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- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 1 week ago:
It’s at times like these I turn to my man Alexei:
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, “reduce, reuse, recycle” in that order. It is better to sell or give away an old PC instead of just sending it for recycling.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
The Linux experience has changed quite a lot over the years. You’re unlikely to have trouble getting your computer to work with it now.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
You’ll be more vulnerable to malware because it won’t be patched against newly discovered exploits.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 4 weeks ago:
No, I’m on Fastmail. It’s full-featured and has a slick web UI, but it’s not as good for privacy as Tuta, Proton, etc. Also, although Fastmail is Australian they apparently host their servers in the USA.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 4 weeks ago:
My email provider will auto-generate aliases with no limit, and I also subscribe to Mozilla Firefox Relay, which allows me to invent email addresses on the fly and have them relay emails to my inbox. The advantage of the Firefox Relay is that it isn’t tied to the email provider so if I switch provider the aliases can still work.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 4 weeks ago:
Still not sure whether OP is Pete Hegseth.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 4 weeks ago:
Foobar2000 is good with audio file conversions, once you have installed the relevant codecs.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Many things are possible, but we shouldn’t go shouting “It’s microplastics!” or “It’s TikTok!” without actual scientific research. There are just too many plausible-sounding hypotheses that need to be handled carefully.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 5 weeks ago:
Even better, the whole HP printer is optional.
- New undersea cable tech listens for sabotage — can be retrofitted to existing fiber optic lineswww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website 1 month ago:
“Medal” I think, not “metal”.
- Comment on Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over 2 months ago:
I have never seen this happen, and I don’t know what tools would confuse the string “null” with NULL. From the comments in this thread, there are evidently more terribly programmed systems than I imagined.
- Comment on 'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch 2 months ago:
It’ll most likely be avian flu, which is pretty bad. The Trump people are trying to ban the vaccines and vaccine research that might have helped with it.
- Comment on 'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch 2 months ago:
Efficiency is when the government abandons all its investments, lets everything fall apart, and drives all scientists to take jobs abroad before the next uncontrolled pandemic paralyzes the country.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
It’s regrettable that Obsidian isn’t open source. But the nice thing about it is that its data store is just a bunch of markdown files in a folder structure, and very easily migrated to any other comparable application. They may have the code but they don’t take the data hostage like a lot of commercial software does.
- Comment on If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy 2 months ago:
but it will protect itself.
Or, facing conditions where it can no longer do this, it will boil off into fascist autocracy, which seems to be where we’re headed.
- Comment on If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy 2 months ago:
I agree with the taladar@sh.itjust.works elsewhere in this thread. Corporations are the dangerous artficial intelligence, and “line go up” is the paperclip problem. We’re already facing it.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 months ago:
it is just a matter of very carefully the drive before booting it up
I’m curious about what the missing word is. Cleaning? Inspecting?
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 months ago:
What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 2 months ago:
But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just go and make themselves for free then live for the greater good, the little flying communists.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 3 months ago:
Republicans have only threatened to invade Mexico, Canada and the UK so far, with a few days to go yet until they take power. They’re basically pacifists.