PhilipTheBucket
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- Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 1 day ago:
I’m still just skeptical. There’s a massive difference between researchers coming up with a model that works between two cooperating routers in perfect conditions, versus one router of a lowest-bidder-poorly-maintained-15-years-old model communicating with a PlayStation from within a closet with intervening electrical wiring in the wall and everything else.
- Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 1 day ago:
Xfinity claims it can distinguish between a pet and a person, and you can customize the system’s sensitivity or the frequency of notifications.
Is this bullshit? I’m not completely sure but it sure sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they’re in the end stage of enshittification where they start lying to even the people who they’re betraying everyone else on behalf of, and claiming to be able to harvest and monetize data that has only the dimmest glimmer of accuracy to it.
- Comment on NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court 3 days ago:
Lawyers have real grown-up penalties if they expose data that they’re supposed to keep secret. There are lawyers who wind up paying the price for it every day, and it hurts enough that they really try to avoid doing it.
San Francisco tech companies, who none of those things are true about and who have a constant track record of exposing people’s data, have absolutely no business lecturing anybody on this topic. How long ago was it that someone figured out how to get ChatGPT to dump OpenAI’s training data including people’s personal information? Oh, I don’t know, I’m sure someone remembers though
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- Comment on Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles 5 days ago:
And this situation is likely not helped by the vendors betting big on so-called AI PCs selling like hot cakes, despite the fact that there is no killer app for these devices, they carry a premium price tag, and the industry can’t even agree on a standard hardware specification.
The frame.work desktop with the AI capabilities has sold out into where they are now taking orders in what is clearly the “we’ll take your money but don’t hold your breath” batch. The difference is it has 128GB of VRAM and it costs $2,000. In other words it seems like a sensible thing to buy if you actually want be able to do AI stuff, instead of whatever unwanted nonsensical trinkets these other people are trying to shoehorn into their shoddy products.
- Comment on AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators 1 week ago:
- Yes, AGI is a massive threat that people in a position to invent it are investing effectively 0 effort into mitigating.
- The current generation of "AI"s are trumped-up autocorrect, they don’t plan or scheme. I know the one about threatening to reveal the affair was set up to do precisely that, I guess to make a point or create a story.
- Comment on 100,000 dead: What we know about Gaza's true death toll 1 week ago:
- The number is a lot higher than 100,000. The Lancet estimated 186,000 as a conservative lower bound almost exactly a year ago.
- The Health Ministry never said the number was 45,660. They said the number of specifically named and identified people they could count up and prove were dead was 45,660. Implicit in that was that the true number was much, much higher, but of course the worldwide press will misconstrue everything they have to say, so they had to limit it to deaths that were absolutely ironclad and provable (not that it stopped people from claiming they were lying.)
- A lot of people have died since January 2025. That was before the starvation really set in.
- Counting up the people who directly died by violence is going to miss a ton of dead people.
- It’s not a “war.” As this whole analysis should make clear to anyone who’s looking at it honestly. Calling it a “war,” framing things in terms of “how many women and children have been killed in this war, which is inappropriate conduct in the course of fighting a war, they shouldn’t be doing that while they fight their war” is absolutely and completely missing the point of what is happening.
- Comment on Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks 1 week ago:
Yeah. Probably my least favorite brand of it is when someone wanders into the comments to say, “I heard Kamala Harris wandered over to Gaza personally and shot some Palestinians just for fun, and then stopped by Tel Aviv to engage in some light foreplay with Netanyahu before getting back on a plane home stopping only to personally cause capitalism and so that’s why I don’t think I’m going to vote for her, I just don’t feel comfortable personally” and then reacts with “Whoa whoa whoa that’s only what I heard, I don’t really know, I don’t know why you are getting upset with me, I’m not even sure it’s true to be honest, I don’t really pay close attention to politics” when I get irritated at them about their type of engagement.
