Toribor
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- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 10 hours ago:
At least if/when that happens all your files are in markdown, owned and controlled by you so migrating to another tool is pretty easy.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 day ago:
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 5 days ago:
Welcome friend. :)
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 5 days ago:
I’m not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn’t figure it out or that it isn’t good enough…
I think as the enshittification marches on they’ll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 1 week ago:
I’ve started using Firefox to install sites ‘as a web app’. I use that for cloud services and things I self host. Basically works like a native app but way more control over data.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 2 weeks ago:
After working with computer software most of my life I’ve come to understand that if success relies on people ‘paying attention to something, making an informed decision and then performing an action’ that it is nearly impossible to get the desired outcome more than half the time.
We’re so fucked.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 weeks ago:
So… how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things…?
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 2 weeks ago:
This is what I’m using and I haven’t found any reason to switch yet.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 month ago:
1440p at 120Hz+ is superior to 4k 60Hz and is much more achievable for most hardware anyway. That’s the sweet spot in my opinion.
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 3 months ago:
Facial recognition confirmed he was a criminal and the scanner confirmed he had a gun! Of course we opened fire instantly. How could we have known it was just some guy with a water bottle?
- Comment on Your politics can affect whether you click on sponsored search results, new research shows. 3 months ago:
I can’t believe that there are people are out there just raw dogging the Internet with no AdBlock. The advertising is so aggressive and intrusive. I legitimately cannot tolerate using the Internet when 80% of the page is filled with attention grabbing bullshit.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 3 months ago:
Where else am I going to share the fun stuff I find with StumbleUpon?
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 4 months ago:
While true, this was not in the game until over a year after launch. Otherwise I think basically every other vehicle (spaceship/tram/etc) is either a cutscene or a loading screen or both.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 4 months ago:
The loading screens were unavoidable back in maybe 2005 when they released Oblivion. But now it’s 20 years later and it’s pretty crazy that they are still dealing with the same limitations where the game is split up into zones with a max of like 12 NPCs each before you have to load in a new zone.
I understand it’s mostly due to the way they handle everything as a physics object in the game, but it’s hard to believe the gameplay sacrifices they are making just so I can dump like 100 cheese wheels or whatever on the ground and watch them roll around.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 4 months ago:
I played Cyberpunk again for the first time in a while and was thinking about how something simple like getting out of my car and taking an elevator up to an apartment had zero cutscenes. In Starfield it would have been a cutscene getting in the car, a loading screen for driving, a cutscene exiting the car, a loading screen entering the building, a loading screen entering the elevator, a loading screen entering the apartment…
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 4 months ago:
They’re not expecting any one person to implement the whole thing.
Hahaha, tell that to leadership! 😩
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you can run 4k at high frame rates then sure but the performance hit can be huge and a lot of displays can only do 4k at 30Hz anyway which isn’t worth it when 1440p is usually an option.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 4 months ago:
Back in the day people paid for ringtones, wallpapers, etc. Dumbest thing ever were ‘ringbacks’ where you paid to have a song or something play when people called you. So the people buying it didn’t even hear it, they just forced other people to listen to a shitty low fidelity garbled mess of a song they liked while you waited for them to pick up the phone.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 4 months ago:
It’s kind of a paradox when you think about it. Good reviewers are often just regular people with a passion for tech but as they become more popular and prolific they become part of the industry itself. Once that happens even if they try to stay objective and critical their perspective is so different from regular people that reviews are just part of the sales and marketing strategy rather than pro tips from an enthusiast.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 4 months ago:
My career as a sysadmin consistently has me veering toward security and compliance and my brain is absolutely fried on trying to figure out what these huge docs actually mean, how they apply to the things I’m responsible for and what we’re supposed to do about it.
Props to all the folks that can do it without losing their mind.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 4 months ago:
Their mom’s basement, most likely.
- Comment on Day 40 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Jedi Fallen Order) 5 months ago:
Performance was ‘okay’ on my RTX2080 but I had to return it because the EA launcher was breaking steam controller input which made it unplayable.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 5 months ago:
It’s clear that Valve’s competitors undervalue the user experience that Steam provides and don’t understand why it’s so sticky.
- Comment on Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative 5 months ago:
I intentionally do not host my own git repos mostly because I need them to be available when my environment is having problems.
I make use of local runners for CI/CD though which is nice but git is one of the few things I need to not have to worry about.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 5 months ago:
I was paying for Google music until they took it away from me and told me it was Youtube Premium and then raised the price twice.
Not exactly what I’d call a great value proposition.
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 5 months ago:
IPv6 firewalls should, by default, offer similar levels of security to NAT
I think you’re probably right. We had decades of security experts saying that NAT is not a firewall and everyone on the planet treated it like one anyway. Now we’re overexposed for a no-NAT IPV6 internet.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 5 months ago:
Somewhat ironically the Surface laptops are really great Linux machines.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 6 months ago:
Should have put the ‘implode’ action on the shoulder button. It was only a matter of time before he triggered it on accident.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 6 months ago:
if you go to another country, you have to adjust to their law
Big business knows no national boundaries. They’ll build factories wherever labor is cheap, put headquarters wherever the taxes are low, and sell their wares wherever consumer rights are weak.
