corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, technically it’s still on the tiny screen of your phone with a really bad ux to make it go, sure. But you see how ‘went away’ is both true for web and effectively true for phone app? You do see that, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A simple experiment to demonstrate that Astrology does not work is to keep a detailed journal of events, and periodically check past horoscopes for accuracy.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  that time you lied

  I hear Aliens never happened, so fuck James Cameron’s documentarian status, right? I’ve got a similar complaint with a documentary about three bears and some porridge.

  Let fiction be the fiction it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, now it’s recycling, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pixelfed? That’s an IG emulant. What about Friendica? Do they have groups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  pour tequila in sink

  Nurrr. Had some raicilla here and it was definitely not sink-bait. I hate tequila, but this was insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨23andMe fined £2.31 million for failing to protect UK users’ genetic data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay. NEXT COUNTRY , you’re up. Levy those fines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨matrix is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.

  It was glorious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

  You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.

  Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  judging

  So when the hell do we find out the results from the judging? What can we win?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When in office, you at least have the stress of many loud people around to distract you from that.

  You hear yourself and you can spot the issue, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a really good racket going on and want to make sure people keep giving them way more money than is necessary. It’s simply not true that Infosec.Exchange requires $5000/month to operate unless they’re doing something very wrong or just straight up lying.

  Yes, internet rando. I totally believe your solid calculations based on … vibe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking for funding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  seeking for

  1. Looking for
  2. Seeking

  You can choose only one lane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

  I’m so relieved that there’s an appropriate platform!

  I need some brackets to mount a gadget I ebayed as a spare. The vendor included tapped holes for mounting, but never sold the brackets. About 3 designs out there offer a solid and reliable mounting solution.

  Each one a bit that would fit in a 1990 drugstore film cylinder, only 40c to being and us$71 shipping to the V3L, it seems.

  There is no library in my area still maintaining a running 3d printer. I have no contacts nerdier than me who have a working printer.

  Where is this place that I can get my brackets? I can’t justify a $250 printer just for 4 bracket pieces!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to solve the money problem!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I support ads.

  Oh, calm down. I don’t support the ad level of Facebook, nor the targeted ads, nor the algorithm.

  And we, as users, get to decide when too many ads are too many, with our feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to solve the money problem!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Their reward for having users is that they’re in control. Expecting users to then pay them for that control is fucking stupid,

  You DO realize that not everyone works to attain power over other people, right?

  but I don’t expect most people to realize it.

  The reason people don’t realize that site owners’ reward for forking over half a salary in hosting costs for some nebulous power to hold other people in their clutching fists and cackle maniacally is because that’s not the motivator here.

  I look forward to when you can see that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong. The gangly stacks of orchestrated black-box containers at a pubcloud beholden to shareholder whim is going to be a huge factor. Sorry grandma can’t get her pills, but - phew - the number will still go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone at a company that built and sold a Linux phone 19 years ago.

  You’re not upset you can’t find a Linux phone: you’re upset you can’t find one anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when small nicknacks make me happy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a knickknack, patty-whack. Give the frog a loan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “You can ask, sure. Let’s go back inside.” where the cameras are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ke$he's Quantum Party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  till

  There was no cash-drawer in there, right? What kind of party was it?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Phone books from outside my region were available at the library; that place where they store a consolidated collection of books for just anyone to sign out and use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Emotional? No. Rational.

  Use of Ai is showing as a bad idea for so many reasons that have been raised by people who study this kind of thing. There’s nothing I can tell you that has any more validity than the experts’ opinions. Go see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bare arms

  Dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in the middle of the night

  “another runner in the night” ♪♫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Thousand point o’ laight” – Bush; one of them. 2001 was a thousand years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. A gov; be it the UN or a country.

  Having worked and then contracted to regional and Muni govs, and worked for dotcoms, I can tell you one of them follows way, WAY more of the regs than the other.

  It’s like transpo & highways vs private roads and rail: one of them is way better-maintained when there is a comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the cause isn’t as important because, for all of them, I think, the solution could be the same.

  Take one small bite of that huge daunting pie, and get the ball rolling. Then take another bite; do something easy. And then another. And now you’re off.

  I have tasks lined up for yeeeeears I think. It’s daunting. I do it a bite at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  French too: il pleut. What is the il pointing to?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watch this thread from here on in carefully separate the idealists from those who know what defence is like.

  • yes, open-source is the goal of everything that can be opened.
  • no, defence code isn’t ont he list of what can be opened
  • yes, obscurity isn’t good as a sole effort
  • yes, defence in depth
  • no the funding to get it to where it’s safe to open for randos to submit changes isn’t there today

  Anything I missed?

  Yes, Virginia, it’s better to open all the things right now, but there are risks you haven’t taken into account because you’re not aware of them. The pros are; it’s their job and their work, so listen to their expertise no matter what the oppositional/defient disorder suggests otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10 of these in a raid6?that’s 4x speed and 400tb.