lepinkainen
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- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 4 days ago:
No, but they want to seem cool
And they’ll use Grok to write the code anyway 😂
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 4 days ago:
Or Rust
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 4 days ago:
Rewrite it in Rust has gone too far 😆
- Comment on Tim Cook praises DeepSeek AI, which could mean a partnership is in the works 1 week ago:
Literal pennies though, just the requisite tithe to King Donald to keep off his ass.
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 1 week ago:
Maybe Nintendo, Sony and MS will be next?
I want a 3rd party store on all my consoles, why can’t I?
- Comment on Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut. 1 week ago:
Apple has a literal 100 billion in cash reserves. They’ll be just fine with losing a billion a year while becoming THE source for premium TV content
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
But is it profit if I’m asking over my expenses to save for a renovation for example?
How much over my expenses can I ask rent before becoming a bad guy?
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Giving homeless people homes != “public housing”
We do consider having a place to live a human right, but that doesn’t mean the houses are especially good or well maintained compared to commercial options.
They aren’t always even the cheapest - those can usually be found from private renters who own one or two apartments they rent.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
…so now being a landlord is ok if you don’t make too much profit?
I seriously can’t keep up.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
“Rent free” so I’d pay the costs and someone could just be there for free? I can’t afford that.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
I am from Finland and public housing is shit.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
I want a local LLM filtering my feed(s). So I really don’t need to see Elmo and Donald -related stuff.
Simple word filters don’t work, but with a LLM I might be able to make it work
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
So what should I do with the inherited apartment?
If I sell it to someone, they might become a landlord, which is bad.
Should I sell it to the city? Will they buy it?
Is it better if I gift it to my kid and keep it emtpty for 10 years until they need it? Then I’m not a landlord, because I don’t own multiple properties.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t answer my question:
If I inherit an apartment, am I allowed to rent it or should I sell it to not become a landlord?
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Not American.
Our colleges and universities are free. There is no student athlete industry over here.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Can you give me a serious answer without the /s
If I inherit my grandmas apartment, can I put it up for rent since it’s in small apartment in a college town and there will be takers.
Or should I sell it so I don’t become a “landlord”, which is bad?
Should all students just buy an apartment for the 4-5 years they spend in the city or will the city be the landlord for them somehow collectively? Or is it less bad if the college is the landlord by offering student housing?
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
If nobody is allowed to own more than one property, should everyone be forced buy? Where would renters get apartments from?
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
Even the adrenaline junkies on Deadliest Catch are running multiple million dollar businesses
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
And you’ll again inconvenience a human slightly as they look at a pixelated copy of a picture of a cat or some noise.
No cops are called, no accounts closed
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
A human checker would get a reduced quality copy after multiple CSAM matches. No police was to be called if the human checker didn’t verify a positive match
Your idea of flooding someone with fake matches that are actually cat pics wouldn’t have worked
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
They were not “suspected” they had to be matches to actual CSAM.
And after that a reduced quality copy was shown to an actual human, not an AI like in Googles case.
So the false positive would slightly inconvenience a human checker for 15 seconds, not get you Swatted or your account closed
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
This is EXACTLY what Apple tried to do with their on-device CSAM detection, it had a ridiculous amount of safeties to protect people’s privacy and still it got shouted down
I’m interested in seeing what happens when Holy Google, for which most nerds have a blind spot, does the exact same thing
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 weeks ago:
Most small group forums have manual user validation with very specific questions.
I’ve seen stuff like “what is on the the 5th page of the user guide for this product” along with language/culture specific questions you can’t just easily google on forums that are focused on a specific area
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
For me the advantage of Bluesky is that I can own my identity. I can reserve myusername@mydomain.tld and use that, without having to run my own instance.
With Mastodon I’d have to put up a full-ass server instance and worry about federation etc just to have my “own” identity instead of myusername@mastodon.social or something
- Comment on In a hypothetical revolution who would secure the resistances comms? 5 weeks ago:
T-1000E from seeedstudio
seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Card-Tracker-T1000-E-for…
Get the snap hook at the same time. And buy two so you can test it even if there are no others around you
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
Exactly
I have a separate cheapo Android phone with a prepaid sim for those cases where I need to fiddle with something really specific.
My actual phone just has to work every day. I don’t want it to stop allowing emergency calls because Teams had the ability to intercept calls at the OS level and failed 😅
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
You can literally set up a raspberry pi for torrents.
Why on earth would you torrent in your phone?
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
I want my phone to be like a gaming console.
I turn it on, it works. I install curated stuff from a store.
The hardware is stable and predictable and thus software is of better quality when the developer doesn’t need to test 420 different hardware variants.
I do not want it to be a Linux PC I need to tinker with every day. I specifically want it to prevent me from fucking with it.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 5 weeks ago:
So will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 5 weeks ago:
It’s $4 a month for 1GB of storage, not insane