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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Philip soon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most delivery trucks around here are electric. Most power generation is renewable, importing some nuclear. Some fossil fuels still in the mix, but if the government was smart they would phase it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Philip soon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In Europe, the price is mostly paid by the consumer. In America, the government subsidizes the industry to the tune of billions per year, both at the federal and state levels. It makes gullible people think American fuel prices are lower, when in fact it socializes the cost of fuel onto all of society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sitting in traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My trains, trams, and buses are rarely crowded. Maybe at peak rush hour.

  High frequency makes them not crowded. You’re complaining about a poorly designed public transit system, which is probably all you’ve ever encountered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing of value was lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • enable developer options
  • confirm that you are not tricked
  • restart phone and re-authenticate
  • wait one day
  • confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
  • decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
  • confirm that you accept the risks
  • enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • enable developer options
  • confirm that you are not tricked
  • restart phone and re-authenticate
  • wait one day
  • confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
  • decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
  • confirm that you accept the risks
  • enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[METAPOST] Please stop linking OpenSlopware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: I think it’s reasonable to inform people of what a dev team allows into their project, or how they’re directing the development of the product.

  For some people, it will be a hard no. Others maybe don’t mind AI interoperability if it’s not in the codebase itself. Others won’t mind if the app is critical to their workflow, but may reject apps that are less critical. Others don’t care at all.

  I look at it like the Denuvo labeling curator on Steam. Nothing wrong in informing people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC upgrade woes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the #1 of a bubble is that the institutions of society will not allow it to crash in a way that harms those investors - just the rest of us. When the bubble pops, I doubt prices will go down or the excess supply will be for sale.

  If they allow it to crash at all. They might artificially prop it up with government intervention, like they did in 2008-2010.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All of these self driving services are promising customers that they don’t have to focus on driving. That’s the entire premise of the service!

  To then throw the customer under the bus when the inevitable occurs feels like fraud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has nothing to do with AI.

  They bet big on crypto and it hasn’t paid off for years. They continued hiring. Their stock has been flat or lowering for the past five years. They continued hiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America, take notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don’t. Which tells us that Tim’s complaints are nothing but bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the AI tools know how to make CP somehow - probably because their creators fed it to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ban Prediction Markets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The term prediction markets is a way to brand away from the stigma and the social harms of gambling.

  But it’s the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I struggle to consider it scientific because it bakes in so many fundamental assumptions without questioning them. At least mainstream economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixlpal is more than just a screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gifted a Tidbyt. These gadgets are ok, not super useful. Just consumption for consumption sake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Police have little intelligence of their own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My setup is an old Dell Wyse thin client and 4 external USB drives. The thin client is basically silent. The drives only make sound when they’re active, and spin down when idle. The thin client has an Intel CPU with QuickSync so it can even transcode with Plex. For data redundancy between the hard drives, I use lsyncd to make a poor man’s mirror setup.

  Works great. Lives in a cabinet in my living room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And in 10 years they’ll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that’s European hosted… In another five years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative spyware is no better than Google spyware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EU tech companies keep letting themselves be sold to US tech companies, or re-HQing to America.

  Capitalism can’t solve problems created by capitalism. The largest companies will always gobble up the competition, eliminating the alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netherlands police face 'unprecedented' New Year's violence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling it violence is weird and kind of stupid. A better word might be mayhem.

  It’s not violence against people. It’s morons engaging in the annual new year tradition of exploding a fuckton of fireworks by amateurs, in very dense cities. The Netherlands has banned them nationwide, so hopefully it will chill next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s such an obvious deflection, though. My last car was a GM vehicle, with built-in OnStar right there in the box behind the rearview mirror. Built into the price I paid was hardware I didn’t want, didn’t pay a subscription for, yet was collecting my driving data and selling it.

  Building a functionally useful infotainment system to replace Android Auto, with all of the bells and whistles needed to complete, is going to cost them the same or more. The difference is the rent seeking behavior, the demand for subscriptions, and getting more opportunities to spy on their customers for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rent seeking behavior. They want subscription revenue instead of wanting to deliver what consumers want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ updater installed malware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr A network operator can perform a MitM attack on the built-in updater, telling it a new version is available at <malware URL> and then downloading and running the malware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For myself, I make sure I’ve done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.

  From his Kofi: ko-fi.com/flukejones

  I’ve burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It’s exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It’s not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.

  Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.

  Same on his Patreon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with original Syncthing? Why would anyone use a fork?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gambling ads target Indonesian Meta users despite ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporations have largely proven that laws don’t apply to them. Until a corporation is truly punished for wrongdoing (not just a fine), this will continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.