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- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
…yes, that’s what I said. But sign them locally. Do not put your private key on Protons service. Sign and distribute pub keys locally.
Probably should have clarified.
Also, paid IMAP/SMTP makes Proton a freemium service. Thought I should just underline that.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
This is why you sign and encrypt the contents of email. If the recipient doesn’t have the public key, they can’t read the content.
Allowing a service provider to “handle your keys” is tantamount to letting the fox watch the henhouse.
Proton doesn’t provide IMAP/SMTP access for free accounts, so you won’t be able to encrypt emails locally.
This ultimately is the tech version of “trust me bro”. This means you are as secure on Proton as you are on GMail, depending upon how you use the service.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 6 months ago:
Gotta respect boycotting Cloudflare on principle… but also, why?
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 6 months ago:
…well, is he wrong? Exploiting kids is the most lucrative endeavour. In fact, if we’re going by piece meal and not lump sum, young people are a fat wad of cash.
So of course you knew we need to take every musical art form and turn it into sensory overload on stilts, because money.
Your little crotchgoblins are a path to your wallet.
- Comment on Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches 6 months ago:
That exactly it. M$ execs look at this stat and probably go “we need to make it more unsecure, for the shareholders - of course.”
- Comment on If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself. 6 months ago:
“Cuba is such a shit hole.”
Consistently has some of the best doctors. Also, healthcare workers from Kenya? Some of the best in the world.
- Comment on I finally got access to the catholic AI 6 months ago:
How long until it turns into a Satanist? Considering he’s supposed to be all moral, I can’t help but think that at some point it does an A/B and reaches the correct conclusion.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 6 months ago:
In some cases, that’s still not possible for m, although my personal laptop that I use daily runs Fedora Atomic.
But I also recently reinstalled another laptop with Windows 11, promptly stripped the whole thing of all kinds of apps and services, installed a bunch of audio software, libraries, etc, to prepare a machine to be show worthy.
When the day comes and Ableton ports Live to Linux proper is when I will forego a bulk of my VST’s, but running it under wine for real-time purposes is not reliable at all - so eh. There’s Bigwig, but I got like years of Max patches that I just can’t live without, and I don’t need just a DAW. In fact, if you ask me to leave Live, I’ll tell you to fly a kite.
Same issue it’s always been, unfortunately, that vendors do not support the Linux desktop. Go bother the vendors about platform supoort. I do, frequently. In fact, time for another ticket - and this one is going to be political.
Thanks for the reminder.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 6 months ago:
So I’m trying to figure out a way to jip Microsoft. We’ve already got a way to activate windows for free, but LTSC images need to be available - because that’s where we get away from Microsoft’s bullshit.
Unless Microsoft removes access to DISM and gp, we’ll still be able to cut off that “always online” limb.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 6 months ago:
Such is writing policy. Mayhaps it needs to be reformed down the line as well.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
Public-private key signing, using up to date cryptography. That’s it. It’s also “quantum safe”, because all cryptography used by the public goes through peer review processes.
Microsoft as well as Meta have contracted Whisper Systems, but there’s no way of guaranteeing that the signing process is functionally working or if it’s been broken. If it’s run server side, you have no clue. If it’s run client side, there’s still a question if the process hasn’t been tampered with in some way.
Remember: there is no such thing as cryptography with a backdoor. At that point, it’s just a secrets system.
- Comment on What a deal! 6 months ago:
NGL, this is probably better than the actual Cybertruck.
If there’s a Toyota underneath, then this is an improvement.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 6 months ago:
By all means. After Apple has painted themselves in a corner, when the legislation has been loophole proofed, that’s when Apple gets hit in the face with the Brussels effect - like a big, floppy, dong slapped across Steve Apple’s mouth in every country out there.
I’ll do a dance for every country. I’ll do a shimmy for Botswana, a conga for Japan, a shake for Sebia, etc, etc.
Slap! Other cheek. Slayap! Other cheek! And so on and so forth.
Hopefully.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 6 months ago:
This is probably the best approach. You could pass thru relative USB ports and even a GPU to do things on the Windows VM that you can’t do in Wine.
But how does that work? Isn’t windows rigged to discover if you’re running it in a VM to go “sowwy :( but this is an enterprise feature. Money please~!”
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 6 months ago:
You know, it probably is the time to ask myself: who is the bigger evil? Microsoft or Apple?
I’ve boycotted Apple products for so long that I can barely remember my white clamshell MacBook… my special little boy T_T I miss it.
But anyways, maybe if I can’t find a way to make Windows stop being a little bitch I might have to consider moving to a Mac :(
Unless Ableton ports live and max to Linux, in which case Fedora Atomic go brrrr.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 6 months ago:
A bit more involved indeed. It’s not like I didn’t try. The goal was to get it as good or as close to the performance you get in Windows.
Again, if you’re just using a mouse and keyboard to compose music, that’s okay, but you’ll put pressure on the Live engine buffer and most likely suffer dropouts - or buffer overruns - as soon as you add a little bit of processing. Juxtaposed to windows, that well runeth dry real quick.
Realtime MIDI and audio is even harder, because getting midi signals from several USB devices cleanly into wine is not as cut and dry as you’d think. There’d need to be some kind of pass thru on the kernel level to really get some of these MIDI devices working. Perhaps even pass thru of USB audio interfaces might be the ticket. But as is? NGL, kind of limited… and useless for me :/
Sadness.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 6 months ago:
I’ve just recently moved over to 11, because Windows 10 is going EOL in 2025. I needed to switch at some point anyways, so I might as well get it over with. I’m wondering if consumers can get access to LTSC releases of Windows though. Perhaps some form of enterprise edition, if LTSC editions aren’t publicly available.
