Brewchin
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- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 4 days ago:
But using mandatory facial recognition for that? I think that is way too far.
I agree. As I’ve said from the beginning.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 5 days ago:
I don’t know if I would call mandatory facial recognition for children online “the right thing.”
I don’t think so either, which is why I didn’t say it. You skipped my final paragraph.
By “right thing”, I was referring to doing anything, which appears to be more than they’ve tried so far.
The parental responsibility argument was probably valid when there was 1-2 standard computers in a home and getting online was a Whole Thing in itself. Now we have supercomputers in our pockets that are permanently online. It’s a whole lot harder than a simple “parents should take responsibility” one-liner.
I’m not saying they bear no responsibility, but to hand wave that as the answer is not an answer.
Also: Thinking of myself at that age, though public internet didn’t exist until I was almost an adult, I know I’d have found ways around things. A digital equivalent to slipping out of your window to see friends or hiding your Brussels sprouts in a pocket.
The technical education required to correctly protect, monitor and configure the necessary hardware and software is unreasonable for the vast majority of people.
Though you could probably find a kid who’ll happily show you how to do it all…
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 6 days ago:
This. Imagine being a company who suddenly has to do the right thing simply because they can’t afford the “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” approach any more.
Litigation may be an awful substitute for regulation, but at least its having some positive effect here.
Shame about the way they’re doing it, though. It’s a wet dream for politicians and activists in favour of age verification, and for the hackers who’ll inevitability get their hands on all of it.
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 1 week ago:
Just realised that I automatically filter out obvious scams, as I genuinely didn’t register three contents of either of those spam boxes…
That arrangement has existed for over 30 years, and it’s now an unconscious scan. 😒
But I think the point remains in the middle of the page, that it will run through the standard bullshit FOMO timer, and then start downloading the expected binary.
And it’s not VLC doing any advertising. They’re just choosing to use a shit download site to host the binary for that OS and download method
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 1 week ago:
First indication of fake I’ve seen so far, based on OP’s detail-light post. I’d assumed the FOMO timer would eventually download the genuine binary.
So, share with the class…
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 1 week ago:
Gonna need a bit more info than you’ve provided.
What I will note, from the information that you’ve provided, is that you shared an internet exchange screenshot showing a couple of low key ads (with the usual opt out bullshit links), so any ads are not on the VLC site - it’s on their download partner site, a la 1995 - and they’re probably the most tame ads (repeat: not benefiting VLC) that I’ve seen in 30 years.
tl;dr: Late-stage PSTN/POTS dialup configuration of binaries hosted on a third party (pre-CDN) download site -who are free to inject whatever spam they like - (but have been astonishingly restrained here) along with the download link.
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 2 weeks ago:
You know this is the internet right? Nothing is beyond the realms of possibility if money is involved. Did Jackass teach us nothing?
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 2 weeks ago:
Is this “if PornHub monetised and incentivised content creators like YouTube does”?
Also: The pasta - cooked or raw? 🤡
- Comment on "Frieren - Beyond Journey's End – Season 2" New Character Visuals 3 weeks ago:
This is the most accurate image possible for Frieren. Books > Mimic risk. nomnomnom…
- Comment on Reducing Homelab Laptop energy consumption 3 weeks ago:
10W? That’s incredibly low - under 10mA wherever in the world you live. About the same as an LED bulb, or a tenth of an average incandescent lightbulb.
For comparison: my NAS and NUC (mix of HDD and M.2 drives; both hosting services) draw 75W combined at idle, measured via Home Assistant and a smart plug, and that’s generally considered low-power self-hosting.
I’d be pleasantly amazed if you could get a laptop to use less, so I look forward to other replies.
- Comment on Press any button to start ♥️ 4 weeks ago:
Right? She’s what made me chuckle aloud at this meme. 😄
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 5 weeks ago:
I still use all 3, though I’m slowly moving CPU intensive containers to the NUC. The Pi is untouched so far, partly because having edge services there will make it easier of I decide to implement a DMZ.
The NUC+Proxmox is a great combination. Bit of a learning curve (eg. as with Docker, you need to pass devices in Proxmox and then to the container; same with CIFS shares), but there are lots of resources out there. I have no regrets going this route, and it had low power consumption.
On Windows thing, I was specifically referring to the server OS as the NUC came with Win11. Do whatever works for your desktop/gaming setup.
Though I also switched that to Linux (EndeavourOS, though there are other game-friendly options) a couple of years ago, and its worked out great. Guild Wars 2 was my most modded Windows game, and I can run all except one of the Windows-based addons I want for it. Setting it all up the first time is a ball ache (as it was with Windows, but that was done over time 🤷♂️). 😊
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 5 weeks ago:
I was hosting most of my Docker stuff on my Synology DS920+, use Docker in a Pi 4B for AdGuard Home and WireGuard, and found myself wanting to use Home Assistant.
