kane

@kane@femboys.biz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fair, and might advertise a bit just how expensive Windows still is.

  Have other companies been doing this before, I’ve heard of Dell selling Linux laptops but not sure if they’re cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How You Doin?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I work with New Yorkers and this happens all the time lol. How should I respond to this in a proper way then lol, it feels odd to respond with the same question :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how I feel mine would look if I tried to do this.

  Awesome!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Key principles on in-game virtual currencies | European Commission⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly that sounds amazing, and would help a lot of people to not over spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, I was referring to the referenced issue in the comments on this post.

  What was surprising to me, is that there were many comments, and mentions of devs, yet no acknowledgment or getting linked to another issue.

  That is a red flag to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta make sure they have an ankle monitor smart watch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They just closed the issue without even acknowledging it, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it’s not too difficult to do a better job than us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it now then be possible to subscribe to a Ghost blog from her? Or would some additional integration need to be made.

  Curious if there’s an example of a Ghost blog interacting with the wider fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🫨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saints Row reboot developer "didn't know what they were building", Saber CEO says, criticising shuttered team⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a massive saints row fan, the ‘reboot’ made my jaw drop. Even Gat out of Hell was an enjoyable title compared to this mess. And it barely even had cutscenes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get your new PebbleOS watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a blast from the past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlueSky Proposes 'New Standard' for When Scraping Data for AI Training.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I don’t mind additional standards.

  But I’m weary of: “does it really matter?”. As I’m sure just about everyone would prefer their data isn’t used, and it’s not the question that people care about.

  Instead: How would anything like this be enforced, and by who?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Save 100% with this simple trick!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compliments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks perfectly fine to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not entirely agree.

  While what you said might be true for content that we post, things like view history and tracking in itself is much more difficult. That meta data does help with tagging content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like DigitalOcean or Hetzner will set you back a max of 10 euros a month. But that does require some technical know how with a terminal.

  Would that suffice, or are you looking for something more ‘UI Based’ that will manage it for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t really have a recommendation about which, but I do about how.

  For repositories that I deem important, either for practical or nostalgia reasons, I use Gitea to keep an up to date clone. I believe most self hosted Git solutions offer a similar functionality, like Gitlab has one too that I’m aware of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought after s2 of Discovery, something exactly like that was already a thing?

  Or am I misremembering, it’s been a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very good shout, I wasn’t aware there are pre existing lists. That’s a great step, and definitely one I will look to add to my own instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My worry is that these social media alternatives might get scraped by these AI companies as well.

  Sure, a company handing it over is much easier (i.e. Reddit). But with the decentralized nature, everyone needs to protect their instances themselves, which I’m not sure how well everyone will be capable of doing that.

  Definitely much more difficult, so it’s a step in the right direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the primary reason I’ve not given agents more power than something extremely controlled (I.e. only a function to turn on/off the lights). As I was always concerned that these generational models might accidentally do something dumb or annoying, let alone something that might be illegal or harmful.

  I don’t really see how anyone would ask AI to complete something completely autonomously at this stage, without oversight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all: take a breath!

  Pihole is a great start, and an awesome piece of software. As self-hosting is quite broad, there are quite a few options, so I have two suggestions that should still be relatively simple to continue with, and that I thoroughly enjoyed when getting started.

  1. Webservers: Something like Caddy, NGINX or Apache (Caddy being likely the simplest choice here), will allow you host your own website! If you open a port on your router, this website can also be accessed remotely (be careful! Without SSL, you should not expose any forms, to avoid those being leaked). A bit outside the realm of “self-hosting” — but Cloudflare allows you to setup SSL with relative ease and also allows you to link a domain your website.
  2. Game Servers: Many options in this space, so take a pick for a game you like! I am an avid minecraft enjoyer, and regularly setup modded servers to play with my friends. You can find some more info here on how to get started with a Minecraft server implementation called “Fabric”

  Have fun! And if there is something more specific you’re curious about, feel free to ask 😀