PabloSexcrowbar
@PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social
- Comment on GitHub Is Down 2 days ago:
This raises a question I’ve always wondered about: in the most technical sense, does having sex during working hours (meaning while you’re being paid) make you a prostitute?
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 2 days ago:
I wonder if the plumbing required to keep them working is problematic somehow.
- Comment on How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us 6 days ago:
I also want to throw the Android app BLE Radar into that mix. It gives you a map of Bluetooth LE devices around you. It’s available on f droid
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 1 week ago:
I always saw them pitched by Fedora as the blessed way to run CLI applications on an immutable host.
- Comment on Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Yeah I agree. I splurged on a Valve Index a while back expecting there to be more than just Beat Saber and Pavlov, but beyond those two games (Alyx never did it for me) I haven’t really seen anything that caught my interest.
- Comment on TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric 2 weeks ago:
Four, at the very least.
- Comment on Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War 2 weeks ago:
And even if they did shut it down remotely, that could be construed as an unauthorized act of war.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 2 weeks ago:
I worked there during the whole VR pitch and they tried to encourage those of us with headsets to join meetings with them.
Nobody had legs. It was a huge selling point of the Quest Pro that you could have legs.
- Comment on Run a NAS OS on an old Compaq laptop? 2 weeks ago:
While I agree with you in principle, I separated mine because I use mini PCs for compute and there’s not a lot of room for storage in any of them.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 2 weeks ago:
This is what I want to know. It doesn’t do anything unless someone tells it to. Why aren’t the people telling it to make child porn being held accountable? My 3D printer can make guns, but they won’t send the printer to jail if I decide to tell it to make one.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be naive enough to believe there’s not a backdoor somewhere in LUKS.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, they just got bought out by a big, stupid VC firm. Only time will tell what effect that’ll have on their day-to-day operations, but it does make me nervous. Not nervous enough to switch just yet, though.
- Comment on Switch from American tech companies !? 2 weeks ago:
That’s kinda my point, though. The solutions I mentioned in my original comment are already approaching the same level of simplicity as a smartphone, and they should be recommended over centralized options as much as possible. I’m not suggesting that the average person should try and host their own email, but with something like Yunohost, running a copy of Nextcloud or Seafile is about as difficult as installing their corresponding apps on your phone.
- Comment on Switch from American tech companies !? 2 weeks ago:
Moving to something that’s still at significant risk of being enshittified is an objectively worse move than going to something that’s not, though. I’m not saying to keep US tech, I’m saying to build your own now so you don’t have to move again in a couple years.
- Comment on Switch from American tech companies !? 2 weeks ago:
Call me cynical, but I don’t expect these to be better alternatives for long. The main issue lies with the fact that these services are both centralized and profit-motivated, and I don’t anticipate that the EU’s privacy laws, though they are better than those in the US, will be much protection once even one of these competitors gets big enough to have a say in politics. Self-hosted, open-source apps are a far better solution than relying on yet another company that has full control of the software, especially with the barrier to entry for those apps getting smaller with each passing day.
There are multiple projects available that will let you turn even a mediocre extra PC into a platform for self-hosted apps with not a lot of effort. Yunohost and CasaOS are two that come to mind, but other options exist. Hell, even just running Nextcloud is probably enough to cover most people’s SaaS needs, though it can require a bit more work than the other two that I mentioned.
- Comment on New Android malware uses AI to click on hidden browser ads 2 weeks ago:
To play devil’s advocate here, it likely wastes a significant number of resources on the victim’s phone, and it also puts site owners at risk of losing ad money that they would have generated through clicks.
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
[Sad Tycho Brahe noises]
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 3 weeks ago:
That’s wild, because I recall seeing job postings for Vimeo as recently as 2 months ago.
- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a byproduct of petroleum refinement and an even worse greenhouse gas than CO2, so breaking it down into CO2 and water is better than just releasing it. Might as well make some lemonade.
- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 4 weeks ago:
Natural gas fuel cells were a pretty popular choice there for a while. Bloom energy has been marketing their shit towards datacenters for as long as I can remember, and as far as I know they use a similar mechanism to hydrogen fuel cells where you’re just stripping electrons off of the methane molecules.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 4 weeks ago:
That’s probably not a question that’ll get asked, unfortunately. What will get asked is why those numbers dropped off abruptly the next quarter.
- Comment on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great 4 weeks ago:
Back when I was in college, I had a bizarre fixation on making my Ubuntu install look as much like Windows XP (and later Vista) as possible. For the Vista attempt, I even went as far as making a custom Compiz reflection image so that I could get the proper Aero shine on my translucent, Gaussian-blurred windows.
I ended up getting close enough that my one friend thought I’d finally gone mad and installed Vista, so I called it a win and moved onto trying to make something more unique…which ended up looking at lot like Windows 8/10 before they were a thing.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 4 weeks ago:
I’m impressed you kept your composure through all that. Holy shit, what an asshole.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 5 weeks ago:
They were rebranded something generic like “Dell Pro” or something for a while.
- Comment on Pebble Round 2 Announced 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks ago:
I love the smell of pedantry in the morning
- Comment on What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar 5 weeks ago:
That’s the one, thanks! It was driving me insane trying to remember the name.
- Comment on What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar 5 weeks ago:
Back in the early 2000s, there was a desktop interface that explored this concept. Your desktop was displayed as an actual 3D desk, and you could stack files on top of each other, smack them into each other, etc, all with physical properties applied. The name, unfortunately, escapes me, though.
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 1 month ago:
I’d probably use it, so that’s one person at least. Could be a fun reverse engineering project, too.
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 1 month ago:
It’s definitely not self hosted. Regardless of where the server is running, you have to connect to it using jackbox.tv and I don’t know of any way to play the games without that.
