very few people that work in the woods or on a field, where this common use case, then alright. But that would not explain why those cars are so common.

  • Easier to clean, just take a hose to it without needing to worry about soaking the cabin

  Buy a bus with removable carpet, then you can just hose it down as well. Many buses have a small step, which separates the cabin from the back, so water will not flow into the cabin.

  • Access isn’t limited to just the door, which can be useful when unloading something

  There are many different rear door types and sliding side doors on the side that provide ample and easy access. This isn’t difficult or complicated.

  That didn’t convince me that pickup trucks are not a very specialized vehicle for just some uses, while transporters and mini busses are much more useful for all kinds of purposes. Be it furniture, tools, sport equipment, electronics and other sensitive equipment, and people. While also being good at hauling the occasional dirty stuff, if you just put something underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is up with those pickup trucks anyway? Why do so many people in the U.S. buy them?

  Everything that you put in the back is subjected to weather and one of first additions people buy is a cover.

  Compare that to a mini bus or transporter, you can transport as much or more than with a pickup truck, protected from weather, and you can add or remove chairs, if you need to transport people.

  If you have a transporter, you can also much easier furnish the inside with racks etc, to improve space use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To someone that can upgrade a Nintendo switch to have 8GB of RAM, can install RPCS3 and play PS3 games on it, I would say: “Do whatever you want, you are a god amongst us. I am the peasant that lives the easy life with a SteamDeck”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are recorded in multiple different events (repairs at a professional service, oil change, inspections, etc.), but as a buyer you would have to become active, ask for and check the papers, contact past owners, inspect the car, etc.

  Because changing the odometer is easy and cheap, and can raise the price at an average of 3000€ per car, it is done rather often and not discovered in many cases.

  While there are laws against it, the implementation of more manipulation resistant odometers by the car vendors is still not there yet broadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean with “not enforced”? Do you mean that people that find manipulated odometers with proof go to court and then nothing is done?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is misleading, it is illegal in Germany, if it is about changing the odometer to a wrong record, and only legal to correct it, if it was broken or is replaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is illegal in Germeny, if the purpose is to falsify it, and legal to correct a wrong record: www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvg/__22b.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it just depends in your use-case. Sometimes new games or applications require newer drivers or directly a newer Windows version. This is something you just have to be aware of.

  At least that was a reason I switched LTSC Windows over to Enterprise for some people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You might likely run into issues with GPU (and other) windows drivers, which might stop supporting old windows 10 versions. At least that happened already with LTSC/LTSB. I expect this to happen especially when ordinary windows 10 EOL is reached.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is true, but it also isn’t a counter argument to what I said.

  Just because the right-wing people are crazy and do not argue based on logic, but on confirmation-bias and personal preconceptions, doesn’t mean that the reality itself has liberal bias. There are other ideologies that argue based on logic and observable facts, but are not ‘liberal’, many social-democrates (or democratic-socialists) for instance, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good code documentation describes why something is done, and no just **what ** or how.

  To answer why you have to understand the context, and often, you have to be there when the code was written and went through the various iterations.

  LLMs might be able to explain what is done, with some margin of error, but why something is done, I would be very surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, reality doesn’t have a liberal bias. “Liberal” is something that humans invented, and not something that comes from reality or some intrinsic part of nature.

  LLMs are trained on past written stuff by humans, and humans for a long time have not been ridiculously right wing as the current political climate of the US.

  If you train a model on only right wing propaganda, it will not miraculously turn “liberal”, it will be right wing.

  I dislike it immensely when people argue that LLMs are truthful or somehow “know” or can create more that what was put into them. And connecting them with fundamental reality seems even more tech-bro-brained.

  Arguing that “reality” is this or that is also very annoying, because reality doesn’t have any intrisic morales or politics that can be measured by logic or science. So many people argue that their morales are better then someone else’s, because they where given by god, or by science, this is bullshit. They are all derived by human society, and the same is true by whatever “liberal” means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would agree about getting buying the cheaper version, if it doesn’t also might mean buying an EOL product.

  If Nintendo stops providing updates and new games of the old switch (soonish) then (what I suspect from console gaming) then suggesting to buy the old product from Nindendo looks like they just want to empty their Switch 1 stockpile.

  If Nintendo just treats the Switch 1 and 2 as the same console, with just different performance and price, but get the same support period and games, then I am fully with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one that thinks PoE stands for Pillars of Eternity (and Power over Ethernet)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reparability? Robustness? Software support? Community support?