Can’t use Docker for HA if you want HACS (addons) and Synology decided to kill USB drivers some time back, so looked around for options. Considered a Nabu Casa Yellow with a CM5 compute module (for Voice PE) and its price was more than a GMKtek N150 NUC, which has far higher specs and enough headroom for other things. So I got the NUC.
First thing I did was nuke Windows and replaced it with Proxmox, then installed Home Assistant OS (HAOS) as a VM in it. Plenty of headroom left, so now it’s also got a Linux VM, a few LXCs, etc. (The Proxmox Helper Scripts site makes it very easy).
Could easily install AGH or PiHole and a bunch of other things on it. Think it’s the best bang for buck thing I’ve bought in years.
- Comment on [News] Original “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End” Manga Goes on Hiatus to Allow Authors to Recover; Serialization Pace and Format to Be Adjusted 5 weeks ago:
Only in manga is the phrase “hiatus to recover” considered a normal thing in a creative industry.
What the hell kind of workhouses are these manga publications?
Based on all the “I’m so desperately sorry to make you dear readers wait an extra week (or more) for the next issue, but my brain has fallen out, my wife/husband has paid a hitman on me, and I’ve fallen into a coma” apologies I’ve seen from mangaka over the years, there is zero chance I’d encourage anyone to get into this for a job. 😬
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 5 weeks ago:
Genuinely amazed one (in particular) of my university housemates didn’t come up with this abomination.
He’d be devastated to see this… 😅
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 1 month ago:
The Green brothers are interesting and thoughtful. They try to be an overall positive influence on the internet, even aside from their vlogbrothers thing.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 month ago:
FTA: The IDs leaked were from people appealing age verification.
That’s different from the age verification process, which goes through a third party provider.
In short, the leaked IDs were from a standard shitty support platform (Zendesk, Salesforce, etc), not the much-advertised “safe and private” age verification system.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 1 month ago:
This kind of malicious compliance is exactly what this dogshit Think Of The Children Act needs. Convenience is everything to the majority of population.
If other major sites and resources do this, then the pressure from the people impacted by it will force UK PLC to un-fuck this awful legislation.
- Comment on suspicion 2 months ago:
This is the most cooker meme I’ve seen (to date) on Lemmy…
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 months ago:
It certainly removed my ability to say “Companies are shoehorning AI into everything! I wouldn’t be surprised if they do it with Notepad…” as a form of mockery. It was one of the first damned victims.
- Comment on Value Age verification 2 months ago:
In case anyone is unaware of the point of this: it’s about the UK’s (for now) new age verification law, where you have to be 18 to have a credit card.
This really is the least-worst implementation of this I’ve seen so far, providing you have (or can get) a CC.
And at least it lets you continue buying games/content until this awful law gets repealed or rewritten by competent adults.
- Comment on Damn 2 months ago:
Jamie Lee Curtis with wonky aspect ratio?
Come on, OP… but also: yes. 😄
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 2 months ago:
Doubling down on the batshit. Everyone knew VPNs were going to be the low effort workaround to this authoritarian batshittery.
I get what the (well meaning, I think) people lobbying for this are trying to achieve, but everything from the lobbying to legislation to enforcement seems to be happening in the worst way imaginable. Almost like it’s an intentional “You want to see how badly can we do this? Hold my drink! YOLO!!”
For me, the tell was UK PLC leaving it up to the sites themselves to decide who/how the verification would be done. Classic bad management “I don’t understand the slightest thing about any of this, but HOW HARD COULD IT BE?!” response. It’s like the “series of tubes” stupidity all over again.
- Comment on Sony Q1 2026 Earnings Call; "...in gaming business and moving away from a hardware-centric business to more to the community- based engagement business..." 3 months ago:
Are you linking “everything is an Xbox” with growing their platform? Are you new at internet arguments?
- Comment on Sony Q1 2026 Earnings Call; "...in gaming business and moving away from a hardware-centric business to more to the community- based engagement business..." 3 months ago:
I mean, it sounds like they’re copying Microsoft’s “everything is an Xbox” lunacy, but its unclear if that’s reality based on what I read there.
But I’d not be surprised if the “Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man” meme applies to this, given how focussed the VP of each company’s console division is on their main competitor.
But who knows… Perhaps not even them? 🤷♂️
- Comment on The Best Anime on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now 3 months ago:
Most of these are also on Crunchyroll, if it’s useful.
- Comment on 'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0 3 months ago:
Not sure it is the same kind of thing, but I’ve been using Homebank ever since the various personal financial management applications pulled out of the UK market.
- Comment on You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed - Zed Blog 3 months ago:
I swear “How to disable AI in x…” is all our lives now. 😬
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 4 months ago:
By “that shit”, do you mean every website/app that may contain age-restricted (not just sexual) content? Because that’s what comes into force in the UK next week.
I’ve been dreading this for decades. 🤬
It’s not just Reddit, nor are they the first to roll it out early.
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 4 months ago:
Doesn’t every Instagram user automatically have a Threads account now? (Even if they’re unaware of it.)
Meta faking Threads user count that way on top of what’s happened with X user count would explain this “milestone” quite easily.