porcoesphino
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- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 1 day ago:
In your OP, sure.
But this comment reads as a desired state, and in some situations thats a feature request (in this case it seems like there are architecture / system workarounds):
I don’t want email to be accessible to those services. I don’t want those services to use email at all.
Did you get an explanation you’re happy with?
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 1 day ago:
I don’t think that assumption was inherent in the comment
If you want an unpopular feature that doesn’t exist on an open source platform sometimes your only options are to code it, or ask someone else to. The skillset of the feature requester doesn’t change that
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 2 days ago:
And blocked
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 2 days ago:
What’s new:
- edit PDFs
- new privacy protections
- tab group previews
- dropped support for 32-bit linux
And honestly I’d stop there and say “and more”
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 2 days ago:
Also, the summary of the release notes is not the release notes. You cared about every dot point in those release notes equally? There are no larger broad changes?
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 2 days ago:
Why post it here? I personally don’t think every Firefox release is interesting enough to post to the !technology@lemmy.world channel so when a release is interesting enough to post here I figure there are reasons and that they are easy to note along with the URL.
I suspect most people have some feelings are the same because I suspect most people would be unimpressed if the channel included every minor release of everyone’s torch apps. The exact reasons something is interesting varies for people. For some people anything Firefox might be enough. For others it might only be interesting when they do something big like trying to come up with a new solution for tracking ads. Since its a community, I kind of think a good post needs to include the highlights of what is meant to be interesting to help out the others in the community, especially if they might not naturally see the same things as interesting
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 2 days ago:
The Firefox browser itself tells me there is an update. An update could be interesting here to read about, so make the case with the highlights.
Personally, I’m pretty inclined to downvote any post that is a link without a short summary or context. I appreciate that’s not everyone.
And personally I think it’s important to say why you downvote. The poster can choose what to do with that information and I’ve got no expectations for them to change how they do things
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 days ago:
Downvoted for not giving any sort of summary of the larger features and fixes
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 6 days ago:
4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss
How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I’d be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It’s basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It’s tedious mapping out so I’m not lowering ratings for good places so I don’t rate anymore.
But getting past me being difficult, you can’t even rate 4.5 can you? Isn’t that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?
You’re right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn’t label that as really accurate.
It’s a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a “cleanliness” rating
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 6 days ago:
Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn’t) but “the star ratings are scarily accurate”? I think you mean “hugely inflated”. Like almost any review system a I’ve seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you’re hurting it.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
I think it’s a bubble but I’m also suspicious we’re near peak investment and think it could sustain for a while yet. I wonder what sort of range he’s projecting for the peak and timeframe
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics? 1 week ago:
The BookLore Github:
github.com/booklore-app/booklore
Has a shelf of comics to see how reading on the server works:
demo.booklore.dev/library/3/books?view=grid&sort=…
It looks like I might be misremembering though, and there might not be a torrent search / download.
For downloads then looking at my docker compose it looks like I chose LazyLibrarian over bookshelf but I can’t tell you why.
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics? 1 week ago:
I asked something similar (its just asking about ebooks) and some of the answers there may help:
I have notes for a follow up but I didn’t finish my testing and am still using mostly commercial options.
I think I didn’t find anything good for syncing between devices (unless own a kobo reader) but Calibre OPDS was workable as a server and both Booklore and Calibre Web had options for downloading but both have to deal with book torrents often not being available / bundled without the name and I think I liked Booklore more, but was going to go with Calibre Web since I thought I could share the library file (and I travel so for now my “server” is a virtual machine on my laptop that is often not running).
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
They weren’t my instances. There are some public instances floating around so, before trying to self host, I gave them a shot. I can’t remember the specifics well. For me to bother investing time testing, I may have had a query that was irritating me on Duck Duck Go and Google so it might not have been a particularly fair test
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
For anyone curious how well it works, I just noticed they have a trial:
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
Every SearXNG instance I’ve tested has been terrible for my test queries. Any chance you can account for that?
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 2 weeks ago:
Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don’t they? The collapse tends to come later after to consolation I thought and I hadn’t seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?
- Comment on Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life 2 weeks ago:
I could guess that either the author at popular mechanics just found it / just dug it out of their reading list or one of the authors of the paper reached out as part of promoting their research?
I think a year ago as someone learning biology from Khan Academy and reading about endosymbiosis and reading what I could about LUCA theories with some chemistry background then whats written here just seems like a likely possibility. The paper doesn’t seem like strong evidence and it seems like there is a lot of guess work for early life. The teams making artificial cells are doing interesting, scary work there.
But I’m no expert here, I was just pointing out the source material and a summary
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I don’t have epilepsy so I’m not avoiding YouTube because of this filter, I’m avoiding YouTube because of the money Google keeps giving to Trump and because I noticed that my tech usage isn’t very diversified and it was pretty all in on the US. From that perspective, it removes ad revenue
- Comment on Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life 2 weeks ago:
Downvoted.
This article points to another article:
phys.org/…/2024-12-genetic-code-textbook-version.…
And this article points to the study:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410311121
The phys.org article is decent, unlike the one linked, but it’s also a minor iteration and not huge like the title would suggest. The meat of it is basically these two paragraphs:
The study revealed that early life preferred smaller amino acid molecules over larger and more complex ones, which were added later, while amino acids that bind to metals joined in much earlier than previously thought. Finally, the team discovered that today’s genetic code likely came after other codes that have since gone extinct.
The authors argue that the current understanding of how the code evolved is flawed because it relies on misleading laboratory experiments rather than evolutionary evidence
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, they also have little to gain now besides a slight feeling of doing something good but any alternative has to start from somewhere and need to get momentum.
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, YouTube is really entrenched.
It’s not that hard to set your peertube account to autoupload any YouTube channel but we only get away with the IP issues while peertube is small so it’s not very sustainable.
I wish more of the creators that have ethical issues with the Trump administration’s actions would acknowledge that Google is enabling and actively supporting (at least through larger than usual donations to) the Trump administration and then choose to upload anywhere else, even if they keep uploads in two places. I wonder if they lose more IP control on peertube, it seems unlikely given the alternative is Google. I’ve tried to message a few creators but I think the larger ones have either contracts of fond memories of the community that they grew from.
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 2 weeks ago:
Ahahaha. A title cautioning not to watch YouTube with the description of the situation being… a YouTube video.
I’m avoiding YouTube so for others like me that want more info here’s a BBC article on the filter itself (not the failure mode):
bbc.co.uk/…/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-…
YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people’s videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp
And an Invidious link that lets you view the video:
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
You did well in your answer by the way. I didn’t downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but they add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Ahaha. All the people from the US downvoting this 🤦♂️ So many solutions to questions like this a just easier and more intuitive in metric. Tec diving is just hilarious in imperial units
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
This is close, if you haven’t seen it. It plays off of the “earth is smoother than a bowling ball” thing that’s almost true but turns it around:
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 2 weeks ago:
Agreed after the yes.
I’m not sure how what you said either: justifies the comments not fitting that label; justifies that “any practice that restricts my personal freedom in any way is bad” is a practical ideology; or even establishes much a link between what you’ve quoted and what you’ve said. And I think you need to be doing one of those to be making a counter argument