GnuLinuxDude
@GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
- Comment on 390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot 22 hours ago:
I wish for once this country could pass an unambiguously good law to protect people’s privacy.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 day ago:
my take was everyone should be illiterate. good work.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 day ago:
great pointless strawman. nice contribution.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 day ago:
Every now and again I am reminded of my sentiment that the introduction of “media” onto the Internet is a net harm. Maybe 256 dithered color photos like you’d see in Encarta 95 and that’s the maximum extent of what should be allowed. There’s just so much abuse from this kind of shit… despicable.
- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 2 days ago:
I’m not European and even I despise von der Leyen. She’s one of the most cynical people on Earth.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 days ago:
The other day I tried to have it help me with a programming task on a personal project. I am an experienced programmer, but I only “get by” in Python (typically just by looking up the documentation for the standard library). I thought, “OK. This is it. I will ask Llama 3.3 and GPT4 for help.”
That shit literally set me back a weekend. It gave me such bad approaches and answers, that I could tell were bad (aforementioned experience in programming, degree in comp sci, etc) that I got confused about writing Python. Had I just done what I usually do, which is to look up the documentation and use my brain, I would have gotten my weekend task done a whole weekend sooner.
It scares me to think what people are doing to themselves by relying on this, especially if they’re novices.
- Comment on Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble 3 days ago:
until it’s zero that’s still too many. everyone who buys one of these things should be made to regret doing so
- Comment on Anonymous X account shares falsehoods to Elon Musk, top US officials. What we know about ‘Amuse’. 3 days ago:
“false claims” – lies. they’re just lies.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 4 days ago:
I actually do this. With uBlock Origin you can set to default block any JS (or just 3rd party JS) and then whitelist by domains. Then you can lock in per-site settings.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 5 days ago:
Does Incus allow you to use a VM with a GUI? One thing that’s nice about Proxmox is I have one VM with a very basic lxqt setup for when I need that, and I can either use remote-viewer + the spice protocol to access it or access it through the Proxmox web ui. That’s been very handy.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
I haven’t used Reddit since the api change but I suspect stating that Luigi mangione is a hero who did nothing wrong would get me banned on Reddit. Social murder is completely cool and ok. But actually killing the man who oversees the system of social murder? How dare you!?
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 6 days ago:
I predict that this guy is a moron.
Oh shit, my prediction already came true!?
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
The way brace’s brain works is something else lol
- Comment on Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany) 1 week ago:
God, I wish I were in the market for this. I have a baseline m1 Macbook Air and a lack of funds, so I can’t quite justify another laptop. And while Asahi Linux is very cool, going forward I really want to support good Linux-friendly vendors.
- Comment on Donate USB Drives and SD Cards to Help US Smuggle Outside Info into North Korea 1 week ago:
Accusing someone else of being me on an alternate account over a very low-stakes comment. Are you paranoid? Leave that shit back on Reddit.
- Comment on Donate USB Drives and SD Cards to Help US Smuggle Outside Info into North Korea 1 week ago:
I live in the USA. Supposedly I, and all of my countrymen, have access to all the free information in the world. Yet Trump is president. A literal anti-vaxxer is the HHS secretary. They’re also trying to destroy the education department. Please reconcile that for me.
How does loading flash drives with “subversive media” do anything for anyone? This just sounds like a plan to export ewaste into another country.
- Comment on Donate USB Drives and SD Cards to Help US Smuggle Outside Info into North Korea 1 week ago:
cringe
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 1 week ago:
We are literally watching ICE kidnap people in the USA with legal resident status and deporting them or transferring them to detention centers, and somehow people are downvoting you.
- Comment on I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor 1 week ago:
This person’s website got me motivated to start programming in Zig a few weeks ago. Love his website’s design, too.
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 2 weeks ago:
I mean you can just say that about any and every law or policy. No need to be so knee-jerk about it. The point I’m making is it isn’t just posturing. It’s not like a company pretending to promise to watermark their AI outputs; it’s a government saying you must comply with new rule.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
i guess the 90% marketing (re: linus torvalds) is working
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 2 weeks ago:
A government policy isn’t just posturing because the state now has a rule to cite if they’re gonna issue you a fine or whatever the punishment is supposed to be. So you will either comply, or go underground or abroad. That’s a real consequence.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.
I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been paying for Mullvad for a while and didn’t realize this was even a thing until this announcement.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 4 weeks ago:
This is the one program my dad explicitly uses in the Microsoft suite of programs that I thought, “Ok fine we’ll keep paying for this shit.” Time to start looking into alternatives. Microsoft… Even when I stop using their software they still cause me endless wasted time.
- Comment on Introducing Pi-hole v6 5 weeks ago:
Pi-hole is one of my favorite pieces of software. It is the reason I began self-hosting six years ago.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I can’t play around with it anymore because I live a thousand miles away from everyone I support who actually uses Jellyfin. My experience with the Android TV app was embedded SRT subtitle support is now 100% good as of late last year, but embedded PGS trips things up so much that I cannot use them.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Sublime never offered lifetime subscriptions. web.archive.org/web/20150928064400/…/sales_faq You can even see as far back as 2014 that if you purchased Sublime Text 2 when Sublime 3 was still in beta:
- Upgrade Policy
A license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade. - Expiration Date
Licenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.
You can find that disagreeable, but it was not something they hid from us customers.
- Upgrade Policy
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I don’t use it for myself but my experience with Jellyfin is the subtitles UX kind of sucks. It got a lot better on the Android TV app recently (ty to the maintainer!), particularly with improved subtitle support, but because of ExoPlayer it still can’t play bitmapped embedded subtitles easily, only .srt subtitles.
The experience on iOS/appletv with Jellyfin/Swiftfin was so bad that I ended up recommending Infuse. Infuse is a great app, but it’s not a libre app, which kind of clashes with the rest of Jellyfin in that regard. And, once again, it needs massaging: unless you want to be popped up with a buy Infuse Pro pop-up your video and audio has to be in certain codecs.
As I said, I don’t use these things, myself. I don’t even have a TV. But every now and again, I will put a file up for some relatives, and I want it to be totally directly playable, because my server is just an old laptop. So I have to spend a lot of manual time making sure the files are juuuuust right. If there comes a day where there’s direct playback with embedded PGS or SRT subtitles on all platforms that will be the day the Jellyfin suite of software becomes 10/10 software for me.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 month ago:
This whole thing is extremely cringe. There isn’t any other way to put it. Trump. His executive order. The compliance. It’s all cringe.