totallynotfbi
@totallynotfbi@lemm.ee
Migrated here from my old account at lemmy.fmhy.ml
- Comment on Google Fiber is offering early access to $250 per month 20-gig service - The Verge 11 months ago:
I’d be interested to know what the actual speeds will be outside of these pilot cities, and internationally. I’ve seen 10Gbps plans being advertised in my country recently, but they hide the fact that the international speeds are around 2 Gbps. (Still pretty fast, but definitely not worth the cost!)
- Comment on Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon 11 months ago:
Flipboard also supports RSS, allowing you to see your feeds with any software you want!
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] Apple May Soon Allow Sideloading Apps on iOS 1 year ago:
From your post history, it looks like you’re in Singapore. If so, then I don’t think that will be a concern - if anything, given how most government apps treat sideloading on the Android side, they’ll probably block you from using them if you use the feature.
- Comment on Surround sound test files for every audio format 1 year ago:
If you also need test videos, Demolandia is another great resource. However, their site is very slow, so you might want to use a download manager.
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Oh, I understand now, I’m not from the US so I just assumed that it was majority-funded. I’m just not sure why this would be a big deal even if NPR was government funded - I mean, it’s still better than a broadcaster owned by the media oligopoly, so who really cares?
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Yeah, they totally should, but this is Elon Musk we’re talking about, unfortunately :/
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Is that so? I thought it was a more significant source. But isn’t it technically correct, though? I’m not American, but Wikipedia says it was established by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Serious question: What’s wrong with NPR being labeled as “US-supported media”? Isn’t it funded by the US federal government?
- Comment on BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content 1 year ago:
I mean, you could just block OpenAI’s crawlers’ IP addresses, if you wanted to
- Comment on Simplifying warrant canaries - Purplix canary 1 year ago:
Maybe it was updated after your comment, but the demo site has that notice prominently at the top for me
- Comment on Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 installs 1 year ago:
That would be cool, if we still installed Windows from CDs and DVDs. But last time I installed Windows 10, it took 2-3 minutes to finish (excluding the OOBE prompts), so it’s not very helpful…
- Comment on Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform 1 year ago:
Wow, do you need to have your apps signed by Microsoft now, like macOS’s Gatekeeper makes you do?
- Comment on Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica 1 year ago:
They’ve been separate for more than a decade now
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
- Comment on Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat 1 year ago:
I guess, but I don’t see how much they can really influence Telegram without any stake in the app itself. They only seem to have a deal for cloud-hosting with the TON Foundation, a non-critical part of the app, and even that appears to be non-exclusive. So if Tencent tries to force a bad decision onto Telegram, what’s stopping them from severing ties and moving everything over to another provider?
Of course, we don’t know what the situation will be like in the future, but at this present moment, I don’t think Telegram’s security has been breached by this. (Also I think you triple-posted this comment)
- Comment on Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat 1 year ago:
This week, TON Foundation announced that it’s forged a partnership with Tencent Cloud, which has “already successfully supported TON validators and plans to expand its services further to help meet TON’s high compute intensity and network bandwidth needs.” Validators, in web3 lingo, are participants that help authenticate transactions in a blockchain network.
It looks like the partnership with Tencent only extends to their Web3 blockchain thing, and there doesn’t seem to be any partnership in the main app so it’s not the end of the world - at least, for now.
Also, what even is this TON blockchain? I never knew Telegram had anything to do with crypto :/
- Comment on Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat 1 year ago:
Hasn’t the founder been a vocal critic of Russia for years, including the Ukraine war? I don’t really see why that would be a concern, especially since Telegram is supposedly owned by a US LLC
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
- Comment on I'm playing Pokemon HeartGold on my iPhone and I love it! 1 year ago:
I’m using Delta myself, any reason why you chose Ignited over it? Might consider switching
- Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix 1 year ago:
Isn’t like 90% of the traffic on Usenet from alt.bin.*? In other words, file sharing. I’ve looked around some newsgroups, and most of them are just filled with spam posts
- Comment on Internet Archive Files Appeal in Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Libraries 1 year ago:
Honestly, they should have settled. I’m not sure how much the publisher’s settlement was, but I bet they’re going to lose this appeal anyway :/
- Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection 1 year ago:
Even if it’s an independent label or unsigned artist?
- Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection 1 year ago:
I don’t think that 10% cut (or 0% if the artist still has debt) will amount to much for the majority of artists on a major label
- Comment on Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors 1 year ago:
As much as I dislike Bill Gates, I hope that this project finds success. With that said however, they’re going against Rolls Royce, GE, and Hitachi, which are probably more trustworthy for the government than a relatively new startup
- Comment on Ravio Developer Response (iOS App Store) 1 year ago:
Damn, glad I don’t use Raivo. This reminds me of the whole Nano Defender scandal
- Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones 1 year ago:
I used to own a ZenFone, and Asus’s technical support was awful. I guess I’m glad I don’t use one now