Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a sticky situation if you try to implement it. At best you temp hide it from the uncle, at worse you double down the ideology because of conspiracy theories and end up hurting your relationship with your uncle, plus Anything you can do locally he could find workarounds for if he wanted to, especially since his friends will know the sites still exist.

  He would likely accuse you immediately though as the last person to touch the system is always the one at fault, and you are the one setting it up.

  To answer the question though, you could edit the host file to block known propaganda networks(by directing them to invalid ip’s which would make it look like its down) but, that setup is not very effective and unless you can block all of them, hes just going to find ways around it or alternatives, and this system likely wouldn’t survive most current day browsers that are pushing secure DNS such as firefox since cloudflare is going to know how to access it still.

  I still don’t think it’s a good idea though, too many things that could go wrong out of it, plus hard pushing an agenda has never been a good way at convincing someone their mentality isn’t right, this will just re-enforce his mentality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix to XMPP migration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in this same boat as well. As someone who ran an XMPP server in the past, then stopped and eventually moved onto Matrix. I have to hard agree, in my experiences, XMPP was so much better administration side than having to deal with matrix, and its quite a bit more fleshed out(not to mention the sheer amount of clients available) Being able to just log into a management panel and have the panel do everything administration wise for me was super nice, instead of having to ask “is this only available via the API or is it available via a client or is this config only”, these types of tools from what I’ve seen don’t really exist for matrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring my phone because I prefer to text anyway, so you not answering was a massive relief to me. Chances are if you text instead I’ll respond, or can leave a voice mail, but honestly if I didn’t leave a message or sent a text, it wasn’t important enough/mission critical in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I defo agree. Keep the domain for a few years, with the email server up still, but flag any emails from the server so you can go through and unsubscribe/change emails on anything using the old address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

  Be aware, this is VASTLY dependent on your ISP. Smaller ISP’s especially DSL based ones in rural areas are notorious for giving almost exact address when you reverse look up it.

  My old ISP used to do that. like I had to try super hard to mask my IP if I went somewhere like IRC or Chatango that disclosed the full address to people joining, because if someone wanted to they could have looked up my address down to the house just by following the remote lookup because it would show my address instead of their nearest hub.

  Thankfully now it shows me somewhere in NY which I feel a lot more comfortable with, but still don’t take for granted that it’s only an approximate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it would need to be advertised as a change and have it as a setting that had to be set yea, just have it default blocking abusive trackers, having Google bot or whatever it’s crawler name is as on there, with a toggle to allow it again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, with a company as large as cloudflare. I think they could /easily/ strong-arm this move by making blocking google crawlers a default setting on websites. The amount of traffic drop alone from that would make google think twice about the whole ordeal. And people who care about the google search indexers can turn them on again which will allow indexing again. but a default block would cause a lot of disruption google side and many people I don’t think would go in and fix the setting till later on down the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for the EU to eventually say “Ok nevermind, this is clearly a company that isn’t going to be compliant. If not compliant by X date this company will no longer be allowed to operate here”

  Or a hella massive fine for blatant waste of regulators time plus non-compliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The argument here is that they don’t need to open source or switch over to an FOSS license.

  They just need to not actively prohibit people from doing custom servers and they need to release their own server files wheb their support period ends.

  , If that ends with violating a license agreement they have with another company that is exclusively a that company problem because as shown in the past, law supercedes agreement and contracts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely keep signing, I’m really concerned at the speed it rose , and I’m really hoping there wasn’t something else at play here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I wasn’t planning on getting sub 2 after the shitshow that was below zero, the studio is clear they didn’t understand what caused the magic in the first game, and failed at delivery in the second one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I set my grandparents doors up on a timer, if its still open at 11 PM it auto closes both doors. I’ve got the ping a few times now saying “emergency door schedule activated” meaning that they were open and had not been closed prior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BSOD is dead, long live BSOD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it worked for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, in today’s world we’re lucky if they stop at the manufacturer. I know of a few insurances that have contracts through major dealers and they just automatically get the data that’s registered via the cars systems. That way they can make better decisions regarding people’s car insurance.

