jim3692

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people still mining chia ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to watch The Hated One, who has also made similar recommendations for strikes. He has suggested the use of Briar, as it can fallback to Bluetooth connectivity.

  However, I mostly wanted to point out that burner phones is not the answer for everyone. People need to be familiar with their local laws to stay safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In some countries, like Greece, you can’t use an unregistered phone number.

  Since phone numbers are tied to people’s identities, does it really matter whether you use a burner or your main?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Σκορδοπατατάκια

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ha!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let him distract you from the fact that you can’t spell “advertisements” without semen between the tits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally! Someone said it! My company changed my work laptop to a Mac. It’s been a couple of months, and I still haven’t got used to the desktop environment. Navigating between open windows with regular mouse/keyboard is a pain.

  I find window grouping very annoying (this is also true for Gnome). What makes it even worse, is that the tilde is next to the left shift, instead of being above Tab. I think that’s because we have British keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, we need massive data centers for LLMs and data analysis for targeted ads /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you run a custom ROM, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS, you most probably have some Meta apps installed at system level.

  This is Meta Services, as a system app which can only be disabled, on my work Samsung.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last year I wasted 1.3 bln, by accidentally starting the construction of a dyson sphere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your therapist can’t even have a phone in the room?

  I would prefer my psychological issues to not be turned into marketing campaigns. If you still don’t understand what I am talking about, you should probably check the Privacy Policy of Google and Meta.

  To save you some time: Google and Meta are monitoring the conversations using the device’s microphone, to better understand what products you may be interested in. You have noticed, that ads are often related to the topics that you discuss face to face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had visited an ophthalmologist who used Apple Notes to keep track of his patients. He had no idea about the privacy implications of his choices.

  However, my most nerve racking experience was talking to my therapist, while their stock Android was right next to them. Even when I mentioned my privacy concerns, they didn’t bother to rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use private, because I am a tab hoarder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to "give notice" that you are resigning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for your “| || || |_”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t such satellites have a major flaw, that they revolve? Considering that earth is spherical, those satellites can only monitor some half of the earth each moment, given their sensors have such high FOV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the first time I see the concept of bootstrappability in the context of security.

  Is it really worth the effort?

  There are multiple ways to run a supply chain attack. With bootstrappability, one can be sure that the compiler is trusted, but what about the code that the compiler compiles? There was this recent attack to XZ utils, which shows that more attention is needed on the code being merged and compiled.

  I think that this just creates a false sense of security.

  Contrary to that, I had read about a BSD team (I think FreeBSD) that reviews all the code before each release. This way they have achieved ~5 RCE exploits throughout their entire history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any experience with guix, so I will not express any opinions towards that.

  However, regarding NixOS:

  • Yes, as a person with experience in the Nix language, I can confirm it’s awful
  • The documentation of NixOS is a known issue, and there are currently efforts to improve it
  • Talking about the trustability of binaries, by doing a quick search, I read that Guix builds are reproducible. This is true for NixOS as well. All upstreamed packages must have their version and the hash of the code (or artifact), to allow validation.
  • The community of NixOS is opting to maintaining flakes, because:
    • Some applications can simply not be built following the Nix guidelines. Examples are some electron apps (like Falkor) and apps that have weird toolchains (like bubblejail)
    • The reviewing process takes way too long, and PRs for upstreaming are often ignored. This forces a lot of people to just PR a flake.nix to the application, or maintain their own overlays (overlays are like overriding the available packages, while flakes are more like distributing Nix code in general)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I quickly went through the article, and I have a question: Why not Docker (or Podman) on NixOS?

  NixOS has much larger community (although a bit toxic) and provides native tooling for managing OCI containers through Docker and Podman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What would happen if all users start using adblockers, or the value of ads starts to fall?

  I do not support the current, ad-driven, model of the internet. However, since the costs of subscriptions are increasing, while salaries are going downhill, it is apparent that ads is (seemingly) the only viable choice for now.

  In the economy we currently live in, all of world’s wealth is slowly moving to ad networks.

  Even donation driven models are currently straggling. Just look at the fediverse. The people donating to their instances are not enough to sustain them.

  Capitalism has absolutely destroyed everything. The greed of stakeholders has milked most people. At some point people will stop buying the useless things or services promoted via advertisements, just because they will not be able to afford them. Then, no subscriptions, no point of advertising, no donators, no people hosting fediverse instances, just world hunger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NewPipe or Piped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by the colors, this is a new photo. It’s not yellow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Slavic engineering gone too far?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you guys have never lived to badly designed apartment, because you couldn’t afford a better one.

  I have been living like this in Greece for about 3 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BMWs need a speeding indication more than a braking one /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got something special for you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have avoided “!” altogether, and send “For you I have 720”

• European Union funding an obfuscatorgithub.com ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry much about my cat. I will totally respect any decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, those could theoretically be used for backdoor access to your computer.

  However, they are trivial to spot on most routers. If you see another device on the ethernet port that your computer connects to, then something weird is going on.

  Another important consideration is the fact that those technologies are meant for ethernet, while most people use laptops with wifi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so sorry to hear that. I run the Margit profile in your instance, but I wasn’t aware of your plans to shut it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no particular selling point. That’s why they force it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very handy that some clients embed the harmonica photos and I don’t need to open URLs