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- Comment on Play Five Nights at Epstein’s Online for free 1 week ago:
Captain Jeff will get you high tonight, and take you to his special island…
- Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase 1 week ago:
You know why Git was written in the first place, right? Some people think ahead.
- Comment on What can I do with no job and no VPS? 2 weeks ago:
What is going on with you? Anyway, if you want to try self-hosting on a VPS, make an account on lowendspirit.com and hang out there for a while. There are lots of offers for free or ridiculously cheap VPS there. Like this starts at 25 cents per month ($3 per year):
lowendspirit.com/…/tierhive-256mb-ram-3gb-disk-3-…
Open a thread there saying what you’re trying to do, and ask for hosting and for technical help if you need that.
- Comment on Typing into the abyss - need a service 2 weeks ago:
Just use a text editor. I use Emacs org files but that’s just me.
- Comment on Typing into the abyss - need a service 2 weeks ago:
I guess I don’t understand the issues you think you’re facing with straightforward approaches. You probably don’t want it on an internet server, right? Maybe just scrounge an old laptop with no internet connection and set it up with an encrypted disk. Then use it as your journalling box. So you’re fairly safe from network attacks. You might have to worry about someone snagging the laptop itself and recovering the key somehow. Yes there are approaches you can take to mitigate that. I don’t know of any super simple ready made methods though.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 2 weeks ago:
In my day the food was never good but it was usually reasonably edible and that’s all anyone expected from it. It’s probably worse now.
I still remember “Turkey 2-Hydroxy Tetrazzini”.
- Comment on The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it 2 weeks ago:
This is some kind of weird propaganda. Too many words like “staggering”, and the punchline is a few paragraphs down. He calls for an article V convention and a “fiscal responsibility” amendment. He says that there are relatively few assets on the govt balance sheet but doesn’t explain how and whether future tax receipts are booked on it. I’m no accountant but booking prospective tax collection (not on income that has already been received, but on nebulus future earnings) as assets sounds pretty dubious. On the other hand, they say death and taxes are the only true certainties in existence. So it’s not like the taxes won’t happen. “Full faith and credit of the United States” basically promises that.
- Comment on You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of 2 weeks ago:
The virus is the human polyomavirus 2, commonly called either the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, named after the poor patient from whom it was first isolated in 1971. It shows up in the urine and stool of infected people and spreads via the fecal-oral route. Many people are thought to be infected early in life, and blood testing surveys have suggested that 50–90 percent of adults have been exposed at some
- Comment on Before I get a job, I'm experimenting with a free VPS - Will it work? help? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you could try a prepaid credit card from a store.
- Comment on Before I get a job, I'm experimenting with a free VPS - Will it work? help? 2 weeks ago:
You’re asking a support question for a provider that most of us here have never heard of. I’d wait a day or two and then maybe open a ticket with the provider.
Maybe also look here: lowendspirit.com/…/free-vps-for-open-source-devel…
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm ok, maybe you could write up a quick summary. Yes it’s possible that I mis-read it. I thought that LP had rejected the PR. Thanks.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah there was some back and forth. It got approved by someone from Microsoft then unapproved by Lennart Poettering. Basically temporary kerfluffle. There’s a writeup from yesterday, I think this: itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/
There’s now an unpopulated field to hold a birthdate but it’s not being used by anything. I guess that is sub-optimal though. This kind of thing if it’s to exist at all should be on individual user accounts, not anything system-wide.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Some random foolishly submitted a systemd patch and it got rejected after some back and forth. I think there’s not much more to it so far.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
According to a DNA analysis of people across western South America, a population in the Argentinian Andes carries a gene variant that likely helps them metabolize arsenic more safely
Wow it’s not microbes etc. The water has arsenic and they can drink it.
- Comment on How do you play Poker with just 2-person text messages or DMs? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a family of fancy cryptographic protocols for doing stuff like this. See:
- Comment on Rise of the AI Soldiers 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, clones can think creatively. You will find them immensely superior to droids.
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 3 weeks ago:
You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if it can also convert binaries. Put a copy of Oracle through it and watch the shenanigans.
Also wonder whether they can generate movies the same way. Put in a DVD and a completely new movie comes out, with the same plot, characters, etc., but with all the names and dialogue changed and the actors are replaced by deepfakes that look different.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.
Getting retail distribution beyond your locale is difficult, making a profit is very difficult, but publishing in its own right is quite easy ;).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
We can’t find out whether a story is stupid til after it’s written. But wasn’t the Harry Potter series about a wealthy superhero who spent his early childhood in privation as a plot device?
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
They can’t help themselves.
- Comment on Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine 3 weeks ago:
Lol, person omitted the link, but I recognized the picture from last time (a few days ago).
- Comment on Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine 3 weeks ago:
No we had this link before. Unless that guy can explain what happens in a Bell experiment whose endpoints are in separate galaxies, there’s still a mystery.
- Comment on Tech Feed Collection 3 weeks ago:
JS is enabled but matrix may be blocking your script. Thanks.
- Comment on Tech Feed Collection 3 weeks ago:
On insidestack I can see only 3 or so entries. Could we have a page with more entries and no javascript?
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see a plus. It says “FreeOTP version 2.0.6 (48) © 2013-2023 - Red Hat Inc, et al”. But I think I’ve gotten updates more recently than2023.
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 4 weeks ago:
I’m using FreeOTP from F-droid and it suffices if you’re going to use a phone app at all. The ability to back up OTP keys in principle defeats the concept of 2FA but it’s hard to live without, once you have enough keys. The thing about retain last N backups is hard to enforce without special arrangements in your backup scheme.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Quit reddit, problem solved.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 4 weeks ago:
There are some Lemmy instances without downvoting, but none without upvoting. That affects what gets posted.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 4 weeks ago:
For algorithms, anything that isn’t a straightforward scrutable way of presenting user content is bad, IMO. Algorithms that promote engagement, monetization, and sycophants are bad.
I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.
In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.