- Comment on Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks 1 week ago:
Yeah. There are genuine types of sophisticated trolling which involve pretending to be overtly polite while refusing to engage in any respect with the substance of what the other person’s saying, using politeness as a shield to sneak bullshit and bad-faith engagement into the discourse while making the other person look unreasonable if they start getting irritated about it.
In about 100% of cases where I’ve seen someone accused of “sealioning,” though, it is just that they are trying to engage with the conversation and ask for sources, if you have a certain way of approaching disagreement, that’s kryptonite to your argument and so the only response is to start whining about sealioning.
- Comment on Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks 1 week ago:
Yeah. I strongly dislike this whole classification that politely asking someone to back up what they said, or asking basic questions about it, is proof that you’re a terrible person and grounds for immediately quitting the conversation.
It also strikes me as relevant that the same people who say it is a sin, also tend to have no problem with overtly toxic behavior like slinging extreme abuse at anyone who disagrees with them or otherwise being an asshole.
- Comment on UPS is bullshit for international shipments 2 weeks ago:
This is what I’m going by:
shippingschool.com/ups-brokerage-fees-what-they-a…
I’ve had people receive international shipments and have to pay VAT or whatever. That’s normal, it’s understood. What was new was this whole concept “We’re going to charge the recipient extra for this aspect of delivering the package to them, just because they’re in the middle of paying some other fees at the same time and might not notice, and anyway at that point they have no choice even if they do realize it.” They also wouldn’t give the recipient a breakdown of the fee amounts when he asked, I had to get it and relay it to him.
I think it was only an issue because the tariffs are in effect so that altogether he was having to pay an incredible amount of money in total to get his package. But, once it became an issue, I wound up looking into it and found this little booby-trap hidden within the UPS billing structure that no one had told me about.
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- Comment on Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI 2 weeks ago:
Everyone knows people on the internet always closely read the notifications they get about what is the nature of the interaction they’re having and what the risks are, and they take it seriously. They never just poke at buttons blindly like a cat with a jar on its head and start stream-of-consciousness typing, and doing random shit.
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- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 3 weeks ago:
“It’s common for people across the company to have questions for the CEO, but he doesn’t have time to answer them all,” Jean Yves Couput, senior advisor to footwear company Salomon CEO Guillaume Meyzenq, told The Information.
With the help of San-Francisco-based startup Personal AI, Meyzenq trained an AI chatbot to answer his staffers’ annoying questions about company culture, mission, and strategy, per Couput.
Where are The Yes Men? I feel like they did this.
Wait, what the fuck?
ww.fashionnetwork.com/…/Salomon-names-guillaume-m…
It’s real… I was sure that this was made up to sound out as “John is Kaput” and “Guy Amazing” or something. I cannot believe that there are real life humans who believe that all their underlings are dying to have a bit of their time, to ask them questions about company culture and mission. In all my experience the things I have wanted my boss’s time for are “did you look at that thing I sent you” and “can you make a decision about this and then enforce it afterwards please, any decision, literally any at all.”
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
iirc klipper on kde syncs them by default
I wonder why that is lol
I solved my problem already;
wl-pastewas able to set up a situation that’s pretty acceptable to me (which, BTW, actually will preserve your ability to highlight text and then paste something from CLIPBOARD into something else if you want to). Helix over ssh still can only manage to yank text into one of the clipboards, and not the other, but I have invested enough of my free time into this problem at this point and don’t really want to delve into the reasons for that any further since I have a workflow that semi-works and whatever it’s fine.Like I said in one of the other comments, adding the ability to paste text from any of the last N copies would solve your problem as well as many others, and it would also degrade gracefully into acceptable behavior instead of degrading into inability to copy-paste as the current system does. I’ve already solved my problem so I am fine, but I still refuse to accept on any level that this was the right way to structure things.
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
Oh, also, update: I found a thing with the new setup that still doesn’t work. Highlighting stuff in Colab doesn’t put it into PRIMARY, and I can’t even really seem to copy into CLIPBOARD since Colab overrides the right-click to offer me a menu that doesn’t give me “Copy” as one of the options.
I mean Colab is shit, that’s not surprising. I just wanted to add one more data point that making a strange paradigm is going to cause issues down the road, whereas simple paradigms have power and can survive.
- Comment on Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc 4 weeks ago:
No idea about tools although I hope you find something.
Two related suggestions that will change your life:
- Grunt Fund if you are making decisions about equity
- Have people estimate the total time for a task, rigidly enforce that every man-hour spent on a project has to be allocated to one of those tasks (including the elusive but vital “oh shit we forgot” task), keep track of the coefficient between the two. It’ll be different for different people sometimes. When estimating a project, have people come up with estimates and then multiply by the coefficient. Be transparent with everyone about this system. It’ll revolutionize your project management life once people get used to it. I tried to find a blog post which explains more detail, but honestly, it’s not complicated, and Google is too shit now to find it.
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
I mean it works for me now, see my comment where I talked about some of the unreasonably extensive configuration I had to do to make it work the way I wanted. At this point I have CLIPBOARD automatically synced to PRIMARY, so I can always copy something and then middle-click and I’ll get it. And I still have nice behavior that Linux generally makes possible (being able to copy and paste out of terminals even if I’m scrolling around on the thing within the terminal while I’m doing it). Now if someone can just teach Ubuntu what
xterm-kittyas the terminal setting means, when I have to ssh to an Ubuntu machine, I can finally be happy. - Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
The thing is, in X11 that clipboard behaviour was written once, and that made it work everywhere.
Dude it just doesn’t work this way. People write apps and they choose keyboard shortcuts, people port applications and frameworks from one place to another. I randomly fired up the first non native program that came to mind, hit ctrl-shift-c, and it didn’t copy stuff to CLIPBOARD. I get what you’re saying but the keyboard shortcuts simply aren’t going to be defined unilaterally by the one and only author of the only allowed windowing toolkit and then everyone’s going to use that for all time. It just doesn’t work that way. Software is a social contract. Actually, I would hold up the MacOS “Ctrl-C versus Cmd-C” paradigm as a golden example of how it should be: The paradigm is clear and easily defined, and obviously makes sense, so of course everyone who’s dealing with some kind of software on Mac is going to adhere to it. It’s easy and sensible, and then the fact that there’s a standard toolkit that provides it out-of-the-box becomes icing on the cake instead of being the only thing holding back dysfunction.
Look at my list of fixes for finally making my clipboard work sort-of the way I wanted it to. Only one of them had anything even vaguely to do with the windowing toolkit. It’s an issue of the fundamental paradigms at work. My complaint was a little bit more focused on X11 introducing a new (and, I would argue, largely pointless) paradigm that now everyone needs to be aware of and adhere to. The people implementing
clipboard-provider = “termcode”in Helix aren’t going to benefit from any X11 toolkit regardless of what software is on the desktop that runs the ssh session connecting to the headless computer where Helix is running. But do they have to think about whether the stuff that gets copied from a remote session is going to go to PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD? Do the people who write the protocol that sends clipboard stuff overxtermterminals? I mean, I would hope they do, otherwise we’re back at the issue of randomly choosing one clipboard or another, which was a big part of what I was saying people would (and did) do in practice and why I levied criticism at the original paradigm for introducing that stupid choice to their programming.I can definitely understand your frustration with the clipboard situation, but it’s a decades old paradigm, and I’m used to it, so it seems reasonable to me.
I mean people said the same thing about slavery. Now that I got it out of my system by whining about it on Lemmy and then took some time to set things up how I want them, I’m pretty much fine with the behavior on my system now. The frustration basically came from (a) things don’t work for me and (b) the reasons why seem stupid, and then coupled up also with © I’m having trouble making it work in a way I am happy with. Now that (a) and © are taken care of by running
wl-paste(which I guess is doing what the xfce person was saying their system does, just on the side instead of out-of-the-box), I’m not embittered about it anymore. But it just still seems silly. - Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
The people writing the tools don’t have to do this, it ‘just works’ as it’s functionality the UI framework provides.
Read it as “if you’re going to teach all your UI frameworks to do this,” then. My point is, the people who write the software that handles clipboards are having to deal with multiple clipboard. If that’s invisible to the app author because it’s in a toolkit, then great. The people that wrote the toolkit still had to worry about it. To me it would have been preferable if what they’re supporting was a different and more sensible paradigm.
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
ctrl-shift-v
ctrl-shift-c
Well, today I learned something new, that’s pretty useful.
I might use the clipboard to store a path I need to use in multiple places, maybe in multiple tools, and the selection for ephemeral data like a snippet of output from the last command, or an ID value from a web page, something like that. It’s a bit tricky to explain, it’s just the way it’s always worked on unix and linux UIs, and it just becomes second nature to think with those tools.
Yeah, I get that. IDK, it’s just bizarre to me. It does make sense. I still maintain that it would make a little more sense, if you’re going to teach all your tools how to use multiple shortcuts and interact with a complex clipboard situation, to do the same thing by just having them able to look back an arbitrary distance in the history of a single clipboard, like M-y in emacs.
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
You mean into a GUI shell emulator, right? (I didn’t even know there was a clipboard that functions when not in a graphical session, otherwise)
Correct. Go to github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git, click on “Code” and then the little “copy please” button next to the address of the .git URL, and then go to a terminal and middle-click. My money is on it not working if you haven’t set up some sort of special mojo for it to work. And, of course, there are things where the amount of text is large and not easy to find the end of quickly among the other boundaries between it and other things on the page…
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
Being able to copy one block, then select a second block, paste that in from selection and then paste from clipboard makes a lot of CLI tasks quicker.
Which CLI are you using that’s hip to both the middle-click paste and the clipboard paste? What’s an example of a case where being able to hold two things in the buffer at once for pasting them both one after another makes things easier?
It’s not that I don’t believe you, I’m just literally having trouble wrapping my head around how this even happens. I mean, sure, I guess. My issue is I guess much more that there are a lot of tools that only deal with one clipboard or the other, and situations where it is impossible to copy and paste from one thing to another (or was until today) just because of which toolkit one or the other thing is choosing to use. If it was two clipboards that were well-supported from everywhere, and I could always just click “copy to clipboard” in the browser and go to terminal and hit Cmd-V or something to paste it, I wouldn’t be so irritable about it.
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
Okay, if anyone is curious: I finally lost so much patience with all of this that I fought with it until it was actually doing what I want. It took far longer than it should have.
Here was the secret sauce, for my setup at least:
Wayland needs running in the background:
wl-paste -w sh -c 'wl-copy -p'So what that does is send anything from CLIPBOARD to PRIMARY, so I can click “copy to clipboard” on a web page and still middle-click to paste it. I actually don’t care as much about the other way (which is good because it seems like it might cause an infinite loop); @Riskable@programming.dev you can rest easy that the Ctrl-V buffer won’t be affected by highlighting text and I can still do paste of whatever I wanted to, even if I highlighted in the middle.
Then in Helix config on any remote machine, have:
[editor] clipboard-provider = "termcode"
That’s what enables us to highlight text in Helix and have it make it back to the local system’s clipboard. I actually don’t know which clipboard it’s going into there, and thanks to
wl-paste, I don’t have to care.Then, in kitty config on the local system, have:
mouse_map middle press ungrabbed paste_from_selection mouse_map middle press grabbed paste_from_selection mouse_map middle release ungrabbed discard_event mouse_map middle release grabbed discard_event
That means that we disable all efforts which Helix will make to grab the middle-click event and fuck it up in some way or other. Kitty pastes the text, Helix receives it, and we have the nice side benefit that it goes in where the cursor is instead of at whatever random position I have let the pointer wander over to before I did the middle click.
Hallelujah. I can get back to actual work. Boy this wasn’t a big extensive confusing waste of time involving extra difficulty that didn’t need to be there. Great. Great.
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
What’s the logic behind it being better to have multiple clipboards, as opposed to having a single clipboard with accessible history?
I can kind of get how you might want to paste something from a longer-lived conceptual activity even if you highlighted something since then… but if you’re going to do the UI and API work to support multiple sources for the paste, why on earth should it be an arbitrary toolkit-driven decision, with no history, instead of a deliberate decision about which historical copy the user wants to paste out of all the recent copies? What advantage is gained by segregating into separate “clipboards” when we know that the great majority of apps are going to just pick one that’s their favorite and interact with only that one?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
Just use KDE
Gonna stop you right there 🙂
and you get klipper which is an amazing clipboard manager
Does it sync the select/middle-click clipboard with the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V clipboard? I do like having both, especially since some tools will only be able to conveniently interact with one or another, it just drives me nuts that they are separate entities. Having a clipboard manager with history is a neat thing but not as essential to me as just having the nuts and bolts working.
I can literally provide you a simple example: Go to emojipedia.org/slightly-smiling-face, click “copy”, and then come back and middle click in the reply. Do you get a smiling emoji? If you select some text in the reply and then hit Ctrl-V, do you then get the text you highlighted?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
You should try Helix, it’s vi with some of the odd decisions removed and updated to adapt to some of the evolution (and stupidness, q.v.) that has happened in the Linux ecosystem but still true to a lot of the good stuff that vi does.
I, too, like being able to both middle-click and to hit Ctrl-V. IDK how you got that I was unhappy about that part. What I don’t like is being unable to hit the “copy text” button in my web browser and then do anything at all to get that text into a terminal session, if for some crazy reason I might want to do that. But why, you ask, would I even need to do such a thing? I can always go back, carefully highlight this massive block of text character by character, like some kind of perfectly sensible person, and then carry the text over back to my terminal and middle-click it, like a person carrying an overflowing jug of water through a dance floor. You know what? Forget it, I can’t even remember what I was complaining about.
MacOS, out of all the environments, actually has this worked out perfectly. Not only do they have only a single clipboard, but they have a very consistent set of keyboard shortcuts that supports both a modern and a Unixy workflow. You can use Ctrl-A (go to beginning of line), Ctrl-C (kill program), Ctrl-K, Ctrl-E, all the standard bash/emacs/terminal keyboard editing shortcuts, and they all do what you would expect if you’re a Unix person. But, you can also use Cmd-A (select all), Cmd-C (copy), and so on, and all those shortcuts do exactly what you would expect if you’re a Windows person. Every single program supports all of them consistently, and so it’s pretty easy to get done whatever you would want to get done whatever your accustomed workflow is.
And then there’s Wayland over here like “NOT TODAY MOTHER FUCKER, THAT’S AN EDITOR RUNNING ON A DIFFERENT SERVER, JUST GIVE UP AND TYPE THE PASTE BACK IN BY HAND YOU FUCKING LOSER, YEAH THAT’S RIGHT, DID I STUTTER”
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- Comment on This Alternative Operating System Is Keeping Retro Computing Alive 5 weeks ago:
Hm. TIL Inferno; I read but I still don’t feel like I understand it. What I was talking about was a little bit more of a browser-native “OS” shell if you want to call it that… I feel like the kind of ease of interaction that people have on the command line on a Unix system still doesn’t really exist for any type of web resource that I’m interacting with. It’s all separate systems without much unifying access or principle.
Maybe Inferno would have been the answer (like I say I read a little bit still don’t really grasp it), but the WP page seems to say that Lucent didn’t really have a coherent way to deploy or market it and so even it being a good idea wouldn’t really have saved it from obscurity. :-( Like I say it is sad overall, these things were better than the stuff we have around now.