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- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking of the 30 Pin Dock Connector, which was proprietary, but it looks like it used both FireWire and USB protocols.
Obviously Apple is known for propagating FireWire too.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 weeks ago:
Ah, the Apple strategy of forcing a standard.
- Comment on Docker security 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but having both in place can help mitigate lateral movement risk.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re asking.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re looking in the wrong places. Culture is everywhere. The mediums and groups of people that propagate culture shift over time, but humans are inherently creative and will always develop it.
Try looking in places where there is a focus on community, connection, and the art itself—not places that focus on producing “content” for profit.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 3 weeks ago:
I literally wait every year for this video.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
What you say??!!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
IDK, the amount of abuse people have withstood only to keep using MS platforms is astounding. Some people would rather use trash than learn a new platform.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
Clearly, no-one involved in making these laws has ever heard of OAuth. Not every single site needs to manage your identity / credentials. The government already has this info, they can be the identity provider and use OAuth to grant access to age-gated resources without giving any personal data to the platform. Someone mentioned id.me, and I’m pretty sure that’s how that platform works, though they’re a private entity if I understand their site correctly.
I know most politicians are comically tech-illiterate, but it’s so frustrating to see them constantly implement terrible solutions to already solved problems without asking a single expert who knows how this shit works.
That being said, California passed a bill with a not perfect, but better approach. User age is configured on the OS level when a user account is set up, and then it will tell platforms what age category the user belongs to, and nothing more:
(a) An operating system provider shall do all of the following:
(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user:
(A) Under 13 years of age.
(B) At least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.
© At least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.
(D) At least 18 years of age.
(3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title.
I think iOS already does this, actually.
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 4 weeks ago:
We’d be lucky to even live to see a human on Mars.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 4 weeks ago:
That video was… something…
Anyway I love Immich. It’s definitely been on a stable release for a bit, but I think they’re just trying to get the word out. A lot of people seem to think it’s still in alpha.
Personally, I’ve been running the same Immich server for years now, rolling all the way up to the current release and I’ve never had any data loss. I just had to read the patch notes and adjust my docker compose accordingly a couple times.
It’s well worth paying for that supporter badge, btw. I’ve easily gotten more than $100 value out of it.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 4 weeks ago:
If you go into self-hosting hating containers, you’re gonna have a bad time.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 4 weeks ago:
The vast majority of things gen AI produces becomes pointless when you take the human out of the equation imo.
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 5 weeks ago:
Indirectly, this was. He said this was a bug in their recent tool that allows sites to block AI crawlers that caused the outages. It’s a relatively new tool released in the last few months, so it makes sense it might be buggy as the rush to stop the AI DoS attacks has been pertinent.
- Comment on Self hosted DNS 1 month ago:
You’re, right, I misread the post.
At that point DNS is handled by whatever network you’re on. Since that not always under your control, hosting a private VPN (and setting DNS though that) is the way to go.
- Comment on Counter-intuitive population crisis 1 month ago:
- Comment on What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 month ago:
Wernstrom!
- Comment on Revolt became Stoat 2 months ago:
what’s really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server?
That’s like asking why Lemmy needs federation if posts are tied to a Community.
No federation means:
- Every server requires a different user account to join a room
- Every server needs to be accessed from a different URL
- Users in different servers cannot direct message, call, or friendlist one another
Federated platforms aren’t perfect, but they solve these problems.
- Comment on Revolt became Stoat 2 months ago:
I’m getting an HTTP 522 from that link. What’s Polyproto?
Also, is there a reason you’re not considering Matrix?
- Comment on Revolt became Stoat 2 months ago:
This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI’s similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.
I’ve been periodically checking in with
RevoltStoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I’m waiting for are:- Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first
- Federation - Self-hosted chat is great, but not being able to talk to other servers is incredibly limiting for a social tool. AFAIK they’re not planning on implementing this. This is likely a deal-breaker for a lot of folks.
I’m currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it’s really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.
Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it’s AI generated.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 2 months ago:
Smells like desperation. Still struggling to find a sustainable business model are we?
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Yeah, way too many services have chats. I think it’s because every large platform wants to be an “everything app”. Messaging is a really easy to feature to implement to (theoretically) add value.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
They keep your private key on their servers.
Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 2 months ago:
double grins in self-hosted Fedi instances
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 2 months ago:
lol yeah I definitely have more downtime than AWS.
The main differences are:
- I usually control when that downtime is.
- I can inform literally every single person that uses it exactly what is down, why, and approximately for how long.
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 2 months ago:
I can hear the smug grins on homelabber’s faces from here.
- Comment on Lemmy being pinged each midnight 2 months ago:
How could we tell you about an IP inside your own network? Look at the host using that IP and see what’s running on it.
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 2 months ago:
It’s like that Futurama “Scary Door” bit where the scientist creates a robot to automate everything in his life and realizes gets shocked when the robot gets all the credit: futurama.fandom.com/wiki/The_Scary_Door#Episode_7…
