Kissaki
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- Comment on Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? 1 hour ago:
The stupid, old, irritating cycle of: You implement against a standard, and then you implement exceptions for third party users of the standard. 😔
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 14 hours ago:
There have been reports of AI data centers further draining water reserves in areas of non abundant nor sufficiently recovering water. Which has not only environment but social and human consequences in the area.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 days ago:
You say a few hours, but it seems they were locked out for days.
If they also did a short pre investigation, was it in adequate form, if this kind of thing is the result?
We only see from the outside, and they say they can’t really see much internally either. Send all very wishy washy. If that’s the case, is that enough to block accounts for days, it should they do their full investigation and then block to reduce false positive impact?
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 6 days ago:
Our migration was a mess. And took a long time. I don’t know how much our contracted company was at fault. They certainly didn’t do a good job. We have Jira extended for time management to billing and staff pay and whatnot.
I have some CSS Hacks to make the cloud version usable, but the DOM is a mess. Only test id attributes are reasonable, stable, and descriptive. Everything else is random in terms of class and id.
Occasionally, something changes. Despite a dedicated maintenance window by Atlassian, and marketing towards predictiveness and all that positive stuff, occasionally something changes without warning, without announcement. And you’re left wondering - is my memory getting that bad? Is this new?
My last highlight is that they converted migrated images in Jira ticket descriptions into some square image control. Something you can’t even use for new images. Pasting or dropping an image into the description will lead to something different. When it’s attached as an attachment, like it was in the past, you can only include it into the description as a fixed attachment either inline control or inline fixed preview control.
If you have an old description with rectangular screenshots, you know, possible because you have a widescreen monitor, or because we have width space and make use of it for content, the square adds a ton of whitespace. Make the image big enough to be readable, and the only thing on your entire screen is the image and dead space, half of the height dead space.
There’s many annoying and horrendous things.
Worst is we contracted some third party for a custom menu and whatnot. We have a browser extension for that, for Jira and Confluence. I have all three functionality sets disabled because it makes it even slower or broken.
It works for the most part, but man, there’s so many irritations and annoyances.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 1 week ago:
evolves robots.txt instructions by adding an automated licensing layer that’s designed to block bots that don’t fairly compensate creators for content
robots.txt - the well known technology to block bad-intention bots /s
What’s automated about the licensing layer? At some point, I started skimming the article. They didn’t seem clear about it. The AI can “automatically” parse it?
# NOTICE: all crawlers and bots are strictly prohibited from using this # content for AI training without complying with the terms of the RSL # Collective AI royalty license. Any use of this content for AI training # without a license is a violation of our intellectual property rights. License: https://rslcollective.org/royalty.xml
Yeah, this is as useless as I thought it would be. Nothing here is actively blocking.
I love that the XML then points to a text/html content website. I guess nothing for machine parsing, maybe for AI parsing.
I don’t remember which AI company, but they argued they’re not crawlers but agents acting on the users behalf for their specific request/action, ignoring robots.txt. Who knows how they will react. But their incentives and history is ignoring robots.txt.
Why
am Iis this comment so negative. Oh well. - Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
That assumes the salt was also compromised/extracted. Unfortunately, they don’t say. Which one could read as not compromised. But they’re not transparently explicit about it.
I was surprised they didn’t recommend changing passwords elsewhere, too. I would also prefer them to be transparent about how they were vulnerable/attacked.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
They say password were securely hashed, following best practices, which would include a salt, which is different elsewhere.
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 week ago:
I started buying Intel CPUs because they allowed me to build high-performance computers that ran Linux flawlessly and produced little noise.
I find it funny that they mention noise level, as if the CPU itself were making noise. I’ve bought silent fans all my life, separately from CPUs.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 1 week ago:
Seems like lemmy.world has the opengraph/teaser stuff disabled? When I open the post on lemmyworld, without an account, it doesn’t have a teaser at all.
If you open this comment source link it may very well show.
The interoperability of ActivityPub is nice, but all these differences make it confusing and cumbersome too.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 1 week ago:
I hate being hinted and asked to click on the link, so I save you a click:
Are you using a different client? Without teaser texts? The Lemmy website mentions Nova in the teaser.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 1 week ago:
Oh no, they already have a Farewell Collection! /s
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 1 week ago:
I’m not sure if it was in that article or in another comment section, but someone said
a small group of people will fight to control the narrative so they can spin it any which way they want.
Your source for your broad categorization and claims seems incredibly weak. “Someone said, somewhere, I’m not sure where I read it, though.”
Wikipedia tracks anonymous contributions, too. You could check the Article and Article Discussion pages histories before making these claims, and before concluding from one comment that Wikipedia has the same systematic issues like Reddit or other closed-group moderated platforms.
As far as I see it, Wikipedia has a different depth and transparency on guidelines, requirements, open discussion, and actions. It has a lot of additional safeguards compared to something like Reddit. Admins are elected, not “first-come”.
