Zetta
@Zetta@mander.xyz
- Comment on An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification 11 hours ago:
Appreciate your explanation!
- Comment on An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification 11 hours ago:
Good thing this will be unenforceable for open source software
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 day ago:
Same, my unraid server is over 40 tb but I only have ~1.5 tb of critical data, being my immich photos and some files. I have an on site and off site raspberry pi with 4rb nvme SSD for nightly backups
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 2 days ago:
Open source software like GrapheneOS is the only software you should ever trust to not be government spyware.
- Comment on The State of the Union 4 days ago:
It was actually the neck, lots of gushing
- Comment on this post would have singlehandedly won him the 2024 election 5 days ago:
You’ve gotten some answers already, but truly the main reason is to attempt to make your butt look better/more attractive.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
Bitwarden with a vaultwarden docker container on my home server. Access over a VPS.
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
Broadly speaking, yes, and it’ll keep going until they run out of money. However, I think there is a very small chance that one of the companies is able to make a breakthrough probably with a different kind of architecture than our current LLMs that does get us to models that make genuine discoveries and breakthroughs.
Very unlikely though.
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the massive buildout is for training new models. Their justification is they need more compute to get the superhuman level intelligence AIs that they have been claiming. So if that pans out their probably gonna be fine, but seems unlikely that’ll pan out how they want it to
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Same here, been hating on Discord from day one since you are the product with free services.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I do a significant amount of computing on my desktop, but yeah, social media, and by that I mean only Lemmy. I really only use on my phone when I’m away from my computer.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
No just voice channels, I’m glad they have them but it was completely missing from their marketing on the website. Just says “text channels done right” and there isn’t a single lime about voice support
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
No VOIP? That’s the only reason I ever use discord, when my friends force me to so I can talk while we play games. Guess teamspeak is still king
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
The point is the need for more and more data storage is never going to stop.
- Comment on Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance 3 weeks ago:
“oh great, competition in a market with no competition. Horrible.”
Intel has already been making discrete GPUs for two generations and they are very cheap and aren’t the most performant but fantastic for the price.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 weeks ago:
The original comment said Google, instead of Bezos, I have no idea why they edited their comment to this. Maybe they are thinking of Microsoft, who recently handed over encryption keys, but they don’t make phones anymore, lol.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 weeks ago:
As another said, a Pixel with Graphene OS is likely the most secure device you can have, even against an Apple product. Cellebrite, the software a lot of companies use to break into these phones can’t get into a Pixel device before first unlock with Graphene OS. I believe a number of Apple products are the same thing as they can’t be accessed before first unlock or lockdown mode, but your data is more secure in the hands of an open source developer than a massive conglomerate.
Also, a notable feature of GrapheneOS is automatic reboots for any arbitrary time value you want, so your phone will always be in a “before first unlock” state if some steals it like the government
- Comment on lightbulbs 3 weeks ago:
I disagree. A very high CRI warm white is just as good as daylight in the kitchen. And better way less ugly
- Comment on Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week 5 weeks ago:
Better benefits and pay than most other options in a lot of areas, especially warehouse workers in smaller towns.
- Comment on E-Mail with own domain 5 weeks ago:
I do this!
I use purelymail, it’s only $10 a year and self described as a “Cheap, no-nonsense email” i’ve been using this service for a little over a year with my own domain names and haven’t had any issues yet. I love it. They have an easy to follow tutorial for setting up your own domain names to work with their email
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
Unifi Ubiquiti products are the best option for completely local data hosting and camera services with really good “ai” detections all run locally, but they aren’t that cheap and you’ll need to buy one of their Unifi protect capable routers which is gonna be like $300 by itself.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
Domt unplug urself man
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
Because this guy wants to kill people.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
100% I just posted a comment about how I feel like I’m more likely to kill myself than needing a gun for defense. Not that Id generally say that I’m suicidal.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
I can see situations where having one would be handy, especially in the US, but I think the likelihood of me blowing my brains out is greater than needing one to defend myself, so I don’t have one.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 month ago:
I get your point, but also if religious people were rational, they wouldn’t be religious. So the trust me bro thing works because it’s true lol
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
It is what it is. I do personally use LLMs because I recognize it is a tool that is actually good at some things, for instance, cursory research on something I’m working on that can get me a general idea of the knowledge I should be looking into to get the task done. Key aspect being I need to do all the follow up research from real sources to gather more data, and of course verify the assumptions from the LLM.
The problem is people taking the word of the actually incredibly cool (on a math level) next best token generator as the truth of God. Its dumb people doing dumb things, problem is dumb people imo.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
Duh, there’s no evidence that it needs to happen, but it’s the hype thing to do right now for web browsers, and Firefox is already way behind. I know it may be hard to believe if you only browse Lemmy (like myself), but the average person actually likes these so-called “AI” tools or at least a significant amount of them do.
So Firefox needs to try and attract more normies from chrome, a lot of these “normal” people would be more likely to switch for that 'one killer ai feature".
Also imo we should all be ready to switch to Ladybird when the first version comes out, I know I’ll be running the Alpha. If you don’t know Ladybird is a brand new browser written from the ground up, it’s also open source.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 months ago:
Honestly, no clue. Probably not. You’re right, they have a big obstacle in the way of becoming profitable if they aren’t because they only operate in certain areas they have a lot of training data for.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 months ago:
Waymo self driving cars are very good imo, I live near a location where they operate and drive along side them daily on my way to work and have ridden in one twice. They are way better than human drives in my area.