Jyek
@Jyek@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 5 hours ago:
Mullvad has a bunch of ways to pay by cash or Bitcoin. Several are totally anonymous. No digital service will allow you to pay only once because it’s not free for them to provide said service.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 22 hours ago:
Most VPNs are better as a paid customer anyways. Mullvad is $6 a month and I get nearly my full Internet speed while using it. Invest in your own privacy.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 22 hours ago:
Making fun of a black woman for alopecia is kinda low… You’re better than that. At least I hope so.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 days ago:
It’s dumber than that actually. LLMs are the auto complete on your cellphone keyboard but on steroids. It’s literally a model that predicts what word should go next with zero actual understanding of the words in their contextual meaning.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 days ago:
In Houston, some days there isn’t a cloud in the sky, then it rains like 2 inches over 30 minutes and then it goes back to clear skies and the water evaporates making the air sticky. Goes from perfect to drenched to perfect to a totally different kind of drenched in an hour’s time. Also the drivers all lose their minds when the weather changes. So all the time… I guess.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 5 days ago:
Excellent food and a good cultural mix of people. Melting pot of America for sure. Awful heat though. I left there years ago. Though I return to visit old friends.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 5 days ago:
Holy shit you are pinning my exact experience. I grew up in Fresno CA and have never even seen a red pistachio in my life.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
Banking apps and some authenticators won’t work on a phone with an unlocked bootloader.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
I just don’t believe that at all. The power the US holds has long faded into a shadow of its former self. I’m not even sure Trump could convince BB of the best breakfast spot in manhattan. Regardless of what the POTUS wants to happen in the Middle East, the Middle East will continue to do its thing.
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 week ago:
Left-hand side is like saying your left, not mine. You could also say on your left but then again, English has lots of ways to say lots of things.
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 week ago:
This is just not true… Tuna fish is the stuff in a can. Tuna filet is a filet of tuna. Tuna is the live or freshly caught fish from the ocean. Anything not actually made of tuna is imitation tuna or tuna flavored or artificial tuna.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
But also, what’s wrong with having any of those things? I’d argue it’s better to have those things with less developer crunch. We don’t need children to for “attachments” to video game franchises. That just breeds loyalty to corporations. We need games that are developed with love and care by developers who treat their employees and customers humanely. Whatever that looks like, we want that.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
The digital millennium copyright act? That thing that companies use to take down copyright violation videos and photos?
I think this is more likely patent law which is not something that has ever stopped Chinese manufacturing from producing cheaper alternatives to the same concept.
- Comment on ESL homework 1 week ago:
It’s not a foreign language in English speaking countries…
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
Ben Jordan has several videos on flock cameras on YouTube. Excellent series of videos. Here’s one where he uses modified license plates to fuck with them.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 3 weeks ago:
Frys electronics is a good bet too they’re a more recent shutdown that might be more relevant than a blockbuster or toys r us
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 4 weeks ago:
Do you think an attractive woman who has been raped multiple times should simply know better? Is she asking for it if she wears slightly more revealing clothing? How many times does she need to be sexually abused before it’s her fault? How much responsibility does she have for her own abuse?
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 4 weeks ago:
A lot of victim blaming in this thread. Why can’t you just be mad for someone who was deceived?
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
No? Why wouldn’t they know? Lots of ways to track that data. Google and apple both keep that data for statistics and app popularity tracking.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
That’s what the last bit of my comment was about. Compression would need significant improvement before it were usable for most things people use the internet for.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
For anyone reading this currently, it appears that regulation bans any form of encryption over HAM radio broadcasts. So I guess that’s one reason this won’t work.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
This tech would be great if we had high power nodes all across the globe. But we do not. Maybe a cool idea could be encrypted data over FM radio. The radio stations already exist and are a dying business. Nonprofits could buy up radio stations and rebroadcast data broadly and only those with the encryption keys could decrypt. Cut the ISP out entirely. Like the difference between a local call and a long distance call.
Meshtastic communication would prioritize local hops where they are available and then where there are spans of area without nodes, they could hop across radio broadcasts.
Primary issue would be speed. Next to no bandwidth on a signal like that. Kbps not Mbps. Perhaps an incentive for much better compression as well.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 month ago:
A VPN does not stop location data for your physical device when looking at cellular data from the carrier. Your location can and is always triangulated using cell towers. VPNs only ever protect your IP address from being geolocated and encrypting the data downloaded and uploaded while connected. Bit streams are still sent and received from a physical place in the world before the VPN hides your traffic and that is recorded by the cell provider.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 month ago:
This is slightly false in an alarmist fashion. At least in the US, the police are not actively tracking anything without a subpoena to the cellular provider of the phone in question. They can look at the location data after the fact, using a court ordered subpoena. They can also use live location data in an emergency situation,also using a court ordered subpoena.
Cellular data from cell towers on cell networks are private property of the cellular provider companies. That’s not to say you are private while on them. Just that the police are not actively tracking your location through them without great effort for each individual they wish to track.
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 1 month ago:
No the average is much much higher than 10 out of 10 all because of Caleb.
- Comment on Attention K-Mart Shoppers 1 month ago:
Your mom told me last night that she wishes you would call her more.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
There’s another thing that frustrates me about Linux and its various philosophies. Should I be allowed to do what I want with my software? Or should the machine protect me from myself? It seems at conflict with itself to allow you to do stuff like delete system files without much more than a warning while also having protections in place as you describe. Windows tried doing this exact thing with S Mode and people get pissed about windows not allowing them to do whatever they want.
I fundamentally disagree that users should not be allowed to install whatever they want from wherever they want.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
Preface: I am a Linux user
The Linux desktop needs to not require users to dig through config files to enable features that both windows and Mac have working by default. Fingerprint sensors, audio interfaces, broken bootloaders that you have to fix yourself. Requiring people to ever use a command line even once will keep people on Windows as the dominant platform.
Every time I have to look at a Linux forum to figure out why something isn’t working and the answers are run these commands I am instantly reminded that this is the exact thing keeping Windows mainstream.
Driver support still isn’t perfect. Software support as well. Linux needs to ship out of the box running exe files in compatibility layers. Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web. If Linux wants to be the way people use computers, Linux needs to fit the mould that windows has built for the people who have used it for the last 40 years.
Doing anything differently is enough of a deterrent for 90% of computer users. And of those 90%, 75% of them will give up immediately trying to fix anything that doesn’t work and either call someone else or decide it’s broken and do nothing.
Linux is incredibly powerful and I believe it should be the way we run computers, but I get exactly why it isn’t.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 months ago:
Actually Firefox is continued development from Netscape Navigator which predates Internet Explorer. Firefox is the grand daddy of internet browsers in that way.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 months ago:
You can actually host your own firefox sync service. It’s kinda a pain to configure auth but it is entirely possible.