IratePirate
@IratePirate@feddit.org
- Comment on Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns 20 hours ago:
Wellesley must be spinning in his grave (he probably was already at the lack of hats in parliament, but that’s besides the point)
I strongly disagree. Parliament is chockful of asshats.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 1 day ago:
Tbh, I’ve never bothered figuring out how SSHing into an Android device works.
You’re right about the security of older versions of Synching-Fork if you remember to configure it to only do syncs locally (it’s not configured like that by default).
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 1 day ago:
I share your sentiment about Syncthing-Fork and the botched handoff to researchxxl. I have yet to implement the Termux-based workaround that allows me to use Syncthing from the browser without the Android app / wrapper.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 5 days ago:
Precisely. From Cory Doctorow’s latest, very insightful essay on AI, where he talks about AI replacing 9 out of 10 radiologists:
“And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop.’ It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”
This is a reverse centaur, and it’s a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it’s what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink.” The radiologist’s job isn’t really to oversee the AI’s work, it’s to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 days ago:
It’s the year 2026. Irony is dead.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 days ago:
While cstom ROMs if Android TV do exist, Samsung does not want you to truly own your device and has locked it down. The only option I see is to use your TV as a dumb TV: hook up any PC to your TV’s HDMI ports. The PC allows for full control if what you want to install, which may include an adblocker in the browser or free YouTube Frontends such as FreeTube.
- Comment on Onionphone - E2EE PTT Voice and Chat 6 days ago:
Self hosting […] P2P
You do realise that’s a contradiction.
Unless you’re hosting a TOR node (which is outside of the scope here and, depending on the node and jurisdiction, extremely risky), there’s nothing here that’s relevant to self-hosting.
- Comment on Notes on full disk encryption on a Hetzner cloud VPS 1 week ago:
Sure, that’s what I do for hosting my stuff. DDNS does not help with SSH whitelisting because that is IP-based, not based on a URL.
- Comment on Notes on full disk encryption on a Hetzner cloud VPS 1 week ago:
Now I get it. Thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on Notes on full disk encryption on a Hetzner cloud VPS 1 week ago:
Set up a firewall and only open port 22 with your IP (you can look it up using ip.me).
I keep wondering about this part whenever I read it. Do y’all have static IP addresses so you can do this easily? If I did this, I’d probably lock myself out within a week (which is roughly the interval at which my public IPv4 will change).
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
The problem is: you’re assuming they’re arguing in good faith when they say it’s about pRoTeCtInG tHe ChIlDrEn. It’s not. It’s a pretext for the data grab and mass surveillance of everyone. They will gladly take your argument, claim age verification is compatible with privacy and anonymity, and then introduce age verification systems that do implement mass surveillance. Don’t give them an inch.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 1 week ago:
Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 1 week ago:
Wait, the Dear Leader’s member is RJ45-sized? Wow, that’s even more pathetic than I had anticipated.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 1 week ago:
Yes. Because this is not about verifying your age; that’s just the pretext. This is about identifying you and remotely being able to lock you out of the devices you longer own and control.
- Comment on ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it 1 week ago:
As should have become abundantly clear by now: no laws apply, at least not when they’re in the way of the fascists or their billionaire enablers.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 1 week ago:
Tbh, I very much doubt that the bottom lines of, say, Dassault, BMW, Metro, or UBS would even budge if Twitter were to self-ignite over night, and their Twitter accounts with it. They’re (still) on this dumpster fire of a platform because “everybody is” and some bellend in marketing thinks it impossible not to do what all the others are doing. I’d argue no consumer cares what the Twitter account of Tesco’s has or hasn’t been posting this week, and it has zero effect on their purchasing decisions there.
“Self-employed creators”, aka influencers, aka people shilling products while pretending to be your friend, might be affected more because they lack any non-virtual connection to their “customers” But then again, we could ask ourselves if these provide any real-world value and should exist in the first place.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 1 week ago:
If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue.
Care to back up that claim? What exactly is Twitter’s contribution to their bottom line that they cannot live without?
- Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship 1 week ago:
If I weren’t pretty convinced of Mullvad, this coming from the company that promoted a VPN to spy on people would make me immediately suspicious. Fuck you, Mark! You’ll never be a real human.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 2 weeks ago:
Hey there, fella! If it confirms my biases, sample size is irrelevant. Science has spoken! /s
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
Jensen, that you?
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 2 weeks ago:
I guess that’s the point when I’ll just go offline for good and learn a good, old-fashioned trade.
- Comment on New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Reading this, or trying to, I was switching back and forth between “this is missing information” and “why provide this additional explanation?” The target audience isn’t clear. Either go for the technical deep dive or provide a much higher-level explanation of what happened. Not this… mess in between.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 2 weeks ago:
Gentoo user: “Of course we build from source! (What are snaps?)”
- Comment on MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
No joke: I just built a low-end server based on DDR3. Got 32 GB for 40 EUR.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 2 weeks ago:
Better to use apt-get though. That way you don’t even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.
- Comment on Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon 2 weeks ago:
Predatory
- Comment on An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna happen for real this time. Cryptocurrency NFTs AI and cryptocurrency will upend the market with how incredible they have been.
You forgot the Metaverse. (Like you should.)
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 2 weeks ago:
it won’t happen again.
Not to him, no.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’d fork this just to name it more appropriately: “Glasshole radar”
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 2 weeks ago:
He found out the hard way that abuse is only tolerated if you have passed a certain wealth bracket.