Ghoelian
@Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 day ago:
Linux users, despite being a very important part of their user base, have zero official tools for Proton Drive syncing.
I really don’t think that can be considered as “user hostile”. It’s not like they had it and took it away later. A con? Sure.
You just skipped over half of that point where they mention there was a way of using it in Linux, but they took it away
- Comment on How do phone scammers work? I get them trying to get another persons money. But how do they get all the info and now can do voice fakes. I highly doubt they just pick a random person and say fuck them 1 week ago:
I guess nowadays you don’t even need to be monitored like that anymore. Just feed a social media profile into chatgpt and have it summarise vulnerable attack vectors.
Maybe not chatgpt but a local model would happily do that.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 1 week ago:
Well then why aren’t they doing so now? They’re already maintaining their own forks of android, should be pretty trivial to do.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 1 week ago:
I think that was mainly solved (here in the EU at least) by requiring a choice of search engine when first opening a browser.
- Comment on Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant 1 week ago:
In the 1 September update they state they found that web client and a mobile client as well, but not the API (I guess) containing the system prompt and the actual routing to the models.
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 1 week ago:
I think this person has probably tried the popular ones lol
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 1 week ago:
I think a lot of people with short hair don’t notice how damaged their hair is, because it’s just so short that you can’t really see frizz or because they smear it full of hair gel which also hides most of that.
But I guess that’s fine if they’re not bothered by it.
- Comment on YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me. 3 weeks ago:
I think this is probably because of the setting in toolbox to keep previous versions for rollback
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
I think Wero is supposed to become the replacement for all of that, though I’m not sure if it’s gonna have similar features. For now it’s only available in a few countries unfortunately.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 months ago:
It can alsoake fes that perform way worse than they have anything to. See yandere simulator for example
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 months ago:
You don’t, there’s privacy respecting ways of delivering notifications in android.
Also, a 24/7 connection to a server isn’t nearly as bad as you might think.
The connection isn’t active the whole time, it only uses any significant amount of battery if there’s actually data being sent or received. You likely already have quite a few of them anyway, how do you think systems normally listen for push notifications?
Besides all that, I read in other comments that the privacy issue was the device id firebase needs. Obviously apple also needs some kind of device id, otherwise how do they know where the notifications are going?
Did some searching, yup apple also needs a unique identifier:
When it’s time to send a notification, you generate a request that contains the notification data and a unique identifier for the user’s device.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 months ago:
That doesn’t have anything to do with how you install the app.
- Comment on Dogs should have tags with the name of their owners too 2 months ago:
The id is registered to some database where you can look up the info.
If the registry is partnered with europetnet, you can find it here: www.europetnet.org/pet-id-search.html
If not you’ll have to figure out where the id was registered and request the info there.
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 2 months ago:
You could probably do it with http if the server properly supports the content range headers.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 2 months ago:
uh, no? on smartphones, yes, but not on computers.
That’s not true. Most operating systems at least have filesystem permissions, and on a lot of Linux distros you additionally get AppArmor or PolKit to further restrict what files a program can read/write.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 months ago:
Actually I think I remember watching a technology connections video about how card in the US can use the headlights as a turn signal, or something like that.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure most cars have a turn signal near the headlights, and one on the mirror or on the side for that use case, no?
- Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) 3 months ago:
Sure, but I’m not paying for every byte sent overy network, while I am paying for every kWh I use.
That’s all beside the point though, this is just a fun diy project so who cares really.
- Comment on My two cent about emails servers field. Over a two decades... 3 months ago:
Though now that I think about it, I did have to register my domain with Google in some way to stop being flagged as spam iirc.
- Comment on My two cent about emails servers field. Over a two decades... 3 months ago:
I also self hosted for years (using tuta mail with my own domain now), and have never had issues with my deliverability either.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 3 months ago:
OK, cool? Your experience doesn’t mean this doesn’t happen though, and no one is saying this is any kind of proper way to train an animal.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 3 months ago:
You can just go look at the sources of the article man.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 3 months ago:
Even if you’re an actual software dev, it’s still pretty much impossible to guess how much work something is without knowing the codebase intimately.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 3 months ago:
In the Netherlands there’s a few ISPs offering 4Gb and one even 8Gb iirc. Personally can’t really think of a use case for that though.
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 3 months ago:
Lmao one of the pages on their website lists a few events at 123 Legal Ave, Suite 100, City, State, 12345. I’m starting to get the feeling these people don’t take their job very seriously.
The “divorce” link just leads to “divorce”. Not “shittysite/divorce“. Just,” divorce".
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 4 months ago:
You could also just… not update.
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 4 months ago:
Yeah if they get a warrant they’re 100% just handing over all the data
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered Mods Have Already Been Published Online 4 months ago:
Lol that’s it? That’s hardly inconvenient at all, just gotta make sure you don’t publish broken shit I guess
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 4 months ago:
Hell yeah I used to love tux paint as a kid
- Comment on Apple announced that the company has surpassed a 60 percent reduction in its global greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2015 levels. 4 months ago:
Seems to me they responded to
I hope other technology companies try to aim for something similar
Which, according to them, they are.