Jason2357
@Jason2357@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address? 1 day ago:
Seconded. Used their service for many years.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 day ago:
There are already far more people in raw numbers on various federated/non-commercial/self-hosted/indie web stuff than there ever were on the early web- it just takes a little effort to find it.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 day ago:
It’s about the information vacuum. Now every service will get your ID or photo, giving them both age and a whole sort of other metrics to build a profile on you. And yes, Lenny.ca doesn’t know that about me.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 5 days ago:
They literally blew billions of dollars and years of developer time just to screw the companies that won the argument of “open internet or Microsoft protocol” back in the day. Yes, petty.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 5 days ago:
This. Don’t ever delete the account because someone will scoop it up and impersonate you. Just set auto reply and log out. Check the terms, you may need to log in every 6 months though. Do that a couple of times at least.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 5 days ago:
Even if you stay on GitHub, definitely mirror to another host. Git is designed to be distributed, why not make use of that capability!
- Comment on How to Setup a Secure Ubuntu Home Server 1 week ago:
It walks you through setting up SSH with keys and then git entirely via the command line. Maybe they plan on writing more?
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
They haven’t for a while. It’s just going to get more obvious.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
More birds in orbit just hear more and more overlapping signals from the huge ground area they are over, and so share bandwidth. There’s a reason cell towers get lower and lower the more dense the population.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
From orbit, whole regions are within a few degrees arc from the perspective of orbit. It’s not enough to overcome what is fundamentally a business hype problem. Starlink is wonderful tech for remote outposts, boats, disaster areas, emergency service workers, and things like that, but those customers would never pay enough to be profitable, so they have marketed it as general purpose internet, so it will get slower the more people sign up.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
The limited bandwidth of practical microwaves shared by everyone in the footprint of a satellite, which is thousands of square kilometres. More satellites help, but since it hears the signals from every person on earth in its footprint, even if that person is connecting to a different satellite, there are limited gains when you reach the point where they have a lot of overlap - literally limited by geometry. Compare that with fiber, which allows for virtually unlimited unshared service bandwidth that can get faster as it’s built out and becomes more popular.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 week ago:
That bubble is starting to make funny noises and develop patterns on its surface. Wonder what’s next?
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
That’s a ridiculously low bar in 2025. What even is twisted pair DSL??
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
Your options are limited not by random angry dude on the Internet, but by deliberate and calculated lack of development conspired between legislators and telecoms. Starlink will hit the limits imposed by physics and geometry, and then will get worse and worse the more people sign up.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
I wonder if this “de-regulation” will allow or prevent AI videos of trump wandering naked through the desert?
- Comment on Why does technology create new problems for each one it solves? 1 week ago:
And when they quietly solve a problem, we often expand their use until they start creating new problems. The automobile solved the problem of horses in cities (which were yes, a really terrible thing, between their excrement, their smell, the bodies of the ones driven to death, just horrible). But then we re-designed our whole metro-areas to put people at least 10km away from workplaces, groceries and services. The sprawl made the car necessary for parts of life that were never serviced by horses, and then you have terrible traffic and all the downsides that come with it. My point? The car did actually quietly solve a problem quite elegantly at first.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
There was exactly one regulation specifically targeting AI companies, a Biden executive order that Trump ended on his first day.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
We’ve tried nothing but deregulation since Reagan/Thatcher, and it works every time!
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 1 week ago:
Yeah, the whole “private banking” history thing the EFF seems to lionize in the article was 100% just for serving lucrative international robber barrons and other criminals. It was never about protecting regular citizens privacy.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Actually, I feel a bit dirty about this. Literal decades of file sharing built huge archives that they have used to build their monsters, and also contributing to things like Wikipedia and open source software. Everything good and counterculture we did is now being monetized and used to boil the oceans.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Sssh. This might be the first time in the last 100 years copyright isn’t EXPANDED for the benefit of publishers. I’ll hold my breath until we see if they figure out a way to reduce copyright only for silicon valley corporations while expanding it for the rest of us. Or not…
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
My university (well, typically the professor) usually made sure there was at least one copy of the current course’s text book in the library. Yes, that means there was exactly one copy available for us poor students to share. At least it was put on the “reference” list so no one could take it home - just study it in the library and then put it back on the shelf. I don’t know if that’s possible now that they are going to digital editions.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
I’m training a neural network. It’s just that the neural network is 1 layer with zero data reduction -so it’s only capable of printing the text exactly as the source material on my computer! AI finally works!
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Yeah, I had to spend a lot of money in University for those books to learn from. Why should humans pay and AI not?
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 2 weeks ago:
fyi, the way you write seems like you are upset over something. It’s somewhat odd to write that on a website that is hosted by volunteers on a shoestring budget for thousands of users “against the onslaught on the net.” So you better understand, anything besides youtube videos (i.e., the majority of the content on the net) is fairly economical to host. Of course it depends on the system, but a small group can easily stand up something dynamic like a lemmy instance, and an individual can host their static blog for basically free -open to the wide internet. Youtube is hard because video uses an incredible amount of bandwidth. Google looses money on it, despite it being plastered with advertising. So even capitalism hasn’t figured out how to do it yet without being subsidized by another revenue stream.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 2 weeks ago:
And that was back when hosting, storage, and bandwidth were expensive. Those are basically free for text-based content now, and getting cheaper for audio and video. Nowadays, anything made by amateurs shouldn’t really need a “business model” at all, and anything made by professionals could be damned cheap, if there were no middlemen taking the majority of the cut.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Sure, the gov may not allow random API access to license plate registration data, but who knows how many license plates and associated identity are somehow scooped up by some data broker somewhere? You know those parking lots that require an app where you pay parking by entering your licence plate, then logging in with Google/Apple ID, and paying with a credit card? Fuuuuu
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Besides Pi-hole, there’s Adguard. The “home” version works just like Pi-hole on a device on your network (but is a little slicker in my opinion), and a DNS service where you just set your router’s or devices DNS to their service (less private, but no dedicated device required). That’s an option that is not ideal, but far better than not blocking at the DNS level for anyone uncomfortable configuring a device on their network.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry for being a broken record in this thread but holy crap yes! Right now you can embed a static ad in a web page relevant to the page’s content and adblockers will not block it!
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, adblockers don’t block a static <div> on the page with some text, an image and a link. It’s only the user-tracking, obtrusive ad-networks they block. Every old-school form of advertising didn’t track users and did just fine. Even today, billboards are priced based on the amount of traffic on the highway, not based on checking inside each car and building a profile on each driver (though I wouldn’t put it past them trying to figure out how to do that soonish).