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- Comment on Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult 2 days ago:
Probably possible to have something like a Selenium or whatever the kids use to automate Web browsers these days Python script that automatically builds a credible viewing history that looks like an adult’s.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 days ago:
I used putty for tunnels on windows machines.
Fair enough, and come to think of it, I think I have too. Just was pointing out that not all SSH implementations have tunnelling functionality.
But if they ban VPN it will be harder for them to prove the SSH is being used for the purpose evading their stupid law.
Yeah, that’s true.
- Comment on Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult 2 days ago:
Spanish ads for womans deodorant.
Google’s data-mining analytics software knew pretty well who 1D10 was. It had simply concluded, based on its extensive database spanning vast numbers of users around the world, that he would look magnificent in a flamenca dress.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 days ago:
I’ve certainly happily used SSH tunnels — on Linux it’s great in that it’s readily available wherever you already have OpenSSH installed — but one downside of OpenSSH as a general-purpose tool for tunneling is that it is intrinsically TCP and thus forces packet ordering across multiple tunneled connections, which may not be necessary for whatever you’re doing and can have performance impact. Part of the reason mosh exists is to deal with that (not for the SSH-as-a-tunneling-protocol case, but rather for the “SSH-as-a-remote-shell” case).
Wireguard is UDP, and OpenVPN can use either TCP or UDP, depending upon how it’s configured.
If we were going to move the world to a single “tunneling” protocol, SSH wouldn’t be my first choice, even though it’s awfully handy as a quick-and-dirty way to tunnel data.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 days ago:
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
When I was a kid, Reddit and general public Internet access weren’t things, but I sure managed to get my hands on pornography. I’m pretty confident that even entirely killing Internet access isn’t going to stop kids who want to get ahold of porn from getting ahold of it.
- Comment on Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 3 days ago:
I mean, there are two problems here.
The first problem is solving this for people with the kind of people who are going to set up the above on their networks.
The other is solving it for the general public, which I would suggest is harder.
- Comment on She's a keeper 3 days ago:
There were certain expectations as to social norms and etiquette held by buttnugget@lemmy.world.
- Comment on bird based storage 3 days ago:
Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?
That’s probably because Idaho’s Internet-using population is i the shape of a shitting llama.
- Comment on bird based storage 3 days ago:
Steganography. Smuggling data in migratory bird brains.
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 3 days ago:
That won’t work. The lifting force required to keep the string and kites aloft is proportional to their weight. The lifting force they can obtain from the wind is proportional to the horizontal force exerted. The first segment of kite string is going to be under the most stress; it won’t hold.
- Comment on Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans 3 days ago:
IIRC, they have hybrids with a bunch of other berries that don’t have thorns.
I don’t think that boysenberries have thorns, though I haven’t been picking them for a long time.
kagis
Apparently there are thorny and thornless variants.
The boysenberry /ˈbɔɪzənbɛri/ is a cross between the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus), European blackberry (Rubus fruticosus), American dewberry (Rubus aboriginum), and loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus).[2]
In the 1980s, breeding efforts in New Zealand combined cultivars and germplasm from California with Scottish sources to create five new thornless varieties.[5]
The loganberry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loganberry
The loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus) is a hybrid of the North American blackberry (Rubus ursinus) and the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus),[1][2] accidentally bred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan, for whom they are named.[3] They are cultivated for their edible fruit.
A prickle-free mutation of the loganberry, the ‘American Thornless’, was developed in 1933.
The “smooth blackberry”:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_canadensis
Rubus canadensis is a North American species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names smooth blackberry,[2] Canadian blackberry, thornless blackberry and smooth highbush blackberry.[3] It is native to central and eastern Canada (from Newfoundland to Ontario) and the eastern United States (New England, the Great Lakes region, and the Appalachian Mountains).[4][5] It has also been sparingly recorded in Great Britain, in which it is often confused for the many other native blackberry species.[6]
plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/rubus-canadensis/
Smooth blackberry has almost completely smooth stems that are free of prickles and spines.
Probably others.
- Comment on The Largest Section of the Beloved Sycamore Gap Tree Is Going on Display in England 4 days ago:
While I get you, they did also do that with a fair number of cuttings from the tree. Apparently the National Trust has decided that this is good publicity.
On 8 March 2024, BBC News reported that the first seedlings had sprouted from genetic material recovered at the site.[42] The first seedling was presented to King Charles III who announced that it would be planted in Windsor Great Park once it had matured into a sapling.[43] Further seeds from the site are being grown into saplings by the National Trust that will be distributed to the school nearest the site and the UK’s National Parks as well as a number of good causes.[44] In August 2024, it was found that new shoots had appeared at the base of the stump.[2]
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/…/trees-of-hope
Trees of Hope
We received almost 500 applications for the 49 saplings – one to represent each foot in height that the tree was at the time of felling – from all over the UK.
The saplings are currently being cared for by our Plant Conservation Centre, and they should be strong and sturdy enough to plant out in winter 2025/26.
The new homes for the saplings will all be in publicly accessible spaces, enabling many more people to feel part of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree’s legacy with recipients from around the UK including The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease in Leeds, Holly’s Hope in conjunction with Hexham Abbey in Northumberland, and The Tree Sanctuary and Tree Amigos in Coventry.
