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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m not arguing that we should be users of Microsoft. You’re still not understanding what I’m saying. I don’t use Microsoft’s services, including their free ones. Software that happens to be hosted on GitHub is not Microsoft’s software.

  You can do whatever you want as an individual. But as a political actor, you should be participating in organised boycotts, such as BDS’s boycott of Microsoft. BDS’s boycott is already fairly wide-sweeping, going as far as to ask people to e.g. stop playing Minecraft and Skyrim, even if they already own the game. Avoiding using Microsoft’s products like this is effective because, even if you’ve already bought the game, you lend Microsoft more cultural capital by proliferating their products.

  BDS has not, on the other hand, called for a boycott of all software that happens to have a GitHub repo. If you think they should do that, take it up with BDS. If BDS called for such a boycott, it would get much more momentum behind it.

  As it currently stands, you are boycotting all software that has a GitHub repo on your own. This is not going to have any effect. You are going to be hard-pressed to get people to join your boycott. What kernel do you use? The Linux kernel has a GitHub mirror. The majority of FOSS projects where collaboration occurs off of GitHub still have a read-only GitHub mirror. Is your boycott suggesting that everybody should be using OpenBSD? That’s going to be a very hard sell.

  BDS has achieved huge victories because it offers targeted boycotts that the average consumer is perfectly capable of doing, and it has a mass movement behind it. There are also grassroots boycotts that have been organised outside of BDS, such as the Starbucks and McDonald’s boycotts, but again, these caught on because they had the backing of people active in the movement and were willing to organise said boycotts. You’re a random Lemmy user who, if you are serious about organising a boycott, you’re in the entirely wrong place to do so. You won’t achieve anything doing what you’re currently doing.

  You’re welcome to make whatever consumer decisions you want, but don’t confuse that for political organising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also opposed to “using [Microsoft’s] free stuff”; I’m arguing that using software that happens to use GH isn’t using MS’s stuff at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see a reason to avoid using software hosted on GH. I moved off GH when MS bought it, and all that entailed was no longer hosting my own software on GH, and using alternative FOSS git forges. That still has a similar effect, and when a critical mass of devs move off GH, the rest will follow suit. The main draw of GH is that everything’s on there; when that’s no longer true, it will no longer be the main git forge. Especially once Forgejo adds ActivityPub integration; I imagine that’ll speed the process along a lot.

  A lone user boycotting all software hosted on GH is realistically not going to make any devs move their projects off GH. You may say that it doesn’t have to be a lone user, but I think you’ll be hard pressed to get a whole movement of people refusing to use any software hosted on GH.

  I also think the boundaries of your boycott are just too ambiguous. What if you download the software from somewhere other than GH, and it just has a GH repo? Is that ok with you? Is it that you just don’t want to touch MS’s servers? What about software where the GH repo is just a read-only mirror, and the main collaboration/development happens elsewhere, like a GitLab or Forgejo instance? I would rather struggle to see an argument for refusing to use software in either of those cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How we Rooted Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that? I’m just saying that MS categorised it as such. It would be strange to include the part about MS’s responses if MS also found that the vulnerability was not what the researchers claimed it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How we Rooted Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MS said they fixed it and categorised it as a “moderate severity vulnerability” so presumably they did in fact gain root access to the container

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from the fact that it was stored in a public database, there’s no need to store photos of the IDs at all. The account can just be marked as verified and move on.

  Also I doubt that measure would keep a man out if he really wanted to join…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, wireguard. I only occasionally need to access a service that’s not exposed to the internet, so I use ssh -L, but that would be quite inconvenient for your own use case.

  I know tailscale exists but I’ve never used it, only tried wireguard on its own. Maybe there’s some huge benefit to using it but wireguard worked fine for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you the UK? No, you’re someone who lives there. The UK is a state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this better than trying to make it so that you never click off YouTube, the way it works if you are logged in? I would much rather have no recommendations than have an algorithm give me recommendations with the express purpose of maximising ad revenue extraction from me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People already do this on “low-tech” levels ie community monitoring and alerts, but yes it’s not been done on particularly high-tech levels in a similar manner to the surveillance state

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the use case would be for laptops, for people who want to comfortably use their laptops outside or just want their laptop screens to be easier on the eyes. Only slightly different to a tablet insofar as it has a physical keyboard, so i imagine the tablets could be adapted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay…? Your point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it not transformative and intentional to reinterpret neurological signals as music?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it also means I inherently have an off-site backup, which is important given that my home occasionally gets raided by the police. I’m not worried about data access since I use FDE on everything, but data loss is a real concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what you mean; I think it would be hurtful to people with Parkinson’s, but whatever, I luckily don’t have Parkinson’s so not much point arguing it.