  It isn’t all about comparing performance numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well my point is that pretty much all of our laws are build around ethic values, which are developed within a society. There is no logical or scientific reason that would make killing other people bad, but we still should have strict rules about this.

  Laws are always built around soft things like “what is obscene”, “at what point is someone naked in public”, “How much alcohol can a drink have before it is a alcoholic beverage?”, “did the person die of natural causes, or was killed by some event years ago, that wasn’t properly treated.”

  Society decides what is acceptable and what isn’t and that changes through time and culture.

  Your argument is therefore not a good one, you have to make a case based on ethics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sort of reminds myself on the discussion on “what is a women”. Is Siri a women? Many might say so, but t the same time Siri is not even human.

  The question on how old the person on a specific generated image might be and if it even depicts a person at all, can only be answered through society. There is no scientific or any logical answer for this.

  So this will always have grey areas and differing opinions and can be rulings in different cultures.

  In the end it is about discussions about ethics not logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hate most subscriptions, because the prises are often too high, they rely on locking stuff behind paywalls, instead of providing a good service.

  Here is the difference, I am ok paying monthly for storage space, servers, and hosted/managed open source web services, because there is competition and standard interfaces there. They do not hold you hostage to their service, what they provide is good on its own.

  I GOG invests money into writing open source libraries, apps and APIs to efficiently and easily share save games between devices. Let people self host the open source backend, but offer up a subscription for a managed instance, with maybe some voting rights for new features to be integrated into the open source backend, then I would be willing to support this.

  And other stuff like this.

  Use subscriptions to offer good services, which also allow you to improve the whole ecosystem, while also not putting yourself as the gatekeeper, and locking people into their service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose some of that comes down to the personal understanding of what “smart” is.

  I guess you could call some person, that doesn’t understand a topic, but still manages to sound reasonable when talking about it, and might even convince people that they actually have a deep understanding of that topic, “smart”, in a kind of “smart imposter”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.

  Not necessarily, RISC-V is permissibly licensed, so they could add proprietary extensions, that would make the binaries or even compilers only work with their implementation of the RISC-V ISA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So a bit like extending Mozilla Application Suite aka Seamonkey instead of focusing on standalone products?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, UEFI isn’t technically a requirement. However, TPM 2.0 is, and that requires UEFI.

  TPM 2.0 does not require UEFI. I have a system here with TPM 2.0 and only legacy boot support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting discussion about this on the OpenStreetMap forums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are different degrees of vendor lock in. If you use email (or Matrix) with a domain, you have no control over, you are soft-locked it. You can buy a domain, self-host or pay for a managed service and inform everyone that you are now reachable over some other address, but nobody else has to change.

  If you use Signal (or Discord or whatever) and want to switch to a different domain. You cannot. If you switch to a different protocol, everyone in your contacts has to switch as well, or you lose that contact. The network effect forces you into the service of one provider. The only way out of there would be if the service get so bad, that a critical mass leaves, but you will have to deal with that bad service all the way.

  As long as financial interest are there, non-federated services will sooner or later start to enshittyfy. So if you choose a communication medium, choose something that leaves your options open. If you don’t like Matrix, try XMPP, it has come a long way as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix?

  IMO the whole “metadata insecurity” stuff about Matrix is over exaggerated. Also Matrix is improving there.

  If metadata security is really that important, you could try Tox or similar P2P chats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, Signal does not want anyone to use alternative clients, has that changed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you can still insert client side decryption into the app.

  But it isn’t really about the messages, it is about the control of the servers and the accounts. You cannot easily move away from their servers, because you will lose your contacts. This gives the people controlling the servers power over you. A sort of vendor lockin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The company (Signal Messenger LLC) is fully owned by Signal Foundation, a 501©3 non profit organization.

  OpenAI is also non-profit. Not really an argument.

  Probably around 80-90% of Matrix users are on the matrix.org homeserver, so it’s absolutely not as decentralized and resilient as you think it is.

  Well, the goal is that moving to your own server, will not mean that you will loose access to all your contacts. Which makes moving instances much simpler. If Matrix gets a hostile take-over, your don’t really need to reach a critical mass for an alternative server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you should also be aware that Signal does not federate, so the company can be bought. They have control over all accounts and the servers, without easy way to migrate away again. So it might just be another trap.

  Try to use federated services (like matrix), they are more robust against hostile take overs.