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- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 19 hours ago:
Oh look, so they’re saying they’re already training ai on all the data they have on us? Yeah I feel my privacy being so respected.
- Comment on Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage 19 hours ago:
They’re going to lengths to make it sound like oh there was some cached server they found after intensive searching that hadn’t yet been updated or some such nonsense, but reality is is that Google is part of the dystopian constant surveillance present we now live in and likely they save ever little bit of video and information they can get their grubby blood stained hands on and use it for ai processing, government contracts, or you know, to jerk off to in their free time.
Fuck I really need to get off my ass and degoogled.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 1 day ago:
I was curious so poked around a little online and found this very old albeit quite informative post: www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 1 day ago:
Honestly this situation is wild. The whole article is a hundred percent worth a read. It’s just… So bizarre. Good luck to you wiki contributers navigating this situation.
- Comment on After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs 1 week ago:
I thought newer Samsung tvs ditched tizen?
- Comment on Thoughts on Mattercad / alternative? 1 week ago:
Checked out the website, it seems amateurish and the comments on the free version indicate some very lacking support and functionally. Furthermore a search into matterhackers revealed a lot of poor reviews about the companies filaments. I have major doubts.
- Comment on Thoughts on Mattercad / alternative? 1 week ago:
This is actually my first hearing of mattercad, I will have to check it out. I went from tinkercad to freecad and would agree that was quite a jump, but after watching a few low level tutorials I really started getting the hang out it pretty quickly.
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 1 week ago:
Good to know. Thank you 🙏
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 1 week ago:
Is that pretty standard a price for a standalone firewall?
- Comment on How do you Sand Coloured PETG without loosing the Colour? Are there any Methods to Preserve or Regain the Colour? 4 weeks ago:
+1 for heat gun. Doesn’t need a lot of heat and you should be able to get rid of the white without deforming the print
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 4 weeks ago:
Ye, nightshade was defeated by a blur and sharpen iirc lol. Still, was a good first step.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 5 weeks ago:
Also csam in training data definitely is a thing
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 5 weeks ago:
It’s not an artistic representation, it’s worse. It’s algorithmic and to that extent it actually has a pretty good idea of what a person looks like naked based on their picture. That’s why it’s so disturbing.
- Comment on Recommendations 5 weeks ago:
Yeah fair enough, my a1 mini is still a nice little workhorse, but I can fine tune like nothing on it and that bugs me
- Comment on Recommendations 5 weeks ago:
+1 for the Q1 pro
- Comment on Recommendations 5 weeks ago:
For a compsci major is recommend something with klipper that’s easy to tinker with. Bambu is great for non tech people that need an appliance that just works (down vote me if you want, I’m not condoning their lockdown practices).
Qidi is good but their klipper is modified and not open source. Q1 pro is what I have and it’s great but modifying the firmware is, last I checked, is a whole project not supported by the company.
Elegoo and creality are good choices but I’m not very familiar with the printers personally.
Prusa is great but they are pricey and have been falling behind in innovation.
- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 5 weeks ago:
It took me days to get around to watching the video because of the thumbnail lol.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 month ago:
I’ll 2nd the q1 and add that although it was just some numbers for the front of a dose, it printed asa without issue.
- Comment on How cold is too cold for storing in a garage? 1 month ago:
Only thing I’ve ever heard of being an issue is that if it’s too cold the thermistor (I think) will throw and error and the heating bed won’t work, but nothing is broken, just might not function until in a warmer environment or using a heat gun to get the sensor above 0c or something. I don’t think you have anything to worry about for storage
- Comment on Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at? 1 month ago:
It’s definitely not necessary, but it becomes very empowering when you can go from idea in your head to 3d mock-up to printed object in a matter of minutes or hours.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 month ago:
As far as chromium based browsers go, edge is actually one of the best. I have a portable degoogled chromium I keep locked in a vault myself, but that’s only because I ripped edge out of windows. If I wasn’t the type of person that got irrationally furious about edge running in the background using up system resources doing whatever the fuck windows was having to do, I would just use edge when I needed a chromium browser.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
Yes? Machine learning has been huge for protein folding and not because anyone is stupid, it’s because it’s a task uniquely suited for machine learning, of which there are many. But none of that is what this AI bubble is really about, and even though I find the underlining math and technology fascinating, I share the disdain for how the bulk of it is currently being used.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
Wait so I should just be manually folding all these proteins?
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
Fun story about that. I was harvesting one of my first cannabis grows and one plant was too dense and definitely got moldy. I spent hours and hours going through the fresh flower with a scope and at one point thought I was going to have to throw everything out: there was mold everywhere!! Which was of course true, there is mold everywhere. I went a little crazy that day, but eventually chose an acceptable amount of fungus and moved on with my life. There was no issues drying and curing except in the one jar I put the black stuff just to see what would happen. It got gross.
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 2 months ago:
I did windows 10 ltsc for a very long time but I dropped eventually because I was tired of having issues with my video card and random unexplained crashes with vague event viewer info they no one had find reliable fixes to. Mass grave seems super nifty though, saving that link, maybe I give 11 iot a try but I’m feeling pretty burnt
- Comment on Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost 2 months ago:
I love/hate their website. It reminds me of early 00 warez sites, but, as you say and testers report, it does a good job debloating and speeding things up. I’m so fed up with windows at this point I’m not sure a slimmed down and or privacy focused windows install will cut it. I’m this close to taking the dive and going to daily driving Linux.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 months ago:
I like the cut of this man’s jib.
- Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 2 months ago:
That’s a weird way to spell spyware.
- Comment on China: Major solar manufacturers report steep losses amid continued price declines and high inventory levels, raising concerns about overcapacity across the PV supply chain 2 months ago:
Bad for capitalism maybe, but potentially great for the environment
- Comment on Windows 10 IoT LTSC 2021...'has reached end of support' warning (?!) 3 months ago:
Okay, still a bad analogy as the fruit stand clearly states you free to take this fruit without payment and evaluate it, but if you want to eat more than a bite you have to pay us or throw it away.
Clearly you have a pedantic streak, but you’d be very hard pressed legally to find anyone saying you’ve broke the law by downloading an iso that is freely available online nor would any DMCA requests or the like be filled. Furthermore, casual downloaders who do not distribute or attempt to profit off of pirating windows are rarely if ever prosecuted.
Also, like what are you doing? Are you just trying to be right or is there some underlining principal I’m missing? Is it just piracy=illegal=bad?