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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon enough the Earth could turn out flat…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it could be great like that flying drilling machine from the game called Motherload!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  […] TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.

  It wouldn’t surprise me, but can you point me to a trustworthy source confirming that claim? Does the TikTok app refuse to work without those permissions granted (Location, Contacts, SMS, Photos and videos)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to quit and find a better job…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds great, but… unfortunately, it seems impossible to tilt on the chair with those, which I see as an essential part of going to school.

  Also, the heights of the chair and table seem unadjustable, and it seems the pupil is seated too far away from the desktop to actually be comfortable.

  What a useless piece of piss. Yeah, at least it’s repairable, but is such a stupid piece of faulty furniture even worth repairing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That way you’ll also automatically collect all sorts of valuable metal treasures along the route. For free!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask the town hall to update the record of your email address to a different one that doesn’t get those amounts of spam. When you’re sure you’re not losing access to any other services you used that address for, go ahead and delete it. To me, that seems like the most effective solution to get rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually do a zip-hop vinyl scratching, which my audience generally seems to have a stronger reaction to, as they’ll usually do some breakdancing, drugs etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better a pineapple thananananas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I have seen the ASM1166 mentioned before as part of such a solution, but the other suggestions were new to me.

  Can you also confirm to me, have I got it right that (some/all? of) the N100 boards has everything included regarding CPU, GPU and RAM, while most other mini-ITX boards come without those? Or did I get that wrong? Sorry for bothering you, but it’s all still a bit confusing to me, but I have a Jonsbo N3 case and some 22TB drives that are longing to move into their house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you happen to know about a decent solution for 8 SATA ports on a mini-ITX board?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I would have, but you died”? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yummy! I’ve heard they’re using hair spray too, in order to keep things in place and/or glossy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The word “lifetime”, when talking about permanent subscriptions, always refers to the lifetime of the service (or provider), rather than the lifetime of the subscriber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn’t enough anymore.

  Why isn’t a zero-logs VPN enough? How would the government know? Encrypted VPN traffic can’t be decrypted, at least until we have quantum computers, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Droid-ify and Neo-Store are alternative clients for the F-Droid repository (and other repos), that you may like better than the official client. But yeah, Obtainium is indeed simple and it’s powerful if you already know exactly which app you want to install (rather than searching for relevant options in some repositories).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  deploy a raspberry to project services into their local network

  This piqued my interest!

  What’s a good way of doing it? What services, besides the VPN, would run on that RPi (or some other SBC or other tiny device…) to make Jellyfin accessible on the local network?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very much related:

  Github: nv-tlabs LLaMA-Mesh | Unifying 3D Mesh Generation with Language Models. Create 3D meshes by chatting.

  Github: Huggingface meshgen | A blender addon for generating meshes with AI. This initial release contains a minimal integration of LLaMA-Mesh in Blender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you buying ebooks in a physical store? How does that work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wanderer v0.15.1 -⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a more lightweight alternative for recording tracks called OpenTracks. It can export the data in KMZ, KML, GPX or CSV format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious - how would they just “have phones switch”, and if that’s actually possible, to which “open non Google platform”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is everyone using as a HTPC?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you can cast from the official YouTube app (or Revanced). You need to generate a code for connection in the SmartTube settings, then connect your phone through the cast menu. The option in the cast menu on the phone is called something like “Connect with code” IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Checked my second GOS user profile with google services, just to make sure – nothing to be seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is causing the voice inputs for my keyboards to intermittently stop working in GrapheneOS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly asking a dumb question here, but is your mic access available? There’s a tile for it in the quick settings drawer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was Góògle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like a fridge that rejects refridgerating foods from your local store, your neighbours’ or your own produce… Pretty useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was supposed to be an infinite amount of monkeys, since it’s known as “infinite monkey theorem”, but apparently, according to Wikipedia,

  The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. […]

  […] can be generalized to state that any sequence of events that has a non-zero probability of happening will almost certainly occur an infinite number of times, given an infinite amount of time or a universe that is infinite in size.

  But, I think, as long as either the timeframe or monkey amount is infinite, it should lead to the same results. So, why even limit one of them on this theoretical level after all? The linked study seems to limit both, so they’re not quite investigating the actual classic theorem, it seems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. The fact that you prefer it (probably because the thieve is mostly kind and generous to you) does not change the reality that it very much is theft from all those who might not agree with your societal preferences, and who did never consent to this. Since you naturally don’t have the right to forcefully take other people’s money without their consent, it’s impossible to forward that right to the state (or any person) acting on your behalf. That’s why it can logically be described as theft when a state collects taxes using violent force as a threat to anyone who won’t pay.