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- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 2 weeks ago:
Telling the new slaves to stay put.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 5 weeks ago:
It’ll be safe to host without extra software in front of it to make it read-only
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #131 5 weeks ago:
Crowdbucks sounds interesting, but is extremely light on details. How does it work? Are all payments going to go through Stripe? Is it going to support GnuTaler? Crypto maybe? Is it to be integrated into things like Mastodon, Peertube, and other fediverse services?
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 2 months ago:
And somehow there are people out there that think it’s OK for this to happen to games too to then spread misinformation about Stop Killing Games.
- Comment on GitLab abandons federation plans! 2 months ago:
The comparisons you’re making are off base and it feels like you’re mocking something you don’t understand, while doing so with a lot of confidence. I’d suggest you either read an article, watch a video, or read the ActivityPub spec’s intro. It isn’t long and should help you understand the basics. Then you can move on the ForgeFed spec which is the ActivityPub extension for source forges. And you can always ask an LLM to summarise it for you if you really don’t understand.
- Comment on GitLab abandons federation plans! 2 months ago:
Git is already inherently distributed and automagically mirroring to other remotes is generally like three lines in any CI syntax (and there is probably a precommit hook for it too).
Git is, but what about everything else? When you clone a project on gitlab or github, does it come with all the issues, discussions, MRs, and so on?
I can see a LOT of security issues with not having a centralized source of truth on what the commit hashes should be and so forth.
That’s what signed commits are for. Also, pull/merge requests and issues are sent to the origin instance, just like in the fediverse. Like now, you made a comment on a post on Fediverse@lemmy.world through your instance lemmy.zip. The same would happen with your comments, pull/merge requests, issue reports, and so on. There’s no need for a “central authority”.
- Comment on Meta Secures Bittersweet Fair Use Victory in AI 'Piracy' Case * TorrentFreak 3 months ago:
“As should now be clear, this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one,” the ruling reads.
- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 3 months ago:
“That’s stupid”. Great argument. “This content doesn’t exist on $platform ergo $platform is stupid”. “Be the change you want to see is stupid because it’s stupid!”.
Can’t wait for the content you’re going to contribute to peertube.
- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 3 months ago:
Always ready to complain. All these things need to exist in order to gain traction. You need to have content and multiple ways to view it. Complaining that there’s an additional way to view it is just unnecessary negativity.
If you think there isn’t enough content, be the change you want to see: make it.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 months ago:
I’d say the problem is education. Porn is only an issue because people do not get proper sex ed. The reaction to seeing a dick sucked in front of a child shouldn’t be shame, disgust, or terror but allowing the inquisitive mind to ask what is happening.
Sex is a completely normal occurrence that is the reason we are all here. There shouldn’t be any shame or stigma in explaining to a child (or any person for that matter) what it is, what it involves, why it is done, how to safely do it, what consent is, why it is stigmatised.
Want to protect children? Educate them.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 months ago:
Hail TOR and I2P!
- Comment on Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai Set for Bankruptcy After Cash Seized 4 months ago:
Were these guys the OG vibe coders? It looks like they were allowing people to build mobile apps using AI since 2016!
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 4 months ago:
My problem isn’t the hardware, it’s that the place I’m moving to will have a bad internet connection. My current homeserver has stuff like a CI (currently being tested), a builder for software (compiling rust, C/C++, go, and whatever else), immich, nextcloud with an extension to download from youtube and other sources (basically to circumvent geoblocking of multiple friends and family), and it could be expanded to host other services e.g a seedbox. All that stuff needs good hardware and a good connection.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 4 months ago:
My problem is that I’m moving in the not so far future and I don’t know where to put my server. Physical security is important and if someone gets into my house, takes the computer and leaves, it’ll be worthless due to encryption. But if it’s in somebody’s datacenter (co-location or whatever), they could be forced to monitor my traffic, tamper with my system, and I’d have to entrust the key to somebody in order to boot the system and decrypt the drives should it restart for an update or for any other reason.
