AmbiguousProps
@AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? 2 days ago:
I jailbroke my Kindle and use KOReader on it which made my Kindle 10x better. But you’re right in that I’d support mom & pop before Amazon.
- Comment on Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally 3 days ago:
It’s decent, with the deepseek model anyway. It’s not as fast and has a lower parameter count though. You might just need to try it and see if it fits your needs or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think that was pretty obvious, no?
- Comment on Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally 4 days ago:
That’s fair, but I think I’d rather self host an Ollama server and connect to it with an Android client in that case. Much better performance.
- Comment on Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally 4 days ago:
Why would I use this over Ollama?
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 5 days ago:
In regard to Linux users being left out in the cold… how so? Do you think that distros are going to start enforcing attestation? I doubt that it will be a hard requirement for most, even in the next decade or two. It’s an option, yes, but mandatory?
FWIW, all of my banking apps work just fine with compatibility mode enabled on Graphene. Also, I’m not sure saying it’s inevitable is the right way to go, it certainly won’t make others care about their privacy and security.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Oh my god, not you again. Give the slop a rest. Your last (now-deleted) post said you had “no marketing”, but here you are again.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 6 days ago:
From the article:
The only way for router users to determine whether their devices are infected is by checking the SSH settings in the configuration panel. Infected routers will show that the device can be logged into by SSH over port 53282 using a digital certificate with a truncated key of
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAo41nBoVFfj4HlVMGV+YPsxMDrMlbdDZ…
To remove the backdoor, infected users should remove the key and the port setting.
People can also determine if they’ve been targeted if system logs indicate that they have been accessed through the IP addresses 101.99.91[.]151, 101.99.94[.]173, 79.141.163[.]179, or 111.90.146[.]237.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s a structured low tech kit solution that uses Legos and hammers to hit them when the data tells it to with no guidance or tutorials which makes you money when you’re going broke.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s clear that we don’t get guidance - you don’t even seem to know what your “platform” does.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
“no marketing”, meanwhile you’ve created an account with your platform’s name? what would you call what you’re doing right now then? “Sharing” doesn’t count unless it’s open source and free, btw. So, it’s not that.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
If I took a shot for every time you’ve said “kits”, I’d be dead.
- Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 1 week ago:
It’s my favorite feature of Kagi.
- Comment on Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores 1 week ago:
They could just ask me, I’d let them know when and where.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 1 week ago:
KPUD in Kitsap County, WA does something similar: www.kpud.org/fiber-internet/free-public-wi-fi/
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 2 weeks ago:
I left pop a couple of years ago after they delayed further major updates while they worked on Cosmic. It left a bad taste in my mouth, and shortly after that Plasma 6 was released (which of course caused me to not even care about Cosmic).
For my purposes, Bazzite is perfect, but I’ve heard that CachyOS and PikaOS are decent as well.
- Comment on Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million 2 weeks ago:
True, but again, you’re making a lot of assumptions here. I don’t see anything about proxies anywhere.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
Are you doing a “well, akshully” here while also complaining about that very behavior?
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
You’re not educating anyone, you’re just being hostile for no reason.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
Did GFCI not allow for it?
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
megacolon
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
Use grayjay.app, they have it for desktop too. No ads, sponsorblock built in, and has multiple platforms in one place.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
Try just telling someone that they need to switch to Linux with no other details. They’ll either get confused/overwhelmed by choice, or possibly choose one that isn’t user friendly and hate it.
People have to start somewhere, and I see no issue with recommending user friendly distros to get them going.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 weeks ago:
Rivian didn’t over produce, and notably, didn’t go all in with the new authoritarian regime. Also, a 36% decrease in sales is much less than having $800 million (in MSRP) sitting in lots. The R1T is a very successful vehicle if you compare it to the Swastitruck, with more sales in general.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scientists caution against charging electric vehicles at home overnight 3 weeks ago:
This absolutely depends on your location. My power company recommends charging at night, when the grid isn’t as strained. My area primarily uses hydro and wind, and this article seems to be talking about solar which is not very efficient here.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
I sure hope that “some time” is coming soon, because I’m exhausted after three years and counting.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying there wouldn’t be layoffs without it, but it certainly would be better. I know from experience that a lot of the people that were laid off were a critical part of the team, and those that remained had to bare that load. It has burned me out several times, because I’m doing work that should be done by two or three people.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
I’m a DevOps engineer, if that counts.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
It is, at least in my experience. My recently laid off colleagues have been trying to find work for months, some of whom have been applying for jobs that would require pay cuts. Pretty much every job listing in the tech space gets hundreds if not thousands of applicants because the layoffs have not stopped for three years. You can see what I mean at layoffs.fyi. In tech, 60,000 so far this year, 153,000 in 2024, 264,000 in 2023, and 165,000 in 2022.
That’s not even counting those that graduated in the last couple of years. Those people are in an extra bad spot because they have a large amount of college debt with no way to make their payments.
All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.