Holly’s Hope*
Next winter, one of the saplings will be planted not far from Hadrian’s Wall in Hexham, in conjunction with Hexham Abbey, for Holly Newton.
Holly was just 15 years old when she was tragically killed by her ex- boyfriend because he couldn’t accept the end of their relationship in January 2023.
The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease, Leeds
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is building The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) at Seacroft Hospital, which will be a landmark care centre when it opens next year and by winter, its Sycamore Gap sapling will find its new home.
The Tree Sanctuary and The Tree Amigos, Coventry
In Coventry a ‘Tree of Hope’ will go to The Tree Sanctuary and their young group of ‘Tree Amigos’ who have gained recognition and awards for replanting trees damaged by vandalism in local public spaces.
The Tree Sanctuary is home for unwanted trees as well as nurturing saplings grown from the seeds of ancient trees that have been lost to urban development. The trees are then planted in a new communal woodland known as Liberty Wood, which was entrusted to the Sanctuary by Coventry City Council.
On the whole, being cut down seems to have been, at least in terms of propagation, not a particularly catastrophic event for the tree.
- The Largest Section of the Beloved Sycamore Gap Tree Is Going on Display in Englandwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Insurance giant says most US customer data stolen in cyber-attack 5 days ago:
Honestly, this one is pretty small potatoes.
Hackers have stolen personal information of a majority of insurance firm Allianz Life’s 1.4 million customers in North America, its parent company said.
The German parent company added that the hackers were “able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majority of Allianz Life’s customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees, using a social engineering technique”.
A mere million or two.
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 5 days ago:
Yes!
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 5 days ago:
The things you’re describing aren’t really version control systems themselves. Git is a version control system; these are an ecosystem of web-based tools surrounding that version control system.
I don’t know if there’s a good term for these.
kagis
Wikipedia calls them “forges”:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
In free and open-source software (FOSS) development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications.
For software developers it is an online service to host the tools they need to work and communicate with their coworkers. It provides a workflow to propose modifications and engage in discussions. The goal is to reach an agreement that will allow these modifications to be merged into the software repository.
For users, a forge is a repository of computer applications, a place where bugs can be reported, a channel to be informed of security issues, etc.
The source code itself is stored in a revision control system and linked to a wide range of services such as a code review, bug database, continuous integration, etc. When a development community forks, it duplicates the content of the forge and is then able to modify it without asking permission. A community may rely on services scattered on multiple forges: they are not necessarily hosted under the same domain.
- Comment on EU Gives Platforms 12 Months to Deploy 'Strict' Age Verification 5 days ago:
For an example of the privacy implications, we just had a story up on this community or another about the Tea identity leak:
nytimes.com/…/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html
A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.
- Comment on EU Gives Platforms 12 Months to Deploy 'Strict' Age Verification 5 days ago:
I said it before when the UK mandate just went into force and Reddit started having people required to take pictures of their IDs to get access to NSFW subreddits: if you get people used to having websites demand photos of identity documents, I strongly suspect you are gonna have some serious fraud issues down the line when less-than-salubrious websites start getting people to take identity document photos.
- Comment on datacenter liquid cooling solution 5 days ago:
You don’t, but it’s considerably quieter to use a liquid cooler on current high-end CPUs because of the amount of heat they dissipate. My current CPU has a considerably higher TDP than my last desktop’s, but I finally broke down and put an AIO cooler on the new one, and all the fans on the radiator can run at a much lower speed than my last CPU because the radiator is a lot larger than one hanging directly off the CPU, can dump heat to the air a lot more readily.
The GPU on that system, which doesn’t use liquid cooling, has to have multiple slots and a supporting rail to support the weight because it has a huge heatsink hanging on a PCI slot that was never intended to support that kind of load.
- Comment on Native Arch Linux Games - Share Your Favorites 5 days ago:
Markdown treats a single newline as a space, so that already wrapped text doesn’t need to be rewrapped. If you want to have each item on one line, some options:
two spaces before newline
Foo << two spaces here Bar
Yields
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Foo\ Bar
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Most clients will have a “larger” vertical space if you do this:
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Bulleted List
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- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 5 days ago:
I don’t think that it’s as common today, and it’s definitely not common in the open-source-oriented software world that I tend to inhabit, but I do remember seeing the phrase “proprietary technology” used in a positive sense on various products in the past. Maybe 1990s or so. The idea is, I suppose, that if the technology is proprietary, this is the only product where you can get it, and the implication is that it’s better.
- Comment on Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help 6 days ago:
Yeah, I’d say that the title here is clickbait. The author is working awfully hard to try to frame the issue in the article in such a way that they can write that title.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 6 days ago:
Also, relevant:
quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
— John Gilmore, founding member Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
In its original form, it meant that the Usenet software (which moves messages around in discussion newsgroups) was resistant to censorship because, if a node drops certain messages because it doesn’t like their subject, the messages find their way past that node anyway by some other route. This is also a reference to the packet-routing protocols that the Internet uses to direct packets around any broken wires or fiber connections or routers. (They don’t redirect around selective censorship, but they do recover if an entire node is shut down to censor it.)
