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- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 4 months ago:
Can you use SyncThing along with Nextcloud? I currently use Nextcloud to store my data, but the one part where it still lags a bit behind is on Android specifically (you need to manually sync certain changes).
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 4 months ago:
You can just use something like YunoHost, and synchronize weekly encrypted backups via Nextcloud or Syncthing to all of your computers. That way, if your server ends up busted for whatever reason, you can just restore it elsewhere and go back to business
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 4 months ago:
VaultWarden user here - yes you can now use your own self-hosted server to store passkeys and that’s a gigantic game-changer. Just install the BitWarden add-on on a recent version of Firefox and voilà
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
Paying for content: fair enough
Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that’s a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.
- Comment on Firefish has been abandoned. 5 months ago:
I’d love to move to mainstream Misskey, but there’s a core reason why I’m using Firefish at the moment, namely the ability to actually import my old posts from Mastodon. To my knowledge, pretty much nothing supports importing posts in the Fediverse, except for Firefish and forks, Friendica and forks (to an extent), and PixelFed.
- Comment on Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart 5 months ago:
It does have a specific niche: users of OLED models that just want to play “backups” and don’t want to bother soldering chips to their products. A few people will like the hassle-free multicarts.
- Comment on Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart 6 months ago:
Not sure if running from the cart slot is permitted to even detect anything not properly signed by Nintendo. Which means this one is squarely for “backups” and nothing else.
- Comment on Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart 6 months ago:
Correct! The newer models (including all OLED versions) were already patched from the factory (or more accurately, redesigned to prevent the soft-mod from working).
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 6 months ago:
Amazon still has its own app store open - mostly because it’s the one Microsoft used as the base for their Android compatibility layer. I expect this ruling to give Amazon a breath of fresh air as “the alternative app store”.
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 6 months ago:
About the only benefit I can personally see from this is the ability to fully integrate F-Droid as an app store in my device, with proper automatic background updates, and without requiring root solutions that void my work’s security measures for mobile devices. On the other hand, I can see Huawei, Amazon, and Epic jumping to the fray with their own app stores and system services, and maybe Google Play being far more lenient with subscription services like Spotify’s in their own App Store. Altogether, I personally loathe Epic’s approach, but appreciate the consequences of their lawsuit.
- Comment on Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 6 months ago:
Note to self, see if I can self-host Piped
- Comment on Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 6 months ago:
In my particular case: because I still need to sync my subscriptions and playlists, as well as the support for adding comments.
- Comment on Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 6 months ago:
Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
- Comment on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists 6 months ago:
See, this is one of the reasons why I haven’t listened to music in almost a decade. Paying fairly to artists is provably unaffordable for the average joe, unless a shady workaround like the streaming service subscription exists (and even then, that barely fills the belly of the artists that dedicate exclusively to art).
- Comment on (3 Scenarios: 1. bug, 2. on purpose not likely during anti trust case, 3.screwing with adblockers so slow)Is Youtube making firefox load slow on purpose? [17:01 | Louis Rossmann] 7 months ago:
Google’s Polymer library working better on the Chromium engine has been known for years, and Mozilla has been doing its best to keep up with Google’s wrenches in the engine, this seven-year-old bug being one of many examples: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367205
- Comment on in the future a voice actor will probably be a person who provides a library of voice clips to train an AI on 7 months ago:
- Comment on in the future a voice actor will probably be a person who provides a library of voice clips to train an AI on 7 months ago:
Well, if you talk about the newest AI-powered UTAU voicebanks, that’s because the developers finally thought about crossing the streams, and instead of having the singers merely pronounce syllables in several pitches, they used that data (expanded to also include several syllable clusters) to train an AI. Unlike most trained AI models, where the voice samples are recorded from live performances, so they vary in quality and on data points for each individual syllable, these have the full set of voice training data prerecorded by design, so the quality of every possible combination of phonemes is as clear as possible.
- Comment on Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media 7 months ago:
On one hand, it’s a bit sad to see the average person not know about the Fediverse and claim “welp, there’s nowhere else to go, it’s either staying on the same ten junkyards I know or quitting cold-turkey”. On the other hand, the relative obscurity kind of comes from the fact that there’s no single main instance of the Fediverse. Sure there’s things like Mastodon.Social, Lemmy.ML and Misskey.GG that concentrate most users of their niche, but by nature, there is not (and should not be) a centralized place where everybody is, that can be used as the poster child for the Fediverse.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 7 months ago:
Remember March 2012, when SOPA and PIPA were about to pass, and many websites were blacking out as a form of protest, some people were advocating for a “Black March” to have everyone boycott Big Media, pirated or not, for the entire month? Yeah sure it didn’t spread like wildfire because of course, the population is already too addicted to popular culture to drop it cold-turkey, but at this rate people may be forced to give it a go by force.
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 7 months ago:
If I need to pay taxes anyway, at least I prefer to have the investment returned back to me in some way, and this seems like a nice way to do so.
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 7 months ago:
If anything, I expect two things to rise - people that just stop watching videos online cold-turkey, and pirate mirrors of popular YouTube channels
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass Wave 6 - Course Overview 7 months ago:
Even if you purchase them directly instead of using the online pass? Guess I’ll have to check it for myself
- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 7 months ago:
As a user of third-party controllers on the PS4: yup, the DualShock 4 security is a pain. And the DualSense security hasn’t been cracked yet - the closest gadget I’ve found actually uses Remote Play to bypass the authentication requirement.
- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 7 months ago:
Console developers sell at a loss specifically to tie you to their ecosystem and get as much money from you as possible. Which is why it’s so complicated to get a PC equivalent in specs to, say, a PS5 at the price of an actual PS5 - unless you go to the used parts route and learn how to assemble parts by yourself.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 8 months ago:
Or more accurately, experiencing culture and media that social pressure coaxes you into being interested in.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 8 months ago:
I’m surprised that so few people decide to follow the spirit of the law and, just, boycott media instead.
- Comment on IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024 8 months ago:
“Maximizing profit for the shareholders” is usually in direct opposition with “minimizing expenses for the clients”, as the current price hike waves in Silicon Valley can easily prove.
- Comment on Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password 8 months ago:
There is a chance that I once used the user ‘admin’ with the password ’ istrator’ for the laughs.
- Comment on Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same 8 months ago:
I’m surprised that Twitch still doesn’t allow users to upload pre-made videos besides of channel intros. Amazon has the technical infrastructure to actually compete with YouTube on its own turf, and they decide to just limit themselves for no particular reason