Lifter

@Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but also: the web has become worse lately. All the search engines seem to be suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully, such terms would violate the above law andnoyt hold up against it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whooosh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there are already better ways to automate pottery, like moulding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always been like that, even since the 1950s…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I agree. I suspect they were tricked by some higher ups in EU to put the bill forwards as being a socialist idea, selling it to a wider crowd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly, social democrat Ylva Johansson proposed the first chat control bill.

  sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_Control

  I don’t think it’s fair to blame the right in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this game is not for you then.Harfd games are hard so that you can feelproufd of yourself after completing something hardet than you though you could. You may not complete the story but if you “git gud” you may actually enjoy it more.

  Some games are not meant to be relaxing. Why would you even play a hard game if you want something easy?

  I’m very provoced by this. Sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Searching is way faster than trying to keep stuff organized in folders and screens. You get at least two clicks anyway and you keyboard is already there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what they said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not addressing my critique of your statement, just piling on a bunch of useless extra knowledge just so that you can feel superior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point with digital transfers is that you round it back to either 0 or 1, hoping that no bits are distorted enough to have any loss at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sweden, all the major banks joinef together and created BankId. It id now pretty much a monopoly on id verification. Even some government agencies use it, which is problematic for multiplr reasons.

  Debate by former PM: www.svd.se/a/…/utredare-infor-statligt-bank-id

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well all the major brands are below that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep but also 200 buck phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way to log into my bank on the website is to use the phone two factor authentication app, which only works with Google Play Services… 💩

  I’m considering getting a dedicated login device which can sit on my desk all day doing nothing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with that is that insurance companies would gladly interpret that as tampering of the vehicle, voiding your insurance and which will really fuck you up in case of an accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. If he changed the license to allow packaging the new version, at least all of those reports would be of the current version rather than the last GPL one.

  Let the community in and use their time to contribute rather than locking it down as a one man project and then complaining about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but the app will inevitably have bad reviews on Android because it will not be as good - both technically and in yerms of “customer service”.

  FOSS can’t usually compete with big tech in this area and it is one of the biggest drawbacks to FOSS in general. You are on your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good points! Keeping to the norm is very important for readability.

  I do disagree with the performance bit though. Again, there will probably be no difference at all in the performance because the redundant code is removed before (or during [e.g. JIT optimizations]) execution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding the “bad code”. It’s more readable though to keep the full limit for each elif case, which is most often way more important than performance, especially since than logic with the age can be easily optimized by any good compiler or runtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know you can get those extensions for Firefox (and forks) for Android, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Higher for the desperate and lower for the casual traveler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about total polution of an item per county (or region) population - counted like kgCO2 / kg produce / person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Emissions per capita would be interesting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would actually be useful for local testing of software during development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except capital income can be hidden in other countries, still giving an unfair advantage to the super rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon they may come with cellular capacity. Cars and e-bikes already do.

  You gotta Faraday cage it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are obviously not interested in listening to a word I’m saying. Goodbye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vomiting Emoji⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perro salsiccia!