pogmommy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My server is in the corned of my bedroom. How the hell can I be operating in China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil, Norway, or The UK if my bedroom is in none of those countries?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Impressive that theyre finally adding a feature that ive already been using. Makes you wonder how they do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic online safety to you and me can be a bit high-level for many, disproportionately so for those who are going to remain on Windows 10. I don’t like Windows, either 10 or 11, but most of the hardware losing support with 10’s EOL can run a secure and modern operating system just fine, and Windows 11 could have been that if not for the overhead of Microsoft’s telemetry and other bloat. Home users lacking computer proficiency are being thrown under the bus so that Microsoft can generate metric tons of ewaste as they force their enterprise customers to purchase new hardware. With fresh new license keys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong but I think the takeaway is to hold both groups responsible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I care enough about higher than 1080p displays is on my computer monitors so I can multitask on one display without UI elements getting mangled. If I’m playing a game or watching a video, I really can’t tell between 1080 and 4k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Debian as my daily driver and am disappointed to see that the best-supported devices under Mobian within my budget are the Pinephone (which has shockingly low specs) or the Pinephone Pro (recently discontinued, no longer sold. Also had poor specs).

  I was toying with was getting an SBC with an LTE/5G hat & 7in touch screen, plugging it into a portable battery, and 3d printing a case for it.

  Fairphone with PostMarketOS seems more practical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wanted you I was gonna steal your house, and you didn’t leave, you’d be okay with your children being murdered? You’re fucking nuts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue kernel-based anticheats are one of the areas gaming on Linux excels. Video game developers should not have that level of permissions over consumers’ machines, certainly with how little your average gamer understands the potential consequences of these rootkits. So the fact that all of the ones I know of can’t be installed under Linux is more than acceptable, it’s ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just the one? You block the rest already?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bought an iodd a few months ago to do my part 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t believe anything. It’s a language model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not malicious in nature

  Haha, sure thing William

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not feasibly, no. If a centralized platform like bluesky refuses to abide by the laws in a given country, their platform can be made inaccessible in that country. Trying to do that to countless activitypub-compliant servers wouldn’t be practical since you van just hop to another server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God that’s ridiculous… the image hash depends on the image not having changed at all from the one uploaded by the user. If they’re screenshotted and cropped, or sent via a messaging platform that compresses them, they’ll be visually similar enough to not matter, and different enough to have a different hash. So, Zuck gets a free peek at your your nudes, and all you get is a false sense of security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First heard about this a few hears ago- apparently it’s got Wayland support now, including for tiling WMs like sway? Thats super impressive, I’m gonna see if I can get it set up and running real quick because I just gave up on remote access on Sway when I last tried to check out the options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Solid-State Disk Drive, it’s a regular hard drive with the platters hot-glued to stay still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was even so generous, he used a device with a preinstalled keylogger!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dia, The Browser Company’s AI-first browser, launches Mac beta - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they traded in their dumb primary product for an even dumber product that will die with the fad of cramming ai into absolutely everything. That confirms there’s no reason to ever trust “the browser company” to make a product worth investing in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It already is one if you’re not a coward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How in god’s name is this promoting worker ownership of Apple’s phone production processes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue it’s a prerequisite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on what you’re using it for, the gsuite office alternatives are incredibly feature-sparse. Last I checked, a lot of essential features such as accessibility checking and scripting either have nightmarish implementation, or require third-party addons. It also requires an internet connection and can’t save in-progress documents to your local storage.

  Honestly the only leg up over the others that I think the GSuite really has is the seamless collaboration features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  extremely incorrect buzzer sound

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government is coming for Google and Meta – but what will happen next?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a perfect world, lead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a mastodon server operator you have my word that I will wipe my ass with any takedown requests from the Turkish government, and encourage any Turkish users to get a fucking VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz are United States fascist politicians. I assume so is the other person named, but the only Engels I’m familiar with is Friedrich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Miserable bait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, because proprietary software is never abandoned. At least foss leaves you with the source code so you or other folk can carry on the torch in the original dev’s absence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky will be in the same boat given enough time. Mastodon is the only proper stand-in for twitter.