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- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 3 days ago:
That seems like a broad generalization, and for specialized software that requires newer hardware, you’d expect to find the rate of bitflips crashes much lower than 10%. You could argue that since Firefox is supported on older operating systems, longer than the support lifetime of the OS ^[theverge.com/…/mozilla-is-dropping-firefox-suppor…], it’s likely Firefox is being used specifically to get the last bit of life out of the hardware before it gets trashed.
- Comment on Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain 6 days ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So like Pokemon Animal Crossing?
- Comment on The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots 1 week ago:
I think the lack of author attribution on this article is a hit of AI. Clicking on other articles, they do list the author and don’t have a fake interview tone Question and Answer tone to them.
- Comment on The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots 1 week ago:
What is up with the writing style of this article?? Seems like AI Slop, but it’s worse than usual. The Verge article has more details and isn’t written poorly. Check it out and not The Guardian.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
This is anecdotical but I moved into an apartment with a 30 year old ionizing smoke detector, and the failure was it was too sensitive, I assume because there were less electrons being emitted from the radioactive element, any faint smoke caused it to go off. Eventually it got into a state where it would always be in an alert state, and was beeping 100% of the time, which was when the landlord finally replaced it.
My assumption with the 10 year replacement recommendation for Americium based smoke detectors is to replace it before it becomes too sensitive and annoying, because they were worried some people would remove the battery and just live without an active smoke detector.
- Comment on The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me? 2 weeks ago:
If I were to use an LLM, it would not be to actually upload the PDF and generate the excel document, you’re guaranteed to have made up data if you ask it to do this. What I would do is ask an LLM to write a python script which uses OCR or some other programmatic way to extract the data from the PDF and put it into a CSV to be imported by Excel.
If the PDF has some sort of data aggregation, like a column for a sum of the data in a row, then do not include that in the CSV output, and have excel do the calculation based on the data the script imported. Then you just have to manually check that the values of that column match the PDF to know if there is any wrong data. Obviously if multiple fields are adjusted by bad OCR but negate each other, the sum column would look accurate while the bad data persists, so some more spot checking or additional aggregation would be needed to ensure confidence with the numbers.
- Comment on Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training 2 weeks ago:
This is the archive link for the Microsoft guide: archive.is/D9vEN
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, unless you’re in the UK. Before Advanced data protection was available, Apple was still advertising iMessage as E2EE
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 3 weeks ago:
Probably yes. General rule of thumb is if you don’t control the keys, it doesn’t matter if it’s E2EE, your communications could be intercepted. Famously iMessage is E2EE but your keys are uploaded to iCloud under standard data protection. They say “Your iCloud data is encrypted, the encryption keys are secured in Apple data centers so we can help you with data recovery, and only certain data is end-to-end encrypted.” ^[support.apple.com/en-us/102651]. The encryption key is included in iCloud backups which is provided to law enforcement with a subpoena. ^[appleinsider.com/…/what-apple-surrenders-to-law-e…]
Even if a service claims it is E2EE, it’s still important to understand where that those encryption keys are stored, how they’re managed, and if security researchers have raised concerns about the E2EE claim.
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 3 weeks ago:
Any school shooting is tragic, but incessant back to back coverage outside of the immediate affected area is not very helpful to anyone, and has been shown ^[journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjo…] to cause copy cats ^[www.nytimes.com/…/school-threats-closings.html]. The impact to the community shouldn’t be glossed over, but especially for this particular incident, there seems to be a lot of focus on the identity of the shooter (and why it has been a topic of discussion), and that’s what especially results in copy cats. If the goal is to minimize mass shootings, not sensationalizing them is the key.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 3 weeks ago:
Regarding the USA point, from the article, there are many indications that the site was founded by someone from Russia:
But in October 2025, the FBI sent a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows seeking “subscriber information on [the] customer behind archive.today” in connection with “a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.” We wrote about the subpoena, and our story included a link to Patokallio’s 2023 blog post in a sentence that said, “There are several indications that the [Archive.today] founder is from Russia.”
This is the link to the 2023 blog post: gyrovague.com/…/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the…
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 3 weeks ago:
This syntax should work in most Lemmy clients natively: !vxjunkies@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 3 weeks ago:
The linked paper, “Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog” is also a great breakdown of how much the quantum factoring is more of a parlor trick and not practical for factoring RSA Keys, mainly since the prime factors are only a few bits off of each other and from the square root of the number being factored.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Look, you’re famous!
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like a great way to get fired from a job. Mirror as much as you can from him while he still has it up, but also probably limit it so that the bandwidth doesn’t raise any alarms.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 weeks ago:
With P2P file sharing, your client is sharing the files with random people on the internet and you’re identified by your IP address (or a VPN IP address / seedbox IP address / etc). MPAA hires companies to check for popular content and log the IP address, time, and content shared, and then sends that to the ISP. The risk and issue is sharing content with anyone randomly, since that is how your ISP is informed of the activity.
With media servers, unless you’re somehow sharing publicly, it’s safe to assume your members aren’t going to report you to your ISP. I guess in theory the ISP could see high upload bandwidth and investigate, but more likely than not, if there are limits, automated systems will just throttle the bandwidth, and no deep packet inspection or other forensics is performed.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 weeks ago:
Good on you, but I would never pirate Ready Player One, let alone pay $0.50 for it.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 5 weeks ago:
if you download a file (not via BitTorrent), your downloaded file will have the same hash as the person who shared it with you, but that doesn’t mean you were the sender.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 5 weeks ago:
Check if they’re on ICE List and if not, get proof and if they are ICE, get them on here.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 5 weeks ago:
It depends if you’re popular or not. People might copy your style and purchase the fast fashion directly because of you, even if you got it second hand. Say for example you’re Taylor Swift, and you literally steal the fast fashion cloths directly from the factory to wear in public. You are still indirectly financially enabling child labor and probably boosting the business.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for this. Sucks the local chapters are primarily organized on discord. Seems pretty risky that they could all be shut down in one fell swoop.
- Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview 1 month ago:
They’re probably not even building to industry standards and not properly grounding their equipment, so if you were to visit the “datacenter” you’d be literally shocked.
- Comment on How come streaming or satelite don't have a playlist option? I got Dish and its annoying where I can't just tack on a bunch of movies or series and just let them play in an order I choose? 1 month ago:
For broadcast television, especially over the air, there’s no additional load on the provider side for broadcasting to 1 or 1 million people. The TV consumers never have to communicate back to the broadcaster, and this is very efficient from a bandwidth perspective. It’s somewhat similar for cable in most provider situations, the video is broadcast over a wire rather than over the air.
With streaming, each stream has to negotiate with a server to access the stream and the server serves the content to that consumer. This scales as there are more consumers, and the load on the provider increases. Caching layers and CDNs exist to distribute this load, and that is expensive. This is why streaming providers have a “Are you still watching” prompt if they think you’ve stopped watching, since it costs lots to serve the content.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lots of people have a crazy MAGA parent / sibling / cousin, etc they vehemently disagree with and wish would realize their relative is aligned with the baddies. Judging and targeting innocent people for the actions of someone else is pretty disgusting, even if it would show ICE officers the damage they’re causing in America.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
The raw comment is this:
[Digg.com](digg.com) didn’t load for me, good start 😅It’s missing the
https://protocol, so the link is assumed to be relative to the current page you’re on. It should have been formatted as[Digg.com](https://digg.com/)and then it’ll look like: Digg.com - Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 months ago:
Yeah, Honey is just exacerbating the inherent flaws in the system, and most of it can be dealt with having a limit of coupon usage and expiration of the coupons.
The thing which really upset me is advertisers pulling money from podcasts which have referral codes because of abuse from Honey. I’m not a fan of advertisements, but the referal codes were a simple solution since there’s no way to accurately measure if an ad was listened to. Honey causing advertisers to pull support for podcasts just pushes podcasts to closed ecosystems with more tracking and analytics, and takes money away from Podcasters.
- Comment on PS5 is outselling Switch 2 2 months ago:
Not sure when the sale happened, but there was a recent video about the invention of the Blue LED from the past year which was really good, highly recommended. To me click bait implies the contents are not worth the headline / title / thumbnail, but old Veritasium and recent have kept up mostly the same level of quality IMO. I will say updating old video titles and thumbnails to juice the numbers was annoying, but the optimist in me figured that at least people who had not previously experienced old Veritasium got it recommended to them which is a positive.
- Comment on Both the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy end with the fire roasted Anakin. 2 months ago:
it’s like poetry, it rhymes