  Characterising involuntary but normal phenomenon as intentional or artistic is maybe a little less gross, but still asinine.

  That seems like a very bizarre take. Isn’t that a very common artistic device, to find creative interpretations of natural phenomena, and to imagine intention where there is none? I mean, art is subjective so maybe that’s just your personal taste, but it seems like a strange thing to be offended by to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems to be the journalist presenting it as such, but in any case, I don’t think the artists are suggesting it’s equivalent to what the guy made when he was alive. It’s an interesting artwork riffing off of the fact that the person whom the DNA belonged to was a musician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty misleading headline. The news article is about a cool art installation, in which an artist has used a deceased composer’s DNA to produce electrical signals that are interpreted as music. Still cool, but it’s not “composing music” in the same sense as the alive musician was composing music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I rent because of government surveillance; I want my server in a different country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an outlandish amount, but for instance I have my own VPS where I host a variety of services, and it still has under 1TB storage. Most hobbyists who rent a VPS would have less storage than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the US adults I see on the internet, I would hazard a guess that they’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about the US specifically, but oftentimes, and definitely where I’m from, laws can have a small amount of “common sense” leeway and judges can find justifications for rulings if they want to rule a particular way. e.g. I have pirated games that I legally bought because there’s literally no functioning “official” download link anymore, if anyone were to ever prosecute me for that, even if it were illegal technically a judge could find a way to rule it lawful out of sympathy or whatever other reason, if they wanted to. A lot of the time it’s “the government can’t have possibly intended this law to be enforced this way, therefore I rule XYZ”.

  In any case, as you said, I’ve never heard of anyone being pursued for that. And if it’s not enforced, it’s not a law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I represent myself in all my cases :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great news for defendants though. I hope at my next trial I look over at the prosecutor’s screen and they’re reading off ChatGPT lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite common for nazis to do both. “The death count is inflated, but they deserved it anyway/I wish it were more” and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why are you so mad” I’m having a casual conversation on a social media platform lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t vote in the US presidential election because I’m neither a citizen nor resident, and I’m also banned from entering your borders anyway lol. But sure I’m responsible for your fascism. Sorry for telling you to do effective things instead of checks notes sending pointless messages to underpaid Apple employees assigned to read customer complaints, who will have been told by their bosses to disregard these messages. My bad, don’t do any political activity, just complain to corpos instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now where the hell did I say “do nothing”. Hilarious that liberals’ idea of “doing something” is “put a comment into Apple complaints that they can easily not even look at”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re shouting into the void. Stop trying to beg the ruling class to not oppress you and get organised. They will not give up power voluntarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VPS in order to go offshore due to being a political organiser/having state interest in me. If my domestic state was not interested in me I would use a home lab though; it’d wind up cheaper in the long run I reckon, better performance as it’s bare metal (though my VPS is KVM so performance hit is negligible), and better control since you both own and have physical access to the server. For most people’s purposes I’m sure an old laptop or a raspberry pi would work fine so you don’t need to splash out either. I probably wouldn’t suggest a VPS unless you have the same threat model as me (ie likely to get raided & server seized, or likely to have active monitoring of your internet activity via ISP); I don’t really think it’s worth the money long term. Or I guess if you do just have general privacy concerns you could rent a VPS in a country known for decent privacy, but just for peace of mind reasons instead of a tangible threat to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not migrating my email I need, it’s forwarding new emails sent to my old address. I mostly use duck addresses these days so luckily I can just change the address ddg forwards to in future, but prior to starting to use ddg’s email service I’d have a ton of services I need to change the email address for. Proton offers this service but I’d have to pay a subscription for it, and obviously I need it indefinitely if some service sends me an email eg 5 years down the line. Of course emails sent to an old email 5 years later are probably not important but it’s just convenient to not have to log into Protonmail to check if I’ve got any mail sent to my old address.