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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! Great to hear that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That can only happen if we stop giving a shit about impact factors (and remove it from legal hiring requierements in some countries) and when big name PIs stop giving excuses like ‘I want my research to be read’ as if that wouldn’t happen in the journals that are more appropriate for the topic they publish in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  csv is a pretty good data sharing format, but not very well suited for spreadsheets. Just because you can shove anything you want in there doesn’t mean you should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how there’s multiple species of birds that like to drop stuff from far up to break it open. Fucking chuck it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess their own slop isn’t good enough as a communication platform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the update!

  What do the monthly expenses and income typically look like? And since I like all those graphs at the end, any chance you could take that question literrally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Result: PieFed > Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium boards and seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s already been bought unfortunately

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, if it has worked for tens of millions of years, then why is no one else doing it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is nodeBB? A lemmy or piefed alternative or a whole different thing altogether?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being dismantled after almost 40 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So for a change a company is cleaning up after itself? That’s nice! (Not sure what’s up with the endless reminders that it’s not sharks)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sick! The potential for basic research seems amazing to me. I think a system like this could be great for understanding some of the fundamentals of signalling in the brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean wear something generic, unidentifiable and add some body armor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that’s the direction I was thinking. The whole point of these cameras is to track people, including you, meaning that they can track everyone in the area before and after a camera is destroyed. It seems to me that the logical time to destroy a camera is when few other people are arround to stop/witness someone destroying a camera, but that also means there are few people to track and therefore it’s easier to single out whoever did it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you take such a camera down without being spotted and tracked? Do they not look in all directions?

  Not asking for all the technical details on how to take one down, just curious how so many can be taken down with so few arrests after. I guess it’s a matter of good disguises?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently the threats are still sufficiently strong that the author dares not mention the company’s name :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, ‘best technologies in the world’ like the software giving Google and the USA full access to all our data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Epstein files suggest Trump laundered money for Russian oligarch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no no, money laundering, what are you talking about? Trump is obviously a great businessman who saw an amazing opportunity. A consistent businessman like him who has even had business in the notoriously difficult casino world wouldn’t miss out on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding, most LLMs work by repeatedly putting the processing output back into the input until the result is good enough. This means that in many ways the input and the output are the same thing from the perspective of the LLM and therefore inseparable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The title of this article just doesn’t match reality. It really only (maybe) applies to very high end systems that are already pushing the limits of all components. Most people don’t have the money to waste on that and have plenty of room to upgrade their hardware for a looong time.

  If you don’t need much (e.g. no gaming, 3D rendering, etc.), especially if you don’t need a dedicated gpu, then you can upgrade for at least a decade before running into issues. To be fair, a laptop should last a decade as well in that case, but at a higher prices and while being less repairable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The previous comment gives a pretty clear argument for why desktops are more future proof, I think. Being more repairable is a pretty big deal for the longevity of the whole system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although I agree with the sickening greed part, I don’t think it makes sense to make educational use free without have another system in place that pays for the writing of educational books. There’s plenty of content that imo should be free for educational use, but educational books only have an income from educational use, it’s their whole target audience. No income, no book :/