IratePirate

@IratePirate@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stuffed, Millhouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “But you blocked them all!”

  “Of course! Don’t want your skinny little ass to escape through those.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Enshittify to your heart’s content, until people realise that just sucking a different big tech corp’s tit is not the solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Disney management has drunken the same Koolaid as any other management right now: they believe they can fire large parts of their staff and replace them with “AI”, allowing them to achieve similar or even greater productivity at a fraction of the cost (i.e. whatever fee "open"AI charges). To achieve that, they need to give Sora access to their characters (so it can be trained to produce Disney movies) and invest in the company (as a down payment; money that would be recuperated by eliminating workers from the equation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US bans all new foreign-made network routers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So at what point do they ban all new computers not made domestically?

  FTFY. It’s the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an American, but I hear you make good blood clots. Bigly good blood clots. Some people say: the best. So let’s put our hope in that. Let’s make the blood clot great again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Now can we call that cancerous corporation Facebook again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hands alone are a dead giveaway. The fingers still look wring and the phone hold finger spacing would make Rachmaninoff blush.

  Where do you see fingers? All I see here is paws and claws…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Duly noted. Will adopt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine if you pirated a bunch of movies, and then went to the cinema actors’ doorstep and bragged about it.

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rapist mentality all the way. How fitting they all either own or bent the knee to the rapist in the White House.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I get it. Thanks for the explanation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notes on full disk encryption on a Hetzner cloud VPS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey there, fella! If it confirms my biases, sample size is irrelevant. Science has spoken! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jensen, that you?