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- Comment on Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address? 1 day ago:
Seconding this, it is very convenient if it supports a good provider. But it is better imo to use a good provider with a helper script on your server than to stick with your router defaults if they’re not that good.
- Comment on Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address? 1 day ago:
I recommend afraid.org, you get everything that you need for free, and they’re a cool project so someday you may like to do even more with them or send them a little donation.
- Comment on GameVault - The Identity Update 1 day ago:
Wait so does the client install the game on the local machine, or does the game run on the server like steam link?
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
It is deceptive. This thread is full of people who know enough to not be deceived and they think it should be obvious to everyone… but it’s not.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 4 days ago:
Definitely supported the Republicans. It was a red flag to hold opinions like this:
Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot: Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation. Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote. At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up- JD Vance. By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand. Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost. Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.
He’s not wrong about the Democrat party choosing the establishment over the progressive wing, but the idea that he supports the Republicans as being more likely to reign in tech companies is so laughable it’s not even funny, and makes you wonder why Andy Yen believes it.
What other commenters have said before though is true: aside from this incident with the CEO, Proton has been careful to stay politically neutral and on message… It damaged their public trust but didn’t destroy it.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 5 days ago:
Cory Doctorow says put gravel in your shoes. Yrmv
- Comment on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test 5 days ago:
Fuck that I might as well answer them wrong then. Bullshit
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 6 days ago:
Oh God please let something related to it be called crow
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 6 days ago:
Can someone grep Wayland and tell us what you find?
IDK how I would do that on my phone.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 6 days ago:
Can’t believe it’s been 9 years since that drama
- Comment on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test 6 days ago:
Am I? Or does it think I’m a bot?
I guess it’s on brand for Google to try and squeeze more value out of a product by making it worse for users. Just like Prabhakar Raghavan ruined Google search.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 1 week ago:
That makes sense – different features are important to different folks.
For emojis on IRC I just use the system keyboard. So it’s easy on my phone, but hard on a computer. I didn’t know that matrix had an emoji button – I guess I haven’t missed it :p
It’s true that IRC doesn’t pull scrollback the first time you join a room in any implementation I’m aware of. I’m ok with this limitation though because I tend to stay joined to the rooms I want to read. I like hexchat, although I’m aware that it’s a dead project :'(
We agree on Matrix angering us lol.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 1 week ago:
I’ll fight.
I haven’t seen replies be useful at all, in fact they actively clutter the UI.
Editing and reactions are nice, but they’re not that important.
IRC already has emoji support 😀 and offline history sync, and is way smaller and faster.
The one feature I like better on Matrix vs IRC clients is it is way easier to actually connect to the server. Just type in matrix.org or whatever it autofills for you, and you’re in. No dealing with port numbers and proper syntax. This is an improvement.
I wanted to like matrix but it was too clunky for me. I wish more people used libera chat though, it is less active than it was 10 years ago or whatever.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 week ago:
Why would they make it worse
- Comment on 18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs 1 week ago:
It really is addictive to ask ChatGPT to answer questions that would annoy another human …
And probably it makes your brain more dependent on trusting an authority.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 week ago:
This. Love. Is. Taking it’s toll 🤮
Afaik that’s the only song they’ve ever performed.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 week ago:
Definitely more annoying.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
They could have identified me, that’s the point.
We couldn’t identify the criminals because that example was before facial recognition.
You read the article but you still don’t get it.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
If you would read the article, you would understand the point you’re missing.
No one recognized them because they were public figures. In this case it’s not clear how they were recognized, but in the general sense, it is clear that social media will gleefully dox randos using technology like facial recognition. Attractive security guards, people dancing, etc. Just yesterday, someone took a picture of me at the pool just for walking with messy hair.
The point the article is making is that anybody can be a public figure now, because of technology.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The bouncer is just the name for the technology that maintains your connection when your client disconnects.
I’m kind of socially awkward, so I really value being able to “read the room” and see what people were talking about before I joined. I have IRC set up so that when I open it up, I see the previous 40 lines or so of dialog from before I connected. (This is a setting you can adjust on the bouncer).
I could achieve something similar by joining a room and then waiting a few minutes, but sometimes the room is very slow and no one posts, etc., it’s nice to just always be able to look at the scroll back when you log on.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 weeks ago:
That makes sense.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Why do people want to see who comes to the door?
My brother installed one of these at his house and it makes me uncomfortable, but I know he probably feels safer and more in control by having it, and would value that over my comfort.
Then I start to gaslight myself, “why am I uncomfortable with the surveillance apparatus getting regular identifiable videos of me at a known location”?
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this could backfire if lots of people have the cameras. They might be like, so what? Cameras are normal.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
See it, sure. But as a society we used to have an expectation of anonymity, for better or worse.
If there was a video of you dancing funny in public, maybe your friends would recognize you, but the whole world wouldn’t know your identity and remember it forever.
Shit, my workplace couldn’t even identify the people who walked in the front door and stole stuff and walked out. The police could see their faces clearly in the security footage, but they weren’t from around here and no one knew who they were.
Society used to be like that.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think adultary means “sex outside of marriage” I think it means “sex outside of marriage”. Big difference.
Maybe I’m dumb but I don’t see the difference here?
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 2 weeks ago:
Does this mean that a drop of water can’t move through air faster than the speed of sound in air?
Or that a drop of water can’t move faster than the speed of sound in water anywhere?
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
Missed opportunity for sure!
- Comment on WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI 3 weeks ago:
I still do. Is there something better and still free?
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
What’s the complex part?
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
I would like to install it someday but I’m afraid of this process