WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 day ago:
since the housing bubble collapsed
did it? it does not seem so. where I live to buy a house in good condition people need to take out loans that the bank may not even allow, but if it does they’ll pay it for decades. even empty plots are still very expensive. more and more people live in a rented place even though they don’t want to move, because their house is taken away.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 day ago:
In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals,
was?
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 days ago:
Invidious won’t let you play a video that youtube itself removed
- Comment on Concerned about claiming warranty for homelab with Linux 2 days ago:
how do you expect to claim warranty if you can’t do an RMA?
- Comment on Join Tech Workers Coalition and help unionize tech workers - Onboarding Call Oct 29 2 days ago:
from my part even a text platform would be better, like a discourse forum, or god forbid, maybe even discord.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 3 days ago:
no, it means they are halfway through the verification and for most countries they already have counted enough valid votes.
- Comment on Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data 3 days ago:
I guess lots of companies still use some ancient proprietary thing
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 4 days ago:
yeah and possibly that’s microsoft’s plan
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 4 days ago:
if they bother setting it up
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 4 days ago:
if you have a good company culture you don’t use teams
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 5 days ago:
first I did not speak up because I was not an apple user.
then I did not speak up because I can use adb to install my apps anyway.
then I did not speak up because I have already switched to linux on the desktop.
at the end there was nobody to speak up against windows-only forced secure boot.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 6 days ago:
this post was the first time I heard about UBIOS, so I’m not sure, but if the article is right then yes it is a specification. and if the documents are publicly accessible, then others could hypothetically make their own firmware that is (on paper) compatible.
but there’s more to it. the reason libreboot and coreboot support so few boards is that unless you can get technical documentation from the board manufacturer about how do the components on the motherboard work, its very hard to create a working firmware. reverse engineering this kind of thing is very hard and very time consuming. even the UEFI specification only tells what should the firmware present to the user and the operating system, it leaves lots of things undefined about how should it interact with the hardware, but that’s ok because that’s not the point of it.
then the board manufacturer is able to implement firmware verification that cryptographically prevents third party firmware from being used. on android, the boot process is a long chain of bootloaders, where the first one is stored in physically read-only storage and does not continue booting if the secondary bootloader has been replaced with an unauthorized implementation. when you unlock your phones bootloader to install a better android, you basically configure the secondary bootloader to accept booting a third party system. but if the manufacturer didn’t want to let you do it, they could just take this function away. also, the UBIOS specification could be incomplete, missing specification for some functionality that is necessary for an operating system to work with it. that can be a mistake or intentional. - Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 6 days ago:
america cannot really backdoor a specification. uefi is not software, but a specification, upon which firmwares can be built. that’s another story that we happen to be calling the firmware on our computers “the uefi”, but really there are quite a few different proprietary uefi implementations out there already.
so, if that ws the reason, they could have just created their own UEFI firmware, and not something different
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (24 October 2025) 1 week ago:
I agree with what the commenters say, but it’s ridiculous that all the OPs normal responses are downvoted to hell. ok people tell them what they think, but after that they should just scroll further and forget about it.
but it also reminds me of some other reddit posts where I have seen such a weird votes pattern. most top level comments heavily upvoted, plenty responses to those heavily downvoted. at some posts it was obvious vote manipulation, and others called it out too. maybe that is what’s happening there too?
but just consider this: post has a score of 500, 91% of voters upvoted it. how is it possible then that with few exceptions all OP responses are so heavily downvoted. - Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 week ago:
watching it remotely, like at friends. even if you can access it on your phone through VPN, the smart TV won’t be able to use it
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 week ago:
automated screenshots when your username is visible, like player lists or above your character when in front of a compormised player
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 week ago:
jellyfin had a similar issue too for a long time for servers exposed to the internet. google would always reblock the domains soon after unblocking them. I think they solved it in the latest update. Basically it’s that google’s scraping bots think that all jellyfin servers are a scam that imitate a “real” website.
- Comment on Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency 1 week ago:
they can just deprioritize AI MRs if it’s tagged so
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
windows 10 LTSC from massgrave.dev site for afew years, but that will come to an end too. after that if you hate yourself there are the BSDs, or you can install hackintosh too. but the linuxes are the most mature alternative that won’t just fuck you over
- Comment on Docker question: updating container to specific version 1 week ago:
don’t forget to recreate the container after editing the file, or else you’ll keep running your previous Jellyfin version. “docker compose start” does not do it, “docker compose up” does when it detects a change.
- Comment on jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy 1 week ago:
FYI the github repo can also have a wiki
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
messenger.com
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
I just flat out quit messenger when they made it app-only.
but they didn’t.
or you mean on the phone? switch on desktop site mode in firefox and done. but it’s harder to use on phone sized screens
- Comment on Revolt became Stoat 1 week ago:
do you think they would spend their little money on this?
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
they will not make a federated system and they said so, quite strongly. if you want that you’ll need to wait for matrix to grow up.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
so you use it for security? wouldn’t it make more sense to detect if the locks are locked?
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
well considering it controls a heat exchanger device it can only break you
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
at least its not -254
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
what’s a door sensor good for?
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
at least its not -254