muusemuuse

@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Set one up as a cache of things you like. Have it fetch things with punch flat and filter out the ads. Then you can watch whatever you want even after Google takes it down for no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reticulum doesn’t need a cellphone tower either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you hear the fan? If no, it’s probably fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the term “inference machine”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Land why would anyone expect Taiwan to give on this? They don’t benefit at all.

  Art of the deal my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Solution “payments process through the system only at the price you posted. If this isn’t done, the ad pointing to you doesn’t come down and new ones don’t go up. You only get X number of posts simultaneously.”

  But then we’ve have another app to juggle all the account created to circumvent this so fuck it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they paying for your phone? Are they giving a stipend for your service? Then tell them to fuck off and give you a yubikey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A Linux phone could theoretically use other networks. You could pipe traffic through I2P or bounce it around multiple network types with reticulum. It’s actually theoretically possible to make a community mesh that doesn’t need cellular at all. I don’t NEED to carry the entire internet with me everywhere. I can carry a device with a cache of stuff I need but for everything else I can just connect to some sort of network to fetch it when I actually need it on demand.

  A Linux phone would let you do that. You can explore that possibility. Android and IPhone will never allow that because latency is shot on the alternative networks and they aren’t expensive enough to make a profit off of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they are planning for if people rise up to fight back. It’s not about protecting you. It’s about protecting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meshtastic might not be the best tool for this. Reticulum is more versatile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entry-Level NAS recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had synology, QNAP and a few DIY builds. I can tell you the diy route is better every time. They get a much longer life and lower costs.

  If cheap is the most important thing and you don’t need more than 2 drives, consider an odroid HC-4. You can always 3D print a different shell for it if you want too. I made a cylinder Mac Pro shell for a friends dads build.

  You can’t rely on mass produced NAS devices because they don’t support their stuff long term. It always blows up. And when the In go wrong in the short term, the support is trash tier. I once had a synology that would crash every time it went to sleep and it would ignore my attempts to sleep off. When I got hold of support, they told me to open the SSH port to the WAN for it and they would get to it in a week or 2. Damn thing was attacked instantly.

  Never use an off the shelf NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entry-Level NAS recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why even buy the raw discs? Their SSDs are trash (including their SanDisk offerings) and for hard drives seagate is perfectly fine. If I’m oka with high a cheap SSD, I’ll just buy an inland drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They already ruled on this in favor of allowing you to back up what you already own. See video games, DVDs and CDs, video tapes, this is well established already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “If you keep using our tech to slaughter Palestinians we’re going to have put a stop to it….later….after they are all dead and we’ve made our money”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hilarious Qualcomm keeps claiming this is their tech. They failed for years to make ARM on pc happen. Then some engineered leave Apple after the transition to M-series chips and make their own equivalent for PCs and Qualcomm, on contract with Microsoft to deliver an ARM chip for windows-powered portables just fucking buys them and clamps their branding on it. There is a HUGE difference between the X series Qualcomm chip and their previous SQ-series science fair trash. The X series are good chips. Their Linux support is lacking but for most users who wouldn’t consider leaving windows even if it gave them cancer these are perfectly fine chips. We need more diversity in the chip market and ARM is great for that. Qualcomm sucks is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pinch flat. GitHub. Go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This entire thing has been made needlessly complicated. Easy fix though.

  1. Get whatever ebook you want.
  2. Borrow some code from GitHub and teach a raspberry pi with a camera and a few servos to snap pictures of pages, turn the pages, snap again into a PDF.
  3. A script then parses all the images and OCRs them for the final PDF.
  4. You now own a backup of your DRM book, which you own forever. Pretty sure this is actually legal under DMCA since you are taking a backup of something you allegedly own. The encryption circumvention is irrelevant.
  5. now, break the law and throw the PDF on the internet to everyone. Go little bot! Go go go!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile in the US, rich assholes are firmly convinced coal and oil are the future.

  God I hate this place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLX1s is Launched⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want tap to pay. It’s thing the mainstream phones have that Linux phones don’t that I want. Well that and wireless charging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help! OPi 5 Plus UEFI not booting from any disk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Occurs is proxmox for ARM? Thats a thing?! I cannot wait to play with this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I2P container⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I don’t use mine much, but I leave the note out to help the swarm so others may benefit. Even un throttled, it uses barely any bandwidth and it seems like a good fallback plan for if things get even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I2P container⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It works and it’s easy to set up. It’s going to get faster and more important soon given streaming is dying and the Nazis are censoring everything they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damnit, I was planning out a project that was incompatible with nvidia and intel GPUs solved the problem cheaply and well. Now they basically announce they are killing Xe?!

  I hate this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial Intelligence Spots Hidden Signs of Depression in Students’ Facial Expressions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it easier to just assume everyone is depressed in 2025?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is already illegal, which they know. It’s not about the porn. It’s about seeing what they can get away with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two prong test for communications: can it do porn? Can it do cat videos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, nothing is new. It came from something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would have made sense if done years ago. Doing it now is suspicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While that is concerning, it’s not something that would scale well. Mesh networks don’t have the bandwidth for all the telemetry data from tons of users all at once. It wouldn’t work unless they cut back on the amount of data they wanted to get and they will never be asking for less data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow we had second life before Roblox and as bad as some places there got it still was never as awful as Roblox.