throwback3090
@throwback3090@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand 1 month ago:
Do you genuinely think the folks who “gambled” really understood the implications?
I mean I’ll grant you California is a shitshow but it’s been a shitshow since republicans got on their knees for Enron in the 90s. How about Florida, which has been a red state for 80% of the last 30 years, low regulation, but instead of building new power they are keeping nukes going well past their service life?
- Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand 1 month ago:
Your measure of corruption is what now? How many new things are built regardless of their need or what impacts they may have?
Very…unique standpoint.
- Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand 1 month ago:
I think they mean “the same forces that led to the grid collapsing every few years – prioritizing profit above all else, and the government giving zero fucks-- are the same forces which trigger new development to be in renewables with zero regulation or oversight”
Conservatives always write about their broken-clock-right-twice successes in a similar way.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
I suppose that’s all true, I’d say more “following apples lead on locking things down” than over engineered, but 🍅🍅.
I find myself avoiding the whole root business, I do want my mobile device to be fairly locked down. But I also use alternative OSs and app stores to avoid 90% of the garbage (stuff I can’t avoid I put in work profile, like I still need google maps).
It works for me, but on the front of this complexity driving away devs I don’t really see a viable alternative. Base Linux isn’t secure enough for what we put on these little computers. I mean you’ve still got tons of influential people arguing you shouldn’t use secureboot or a tpm as if leaving your whole computer unsecured is better than the indignity of using a non-free bios.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
I don’t know the point of the first paragraph…scams are bad? Yes? Does anyone not agree? (I guess scammers)
For the second we are talking in the wild abstract, so I feel comfortable pointing out that every automated system humanity has come up with so far has pulled in our own biases and since ai models are trained by us, this should be no different. Second, if the models are fallible, you cannot talk about success without talking false positives. I don’t care if it blocks every scammer out there if it also blocks a message from my doctor. Until we have data on consensus between these new algorithms and desired outcomes, it’s pointless to claim they are better at X.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
What’s over engineered about it?
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
Yes, absolutely, and regularly, and without shame.
But not usually about technical stuff.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
Why do you need machine learning for detecting scams?
Is someone in 2025 trying to help you out of the goodness of their heart? No. Move on.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
graphene folks have a real love for the word misinformation. That’s not you under there👻, Daniel, is it?
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 month ago:
Your definition of freedom is an interesting one
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
Yep
Welcome to the future
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
I’m never trolling about Linux. On Lemmy there are so many cultists that you can say the most innocuous things and it will be downvoted to oblivion or deleted for “trolling”. Maybe you don’t like calling it a cult but I get more downvoted for negative comments about Linux them other people do when they literally say Nazi things.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
Oof you’re comparing government suppression of entire classes of people to linux’ failure to attract developers to the platform… How do you not realize you’re in a cult???
- Comment on Im thinking we still have a deeper bottom 1 month ago:
You clearly have the context since you said you’re not American. But to spell it out the context is america electing these people. There’s news articles if you really care, none of us need to spend our time hand feeding you a summary.
- Comment on Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads 1 month ago:
Ok so you’re just a disingenuous troll. Cool.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
Not more options, you want your option to win.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
Every app is a bundle of a full website and spyware.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
that is your takeaway? You’re part of a cult if that’s really how you think.
- Comment on Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads 1 month ago:
What exactly do you think the business model of streamers are? We’re not talking about Joe playing baldurs gate with his 15 subscribers. We’re talking about Rihanna showing up 4 hours late, drunk as fuck.
- Comment on Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack 1 month ago:
As long as you remember that the cloud is just someone else’s computer that they have admin rights on.
- Comment on Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack 1 month ago:
In contrast, banks all universally moved to single page apps lately, and every one of them sucks. Some suck more (we don’t support you having more than one tab open while you are researching stocks) and some suck less (what is the back button for, anyway? Just ignore it). But they all suck.
And yes, users do care about using shitty stacks when they make shitty results.
- Comment on Look at the shitty world sober people have carefully crafted around you. Drugs aren't the problem, they are the solution. 1 month ago:
Trump is famously sober.
- Comment on Look at the shitty world sober people have carefully crafted around you. Drugs aren't the problem, they are the solution. 1 month ago:
I actually let my friends chew my face off and I do theirs.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 1 month ago:
You seem very intent on convincing multiple people we are more inconvenienced than we feel.
I think you are missing the feeling of smug superiority that comes from defeating the feeble multi-million dollar attempts to punish us…with 5 mouse clicks. So on the surface level it might be an inconvenience, but you step into the actual activity and boom, we’re telling these dumbasses to fuck off. And that’s fun.
- Comment on No means no 1 month ago:
Onedrive is easy to completely disable with group policy or registry tokens.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 1 month ago:
Yep
It’s like when YouTube finds a way to show you an ad, and then you go to ublock and update filters and boom fixed.
Oh no Italy is requiring something unenforceable, hopefully nobody from other countries ignores this and provides VPN access unhindered.