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- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 2 days ago:
Post and comments are not Reddit IP’s anyway :3
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 2 days ago:
Is it though? That is (or was, and should be again) publicly accessible information that was created over the years by random internet users. I refuse the notion that an American company can “own it” just because they ran the servers. Sure they can hold copyright for their frontend, name and whatever. But posts and comments, no way.
Of course it would be dumb for someone under US jurisdiction but we’ll see how much an international DMCA claim is worth considering the current relations.
- Comment on Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers 2 days ago:
Cory Doctorow is right.
The dream of big tech is social media without socialising, search engines without searching, online shopping without browsing.
- Comment on History has some notes on that bottom 10% that Avery should learn about quick 2 days ago:
This is P R O P A G A N D A.
Owner of a website either handpicks or creates messages that fit their narrative. But “it’s twitter” so it has to be voices of random people representing what they are thinking right?
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 3 days ago:
“Most tweets, especially those that are surfaced by The Algorithm and not your follows, are quite likely created by someone with their own interests” does not imply “No real users/organisations exist there”
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 3 days ago:
Ah yes, X, definitely full of real people and not a propaganda machine
- Comment on JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code 3 days ago:
Good, Chrome has allowed them to be in a position to dictate the future of internet standards for too long. Fuck em
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 5 days ago:
No need to be paranoid, IMEI/IMSI are built into the protocols. Phone networks were never built with anonymity in mind
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 5 days ago:
It’s alright for non-critical stuff. Ok for getting help, not the best for coordinating action.
Reticulum is an alternative network/protocol that focuses more on security and interconnection of different networks
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 5 days ago:
With the SIM completely turned off, maybe. But it’s still a bad idea.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 5 days ago:
He does know that Xitter is already, actually and literally, censoring their political opposition right?
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 5 days ago:
If you didn’t already hear it, Cory Doctorow recently gave a talk about this at 39C3, the Chaos Computer Club conference. Search “A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet” in your frontend of choice
- Comment on really makes you think 1 week ago:
Yes indeed, you can perceive it but it’s not out of sensory stimulation - rather the lack thereof.
- Comment on The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate | Editorial 1 week ago:
Wait, what, who? Is someone seriously proposing giving legal rights to fucking LLMs? Is it fucking Sam Altman again?
- Comment on really makes you think 1 week ago:
A concentration of what in what? The “taste” of water is the impurities, not the H2O itself
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
Are alternative firmwares available?
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 1 week ago:
Yeah, the “good” part means surfacing relevant, high-quality information, not click maximisers
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 1 week ago:
Or, you know, you could just build a good search engine and let users scroll 15 seconds in the first result to find what they’re looking for.
- Comment on News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout 1 week ago:
Source?!?
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 1 week ago:
Huh that’s neat, I didn’t know they just plugged into a socket. From what I know balancing the voltage and frequency of an electric grid is extremely delicate business, but I guess it’s fine since it’s so much electrically smaller than the main generators?
Also stuffing an inverter in random small electronics is probably so much easier than it used to be not that long ago.
- Comment on The infantry will advance 2 weeks ago:
ICE is mostly just two dudes in a car.
- Comment on Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, combustion in both glass and joints is pretty inefficient at converting THCA to ∆9, and degrades a bunch of it to CBN and others. There’s a pretty thin section of material that gets heated to the right temperature, and quickly goes too hot when reached by the embers
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 weeks ago:
The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 weeks ago:
Regular toslink is just plastic
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t they making a shitton of money? They can’t even use the usual enshittification excuses, this is just being greedy dicks.
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 3 weeks ago:
They redacted the fucking bullet point? lmao
- Comment on Foot In The Door 3 weeks ago:
No AI or basic OCR would fail to recognize the words. Oldschool captchas have been inefficient at stopping bots for years now
- Comment on Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
The Metaverse hasn’t really played out like they wanted it to
- Comment on Foot In The Door 3 weeks ago:
I am sure there has to be some significance to this non-censor that is so common. Like a very thin line that doesn’t cover the word or a single dot that partly covers a single letter. Maybe seeing who complains to distinguish people and bots?
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 4 weeks ago:
A .Net dev in the flesh? I’ll pray for you /s