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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  KDE’s is different (and better) in that it seemingly has no cap on the size you can make the cursor. You can get your cursor bigger than your display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just scarred from all the times where we spend x billion to expand fiber, it doesn’t happen, somehow nobody gets held accountable.

  That’s because historically, major ISPs have been given the grants (including Starlink) instead of PUDs. Public fiber is entirely different, it’s managed and installed like a public utility, not a service to be capitalized on. This is why I’ve been so focused on saying that SpaceX should never have been given $1 billion dollars. It shouldn’t have been given to any non public organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The FCC is the Federal Communication Commission for the US. They’re a US federal agency meant to do domestic policy.

  The intent of the subsidies was not for ships or international communication. It was meant for rural US properties. That’s why it should have been allocated to PUDs (public utility district). It would have been more useful for the people paying the taxes to give broadband subsidies.

  Shipping companies can pay their own way - they’re corporations and can afford it. The subsides should not have gone to SpaceX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seattle typically doesn’t get hail core cumulonimbus (supercells). It’s not the same. Plus, I simply am bringing up an edge case since the person who originally replied brought up ships when talking about rural fiber (an edge case).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know not all remote areas can be reached by fiber

  Did you miss this part? You’re arguing over something I didn’t claim, and didn’t say.

  But since you brought it up, SpaceX received nearly $1 billion in subsidies from the FCC in 2020 to support rural customers. That money is what I’m talking about. It wasn’t for ships. It was to connect rural customers because it would otherwise not be profitable for large ISPs to serve them. This billion should have gone to supporting county PUDs, not a rich nazi fuck’s company. It should have stayed with the public.

  Unless you’re saying that the billion from taxpayers should have been given to him to support ships in international waters?

  As a bonus, fiber doesn’t lose capacity just because it gets cloudy. Try using Starlink when a cumulonimbus cloud is overhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be better to support public fiber infrastructure (through PUDs) in almost every way. I know not all remote areas can be reached with fiber, but most rural areas can be. My county has done exactly that with the rural portions - they focused on rolling it out to underserved rural areas first (even though it was more expensive to do that up front). Now, those rural areas have gigabit fiber and they didn’t have to pay tens of thousands to wire it up to their homes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is likely to happen when/if trump dies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, but that doesn’t mean I won’t celebrate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to see that Graphene won’t be doing the age verification thing, because I’m afraid all new phones (including TracFones) will require it moving forward. But the hardware limitations will continue to be a blocker for people with cheap phones.

  I agree on wanting to ditch my phone altogether. Maybe if I can retire, I can ditch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel is reportedly preparing a 10% price increase for consumer CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple has their own SoCs based on ARM called “Apple Silicon”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hopefully worst case, Motorola just doesn’t ship them with Graphene (which could be a security risk anyway). Then they’d be off the hook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just a pain, it’s basically impossible to install Graphene to a TracFone because you’d have to build it all yourself, and then still be vulnerable anyway. I also doubt that you could even get it to properly build for TracFone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Banking apps work for me with exploit compatibility mode enabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your TracFone will never have the security features required and will always be vulnerable to things like Cellebrite. If it’s an Android phone, you’re also being tracked by several companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheap android devices don’t have the proper security hardware. Hopefully the Motorola phone is cheaper than a pixel though. Used pixels are also pretty cheap, all things considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with this is that most of the apps used in scams are already on the play store. I haven’t ever seen a scam which requests the user to download a third party app, although I’m sure it’s happened on occasion.

  My point is that this won’t stop most scams, and primarily cause annoyance for actual power users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an episode of Swindled all about how Ford knew this was a flaw and allowed it to happen so that they could compete in the lower end market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They just replied:

  What gave you the idea that this was a full rewrite? I moved things around with AI and added postgres support for the queries. Nobody has ever reviewed and tested anything more thoroughly than I did with this branch.

  You are twisting what it actually is. You are assuming something that is not true.

  This makes me think that they didn’t review or test it at all, lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Today, a package of a dozen “child online safety” bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Said Self-Hosting Was Hard!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Usually videos like this also make no mention of security implications and how to best secure your setup. It’s part of why shodan has so many vulnerable, public facing endpoints owned by individuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators demand investigation after ninth American killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in West Bank⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the Americans sent to fight an illegal war were fine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t remind me..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite signing it, Newsom issued a statement urging the legislature to amend the law before its effective date, citing concerns from streaming services and game developers about “complexities such as multi-user accounts shared by a family member and user profiles utilized across multiple devices.”

  Then why the fuck did you sign it if it wasn’t ready and needed amendments? Is this what you’re going to do as president too?

  Rhetorical, of course. Note how he doesn’t say he disagrees with the bill, just that it needed to consider family devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He certainly has an influence - he’s still the chairman of the board. He gets to decide who gets fired and when. In some ways, he found a way to have more influence, while being less hands-on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s called “source available”. FUTO basically did the same thing with their stuff after the community rightfully got angry over their use of “open source” in their docs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC draws heavy criticism after Olympic figure skating move⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CBC is the best way that I’ve found

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It needs to crash. If it doesn’t crash soon, things will only get worse and worse for consumers. We’re already over the edge of the cliff (imo), it’s just a matter of how far we have to fall now. If it crashes hard enough, we won’t have to live with “asking AI for permission to use the computing platform”. By the way, an LLM isn’t really capable of that at the moment, and the sooner it crashes, the less likely anything like that will happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sports tracking (running, swimming, cycling)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I have a Garmin watch and it works perfectly with Gadgetbridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bummer that it doesn’t have voice chat yet in the self hosted version. Hopefully soon - I would probably switch if they had that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DeFlock is just a front end for OSM, does that make OSM a “terrorist organization” too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This slop is why the curl maintainers had to turn off their bounty program.