HyperfocusSurfer

@HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's me again. My Kubernetes devolver has reached the astral plane.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Next step: convert docker to nspawn/portable sysd services

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers have found the cause of hallucinations in LLMs, H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, their approach can be used to flag likely hallucinated output and warn the user?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also kupfer (pmos but arch), ubports (ex Ubuntu touch) and droidian (similar to ubports with being halium-based but Debian and conventional DEs, hence, it’s supposed to actually run software). Mobile-nixos, to some extent, although it’s more of a PoC, in my experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sure, semantics: when laydudes think about “vpns”, they expect exactly a set of features provided by a proxy, so it’s pretty much a marketing term nowadays. Nobody really cares whether the packets between their PC and the endpoint are wrapped in wireguard or socks5, unless some protocol happens to be blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Forbid this, forbid that… How about actual fucking parenting instead? As a “zoomer” who used to use antisocial media back when I was 15 but didn’t end up encountering all this objectification crap 'til much later on in life despite being having better computer skills than my parents, let me testify that having hobbies helps. And most of my hobbies developed with considerable help from my parents whom I was able to ask for help/advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Storyden: A forum for the modern age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also on cromite. Both disable webgl by default, iirc.

  Not like a forum has a reasonable use case that requires webgl, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, IMO, “public access” includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there’s not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More like scraped. You can’t really leak smth that’s already publicly accessible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that actually looks like a nice android alternative to cinny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could rebalance power between people and the services they use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooo, how about we research actually improving accessibility of said “paying energy bills and booking healthcare appointments” instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a very unpopular opinion here, but how about you actually read stuff? I mean, yeah, there’s the whole seo prioritizing ai slop walls of text, but there’s also a close tab button (I personally can’t remember a single helpful slop article, and the overgeneralized advice they give doesn’t even worth summarizing). Dog knows how much it pisses me off that the internet turned into a place where the info gets rewritten by bots to appease other bots and then once again to make it fucking readable.

  Then, there’s that “memory” stuff. Just why exactly do people need it? Make a base prompt editable only by the user and adjustable on a per-conversation basis, and that issue goes away (probably along with a significant portion of your electricity bill wasted on processing literal garbage not relative to the current conversation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What functionality are we talking about? Genuinely curious here, since I use discord like a couple of times a year.

  From what I’ve noticed, matrix can do basically the same, except for the voice chats which are a pain to setup (and are better handled by jitsi anyways).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they seriously expect discord moderators’ faces to fit into a picture not taken from like 15m?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, “fuck new thinkpads then”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, t480/t470p ftw. The latter has better specs, the former has coreboot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *on the firmware level, to be precise: keyboard polling is commonly done by the Embedded Controller, which is flashable (not by users, generally, tho, but during the uefi update, for example). Sometimes there are separate keyboard controllers, but those are not really common.

  So, if vendors want to fix this garbage, they can. Smth tells me, they don’t care, tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI controversial smartphone sting operation led to nearly 800 arrests in 16 countries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’d have to arrest like every single FBI executive ever, and going after their own is generally frowned upon in such institutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, guess I’ll never understand that whole agentic ai craze. To me it basically looks like

  we have a tool that is relatively simple to trick into doing what it’s not supposed to. Let’s feed it arbitrary data and give it the ability to execute arbitrary code!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Razer’s AI wearable is a headset with built-in cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to consider if they should

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay-ish if you have one such app. It’s another story, however, if you have windows 11, where almost every GUI program depends on edge webview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify vs. Anna's Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Add it to the fact that, quoting from the aa’s blogpost,

  ≥70% of songs are ones almost no one ever listens to (stream count < 1000).

  The vast majority of the artists are to be “stiffed” of like $3 or less per track during the nearest eternity iff every single one of their listeners is to download the archive and only listen to locally saved copies. Which, given spotify tries to do it themselves by recommending (and, likely, creating) ai slop, tells us more about their predatory practices than of anything else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d refer you to one of the latest episodes of the privacy, security and osint show, but I don’t remember the number. So, basically, Michaels solution to that is to get an SD card, place it into a hollow coin and hide it in one of his friend’s house, so that he can later ask 'em to retrieve it 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Less suitable […] than expected” is kinda terrifying given expectations must’ve been pretty low in the 1st place knowing their history with linux…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard of it, personally, except the case with introducing a vulnerability similar to the case with the xz backdoor that wasn’t merged. Would appreciate the link, tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh-huh, sure, just about protecting the users. Nevermind that actual malware is regularly found on play store, and exactly 0 times – on f-droid they’re “protecting” the users from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delete only one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it matter, tho? To me it looks like all phones are ultimately the same for quite a while now. Pixels used to be better mostly due to providing the ability to effortlessly unlock the bootloader while being the de facto aosp testing target, but as of lately they’ve decided to fix that, not to mention their moves to enshitify away the option to side load the apps. Samsung’s always been a wannabe crapple, and crapple is crapple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3144: Phase Changes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About our extended car insurances

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TA just didn’t fit my use case when I tested it, tbh: I mainly wanted to expose a dozen or so YouTube channels as podcasts to antennapod while saving the audio and stripping integrations with sponsorblock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be wrong here, but does it really make sense when you can’t actually prove the misuse did or did not happen? Say, you suspect phishing, then it’s a matter of inspecting a few next e-mails to/from non-proton users to decide if it’s likely happening. On the other hand, when the account is blocked, proton (as long as the claims about at-rest encryption are true) has no way of verifying the claim, since, as far as I’m aware, a user can’t provide them with what they’ve sent even if they wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely, you meant github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat