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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU is going to slap them silly for making it an easier process? Instead of needing to know a magic key combo to bypass the security check, now it acts just like any other security permission (for example, screen recording) and sends you to settings. This is absolutely better than it was and the article is clickbait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a million times better than the current. Using homebrew, you often have to re-approve apps that brew ended up reinstalling in a manner to remove the previous exception.

  Now, worst-case, it’s the same process as any other app permission, and best case, it can be adjusted via the terminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are many tipping points, and we dont always know if we’ve hit one yet or not. The drastic increase in sea temperature the last two years is possibly a tipping point we’ve passed, esp since the warmer the water is, the less co2 its able to absorb. OMAC shut down (if it happens) is possibly a tipping point, which will only feedback loop into warming waters.

  Honestly, the permafrost melt is more likely to be the KO punch after one or more other tipping points accelerate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I don’t like the magic mouses size, but the weight + multitasking gestures makes it the one I put in my laptop bag for use on the go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. I got one for free from a job’s tech allowance, and it’s never really a problem. It charges fast and the OS warns you early enough to plug it in on a lunch break or at the end of the day well before it runs out. Not ideal but def not garbage. Honestly, I get more frustrated with noise canceling headphones and keyboards dying at inconvenient times than I ever do the mouse.

  I dont use it daily, but it is a pretty good mouse for my laptop bag. Charge holds a long time for once/week use. If it’s dead when I get to the coffee shop or wherever I’m working, itll be usable in 15 mins or less anyway. It also works nicely with Linux out of the box, which is a rarity among Bluetooth mice (in my experience).

  The other elephant in the room: not having multitasking gestures on a mouse when using macOS is a serious drawback for any other mouse out there, so there is a reason people are willing to put up with the annoyance (if they ever get annoyed in the first place)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but if its prohibitively impossible to do so, people with legitimate good ideas will never be able to do anything about it. Barriers to entry only serve the wealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not in a rush to move over from K-9, but once they add account sync with desktop to the mobile app I’ll def be migrating. Getting to be a not of a pain toanage Thunderbird on a few PC’s + phone and i’m very much looming forward to simplifying all of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The main thing they want testing for is the migration tool from a k-9 app installed and configured already on the device, which would be net new code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I, personally, think that you should not have a website if you can’t pay for it yourself

  You might want to consider how expensive web hosting can be, depending on the content and traffic. A belief like that can shut out a huge portion of the world from being able to even bother with a web site. Even a simple blog can get very expensive due to traffic. Maybe not expensive enough for your average 1st world individual… But that still excludes a large portion of the population with internet access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Newsom’s Veto, Big Tech Beats Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The central point of that article is certinally valid. Something that was worked on for a while with broad congressional support and public support getting vetoed isnt ideal for a democratic process. No resolution on issues is not a good thing since another 3-6-12 months of no regulation for a theoretically netter bill to work through the system will allow for continued abuse by AI behemoths. Newsom is a corpo dem, so idk what people expected, anyway.

  I don’t buy into the AGI FUD. These are word calculators. But these tools are being hooked up to all sorts of things they shouldn’t be hooked up to and the lack of broad privacy regulation in the US puts LLM usage that handles sensitive data and/or decisions firmly into dangerous territory. Business decisions made by irresponsible management with no regard for data privacy or human safety are already a massive problem that actively cause harm, and hooking current AI tools onto these processes only seems to make the problems worse, especially while AI usage is in this gray space where no one wants to take responsibility for the outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure some places use it to share info, but usually it basically becomes their entire software stack. Its like the salesforce of the health world. It does their billing, shift management, HR, CMS, everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Vscodium is your solution then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the doctor uses mychart, thats where they store the internal data whether you have an account or not. Its their entire computer system most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posit: In the future, generative A.I. will be thought of as the unconscious part of a general A.I.'s mind.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The appearance of similarities between Generative AI and the unconscious mind do not mean there is any actual equivilance to be had. We gotta stop using the same terminology to describe generative AI as we do humans because they are not the same thing in the slightest. This only leads to further unintentional bias, and an increased likelihood of seeing connections with the unconscious mind that don’t actually exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, and then not watch YouTube or Netflix or anything on my… TV… Good plan!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roku was such an easy recommendation for a long time… Non-complex UI, long support for updates, not owned by google or amazon… Far cheaper than LG and Samsung… (Not that Samsung’s UI is anywhere near as easy as roku)

  But now I guess thats done. Unless an alternate firmware exists or this doesn’t hit older TVs I guess I’ll be looking for a new TV… Which is a shame because my current 4 year old roku TV is more than capable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portable monitor recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked up one of the ARZOPA ones and they are fine. Not the best looking, but good enough for a second monitor on the go. I used to take my ipad 9.7" with me places for this purpose and even though the image isnt as good, its way less effort to carry around.

  I wouldnt use it as a single monitor regularly, nor for gaming.

  I had to keep using the usb-c cable that came with it. Not sure if its a specific protocol that my thunderbolt 4 cables dont support or not. Minor inconvenience i havent looked into further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a solution to your current problem, but an alternative to consider depending on your network setup.

  I’ve been running unbound as my DNS via OPNSense. Same capabilities for blocklists, plus some nice privacy benefits with DoH/DoT. I think you can use unbound with pihole too, fwiw, i just don’t have a need for that.