What I find much more plausible than “they didn’t want to accept an anonymous contribution” is that the anonymous contributor may not have adequately sourced their claims and contributions. Even if they did, I find it much more likely that it may have been removed, then a discussion was done in the page discussion, and then it was added back.
Of course, instead of theorizing what happened in that case I could have checked Wikipedia too. But I also want to make a point about my general and systematic expectation of how Wikipedia works, which other platforms do not have.
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 2 weeks ago:
Mozilla integrated parts of Servo and concluded it as a Mozilla project, passing governance to the Linux Foundation Europe. You call that letting it rot?
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 2 weeks ago:
What makes you say so?
They saw potential in Rust for safety and technical guarantees, and started the Servo project. Eventually, they integrated some things into Gecko, and then concluded the Servo project.
What makes you think they don’t want Gecko anymore? What makes you say they started Servo when it’s a partially integrated and, more importantly, a concluded project?
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 3 weeks ago:
I suggest we create a new international coalition called NUS for Not US and present a united front of all-or-nothing, so that Trump can’t put pressure on individual countries anymore.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 3 weeks ago:
Were you able to sign up and give feedback without verifying your identity first?
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 weeks ago:
The stake will be paid for through $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded to Intel under the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, plus $3.2 billion awarded to the company as part of a program called Secure Enclave. It’s a formerly classified initiative that Congress appropriated funds for in 2024 after lobbying by Intel, Politico reported in 2024.
Including $2.2 billion in CHIPs grants Intel has received so far, the total investment is $11.1 billion, or 9.9%. Intel is valued at about $108 billion on the stock market.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 3 weeks ago:
This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth. It is then converted to electricity and delivered to the energy grid or batteries for storage.
How is the energy transmitted to Earth?
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 3 weeks ago:
I found the intro hook intriguing, but the reporting starts with a lot of media clips and other run-ups, which eventually made me leave.
It’s great they put in so much effort into genuine, on-site reporting, but the already long video report feels even more bloated/filled this way.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 4 weeks ago:
No, as per the article, their argumentation is that they are not web crawlers generating an index, they are user-action-triggered agents working live for the user.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
Why did you link an image instead of the video?
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 4 weeks ago:
for example, “have seen revenues jump from zero to $20 million in a year,” he said. “It’s because they pick one pain point, execute well, and partner smartly with companies who use their tools,” he added.
Sounds like they were able to sell their AI services. That doesn’t really measure AI success, only product market success.
Celebrating a revenue jump from zero, presumably because they did not exist before, is… quite surprising. It’s not like they became more efficient thanks to AI.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 4 weeks ago:
I’m confused by the article suddenly changing to seemingly other semi-related topics and pieces.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 weeks ago:
DNS is a listing of address resolution. Ignoring/Dropping records is not modifying existing entries/mappings. That’s a different thing in my eyes.
If the ruling were to declare published content must not be modified, I think there’s multiple levels to it too, and it may dictate to any degree between them.
- Interpretative tools (like a screen reader would be, or forced high contrast mode), which may be classified accessibility too
- CSS hacks that change display style but not what is shown (for example forcing a dark mode, reduced spacing, or bigger font sizes)
- CSS hacks or ad blockers that modify or hide content (block ads that would otherwise be rendered)
The biggest danger for a “copyright violation” would be the last point. Given that styling is part of the website though, “injection with intent to modify” may very well be part of it too, though.
It certainly would go directly against the open web with all of its advantages.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 4 weeks ago:
So, I assume Perplexity uses appropriate identifiable user-agent headers, to allow hosters to decide whether to serve them one way or another?
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 weeks ago:
I’m working in a small software development company. We’re exploring AI. It’s not being pushed without foundation.
There’s no need to commit when you don’t even know what you’re committing to, disregarding cost and risk. It just doesn’t make sense. We should expect better from CEOs than emotionally following a fear of missing out without a reasonable assessment.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen anyone hate on forgejo.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
and it has fewer large fluctuations now, it seems.
106 to 76 to 120 in the last four months is not large fluctuation? 30 % variance is quite high to me.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 4 weeks ago:
But what we find is that it’s not just that this content spreads; it also shapes the network structures that are formed. So there’s feedback between the effective emotional action of choosing to retweet something and the network structure that emerges. And then in turn, you have a network structure that feeds back what content you see, resulting in a toxic network. The definition of an online social network is that you have this kind of posting, reposting, and following dynamics. It’s quite fundamental to it. That alone seems to be enough to drive these negative outcomes.
Trying to grasp it in my own words;
Because social networks are about interactions and networks (follows, communities, topics, instances), they inherently human nature establish toxic networks.
Even when not showing content through engagement-based hot or active metrics, interactions will push towards networking effects of central players/influencers and filter and trigger bubbles.
If there were no voting, no followable accounts or communities, it would not be a social network anymore (by their definition).
