ammonium
@ammonium@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 3 days ago:
You guys shouldn’t complain, you still have saldering (net metering) ánd get money for the electricity you have left which is still a huge subsidy.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Why go through all the hoops if they are instead just could refuse patches? Open source doesn’t mean open to contributions, look at SQLite for example.
If they had the idea to release this open source they would have said so in clear words by now. They didn’t so I don’t have much hope, unless maybe if they get enough negative publicity to change their mind.
Why does VC need to ruin everything…
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
How is it fake news? They are moving functionality into a proprietary SDK and have a whole framework ready to get around the GPL.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Stable bindings doesn’t mean open source, so I don’t see how that tells you it’s still on the table
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t make sense for an internal library for an open source application, it that case it’s not open source.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
To be fair? Nowhere are they even suggesting they would release the SDK as FOSS, but they do say their password manager is open source. It seems like they just want a FOSS shell so they can claim it’s open source for but keep their business logic closed source.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
It says the build error is a bug, not the inclusion of proprietary code.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Clearly not: github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issueco…
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
I think that can be explained, but tell me how someone can be in favor of the death penalty but be against assisted suicide.
- Comment on If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th???? 1 month ago:
At the time most Americans were farmers. Can’t be Sunday because it’s a Christian rest day, Wednesday neither because that’s market day. They might have to travel a whole day to get there, so it can’t be on Monday or Thursday either. Which leaves only Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
So instead of spending 1 day writing good code, we’ll be spending a week debugging shitty code. Great.
- Comment on Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows 3 months ago:
Security software are also “apps”. Since Microsoft is also in the security software business locking down access for their competitors could definitely be seen as anti-competitive practices.
Apple doesn’t have a monopoly with MacOS so other rules apply.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Honestly, I’ve used some pretty decent AI chatbots. They can help you with basic questions and contact you with a human for things that require it or if you ask for it. Chatbots that don’t let you talk to a human on the other hand, those are awful.
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 5 months ago:
I have to run out of the bathroom when my wife uses her Dyson air dryer because it hurts my ears, and you’re telling me this is by design?!
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 10 months ago:
Trade with the EU hasn’t completely halted, we still buy gas from Russia.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 10 months ago:
Wasn’t this confirmed to be an AdBlock (Plus) bug? twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I stopped using it because my cables got always damaged after a few weeks/months of usage. With a (big) phone in my pocket it’s just not possible for me to put no stress on the jack.
I actually stopped listening music on the road for a few years after that until I started using Bluetooth headphones/in ears. Now I wouldn’t go back to cable even if it didn’t break down so fast.
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 11 months ago:
This doesn’t come out of an app, they scraped the Internet.
- Comment on About 40% of the world's power generation is now renewable 11 months ago:
Electric power generation, which is about 20% of all energy used.
- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 11 months ago:
The Earth will judge
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
*In the US. In countries with decent labor laws this doesn’t fly.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
Even if you take four words of a 30000 word list (quick Google says that’s the number of words an average person knows), that’s still less bits of entropy than a 5 word diceware password (7776 word list). People are also really bad at randomness, so your own string of random words is likely going to be much worse.
- Comment on Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says 1 year ago:
Seriousl question, why do they then even bother with the retail platform?
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
thesecurityfactory.be/password-cracking-speed/
8 character a-zA-Z is 45 bits of entropy (log2(56^8), about the same as the XKCD password if you take from a 2048 word list. That’s crackable in a minute on AWS.
Password hashes get frequently stolen, don’t rely on rate limiting if it’s something you really care about.
Here are the dice ware recommendations on the number of words: theworld.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html#howlong
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
Four words is too low these days to protect against gpu bruteforcing
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 1 year ago:
It’s not unheard of, Icelandic is much closer to Old Norse than Norwegian is.
There are many reasons why this could be the case: pure chance, less outside influence of other languages, a smaller group of people, …
Not all of these apply to the US and I have no idea whether English in the US has less changed than in the UK.
- Comment on Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership 1 year ago:
I’m not against legalization of prostition or drugs, but the only thing The Netherlands figured out is that simply legalization doesn’t make the problems go away. Both drug crime and human trafficking are still a big issue.
- Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them 1 year ago:
I never said that. Of course you pay for everything that’s in your car, but it’s certainly possible it would cost you more not to have them put it in there, that’s the crux of the matter.
- Comment on BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them 1 year ago:
Yes, and no. Imagine it costs $20/car to install seat heating in every car, but by making two assembly lines, one for with and one without it every car becomes $25 more expensive. Software disabling costs $1/car. In this scenario it would cost more to make a car without physical seat heating than one with. This is just an extreme example to show the problem, with other costs it can be more complicated, but the principle stands.