  Nowadays it’s a red flag if you join a car insurance and they don’t offer to give you a discount if you put something like drive pass on which logs you’re driving because it probably means that your car is already getting that data to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This right here is another fault in regulation that eventually will catch up because Especially with level three where it’s primarily the vehicle driving and the driver just gives periodic input It’s not the driver that’s in control most of the time. It’s the vehicle so therefore It should not be the driver at fault

  Honestly, I think everything up to level two should be drivers at fault because those levels require a constant driver’s input. However, level three conditional driving and hire should be considered liability of the company unless the company can prove that the autonomous control, handed control back to the driver in a human-capable manner (i.e Not within the last second like Tesla currently does)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you might need to reread the rest of my comment, because I think we’re on the same mentality.

  I’ve read the article, and I read the last development update, which seemed to be leading in the direction that they had fully intended on making a project.

  Their previous update is actually what made me have the mentality that I currently have, not the article you posted.

  The previous update was a progress update saying that they were beginning internal testing and they released images of what looked to be a fairly progressed game. And they had seemed super hopeful for the future. That is not an update that screams this project’s on the urge of being shut down.

  I stand firm with what I said that this game would have had potential. And while they didn’t make the greatest development decisions, I don’t believe the choice to shutter the project was their choice. That’s a lot of wasted effort for a team like that, and if they lasted this long the choice to close wasn’t theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Furthermore, with the amount of telemetry that those cars have The company knows whether it was in self drive or not when it went onto the track. So the fact that they didn’t go public saying it wasn’t means that it was in self-drive mode and they want to save the PR face and liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the longest way I’ve ever seen. “Our parent studio decided this game isn’t financially feasible and told us to stop” I’ve ever read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Union Ecodesign Requirements for Smartphones Now in Effect: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last minute corrective adjustments shouldn’t be legal in a democratic society tbh. I won’t pretend to know about how the EU’s legal process works but, if this was voted on by the people, and then changed last minute, that’s not what people voted for. I would expect this kind of thing in the US, because the officials commonly accept bribes to neuter or remove things big companies don’t like but, I didn’t expect it from the EU. but maybe thats just my ignorance speaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this the other day as well when i was looking at filebrowsers github looking into seeing if it had SSO support. It’s a shame really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t aware there was a replacement that was suitable. I will have to look into that, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Nintendo Switch 2 Listings on Amazon Could Signal End of Feud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One interesting detail is that all three games have a delivery-by date that’s a few days past the release date

  Ah so basically worthless to a consumer if they wanted it release day then. So this will help existing games, but it’s not going to help anyone who wanted a game release day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can continue to access subscription services (even trials) after cancelation until the next billing cycle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is what my grandfather would have to do almost yearly do get an affordable direct tv bill. The year he switched to fubo is the year that they stopped giving him the discount. He refused to pay 150$ a year for the three channels he watched

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please keep focused for this brief ad from our sponsor, your information handling session will resume shortly”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. the current IVR systems in place that only take a few valid voice prompts are insufficient for more advanced queries. I think transferring it to more of an AI style setup like how the chat bots were, but having it handle transferring to the proper area instead of doing everything is a much needed improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A price hike, after the new Xbox PC relabel launch?? Absolute shocker I tell you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully support the shift to AI customer service as long as its being sued as an assistant tech and not a full replacement. I have zero issue with an AI based IVR style system to find out where you need to go, or for something that is stupid basic. However it still needs humans for anything that is complex.

  And yes AI statements should be legally binding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a cat and mouse game. They’re constantly doing this. Just wait a little while and ublock should find a way around the block.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you charge an electric car without a credit card?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have no driveway, where are you currently parking? Level 1 or 2 chargers just connect to an exterior outlet on the house, so you could just plug it in via cable, so you don’t have to have it in a garage. You may risk having someone steal your electrical cables, though, if you don’t have some way of locking the cable to your house.