ronigami
@ronigami@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 days ago:
That was this April
- Comment on Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog 5 days ago:
DDoS is a problem that happens once in a blue moon. Most people don’t need DDoS protection.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 5 days ago:
Most vendors are not going to trace you like that. They can, but it’s actually kind of hard and not “easy.”
- Comment on Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
This is such a random acquisition. It’s like IMDB buying some film aficionado’s tumblr profile.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 5 days ago:
Don’t forget that with money comes expectations though. Managing contributors is not easy.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
Hubris is a hell of a drug
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
This is what happens when you act for no reason like you’re better than the US.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 weeks ago:
just call him by his name ffs
- Comment on Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, the market right now is bent toward large existing players. There is room for competition for Lyft and Uber for example. If you can find workarounds for regulatory obstacles.
- Comment on What a welcoming party 5 weeks ago:
Women’s Tinder profiles in San Francisco be like
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 5 weeks ago:
Nah, ludditism is the way. Sincerely, a tech bro.
- Comment on Forgejo v13.0 is available 5 weeks ago:
It’s like, there if you want it, but you totally don’t have to download. No pressure at all!
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 1 month ago:
It’s not AI doing that.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 month ago:
What carrier do you use with a pinephone?
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
And further it ‘should’ help build support for Lemmy et al’s right to exist
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 months ago:
Maybe that’s why all their stories suck, completely unfounded in reality
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 months ago:
Got a better word?
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 months ago:
The sky is huge. In theory you should be able to avoid most crashes just by separation rules which can be automated.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 months ago:
Yes, but to fulfill that requirement the company would have to be around to review the code changes and merge and provide QA. For 15 years.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 months ago:
Then you can have a company that acquires the original failed company and provides “support” in the form of one bugfix per year.
All of these solutions are gamable except for requiring that the solution be open source from the get-go.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 months ago:
This would almost certainly rule out Linux as an option. What Linux vendor feels comfortable committing to something for 10 years?
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 months ago:
It’s more accurate to think of them as irrational beings with brain disease making them unable to think clearly. They have vague intuitions and a complete inability to think rationally.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
Nazi salutes and brotein supplements
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
to be fair, she probably also wasn’t at that time. money ruins people
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
idk, I was a kid and harry potter wasn’t real, so that kind of sucked for me
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 months ago:
Put the house in a faraday cage?
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 months ago:
How many people do you think live in Oregon?
The majority of Oregonians live in Portland metro area.
A similar stat can be found regarding Seattle metro, and Washington has more blue cities than OR.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 months ago:
That’s a good example of why the goal should be to find services which are less intrusive and less monitoring heavy.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 months ago:
How is that easier? That’s just only very slightly harder, not easier. Most sites will not have such sophisticated logic. And anyway, the purpose is to suss out which websites do this kind of tracking and avoid them entirely, not to thwart the tracking.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 months ago:
Meanwhile I installed the User Agent Switcher extension for firefox to change my user agent every 30 seconds to something random to avoid tracking. A few websites don’t accept it. I just quit those websites and find a non-billionaire-owned alternative like Kagi or Fastmail. So far it’s working out well.