MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Apple introduces age verification for apps in Utah, Louisiana and Australia 1 day ago:
This shit is getting way out of control.
Also, Linux / GrapheneOS Master Race
- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 1 day ago:
So, pretty much what Meta/Facebook (and the three letter agencies / GovInt) has been doing with deterministic code (like they’re not scraping reddit et.al, including Lemmy) for ages but probabilistic with more errors and new improved hallucination.
Competition, filling in gaps or just looking to be bought out. Evil.
- Comment on Cubans fight blackouts with solar as US extends oil chokehold 4 days ago:
How’s their postal situation? Sure would be nice if people started mailing them solar panels.
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 4 days ago:
Do you not get ‘open on the internet’? All the three letter agencies hoover the data up, your countries equivalents do as well, other companies. It’s only a bit in one companies hands, because it’s ‘open on the internet’, just like xitter, facebook, tiktok, their walled gardens don’t stop state level actors, just us plebs (a bit). That just leaves control (in real time), some power, some money there, but long term it’s the data that counts.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 4 days ago:
Look to the masters, the tobacco industry with additives to make it more addictive (been a while since I researched it and that’s the one that popped up, but they spent 60+ years making it more addictive).
Social media speedran it with something apparently innocuous (‘they trust me, stupid fucks’), and a bunch of corrupt psychologists (and marketers/advertisers also known as corrupt psychologists). Do no harm my ass, wait, that doesn’t apply to psychologists, wait again, that’s more like guidelines for doctors (not an actual vow in most places).
Next bill of rights / constitution needs to address this specifically, there’s a reason why quacks have a special hatred (and if there were one, a special hell)…
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 4 days ago:
Agreed. They’re both open on the internet and in the data is in many repositories. Moot point (OPs’, not yours).
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 5 days ago:
See also Goodhart’s law “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”, which may not be completely relevant here, but is likely a factor (probably a lesser one than the systematic underfunding and other political meddling in US schools).
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 5 days ago:
So, like 'open’AI…
- Comment on 'Need to do more of everything': Australia's 2030 goal that's at risk 1 week ago:
These American style utes are ridiculous and should be banned.
These things came about because of one of the US’s worst laws in recent history exempting ‘trucks’ from emission standards and turned into a dick waving contest and perceived weapons escalation race on public roads.
Get 'em the fuck off our roads.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Possible sure, easy unlikely, knowing you got all the backdoors (for allies), nigh impossible. Only way to be sure is to clean room it from the ground up, not jailbreak.
- Comment on I have made a Kubernetes to Docker-compose converter/devolver. It's horrible. It's glorious. 1 week ago:
Ah, my bad, down to might be interesting I guess.
- Comment on I have made a Kubernetes to Docker-compose converter/devolver. It's horrible. It's glorious. 1 week ago:
If you want to do it right, have a look at podlet (docker to podman quadlet converter), should get you 90% of the way there.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 week ago:
Pretty sure RAM and C/GPU use different fabs (and wafers) thankfully. If some fuck goes and corners the market of CPU wafers we’re all doomed. The RAMpocalypse is actually likely to free up processor fab space if it prices phones such as they sell less.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 week ago:
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash 2 weeks ago:
Wadda ya want, revolution ? Hmm…
- Comment on Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash 2 weeks ago:
again ?
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Normally my policy is “E2EE or GTFO”, but the concept only applies to a subset of Discord use cases. A good Discord alternative needs to handle the same variety of use cases as Discord.
E2EE for a public forum makes no sense.
Totally valid point, especially w.r.t. ease of onboarding for public usecases. Sure would be nice if it functioned (optionally) as a private forum as well. Seems like a lot of commonality there and covers the DM case and the ‘semi-public’ but discord is totally logging everything case. One can hope, but I agree, first things first.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps I’m missing something, or perhaps everyone who thinks Matrix is a good substitute for Discord just don’t use Discord very much.
Seems likely, certainly Matrix has some pretty evangelical supporters. I think you nailed it with discord being more useful for mid sized numbers and having a client that handles it pretty well. I’d also add pretty painless onboarding. An OSS offering that matched it’s primary features (and has E2EE) or has a good framework, roadmap and people to get there would come in pretty clutch as discord goes public and starts monetizing everything in sight. A million (or thousands) independent FOSS ‘discords’ in the night would be a sweet sight.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, thanks.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Different usecase, but I wouldn’t be particularly scared. OP is about a selfhosted discord replacement (lacks E2EE so far I think), I’d quite like that if didn’t look like more of a maintenance burden than the rest of my stack combined (even without moderation burden, but I’m thinking of keeping a small server). I also think it’d be a social boon to have millions (even thousands) of independent discords pop up.
Do you host your own matrix ? Did it go down when matrix.org did ?
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Fair cop, sounds useful, and I have used it in the past for similar. I was however looking at it in the context of Selfhosted.
its being used basically everywhere at this point. Government, healthcare, military, university, private industry, schools, etc.
True, and I have good hopes for it, partly because of the adoption, you will however note the scale of your examples, basically it’s an IT department project rather than a set and forget selfhosted container (I recognize there’ll always be moderation to do). We shall see, I’m in no hurry.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Yah, did so long ago. Comment still stands. We are in Selfhosted…
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Can you? Can I? Best I understand it’s a world of pain. If there was a clear winner in the discord-a-like OSS race all these alternatives wouldn’t be coming out of the woodwork. Maybe it’s matrix (with an actually good client, proper decentralization, easy containers), maybe stoat, maybe … I’ve always hated discord anyway and have little need currently, I can wait.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
voice/video chat
- Comment on "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, could’ve been in the post text though.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no voice chat is a bummer. I haven’t tried, but my first instinct was, that’s a VM right there.
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 2 weeks ago:
If you can make a bubble out of crypto and sub-prime mortgages, quantum computing is a doddle, though I’d bet it comes after compute as a service using all those datacentres (some of which will even get built).
Problem is the AI burst is very likely to take out the US economy (and do bad things to the rest of the world), the home of these scams. But I’m sure some shareholder value was ‘created’.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Here’s hoping this gets more software off the discord support teat. No, you do not need real time chat, you need searchable, permanent presence. Discord support is such a red flag I immediately move on even if it’s OSS. If you can’t do real doco and you can’t stand up a forum (Discourse is nice I hear) then what chance do you have of being competent.
Also, IPO incoming, expect it to get worse.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Over my cold, dead hands. Fuck you and your shitty worldview,