WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 14 hours ago:
A hydro reservoir has much higher evaporation than if there was no reservoir.
oh, I wasn’t aware of that, makes sense.
Ps: biomass power generation is a crime against nature.
why, what’s the problem with that?
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 18 hours ago:
don’t give them ideas, they’ll thaw the antarctic
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 18 hours ago:
Generating power with coal/nuclear/hydro uses water, and since the LLM data centers use power that would otherwise not have been generated, this is one of the ways that they use up water.
I doubt those are constantly consuming large amounts of water. hydro just lets it through, and nuclear has chained closed loop systems, and they also let through some after the last loop
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 day ago:
what is RAG?
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 day ago:
Why does an email service need a chatbot, even for business?
they are not only an email service, for quite some time now
There are about a bajillion of these, and one could host the same thing inside docker in like 10 minutes.
sure, with a thousand or two dollars worth of equipment and then computer knowledge. Anyone could do it really. but even if not, why don’t they just rawdog deepseek? I don’t get it either
…On the other hand, it has no access to email I think?
that’s right. you can upload files though, or select some from your proton drive, and can do web search.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 days ago:
and by extension possibly secure router firmware like OpenWRT too
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 days ago:
what an utter bullshit! will the manufacturer be also directly held liable if someone uses a phone of their brand to make a picture about me without authorization! of fucking course not!
fuck samsung, and all the manufacturers that follow suit, because this is just not needed.
but also fuck the red directive’s decision makers for their unsatiable creep of wanting ever more power over our devices! this is exactly like saying, that there is this illegal thing, and if you are not doing it, but just have the slightest ability to do it, that is also illegal. what the actual fuck! get off my fucking phone you scumbags!!
- Comment on Coding and Gaming on AR Glasses 3 days ago:
so far sounds pretty good!
what do you think about its material and build quality?
do you think having an additional 3 years warranty for 140€ is a good idea? - Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 days ago:
compared to what? much easier than phone numbers
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 4 days ago:
The metaphorical horse is already out of the barn and removing or disabling these systems will probably never happen now.
Unless lots of people begin dismantling them. but that may turn out to be not too healthy.
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 4 days ago:
I can barely believe senators of the usa are even thinking on such a bill.
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 5 days ago:
that probably only means that its carrier unlocked, so that you are not forced to use a specific carrier that someone decided for you.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 5 days ago:
Right. It’s not like other services have implemented it better though, or is there any? I don’t think we should punish them for trying to do it in a more usable way than with signal
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 5 days ago:
mortality
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
I don’t see how that makes the same method unsuitable. and no, I’m not an American, and I never have been there.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 days ago:
update: I think not only the handshake packets contain a recognizable pattern. look at “Subsequent Messages: Exchange of Data Packets”
especially if the receiver/sender_index and the counter are what I think they are.
also have a look at this page: www.wireguard.com/known-limitations/
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 days ago:
now that you say, I think I remember reading something like this earlier
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 6 days ago:
but Maeve said to call the senators about these, not mastercard. and you don’t need to call them about all of these topics at once either.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 days ago:
wireguard is not undetectable, even wireshark has a simple way to identify it, but there are more accurate ways
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 days ago:
and now you have to pay lotsbof business taxes even if you don’t have any income
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
using bad apps and aligning your hardware needs is like eating junk fast food, it’s kind of the users fault for accepting and enabling that developer behavior.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
they were not yet blocking it with knox, they were permanently tainting your device with it if you decided to assert your ownership rights
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 1 week ago:
they’ll need so many more cameras with built in AI face and gait recognition, and footage uploading to china
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
report, lol. what does that douchebag want to do? fine a foreign website for not serving his oh so precious country?
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 1 week ago:
made it harder to deploy? Isn’t it still just a single binary, a config file and a directory for data?
bugs are inevitable for evolving software.
which community oriented features do you mean? are they in the way, or is it just that you don’t need them?
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 1 week ago:
what’s the problem with gitea? I never used gogs so I can’t compare it
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
what is this document on your screenshot? where can we read it in full?
I’m surprised that nobody asked it yet… but not so surprised
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
it is the best example, because it clearly shows a big weakness of centralized digital payments that crypto does not have
itch can adjust their policy all they want if the payment processors will dictate what they can allow, and just say no at any time.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
Are you seriously arguing that navigating to someone’s house with Google maps is violating their privacy? When I do share my location, I’m sharing through Google maps, directly to my wife’s Google account. Google can already see my location for maps purposes. They have obtained no new information.
yes I do. that information does not just stay on your phone. just like taking pictures of someone and uploading them to facebook against their will. or the other examples I already said. convenience does not magically launder an act that goes against someone’s privacy.
you are right that in your case they did not obtain new information with the planned route, because the location sharing already exposes it. I thought it is obvious that it only applies when you are not sharing your location.
You’re okay with people using maps but not sharing their location within those maps apps. That’s a very confusing moral stance.
I don’t see why is that confusing. there are map apps that dont share your searches or anything with anyone. google maps is not the only thing on the world.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 week ago:
yeah and that policy has been working on every other machine! I even checked the registry value, and it was there in the correct location, and correct type!