Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, there is room for reasonable doubt, I do believe if they manage to throw the bag out of the evidence he will get it. I just don’t see them throwing the bag out.

  I don’t think there is room for a non-guilty verdict though. At minimum he will have stalking charges at maximum he will get murder charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All I have is the publicly available evidence, but that pretty strongly indicates guilt.

  he was found a state over, at a mcdonalds. With a fake ID that was the same name that was used to check into manhatten, and for transport. with a bag containing a loaded 3d printed handgun that matched the footage.

  He also had writings which are not public but have been stated to indicate his mindset prior to the murder, and a notebook that contained detailed travel plans and how to avoid capture.

  Like pacifist said though, the police are tripping this case up, the biggest defense for Luigi at the moment is the ineptitude of the police during the arrest sequence and investigation. They have already succeeded in throwing out medical records due to improper acquisition, have been found wiretapping attorney lines (which IMO should be an immediate opposing party wins regardless), and are in the process of trying to throw the bag out that was found at mcdonalds due to improper search and seizure claims (although I don’t personally think this will happen, it’s pretty clear the search and seizure laws in that state clarify that a search will happen on any arrest regardless of case)

  the only way I can see him getting a “innocent” verdict is Jury nullification, so I am not leaning on that, because even if found innocent on the second degree murder charges, based off publicly available evidence the prosecution still has a fairly strong case of stalking charges. Plus he still is facing the same charges at the state level as well, as the judges ruled it isn’t considered double jeopardy for someone to be trialed both federally and state side (which IMO is wrong but I digress)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see any avenue where he is found not guilty to be honest, but in that theoretical case, I think that there’s going to be a lot of older folk that absolutely lose their mind about the principle of the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's another NSFW instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely understand your reasonings for that. And I do agree having it default on does help raise awareness of communities.

  My main reason that I’m against a default on is I’m always strongly against any type of action that does something on the behalf of someone else without it properly being relayed.

  if the person who made the community wanted to advertise their community, they could reach out and send a message on their own, or they could turn it on, but having it default on creates cases like this, Where they weren’t even aware that it was making a group, it seems, until people started messaging them complaining about the amount of spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with expired domains being unavailable?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically many domain providers will hold onto domains for a little while after it expires.

  Some like namecheap also advertise the domain names to peddle-man companies that will somehow buy temporary access to the domain after your extortion recall window expires.

  To continue the namecheap example, when your namecheap domain expires, it gives you a lapse window where you can pay like double the cost of the domain renewal to reclaim it. If you don’t reclaim it during that window they give it to a middleman whom will somehow buy a 2 or 3 months domain lease for it. They will put it on a “site for sale” broker page and will charge yo easily 100x what you paid for the domain if you wanted it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's another NSFW instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like a really dumb setting.

  Like, I’m sure it’s helpful for people who want it. But, like, it definitely sounds like a setting that should be defaulted off, not defaulted on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hell divers 2, my friend group is pressing me hard to buy it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the docket link which is here but its a mess because the original case was dismissed back in 2021, but then amended and merged to contain a larger case.

  I used to have the actual document number somewhere if i can find it I will let you know as well. Sadly when the case started getting media attention valve started filing for seal motions on newer evidence, but I don’t /think/ they retroactively sealed anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wolfire versus Valve antitrust case.

  They submitted evidence during the discovery process of email chains from Valve customer support stating that they want Valve to have the best deal available and that they will not choose to do business with companies that do not give them the best deal.

  On top of that, they also went on record stating that the steam product key page under the Steamworks area is meant to be intended for all products on Steam, not just keys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not holding out on any game at the moment. I nuked my wishlist and told myself I’m not even going to look at the Steam store page until I can get some of my backlog down.

  If I had to choose a game that I’m holding out on currently, it’s probably HD2 for a combo of the above and price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally would never buy the game out of spite if they did that to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to add in that what Valve has as official policy and what they actually practice differ in this case. Because yes, their policy states it’s for keys only. However, they have admitted in court that if the publisher has it as a cheaper price elsewhere, they will delist your game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker Hub's trust signals are a lie — and Huntarr is just the latest proof⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe they are talking about this.

  If you have it at all exposed to the internet, you should terminate it immediately.

  As a summery: Multiple endpoints on the software don’t check for authentication and an unauthenticated person can retrieve your complete settings configuration including your API keys and your password and also change your current configuration, Just by sending a simple POST request.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I get what you’re going at, but I did want to add that secure boot doesn’t require Windows 11. And that the main issue with Battlefield 6 isn’t the fact that it has secure boot enabled because you can use Battlefield 6 on Linux with secure boot. The issue is it won’t pass the anti-cheat, which is Javolin if I remember correctly, intentionally disables breaks itself when in a Proton environment.

  Being said, I don’t think secure boot is the threat everyone thinks it is. Microsoft was originally not going to let alternative platforms be allowed on the secure boot environment. However, they started facing legal threats regarding it, including a potential ban in Australia and part of the EU stated they were looking into investigating it in regards to anti-trust, so they ended up caving to avoid having a judgment in court. I don’t foresee Microsoft going back to making it so they’re the only one allowed again,and if they do it’s almost certain they’ll be anti-trusted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Before I go full tin foil hat on this theory, I want to know how they plan on making it so the signal is sent client side without the client being able to fake the signal.

