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- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Nha boomers are not the cause for this shit. Smart ass marketeers and tech bro pushing for more precise target identification and thus more reach for them are to blame. And those I stumble upon are definitely on the younger side.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video 1 week ago:
It’s both been there forever and also I keep buying it on all new devices…
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 2 weeks ago:
Yeah being European doesn’t mean someone will let go a good business opportunity… We’ll see others follow with similar increases unless the European stance on territoriality changes again.
- Comment on US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah but you that feels like a rather elaborate architecture.
Plus what about costs: storage and bandwidth costs quite a lot when looking at meaningful volumes :-/
P2P is getting practical for nn streaming from what I’ve experienced lately given fiber and larger home storage but once you’re looking at niche / not popular content peers are scarce and suddenly it takes ages to get content delivered.
- Comment on US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied 2 weeks ago:
On that we agree: we must get rid way from those companies. And if possible get more of the general public to join us here.
I would love to see the fediverse being improved along my lines though. That would only improve it, its appeal and overall reliance.
- Comment on US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but is the value in the service or the userbase and the data though?
When instances are going down that is at risk and the current federated model isn’t helping that much. Look at lemmynsfw and the other community that went down no so long ago.
Data portability and user migration isn’t so much more evident here quite yet.
Better sure but not perfect.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
Slop apologist because I argue that correctly using a tool to restructure pre-existing information I’m inputting under my oversight is risk free?
You crazy ass end-of-world lunatic…
As far as I know slop always presupposes generation of derivatives, not restructuring or manipulation. You argue out of your ass and that’s just a bad opinion.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
Nha that’s just plain wrong…also you can also fantastically screw flying a plane but so long you use LLMs safely you’re golden.
It also has no will on its own; it is not « working against you ». Don’t give those apps a semblance of intent.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
LLM’s specifically bc ai as a range of practices encompass a lot of things where the user can be slightly more dumb.
You’re spot on in my opinion.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
So is a speedometer and an altimeter until you reaaaaaaaaly need to understand them.
I mean it all boils down to proper tool with proper knowledge and ability. It’s slightly exacerbated by the apparent simplicity but if you look at it as a tool it’s no different.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t fly a plane chances are you’ll crash it. If you can’t use llms chances are you’ll get shit out of it… outcome of using a tool is directly correlated to one’s ability?
Sound logical enough to me.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
Yeah well same applies for a lot of tools… I’m not certified for flying a plane and look at me not flying one either… but I’m not shitting on planes…
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 2 weeks ago:
It’s been doing wonders to help me improve materials I produce so that they fit better to some audiences. Also I can use those to spot missing points / inconsistencies against the ton of documents we have in my shop when writing something. It’s quite useful when using it as a sparing partner so far.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 3 weeks ago:
Dude… kids are fucking cows to milk… in Europe we have special protections for them bundled in GDPR because they are sooooooo good targets with soooooo much potential. To give you some food for thought ; Microsoft is pushing their products as soon as schools so that kids are hooked. And they are far from being the worse….
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 5 weeks ago:
You’re still talking about steam issued keys right? Why should they not have binding terms over those? Publishers can still issue licenses for their games a whatever cost using other drm systems can’t they? Honestly this reeks of bad faith.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 5 weeks ago:
Anyone has a run-down of her actual motives? Ties to the industry or something ? Also someone give them a link to the Nintendo store if they want to see overpriced games…
- Comment on Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025 2 months ago:
It’s beautiful to see stardew valley in those tops after sooooo many years already.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 3 months ago:
And what I shared was based on my personal involvement on the topic. As I said somewhere in the thread my expertise is limited to one country in Europe so the legal framework is vastly different but the more human and technological considerations are likely very transferable. And indeed there are criteria for warrants but that would be subject to interpretation at all steps plus not everything goes via warrants. Judge being lenient isn’t also accounting for their own metrics and perspectives. And additionally a whole lot of my personal issues would be related to how data, even when acquired both legitimately and with some regard for ethics, is handled. And that needs to be addressed by police forces and their providers.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
But then you need to trust another party which is just moving the problem along…
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
Ah no I was assuming we need privacy for everyone… but this would work as well. When working in responsible disclosure this is very much a problem. You want those channels open as wide as possible and as easy as possible.
And to a large extent I suspect boomers were a bit more into systems and protocols than the new gens.
But keep on…
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
You should consider reviewing your baseline to integrate actual persons. Some need help to use WhatsApp so go figure how they would fare with most of those.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
Users don’t need to configure email that’s kind of the point… and the receiving side of most of your techs still had to eventually setup the server side right? Adminforge is Linux tutorials, hardly something for the basic user. And disroot has not the best reputation if I can trust the few top links in my search results due to its gtc where they mentioned that they would collaborate in criminal investigations as well.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
That’s definitively not how they work in Europe and even though I’m not expert in other regions I assume that it’s absolutely not the case in USA either. Technologically there’s no solutions fully preserving everyone’s privacy hence the importance of the local culture. But if the current practices improve with the likes of the controls I mentioned I would say that it would be good enough.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
Damn. They didn’t seem so wild especially compared to the flow of yours. All mediums / techs you listed are complex technologies that take efforts to setup. Compared to the ubiquitousness of email. How do you propose to make that as available to the baseline human being?
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
Aren’t most of those requiring dedicated setup? How does that work without a pre-existing communication channel such as email to prep for them? You walk to every party you need to integrate?
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 4 months ago:
At the very least have controls in place ensuring disposal of data when court cases are fully processed to the full extent of appeals possibilities. Not allowing broad requests such as « everyone that connected to a given antenna for a month » or even « all connections toward NET or ASN whatever ». Additionally have the data fully isolated, removing all possibilities to cross use data initially granted for a purpose. I could go on for a while… It’s all a balance though, sometimes reuse leads to solving unrelated cases but it’s bound to the imperfections of local authorities everywhere one’s data can be requested.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 4 months ago:
Maybe with symmetric fiber and if the electricity prices lower I’ll go back to that. Before the advent of convenient and cheap providers we had ou webservers, irc servers and some game servers at home… but the cost of that and the additional maintenance nightmare makes that less desirable than having OVH doing it all for me…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 4 months ago:
Shitty managers are already breathing down your neck though, they didn’t exactly wait for this piece to be major annoyances….
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 4 months ago:
Each county’s authority has its priorities… and UK isn’t Europe anymore so there’s no necessarily any spreading of this specific issue. I share you feelings about the fragmenting of the Internet as we knew it. This is a very big problem for everyone’s freedom in my opinion. But also a very tricky issue with how it conflicts with the notion of territoriality : this was honestly bound to happen sooner or later. I wish we could be another layer outside the reach of isps and countries.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 4 months ago:
I’m not into gold panning… though it’s not like all companies are using AI so much that it will transpire in their ESG. Now I now a couple that were so far very happily ignoring this source of carbon and, as far as I remember, it was not reported by the cloud providers either.