halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
- Comment on Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature 2 weeks ago:
The service isn’t advertised as being for anonymity at all.
Sign in with Apple allows you to use Hide My Email to keep your personal email private when you use Sign in with Apple to create a new account with an app or website.
Hide My Email generates unique, random email addresses that automatically forward to your personal email inbox. Each address is unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to these addresses and your personal email address is kept private.
That seems pretty clearly to be meant to avoid simple things like spam on your main email. I can’t imagine most people expecting much more than that. There is always a special level of idiot, but most people would never assume that this would keep you protected from police.
- Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase 2 weeks ago:
That is totally available self hosted. Nothing is blocked.
OTP codes for websites as well as all the MFA options for Vaultwarden itself. It also supports organizations, so you can share info between multiple accounts on your server. Emergency access, and even a web vault client.
Everything the paid Bitwarden does as far as I’m aware.
- Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase 2 weeks ago:
If you do any sort of self-hosting, take a look at Vaultwarden. All the premium functions for free.
Before my entire network setup changed recently for unrelated reasons… I had Vaultwarden running on my home server (TrueNAS) and a free Cloudflare account with a tunnel to my home server and a $5/year domain. Worked for my parents easily and no longer had to worry about the big infrastructure being targeted.
- Comment on Bitwarden 100% price increase 2 weeks ago:
Vaultwarden, self-hosted is free as well. And since it’s not using the Bitwarden infrastructure, you’re only as exposed as your own network anyway.
But you can still use all the standard Bitwarden apps and extensions on any device, you just need to point it at your server. Easy to set up for friends and family as well. No need to try and teach them about VPNs, setting up syncthing, etc.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 weeks ago:
Separate computers may be due to necessity. For example, one of the systems they need may have a provided computer to handle it that is managed and supported by that vendor on a separated network for security.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Had some time before the waterboarding appointment.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but even getting waterboarded would be a better use of my time than reading an article about Walmart accounts now being required on TVs.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Did not know that. Definitely explains the integration now. Although the rest still applies to other brands.
Doesn’t Walmart already have onn?
- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 2 weeks ago:
There is a Fandom wiki that seems to have categories for both cases that are unsolved, and ones unresolved (partially solved but still have unresolved questions). As of posting, there are 670 unsolved and 248 unresolved cases listed across all seasons.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Nearly every electronic device sold at Walmart is a unique SKU sold nowhere else.
They have their own internal logistics and manufacturing specialist team that works with manufacturers to hit specific wholesale price targets that they demand to even consider carrying their products in store. They reduce the number of ports, features, included accessories, quality of materials, etc. to get the that specific price.
The manufacturers take a huge hit on their own profits from these… but in theory will make up for that with sheer sales quantity.
Requiring a Walmart account probably means some sort of kickback to Vizio, or other wholesale arrangement. And since these devices are usually unique SKUs that can’t be sold elsewhere, they can receive differentiated software, have no risk of any sort of price matching, etc.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 2 weeks ago:
There are rules about having to honor advertised prices.
Yes there are. And normally you’d go look at the price tag to prove the different advertised price vs register price. What do you do now that they can change that price instantly?
- Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform 2 weeks ago:
Oh it’s part of the military machine now. It’s never going away now. OpenAI won the war, Anthropic fumbled the ball by not openly capitulating to the fascist state. The competition just hasn’t realized it yet.
- Comment on its full, no air 2 weeks ago:
Probable. People are quite dumb. Anyone that works with the public can attest to that.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
The takeaway from all LLM-based AI is the user needs to be smart enough to do whatever they’re asking anyway. All output needs to be verified before being used or relied upon.
The “AI” is just streamlining the process to save time.
Relying on it otherwise is stupid and just proves instantly that you are incompetent.
- Comment on MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI 2 weeks ago:
That even ignores the even more egregious fact that she was supposedly Army. How many Army personnel are usually on Navy ships?
There are exceptions of course, and any number of possible explanations. But just that off the bat should make you pause for a second since it’s weird.
- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 2 weeks ago:
Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable.
That’s the exact reason they stopped letting you disable updates permanently in the first place.
That being said, as it is currently, you already have the option of delaying the restart for multiple days. It only restarts automatically if you repeatedly delay the update for several days and ignore the multiple reminders along the way. And somehow people still complain saying their systems restart “without warning”.
- 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. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a similar method to the Tesla Model 3 and Y.
The S and X had motorized handles that retracted.
The Cybertruck has no physical handles on the outside. It has a button on the B pillar that activates an electric release to pop the door open.
All of those methods are flush, but only one isn’t visible to rescuers and can completely fail with a lack of power or motor failure with no physical external backup option.
- 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. 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?
Yeah, but that literally just happened last month and doesn’t take effect until January 2027. It’s not like they did that years ago because they saw it coming.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 3 weeks ago:
That exact issue killed Blackberry, the largest smartphone maker at the time. Even after they built a compatibility layer to run Android apps.
You think anywhere near enough people are going to go out of their way to try something that doesn’t have marketshare already to maintain an entire alternative hardware and software ecosystem? Where can I get wherever awesome shit you’re smoking?
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 weeks ago:
Not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I’m sure there’s options on the market.
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.
Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 3 weeks ago:
Oh it’s just a fan theory, but it makes sense and matches with comments Lucas has made with regards to the overarching themes. It also explains odd things the character does, which must have been intentional since he was a CG character.
Lucas will probably never confirm or deny it officially because it would confirm that either he got scared and made a huge mistake abandoning that plotline, or that he made a bad character a pivotal linchpin of the storyline since Jar Jar is the deciding vote that gives us the Empire.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 3 weeks ago:
Darth Jar Jar was the original plan, Lucas changed it after the backlash against the character. He was supposed to be the new trilogy’s foil to the goofy character in a New Hope, Yoda. Lucas has said that he was making the new trilogy rhyme with the original, no other character matches with that initial Yoda introduction. That is also why Grievous and Dooku come out of nowhere despite supposedly being big characters, to fill the gap.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
That was almost certainly YouTube breaking itself. They do a lot of public A-B testing without notifying the user of anything, even if it could break functionality.
The chances of Librewolf breaking, and updating in 24 hours is basically zero. Especially if you’re on Windows since it doesn’t update itself, you have to choose to install the separate updater application when you install Librewolf, otherwise it just doesn’t update.
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/librewolf-winupdater
https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/
How often do you update LibreWolf?
LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox. Updates usually come within three days from each upstream stable release, at times even the same day. Unless problems arise, we always try to release often and in a timely manner.
It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Backup? Psh… That’s what the lab is for.
- Comment on Chinese carmaker, BYD, introduces new battery technology with 621-mile range, 620K-mile lifespan, 5-minute charge, and lower prices 4 weeks ago:
The current v1 blade battery has operated in the real world about the same as their original announcement, which also was viewed with skepticism.
These aren’t research laboratory battery advancements without real world scenarios attached. These are announcements for an improved product entering production. Like a new phone being announced, not just a white paper from a lab that hasn’t been scaled.
- Comment on Sometimes even the captain needs a little "me" time. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and Janeway has the wraparound couch and the replicator that requires walking around the entire room to get to from the desk.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 5 weeks ago:
That’s the same excuse as
“The Nazis genocide is so it’s fine if we genocide others”
- Comment on _uck _e _n the a__ ton_ght 5 weeks ago:
The number of contestants that don’t start with the most common letters is surprisingly high.
- Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information 1 month ago:
That we know of. Apple doesn’t exactly have a clean track record of avoiding double speak.