kilgore_trout
@kilgore_trout@feddit.it
- Comment on Trustafarians: When the Rich Pretend to be Poor 3 days ago:
Even if he is an edgelord, it’s still nothing compared to you.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 2 weeks ago:
Security is not synonim with privacy.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
There is a FSFE campaign that claims all publicly-funded institutions should only use Free Software.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 2 months ago:
getting permanently banned for “threatening violence” after posting “nice sub here” in a new subreddit
A bot likely checked what other subreddits you were subscribed to and found one deemed not acceptable.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 2 months ago:
Fuck yesss love this
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 2 months ago:
It’s not paranoia, it’s an issue of how Li-ion batteries work.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 2 months ago:
Buy a second-hand Google Pixel.
- Comment on Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride 2 months ago:
ArtStation in owned by Epic Games.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 2 months ago:
I didn’t open the article before, and you are right. The author of the article lives in Chicago; I think that Ars has no European writer.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 2 months ago:
We are always on the brink of ruining everything nice that we have been slowly building.
You can read here about the plans of the European Commission to enable service operators to mass scan all the users’ private messages in search of illegal materials.
The Commission is the same super-government body that signed privacy-oriented things like the General Data Protection Regulation.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
Votes are meant only to increase or decrease visibility, especially on Lemmy where karma doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
I suppose many people were already using a third-party Aero widget for weather forecast since Windows 7.
I know I did.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 2 months ago:
Never idolise. Courts simply apply the laws, and good laws were likely written by inspired people and approved in a good political climate. These two conditions are not static.
- Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue. 2 months ago:
When someone asks me which languages I speak, I say Italian.
“…and?” “Well, English of course”
“…and?” “…and that’s it”, I’d admit embarassed.
Among young educated people in most of Europe it is common to speak at least two languages beside your native one.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 2 months ago:
Trump living rent-free in the other party’s head is the reason he’s going to be re-elected.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
meta.wikimedia.org/…/Publicly_logged_channels www.w3.org/2002/03/RRSAgent
Wikimedia and W3C log their chats with bots developed by themselves. I admit though that I am not expert in this topic, but I know that LiberaChat’s policies forbid logging.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
IRC allows archiving
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
Old people usually strike a conversation.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 3 months ago:
It is the only Free software in that dialog though.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 3 months ago:
It’s an intentional exaggeration, but it’s true that houses in the US are usually built without a proper foundation and with thin walls.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
I was thinking all those websites which persistently ask you to join their newsletter, but still have RSS available too.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
Is it because of Wordpress?
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 3 months ago:
It’s going to be more and more unreliable as the results it’s snipping from are increasingly machine-generated.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
Then imagine living without Amazon altogether… impossible
- Comment on Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims 3 months ago:
I am talking about landline providers.
- Comment on Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims 3 months ago:
And this a problem only in the monopolistic culture of the US. I can’t name a single EU State with broadband data cap.
- Comment on The revenge of the video game manual 3 months ago:
We want the name!
- Comment on All workers, your attention please. Your attempt to have a decent work/life balance and be treated with dignity in this facility is going to fail. You have eight minutes to get back to the office. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Sounds like Haier is opening the door! 3 months ago:
Legal threats come from lawyers, while this email comes from an engineer.
- Comment on Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation 4 months ago:
What did you watch?