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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working towards something like that. I’m hoping to ultimately drop the smartphone altogether, and I’ve set my current phone’s end of life (2027ish?) as the goal.
  I think the other thing that’s necessary to keep the same sense of connectedness is a device to receive notifications, and I have an open source smartwatch I want to program for that. I’ve been working on a notification server too (kind of like Gotify), but at the moment it’s a work in progress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  By layers I mean image layers when manipulating an image in an image editor. So I guess what you’re saying is an image would be flattened before being passed to a compression algorithm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re more qualified than me, I’ve only watched How It’s Actually Made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if hypothetically, AI could do the same with a box over text, even if it was 100% opaque. For example, if the data from the layer containing text was part of the image data passed to an image compression algorithm, and that data was somehow reflected in the output

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Misread as Pelletburo, now sad there’s no pet feeder called that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For up to 580W of fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a specific manufacturer of repairable notebooks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they had a RISC-V CPU as an experimental option for a while, but I couldn’t see it on their site recently.
  Not sure what happened with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might never get around to flipping whatever kill switch they claim to be working on, so I’m turning off as much as I can now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the record a quick web search for how to disable AI in firefox gave me this list of items to set to false in about:config :

  browser.ml.enable
  browser.ml.chat.enabled
  browser.ml.chat.sidebar
  browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
  browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
  browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
  browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
  browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
  extensions.ml.enabled
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wiki.js
  It has a few UI editor options, but I can definitely recommend the WYSIWYG markdown editor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do it that way too, but my wife is not technically inclined, so we settled on something with a web UI for editing.
  There are a few areas where the wiki is marginally better for me, the main one being the ability to do quick edits from a smartphone.
  I do really like the simple approach with a static site builder though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your own wiki, and your own social media-type service

  I post miscellaneous notes to my social media-type service, and save lists and more organised information (including recipes) to my wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like “both” is also an option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The brain cells presumably have a life span… if this technology ever gets used in consumer devices, I’d like to know how people will try and squeeze extra life out of a failing component.
  Take it out and warm it in their hands like an alkaline battery?
  Give it a shake?
  Sing to it?
  Some kind of stimulant drug?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  unsupported hardware, firmware bugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love a fridge with network connectivity and ‘smart’ features, but I’d need control over the firmware it runs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use a standing desk.
  Personally I’m waiting for someone to come up with the laying desk. I want to be fully reclining, with a couple of monitors suspended above my head, and the two halves of my split keyboard on little tables under my hands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Students who think they are chatting privately among friends often do not realize they are under constant surveillance

  This is the problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at the concentration described here!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More plutonium atoms too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Bird - avian Godzilla rip-off
  Starship Trooper - documentary about a person who obsessively kills insects “to save humanity” while wearing quasi-military uniform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone interested?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shape looks like a Darth Vader helmet, so maybe they could try leaning on the Star Wars theme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No-one suspected Bruce Wayne’s “free WiFi for Gotham City” initiative

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t even try?
  People are right, this AI thing is overblown

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe wearing a different tinfoil hat every day would mess up a person’s “fingerprint”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how much it would make sense for me as I don’t use Nextcloud for anything else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want a self-hostable open-source alternative to the shitty closed-source IM systems I’m forced to use

  I’m sticking with Matrix for now, hopefully some of the issues I’ve had will get ironed out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how you haggle with an AI

  Actually this reminds me of the story a while back about how LLMs give better results if you threaten them with physical violence. Maybe that’s one way to get a cheaper ticket?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨matrix is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as most rooms of the entire matrix network are replicated on the matrix.org homeserver

  Is this a dealbreaker for people though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can AI reliably tell if a cat is longer than a banana yet?