Anafabula

@Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in global Google settings. Under “all services” > “ads”.

  Google setting on Android, with the “ads” option highlighted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rustdesk's lesser known features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The open source server allows unlimited connections I think. The point of the paid server is user & device management, shared address book and some other enterprise features

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is down this morning ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A DDoS that brings down the biggest(?) DDoS protection provider?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux has close to the best support for games possible without support from the game developers.

  Other windows software usually isn’t quite as good in my experience, but still better than non-native software on any other operating system.

  Never used a DAW, so I can’t say anything about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia doesn’t support vaapi, so when I still had an nvidia card I needed to install a compatibility layer like this. You might have more problems if you want to use a Chromium based browser though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good old Vsauce

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot and to "protect the community". Yet Google has bots crawling all over for their AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Previously, a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, had testified that Meta allegedly modified torrenting settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Misskey and Akkoma have had them for years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wikipedia page doesn’t sound too bad.
  The regulation linked from the wiki article only includes the word “age” three times and actually states:

  […] this prohibition should not lead the provider of the online platform to maintain, acquire or process more personal data than it already has in order to assess if the recipient of the service is a minor. Thus, this obligation should not incentivize providers of online platforms to collect the age of the recipient of the service prior to their use.

  Haven’t looked at it any more than that, but it sounds like it’s already been in effect for ~2 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use this better GPT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same entire thread on Mastodon: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114670995130379882

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Today is the deadline for the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapies and we are close to reaching the minimum number of signatures!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the german eID app seems to require reading the physical ID with NFC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Today is the deadline for the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapies and we are close to reaching the minimum number of signatures!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on latest Android and have a quick setting for NFC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy does support 2fa

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With a picture from Unsplash:
  Three files of the same image: A png (15.7MiB), a bmp (28.8MiB) and a bmp.zip (16.4MiB)

  ZIP compression of bmp is worse, but still compresses better than png. Here are the files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Three files of the same image: A png (15.7MiB), a bmp (28.8MiB) and a bmp.zip (16.4MiB)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.tar.xz⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they store images as uncompressed .bmp for some reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC Australia mines a huge amount of coal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha SO TRUE!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On Reddit we had r/ImmaterialScience for these. Is there a community here too?