Dran_Arcana
@Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 5 days ago:
Yes you are correct, I had the two reversed in my head.
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 5 days ago:
Hangouts was built on xmpp, and used to allow federation. Yes xmpp still exists but it’s functionally dead.
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 5 days ago:
I believe google hangouts and xmpp would like to have a word with you. There was probably a universe where federated xmpp was as ubiquitous as sms, but in this universe, google federated, brought users over with cool features, and then defederated when they had all the users.
If you want another example from the same company in modern times, look at chrome and http/css/js. Google’s chokehold on the web ecosystem with chrome means that whatever they do, everyone else has to follow suit or not be compatible with the browser that something like ~75-90% of users use
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 1 month ago:
I have this running at home. oobabooga/automatic1111 for LLM/SD backends, vosk + mimic3 for tts/stt. A little bit of custom python to tie it all together. I certainly don’t have latency as low as theirs, but it’s definitely conversational when my sentences are short enough.
- Comment on Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary 1 month ago:
It’s like grifting, but also a pyramid scheme.
- Comment on Dead Games News: Response from UK Government 1 month ago:
TL/DW for those of us who don’t learn well from video content?
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
Small fediverse lol
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 months ago:
I would guess that it goes off of the lowest common denominator between IP address geo-location & billing address. If either of those say US, google/apple would probably be required not to distribute it.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
It is possible to both be anti-chinese government and also want comprehensive privacy laws in the US. Like, I absolutely buy that the Chinese government has access to tiktok data. I, however, don’t think forcing a sale is the right way to deal with any of this. Comprehensive privacy and data collection laws would go much farther towards making it so it doesn’t really matter who owns what.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 months ago:
Not sure if you could get updates to the app over VPN though, that depends on how the stores handle regions.
Specifically, app stores would be required not to host it, so you’d likely have to do updates through some sort of side-loading
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 months ago:
unless the bill has changed since the last time I read it, there were fines for hosting the service in US datacenters, and fines for companies allowing US data to exist in non-us datacenters. I don’t think you could interpret the bill as imposing a civil penalty to a user using a vpn and accessing it.
- Comment on Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. 2 months ago:
I think most of us blocked it out
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 2 months ago:
costs only an email address and a promise to sign up for a 37% APY credit card.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use 2 months ago:
You would expose a single port to multiple vlans, and then bind multiple addresses to that single physical interface. Each service would then bind itself to the appropriate address, rather than “*”
- Comment on He's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. 2 months ago:
I thought tiktok came out of music.ly. I didn’t think it had roots in vine.
- Comment on Self hosted remote storage for VPS? 2 months ago:
You should consider reversing the roles. There’s no reason your homelab cannot be the client, and have your vps be the server. Once the wireguard virtual network exists, network traffic doesn’t really care which was the client and which was the server. Saves you from opening a port to attackers on your home network.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s probably “blocked” by restricting DNS queries to the main site (e.g pornhub.com) but not to any of their CDNs because ~effort~
- Comment on XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? 2 months ago:
Sorry I should have said “carbons and carbons related qol extensions”
- Comment on XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? 2 months ago:
Did you ever get carbons working properly? (As in, mobile and desktop clients of the same user both getting messages and marking as read remotely between them)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
They probably would. As the value of a dollar drops disproportionate to the value of goods/services, the cost in dollars for the same good/service goes up.
- Comment on What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method? 4 months ago:
How has nobody in this thread said check_mk yet?
It’s free, you host it yourself. It’s built off of nagios, compatible with nagios plugins, supports snmp or agent based checks. It can email, SMS, slack or discord you when something breaks, you can write your own custom checks in any language that can output to a local console… I could never imagine even looking for something else.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
factory reset went back to the shitty upgrade version I upgraded to :(. But I will say that I haven’t let it update since that initial terrible upgrade assuming it might get worse. Maybe I should try upgrading it once more and then lock it off if the next version is decent?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I connected it because it was in that like 2 year span where they had that a small android tablet as a remote. Legitimately cool feature but I should have known better than to let it update.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Vizio is fantastic if you’re using your own source, I wouldn’t rely on their smart stuff though.
I’d still refute that claim. I bought a vizio tv about ~7 years ago and it was perfect when I first bought it. A few software updates later and now the TV will switch to it’s internal bullshit any time there isn’t an input source for greater than ~3 seconds. It’s infuriating that if my nvidia shield takes a second too long to push out a video signal the TV will just switch inputs on me. There is no way to disable this antifeature. The best part is after I noticed this behavior, I (at the network level) prevented all outgoing communication from this TV and it is still perfectly happy to just switch to a blank internal input whenever an external source takes slightly too long. “If I can’t track you, fuck you I’ll make your TV basically unusable”
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 4 months ago:
“The tryhard poopsock”
- Comment on A question on hosting a Matrix server on a cheap VPS 4 months ago:
has xmpp figured out carbons yet between multiple clients? also are there any good mobile clients?
- Comment on A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one asking myself that.
- Comment on Player Character builder 4 months ago:
If one doesn’t exist, it would seem to be a fairly straightforward (if not a smidge tedious) thing to implement. Ever thought about learning web development?
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 4 months ago:
No hate if you disagree, your reasoning is sound. I just think that naming, especially in the new tech space, goes beyond pedantry. We have words that are specific enough to describe two similar technologies, but we only retain shared understanding of those words if we collectively use them. It may be the case that AR evolves to be commonly understood as encompassing both technologies but they are fundamentally different in how they work, whatever we choose to call them.
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 4 months ago:
Just because developers name libraries things doesn’t make them accurate. Generally when something is misnamed it’s because of backwards/intercomaptibility or just design decisions that differ from original implementations and it’s no longer feasible/reasonable to refactor to a different name.
Examples: windows 7 was version 6.1, windows 8 was version 6.2, windows 8.1 was version 6.3 Java 5 was versioned as 1.5, continuing the convention from previous releases 1.2-1.4 Hell, where I work we use an automation workflow with functions called stuff like “create_and_assign_citrix_security_groups_to_static_containers” that has long since been adapted to work with vmware and other non-virtualization platforms like k8s. Refactoring those functions would mean refactoring any external automation that uses these libraries, just like refactoring versioning schemas would break compatibility with any external software that relies on an assumption that windows >xp would be 6.X.