Rentlar

@Rentlar@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how is lemmy funded?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Many small server instances are paid for out of pocket (you can make your own too, about $60/year renting a cloud server and $10/year for a domain name). Bigger servers rely on user donations.

  The Lemmy software development relies on donations as well, but they also receive grants from NLNet. Some of the grants are tied to accomplishing specific features. Third party app developers generally rely on donation support as well, if they’re not doing it just for the fun of it. Unsupported projects tend to get dropped after a while, though, so money does help keep up motivation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The scammer is not going to be on the phone with the victim for 24 hours continuously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I take issue with that, but I don’t think it would be used if people complain to banks that reading the flag bricks the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to favour privacy over big tech control, but I recognize we have to at least consider the cost-benefit of these tradeoffs, to live in a society. Of course I’d prefer a phone with no warnings, no nagging, if you get scammed that’s my fault and I will keep my phone that way if it means I will stay off Android 15 and de-Google my next phone. But Google’s plan is within the realm of an acceptable compromise to me because sideloading is still available to everyone without registration with Google. Each person will feel differently about it.

  Taking your position to the extreme, if trading liberty for comfort is “always” a bad idea with no exceptions, you can turn off your phone and do without the comfort of it. (Only saying this because always is the word you chose to use.) To accept cellular and home internet services to communicate in the public realm requires you to give up some level of privacy, though of course it can be possible to stop a lot of the unnecessary surveillance that happens along with the necessary tradeoff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the process doesn’t include any phone home stuff, and is just a one-time cool off period to prevent scammers, this is acceptable to me. That should be enough to get potential victims to self-question, ask more knowledgeable people of what’s going on to avoid being unknowingly hacked, without being naggy everytime for users that want to do what they want.

  Making a software “foolproof” will probanly invent a bigger better, fool hoping for some sort of free crypto app jumping through these hoops, but this should weed out most of the basic scams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can be respectful of the local culture where you’re visiting while you’re there, you’ll be fine. Being an obnoxious American tourist is just as bad as an obnoxious Chinese tourist. Outside of unwarranted xenophobia, your behaviour matters more than your race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3221: Landscape Features⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s going on in the Adirondack mountain range in upstate New York?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your page⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If your company exceeds >35% market share of an industry, the state should be given an option to take control of that company at a set price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it hides, we go to find it. Countries like the US, Canada, Ireland etc. choose to recognize as valid these elaborate schemes involving shell games in multiple countries, instead of insisting on their formula. But what would be better is a Canada-Europe agreement on a standardized taxation and deduction system that includes minimum wealth taxes applied across all member nations. Sketchy accounting is nothing new, we just have to agree to deal with it together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump and his staffers are desperately trying to find a way to TACO but still somehow claim victory like his other two expeditions in Venezuela and Iran (2025), because it clearly didn’t have the effect they thought it would have like when Bush II did it.

  Unlike the US, Iranian forces had a plan that was formulated for years. Doesn’t mean things will go as they envision, due to US, Israeli, Gulf state, and internal factors putting a lot of uncertainty in the mix. Iran is okay with the current situation in the short term unlike the US, but there is elevated risk for a potential coup, an Israeli-style drawn out genocide and annexation, just a stalemate war of air defense attrition, or who knows what in Iran. There will be pressure from all sides to figure something amicable between the belligerents, hopefully sooner than later.

  I predict: Oil/gas prices will stay high for months, air ship and truck transportation costs will be somewhat higher and goods will be a little higher for the same period. Over the next year, governments, businesses and people will turn to electricity and renewables pretty much out of necessity (look at Indian residents turning to Induction Stoves in droves) that will lower our needs for fuel which will hopefully offset the shock from future oil supply crunches. Optimistically, it could accelerate the world’s efforts to net zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I’m taken already. Isn’t that right, Nicole the Fediverse Chick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a mixed bag, I’m pretty neutral on it since it prevents copyleft licensing as much as copyright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind if the developer adds AI-generated code, but if they mix it with their own work without appropriate attribution in a way that it could be considered all AI-generated, it may become un-copyrightable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/164

  TIL it has purposely not been implemented by the main developers in over a decade for ideological reasons. There are scripts and forks to enable it by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

  Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh oh, Epic’s not making more profit than last year! We need to squeeze money out of parents’ pockets for their gullible kids and milk our cash cow harder!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🫰Done! I’ve deleted all existing recovery infrastructure! Now your disaster recovery routine has been reduced to 1 second, which is the time it takes to put your human head in your hands and cry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump Officials Now Want Ukraine's Help To Counter Iranian Drones In The Ultimate Twist Of Irony⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. Deploy American troops to return Donetsk to Ukraine or offer security guarantees, then Ukraine should talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows Slop Edition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, pretending to take the moral high ground is out the window as soon as MIC dollars are at risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda neat about the human responses… sure some are trolling but maybe we have to test our global expectations. In North America, a car wash tends to be this garage thing with either automated cleaning or a set of supplies to clean your car, and your car has to be in the shed to be cleaned effectively. But if washing your car by hand is the norm, I wonder if people in some countries surmise that the cleaning staff could just walk over with the sponges, buckets and hoses and stuff to the car, if you’re already 50 metres away from the washing point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steve Burke (of GN) described the absurdity pretty well, within the context of the currently uncertain Nvidia and OpenAI deal:

  Nvidia offered OpenAI $100B in investment, money that it didn’t have, as long as OpenAI gave that money back to Nvidia to lease GPUs that haven’t been made, to then put in data centres that haven’t been constructed, which will be powered by electricity that hasn’t come online, to then rent to users who haven’t subscribed, to provide them features that haven’t come to fruition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit, I'd pay $9⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes me want a phone tree…

  Thank you for calling. Are you trying to sell me something? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

  Am I in trouble? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

  Could you just have sent me a message instead? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, thank god, I was worried if there might not be a worldwide surveillance dragnet for in case I lost a pet iguana.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who has more money? OpenAI needs buttloads of it right about now from all the promises they have made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, the Mexican colectivo van driver closes the sliding doors on his rattly 20 year old van simply by hard braking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh perfect. That would be a good upstream base for other European govt projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think the EU should start with a more basic app like FluffyChat in testing but rebranded, then try to make their own app over the Matrix protocol that fits their specific communications needs and share that development publicly with open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically ICE’s digital colour pantone. It sure does make their job at being racist easier.