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- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to encourage paranoia here but “off” does not mean “off”. Modern phones are almost never actually “powered down”. If you’re paranoid, turning your phone off is not enough. Leave it behind.
(Also a gap in your phone’s location history can also be used against you, fwiw.)
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
“The fourth amendment means what we say it means” – SCOTUS, probably.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
How the fuck do you run someone over with a bulldozer… no matter what i think of it’s not coming up good…
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t mean that in this case, except perhaps very indirectly.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
Vaultwarden is Bitwarden–at least for now, this change may push them apart.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
No, technically they already are SaaS company. That’s mostly how they make their money.
Also it should be noted “no longer open source” doesn’t mean they’ve done a “our code is now closed and all your passwords are ours” rug pull like some other corporations. This is a technical concern with the license and it no longer meets proper FOSS standards (in other words, it has a restriction on it now that you wouldn’t see in, for example, the GPL).
So by and large the change is very minimal, the code is still available, it’s still the best option. However, this does matter. It may be a sign of the company changing directions. It’s something they should get pushback about.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, it’s Bitwarden right now. This move signals their intent to change that, though.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, the powerful have the power so they’re arranging my life too. To the best of their ability, at least.
You’re right that we should not confuse their values for our own, however.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Don’t need to go that far, i think. If you had your extension hash some piece of each keyframe (basically: tokenize some IDs for each keyframe) and submit them to a database you could then see which parts were shown to everyone vs only to some people and only display those. Basically similar to how sponsorblock crowd sources its sponsor segment detection but automated. Some people would see the ads but then you’d know what the og video was unless it gets edited.
This is assuming they’re not reencoding the video for each advertisement, which they probably aren’t. If they are it probably gets easier, actually. Sponsorblock could do that.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Compared to the cost of reencoding the video (or even segments of it) it would be basically nothing, though.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
“Line go up” is the animating force of the age, the critical philosophical principal around which our entire society is arranged.
Gives me a fucking headache.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
RSS feed -> yt-dlp script -> auto queue the folder into the player of your choice. Hmm…
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
One of the originators of the idea of “planned obsolescence”. Even after the cartel got killed the manufacturers never extended the life of the lights into (to an extent) CFLs and then moreso the days of LEDs.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
They’ve been sabotaged by design. LEDs should last 10+ years if built even half away reasonably, but unfortunately the manufacturers basically got together and agreed to build them in such a way they would fail. Same as regular light bulbs, they just have to work harder.
I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market–old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks. They’ve been running for like 15 years now and not a one of them has failed. I spent several hundred USD replacing all my bulbs with those back in the day and they’ve done me well.
Modern bulbs are trash by comparison. Not because the technology is limited in some way but because they refuse to make anything to that quality anymore.
We need an alternate solution to this planned obsolescence bullshit. Light bulbs hit 50k rated hours long ago and they were talking about making ones that went 100k+ but these days you can’t find anything above 25k. And that’s setting aside the fact that a lot of these rely on apps that could be dropped at a moment’s notice.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
Imagine not having 70,000 followers. Fate worse then death.
- Comment on USA | 'Whitewashing genocide': How Democrats and the media kept Gaza out of the DNC 2 months ago:
I think it’s pretty well known they want to nuke and pave the Middle East. The only question is whether they’d include Israel in that or not.
- Comment on Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. 2 months ago:
In that sense, TikTok is really their competition. They’re upset not because it steals your data, they’re upset because they’re not the ones getting your data.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 4 months ago:
A lot of them already called him “the God Emperor”, so…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Kind of a Hitleriam 'stache, too, being completely honest.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose. Nobody has to lose their jobs.
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 6 months ago:
My work moved to that model, to get promoted you have to first work at that level for free.
Then, of course, they don’t promote you because you’re already doing the work for them. Why should they?
- Comment on Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government 6 months ago:
I’m sure Apple was dragged, kicking their feet and screaming all the way, into banning all the competing services too…
- Comment on Choose your ultimate lineup! 8 months ago:
This is like the best actual answer.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
Maybe cars should not be so easy to steal… I thought we came to an agreement on this.
- Comment on Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages 9 months ago:
This is kind of a survivorship bias kind of thing (with the WW2 bombers): NOT getting the news is the actual indicator of lack of quality control. Getting reports of them finding things is an indicator they’re actually looking. We know they had problems due to the whole, you know, planes falling out of the sky.
Of course it’s not black and white, what’s in the news isn’t really the important thing either way. It’s just what we can see.
- Comment on Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages 9 months ago:
I know Boeing is kind of fucking everything up right now, but safety delays are an indicator of safety, not the opposite.
- Comment on Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs 9 months ago:
Layoffs fundamentally change the tone of a company in a serious way. I think “chilling” is a good word.
- Comment on Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 9 months ago:
I keep seeing people say this and
- The CEO is not alone responsible for the culture, especially when he was only CEO for 4 years
- He wasn’t the guy who oversaw the 737 Max development. That would be his predecessor, James McNerney, an MBA.
Obviously Muilenberg didn’t fix everything wrong with the company during his time there, for all i know he made it worse. However, i keep seeing this cited as some kind of own to the critique of modern Boeing and it isn’t. It just isn’t.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 10 months ago:
I mean we saw this in 2023. Companies fired people and replaced them with AI that was unable to do the job.
- Comment on Yeah, I'm gonna take a second opinion on that... 10 months ago:
Turn a bowl upside-down and slap this bad boy on top of it. Boom, proof the bowl is a plate.