drspod

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploring Ethical Social Media Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is “we”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Unraid still use JBOD with a single parity disk or have they moved to a sane drive layout?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨peertube recomendation algo alpha build⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me you’re not vibe coding this project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commodore OS Vision⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No screenshots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg's reboot homepage design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what the fuck is loom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Graphite pencil?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ghoul

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we should ban right-wingers in sports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  • Effective age checks. The riskiest services must use highly effective age assurance to identify which users are children. This means they can protect them from harmful material, while preserving adults’ rights to access legal content. That may involve preventing children from accessing the entire site or app, or only some parts or kinds of content. If services have minimum age requirements but are not using strong age checks, they must assume younger children are on their service and ensure they have an age-appropriate experience.

  That’s what it’s really about.

  It’s not about protecting children, it’s about ensuring that adults can’t use the internet anonymously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their current market cap is 443B with a P/E of 50, so already massively overpriced.

  For comparison, Google P/E is 20, Amazon P/E is 32, Meta P/E is 21, Microsoft P/E is 30.

  They would need to more than double their profits to get to 1Tn market cap with the same joke of a price to earnings ratio. At this point I doubt that will be by doubling their customer base. It’s going to be by cutting corners: paying less for shows which means lower quality shows, cutting bandwidth costs which means lower quality streams, and charging customers more for the pleasure. Classic enshittification incoming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  clearly people like it

  It’s the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll Probably Be Protected: Explaining Differential Privacy Guarantees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a misleading headline. “You’ll probably be protected,” makes it sound like the method is mostly working, so don’t worry about it. But that’s not what the article is about at all.

  It should be titled, “You’ll be protected probabilistically, and most data-collectors are not telling you what the probability parameter is that they are using.” The study shows that users can only make good and informed choices about their data when presented with this parameter, and an explanation of it’s meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So if you happen to look like someone who was once suspected of shoplifting then you’ll no longer be able to buy food anywhere. What could possibly go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord using AI face scans for age-verification in two specific scenarios⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In apparent response to the UK and Australian laws, Discord has begun asking users to verify their ages, offering a choice of scanning government-issued photo ID or submitting to a face scan. The company describes it as a trial, and says it’s currently limited to these two countries, though it seems likely to roll out to the US if it goes well.

  The company says users will only be asked to do this in one of two specific scenarios:

  1. When you encounter content flagged by our sensitive media filter, you may need to verify your age group.

  2. When you try to change your sensitive content filter settings and need to verify your age first.

  For example, if you currently have suspected nude images set to Blur, you’ll be asked to verify your age if you try to switch off this setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon for personal use: not so much as replies don’t federate with main tweet.

  Didn’t this get fixed very recently? I think it can fetch all replies at the time of loading the thread now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online trolls take over Hope Florida virtual board meeting with slurs, hate symbols, and adult images⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought everyone learnt during Covid not to have open zoom calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for an American to buy eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Par for the course with Ubuntu. They always fuck something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  cryptocurrency conference in Bedford

  This is the funniest part to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re easily taken-in by some grifter selling them their software platform. It’s the same as all the famous people selling their own cryptocoin that turns out to be a rug-pull - someone approached them and dazzled them with buzzwords and jargon, and all they saw was dollar signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there are components in TO220 packages that supposedly take 100A with their small legs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  for how many picoseconds?

  Which attribute in the datasheet are you looking at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People on the Turkey subreddit were running a campaign to move from X to Bluesky

  I see so much astroturfing for Bluesky. They have good PR people who know what buttons to push, clearly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IP = Imaginary Property

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used any of them, but in addition to the suggestions here, there is also Infomaniak which is a Swiss provider. They seem to have better reviews on trustpilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to target people with names that sound like they were hallucinated by an AI like “Carrot Slat” or “Sulu Candles.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden has a free demo out now, and you can even win some dosh playing it if you're quick enough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Link to the patch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  prove that we’re using copilot to generate code

  How do they expect you to do that? And are they capable of telling the difference if you lie about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomer shooter Gravelord adds controller support and gets Steam Deck Verified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  SAY BOOMER SHOOTER ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME