jim3692
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- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 19 hours ago:
Keep in mind that doom scrolling while laying on grass is also an option. I will come back later for more uninteresting tips.
- Comment on discord 1 week ago:
🙏
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 1 week ago:
Jeff
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
They (the govt) would know that they issued a certificate to ex. lemmy.dbzer0.com
They can’t know that the certificate is issued to conmie
Unless, of course, the instance logs the age certificate used by each user
And also, unless the govt’s age verification service logs the certificate issued by each citizen
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 2 weeks ago:
Back then, websites didn’t need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone…
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I had forgotten about about that feature. I was like 4yo back then.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 2 weeks ago:
Could you get ringtones on Nokia 3210/3310 ?
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 2 weeks ago:
It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.
/s
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
But Porkbun charges per mailbox.
I pay for Tuta, and I have added my personal domain. It works as catch-all, allowing me to have an infinite amount of addresses, so I can use a different email on each website.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 weeks ago:
We just hope they do force Android to allow sideloading. However, I wouldn’t expect them to do so, given their latest decisions…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Auto save on cloud sucks.
Depends on the cloud. I like my files being automatically backed up to my private Nextcloud server.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 weeks ago:
I prefer this one. Way more area in the handle for better grip.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 2 weeks ago:
There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.
Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.
Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that it can’t be detected. I said it fools your eyes.
Besides that, stop using ML for everything. My guess is that you need insane amounts of processing power for ML to detect hidden messages inside terabytes of live internet traffic.
In fact, the algorithm for steganography is standard. It’s probably trivial to detect it, unless you add encryption and padding to the mix.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, out of the loop. What does MAP stand for ?
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 weeks ago:
The United States paid nothing for these shares
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
You can’t block VPNs without blocking the entire internet. You can block known VPN services, but you can’t prevent people from hosting their own.
Some known VPN protocols could be blocked, using introspection tools. However, this would just render corporate VPNs useless. VPN traffic is just bytes, and so is WebSockets. Good luck figuring out whether my HTTPS traffic is legitimate internet traffic, or masked VPN traffic.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
It is indeed very suspicious that they talk about “median” and not “average”.
For those who don’t understand what the difference is, think of the following numbers:
1, 2, 3, 34, 40
The median is 3, because it’s in the middle.
The average is 16 (1+2+3+34+40=80, 80/5=16).
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 weeks ago:
To waste electric energy. All those power plants produce immense amounts of energy that needs to be consumed. If we didn’t have LLMs, the pollution of those plants would be for nothing. At least now, there is an attempt to put it in good use.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 3 weeks ago:
As a Debian and NixOS user, I can confirm that Ubuntu sucks
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 3 weeks ago:
I don’t expect Arch Linux ARM to have wider support than Ubuntu Touch or postmarketOS.
The later 2 projects aim to support Android devices, while (based on my understanding) Arch Linux ARM mainly targets SBCs (single board computers), like Raspberry Pi.
Arch Linux ARM nowadays, probably, also serves as a base for Asahi, but this does not help with Android device compatibility.
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 3 weeks ago:
All those kernel level protections go out of the window, if the motherboard itself is compromised
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 4 weeks ago:
Until you realize your life is in fucking danger there. Nearly every summer, in Greece, we are dealing with wildfires.
Last year, there was a fire in Rhodes during September. People were jumping in the sea to same their life. The response of the government was to provide vouchers to tourists from foreign countries, so that they will visit again next year.
The government gave no shit to Greek people, and I don’t really think people from other countries dared to come again.
Besides the issues with emergency services, there are also pricing problems. I only know about Greece and Turkey. In tourist areas of those countries, all prices are inexcusably high.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
If you want to support a webpage, then donate to it. This ad-based business model should die.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
But Apple cares about children. They were the first to run CSAM scans on their cloud storage and devices.
/s
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 1 month ago:
I use local Ollama. I don’t trust anyone with my AI conversations.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 month ago:
Of course there is no public evidence. It’s just a very probable speculation that governments want to control the internet.
Back in the days of newspapers/radio/tv, governments had control as they could easily go after news outlets.
However, with internet, they lost this power. They have been trying hard to regain the power of controlling information. The latest success was masking moderation as child protection.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 month ago:
Kiwi Browser has developer tools
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 month ago:
Why no Five Nights at Freddy’s ???