— also Gilmore
Gilmore also stated that the denotation of the saying has broadened over time:
The meaning of the phrase has grown through the years. Internet users have proven it time after time, by personally and publicly replicating information that is threatened with destruction or censorship. If you now consider the Net to be not only the wires and machines, but the people and their social structures who use the machines, it is more true than ever.
I am generally bearish on the future of Internet censorship. The Internet helps facilitate some things that one might not like, extensive profiling. But it also is very good at distributing information, and I think that in general, the availability of information in the future will be higher than in the past. I do not think it likely that our future will, on the balance, be more-censorious than our past.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 6 days ago:
This is actually an example of the opposite — an activist group in a non-US country impacting customers in the US.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 6 days ago:
All we gotta do is start a counter movement. Which I guarantee will be easier to grow than Collective Prudes.
My guess — and I haven’t seen anything where payment processors have released any details of what Collective Shout did – is that Collective Shout didn’t just call Visa and say “we don’t like this”. They probably found some sort of law, maybe in Australia, that processing payments for these violates, and had their lawyer send a nastygram to payment processors about it. The payment processors sent their warning letters to the retailer.
Like, the reason payment processors are useful as leverage for countries is because countries can put pressure on them, because payment processors do business all over and are gonna be skittish about violating laws in a bunch of countries, can get cut off from doing business there. And any one retailer just isn’t big enough for them to be worried about cutting off compared to getting cut off from a country.
If you want to put pressure on payment processors, I’d guess that you’re probably going to have to have some kind of law to threaten payment processor with on the grounds that processing payments to Steam and itch.io and other retailers and so forth when they are deindexing games results in some kind of legal violation. I’m not saying that that’s impossible, but it’s probably harder to do than it is for Collective Shout is to pull their shennanigans.
I’d also note that it is not at all clear that the present situation is the final state of affairs. That is, what my guess is that Valve and itch.io and so forth did is that they got their nastygram from the payment processors, then went to talk to their own lawyers. It’s entirely possible that after those lawyers have a look at it, they’re going to say “you can’t sell Game X in Country Z”, and Valve will just restrict the regions where they sell those games. That is, I would not be surprised if the scope on this restriction narrows, and Valve and itch.io are just playing it safe until they’re confident as of their legal position.
- Comment on UK should act to stop children getting hooked on social media ‘dopamine loops’ 1 week ago:
Kidron spoke to the Guardian before Friday’s deadline for online platforms – including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Google – to introduce child safety measures, and for pornography sites to bring in stringent age checking.
Responding to Kidron’s comments, a Department for Science, Innovation and Technology spokesperson said the new laws were a “foundation for a safer online world” but “we will not hesitate to go further if needed”.
Kyle said the child safety measures represented a “line in the sand” that would “reclaim the digital space for young people”.
Age-checking measures could also be required for social media sites that allow harmful content, such as X, the platform where young people were most likely to have seen pornography, according to research published by the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza.
thesun.co.uk/…/the-sun-page-3-channel-4-documenta…
The Sun’s iconic Page 3 will be celebrated in a new Channel 4 documentary to mark its 50th anniversary
THE Sun’s Page 3 girls graced Britain’s biggest and best newspaper for decades.
thesun.co.uk/…/celebrating-the-suns-fifty-greates…
Owner Rupert Murdoch’s mission was simple: to challenge our more staid, ‘Establishment’ rivals with a more brash, populist approach – and attract young readers.
Huh.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
I kind of don’t want to send my location to “location sharing” companies to sell to data brokers.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 1 week ago:
Thanks.
Note that if you’re “forking” a community, PieFed has a feature — which I have not personally used — that permits for replication of the existing community’s history. The admins of one community I was subscribed to on lemm.ee used it to create a new community on piefed.social before lemm.ee went down. I manually reposted history of another (smaller) community that was moving to lemmy.world,’ and thus didn’t have the replication feature available, and that was a big timesink. Much better to do it via automation, if you intend to do so, IMHO.
- Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me! 1 week ago:
New comm at !Lotrmemes@piefed.social
Maybe describe what the community is about and why a user would want to use it, given that not everyone is going to be an existing user?
I mean, there are 4 words in the post talking about the community, and 476 talking about whatever infighting led up to this.
My guess is that the typical user here reading the post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world is going to be mostly interested in what the lotrmemes community is about and maybe why the new one might differ from the old one.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 1 week ago:
Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground.
investigatemidwest.org/…/us-push-to-produce-metha…
“It can provide a substantial portion of global energy needs,” Rudi Roeslein , CEO of Roeslein Alternative Energy, told the attendees. His company has built farm-based methane systems around the country that produce enough fuel to displace 6 million gallons of diesel fuel and 80,000 cars. “If we do this on a large scale in the U.S. we could generate $63.6 billion worth of revenue for farmers around the country.”
Roeslein’s company promises on its website to “restore a balance” to farmland “by using the sustainably harvested biomass to create renewable natural gas.”
I know where to find a valuable source of methane in 12 years.
