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- Comment on Are you not entertained?! 10 hours ago:
AI slop
- Comment on What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today? 1 day 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
Wait, you can’t copy and paste text on GrapheneOS?
That seems really dumb.
- Comment on Just a few 3 days ago:
It is also important to not forget about how the Bible was formed.
What we know as the Bible is a collection of books, selected by a committee during a conclave centuries ago.
Any decision made by humans in power and influence will inevitably be favoring their own goals and politics.
There are plenty of other Christian texts that were excluded, how would they have changed Christianity if they were included?
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 3 days ago:
Found this, I don’t hear the booing myself but it claims to show it:
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 4 days ago:
Absolutely, I was just thinking about how to do it cheap and simple.
There was an old Defcon talk about something similar, how to make a system to physically destroy hard drives using a mechanism inside a server that could be triggered automatically or remotely.
They tried a bunch of things from thermite to acids, but didn’t get anywhere really.
It made me think however…
What about injecting sand into the drives and actuating the read/write head?
I have seen photos of a hard drive crash, where the head grinded off all of the magnetic layer from the platters.
My idea was to inject sand as a grinding agent and use the read/write head as a grinder to do the same thing.
Then I realized that if you are a huge customer, you can probably have custom hard drives on order, these drives could have a dedicated physical grinding arm, designed so that once deployed it would quickly grind the magnetic layer off of the platters.
Now SSD have made these concepts mostly redundant, but still a fun thought experiment.
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 4 days ago:
Ah, yeah, didn’t think of that, good point!
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 4 days ago:
I have seen devices that can allow an American power plug to be transfered from one powered outlet to another, specifically to allow police to capture running servers so the RAM isn’t cleared.
I have also heard of RAM being frozen with liquid nitrogen while powered on to allow later analysis.
The first part is less of a problem in this case as the outlets are different here, but to completely defeat this sort of power manipulation servers can easily be designed with internal switches that releases as the server is pulled from the rack, cutting the power internally.
That also reduces the effectiveness of the second attack, which is easy to reduce further by simply making the case take longer to open.
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 5 days ago:
Both Steam and GOG requires installing a zgame to play it.
- Comment on Checkmate, atheists! You are going to vagina hell! 1 week ago:
Why are NASA using microscopes to look at space?
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 week ago:
So your comment is just fanboy bullshit?
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 week ago:
That seems like a very simple problem to just not need to worry about.
Just don’t buy a smartwatch.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 week ago:
Sigh, how, just how do you quantify that?
- Comment on Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices 1 week ago:
Sigh, as the global tensions increase, so will the need for computing power for governments.
Cyberdefence is critical for survival, and the threats are just increasing.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 1 week ago:
I didn’t know they had Pepsi when these were used…
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
I really enjoyed the first one, and am looking forward to the second, but first it needs to get a better price, and preferably get on GOG.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
Yeah, the price for new games had been fixed for a long time at €50, and then the industry decided to whack it up to €70 just as the cost of living reached even higher.
And now they are standing around scratching their heads asking why their games failed…
Now, I realize that the cost of living also affects companies and their staff, but come on, you don’t whack the price up by 40% in one go, you start earlier and raise it by 10-20%, let it stabilize and go from there.
That is more in line with the inflation rate.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
It underperformed due to them overcharging for it.
I had my sights set on buying it shortly after launch, then they decided to charge €80 for it on launch, and still charge €70 for it.
I would be fine with €60, but more is just greedy.
And yes I noticed way too late that they had it on sale for €50 this december, and I missed that opportunity due to other expenses.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 1 week ago:
“…creating the worlds most overvalued company.”
FTFY.
- Comment on China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns 1 week ago:
Good, that stupid design trend needs to die
- Comment on What a selection! 2 weeks ago:
They haven’t sold burn in Sweden for about a decade.
- Comment on What a selection! 2 weeks ago:
I miss Burn, especially the apple-ginseng flavour…
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘Europe doesn’t have an AI strategy. If it doesn’t invest heavily, it will end up using Chinese models’ 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t believe I would, many years ago I made a decision to always try and make sure people remembered me as kind and a good person, even store clerks and similar service jobs I interact with.
I think that if I had access to that kind of wealth, I would start looking for my legacy and build something positive for people to remember me by.
Now, I realize that as an IT guy, it is exceedingly improbable that I will ever get into that kind of wealth, but one can dream.
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘Europe doesn’t have an AI strategy. If it doesn’t invest heavily, it will end up using Chinese models’ 2 weeks ago:
Ah, Eric Schmidt, billionaire and former CEO and chairman of Google, he is one of the wealthiest people in the world.
He lead the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
He has drunk the entire bottle of the AI juice.
If I had 53 billion USD available, I would develop my idea of a system for cleaning the great garbage patch rather than whining about AI.
- Comment on Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows 2 weeks ago:
They have become disturbingly common here in Sweden as well.
I would like to put in a motion for a new law, no vehicles can be sold that has a bonnet taller than two thirds of that of the average car’s roof height.
I have a 2021 Seat Leon, it’s insane to have cars with a bonnet taller than my entire car.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 2 weeks ago:
My mina home computer will allways be a desktop, though I do like a laptop as a complement.
In general I don’t want batteries in everything, I am very weary of lithium batteries after having seen videos of them going pop.
I have thought about building a dedicated charging cabinet, devided into separate charging lockers, with active cooling of the bottom plate in every locker.
I am concerned everytime I buy a new light for my camera setup, as I like the fexibillity of an integrated battery, but don’t trust the brand to know if it is safe.
I would love to have a carging cabinet as described above…