dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you do a route via mobile -> home -> VPNs outside though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you use it without being caught at a node or getting on a list for downloading associated software though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  punishing paying costumers

  Time to dress up as a pirate I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beep-boop!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineers wanted: Mexico looks to join the global semiconductor race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  crush the cartels

  They do not need to do this. All they need to do is legalize all drugs and the “evil” cartels will turn into enterprises.

  The war on drugs has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight and not much to show for it except wasted tax payer money. A radically different approach is perhaps warranted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t mean those kind of progressives. Not the political one. But the ones that actually see beyond VC backed big tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just think of it: you are the author of the ICE tracker app. You want to release the app as anonymously as possible, right? Well, not with this move in place. You will need to upload your govt. Id to their website. If the pigs come knocking, you bet your ass GOOG will gladly hand it over to them and off you go to Florida.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine, keep going. Now that you have outed yourself, I’ll just tag you with the Zionist flag in voyager and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your’s is the typical defense of genocide-enabling Zionists and their allies from feddit.org in defense of Isn’treal: “The Holocaust was different! How dare you compare it to the Armenian genocide, or the Rohingya genocide or what is happening today in Gaza?”

  A genocide is a genocide. It already implies mass.

  Genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group as such (as a group). This is the case whether it is done by killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, genocide is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of a group or something else, such as terrorizing the group or killing a population without regard to group membership, more specifically known as democide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass genocide? As opposed to what? Minor genocide? A genocide is a genocide, there are no adjectives to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Direct ties? They’ve trip-fagged once on it or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Passing laws like this disproportionately affects smaller websites that are independent from big tech. A law like this HAD to come from big tech, where tech bros are exchanging money with the government for total wrangling and control of every step of their users / citizens.

  As an analogy, currently in some countries tobacco and vape products can only be sold in certain stores in a certain way, hidden behind a counter, think tobacco stores, corner stores, gas stations or mom&pop depanneurs. Suddenly some government official receives bribes (through lobbying or otherwise) from a cartel of big-box stores and security-service providers that prompts them to propose a bill to mandate a security guard at every small store to act as a bouncer against letting children into the store. As a small business owner not only does this require you to hire a security guard and pay their salary + the overhead going towards big-sec, you are also losing revenue from potential customers (children) that would come into your store to buy chips, pop, ice cream or bag of milk (yes, bag). And I didn’t even get to the analogy of control yet, just that of

  It’s a stupid law and for a stupid reason (FOR THE CHILDREN!!) and I hope more, serious businesses pile on such a lawsuit and hopefully kneecaps anyone ever thinking about implementing such an idiocy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best solution to prevent school shootings is to have a good social network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d buy this on a bluray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing to learn. Mint and Fedora were click click done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also c/politics is a shit hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DTAG should be a wholly state owned company again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah well… I never liked Savör products too much. They go out if their way with all their branding and claims, but you can get very tasty butter from local creameries at similar prices, without the need to ship it frozen halfway across the globe. Especially with milk sourced from the eastern townships or the Saguenay region. And Quebec (where Savör is operating) runs on 100% hydro power, which is equal or better to geothermal. So whatever Savör is gaining from the Miraka plant, is lost on the need to import basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Billions of flies can’t be wrong!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But are you skin inside?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Wars is a fantasy space opera, not sci-fi.

  I thought combat sucked in ME1, especially compared to the follow-up instalments. It did have a good story though and amazing world building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So microplastics and soap embedded in your iron. Yum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey fellow RO player.

  I quit when my hometown Morroc got obliterated on iRO. I’ve tried coming back once right after the server mergers, but I don’t know what kind of methodology they’ve used when determining name conflicts, I’ve lost quite a few character names to what I assume were randoms from other servers banking on taking over the names. Pissed me off way too much. Tried coming back a second time about a year ago, but I was unable to figure out my character account passwords with the warp portal changes and what not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Survivor bias, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, don’t worry. Big tech will get exemptions and write offs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. But it excludes any sort of custom OS versions due to the way it’s implemented. So no Lineage, no Graphene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  prototype app

  Ahh yes, the app that coincidentally locks mobile OSes into the google ecosystem. 🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if we just take heat pumps for example, or even cpu water coolers, the heat is carried away from where it’s hot to somewhere where it can be radiated off and equilibrium of heat conducting material and surrounding occurs.
  You can bet your ass that these US data center are just brute forcing heat exchange via evaporation instead to make the initial investment cheaper. It’s the equivalent to burning coal instead of straight up going for the renewable but initially more costly option when it comes to energy production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being invulnerable and not being able to receive a jab for your illness.