WhyJiffie

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source CAD In The Browser⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
because that’s the new hip OS
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
they are working on it
don’t worry though, they didn’t abandon it. they have continued development hidden from sight in the android version of the chromium engine
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
sounds good, where can we obtain it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
when a large, trump supporter corporation, with its main business being habit and environment tracking based personalized advertising, has so deep access to your phone as it literally builfs the operating system for it, maybe it is indeed already compromised.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I know several people in my community who confidently trust it for search. they are not stupid people… but sometimes I question their choices
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
that’s not just useless defeatism, but also false. effective end to end encryption exists in multiple forms today.

signal, maybe even with a custom server.
matrix if the server is being ran on trusted hardware.
XMPP too with the right extensions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
LLMs are more like a leaf blower though
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unionize or die - Drew DeVault⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
and hopefully also elsewhere. as Drew said in the first part, tech workers will be affected by billionaire’s decisions even outside of work, on multiple fronts.

we must eat the rich, or they will eat us all alive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Postiz v1.47.0 - Open source social media scheduling tool⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
truly a passionate dev
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arc Browser Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
tab groups in firefox are surprisingly good! even alongside a tab group management addon. they complement each other
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arc Browser Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
it couldn’t be too popular as a windows only project. I assume it was too lite known, like I never even heard about it here or other places
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selling Surveillance as Convenience⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
bluetooth is short range isn’t it? so while this is a problem, it is not the exact same thing. network based location is not a replacement for GPS.

Google already uses this with WiFi to help “bootstrap” GPS localization. It is much faster to get a GPS fix if you already know roughly where you are (a few seconds vs a couple minutes), so they use nearby WiFi/Bluetooth devices to determine that.

I think you mean A-GPS, which is not related to wifi and bluetooth, other thqn being able to use wifi to access a server for downloading current constellation data. phones that have google mobile services installed, have an additional fused location source (besides a network based and a gps based location source) that tries to fuse the 2 sources while the gps signal is not precise enough
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selling Surveillance as Convenience⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
that really depends on the location. not everyone lives in big cities. is there a way today to give access to bluetooth without giving access to GPS?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think it’s debatable whether storing in volatile memory is persisting, but ok. And by debatable I mean depends on what is happening exactly.

A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.

what, are they going to do memory dumps before every free() call?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
so they never should have persisted that data to begin with, right? and if they didn’t persist it, they wouldn’t need to retain it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people delete their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow.

those need to be reported and banned, their replies mass deleted.

Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway,

Because we don’t have a proper (or any) system for subscribing to threads. but if I have saved a link for myself for future reference, it’ll be gone!

I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if people start running instances that disobey deletions
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
one could argue that installing packages is a dangerous permission
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
of course the eventual enforcement is left to the service provider (google) as it often is how it works. when you can’t define something with 100% precision, you leave some room for interpretation. they can then decide what to do on a case by case basis.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
totally clear. and exactly the subject is the broadest: harmful to anyone or anything
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk.net outage⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
it seems they will, just not too soon
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk.net outage⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oh you will. I know the name for a few months now and I still read it slurpnik
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
if they haven’t defined it, then legally it is meant in the broadest sense, isn’t it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Drives only consume power on reads and writes, if your NAS spins them down as it should (and apparently QNAP *doesn’t, which I didn’t know).

not really. not all drives spin down by themselves, by default. and even if they do, it’ll happen relatively long after reads and writes, a the while it’ll consume power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

The problem seems to be that even with a perfectly clean slate, no services running, the system set up in their own RAID0 SSD pool, the HDD’s, even with 0 bytes of data on them, are being pinged for access at least once a minute.

if it’s for drive health stats, and the device runs linux, hd-idle could help. it only counts actual block device (so, storage) access as activity
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

And don’t think that SSD drives would do better - spinning disk drives generally have far better idle power than SSD does, and usually much better write power consumption.

I wonder if they can be “spinned down” like hard drives. their startup time would be much faster, so it’s shutdown could even be on a tighter schedule. I mean probably they dont have an internal idle timer, but who cares if you can just have something like hd-idle that shuts it down according to a better schedule.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

In my experience using a PC as a NAS, the power draw isn’t necessarily the drives as they spin down when idle.

that’s not always the default setup, especially with enterprise drives. also if you have some kind of monitoring, that can keep the drives from going down (for that, use linux hd-idle instead of drive internal idle timer), and it can also wake them up (for that, prometheus node exporter’s smart collector first checks whether a drive is up, and only then collect stats). Interestingly, checking temps with smartctl always spins up my drives, while linux hwmon can give me live temp stats even while the drives are down
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Because the fucking line must go fucking up! the large hot forks should be going up the CEOs and investors asses instead!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm on the right track 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished

let the downvotes pour!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm on the right track 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished

let the downvotes pour!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Why would anyone opt in 😭

Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition