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- Comment on China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant 2 weeks ago:
This is uncontrolled reaction. Chinese and other countries plan to be able to conduct the controlled reaction
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 3 weeks ago:
Software maintenance does cost a lot, it’s a full time job. Most people doesn’t pay foss or any at all ( winrar or total commander case ). Most people won’t be able to maintain or adjust foss on their own… Foss doesn’t work forever ( it’s a pain to deeply depend on foss which stops being maintained ). It’s a reality that 1 year fallback license is necessary evil
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
Git is decentralized itself… You don’t even need forgejo to host your changes
- Comment on Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland 3 weeks ago:
There was never swiss privacy - “crypto ag” and Fichenaffäre for the starters
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 4 weeks ago:
@rglullis@communick.news my honest recommendation is to switch to the plain text only mode and disable file / media upload if it’s possible. Hosting plain text data is cheap
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 4 weeks ago:
The early internet was so good because it mainly consisted from academics or people willing to share knowledge and exchange it. Modern internet is dying because of the fact that most of users are leeches and don’t contribute to the equation. Most tech youtube channels are dying because there is no gratification for content creators, it takes a lot of time, money to produce the content and they get no benefit. The end effect is they shut the whole thing down, thank you for the “service”, you only contribute to the internet “quality” downfall
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 4 weeks ago:
It’s already there - it’s called hyphanet ( old freenet ). It works really well removing the need being always online but it’s not popular because of no mobile clients
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe to the “third world” ( i dont like this name ) countries which still use linux because of high financial costs of windows… I can’t wait react os 1.0
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
Anybody who used ANY library to process xslx knows MS keeps changing it :-) About ranges… can you give me the range for whole columns minus 6 first records and 9 last records?
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
It’s not… Try to write a formula range which covers only lower half of the column which is typical setup in summing numbers( avoiding headers ), limits in columns and records, ever changing formats across versions… You asking for a disaster to happen which happens very often
- Comment on Youtube blocking Pixelfed links? 2 months ago:
How so - even doi links?
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 2 months ago:
Simplex was bubbling about implementing CSAM. Any client mentioning it is not safe, period…
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Friend of friend networks, that’s how classmates have benefits created ( a prototype to “prove” 6 connections theory )
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Web of trust - did you hear? www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x547.html
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
You can use gpg signatures
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 months ago:
Optical drives already are surpassing magnetic or even ssd. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage it’s more advanced version of optical drives, for obvious reasons it’s just a prototype and most likely it will stay so for quite a long time but still, optical storage hasn’t reached the limit.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 months ago:
From wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc
Sony used Archival Disc in their Optical Disc Archive professional archival product range, and aimed to create at least a 6-TB storage medium. As of 2020, they offered 5.5 TB Optical Disc Archive Cartridges.[14][15][16]
That limit I mentioned has nothing with the ‘technological limit’. Simply enough they lost with the adoption - if the clients wanted, they would get bigger archival discs.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 months ago:
No, there was one next more “optical image” after Blue-rays. Archive Disc mainly used for backups in companies dealing with lots of images. Biggest one could take 2TB per disc, as much as tape drives. However, they didn’t get adoption and it has been discontinued. Sadly
- Comment on Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead. 3 months ago:
I still believe that mailing lists are the best technology which has been both decentralized in the meaning of the identity ( which you can verify with gpg ) and storage. While I like many other things like simplex, lemmy, to some extent matrix and so on, still mailing lists rock nowadays ( note: please consider 2 criterias i meant - distributed identity and storage)
- Comment on Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th 3 months ago:
I’ve once bought lifetime service - couchsurfing. It didn’t stick foe less than 1 year. I have second life time account for 2600 magazine but still I’m skeptical to “life time” promotions
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
Until you forget changing 6 digit pin of your credit card before you travel to the country which accepts 4 digit normally. You’re f…d, the only way is to get call your family to make moneygram / western union transfer (or if you can do make such an order on your own).
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
It’s funny because actually you can receive mails pretty much everywhere without giving an actual address. P.O boxes and post restante. Only banks keep enforcing residential addresses as it was a guarantee of having lack of identity frauds.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 5 months ago:
Has anybody a mirror? Couldn’t they just block it in India for Indians?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 5 months ago:
Some people would disagree with you lwn.net/Articles/995294/
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- Comment on Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store 5 months ago:
They are not exactly bribes. Rather undisclosed preferential consulting jobs or hiring promises. It’s quite easy to follow money in bribes. It’s somehow so: after they finish politics careers, they get hired as highly paid consultants for their preferential treatment when they were politics
- Comment on Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation 6 months ago:
For me it’s simple rule, if nobody tells the sources or credits, it’s not even worthy to analyze it and cross check the news. The worst thing is that even “reputable media agencies” like reuters and bloomberg use heavily “anonymous sources”. Very often used as propaganda purposes
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 6 months ago:
Turning egypt into desert wasn’t caused by human factor, it was caused by change of earth axial rotation nature.com/…/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-p… and it happened within less than 2-3 centuries. Far more drastic than what we see alleged by “human greenhouse gas emissions”. It’s all well documented that natural causes can be far more drastic than whatever we do on earth ( several degrees in global earth scale ). And no, climatology is not united around the greenhouse gas effect at least not about alleged scale