njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how far one of these would fly if it wandered onto a road and got hammered by a semi doing 55mph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the location on one of those “war dashboards” a day or two ago. Can’t have been that secret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the correction, I’ve clarified my previous comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Monetizing that pill and wringing every last dollar out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When I see all the people running off this cliff, and the trump loving gen Z guys, I have to wonder if I’m going to have 5 simultaneous girlfriends before a single girl smiles at them. You gotta have self-respect before others will respect you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve adjusted to something similar:

  • DDG for all-purpose searching
  • SearXNG when I’m feeling extra FOSS
  • Kagi when I need 1999 Google.
  • Google “verbatim” mode when I absolutely mist use it.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google told staff worried about Pentagon AI deals that the company is 'leaning more' into national security contracts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I got laid off by one of these big tech corporations and replaced by AI (in my opinion, they denied this). It couldn’t have come at a better time because I was past the point where my ethics were allowing me to continue. Let someone else build, sell, and support the framework of global oppression. I wouldn’t mind doing some Linux work (20+ years of Linux use, minor coding experience, some devops type stuff, but mostly support/sales). For now, I’m focused on my family and I might teach some dance in the meantime. Gotta dance while the world is burning; how else do I stay positive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the link to the article, it’s accountwalled/paywalled but you can read the first paragraph or two (in German).

  republik.ch/…/schweizer-konzerne-finanzieren-pala…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How about a 24 hour waiting period for me to harden my OS before Google slurps up all my data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Manjaro, they had a nice theme, it was in the direction of Arch, but still had some guardrails for the noobish.

  Then my system kept breaking, then they screwed up their certs. If they want to fork it and go forward with a different focus/ideology, that’s fine by me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The constitution basically guarantees us root access to our own lives (life, liberty, and the pursuit of property/happiness). I’d like the same or better for my devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  An option for full password on every cold boot with pin for subsequent unlocks would strengthen security without removing user freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  10 years ago I would have called that a stretch. After Windows 11, there is no doubt that Windows is spyware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Goodby Ubuntu (community), you are now (ukuhaha), freeBSD is now non-free BSD, openSuse/closedSuse, Fedora becomes Baseball Cap, Enlightenment WM becomes Samsara WM, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no doubt that they’re pushing this because it hands then market share stolen from superior devs who distribute via multiple channels and dont ascribe to their top-down philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For real! I used to redo my phone all the time, especially before big trips. I can imagine myself getting ready to go to (insert remote designation here) and I’m sitting in my home office the day before prepping my phone with a fresh slate of travel apps after clearing out all the stale user data. Now if I start too late, I would theoretically have to finish 24h later, perhaps when I’m in Nigeria (frequent power outages) or Germany (different play store rules and feature availability). Just leave me alone already. If someone is really very very scam-prone, you buy them one of those fisher price phones with big huge numbers and no screen, or you put parental controls on the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the type. They list themselves exclusively on job search sites for high earners like “Ladders”, they don’t listen to their employees ever because they’re a subhuman resource, they are first in line at every ceremony or circle jerk meeting, but nowhere to be found when actual work needs done, they spent the last few years bringing up how badly they want to go back to the office full time, and they unironically speak in corporatese even on Christmas. They like sports teams because they’re popular and a good segway, not because they care about the team, they view it as their duty to keep the ranks broken down and working hard in fear of their jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up a similar article without a paywall:

  www.gamespot.com/articles/…/1100-6536280/

  “Krafton recently declared itself to be an “AI-first company,” which led Unknown Worlds to issue a statement indicating that Subnautica 2 will not feature generative AI.”

  The “AI first” shit is pure gold. I love the instant karma. Why are these CEOs throwing their money, reputation, etc. away on AI? Either they are even stupider than I thought, or the tech bros have some kind of massive blackmail machine they’re using to take over everything and puppet all the CEOs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My cam is a Viofo or something like that, but I can’t recommend any of them. I’ve had l my share of annoyances and I’ve read similar about Garmin, Blackvue, and others. Its also been a few years, so they may have new models, but from what I see online, they look more or less similar.

  What I did learn is this:

  1. Having front and back cams made it easier to pick out a license plate because you have more time to get a clear shot. You can also see what happened before that dickwad cut you off.
  2. Using a fast microsd card is critical. Don’t expect to throw in any old microsd sitting in your desk drawer.
  3. If it’s not recording, it does you no good. Check regularly. Make sure you know what the lights mean because 90% of using it is listening for the beep and the light when it starts up.
  4. Be careful how you wire it up. If it gets power when the car is off, you’ll be swapping batteries if you leave it sit for too long. Some aux plugs are powered when the car is off. Even if your battery can handle it overnight. You will eventually go on vacation and forget to unplug it. Boom! Dead battery. That one happened to my partner, but with an aftermarket seat warmer.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My camera has USB, WiFi, and MicroSD. I never found the WiFi to be usable. Putting the card in a card reader is wayyyyyyy faster and easier and if you get a USB-C card reader it will likely work on your phone over USB-OTG as well as at home on a desktop PC. I pull the card about once a month to make sure it’s recording properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart dash cams? This sounds like an opportunity to buy a couple dupes of my current dash cam before they enshittify the whole market segment.

