utopiah

@utopiah@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose

  How? I do not think we know of a reliable way, DNS blocking get bypassed by alternative DNS ( and ISP probably do not have per state DNSes) , IP blocking get bypassed via VPN, etc. They can say they did put in place something but it is like puttimg a fence without walls around, it is just symbolic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

  They might want to try LMS and its github.com/epoupon/lms?tab=readme-ov-file#music-d…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  easy to transfer to other countries

  Also easy to transfer with IBAN and relatively cheap … so I guess other countries that do not rely on IBAN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-life: Alyx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Potential paths that could be interesting :

  • LMS as full solution with Web interface including recommendations and with live instance to test
  • Github tag github.com/topics/music-recommendation-system
  • mahalanobis distance as plugin for bliss github.com/Polochon-street/blissify-rs?tab=readme…
  • Yandex Yambda model huggingface.co/datasets/yandex/yambda
  • API to rely on SoundCloud developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/…/open-api#/tr…
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks but maybe I’m a bit slow, how does that work?

  Say I use mplayer or aplay to play from my local ~/Music/ directory, or even VLC to play from my minidlna server on my RaspberryPi. Say I play a tune named tune.ogg which has metadata saying “Tsunami” by the artist “R3HAB” and it ends. How could my player then pick the next song, from my library or elsewhere, not randomly but rather because it’s related somehow to this song?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any way to get recommendations while pirating?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  curios

  Maybe you could become CuriOS… like operating system curious? OK I’ll see myself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a “community” it’s a video server. I’m sharing video content I made.

  I could open up the federation aspect and letting you and others comment, helping it to scale, but for now I chose not to.

  There are PeerTube instances doing that though, i.e. federating, allowing comments from the instance, other instances, also content that is paid for. My instance though again is not like that.

  I find it surprising that someone on Lemmy makes assumption about centralization. My instance does NOT try to reproduce YouTube yet I believe, I hope at least, does provide again potential “content” to viewers. It’s never going to be YouTube but for me that’s OK, in fact I would argue, that’s better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did some live streams in the past. I share the link to my instance below. I can’t speak for large audiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think the link I give helps potential viewers by showing there is content out there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be the change you want to see. Here is my instance video.benetou.fr even if nobody cares, I tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for making the video but also for providing non Youtube link. Maybe there is a PeerTube server that would enjoy hosting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better: PeerTube or InternetArchive or (Web)Torrents but definitely not a Google website fueled by surveillance capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just skimmed through the thread and its filled with strawmen or plain misunderstanding.

  Nobody is criticizing someone for having rich parents, even if said parents got that money from exploitation, heck even slavery.

  No the criticism is that someone rich, thanks to their parents rather than their own effort, is promoting a way to reach such a position in life by replicating a path that is not real. If you have rich parents and you promote “making stuff” or writing a book, which you actually did yet never meaningfully contributing to the lifestyle you are promoting, you are basically dishonest.

  TL;DR: nobody cares about that specific person or that situation, we are just tired of lies sold for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something is wrong..⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  developed a new thing about which to worry: what have I forgotten to check?

  Well you can make rules so that you can automatically rectify things without having to even check.

  Then… you can worry about things you haven’t automated properly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t easily help there. Maybe you can find someone local who could help. Best of luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  banking apps and cash apps

  Unfortunately that’s prevents from switching to Linux proper over (hopefully deGoogled) Android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If by any chance you can be in Brussels for a bit, I can lend you mine for a while to test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  clear rules on disassembly and repair, requiring manufacturers to supply key spare parts within 5-10 working days, and for at least 7 years after the product model is no longer sold in the EU

  Wonder how that applies to eBike. Been waiting for my CowBoy belt since February now. Do not recommend. No more “designer” eBike now, I’ll only buy bikes with the most standard parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Daily driving the cmf with /e/OS from Murena for few months now, warmly recommended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t speak for Ubuntu Touch but tried PostMarketOS on PinePhone and PinePhone Pro.

  The PP works well, good support for most things included SIM, camera, BT, etc but it’s big and bulky, also IMHO not powerful enough for Waydroid so no Android apps, “just” Linux. Relying on the browser to avoid using app is rarely practical as it’s too slow.

  The PPPro being more powerful should cover the gap… but some lack of support, specifically the camera, makes it tricky as daily driver.

  Both PP and PPPro don’t have great battery and/or power management so you can go through a day of usage, barely, and you might get stuck in a cycling loop if you depleted it entirely. That means also as daily driver, if you are not very cautious, it’s tricky.

  So… we are nearly there but unless you have a very VERY minimum usage of your phone, basically a dumb phone with a bit of CLI to remote connect to your own server from time to time, it’s probably not practical for now.

  Maybe the Liberux NEXX thanks to its power would have closed the gap but the failed crowd funding campaign shows that price point does not have a market fit right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably specific by country then because I didn’t have to show any ID. FWIW

  “To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes.” which is as of a week ago and still today :

  • nationality
  • name
  • birth date
  • address
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try FBI, you’re not getting that info from me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think eSIM providers do but I admit I didn’t check. It’d be even more convenient, no need to leave your home to switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment… but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable… and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can’t disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically enough that’s is exactly the kind of seemingly “simple” question a 4 years old could answer… but LLMs can’t.

  Asked my better half to test DeepSeek locally few months ago and they, without trying to “trick” it (as I would have tried) genuinely tried “What time is it in Sri Lanka?”. That made me smile because I was rather sure there was no way the model could answer that. It would need to know the current time on any time zone then, if it’s not in Sri Lanka already (which it wasn’t on my local system) would have to convert it. That would be very basic arithmetic (that some 4 years old could also do) but not “just” spitting back words related to the question.

  Guess what… it failed exactly as expected. The model replied back “information” (which is being generous for a string of words arguably related to the topic, which was mostly about Sri Lanka, not time) and yet was basically irrelevant and thus useless.

  So… yes I’m not actually sure CoPilot could even help there unless there is a lot of custom made handling of this kind of queries upstream!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What?! Haven’t your heard?

  • FSD is happening next year, for sure,
  • we’re still 18 months away from developers being replaced,
  • it’s “deep” reasoning, basically nearly ASI!

  /s (obviously)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  changed the search engine in Firefox

  Which… takes maximum 1min to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He should just goto hell early.

  He’s going to Mars as soon as FSD on Tesla is ready, next year for sure!, to not blow in his rocket then once there chat with his amazing chatbot telling him, with 20min delay for each message, that he truly is the best.

  What an absolute retard.