sefra1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never get a ham license, one day I will get a 100W out of band CB rig, but as a matter of principle I will never become a ham.

  There are several reasons for it, reason number one is privacy, I would never say my legal name to strangers on the internet, for obvious safety reasons, why should I have to identify with a callsign when chatting over radio?

  Reason number two is that you can lose your license just for “swearing”? Like what the fuckl? What censorship is this?

  Reason number three, it’s illegal to use encryption on ham bands, so I can’t even have a private conversation over ham radio.

  Reason number four, I understand that licensed hams don’t want unlicensed noobs jamming their frequencies, I understand the need to reserve some of the spectrum to people who actually understand that just because you can’t hear anything, doesn’t mean you’re not jamming, but there should be parts of the radio spectrum reserved for free personal use. Reduce ham bands by half for all that I care, but I should be able to just buy a radio and transmit how many watts I need on those free bands without needing authorization from the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the user tries the “reset your device” option in the control panel. Then he’s stuck in the “please signup to your Microsoft account” screen.

  And without internet, he’s never going to figure out the obsomething/bypassnsomething command.

  Also this isn’t windows specific, my samsungs phones also doesn’t let me get pass the initial screen without connecting to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He always wants to watch the video that’s the lowest quality shit just based on the thumbnail, because they have thumbnails that stick out.

  There’s an add-on by the same guy who makes sponsorbock that replaces thumbnails (and video tittles) for more more accurate ones, maybe you want to try that.

  (Disclaimer: The add-on itself is free software (as in freedom) but the developer added the restriction that after one hour trial you can either pay or wait 24h and then you can use it without restriction. It’s an interesting model.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.

  If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.

  Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No offence taken.

  My desision comes from two factors that play together.

  First I am relatively poor and if I save to painfully save money and give up on other things that are also important so I can buy a GPU I want to make sure that I pay as least as possible for the most performance, if it takes a day to render a small animation on an nvidia GPU, it will take two days to do the same on AMD at the same price point. Besides I want to try to do this professionally one day, if that is to happen I can’t let my clients wait double, they will hire someone else.

  Also I use Linux, so trust me I would love to get an AMD instead and get proper drivers.

  The other factor is that I don’t believe my purchases as single individual make any dent in the market whatsoever. I can’t get it in my mind, I’m just one person, there are billions out there with way more money than me. The children get killed in Palestine and the data centres boil the earth no matter if I personality buy nvidia or buy from amazon or not. It’s kinda of a paradox because if everyone thinks like me then collective action doesn’t happen.

  It’s kinda similar how I would be vegan if I had to kill the animals myself, but I don’t believe that if I stop buying chicken that less chickens get raised and killed, the retailer orders 1000 chickens independently if I buy one or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would buy AMD, I really would, but for what I use GPUs for, 3D rendering on Blender (cycles), nvidia is must much faster for a card of the same price point due to optix raytracing acceleration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The outerwards part of the record can hold louder signal without the needle jumping.

  That’s why there’s actually a record that plays backward www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Afikv6k1-c because Bolero gets louder and louder as the song progresses,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For once, internet is a subscription service which not everyone can afford, just because you and all your friends can afford internet doesn’t mean everyone can, computers can be gotten for free, internet there’s no way around it.

  But for the biggest issue, windows is spyware, the only way to use it while warranting privacy is by airgapping it from the internet and running it standalone, it is also the only way to be sure to contain cracked programs to make sure they don’t distribute illegal content from your IP.

  It’s the way I run windows (when I have to) and I don’t like the prospects of not being able to run proprietary software securely when there aren’t viable libre alternatives.

  Also, software being dependent on internet and therefore some company’s server means that eventually when said server or company shutsdown the program or device becomes useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me started on that, stupid direct led brakes lights should be outright illegal. They literally blind every following car behind, specially if the windshield is dirty or foggy.

  How those damn things got approved in the first place is

  beyond my understanding
  

  corruption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify vs. Anna's Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

  • For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to [OGG Opus](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_/(audio_format) at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify vs. Anna's Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re confusing two different concepts, dynamic range compression and data compression.

  The first is like an automated volume control that lowers the volume really really fast in a matter of ms when the volume reachest a certain threshold, (can also work the other way where in increases below a certain threshold, or both).

  The reduces the file size, sacrificing quantity if a lossy codec is uses. Lossless codecs like flac are a bit to bit perfect of the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ready set go⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but I’m not a prediction engine, I am capable of abstract thought, and actually understanding the meaning of the words.

  I can also process all kinds of different data and make connection between then which includes emotional connections.

  Another cool trick, I also have this thing called a consciousness which is something I can’t explain or put into words but I know it exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No OS if fine with 8GB if you use it for anything other than browsing memes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A google pixel is very very far from being free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too expensive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlocked phones are smuggled through the channel

  Those come bound with both, government and criminal malware.

  On the bright side pedophilia was completely eradicated and all the children are safe now.

  Lol no!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This, but 2015

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube is pretty much unusable now, more than half the videos are low effort Ai slop, and the rest is just irrelevant, leaving the real content buried deep down in the algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Quik, idk if it’s the best or the worse, but it works well enough to receive login tokens which is what I use SMS for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to abandon all my online accounts from time to time and make new ones for privacy reasons, and IMO everyone should do the same, together with using different names for every website.

  Unfortunately the trend is for people using the same accounts that they made when they were 12 for the rest of their lives.

  If people were more conscious about their privacy and pseudo-anonymity then I think there would be less bias against new accounts.

  I haven’t seen this on lemmy, but on reddit there are whole communities that you can’t post if you don’t have an old account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a myth that headphones cause more ear damage than speakers.

  95dBs measured at the eardrum are 95dBs independently if the source is 10m away or inside your ear canal.

  Now most people tend to blast louder on headphones than they do on speakers, I tend to do the opposite, so in my case speakers cause more damage.

  If you “just turn it high enough to hear it” then there’s no damage. In fact if you listened to speakers you would have to probably turn it louder to overcome the environment noise than you do on headphones that muffle outside noise.

  Brb, posting dB chart (need to send the post and edit it latter or my phone kills the app when I switch apps)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to agree, unfortunately Samsung still gives the longest updates on sub 150 euro phones.

  But yeah, why does a refrigerator needs a screen in the first place? My white branded fridge must be nearing at least 15 years old, could use new rubber but apart from what still working perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The book title and the school insignia give it away, (also one ear is bigger than then other, but that could have been an artistic choice.

  Apart from there I can’t tell. A bit of digital touch up and I would be absolutely unable to tell.

  I feel that other ppl are better at spotting AI that me, for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electricity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit had a secret API for facilitating the creation and management of corporate bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tell them “I own my own private cloud” and then look smug.

  Then I may tell them “this way the CIA (don’t say NSA, older people usually don’t know what NSA is, but they know CIA) or those capitalist companies can’t spy on me”

  And I don’t find a need to go into more detail, at this point the conversation has either moved on or they say “but I have nothing to hide” and move on anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum Attacks on encryption will probably be feasible by 2030⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Which is why we all should immediately switch to post-quantum encryption possibly much weaker against conventional cryptanalysis.

  There’s no need to switch, you can just layer it, and should be done asap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was an encoding bug, lol