I’m considering asking a friend to host the homeserver and reimburse them for a better internet connection (fiber) + electricity costs. But I’m not sure they’d be up for it.
How would you solve the problem?
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 4 months ago:
Hey! Another nixos user 😁 What are you using for your VPS? nixos-infect? nixos-everywhere?
As for mini PCs, a friend bought one from Minis Forum and quite likes it. But if you want to support the opensource ecosystem, there are tuxedo computers and slimbook. There’s also starlabs byte.
Take your pick :)
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 4 months ago:
I bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 5 months ago:
On one side, fuck google, on the other, the video is “whistleblowing” DEI practices. Not sure what there is to “whistlenlow” about. I thought quotas were mandated for a long time. How is that news?
- Comment on peertube recomendation algo alpha build 5 months ago:
What is this? It jumps in explaining features and details about other stuff, but doesn’t explain the basic goal. There are also no screenshots except of some table. It’s not clear how to use this thing.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 5 months ago:
Is this how they plan to make money too? Demand 15 bucks to be verified, 2k/year to be a verification issuer? This is going to be fun to watch.
- Comment on BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API 5 months ago:
A blog entry on how it works and what it does at a high level could be nice. I’m not sure what I’m looking at, but there must be some API call to Lemmy and it’s probably happening on the server due to CORS; not sure how this would work just in the browser if the Lemmy instance has CORS setup…
- Comment on Your next phone could have a 10km Bluetooth connection 5 months ago:
Bluetooth barely works when my phone is in my pocket and my headset on my head. Make that work first before imagining users with a 10km long neck.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 5 months ago:
And yet, Adobe keeps making money. Someone’s paying for it and it isn’t non artists…
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 5 months ago:
First we make fun of China, then we vote for money hungry politicians with a penchant for power, give in to surveillance because “it’s free!”, and tada, we’re all becoming China (the EU is trying to introduce a backdoor into stuff again, buying surveillance tech, and thinks it’s falling behind due to a lack of AI investments, and having populism take over countries). Maybe China is just the crab of societies?
- Comment on Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights 5 months ago:
Take everybody in the union, make a new studio that is union run, ???, profit and happiness.
If a large group of game devs, artists, and so on decided to leave their jobs outright instead of threatening to, the next time they come to the bargaining table, the company will know not to duck with them. Leave, join a union, ask if they want to hire you back under a union contract. They say no? Move on.
And if they created a studio, they would probably have a bunch of talent and it would be worker owned.
- Comment on Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs 5 months ago:
Isn’t Framework a US company? I wonder how many companies in the US will go bust due to tariffs.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 5 months ago:
“I have nothing to hide”, until you’re unjustly hauled into a police station and beaten senseless because of a misinterpreted joke you made on WhatsApp with your friends.
People will not value their privacy until it’s too late. Some people only learn by making mistakes…
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 5 months ago:
Anything to replace workers or make them cheaper. He great thing is that the decision makers don’t understand what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Lemmy vote aggregation idea 5 months ago:
the idea boils down to either outside instances aggregating votes made on their side and sending final voting result on a scale -1/0/1 or alternatively this aggregation could be done by the hosting community
Could you provide an example calculation? I’m not getting it. Do you want to map values from one range to another e.g [-1000,1000] to [-1,1]? Will each instance have its own mapping?
Also, computationally, I’m not sure how this is going to work iteratively. From what I understand, activitypub sends events either singular or batched to other servers e.g User X votes up, that’s an event sent, User Y votes down, that’s another event sent. If I’m not mistaken, lemmy doesn’t store the events it receives so reconstituting a vote tally isn’t possible.
I kinda get where you’re coming from, but I’m not sure it’s the right solution.
- Comment on Linkwarden (v2.10.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀 5 months ago:
How does this compare to Notion? Can it be used as a knowledge management system? I ask because I see highlights and notes.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 5 months ago:
Post it on the fediverse. TikTok isn’t the only platform out there. And if you think TikTok is a necessary evil, you’re part of the problem.