Rekall_Incorporated
@Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social
Rekall is a company that provides memory implants of vacations, where a client can take a memory trip to a certain planet and be whoever they desire.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 day ago:
Not surprising at all.
US will remain a chauvinistic plutocracy until Zuckerberg and all his goons are caught and put in ball and chains.
And that’s just one case, there is also Meta’s enablement of the Rohingya genocide, which is arguably a far more serious crime than systematic enablement of mass scale fraud.
- Comment on Findroid v1.0.0 with a complete redesign is here 3 days ago:
Looking forward to checking it out, I mostly use the windows desktops client, but updates on all platforms are great!
- Submitted 4 days ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auctionwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 week ago:
Ugh…
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 week ago:
I don’t find generic phrases such as “tolerance is at the base of civil life” to be unconvincing, especially when parroted in such an aggressively self-aggrandizing manner.
You either don’t have much life experience (and lack intellectual curiosity) or you’re just grandstanding online.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 week ago:
It’s great, a lot better than Lemmy.
The main weakness IMO is that Voyager doesn’t support most of the cool features of Piefed (core interaction works great though). I have yet to try Interstellar. The mobile WebUI is pretty good, if need a need of some polish and optimisations.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 week ago:
This is some of the most pretentious, ostentatious posturing I’ve read on this topic.
You really think people can’t see through this?
You don’t see the irony in doing the “sophomoric debate club” thing while calling those that disagree with you “Kids”.
“Dangerous trends”, “base of intolerance” or the pompous drivel about “grow my ideas and enforce and dispute them” are almost comical in their tone.
The world doesn’t work that way. This motherfucking internet forum.
Or is this a satire of American style polemics and I got played? 🤣
If it’s satire, then good play.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 week ago:
There is Piefed, it’s compatible with Lenny instances and has a whole load of useful feature for both users and moderators.
Much quicker and responsive development (I’ve been able to get two small feature/improvement requests implemented within weeks of my initial issue post).
One of the Lemmy developers is also an admin on the notorious Lemmygrad instance.
- Comment on US tech firm Palantir extends deal with French intelligence agency 2 weeks ago:
I have mixed views on this.
On one hand I agree with you, especially when it comes to dealing with Palantir or really any company that can be influenced by the US, but on the other hand there are legitimate uses for such technologies in the sphere of national security and even public security.
I would argue it’s the citizens’ responsibility to make sure that the usage of such technologies is done in a framework of checks and balances (i.e. in a responsible manner).
I don’t believe in rhetoric about “the state infinitely expands surveillance capabilities”. The state is a reflection of the voters and there is no laws of physics or chemistry that guarantees such expansion via Brownian motion or what have you. If you do have institutions going overboard (be it the state or corporations), the root cause are the citizens (examples like NK or Eritrea notwithstanding).
- Comment on US tech firm Palantir extends deal with French intelligence agency 2 weeks ago:
Incredible that they’re still contracting an American company (one that is known to be controlled by particularly corrupt oligarchs) instead of building out their own capabilities.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 2 comments
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
HBO Max isn’t really a thing in my country. Although I was surprised to find out that they do allow you to sign up; Shudder which I would be willing to pay money for gives me a page with following text:
Sorry, we are not available in your country
That’s the whole page. Well, I will continue to alternative sources for procuring your 1st party content if you don’t want to take my money.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
From what I remember, downloading, installing and logging in worked, but we couldn’t play any videos. Logging in worked on the WebUI too. That’s why initially thought this was some sort of technical issue specific to my setup or perhaps even a bunk unit (even though it could play multiple containers/codecs from the NAS).
I was honestly shocked to discover that Netflix requires per device licensing. I can sort of understanding quality restrictions on some devices, even though the DRM is broken albeit the crack is not fully public (you can easily find even 4K WEB-DL copies on the internet), but per device licensing for playback is ridiculous. They don’t even allow WebUI usage!
Who do they think they are? This is clearly an example of oligopoly corruption, on par with the russian oligarchy that de facto operates in the technology services sphere with state management (even though from my experience, the US commoner would strongly disagree with such a characterization).
