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- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 6 hours ago:
I wonder who would be interested in ginning up big bad-faith hit jobs against good news outlets
The author of the article. It doesn’t take long to uncover their politics and they are absolutely not involved in any right wing conspiracy.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 10 hours ago:
Banning TP-Link routers isn’t going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of insecure routers, SOHO or otherwise. Too many people and companies set shit up and then ignore it until it breaks and under these conditions routers are always going to become insecure given a long enough timeline.
Fire up Shodan and see how many discontinued Cisco ASAs are out there. Hell you can probably still find some Cisco PIX boxes even though they went away nearly twenty years ago! Those aren’t people doing that, those are COMPANIES.
The problem here isn’t the brand or even the silicon that brand uses. It’s with the utter lack of maintenance by the people running the damn things.
- Comment on Chart 1 day ago:
Is the chart accurate?
No. It’s outdated, misleading and inaccurate.
Most people don’t realize it but in FY2024 the interest payments on the National Deficit exceeded the entire military budget.
visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-u-s-govern…
If you don’t like that source then here’s the treasury department itself: fiscaldata.treasury.gov/…/federal-spending/
- Comment on The biggest breach of US government data is under way 1 week ago:
Elon / DOGE accessing the data is an obvious outcome of the US Federal Government having far more data on its citizens than it was ever supposed to.
The real problem here isn’t that Elon is digging his grubby mitts in it it’s the untold numbers of other people who’ve been quietly doing the same thing since the computer age began.
Be angry but let’s solve the actual problem here and that problem isn’t Elon / DOGE.
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the US already have that backdoor?
If they do they won’t admit it.
- Comment on Instagram, Facebook Under Fire for Censoring Posts From Abortion Pill Providers. 4 weeks ago:
No such thing as “Freedom of Speech” on a private platform. We were told this endlessly during the whole Twitter v Trump debacle.
It’s a shitty thing for Meta & Insta to do but their platform and their rules.
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration 1 month ago:
Yeah, well, he can wish in one hand and shit in the other to see which fills up first. There’s multi-billion dollar projects already in progress in, among other places, California, Texas, and Wyoming. Those aren’t going to be stopped no matter what Trump wants.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 1 month ago:
Why? At worst I’m out a few bucks but I really do expect them to show up. Jeff Gerling has already been playing with them.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 1 month ago:
- I happened to be in my email when the survey link came through so I had it filled out within 2-3 minutes. BTW I goofed, I got the “reward shipped” email two days ago and not last week. So it’s with China shipping but hasn’t hit a domestic carrier yet.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 1 month ago:
I backed it as well. Got my shipping notice a week ago and am looking forward to playing with it.
- Comment on Home Assistant teases new fully open source voice assistant hardware 2 months ago:
8m looking forward to th3 branded voice satellites!
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 2 months ago:
Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion.
No they won’t, Reddit killed Internet Forums, Threads has over 200 million active monthly users, and BlueSky already has double the number of users of Mastadon and is adding 10 new ones PER SECOND .. Mastadon is in a distant 3rd place and is falling behind, quite literally, by the second.
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 2 months ago:
Make sure to actually understand how those “non-profit” websites and services are functioning.
Generally speaking if you aren’t the customer then you are the product. Individual Lemmy and Mastadon instances are getting around this for now because they are small enough that their operational costs can be covered by the ideologically motivated instance admins and users. If Lemmy or Mastadon ever gains wide popularity this will change.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 2 months ago:
Community search could be improved.
I absolutely should NOT have to intentionally visit every single niche community that I am already subscribed too. I already did the search thing and I am already subscribed, I just never see the content because it’s being forced out of my feed by a 100 posts to “news” about how shitty Republicans are. I also shouldn’t have to unsubscribe from “news” in order to solve the problem.
A non-political example is “Science Memes” over on Xander, there are times when that community represents 99% of my feed!
The USER needs a way to control their feed, either by throttling large communities or boosting smaller ones.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 2 months ago:
Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news.
I have this exact problem and it’s maddening. Fucking “news”, which is mostly just political about how shitty Trump is, completely drowns out all of my smaller niche communities!
I don’t know how to fix the problem but the USER needs some way to control their feed. We either need to be able to throttle the larger communities or boost the smaller ones.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 months ago:
Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 months ago:
I dunno where that map is from but it’s wrong. Moose range extends as far south as Wyoming and I know they have them in Colorado as well. Not just the occasional sighting either, they have hunting seasons for Moose.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 months ago:
I’d imagine there’s a few reasons for the variation in driver training between upstate NY and Wyoming.
- Road Speed. Here in Wyoming our highways are 65-70MPH (posted) and most of the Interstate is posted at 80MPH. You can generally figure that everyone is doing at least 5MPH over that. The higher the speed the less time you have to react and the harder it is to lightly twitch a vehicle to one side or the other.
- Road layout. You commented about swerving into the shoulder but most of our highways have a shoulder width of 48" or less and on the other side of the shoulder there’s commonly a ditch. It has to do with the wind and snow we get here but if you twitch onto the shoulder here you are likely to encounter a very unwelcome surprise.
- Animal differences. In upstate New York you’re dodging Whitetail deer, here you’re trying to dodge Antelope (which are nearly as fast your car) Mule deer, Elk, Black bear, Brown Bear, and the occasional Moose. The bigger the animal the harder it is to dodge.
The way you describe upstate NY is how it was taught to me when I grew up in Nebraska but it’s not what they advise in Wyoming.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 months ago:
A human could probably see it as an obstacle and try to swerve to the side, albeit not knowing what it is.
Attempting to swerve aside at that speed results in over correction, followed by loss of control and then a rollover crash. Happens all the time to people who aren’t aware / don’t remember that you’re supposed to hit deer head on.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 3 months ago:
Oh? Which test flight demonstrated that?
- Comment on Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' 3 months ago:
That’s what THIS fight is about. Qualcomm bought Nuvia and in a nutshell they believe that they acquired Nuvia’s ARM license with that purchase, now they’re starting to sell chip designs that were done by Nuvia using their ARM license. ARM disagrees that Nuvia’s license transferred to Qualcomm and so here we are.
The reason ARM is freaking out about this is because ARM sells functional designs and that’s what Qualcomm is starting to do with what they bought from Nuvia. Historically ARM has sold designs and Qualcomm sold chips but now ARM wants to start selling chips and Qualcomm wants to start selling designs.
ARM may still be the good guy but they are not what / who they used to be. Softbank, the Japanese owner of ARM, has been losing its ass on tech investments and they want $$$. This is why ARM did their IPO last fall.
Both ARM and Qualcomm now have the same fiscal pressures so they’re going to start acting in a similar fashion.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
God created us to be clever, surely that includes using logic and science to learn about the world.
The argument can be made that since God created humanity in their image that we’re all just fledgling gods with the big difference being our lack of immortality. We’re just not long lived enough as individuals to reach God’s level of power and insight. We are who God created us to be, logic and science included so If we don’t kill ourselves off we may eventually reach a collective godhood, or something akin to it, as a species.
I’m not saying I believe that argument, I’m just pointing out that it’s there because it supports your point.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old.
The Bible itself makes it obvious that the 4,000 year old thing is a lie.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
So even if you’re working strictly from the bible, how the hell do you get 4000 years?
You can’t. The “Young Earth” people are morons.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 months ago:
Even the original wording could be read as eon instead of day.
Most people don’t know that the Hebrew word “yom” (day) can be and is used to denote wildly different lengths of time.
If anyone is interested you can read a fine destruction of the stupid “Young Earth” argument at the link I provided.
The “Young Earth” people, both Christian and Jew, are trying to shoe horn something into the Bible that doesn’t fit and doesn’t need to exist. It’s nothing more than a desperate attempt to hold onto an old, wrong headed, and man-made theory.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 months ago:
Odds are good it’s using facebook or some other cancer to perform this evil.
You really need to read the entire article. Turning off your WiFi and deleting Facebook isn’t going to fix this.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
ARM is mad because Qualcomm bought Nuvia (which had their own ARM license) and then started using Nuvia’s designs. ARM says that Qualcomm needs to renegotiate the license in order to use those designs.
Normally ARM and Qualcomm would handle this fairly smoothly, the reason its not happening this time is because ARM and Qualcomm both have growth plans that are increasingly making them direct competitors.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
Yes, absolutely related. This fight started because Qualcomm bought Nuvia and started using their designs (and their ARM license for those designs). This recent escalation is almost certainly because Qualcomm is about to bring Oryon, which was designed by Nuvia, to smartphones.
Read this article: www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/…/ar-AA1sK49J
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
That’s a big part of what’s going on. ARM is trying to move into Qualcomm’s traditional business while Qualcomm is trying to move in ARM’s traditional business.
“Under Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas, Arm has shifted to offering more complete designs — ones that companies can take directly to contract manufacturers. Haas believes that his company, still majority owned by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., should be rewarded more for the engineering work it does. That shift encroaches on the business of Arm’s traditional customers, like Qualcomm, who use Arm’s technology in their own final chip designs.
Meanwhile, under CEO Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm is moving away from using Arm designs and is prioritizing its own work, something that potentially makes it a less lucrative customer for Arm. He’s also expanding into new areas, most notably computing, where Arm is making its own push. But the two companies’ technologies remain intertwined, and Qualcomm isn’t yet in a position to make a clean break from Arm.”
- Comment on Italy's "Piracy Shield" causes massive Google Drive outage for millions 3 months ago:
I guess this is why Italy keeps getting cozy with China…they need China’s internet blocking expertise.