A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 1 day ago:
That’s a pretty weak and evasive follow-up to your strongly voiced opinion.
- Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 1 day ago:
Could you please clarify?
The fact checking is in the phones he presents; what I’m interested in is how he got them; he explained that well in the beginning, but I’ll admit I took him at his word. Maybe you have more on that?OTOH, a web search shows a few articles that find the exact same things on separate devices.
What exactly is your criticism here?
- Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 1 day ago:
That was extremely interesting, thanks for sharing.
So well explained, in-depth yet not too jargon-y.
In the end, analyzing this device gives a pretty good picture of what it’s like in North Korea, not just wrt smartphones.
- Comment on A look into the spending habits and lifestyles of the ultra wealthy 2 days ago:
Thanks Johnny, this was a very nice breakdown. It doesn’t have to be more complicated to understand how tax evasion works.
FYI, he discusses obscene wealth in 3 stages: 100 million, 1 billion and 100 billion.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 days ago:
Aren’t datacenters more like the factory halls for the looms?
And in any case, who is destroying them (the weavers)?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 3 days ago:
Yes, different article, also on Not The Onion.
Didn’t read, but I suspect the LLM was prompted to reply in this way. Still funny, considering it is known that Musk tries to tweak it in his favor.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 3 days ago:
Fully agree with the class struggle aspect here.
Weavers destroying industrial looms. How would that translate to today?
- Comment on Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets 3 days ago:
GOOD
half a billion
peanuts for Meta I guess - but keep them coming, the EU has 27 member states
- Comment on Wagner Group activities in Africa - Wikipedia 3 days ago:
Yes, all this shit is still happening while the world is looking elsewhere. China is also neocolonialistically active on the African continent, and I’m guessing the USA as well (still, despite MAGA).
I was wondering what happened to Wagner after Prigodzin died. Wrt Africa, it’s now the MoD’s Africa Corps.
They are continuing where Wagner left and if anybody ever tells you that Wagner is “not active in Africa anymore”, that’s the truth behind that.
- Comment on The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable 3 days ago:
Yeah this is bad, seeing what some people patent, apparently just hoping it will stick and make them some money down the line.
I was going to put some particularly egregious examples here, but there’s too much choice - just search “worst dumb us patents” or some such.
OK, this article focuses on dumbness, not weirdness, which is what I was going for:
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A stick. Seriously, in 1999, someone received a patent for a toy made of “any number of materials including rubber, plastic, or wood including wood composites” for “an animal, for example a dog, to either fetch, carry or chew” and including “at least one protrusion extending therefrom that resembles a branch in appearance.” While the description is bad enough, you have to look at the image submitted to fully appreciate how ridiculous this one is. USPTO actually granted a patent on a fake stick.
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My all-time favorite dumb patent is Apple’s design patent for… a rectangle with rounded corners. Granted in 2012, Apple received a patent for the shape of its product, which is pretty standard. It’s a rectangle. It has rounded corners. The entirety of the single claim reads, “The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described,” with several pictures of what looks to be the shape of an iPad.
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- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 4 days ago:
a routine configuration change
Honest question (I don’t work in IT): this sounds like a contradiction or at the very least deliberately placating choice of words. Isn’t a config change the opposite of routine?
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 4 days ago:
Was that a threat?
“Google might break! Please be careful!” - the threat of a good time.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 4 days ago:
Let’s be very clear: Pichai is one of the Very Big assholes whose name should be uttered in the same breath with Thiel, Altman, Zuckerberg etc.
He drew comparisons to the late 1990s Internet boom, which saw early Internet company valuations surge before collapsing in 2000, leading to bankruptcies and job losses.
“We can look back at the Internet right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the Internet was profound,” Pichai said. “I expect AI to be the same. So I think it’s both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this.”
Equating the dot-com bubble with the internet. Only a $trillion company CEO could spout such bs. And the misinterpretation translates very well to AI.
Frankly, what I’m getting from this article is “Hey, we’re not the #1 in the current hype, so would everybody else please slow down a little so we’re all at least on equal footing again?”
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 5 days ago:
Thanks for that!
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 5 days ago:
Lemmy.world that i use was though.
So what does that entail - the site was completely down, or images didn’t load?
Would I even notice that in my unaffected instances feed? Just no lemmy.world posts at all, or would it leave empty placeholders?
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 5 days ago:
I didn’t notice and I’ve been on Lemmyverse the whole day, on and off. Different time zone though (Eastern Europe) so I’m not sure how that translates to “this morning”.
- Comment on Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work 5 days ago:
Apparently this is not about software licensing so much as about the services Rebble provides:
Core would spearhead the development of brand new watches, and we’d be there to provide our Rebble Web Services to go with them.
It now seems Core wants to just keep on using these services as their own. I read a few paragraphs but I gave up when they go back 9 years to explain it all.
But this isn’t the first time a company tries to steal what isn’t theirs, under the auspices of FOSS, and my benefit of the doubt definitely stands with Rebble here.
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 6 days ago:
It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.
Of course you’re still right, but with that in mind the list is much longer than you think.
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 6 days ago:
I was going to comment that I really miss that extra step. A local server on Android sounds like a major PITA, not to speak of the possibility of continued data mining.
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 6 days ago:
How would you serve from the phone into the internet? The only option I see is via WiFi to a router and hope your ISP gave you a static IP.
- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 6 days ago:
What a stupid headline. Negative clickbait.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 6 days ago:
You’re correct, I misread that as the VPS provider. TBF (to myself) I think OP is confusing things themselves.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 6 days ago:
can the provider over which I rent the domain with servers in my country actually see what our traffic is? Especially since we are streaming our movies etc.
That’s what encryption is for, a.k.a. HTTPS in this case.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 6 days ago:
If there’s several of you, really, get a dedicated IP address. Usually not possible for normal priced home connections, but a full (not shared) VPS with decent storage/performance can be had for under €10/month.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
I could never use regular earbuds. To me the above mentioned was a far superior design.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 1 week ago:
It being alien to me does not mean I am above it.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 1 week ago:
I wish I could be above it all like you
dafuq?
I have seen you around and I usually like your contributions but you really seem to misinterprete what I said here.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 1 week ago:
I’m not highroading anything; that sort of human behavior is just alien to me, which is why I did not get the point, which is what OP was asking about.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
Tinnitus? Yes, if you listen to very loud music a lot, for years and years. Deaf? No.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
Yep, me too. I had a type of headphones way back when, one they don’t build anymore because it brings the speaker membrane too close to your inner ear. That, the kind of music I liked to listen to, and many loud live concerts…