- Comment on Fediverse wide cross-instance / cross-platform link substitution [UX improvement thoughts] 2 weeks ago:
Check out the linked thread asking for Reddit alternatives.
I am talking about the population of people interested in alternative platforms, so maybe like 1-2% of the Reddit’s MAUs at most. I was pretty clear about this:
…among users who are looking for alternatives to American oligarchic technology services
…
…is a massive turn off for the exact target market of the Fediverse
The market for Fedi is clearly not the total unique MAU count of American social services.
- Comment on Fediverse wide cross-instance / cross-platform link substitution [UX improvement thoughts] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen that being used. It works fine for more technical users, but it’s just an extra pain point.
- If you make links, you need to apply the service
- Different UI from whatever instance/client/platform that you are using.
I much prefer Piefed’s soon to be released link substitution feature.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
For DV it’s understandable. IMO Dolby and DTS are kinda of a scam (e.g. their lossless codecs). They are welcome to make authoring tools, but the standards should always be open and not subject to unaccountable entities that operate in a unreliable jurisdiction.
The reason I am asking about Netflix is because we got a relatively powerful Chinese Android set-top box (that is supported by a local distributor) and it couldn’t play videos in the Netflix Android app or even when logging in via web browser. The distributor said that Netflix support requires a license. After doing some research, this seems to be true for many non-American brands.
We cancelled Netflix and we are not buying any new subscriptions from American firms. I am just curious about the whole license issue.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
ugoos am6b+ works great and can playback basically anything but av1 natively if you flash Coreelec, the android side can still run streaming apps if you insist or iptv apps like tv mate since iptv support in kodi/jellyfin suuuucks
Not Netflix though, right?
We cancelled our Netflix subscription earlier this year, but I am just curious. To my understanding to install Netflix you have to use trash tier HTPC devices.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
So you’d have to either raise prices or accept a lower profit margin.
Isn’t that the point and the main benefit of competitive markets?
Agreed, regarding barriers to entry though. They need to be addressed.
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- Comment on PeerTube v8 : Manage your videos with your team! 2 weeks ago:
How do you discover good peertube channels?
I only have two subscriptions, a gaming channel that uploads to both peertube and YT and the Piefed channel.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 3 weeks ago:
I believe I2P is more for things like torrents.
I’ve been meaning to test it out (I seem to remember that it’s possible to run it side by side), but haven’t got a chance yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is how we know that the overwhelming majority of “anti woke” posturing in American society is mostly about theatrics and subservience to oligarchs.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.
Cool, but there are other instances.
Then there is the issue of communities with a decent number of subs (much more than active communities) but where the last post was 7 months ago and they have 0 MAUs. While a community with a lot less subs can have several posts per week and at least some MAUs (couple of hundred).
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
Mlem is an iOS client.
I was wondering what Mlem is. Thanks!
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
I would just try a piefed.social account.
The support docs don’t really look comprehensive.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
You have comments from different communities under the same URL post. “Multicommunities” but without user intervention.
It does have some drawbacks. For example, under this post, I can see comments from an earlier post (referring to the same URL) from over a year ago.
Piefed is also a platform, in addition to Piefed servers being instances and clients.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
This is solved by Piefed.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 4 weeks ago:
It’s massive in business environments. It is the lingua franca of business analysis (both back of the napkin analysis, proof of concept and more complicated/involved projects).
It is most definitely not used merely as “glorified visual data storage”.
- Comment on The Internet is for Extremism - by Jeremiah Johnson 5 months ago:
This is not an internet issue, this is a socio-political issue.
We have yet to figure out new modes of governance, economic relations and political systems that take in account the reality of a society with universal, high quality ICT access.
The fact that it far easier to spread misinformation is a social issue, not a technological issue. It's driven by the fact that US technology oligarch only care about engagement and they hold no responsibility for their actions (and cannot be prosecuted due to broad support for corruption and criminality in American society).