heavydust
@heavydust@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Reddit adds new tools, including Post Insights and Rules Check, which lets users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules and will suggest communities for your post. 3 days ago:
It’s a great combo between 1984 and “this place is fucking boring.”
- Comment on Reddit adds new tools, including Post Insights and Rules Check, which lets users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules and will suggest communities for your post. 3 days ago:
They could have left 10 year ago. They didn’t and never will.
- Comment on Israel is building a ChatGPT-like tool weaponizing surveillance of Palestinians. 3 days ago:
They should collaborate with IBM, they know how to handle that kind of thing.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 3 days ago:
Firefox is the kind of software where I would gladly pay $10 a month to support its development.
Dismantle Mozilla, give the money to Firefox, profit.
- Comment on Veterans fired from federal jobs say they feel betrayed, including some who voted for Trump 3 days ago:
his performance wasn’t good enough came as “a complete shock” because he had previously received positive feedback
It is sad when a guy who worked for so long doesn’t even know the basics of performance reviews: everything is bullshit from HR and management in order to fire you later. There is no performance, there is no family, and they all discovered that the MAGA family behaves the same way as a bad company.
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 3 days ago:
I can’t find it anymore but they had the same experiment around 2015 I guess. If you upvoted too many trolls or far-right people, you could be punished for this. The idea is not new.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 3 days ago:
Which is one more stupid thing from Mozilla. Imagine if, 10 years ago, they had made a combo of: Firefox, Thunderbird, email hosting, maybe some kind of online office thing and a drive, Sync… That could have been the ultimate productivity package for “Office” stuff inside one convenient subscription.
Instead we now have Office 365, Google Docs, and nothing more.
- Comment on Warning users that upvote violent content : RedditSafety 3 days ago:
It’s weird because I remember Reddit implementing that maybe ten years ago. If someone can confirm.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 days ago:
Why don’t you, I mean, I know it’s gonna be hard for you but, eat food from other countries or local food?
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 4 days ago:
If that’s the limit of your knowledge, I can help you. Read more on the subject maybe.
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 4 days ago:
You have no issue with a company trying to prevent people doing something legal? Is it only for emulation? Stopping emulation is the illegal part.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 5 days ago:
It’s a good algorithm but if you need to decode any message, you must get drunk and listen to creepy radio stations at 1AM in the forest or something.
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 6 days ago:
Growing children will learn how to tell if an image is ai generated
lol. People thought the same crap with computers and smartphones. We would be surrounded by computer geniuses because they had technology. The result is that they don’t even know what a directory is.
And with AI thinking for them, they’ll be even dumber.
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 6 days ago:
Where do you stop and why 50+?
Why not “let’s ban Harry Potter from young people because they think it’s real.”
You don’t believe in personal responsibility ?
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 6 days ago:
In the same topic: anyone that believes Instagram stories are real should be banned from the internet?
I wonder where you draw the line.
- Comment on EA open sourced parts some games like Command and Conquer 6 days ago:
I like it when the only useful piece of information is missing: github.com/electronicarts
The resources are missing but you could already have those everywhere else on the internet.
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 6 days ago:
That’s stupid. I’m almost 50 and know more about scams than anyone else around me. Do you include restricting bank accounts too for “old people” who are 50?
One thing that could work is to ban all generative AI (text and images). You get to keep all the pattern recognition used in healthcare (like to find cancer) and you throw away everything else which is useless.
But I don’t see why I have to suffer because some people are stupid.
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 6 days ago:
Why 50? Are they scared?
Why everything in this post actually.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 week ago:
I’m eagerly awaiting the new version but I already like it. They now admit that they are sharing and sometimes selling private data (anonymized or not, same thing).
- Comment on What would the realistic ramifications be, if some (EU) country leader told Trump to his face that he's stupid? 1 week ago:
Trump is talking to the Americans. He has no diplomatic skills. He would reply “so are you” and the whole scene would broadcast on Fox and watchers would cheer. It would serve no purpose.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
All the forks pick and choose but features can be enabled or disabled, or removed entirely. Telemetry is always removed, whereas DRM or cookie settings can be turned off by default.
If you want some kind of Tor browser without all the Tor thing, Mullvad has its fork too from Tor (like the fixed display as a rectangle to prevent fingerprinting).
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 1 week ago:
Does it have an email
It’s for text and spreadsheet. It’s not a media player either. Nor is it a new operating system.
- Comment on I always love Casino movies. One thing they all have is if a person is screwing up cheating being beligerant and other stuff they take them to a room. And their face gets messed up is this real? 1 week ago:
It’s a movie. Like… how old are you?
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 2 weeks ago:
Stunts was the best. You could draw your own circuits.
- Comment on Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. 2 weeks ago:
Some idiot bought a $2000 bed. IoT or not, it’s a nice bonus.
- Comment on A system to organise your life • Johnny.Decimal 2 weeks ago:
It’s obviously not for every body but I hate tags because they are so random and I would forget what I used. I’ve been successfully using the Johnny decimal guide for a few years because it’s intuitive for me. Your examples are obvious for me: health expense goes into “Receipts > Health” and travel expense goes into “Receipts > Travel.” If I had to use tags I would think of “health, personal, money, receipts, bank, medication, etc.” and it would be a real mental struggle to categorize everything.
The “no more than ten” principles forces me to put everything in the most generic category I can think of. And if I need more than 10, it’s a new project or a new something. But I agree it’s not for everyone, it just happens to be suited with how I’m organized.
- Comment on Docker Hub limiting unauthenticated users to 10 pulls per hour 2 weeks ago:
Artifactory is mandatory in some industries because it will keep all the versions of the images forever so that you can build your projects reliably without an internet connction.
- Comment on Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order 2 weeks ago:
I think of the children. I think they should be banned from the internet. It would solve so many technical and social problems.
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 weeks ago:
Energy contacts can ring anyway after 3 calls or something on iOS. I guess Android has the same setting.