  I made the comment to my passenger a year ago that the image quality of most current dashcams is trash but didn’t full understand it yet. It makes sense now. They’re holding back the good quality, (phone/action cam quality picture) until they can counterbalance it with some bad features. A little bite of poison on a big bite of food is how you get the rats to eat out of the trap. I expect the next gen will be fully connected to he police department at all times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  True. I am doubting, curmudgeonly, initially distrustful, and I see a scam coming from a mile away. I have a rule that I don’t buy anything that is advertised at me unless I looked it up first. Even so, they’ve got me a few times here and there. Anyone who is completely unnudgeable is in their own world :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I’m using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to be a foot in the door. If all they do is say apps have to do this, it’s ineffective at best. More than likely it’s dangerous because now you have built the gate and whoever comes after you can just hire the bouncer to stand in front of it (or rather contract it out to the cheapest shittiest companies imaginable). I can’t imagine this isn’t part of their plan because if wasn’t, you could still download an exe, MSI, deb, appimage, docker container, flatpack from anywhere and install it. Essentially the age game would do nothing except discourage use of the MS store, which is about the only good thing about it. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey Guys,

  I called a few of my state reps and senators about this. I wasn’t able to get through to Matt Ball, but I spoke with a member of Paschall’s staff who was very polite and helpful despite our disagreements. i also spoke to my own rep’s staff but they were not terribly tech savvy. As I suspected, to some degree, this is being framed as an attempt to introduce a less harmful scheme and set the standard before the feds or peer pressure from other states does. Apparently Paschall is meeting with System 76 soon and I asked her aid to let me know what comes of that. I still think it’s bullshit and it’s crazy to try this with a backdrop of eroding right, liberties, overreach of law enforcement, and mass surveillance of the American people. The Democrats can’t do shit for their liberal constituents, but they’re kneeling at the feet of the Republicans begging to cooperate anytime they want to do anything authoritarian “for the public good.”

  Interesting thing about Colorado: we have a ballot initiative process to amend the state constitution where if a citizen collects enough signatures to get an issue on the ballot, we get to vote on it. I don’t know who is fighting against this legislation, I’ve done research and all I can find is the EFF, a few articles, and now System76. I would like to plug in to lobby against this sort of thing. How dope would it be if they passed it only to have us unpass it and collect enough signatures to get a constitutional amendment banning all identity and age verification and declaring that the power lies with the parents onto the ballot.

  With that said, a tolerable outcome would be if retailers selling PCs into Colorado were required to include a bundled copy of parental control software unless the customer declines it. This gives parents the opportunity and a slight push to get involved. Do I need a copy of NortonAVGDefenderChildWatchProMAX to be bundled with every new NAS I buy? No. Is it better than the shit they’re proposing now, yes.

  If you read to the end, please call Ball, Paschal, and the other cosponsors and let them know that the Democratic party is taking a huge risk by shitting on their constituents by pulling out such a controversial issue at such a inopportune time. Tell them to vote NO!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people loading AOSP on there or something? I’m tired of the telemetry and ads LG built in, but my blocklists have seemed to block one of my LG TVs from working. I have a disabled adult in my home and I think Kodi might be too complex for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrueNAS build system going closed source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uggh, I just got to the point where I’m as familiar with TrueNAS as my old Synology, but I want to move towards more freedom. TrueNAS beats Synology, but where is this going?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The personification of AI is increasing. They’ll probably announce their holy grail of AGI prematurely and with all the robot personification the masses will just buy the lie. It’s too easy to view this tech as human and capable just because it mimics our language patterns. We want to assign intentionality and motivation to its actions. This thing will do what it was programmed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ride the trails at night and follow the potent smell of skunk you will find either:

  A. a skunk B. Some dudes named Jellyfish and Willy, parked a bit off the trail smoking a J on a park bench talking about metaphysics and fried food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hobbies. I struggled with this after college also because I left the church and my old social life had dried up. I was conditioned to just show up and my friends would be there and the nonreligious outside world doesn’t always work that way.

  I would join a club or a group, preferably one with an even gender split or even a skew towards whoever you’re interested in dating. I found dancing in 2006. I never would have expected to get into it and probably spent most of the 90s calling it “gay”. I was tricked into going by a friend who said we were going bowling. I trusted her and she drove, so I had no escape. Many dances are “social” dances which means anyone can ask anyone to dance and you aren’t expected to bring a partner, most people don’t. I kept doing it and eventually started going without my friends. 20 years later, I have been in charge of running dances, I’ve been on the committee of large events, I’ve made some money teaching lessons, but most importantly of all, I’ve collected a circle of awesome supportive people, some acquaintances, some friends, and a handful that I’ve dated. Don’t go in with the intention of dating though because it counter intuitively guarantees you won’t find a date. Instead, just have fun. Ask the people who aren’t getting asked to dance, make friends, enjoy the music, etc. People notice when someone is capable of having fun on their own and they want to be a part of that. They appreciate someone who will dance with the sweet little old lady who shows up every week and not just the 10/10 blonde with the double D’s. My goal was always to dance with every woman in the room once, then go back for seconds with the people I most enjoyed dancing with. It can cost a few bucks to get in, but almost all of them will let you in free if you volunteer for a half hour to collect admissions or help set up/ tear down. It’s harder for guys (if you dance the lead role) to get started, but don’t be discouraged because we’re outnumbered and always in demand.

  Biking is another good activity to meet people. You can join a club in many cities for a few bucks and they’ll basically send upcoming rides to your inbox all year round. If you’re not exercise inclined, there are also PEV (personal electric vehicle) rides in many cities that give you all of the fun and exploration with only a fraction of the workout.

  Other good ideas: Frisbee golf league, ultimate Frisbee, hot springing (hot spring hippies are cool and very welcoming), poetry slams, board game parlours (these seem to be popping up everywhere) etc.