sunbeam60
@sunbeam60@feddit.uk
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 9 hours ago:
In a world of corporate control over everything, I’ll take my globally defined, physical interface standard thank you.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 day ago:
The way the old Norse gods intended it to!
- Comment on Does he think he is The King? 5 days ago:
I’ve given you an update, only because I’d like to encourage a diversity of opinions here.
But can I ask you some questions:
- Does Farage’s connections to Russian money concern you?
- Do you genuinely believe Farage cares or understand everyday people’s concerns and situation?
- What changes is it you seek that you feel only Reform will deliver?
Cheers
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
That’s a hell of a lot better than most other systems. If true, and if scalable, this is a huge innovation.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
And if there is a known high wind coming, the plant can forcefully go through the compression cycle to remove the bubble.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 week ago:
Depending on where you are in China, I agree. But the benefits are very unevenly distributed.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
They’re like kids trying to damn up the stream in the forest. They’re all enthusiastic at the start and then they realise the power of water and quickly give up. Still, for a few moments, it gives them a sense of control.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 weeks ago:
Same here.
I self host photo storage, which leaves originals untouched. It’s got a parity drive. There’s a hot spare. Every night it gets backed to up two different cloud providers that both host their own hardware, on two different continents (OVH, Germany and Backblaze, US East). The entire thing gets written to two offline disks every six months, for worm protection. I run recovery exercises a couple of times a year.
It would take a dinosaur killer asteroid for me to lose access to this data.
Imagine giving all that to Apple?!
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
Totally. This is the data equivalent of a “new battery tech will revolutionise your phone” post.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
Tbh my own personal use case is getting buried with all of my data and become some kind of data-“Tollund man” in the year 4000, when they dig up my data cube and study it endlessly.
I expect them to build a reading device to do this; it’s the least I would expect if they want to study the holiday I was on in Bergen, or completely misunderstand the two hotdog pictures I happen to have as some kind of fellatio training device.
“Myes, we do believe family structures were loosely organised around the remote picture beaming devices that used to be called “te levision”
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used duckDNS for years. A couple of years ago it started flaking out every couple of months so I migrated off it.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 3 weeks ago:
Snide comment that achieves very little. Word has done the dash —> em dash transformation since the late 90s.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 3 weeks ago:
Many writing tools automatically transform dash to em dash when used as an em dash.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 3 weeks ago:
I use em dashes all the time and I’m a real person, at least last time I checked.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 3 weeks ago:
Point taken. Thank you for the reminder. I was probably being harsh. Appreciate the feedback.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 weeks ago:
Man, I luckily upgraded to 64GB (when MSFS 2024 said “that’s preferred”) before all this.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 3 weeks ago:
In a personal context, agreed. In a business context, I completely disagree. Analysts, finance, operations etc all have much more complex requirements.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 3 weeks ago:
Google Sheets is competing with Excel. Proton Sheets is competing with Google Sheets. So Proton Sheets is competing with Excel.
I used Word as a comparative example to say that parts of the office/docs suite are easy to compete with (there’s only so may things a word processor can do), while others (like Google Sheets or Excel, whichever order you prefer) is incredibly difficult to compete with; a formatting error on import of a Word doc is acceptable. An unsupported formula ruins the entire thing.
- Comment on After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. The RU ain’t perfect, but I’d take it over any alternative.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 3 weeks ago:
Does if have FILTER, array formulas, spill zones, MAP, data tables, query engines, SQL engine etc etc?
To compete with Word: Easy. To compete with Excel: Very, very difficult (pretty much only Google Sheets have managed).
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
Fortunately I live in a country where the government can (broadly) be trusted.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
I thin Zig actually stands out pretty well from the pack. You sound maybe a little jealous or something?
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
The build system was basically a black box until 0.14.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
The Zig core team is pretty chill and pretty united around strong engineering ethos.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
I hope to Darwin social media ends up requiring ID. I believe it would do wonders for democratic discourse. It was only last week, a number of large US right-wing accounts were revealed to be driven from outside the US. Is it healthy for democracies that so many people pay heed to foreign actors?
If you write an op-ed for a newspaper, the newspaper need to identify you as there is an editor who is responsible for what gets written in the paper. This ensures there’s someone who can stand to account for any libellous statements.
With social media we immediately reneged on this and allowed them to wash their hands; “we are just a channel” is a pretty bleak statement to make when the discourse on social media destroys the lives of minorities, encourages suicide, undermines our democracy with AI and troll farm bots.
And we can do this is a privacy preserving way - of course the social media companies feeds the opposite narrative because they don’t want to implicated in the piles of shit they shovel on top of our democracy.
If social media was required to ensure they could tie an account to a real person, which they needn’t reveal unless forced to by a court order, we would know that we were engaging with a real opinion, not something coughed up by a Putin-run AI bot or a Chinese troll farm.
The system required isn’t that complex.
A social media
- a social media company is opening a new account.
- it sends the person opening the account to any of the multitude of ways we can already verify identity online.
- the person is identified and issued an identity token, which gets sent to the social media company.
- the social media company says “great, this person is real and we can, if required by a court order, work with the identity company to reveal who this person is is”. Right now, all the social media company has is a token.
- the account is opened.
In a system likes this, the identity company doesn’t know who the person is; that sits with the social media company.
Nor does the identity service know which account is actually posting for this real person, all they know is they verified someone as part of an account opening process.
Social media should be treated like the press - make them accountable for what gets posted and allow them to place this accountability on a real person by labelling posts “op-eds” if, and only if, they know who is doing the posting.
We are letting large, anonymous money-men ruin our democracy behind the veil of “free discourse”. It’s not free to the many people who gets harmed by it.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 4 weeks ago:
I would have said exactly the same, but about PhotoPrism. Funny how perspectives differ.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 weeks ago:
You’re already spending about £1200/year (per taxpayer) on social housing.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 weeks ago:
£293,000 per meter. You could extend HS2 by 6 km. It wouldn’t even get another stop.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 weeks ago:
£25 per person. Not that much could be achieved for that, tbh. Everything sounds like a lot on a national scale.