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- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 10 months ago:
I like Bluetooth quite a lot, but the default SBC codec that comes with A2DP isn’t all that great. Even FLAK gets recompressed in an obscure format at medium bitrate.
HD “standards” like… AptX(?) aren’t really a Bluetooth standard AFAIK but it runs over Bluetooth so if both devices support it, it works great.
Fun fact, them HD standards are so software based that I got support for three different HD standards when I changed OS.
- Comment on Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
All I know is that Stux’s instances was on the fence regarding Threads until a little meeting with Ruud somewhere in the Netherlands a few weeks ago. 😉
- Comment on Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications 11 months ago:
gmsCore (microG) is an open source way of using Google Services.
You re-implemented Google Services (albeit open source instead of proprietary), from what I understand you’re exactly as vulnerable as everyone else - But you have a giant “I’m trying to hide!” sign painted on your account.
- Comment on Scariest Saiyan 11 months ago:
I’ve no idea if this is normal
It is not normal.
- Comment on An easy way to enlarge a photo 11 months ago:
I have done that many times. But only on touch screen.
Well, that was that one phone that didn’t support multi touch. Ruined my entire week.
- Comment on Jingle bells Batman smells robin laid an egg... 11 months ago:
Does Robin lay chocolate eggs?
- Comment on a classic issue... 11 months ago:
Let’s check the fridge and cupboards again, maybe some snacks have materialised since the last time we checked.
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 11 months ago:
Nobody likes Molesteclese.
- Comment on Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count 11 months ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me, the barbarians.
- Comment on Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count 11 months ago:
Then what is even Charactercountpad for?!
Wordpad is the step after Notepad, not Notepad again.
- Comment on Take care of your penis 11 months ago:
Take care of your penis
Thank you for your concern.
- Comment on Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years 11 months ago:
Be careful, one day you’ll boot it up only to find some hacker have set new and impossible to beat highscores.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023) 11 months ago:
Sure. I hope I didn’t come across as claiming that I’ve lost any games I licensed through Steam. Just that it’s a possibility.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023) 11 months ago:
I buy this space shooter game called “Destiny 2”.
Here’s how they get you; did you buy “Destiny 2” or did you acquire a limited use license subject to change at the publishers discretion?
I haven’t bought a game since Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG. Sure I’ve “perpetually leased” some games on Steam since then, but I didn’t buy them. They can be taken away from me by the owner at any time and I’m very aware of this.
The only way to experience the original content is through YouTube videos.
Very sad, people should be able to buy games to own, keep and share those treasured memories throughout their lives. I can still whip out Final Fantasy 7 on original disks if the kids ever want to see how we did it in “ye olde days”. Destiny 2-players can never do such a thing.
Makes me question if it’s even the same type of products.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023) 11 months ago:
It’s "If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product and we invented the term next week TYVM.
- Comment on Analog problems require kickass solutions 11 months ago:
Overnight? Do you deliver overminute?
- Comment on Peanits 11 months ago:
Peanititis ain’t nothing to laugh at.
- Comment on Treat yourself 11 months ago:
😔
- Comment on Every sign has a story 11 months ago:
I thought that saying was made back stage at a Led Zeppelin concert in 1973?
- Comment on UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites 11 months ago:
But they’re good at identifying faces so simply connect it to a facial recognition database (I understand the UK are quite fond of such) and bam, accurate age determination. For the sake of the children.
- Comment on Every sign has a story 11 months ago:
There are many places where a penis would be inappropriate. You’ll need a lot of stickers.
- Comment on Sdrawkcab suseJ 11 months ago:
Try saying sus backwards, the result will amaze you.
- Comment on Sdrawkcab suseJ 11 months ago:
I’m a sausage maker and this image is blasphemous, please delete now or the Würstermünster will curse you.
- Comment on Me shitpost 11 months ago:
It’s been years since I saw all the movies I ever wanted to see from the beginning of cinematography up until that point. And now they only make shit movies, what’s a man to do but enjoy memes?
- Comment on Remember 11 months ago:
I have to reevaluate all those “lol kys” messages I got when I used to play online games.
- Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users 11 months ago:
More like the super healthy farmer is handing out organic food for free but people rather eat at McDonalds because it’s nearly packed and that’s where most people eat.
- Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users 11 months ago:
Pretty much my experience with pull-based notifications. I’ve even tested the same client on the same setup against both NTFY and client-pull without seeing a noticable difference in battery usage.
- Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users 11 months ago:
But… Blaming people who are being fucked over by forces generally outside their control is not really going to help their or our situation.
The whole premise of the comment is that it’s not outside of their control, they just chose not to be responsible for the agreements they make. If you have any better suggestions than blaming those responsible for the situation I’m willing to listen and maybe even change my mind.
Expecting or demanding “people” to just change is also not realistic. Even if they wanted to, time, effort, energy, knowledge, skills, and attention are all finite.
Is it more unrealistic than “we” deciding to change and find a better path forward than surrendering our digital lives to strangers? I’m able to self-host my own push server. I wasn’t born with that knowledge. I had to invest time, effort and energy to gain the knowledge and skills. If I can, so can others. I am not an extraordinary smart person.
Still, long before one starts to self-host entire platforms like NTFY or Nextcloud Push, there’s a ton of free to use services ran by idealists rather than capitalists. Or payed options with good terms. There’s so much between just not caring and being ones own sysadmin that I don’t think “don’t have the time” is a valid excuse anymore. It’s not just push messages, it’s everything - as you point out:
This is just one important issue or source of exploitation among a sea of others.
Sure. And most people I offered a free Nextcloud account to said the same. And Mastodon/Friendica-accounts. And so on. It’s like a technological mass depression, we can’t do everything we need to so there’s no point doing anything at all.
And today I’m running a custom ROM and no push services from Big Data while they’re literally getting robbed of their phonebooks by Meta.
- Comment on The first knitted socks I ever truly loved <3 11 months ago:
I’ve got some cotton+bamboo regular socks, they’re like 5% rougher than regular socks. How rough is the bamboo compared to wool?
- Comment on STOB 11 months ago:
