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- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 3 days ago:
But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they’re going to be happy without the apple experience?
The Apple experience = locked down devices? If people (and Apple) stopped fearmongering about “security” or whatever, yeah they would, or at worst they wouldn’t care. I’d certainly welcome being able to publish apps on my terms, and being able to install what I want.
Some things are for you, other things are NOT for you. Letting both exist is an option.
That’s exactly the point. You don’t have to use the parts of a theoretical more open ecosystem if you don’t want to, you can keep using exclusively the official Apple stuff. But it creates more choice for the user if it exists.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 1 week ago:
Sure. It paints a very vivid picture, I love it.
Never read anything by Dickens before except for A Christmas Carol (and that was for school) but this is now on my reading list :^)
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 weeks ago:
I asked Gemini and it said “A reddit user wrote, ‘Kill yourself.’” Sounds like a yes for me too!
- Comment on The Source 2 weeks ago:
“can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters”
- Comment on Rest in peace 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit. I need to start saying this
- Comment on Europe Plans to Ban Monero by 2027 3 weeks ago:
No. I don’t use it myself but this fucking sucks.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know Mark, I might not, but at least I have good friends. Can you say the same for yourself?
- Comment on Free open source video editor Kdenlive announces a major release 3 weeks ago:
Kdenlive is excellent. Probably top of the line in terms of features when it comes to FOSS and just works unlike the probably-better-in-theory freeware alternative on Linux, DaVinci Resolve.
I recently tried iMovie on the Mac to see how it is, just wanted to cut a clip out of a YouTube video I downloaded, and while its interface is much more well integrated, it completely froze during import of the video (I think it tried to transcode it in the background and ended up swapping hard because believe it or not Apple, there actually are workloads you need a lot of RAM for). Kdenlive didn’t struggle at all on the same machine.
- Comment on Is it possible to set what DNS server cloudflare tunnels uses when resolving local ips? 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like you need a split DNS setup. systemd-resolved can do this for example. As soon as you need any sort of slightly more complex DNS setup using just resolv.conf isn’t going to cut it.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Oh, so that’s what that’s for. I’ve seen it before but never got the reason for it, but combined with this it makes sense. The name is very unfortunate though.
Now, the question is, will the cached RDP password update when you log in with the PIN :)
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 3 weeks ago:
If only this could lead to scaling down the scope of web technologies so it’s sustainable to develop a browser without that 80% funding.
Wouldn’t be the first time we dropped an ultra complex technology for something much more simple, e.g. DCOM/CORBA for JSON-based RPC.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Their stated reasoning here sounds bullshit and I’m sure the actual reason is a technical one, where they’re trying to retrofit the MS accounts login system to a protocol that wasn’t designed for it and for some reason are refusing to extend the RDP protocol to support the new auth mechanism. SMB network shares probably have the same issue I’d assume.
I’m sure AD domains don’t have this problem since it uses Kerberos, otherwise this would have been a problem already decades ago.
Using the password for a public account for local login is a disaster anyway, they should have done it like Apple and kept the local login password separate from the MS account login. I have never used a MS account for local login but it sounds to me like it just leads to people using insecure passwords for publicly reachable accounts because they don’t want to type a long password every time logging into their computer.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much only games that were made pre-permission restrictions on Program Files because they try to write to the install folder. I think that was added around XP/Vista. Anything remotely recent shouldn’t have this problem (especially if it’s the default install directory).
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely, I hate this shit. It feels incredibly fake and overbearing if it’s an automatic/“broadcast” message.
Sometimes it’s designed so that it’s actively dangerous too. I said “Siri, kill me” to my phone and it started calling emergency services. Are they trying to get people fined for abuse?
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 5 weeks ago:
It really doesn’t hurt to know a bit of the IPA, at least the characters for your own language… I see so many horrible phonetic “transcription” “systems” people use when describing how to pronounce a word, it’s crazy
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 5 weeks ago:
Since you mentioned Chinese, there’s also an interesting thing in languages that have Chinese characters as their writing system origin and use names based on it (Chinese languages of course, Japanese, Korean and I think also Vietnamese) where names of historical or important people are translated via their written form and not their pronunciation. For example, the Japanese prime minister Ishiba Shigeru 石破茂 is called 石破茂 (shí pò mào) in Mandarin, written with the same characters. (Been a while since I read about this so I forgot the examples where the name is pronounced significantly different and in all of these languages but this is a good enough example)
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 5 weeks ago:
Ah okay, so you know some behind the scenes info or at least more than just this. My bad, but tbh you should have lead with that because initially I thought you completely misread what the text was saying because I pretty clearly read the queer mentions as “this is not just transphobic attacks by bigots” (see my other comment). Sorry!
- Comment on Spit Balling A Work Around For Blocked Email Port 5 weeks ago:
There isn’t really, you can probably use sendmail as well. Postfix is just the MTA I’m used to and know can do all of this.
From what I’ve heard about sendmail’s config file, I personally wouldn’t want to use it specifically though…
- Comment on Spit Balling A Work Around For Blocked Email Port 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this should work.
Alternatively, you can set up Postfix to deliver mail over SSH to another MTA by defining a new service in master.cf that calls sendmail on the destination server. This postfix could run in a container as well or on the host, whatever is reachable.
Old NixOS configuration for that here, see the default_transport and masterConfig parts: git.dblsaiko.net/systems/tree/…/relay.nix?h=ssh-m…
Alternatively, if you don’t have another mail server somewhere that you want to relay to, the simplest option is probably to just have Postfix deliver into a local mailbox and access that over IMAP (the imaps port should not be blocked, right? You can use a non-standard port though). Turn off non-local delivery though.
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that. I would say it makes it much less likely though especially for someone who is openly trans and given someone who has text like “trans rights are human rights” on her web page. Of course it’s not impossible, but it would certainly be hypocritical and goes contrary to the vibe I’m getting from her.
You’re the first one who brought this up. Where is the context for what you are talking about? Which people are saying she’s a bigot?
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 5 weeks ago:
People I trust who know a lot about community organizing or whatever you want to call this, and are more involved in Matrix than me, told me that this conflict is a lot more complex than just what this document describes.
So I suppose, don’t draw any conclusions just yet if this is the first time you’re hearing about this like it is for me.
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 5 weeks ago:
Did we read the same text file? I’m seeing none of what you’re talking about.
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 5 weeks ago:
It’s noteworthy because this is usually the type of attacks a trans person gets from transphobic trolls and not from her own community. Drives the point home that this is not exclusively transphobia.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
Telemetry
- Comment on What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum with 10K+ members, its first using the Online Safety Act. 1 month ago:
Ugh, not again. I know which forum this is talking about. I wish morons would stop bothering and trying to destroy about the only place where chroically suicidal people have found some sense of community they can relate to, while telling themselves they are doing good. These people already have it bad enough. For some that community is about the only thing that keeps them going.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
8 points! 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 1 month ago:
It’s certainly not a universal thing either, no other language I know does it.
Once I asked on linguistics (or maybe English language) stackexchange about the origins of it, but it got deleted as duplicate of a related but definitely different question. Most satisfying stackexchange interaction
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS 2 months ago:
In pretty much the most malicious compliance way possible, but yes. rileytestut.com/blog/…/introducing-altstore-pal/
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 2 months ago:
RIP bozo. I should play this soon before they get nuked legally, huh. I’ve heard it’s good.
