WhyJiffie

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Shiiit, I really don’t want to go back to Google and all their sponsored/AI/tracking bullshit.

  I can tell you confidently that I simply just won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  windows reminds me of the upper and lower facilities in Portal 2. once I somehow managed to trigger a warning window about the memory usage of 16 bit applications on windows 10, even though I think support was removed for them long ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, don’t keep it running if not needed.

  can you enforce that with flatpak? I often see the notification that “X program is still running in the background” or something similar, but the flatpak permission settings did not seem to have such a setting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, that’s why I said…

  the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows

  then I misunderstood you. I thought you meant swap = virtual memory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Privacy preserved, basically.

  only if the browser cannot run in the background, and it cannot access any of your fikes, the DBus of your regular user’s session, and other facilities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  JXL for the win! when will we get support for it in firefox though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, you’ll look odd holding your phone up to the screen.

  just connect another display, set it to mirroring, and point a camera at that. or just use a video capture card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  except on firefox of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you know, sometimes I wonder if Matrix could be used in a business setting, and worry about its rough edges and buggy features of Element. but you know what! it would probably be fine! not worse than teams, and at least they don’t want to fuck you over!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  regarding the quote, will they just not let linux users connect to the call when that restriction is turned on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Screamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that site is weird, appends its domain in a “ref” parameter to any urls on it… wikipedia, youtube, amazon…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The swap file or pagefile is automatically set up in Windows 10/11. You have to do something manually to prevent it.

  yes. but it still is different from virtual memory. that’s a broader thing.

  By making the swap file larger, which may be an issue if the hard drive doesn’t have enough space left, and if not it will still increase the amount of time needed to recover data from the swap, because it’s larger.

  then open the control panel and fix the swap setup. and then enjoy your more ram. the solution to this problem does not seem to be not upgrading to have more ram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  virtual memory is related, but that’s a broader system that also gets used when no swap file was set up.

  I agree that adding more RAM won’t necessarily make the problem go away as windows might still swap the game out if it deems it more important to cache more files in RAM, but I don’t see why that would make it worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  we need to get any smart glasses and similar banned from public spaces in europe that is capable of any kind of imaging

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah rly. the fuck are you talking about with “fuck sun”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  tools like that were going big in the pandemic for online exams. Basically rootkits that fully compromise your machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  and what to use instead? run qemu commands and all the preparation by hand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no sun anymore. It’s oracle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming the world is a simulation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  really interesting to see that they have more posts than comments

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “everyone” yeah, in our bubble maybe. never underestimate the carelessness of the consumer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with them but I also disagree that 11 looks like XP. they are very far from each other. XP looked better even. I’m not joking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  doesn’t mint/cinnamon have a graphical task manager? and deleting ~/.steam can be dont from the file manager

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is shaking up its compensation to incentivize higher performance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  google is a master of doing that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On what basis are you deciding it should not be DRM protected?

  they have literally given 3 of such bases

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh you’re very confidently wrong, I very much will

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On what basis are you deciding it should not be DRM protected?

  they have literally given 3 of such bases

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.

  yeah it seems you forgot what you wanted to say midway.

  to extend on it, I2P, Tor and other mixnets provide the only safe way currently to host projects that others don’t like, because such sites cannot be taken down. that’s both a blessing and a curse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  git is clearly not p2p in the needed level or else we wouldn’t have faced this problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a little reading comprehension could help a lot next time