  Like, this sounds like something that any type of OS that allows you to install a program will be able to bypass quite easily either by always sending the adult signal or never sending the adult signal

  Like reading the bill, they explicitly forbid any type of personally identifying information being transferred. It sounds like it’s just a DOB check and if you say you are > 13 or whatever age they have it as it sends a signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt my back break when I went on the app and sorted by retro and saw stuff I didn’t think was that old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  loops has a app if you are talking about them, I just had to uninstall the previous to install the newest as it’s been awhile since I’ve used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rufus blames Microsoft for allegedly blocking latest Windows 11 ISO downloads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided upon seeing this article I should update my current windows 11 iso.

  They have definitely changed the download flow since the last time I attempted.

  In order to download the latest windows 11 iso on a non-windows system, you need to go to the download page, select the last option, verify the connection select region and then verify the connection again, upon finishing it they now give you a 24h time limited link.

  This seems very counterproductive to convincing people to go back to windows if they had already bailed, I would have thought they would want as less restrictions as possible on the iso itself in hope to get people to go back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  De-listed where? It’s listed still for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t buy Triple A titles.

  The last “AAA” title I bought was elden ring for 30$ (unless you count Silk Song)

  There are plenty of indie style, A or AA studios that are in the 5-30$ range.

  The more people who move over to that type of mindset and buy from small titles, the more apt that large companies are going to lower their prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord’s UK age verification reportedly shifts flows to Persona for some users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, this is just my thoughts on it, but it’s entirely possible that their original partner is dropping them due to PR concerns. Discord is a huge partner and they have been in the news constantly as of late with the ID talk, it might be scaring k-Id off because it’s almost entirely bad PR regarding their data safety and practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord walks back age verification fears for most users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they have already done this for at least the last year or so easily. I noticed it when I requested by data package last yea, theres a clear area on it that infers both your gender and your age in it.

  They are just acting like this is a “new system” but in reality its a system that have had for awhile now, just didn’t have any public facing usage of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP has laptop subscriptions now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mmmmm lets see here

  for the pavillion 16…

  $34.99 a month with no protection plans available and no option to buy out over time…

  or $979.99 for a one off purchase with the ability to have a protection plan ontop of it (this same laptop is also on a sale via HP for 429$ if you use their financing system…)

  I don’t see how this is helpful to the general consumer. The typical user doesn’t replace their laptop every year, and at the prices they give you end up breaking even around 2 years. You would need to be processing an upgrade at least every 2.3 years in order to make your money worth it.

  I can see how this could be helpful for a company that has temp workers… but even then it’s not like the company couldn’t just re-provision the laptop and give it to the next person.

  I could see this being more handy if accidental was included on it, but out of the current offerings it’s just not worth it for anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for some government to outlaw collecting the information in general outside of official government agencies. I would love to see big tech squirm as they try to figure out a valid way to harvest the data in one country, but prevent it in another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

  Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID’s like they had been claiming.

  Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I’m sick of companies lying and saying “lol yea we defo delete the data after”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sadly, it’s a little more complex than just enabling it. The supported self host deployment uses docker, and the docker containers that are available don’t contain the interfaces for voice or video calling as they are not up to date.

  If I understand it right, to enable it would mean you need to either pull the source yourself and run it off of docker, or make a custom docker image using a version of stoat web that contains the ability to do voice calls.

  reading the draft of the linked issue, it looks like they the author isn’t doing voice call for the reason that they don’t know the proper way to integrate it into the docker image.

  So to answer it: yes you can use voice servers on the current self hosted model, but you can’t use pre-existing docker images, and it will require you to manually add the new web UI in and patch where needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a fair warning in reply to this that the self-hosted version of Stoat doesn’t currently have voice chat. It’s an open issue that’s currently paused until they can finish their rework.

  If you have the skill for it, it seems like you can patch work the existing voice chat back in, but it’s not part of their initial setup and there’s no instructions on how to do so properly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL I even had an application key there. I don’t think I’ve ever used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe the new Syncthing-Fork v2.0.14 on F-Droid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, it seems like it’s trustworthy again. The previous owner of the repo did eventually admit that they authorized the transfer, but, The entire transfer process was extremely sketchy and had no chain of custody or trust. It was just the repository got deleted, and then a few days later showed under a whole blank state again with a user with no profile, no contribution history, and it was just a trust me bro, I knew the original maintainer look I have the keys to prove it.

  The maintainer of the Google Play build of it seems to trust them though, and they are established in the community, And archived their sync thing builds again in favor of just using one repo, so it’s likely fine.

  For future people wondering about it as well, it doesn’t help that the new maintainer of the app has deleted every issue that had to do with the migration, so you no longer can research the issue for yourself. The only information you have available to you is the discussion chain on the community forums, But any type of issue that they link to were deleted.

  Personally though, I plan on keeping my current version pinned to prior to the transfer until either I’m forced to update due to bugs or I feel comfortable with the current maintainer again. I’m not sure how long that will be.

  For an app that contains very sensitive information, I was not impressed with how the transfer process underwent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to ask them how effective it is now that its been deployed for a bit. I wouldn’t expect so either based off how I’ve seen open sourced projects using stuff like that, but they also haven’t been complaining about it screwing up at all.