swelter_spark
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- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 3 hours ago:
YT became popular before monatization existed. It was a hobby and a form of socialization for many people. I’d rather see Peertube be that than what YT has become. Monatization is what ruined it, imo.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 day ago:
Win 2k was my favorite. Ran well and gave the user total control over the system.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 2 days ago:
I use it for the encryption and IP hiding just to make casual surveillance more difficult, more than trying to be 100% anonymous. If I can’t use a site with Tor, I’ll add an exception for it if it’s something I really need. Otherwise, I find an alternative for whatever I was trying to do, and I don’t really care.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 5 days ago:
Same.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 5 days ago:
I agree. I had frequent problems when I used it, which could take days to figure out, and even then might only be solved by a full reinstall. Linux has had significantly fewer problems for me, and those problems are solved much more easily. My bf is a huge Windows fan, but it seems like he’s struggling with some problem he can’t figure out every other month. Half a drive left as unallocated space instead of being included in a partition, causing constant “disk full” messages, was the most recent issue. On top of bad updates. I don’t bother suggesting he switch, because I know he’s happy with it, but Windowt definitely isn’t problem-free.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Dnscrypt-proxy has no comparison, IMO. DNS encryption, caching, IP & domain blocking, local DoH. It’s so useful.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
People call Tiktok brainrot, but I feel like Windows has had the same effect on people.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
They have open source versions that run on Linux. I’d say they’re better than VSCode.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I use PDF Arranger for that.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
It used to be common.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
I though Mastodon had a search engine.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s also We are women on lemmy.ml and Women on lemmy.world?
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 2 weeks ago:
There is no safety without the guarantee of privacy. One is fundamental to the other.
- Comment on DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China. 2 weeks ago:
I use it for translations regularly, and also tts. It works well.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 2 weeks ago:
I agree completely. The healthiest our online ecosystem has ever been was when parents were required, and empowered, to make decisions for their own children about appropriate internet usage.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t used Lightroom, so I can’t comment on how similar they are either. But there are enough good options that hopefully anyone switching can find one that meets their needs. :)
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only used Nemo in Linux, but I can’t think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it can’t.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 2 weeks ago:
ART, a fork of RawTherapee, is also very good.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 weeks ago:
I can definitely see how people could find it while looking for porn. I don’t understand how people can do this stuff out in the open with no consequences .
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 weeks ago:
File-sharing and online chat seem like basic internet activities to me.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that.
I spot most of it while looking for out-of-print books about growing orchids on the typical file-sharing networks. The term “blue orchid” seems to be frequently used in file names of things that are in no way related to gardening. The eMule network is especially bad.
When I was looking into messaging clients a couple years ago, to figure out what I wanted to use, I checked out a public user directory for the Tox messaging network and it was maybe 90% people openly trying to find, or offering, custom made CP. On the open internet, not an onion page or anything.
Then maybe last year, I joined openSUSE’s official Matrix channels, and some random person (who, to be clear, did not seem connected to the distro) invited me to join a room called openSUSE Child Porn, with a room logo that appeared to be an actual photo of a small girl being violated by a grown man.
I hope to god these are all cops, because I have no idea how there can be so many pedos just openly doing their thing without being caught.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 weeks ago:
It definitely seems weird how easy it is to stumble upon CP online, and how open people are about sharing it, with no effort made, in many instances, to hide what they’re doing. I’ve often wondered how much of the stuff is spread by pedo rings and how much is shared by cops trying to see how many people they can catch with it.
- Comment on Consumer GPUs to run LLMs 3 weeks ago:
With Ollama, all you have do is copy an extra folder of ROCm files. Not hard at all.
- Comment on Consumer GPUs to run LLMs 3 weeks ago:
With an AMD RX 6800 + 32gb DDR4, I can run up to a 34b model at an acceptable speed.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 3 weeks ago:
AI CP seems like a promising way to destroy demand for the real thing. How many people would risk a prison sentence making or viewing the real thing when they could push a button and have a convincing likeness for free with no children harmed? Flood the market with cheap fakes and makers of the real thing may not find it profitable enough to take the risk.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 4 weeks ago:
It makes so much sense to have EVs be solar-powered, and would also ease my worry about running low on electricity and not finding anywhere to charge. I hope they’re a reality sometime while I’m still driving.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 4 weeks ago:
I’ve used LibreOffice for years, and formatting is a constant struggle. I end up looking online to figure out how to make a small, simple change, and it turns out the only way to do it is by messing with styles, which is way more than I want. The focus on styles is LO’s biggest drawback, IMO.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 4 weeks ago:
Collaborating with Arkenfox on default settings was nice, but wasn’t fundamental to the goals of the project. You can look at their Codeberg to see that the latest activity was a few days ago, and there have been several releases since the date of the thread you linked.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 4 weeks ago:
I remember that! Standards mode vs compatibility mode. That was a great feature, too. Opera was unique.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is very insightful.