Dima

@Dima@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst thing about Gemini is that you can’t just use it like Google assistant without enabling the “Gemini apps activity”, or whatever it’s called, data collection

  You used to be able to ask it to set a timer just like assistant and it would work fine, now they require you to enable Gemini apps activity to ask it to set a simple timer. The solution of course is not to use Gemini.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For security disable password authentication - use public key instead, disable root login via ssh - use sudo or su from another user.

  To reduce the number of attempts of others trying to get in change the ssh port and/or set-up fail2ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it would be insane not to buy a Tesla self-driving taxi, they pay for themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was mostly thinking of smaller businesses that used it because it was part of the office suite they were subscribed to and not the professional creative, print or whatever places

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, tbh I was surprised several years ago when I found out it was still being updated and included with 365, since they basically don’t do anything to push people to use it. I still can’t believe they aren’t allowing people on 365 to use it unsupported after they drop support or at least release a good converter to convert them to .docx or .pptx - I can imagine there’s plenty of businesses on office 365 that either: will forget that an important document is in publisher format or will completely fail to take any action to convert/migrate their publisher documents and will be scrabbling to try and replace/convert them.

  I remember using publisher a lot in school in the 2000s because it was better for doing layout stuff for posters, etc. than word or PowerPoint were at the time. Nowadays I’d just use word or maybe PowerPoint (if I’m using MS office for it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand dropping support because it’s not that used anymore and word or PowerPoint can do similar things, but stopping people from being able to use it or open existing documents is crazy. If you’re on office 365 and don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowadays I see them mostly used by creators for sponsor or product links, probably because it lets them track how many people click on it and when