arcterus
@arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 hours ago:
Ain’t no way I’m taking my shoes off in the office unless I know for a fact that the floor is clean AF.
- Comment on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams 21 hours ago:
Matrix is fragmented too, but it’s generally less fragmented in my experience (if you use a relatively well developed client). Part of this is because most people just use Synapse for their server. With XMPP, server implementations support random combinations of XEPs, and specific servers often are missing random XEPs because they’re not enabled by default and so on (thinking about ejabberd for instance here, the default config probably isn’t what most people want). I also routinely have random compatibility problems between clients pop up with XMPP. As a basic example, retracting messages is very haphazard.
Anyway, yeah, if they standardize on server and client setup for all govt instances, it’d be fine either way probably. The clients may be somewhat janky, but they can probably fix those issues more easily when they’re only focused on one client (although unless it’s like FluffyChat and cross-platform, they may need to standardize multiple clients) and server.
- Comment on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams 1 day ago:
I think there have been some attempts to do so, but they’re just not good enough (and/or end up dead after a while).
- Comment on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams 1 day ago:
The biggest problem with XMPP is what various servers and clients implement is kind of all over the place. For instance, most clients support an older version of OMEMO, but some clients support newer versions, and the different versions are incompatible.
The other issue is some platforms (iOS in particular) have pretty shitty XMPP apps filled with bugs.
I still generally like XMPP more than Matrix since ATM Matrix clients are also filled with bugs/laggy, Synapse (the main server implementation) is very resource heavy, and message syncing is kind of shit if the client doesn’t implement sliding sync (like FluffyChat). I personally think the UI for both XMPP and Matrix clients generally kind of suck, which isn’t great for convincing non-techy people to use them.
- Comment on If a high profile dissident dies in an actual accident, a lot of people wouldn't believe it's an accident and assume the government did an assassination. 1 week ago:
His naked, decomposing remains were found in the bath of the main bedroom’s en-suite bathroom, inside a red sports bag that was padlocked from the outside, with the keys inside the bag.
Bruh how does anyone think this is an accident lmao
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Except it is still encrypted to the intended recipient. As the other commenter said, WhatsApp is just another “member” of the group that you can’t see. Basically all they’d have to do is have a server somewhere functioning as a WhatsApp client. Your client sends the message to your intended recipient. It also then sends the message to their “client.” The routing server for the messages can’t decrypt the messages. All the messages are still encrypted per-member of the group and can’t be decrypted until it hits the ends, but WhatsApp is basically a mole siphoning all your messages and storing them.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Obviously it’s deceptive. But if you individually encrypt the messages you’re sending, the one you send to the receiver still can’t be decrypted by Meta, only the copy sent directly to Meta can, so the copy sent to your intended receivers is still “E2EE.”
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
So, is it basically treating every message as a “group” message where it sends it to some system WhatsApp account and then also to your intended receiver? This is what I’m assuming based on them supposedly being able to see deleted messages. Also would let them say it’s technically still “E2EE” since it’s indeed E2EE to your receiver, but it’s also E2EE to them as well.
- Comment on Humans on average get 2 hours of battery life for every hour they charge 1 week ago:
I’m so fucking envious of these people.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
If this were true (which is nearly impossible since you said “all"), stuff like Anubis wouldn’t exist since you could just toss up a crowd-sourced
robots.txtand be done with it. - Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping rjght now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore
robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it’s unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don’t like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.This isn’t even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 month ago:
I mean, they say earlier that music is actually well-preserved, but it’s disproportionately popular music. If the goal is then to preserve everything, I’d expect them to go for stuff that isn’t likely to be in some random audiophile’s collection or whatever then.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 month ago:
- Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.
- We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
- 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 at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.
Perhaps I’m reading this wrong, but is this not a little backwards? Since unpopular music is poorly preserved, shouldn’t the focus be on getting the least popular music first?
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- Comment on Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source. 2 months ago:
Is this what .ml means when they say to find a trustworthy source?
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 2 months ago:
There’s some freaky shit on ao3.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 months ago:
This whole situation has been bizarre and really poorly communicated.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 months ago:
Wtf does this have to do with kid rock
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 2 months ago:
Uh, it’s a tertiary source. It’s still a source, just not one you should be directly citing. They’re great for finding other sources though.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 2 months ago:
911 please send help
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
I think fundamentally a lot of people do not understand that just because China and Russia (or a number of other countries) are in opposition to the US doesn’t inherently make them “good.” They’re pretty much all shitty too, just in different ways than the US, yet actual problems get brushed off as “the loss of making Winnie the Poo jokes,” as if not being able to make jokes on Weibo is the problem.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
I will never understand the hypocritical surveillance state apologism when it comes to China or Russia on this site.
If China’s surveillance state was purely for the benefit of their citizens, they wouldn’t need such an extensive censorship apparatus that frequently censors minorities and minority beliefs (e.g. LGBT topics) as well as content that reflects particularly poorly on the government.
- Comment on Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder 3 months ago:
Apparently his actual desired target was the president of the Unification Church and her entire family, but he found it too hard to kill them (I admittedly find it funny that the Church president was apparently better protected than the former prime minister).
I frankly think it was more effective due to luck from what I’ve read. There’d have been less of an impact IMO if the LDP wasn’t so deeply in bed with the Unification Church. Still probably would’ve been investigations, but the LDP wouldn’t have felt so pressured to punish them.
- Comment on Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder 3 months ago:
Sort of. Basically he felt like his life was ruined, so he decided to take revenge. By shooting Abe, he forced investigation into the Unification Church, which is what he wanted. However, unlike Luigi (who I’m assuming you’re talking about lol), Abe wasn’t the direct cause of the issue that affected him, the Church and its leadership was, so this is more like shooting a Scientologist or something who is in office because the Church of Scientology ruined your life.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Actually yes, given that Yarvin is a psychotic techno-feudalist and Wolf (the billionaire) seems to be a big Trump and Musk fan. IMO anyone who supports the current US govt is either a PoS or a fool.
FUTO also tried to redefine the established meaning of “open source” until they finally changed the term to “source first” since they didn’t want to call it “source available.” Perhaps this was in good faith, perhaps this was them trying to trick people into thinking their products are something they are not. There’s also recent claims that their claimed donations to open source projects have not been done in the official way and have basically been tiny one-offs to (potentially) singular developers. Everything around Wolf is just sketchy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 3 months ago:
I feel like this about SimpleX. It was a hellish struggle to get people to use Signal (and still a bunch only use Instagram or insist on doing plain phone calls/SMS). Some of my family continuously complain that Signal is too complicated despite the interface being pretty much exactly the same as whatever app they want to use. I really don’t want to try to get them to use another app ever again.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Don’t watch his content, but my main concern would be that he worked for FUTO (literally moving to Austin to work for them), which is funded by a right-wing billionaire with connections to Curtis Yarvin, and that he’s somewhat active on Kiwi Farms.
I also admittedly find it a bit sus when tech people move to Texas given all the people that go there because of their political views.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 3 months ago:
The main issue with Session is they removed PFS when they redesigned everything. Also, it’s admittedly been years since I tried it, but I remember the app being noticeably buggy.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 months ago:
Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.