stoy
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- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 8 hours ago:
The issue is that any software is a blackbox when running.
There is no way for a user to know what code is running let alone verifying that a specific code is actually running on a device, combine that with a sector that keeps wanting more data.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 8 hours ago:
True, damnit.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 14 hours ago:
How about we ban hidden cameras in public?
- Comment on 'Disgusting': Republicans Applaud as Trump Brags About Taking Food Aid From Millions | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
I have written about this before, but this is similar to the time I was the most confused and insulted in my professional life.
Early last year, I attended a mandatory company event, it was mostly about the C-suit spoke about how great they were and the peons applauding, eh standard stuff.
Then came a guest speaker…
His entire talk was about how he had moved jobs from high earning countries to low earning countries, he did that on a stage infront of high earners in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him.
I was shocked at the insanity of it all, and how almost no one in the audience had the decency of looking uncomfortable.
This is the same, they are talking about taking food from people to make their already privileged life even more privileged.
And the crowd applauding doesn’t realize that the defining line for who will be included isn’t static, under the current regime it is a ratchet.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
I strongly believe that the EU should fund Mozilla, or a fork of Firefox.
Gecko is the only viable competitor to Blink/WebKit, and it is needed
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
I live in an apartment, so I need to find a good place to shoot before I get a rifle, I’ll also checkout what other kinds of pellets I can get.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know what GFS is, I have been a Linux sysadmin for a few years, but never came across that.
We used LVM and ext4 for the storage in tjose VMs
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
I know it is a bit complex, but after seeing the shenanigans Synology tried to play and reading review about Ugreen NAS units and how they seem to connect to external servers often, I just decided to roll my own TrueNAS build.
I am using an AMD Ryzen 4600G, 32GB of RAM, a 500GB boot SSD, the only mATX board I could find with six SATA ports, the Asus B550m Pro4 and a Corsair SF750 750W PSU to power it all.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
I will if I can, as it stands I have four 8TB seagate drives, enough for my actual storage need, but I want to have two parity drives for extra protection.
I am planning on running ZFS with Zraid2, the drives are the final piece of the puzzle to at least get it working.
When I planned the build, I planned to get another controller card and run two SSDs as well, one for cache (I can add that later), and one for VM/App storage, I also planned on getting an Intel GPU for transcoding video, and a 10Gig NIC, mainly just to say I have it, as my network isn’t more than normal gigabit.
It is getting more important to complete the build as I need to move my media from single, non raided hard drives in my computer to a well raided server that I can configure for bitrot protection.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
Hehe, I’d be happy to tell you my general understanding of the laws, I am not a gun nut, and there are probably a few details I get wrong.
Anyway.
In Sweden you can only get a gun for two reasons, hunting or competition, getting a gun for self defense is illegal.
To get a gun for either reason, you need to pass tests and for competition licenses, display an active need for the gun in competitions.
Wikipedia has a better summary of the laws on this page:
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
So…
Anyone have stocked up on siege weapons?
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
Yeah, I just know I am bound to miss and don’t want to contaminate anything.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 1 week ago:
This is partly why I haven’t got into air rifles, I have wanted to for a long time, but there is no good place to shoot it nearby.
Some may say that I should just go out in the woods and shoot there, but I don’t want to spread lead in nature.
I know there are lead free pellets, but I have heard mixed opinions about them.
Why an air rifle specifically?
Because I can get a low power one (10J muzzle energy) without a license, and I can’t be arsed to get a license for a proper firearm as it requires a fair commitment here.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
I do see that another retailer has drives in stock, but at about 40-50% more than I paid back in October
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
I get paid on the 27th, I need two more 8TB drives to complete my NAS, my local retailer had 50+ in stock earlier this week, and now the drives are no longer even listed.
Fuck sake…
- Comment on Finally received my NX-01 Flight Jacket from Hero Within 1 week ago:
ENT was the only show in Star Trek that had sensible uniforms.
- Comment on Get. Out 1 week ago:
Lol they did that this year here as well, used AI to make them look like superheroes, didn’t work…
- Comment on Australia: Chinese HungryPanda food delivery drivers say police contacted family members back home as part of pressure campaign to stop them protesting 1 week ago:
While we should be weary of blaming the victims, this is actually really dumb.
- Comment on Get. Out 1 week ago:
Early last year I had to attend a company conference, it is a yearly thing where mgmt get to stand on a stage and have their peons aplaud them after telling everyone how amazing they are.
That year was particularly insulting.
The CEO brought up a person who he said had inspired him and how great the guy was.
The only thing that guy spoke about was how proud he was to have moved high income jobs to low income countries.
That, in front of a crowd of high income employees in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him…
And what is ridiculous was that most people genuinly did seem to enjoy the talk.
Granted, this was a company in the finance sector, and I work in IT, but come one people at least have the decency of looking uncomfortable when someone is happily talking about moving similar jobs to yours to other countries to your face.
- Comment on UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears 2 weeks ago:
Cool, but we in the EU should be weary of any outside payment processor taking over.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 2 weeks ago:
That is a good way to think about it!
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 2 weeks ago:
Damn it, I now see that my local IT store have had to postpone delivery of Seagate drives as well, I have four 8TB Seagate NAS drives in my new NAS I am building, I just need two more to complete the build.
So looks like I am going Toshiba for the last two drives + one cold spare.
- Comment on Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead! 2 weeks ago:
Oh fuck…
I just need two more 8TB drives so I can complete my NAS, that is all. Don’t blow up now! Please…
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- Comment on Are you not entertained?! 2 weeks ago:
AI slop
- Comment on What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today? 3 weeks ago:
A smartphone that you don’t sign into or use any apps on.
- Comment on Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty 3 weeks ago:
Good, as it should for normal people as well
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
Hey!
Fisheye lenses do exist
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 3 weeks ago:
No three-letter agency can crack this device.
Have crowbars become that expensive?
Wow!
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 3 weeks ago:
Most sports arenas have shit acoustics, so it makes sense that the sound quality is bad
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 3 weeks ago:
Wait, you can’t copy and paste text on GrapheneOS?
That seems really dumb.