passepartout

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Harbinger of the Dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how i felt when i was there more often (or at all) when i was younger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Might as well give him a fetish over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Will they though? Facebook has already created undisclosed bot accounts themselves before. A Platform where real users and such bots are indistinguishable (for the user) sounds like a social media corpos and governments wet dream to me. Also reminds me of the attempts to disguise ads as natural content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Thomas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but I actually downloaded all of my saved posts when I left Reddit with the apicalypse. Maybe I should dig that up and start cooking 🍝

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are numerous benefits in IoT / smart home and ubiquitous computing. Used in the right ways it can make your life so much better and even save lives. It is just sad to see all the wasted potential, the greediness and straight up noncompliance with basic human rights and needs for simplicity and privacy in its design.

  Funny enough, it got me into reading some threads of people reverse engineering air fryer APIs (didn’t expect that to ever happen) and it reminded me again of how great and compassionate some people are. Makes the stupid cat and mouse game seem even more stupid when 3 guys in their spare time can rebuild a 5 layer deep authentication stack with some unknown Philips / Xiaomi server that probably needed tens or even hundreds of engineers to build in an obfuscated manner in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Manufacturers: To deliver solutions to nonexistent problems. Free money.

  Politics: To save our economy. It can only survive if people buy new stuff all the time. Could also come in handy as surveillance measure sometime.

  People: Oh how cool, I can monitor my air fryer from my couch ~5m away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a selling point but rather a unfortunate but comprehensible circumstance. Nexus and later Pixel phones have not been anything more than reference hardware without significant sales until the Pixel 6. Google has been a software company that has greatly benefited by android being an “open” platform you could contribute to and use their services on.

  The App / Cloud ecosystem has gained a lot of competitors, so Google is doing their best to reverse this course of action by pulling more and more functionality out of AOSP into Play services and now into Cuttlefish. We can only wait and see how other phone manufacturers react to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be great indeed, but “more neutral” in this case seems to mean OEM agnostic by abstracting the hardware away and have anything run on a closed source google distro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The GrapheneOS team is very aware of their dependence on google. They are planning to either find an OEM for their own line of hardware or a brand whose phones support their requirements other than google. That being said, it will complicate work a lot, but for now it would be to early to jump to that conclusion.

  Also, Google couldn’t care less if <1% of buyers flash a custom ROM / OS on their phone, this is about tying the android ecosystem closer to google in general. Most other big phone manufacturers know this and are trying to come up with their own solution, like Huawei had to because of the ban when the orange man has been president the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The ultimate goal of Google Beam — and it’s manifested on HP Dimension — is to feel like you’re there,” Andrew Nartker, general manager of Google Beam, said during the briefing. “You feel just like you’re there at the table working together … It’s all meant to bring us together and ultimately feel like we’re completely physically present.”

  OK but why? There are not a lot scenarios where I would need or even want to spawn a hologram of a single coworker. Looks a little gimmicky to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: Didn’t get the joke first lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There will be a lot of businesses who feel the (justified) need to hide the entrypoint to their infrastructure behind a VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, this can’t just be another useless DNS blocking, or is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are mixing this up with the function of the executive goverment in a state with alleged separation of powers (one of the fundamentals of democracy).

  A president himself sending out forces is in fact not normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is the “most aggressive” example of “technologies that are not done ‘for us’ but ‘to us.’”

  Well said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the horse from Horsin’ Around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make desktop go cube brrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s terrifying to see it visualized like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Therefor we got Finamp now, which is really good and about to get even better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Favourite Far Cry 2 and 3 are the best of the bunch imho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  chuckles I’m in danger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And people for the other 1/3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are using android you could try Openreads. The UI is really clean and everything is stored on the device (can be exported / imported). No social media bullshit, just tracking your reading progress and seeing some stats about it.