Truscape
@Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism 2 hours ago:
Transparency increases trust, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.
- Comment on Yeah 2 hours ago:
“I’m cringe, and that’s based
I’ll never be based and that’s not cringe
There’s no one I’d rather be
than me.”
- Comment on Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing' 15 hours ago:
Lemmy is addictive in the same way that attending a routine community center event is addictive - you’re happy to come back and see old and new faces, and contribute towards keeping the conversations going.
If you want to set up a new event (instance/community), you can do it yourself, in your own environment, without external pressure.
I would call Facebook, Reddit, IG, etc… more like a casino. You pull constant refreshes for dopamine hits, are feed a stream of ads and content that ostracises you if you don’t stay with the current, and have no control over your personal data or any works you create.
- Comment on Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing' 1 day ago:
We’re slowly snowballing some of them here, luckily :)
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 1 day ago:
Is that the compressed version? Kiwix’s latest copy is roughly 100GB including images.
- Comment on Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent 1 day ago:
Lol even
- Comment on Downvote this post 3 days ago:
Better than I can draw, this shit rocks
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 3 days ago:
'cause they did, mate.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 3 days ago:
Good ol’ Streisand, coming to save us from people’s bullshit coverups.
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 3 days ago:
Ah on the storefront side, sorry. I made an educated guess, but I guess it’s not a good one XD.
Here is the Stoat/Revolt wiki with a complete list of clients (official and 3rd party) that you can check btw: wiki.rvlt.gg/index.php/Stoat_Clients
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 3 days ago:
Stoat has 3rd party clients that are easy to install, I already got the Clerotri app downloaded directly from Accrescent on GrapheneOS (although I believe they have an F-Droid release).
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 4 days ago:
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to establish “el paquete” for those communities. Probably could even get reasonable financial support from the community out of it.
- Comment on sometimes it feels like corruption will never end 4 days ago:
Sir, this is a shitpost comm.
- Comment on Hrmmm 4 days ago:
For consumer bluetooth earbuds with a high level of latency (think what you’d use on your phone), certainly - which is why you should never try to use everyday use headphones as genuine hearing protection for things such as industrial environments or gunshots.
Dedicated hearing protection devices perform all their audio functions locally with almost no latency at all (unless you count using an aux jack in conjunction for something like two-way radios, which don’t interfere with the noise cancelling).
TL;DR - yes for devices not designed to protect your ears, no for devices designed as hearing protection (because of their specific design and operation).
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 days ago:
Huh, TIL. I do have a pair of purely passive muffs (from my father, presumably acquired in the 90s/00s) that I could use if need be. I got the Razor slims a bit back because of a clearance discount at a sporting good store, glad to hear there are other options in their price range though.
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 days ago:
Don’t ear protection like the Razor Slims function both with active noise cancelling and without electricity? Active noise cancelling is useful for hearing the range instructor, but I’d imagine the seal and cushioning would also provide adequate hearing protection.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 week ago:
Safely using an insecure device swiftly becomes a hobby, unless you give in to the default experience.
I installed GrapheneOS, installed my apps, and I’m done. If I want to deny telemetry or to set up something like the duress password, it’s one to two taps.
iPhone users, man… stop drinking the fucking punch.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s a rational line of thinking, because there are documented filings of attempted file access into FOSS programs that the FBI are unable to influence and are completely unable to access, such as Veracrypt/LUKS encrypted PCs and GrapheneOS in BFU/Duress password entry status.
Now, Apple is indeed a proprietary ecosystem, and as such unable to have community outside assurances that their system is completely trustworthy. However, Lockdown has now joined the ranks of other systems of data security that have been proven effective against a warrant, perpetuating the cycle in which nations such as the UK (and the US during the Crypto Wars) have tried to overtly undermine the technology through public actions after failures to covertly crack them. You cannot classify mathematics, physics, or cryptography, and there is no such thing as a perfect backdoor (despite some senators’ opinions).
With all that being said, I still wouldn’t trust an iPhone, but I don’t think that proposed line of thinking meshes with the FBI.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 1 week ago:
IIRC he just washed his hands and moved on from it, which probably was the right call given the Acti-Blizz merger and Microsoft buyout.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
Where would 1440p lie on this?
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
- Retro games can totally on the market for completely unreasonable prices, look at any of the NDS pokemon games for a quick point of reference - especially insulting compared to the ease of using a flashcart.
- Damn, you’re one of those hardcore collectors. I’m just the kind of person that bought a 3ds for the unique hardware layout and emulate the rest of Nintendo’s handhelds on my Steam Deck, but different strokes I guess.
- The 3DS carts I believe are the most prone to failure - most of what I read comes from the Animal Crossing and Pokemon communities (probably due to their dedicated fanbases), so that’d be the primary concern. Considering you can regularly rip your carts using a modded 3DS, staying ahead of it would probably be wise (I’m not hatin’ on the collection, but even diehard physical media collectors should rip their copies for safety).
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
3ds and DS cartridges both have a limited lifespan and are likely to experience save failure as the years pile on - have you considered hacking your 3ds and getting a flashcart for DS games?
(You also won’t be giving money to scalpers on ebay)
- Comment on Pro-Russian Narratives Target Wikipedia, Marking a Dangerous Trend for AI Chatbot Data 1 week ago:
Wikipedia has guides for it; Check the downloading wikipedia section. The most popular offline client atm is Kiwix reader
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
Steam is a distribution platform, with DRM provided as an optional feature for the developer. If I wanted to play Deltarune without using the steam launcher, I can go to the downloaded directory and simply launch the executable. For convenience’s sake, most users will use the steam client to launch their games, and some games force you to due to developer choice. In order to play the game I wanted to play though (Deltarune), steam only served as a storefront and a download repository.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 2 weeks ago:
There are games on Steam that don’t have DRM (since it’s not a requirement from Valve). The most prominent examples I can think of are games from Toby Fox and Klei Entertainment.
- Comment on The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice 2 weeks ago:
I get this is sarcastic, but honestly looking on Nvidia’s history competing in the dGPU space is really eye opening to their current corporate behavior.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 2 weeks ago:
This would be like Big Oil investing in Enron, no?
- Comment on Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround 2 weeks ago:
Anna’s Archive, time to step up to the plate?
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
2032 is the cutoff for IOT LTSC, so 6 years actually.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
Something like Winboat would be more useful for edge cases like that.