GreenShimada
@GreenShimada@lemmy.world
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 10 hours ago:
This is how I feel with just my spouse. Spotify absorbs so much ADD energy and immediate new music whiplash that I can’t help but be OK with it.
The alternative is to be up at 4:00am on Oct 13 ripping T-Swizzle MP3s from YT.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 2 days ago:
It’s really more like the Android apocalypse is looming. We have 11 months and some change before android phones get locked down like Apple.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 days ago:
But…I came here just for the gloating fediverse content.
What else could there be?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 days ago:
They also stopped support that allowed for easier development of custom ROMs a couple weeks back. So it’s not good news for custom ROMs. Either someone needs to form Android for good, or Linux phones are our next best bet.
Back in 2019 when the leadership changed, they moved to be 100% about advertising, which is why Google started going browser fingerprint tracking. Invasive is the name of the game. Within 6 months of that, they’re also locking down their entire ecosystem like Apples does, specifically to squeeze more data out for advertising. This isn’t an action taken in a vacuum.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 3 days ago:
Ugh, too real!
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 4 days ago:
Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 days ago:
Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that’s like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
Sorry, I mean just for the UK, US, and apparently China also.
Fortunately, the EU isn’t going down the same path, and has Estonia, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands as guides. And to just do this in the right order and do step 1: sensible digital ID system.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 4 days ago:
What’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 days ago:
Yeah, WTF is up with this? The people that will drink 3 or 4 cans of Monster a day? JFC, that shit’ll kill you, man!
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 days ago:
At some point they get large enough that the whims of users cease to affect their decision-making. If Google, Meta, and MS tomorrow rolled out a social credit system that made the Chinese version look generous, 95+% of their users would not change a THING to avoid it. Maybe 98% of their users.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 days ago:
Users are the commodity to be traded. They have what they see as a business model that’s too big to fail. And the users agree!
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 days ago:
It bothers me so much that a ZKP system is entirely possible, and no one will just do the first step of setting that up.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 6 days ago:
I did my part!
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 6 days ago:
I think we should be able to have a national class action against DOGE. 100% serious, all US citizens for sure, and anyone else with data in the Social Security database, should sue the individuals responsible for this.
Then we take the money and start a company that contracts out to the government to create a national digital ID system that is the most secure in the world, and allows for amazing anonymity.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
He 100% didn’t think this would result in criminal charges. A lot of people don’t think through the “how will this company with lawyers react to my petty nonsense?” when doing stuff like this.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
If someone tells them to, they might try until a few business interests remind them that these are also fundamental components of business networks. Once money tells them to stop it, they will.
VPN companies should just hire a lobbyist for a week and this will all go away.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
Exactly this. There’s maybe 8 politicians in the whole world that understand what a VPN is. They’re told by a lobbyist and donor that it’s a thing that is bad, now they’re out to figure out how to make it go away.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 week ago:
Consent?
As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 week ago:
PLEASE check out any privacy community on Lemmy, PrivacyGuides.org, or ugh…even /r/Privacy
Saying “I have nothing to hide” does nothing but empower the surveillance state. You are living in a surveillance state and advertising tracking data is how you are tracked.
privacy@lemmy.world privacy@lemmy.ml privacy@lemmy.ca privacy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on This is very funny to me. 2 weeks ago:
I really wish SNW would have an awkward “don’t ask” conflict with the TOS Gorn and SNW version like DS9 did with Klingon makeup. Maybe they did and I missed it.
- Comment on This is very funny to me. 2 weeks ago:
TEA! EARL GREY! HOT!
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft might agree with this.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 2 weeks ago:
Hard agree with this. Does Reddit even have lawyers, or are they just using ChatGPT? Google, Meta, and Tik Tok already paid PII misuse fines for less than this. everything listed is part of the GDPR extended PII list.
Unrelated question: How do I short reddit stock?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
OK, well what I’m trying to tell you is that unless you have some exotic hardware, Mint has the reputation of working right out of the box. Not great for gaming, so if that’s a deal breaker, then that’s it.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
Maybe try another distro? Mint 22.1 works just fine right out of the box, and at this point Claude provides actual support better than scouring 3 forums in case you need small tweaks. Other than some proprietary fingerprint reader I never use, every machine I’ve used it on has been fine.
You can just do a live install from USB and test it before even installing.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member “I’m too old to learn a new operating system!” Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
Came here to say “Well, maybe they’re corrupting your data.”
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 weeks ago:
Mr. Internet, tear down these walls! (for all these walled gardens)
Return the internet to the wild. Let it run feral like dinosaurs on an island.
Let the grannies and idiots stick themselves in the reservations and asylums run by billionaires.
Let’s all make Neocities pages about our hobbies and dirtiest, innermost thoughts. With gifs all over.
- Comment on This website is for humans 2 weeks ago:
This is how the internet used to be, for the most part. There’s no boatload of 27 JS and 15 CSS files to reference. There’s no batch of 110mb splash SVGs to load so I scroll down past 3 words and see 7 stock images before getting 1 sentence of information. It’s probably a 200kb site with a few 300kb images to load as well.
This is the work of an enlightened being.