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- Comment on China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long. 2 weeks ago:
Smartcard authentication, probably. But that does not protect against other people using your computer via malware.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
In a sense, he’s right. I miss good old Earth.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 2 weeks ago:
You forgot the second part. And a flashy salute to go with it.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 3 weeks ago:
Not if your tablet runs an open source operating system without tracking. Like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, which both can be set up entirely without Google services, or sandboxing apps.
- Comment on Android 16 is here 4 weeks ago:
I also use LineageOS, which also comes sans Google as a flavour, but it’s far less secure and much rougher about the edges than GrapheneOS. I choose hardware by alternative OS support. If you want a new tablet the only option is Pixel.
- Comment on Android 16 is here 4 weeks ago:
GrapheneOS. No need to even degoogle.
- Comment on UK firm achieves first commercial tritium breakthrough for fusion fuel 5 weeks ago:
Lattice confinement fusion? Cold fusion, warmed up?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
You have to migrate your community to a new instance, and notify the users about its new location. Old content from lemm.ee will remain accessible.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
Interesting. What do you like about it?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I had to move my community from there after some admin started interfering with the content.
- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 1 month ago:
No, just laminated ones. Closed at one end. Easy enough to make or buy. You can even improvise the propellant.
- Comment on At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work 1 month ago:
Amazon was always a sweat shop. A place to work just long enough to be able to cash in your stock options and put Amazon on your resume.
- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 1 month ago:
I never understood why they never just bundled a bunch of carbon composite front loader barrels with electric ignition along with a laser pointer. No need for any metal nor 3d printing.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 1 month ago:
My phone runs open source ROMs. I don’t have TV, but I do have an nVidia streaming box – I don’t assume anything I watch there is private. My doorbell is an electromechanical device hooked to a simple wire.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 1 month ago:
60% of people in UK are certified morons. Slightly higher than I expected.
- Comment on Software for Homeserver router combo 1 month ago:
You can run a router VM but I run my opnsense on a thin client directly.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 month ago:
Just use DACs within the rack. Single mode fiber patches and SFP+ optics are also cheap and easy to find.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 month ago:
I have 5 person annual plan which is still useful if you’re not limited to English – e.g. French is a bad match there. But I will be checking out Mango for sure.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
Just develop fully autopoietic artificial photosynthetic systems. Piece of cake.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
May I interest you in this resource? escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
You might have heard of these fossil fuels we’re busily running out of. And fossil is still 80% of primary energy use so there is no renewable energy transition, and renewable infrastructure is being built almost exclusively using fossil fuels.
So this means future energy rationing. What’s the business case for AI?
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
They won’t.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
Do you know how much energy you need to launch a kilogram into Earth orbit?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 month ago:
What luxury, it came with floppy drives!
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 month ago:
Just buy a single 45" curved one then.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 month ago:
TRS-80 and TI 99/4A presumably?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 month ago:
I ran Linux 1994ish. Amiga OS before. Amstrad CPC 464 before. A friend ran Sinclair Z80, that was the first system I had access to.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 1 month ago:
If you care about freedom, use open source operating systems, and only buy hardware that support it.