The problem being of course that I can’t move from my precious Ableton Live and I really don’t want a MacBook. Before I installed 11 I tried it under wine, using Bazzite no less. Could’ve gone with a more music centric distribution, but everything points towards it not being stable for live usage - like at all, even with WineASIO. Couldn’t get the Push to register, and the buffer was hammered with just a little bit of processing. So, yeah…
My old Windows 10 install was Atlas OS, but now I’m trying Revision OS for 11. It must be doing something right for Windows Defender to quarantine one of it’s files. High praise from Caesar indeed. Revision is also a light modification, whereas Atlas OS pretty much nukes all the things - with varying effects and successes. In the end, they are community projects that obviously ruffle Microsoft’s feathers. So, yeah…
It’s a question of how to make a music workstation by choosing the right windows edition, or how to hack at the system until Microsoft limbs are gimped. Also, I don’t think I’ll need a printer spool. In any case, it’s a pain in my arse that I now also have to find a way to nuke Copilot. That will surely just wreck my buffer absolutely. “But you could use it for music creation”… what’s the fun in that?
In any case, list your favourite key reseller sites. I might need to go shopping for something special, and Pro might not cut it.
- Comment on Shit. 6 months ago:
Speaking trout to power.
- Comment on Researchers develop paper battery that generates power from water, air - Interesting Engineering 6 months ago:
*letters start moving around on paper*
It’s been foretold by ancient prophecies. Burn it all down. The factories, the banks, everything. Return to monke. Reject technological poltergeists.
- Comment on Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be 7 months ago:
In short, it’s a backend/frontend combination that can be shaped using standards compliant web technology, i.e HTMX and JSON, to make it easier in prototyping federated platforms.
Prototyping frontend and backends in tandem is an undertaking to say the least. By creating a framework specifically designed to bridge that gap it will allow developers to more effectively develop, test and publish social media platforms.
…also, they coupled the decoupling… because of course they did. But yeah, if this makes it easier to create federated platforms, I’m all for it.
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 7 months ago:
Welcome to the world of venture capitalism. It’s all “come on, guy! This is the next thing! Trust me bro!”
But by that token energy is collision and cooperation within the industry to front these technologies to board rooms and shareholders.
Compare the current AI boom with the crypto boom. The crypto boom just made NVIDIA more exploitative and fronted scams, gifts and rugpulls in the form of smart contracts and NFTs.
Then we see NPUs being integrated into SoC’s by Intel, AMD, Apple, etc, platforms like Hugging face, frameworks like pytorch.
In essence, all the right moves are being made to distribute AI processing, but will localised SLM’s, LLM’s and stable diffusion really take off? Or will these NPU’s be gangrenous limbs come the next decade.
Place your bets.
- Comment on Palworld CEO says “many” clones of Pokémon-with-guns game are coming, with “Genshin Impact-level” successors 7 months ago:
…DigiMon, digital monsters, DigiMon are the champions~!
- Comment on The internet is dying - here's why. 7 months ago:
The venture capital samba:
- Make free service (it’ll pan out, trust me bro).
- 1 years passes… trust me bro
- 3 years passes… look at all this user data we can sell - trust me bro
- 2 more year passes… look, we’re going to have to fire some people…
- 1 year passes… we’re not really making any money, so trust me bro - we’re only going to increase subscription fees a little…
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
- Listen, Mr Creditor - I have liquidity. So much liquidity. I’m rife with the stuff… increase subscription fees
And so forth, and so on…
- Comment on Canonical and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Ubuntu to Qualcomm Devices 7 months ago:
In the worst timeline drivers and firmware get distributed through snaps with a mandatory account login.
Knock on wood…
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 7 months ago:
Ah yes. In the future you’ll have to pay more than $70, because you need to tip the devs so they can get paid. What’s that? Not happy enough with the game? No pay for the team behind it then. It’s only fair.
- Comment on She's already got the booty, so she probably doesn't need more crew members. 7 months ago:
Peg-Leg sue, ya daft **** on a ******** **** ****** **** ********** ******* and DON’T feckin’ walk there, she just swabbed the deck.
- Comment on Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online 7 months ago:
I think you missed the point.
What I’m saying is there’s a crapton of middlemen and the only reason they have a job is because some people are afraid to make an attempt, do some experimenting and generally going exploring. There’s also tech anxiety, tech fatigue, etc.
But largely, if people weren’t so scared of learning new things, or conflating certain computer processes (i.e CLI) with something that’s overly complex (spoiler alert: it isn’t), and also not having learned basic computer sense (like copying data and working on the data), then a lot of people would lose their jobs.
Also, who tf thinks Arch Linux is hard?!
nano -w /root/Install.txt, a couple cups of coffee and you’re off to the races. Yes, that was another aside. - Comment on I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 7 months ago:
Some subversion of 3, which is fundamental to a lot of software found out in the wild.
- Comment on Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online 7 months ago:
So contrary to our dispositions, most people are afraid of CLI, REPL and other acronyms that exclude the possibility of mousey clickie and box go swoosh.
This has lead to an industry of middle men, because people would rather pay someone to run a command line process than deal with the issue them selves.
CLI should be taught at schools, like the new form of handwriting… also: handwriting.
- Comment on Finance guru Dave Ramsey slams 'awful' Gen Zers and millennials who live with their parents: 'They suck. They can't buy a house because they don't work' 7 months ago:
…and those damned machiatos.