onlinepersona
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- Comment on Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs 2 weeks ago:
A completely new OS meant to supplant Android and Windows but the apps are written in JS and extended Typescript? Not off to a good start…
- Comment on OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they should be forced to build the power generation along with it? After all the lobbying these rich fucks do to pay less taxes, maybe they should be forced to fund their own utilities with no subsidies.
- Comment on Happy 12 million! 2 weeks ago:
Aren’t most of those due to Brazilians? 3M or so?
- Comment on Happy 12 million! 2 weeks ago:
ATM? Active … Monthly? Can’t make out what it stands for…
- Comment on Happy 12 million! 2 weeks ago:
Misskey? 🤔 I heard it’s something Japanese? So probably a lot of Japanese fediverse users use it? I don’t think I’ve seen somebody from misskey in my interactions with the fediverse. Are they self-contained or something?
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 2 weeks ago:
Decisions like these are why they can’t move away from proprietary platforms. How much does it really cost to host and maintain this? A single employee could host a mastodon, peertube, and lemmy instance. The employee could also work full-time on one of the projects to address issues.
They also only had 6 accounts on the instance - out of how many politicians and bureaus?
Anyway… shame.
- Comment on Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade 2 weeks ago:
Would a regular asteroid be able to wobble the earth as described in this article? Or is it just black holes that should do so?
I seem to remember reading that primordial black holes weren’t yet a proven phenomenon and I have trouble imagining them myself. Wouldn’t they have hawking radiation too?
- Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decadewww.scientificamerican.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 30 comments
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 weeks ago:
You’re still missing the fact that public chats can’t be adequately protected.
Depends what you mean by “adequately” 🤔 With perfect forward secrecy (which matrix and signal have), seeing past messages isn’t possible. Seizing the servers is also not very useful unless people are connecting directly to the server. Anonymous public chats running on overlay networks like I2P and TOR might not even need encryption (although I wouldn’t trust a server that didn’t).
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 weeks ago:
Are you talking about encryption at rest? Regardless, encryption by the server is worthless. It’s exactly why admins can delete content in chat rooms.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 2 weeks ago:
adomic wedgie
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 weeks ago:
Does anybody really use Telegram for “privacy”? People can’t seriously believe that thing is secure. Their FAQ indirectly states that group chats aren’t encrypted and explicitly states that “secret chats” are.
We support two layers of secure encryption. Server-client encryption is used in Cloud Chats (private and group chats), Secret Chats use an additional layer of client-client encryption. All data, regardless of type, is encrypted in the same way — be it text, media or files.
I have never recommended Telegram to anybody. It’s just like another facebook, AOL, ICQ, or whatever messenger. I actually don’t personally know a single telegram user who uses secret chats. They are quite useless. They don’t sync across devices.
- Comment on A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletons 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. It has been done.
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ukraine bans Telegram messenger app on state-issued devices because of Russian security threat 3 weeks ago:
They don’t say in favor of what. I’m hoping matrix. Those guys desperately need funding!
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 3 weeks ago:
Tumblr sees to be dying… From this article, it seems like it’ll be folded into WordPress, which is already fediverse compatible.
- Comment on A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletons 3 weeks ago:
I admit, I’m not sure if this belongs here. Maybe there’s a better community to this is in…
- A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletonsphys.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on German investigators successfully tracked suspects inside the Tor network 3 weeks ago:
We should be investing in I2P…
- Comment on DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial 4 weeks ago:
Break up the company already… Make them separate entities and introduce provisions to prevent them merging for a decade or more.
- Comment on Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users — in 2027 5 weeks ago:
Pretty late, but better than nothing! I’d love to be able to chat to people on WhatsApp from Signal, Matrix, or Telegram. It wouldn’t be completely private since backups to google aren’t encrypted, but it’ll be better than not talking to them or even using text messaging.
- Comment on The DOJ wants info on Google’s AI strategy to bust up its search monopoly 5 weeks ago:
Break them up and fine them enough for every infraction so that it hurts. Also assign a neutral (or maybe even anti-google) third party to monitor further compliance for 5-10 years. Any further infractions should cost them more than before. They’ll never learn otherwise.
- Comment on iFixit: The Samsung Galaxy Ring is $400 of 'disposable tech' 1 month ago:
Signed and shared with friends in the EU.
Here’s another one to sign publicmoneypubliccode.eu
- Comment on iFixit: The Samsung Galaxy Ring is $400 of 'disposable tech' 1 month ago:
I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: opensource after deprecation. The product isn’t supported, maintained, for any reason: open source the entire thing.
It should not be in a company’s interest to release products that just become bricks or junk without their input. It’s not in our interest either.
- Comment on Researchers identify effective materials for protecting astronauts from harmful cosmic radiation on Mars 1 month ago:
Not sure if this belongs here, a physics, or a tech community 😅
- Researchers identify effective materials for protecting astronauts from harmful cosmic radiation on Marsphys.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 16 comments
- Comment on U.S. Wind and Solar Are on Track to Overtake Coal This Year 1 month ago:
But the most recent statistics showed why wind and solar are on track in 2024 to exceed coal generation for an entire calendar year
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EIA previously reported that renewable generation eclipsed coal in 2020 and 2022 and then repeated the feat in 2023. But those figures notably included other resources such as hydropower. Now wind and solar are posed to overtake coal on their own.
- Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 6 comments
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 1 month ago:
I thought they were blocked everywhere. What’s going on? Bunch of bots or something?