tekato
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- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 5 days ago:
On Matrix, as long as you have your username and password, it’s not possible to get “locked out” due to not having your keys. In fact, your keys are only necessary if you plan to participate in encrypted chats, in which case it’s obvious that losing your key will mean losing access to old messages. However, you will still be able to receive new messages by generating a new key.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 5 days ago:
According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans
Might as well get your information from psychedelic mushrooms.
- Comment on Self hosted live streaming 1 week ago:
I use MediaMTX. You can stream to it with whatever (I use OBS). You could even publish it to a website behind an iframe.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Well, you obviously have never used BitLocker. The first thing they ask you when you activate BitLocker is to pick one of 3 options:
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Link to Microsoft Account.
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Save to a File
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Print Recovery Key (so you can write it down on a piece of paper or whatever)
There’s no “railroading”. There’s plenty of real things to not like Microsoft. No need to make them up.
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- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft only has your key if you give it to them for convenience (by syncing to your Microsoft account), and they’re required by law to give anything stored in their servers if asked. There’s no conspiracy here.
- Comment on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 1 month ago:
JavaScript would have prevented this.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 month ago:
Why would you do that when you can pull 50 JavaScript libraries and wrap it in Electron?
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 2 months ago:
This is being done because PDF is adopting JPEG XL, so Chromium must support it since it doubles as a PDF reader.
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 2 months ago:
You can’t get more legal than obtaining content directly from the rights holder. It’s more likely that the rights holder is leeching and recording the IP of the seeders.
- Comment on Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates 3 months ago:
Cloudflare can’t be forced to censor anything because CDNs are not actually needed by the internet, they’re just nice to have. The only place where they could actually do anything is in the registrar business, where any foul play would just result in de-accreditation by ICANN.
AWS, Azure, and Oracle do have too much power over the internet, but that’s a different scenario.
- Comment on Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates 3 months ago:
Why is Cloudflare bad for the internet?
- Comment on Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it 3 months ago:
A sustainable scene wouldn’t have dropped from a $40M prize pool to $4M. The issue is that the esports scene was not self funded, it was funded by a percentage of the base game economy.
The reduction in prize pool being related to the removal of battle pass shows that fans never cared about supporting the esports scene, they only wanted the battle pass for the skins or whatever it is that you get from it.
Even if the Dota 2 esports was sustainable, that would be one game out of dozens.
- Comment on Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it 3 months ago:
They know nobody is going to purchase the pay-per-view, but I guess they don’t care since the alternative is not getting any money anyways. Esports was never sustainable because fans refuse to spend money, so they rely on shady sponsorships from gambling sites and Saudi money.
- Comment on Setting up VoIP on my matrix server 3 months ago:
You have a higher chance of solving this issue if you ask in #webrtc:matrix.org
- Comment on OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views 3 months ago:
The reason why I can’t stand LLMs is because they congratulate me before replying to anything I say. This could be a good thing.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
AI has money and Mozilla needs it. Are you going to pay for Firefox development?
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 4 months ago:
Cloudflare blocks VPNs at the request of whoever is running the server. There are tons of websites running on Cloudflare that work with VPNs.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Do you actually expect journalists to have any integrity these days?
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 months ago:
If the EU is going to pay for the developers, sure. I’d even go higher and say make it 50 years. Otherwise make your own OS or use Linux.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 months ago:
Capcom should start their patent for 2D fighting games and see what happens to Super Smash Bros
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 4 months ago:
You’re better off committing tax fraud and admitting to it in court than ignoring a cease and desist from Nintendo. People never learn. They probably don’t even care about the $2 Million, they just do it for the love of the game and to make an example out of you.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 5 months ago:
You need more power than what regular people use. You would need the signal to go through walls into your home, and then read whatever comes back out through the same walls, so it’s a lot more attenuation than you typically expect.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 5 months ago:
I don’t see where a government would need a chatbot. Anyways, chances are that half the staff was already using some form of LLM before this trial.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 5 months ago:
The article you cite states that accuracy drops to 60% if the enrollment and testing data were collected at different sessions. I imagine the effects of coffee or walking on heart rate would make that even worse.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 5 months ago:
Your neighbors WIFI signals are too weak to matter in this case. Even if they were strong enough, this is a receiver-transmitter setup, so it would still be impossible to do unless you connect to their network. Even then, they’d have to assume you’re the only person present between the transmitter and the receiver.
Presence detection through WIFI was already garbage enough, this one is plain unusable.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 5 months ago:
No. That’s G-SYNC compatible, G-SYNC monitors require an “NVIDIA G-SYNC processor”.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 5 months ago:
They are not the same thing. GSYNC requires the monitor to be embedded with an NVIDIA controller.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 5 months ago:
Let’s see OpenAI’s numbers
- Comment on 96,000 UK Police Bodycam Videos Lost After Data Transfer Mishap 5 months ago:
Surely judges will rule against the police on every case that involved one of the missing recordings.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 months ago:
The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.