Jason2357

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Lead was out of most gasoline in the 70s. It is still available in some, for example airports. The big thing about the 90s was that was when teens and young adults didn’t grow up around it. It’s a long term poison.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve come to equate AI doomerism with just being cloaked AI boosting. It’s just another way to convince ~~people~~ investors that AI is as powerful as claimed. It’s not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use for music library streaming?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Lots of interesting discussion, but I’ll add I’ve been plying with www.music-assistant.io

Integrates all sorts of backends, including everything mentioned here, with streaming to just about any device. Reminds me of MPD back in the day, or at least the promise of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It makes these kids easy marks for malware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
This is a lot bigger than the entertainment industry now. Creeping fascism and the trillion dollar surveillance capitalism industry are hellish bed buddies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
When a car is stolen, they typically get to sell another one, courtesy of the drivers insurance policy. They are incentivized to bad security.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
1. No tracking. Context based ads instead of user profiles.
2. You are responsible for the content on your pages. If you farm out to an ad network and expose users to malicious scripts, that’s on you.
3. No pop-ups/overs, animated anything. If it’s taking over control of my screen, I’m not going to tolerate it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Gender isn’t part of biology (as a social construct) but the complexity of sex absolutely is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, you don’t have to guess. He’s interfered in a war and turned a social network into his personal bullhorn.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If they have electricity, than fiber is practical. For the tiny few that don’t, fine. But even then, for the billions invested in launching these satellite clusters, it just might be cheaper to build a handful of crazy long terrestrial microwave links.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You are comparing a backbone to last mile? Starlink relies on that fiber backbone too. Cutting all the last mile fiber in America would be an insanely difficult attack. Satellites are comparatively vulnerable to a great many attacks. They literally fly over the enemy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Isn’t there an army walking the national capital, and masked goons grabbing people off the street into unmarked vans paid for with a budget /almost/ as big as Canada’s entire military?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The trouble with starlink is that the actual amazingly practical use-cases for it are not a sufficiently profitable market for it given the insane investment. So they have to convince people it’s a better idea as a rural ISP than demanding fiber.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Fourth option: Municipal fiber, but open access to those lines for private ISPs of all types.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You lack individual choice by design. You should choose whatever is best for you, obviously, but you can be pissed there’s no fiber running alongside your electricity service.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
lol. I thought those commas were decimals for a second. Wow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Technically correct. The best kind of correct ;). He should have said not sharing that last mile connection, like one would share with a satellite downlink.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That, and if they could pull heavy copper wiring to the furthest rural reaches of the country in the 1930s, they can pull fiber along side it today. The poles and right of way is already there. Satellite is a fine stop-gap while it gets done, but there’s no excuse for it to be the permanent solution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Cory Doctorow described it as anti-futuristic tech. Where fiber networks get better, faster, and cheaper the denser they get, wireless satellite will get slower and less reliable the more people share that spectrum.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg moves to Forgejo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Note that it has built-in migration of repos along with all the associated stuff. One at a time, but it works well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t tell them you can buy a vps and run your own vpn in another country.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg moves to Forgejo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They made a comment on one of their recent blog posts that dealing with the ai onslaught on codeberg has delayed work on federation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg moves to Forgejo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Laforge is an awesome name, especially for a French company.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg moves to Forgejo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Because the Codeberg folk didn’t like the idea of relying on a product made by a for profit company. blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Closed loop systems require a large heat sync, like a cold water lake, limiting them to locations that are not as tax advantageous as dry red states.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This kind of thins is just moral panic. Funny moral panic, but still pointless. There’s always been a tiny fraction of the population that is completely out to lunch, and there always will be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
When I make this choice, I also change my expectations. The amount of money that is sloshing around in silicon valley is grotesque, and so of course they can throw whole towns worth of developers at just about any problem. The fit and finish of proprietary software is actually pretty bad considering the resources they have access to.

With FOSS software, a small project might be one or a few developers. But can it be good enough. I generally thing a lot of software has been good enough for a long time. A lot of computer applications are basically solved problems -text editing, search and reading, spreadsheets, forums, live chat, asynchronous mail, etc.

A proportion of FOSS users dropping a little money here and there will never give projects the kind of infinite growth expected in silicon valley, but it absolutely can fund small shops doing good, simple projects. Heck, it might even be more sustainable than the venture-capital-sell cycles that require every company to be perpetually exhibiting exponential growth or die. Yes, I’m aware that the bigger FOSS projects are only solvent because they make money from corporate customers. It is an issue that corporations seem to have nearly all the discretionary spending power, but thats for another discussion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Aren’t “consume” and “support” different concepts? The article is trash, so I’m not referring to that, but I could take this stance in broader terms.
- My voluntary time and money is limited, so if you keep your work proprietary, I’m not going to provide it to you any more than I absolutely need to in a basic, transactional sense.
If my boss says work on this project -I’ll do it because I’m paid to do that, for the amount of time I’m paid to do it, but no more. If my bank says use this closed source application, okay fine, but I’ll never recommend it to anyone or submit a bug report when it breaks. If my government or library is considering entering into some closed source ecosystem, I’ll go out of my way to recommend against it, but I’ll probably end up having to use it. If I feel like paying for Netflix, I’ll share passwords and use regional VPNs, cancel whenever I feel like it, or whatever and never feel guilty.

If your product is open source, pretty much the opposite of all of the above. That’s what I would consider as “support.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOL GitHub [2018]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I was curious and just checked -Trixie dropped with a 1-year-ish old version. Curious if they ever update it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOL GitHub [2018]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Git is distributed by design, so I lean into that. I self-host, and use codeberg, and still collaborate with people who won’t leave github. Forgejo has built in pull or push mirrors that make it very easy, but you can also set multiple remotes in your local git repo.