elvith
@elvith@feddit.org
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 4 days ago:
Are we talking about biological age or mental age which means that most adults are still just honey teens with just a tad better impulse control?
- Comment on Meirl 4 days ago:
Even if you look both ways, you can still get killed by a falling flower pot, because you didn’t look up.
- Comment on Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld 1 week ago:
Too bad, that the normal price for that is now a 4-digit sum and will the cost you still $500+…
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 1 week ago:
- Comment on Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end. 1 week ago:
There’s an app that I find useful. Many many years ago (on Android 2.3 or maybe Android 4?) I got a lifetime license for it.
Then a few years ago they updated the app and introduced a subscription. I don’t care, because the features that I use are still accessible in the grandfathered lifetime license. BUT after every update without a subscription you now need to complete the whole “let’s personalize this app for you” thing. Afterwards it just dumps you onto a screen to select the subscription you want to pay for. You need to dismiss that screen in order to use the free features OR login and restore your old license to unlock most of the features.
They intentionally put a white X to dismiss that screen in the top left, but also put a very bright image there directly under it, so that it’s barely recognizable.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
Also I want it to be rechargeable with hay bales! …wait
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
The only somewhat valid use case for “driving 1.000km without a stop” would be several people in the car taking turns on the driver’s seat. While you’d technically need to stop to switch drivers this in itself is way quicker than even a quick charge on paper.
BUT: considering traffic jams, speed limits and such - a 1.000km trip would take around 10+ hours anyway. You’re not going to tell me that you do not even stop to pee or stretch a bit for 10+ hours, do you?
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
Agreed. The US can access/subpoena any data it wants from US companies, even if the servers they host the data on are in Europe or Asia or…
It doesn’t matter where the servers and the data is located. It matters who posses (or controls the access) to it.
- Comment on Stop bogarting that good stuff 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Did you know that the dose of 400mg is the ceiling if your goal is to lower pain and higher doses only affect other effects (e.g. being anti-inflammatory) of ibuprofen (and it’s unwanted side effects, too)?
- Comment on AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but if I understand that correctly, that’s just for the app itself the LLM is very likely still a proprietary one (ChatGPT, Grok,…)
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 2 weeks ago:
non-commitment like “I can’t do that” or “that’s against policy” or “that’s not my dept”
Ok, I’m not a native English speaker but… I have the feeling that they don’t know what non-commitment means. Unless it’s commitment to fuck the customer, but then, why bother to offer a call center?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running
Maybe Nextcloud (not only for storage, but also calendar, video conferences, office, when combined with Collabora,…)? Also Immich (basically Google Photos) comes to mind. Your own instance of SearXNG.
Any kind of ToDo-list, Kanban board, …?
A ticketing system?
A Wiki to host your documentation? Note, that you may want to access it if the server fails, so…
Some stack of components around Grafana or such to visualize some data? Since you mentioned Hetzner, I’m guessing you’re from Germany. You could build a small container, ingest the gas prices that the gas station are required to publish and build a dashboard for the gas prices in your area? (Hint, here’s an API licensed under Creative Commons - creativecommons.tankerkoenig.de)
- Comment on Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Since AI companies don't care about Copyright, que should incentivize model distilation, just so we can laught at their hypocrisy. 2 weeks ago:
Real models are trained on copyright-, license- and ToS violations! Those cheap bastards found a way to only train with ToS violations (of a single source, mind ya!). That’s not real AI!
^/s^
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 2 weeks ago:
How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,…?
^/s^
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but IIRC the definition of something is an official act is still ambivalent and thus open to interpretation by the court?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Depends. Which president are we talking about?
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 3 weeks ago:
lp0 on fire
- Comment on it isn't 3 weeks ago:
If it fits, it sits
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 weeks ago:
Im using SchildiChat on Android
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Although I cannot remember how to do it “correctly” I have a suspicion whats wrong with your post:
Mastodon just has a “text” for the post, some mentions and maybe media attached to it.
Lemmy also features a post title and an URL. IIRC the first paragraph of your post get converted to the title, the remainder is the post body (maybe you need to put the desired link second?!). I guess your text in the first paragraph is too long to fit in the title and the post is discarded.
Try something like this:
ICE Tucson, AZ - 2/7/26 Fascist paramilitary invaders deployed... Source: reddit.com/...
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
IIRC you must be following the community with your Mastodon Account to be able to post there. At least that was the problem, when I tried it the last time.
- Comment on Spotify puts the brakes on Developer Mode with stricter API rules 4 weeks ago:
After the fiasco with kids and managed accounts (especially on Germany) and many discussions in the community about how to migrate to other services, I don’t like reading this headline
- Comment on The cat is not impressed 5 weeks ago:
Not now, Richard!
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 5 weeks ago:
Help, how do I get out!!!
^/s^
- Comment on When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test 5 weeks ago:
Number, not digit. But I see what you mean.
- Comment on Long live the king 5 weeks ago:
Color? In my movies? That’s woke!
^/s^
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 5 weeks ago:
From my understanding: Basically the attackers could reply to your version check request (usually done automatically) and tell N++ that there were a new version available. If you then approved the update dialogue, N++ would download and execute the binary from the update link that the server sent you. But this didn’t necessarily need to be a real update, it could have been any binary since neither the answer to the update check nor the download link were verified by N++
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Wait until they decide to seize it
- Comment on ICE takes aim at data held by advertising and tech firms 1 month ago:
Everyone always complains how the Germans are so backwards and why most of them are “backwards” and insistent about having data protection and privacy rights.
Maybe, just maybe the US is starting to learn why we’re like this.ay, just maybe it’d been better to learn from our past than repeating it. But this way works, too, I guess?
