@Jason2357@lemmy.ca

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• Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes [sic] but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

  on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• Its pretty simple.

  Hydrocarbons + oxygen + ignition releases energy, H20, and CO2.

  Energy + CO2 + H20 can synthesize hydrocarbons.

  There is plenty of interesting research how to do the latter - but it doesnt change the fact it just reverses a process we currently do by the tanker ship full. Why would anyone do that at scale?

  It cant have a large scale application until we basically have free energy from some other source - and at that point, synthetic fuel is probably still a terrible way to store and use energy for pretty much everything except jet airplanes.

  on Plasma and electricity convert CO₂ into methanol, butane and other useful chemicals in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Should you care that the two companies that probably control the software running on most devices in your country are eagerly bending the knee to a new fascist government in a nuclear superpower?

  on Apple Maps follows Google, changes name of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Restic’s dedupe is very good. I used to take uncompressed tars of whole systems and it would add only megabytes to the storage repo each time. Almost everything got deduped despite being in various tar files and very fast.

  on What sort of setup would you have for secure file storage on a VPS? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• Keep their customers happy… this was a company that tried to charge people more than the price of a new car for a personal computer in the 90s.

  on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Do you consent to this shit? [ ] yes. [ ] ask me again later*.

  • we reserve the right to change out terms at any time, including the pretense of the above question.
  on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I think you might mean “partisan” rather than political. Ethics is always political.

  on Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• To be clear, capitalism is fucking our world. Nothing about the technology can do that on its own. Its how it is being deployed.

  We could have started with smaller LLMs, deployed strategically at institutions of higher learning for real societal value, running on renewable electricity… fuck it lets aim for a trillion dollar IPO promising to replace all doctors and engineers!

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Why do we all have to be morally homogenous? I use AI tools, but I understand that a “morally absolutist” take from someone who doesnt use it or see the value, and who places a lot of value on, say the environmental or social cost, can be reasonable. I also eat meat but understand that some people have a reasonable argument for totally avoiding it. The messyness is human.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Were you perhapse… talking to different people?

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• 100% bot ridden. However site:reddit.com is used for the types of questions where otherwise, you just get page after page of SEO sites, which are even wose.

  on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• Yeah, literal camera pointed at computer screens, with a view of fingers on the keyboard, and who knows what apps installed with access. Anyone who does that should be fired as they are a danger to the organization.

  on Meta glasses are a workplace menace in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• If you have a reasonable group of people like a friends and family group, you can get machine learning to be very accurate (with odd exceptions like babies and twins). But what is 99% accurate for 50 people will almost universally give false positives when searching a group of 50 million faces. The math just doesnt work for them.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• No, they will do what they do everywhere else and stack the decks so that nullification is only ever used for “their people”.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Why should law enfocement and prosecuters get to decide which laws to enforce and which not to, but jurrors cant?

  Unless the laws on the books were short and perfect, there is always going to be enforcement choices, and it seems to me the jury nulification option is no worse than other selective enforcement. It lets guilty people go free, sure, but it sometimes stops unjust incarceration.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Then they are either being discussed by your local government to be installes or they already subscribed to one of the equivelant compeditors. This shit is everywhere.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• This definition of “privacy” just makes it an addon of property rights, rather than a human right.

  How truly American.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• These are on public land without adequate public consultation… therefore they are “litter” and anyone removing them is doing a public service.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Thanks. I have spent the day reading about M-disc and optical formats. Lemmy is great for starting rabbit holes! I think I may swap a blu-ray burner into one of my machines and I am actually thinking dual layer blu ray is a decent trade-off: simmiliar chemistry to m-disc (unlike the clear superiority of m disc over DVDs -which I was literally burned on the other week with some yellowed DVDs), and yet still cheap, reasonable amount of disc shuffling, and in the future, nearly any blu ray drive will work with the 50gb discs (unlike 100gb disks). Still might grab a blu ray m disc burner if I see a good deal but they seem rarer than a hens tooth. Lol.

  I have less than a TB of truly irreplacable stuff, so 20 discs isnt bad to suffle, and aiming for maybe 20 years of electrically safe cold storage* zero maintenance off-site seems pretty reasonable for a $50 drive and about that in discs.

  *This is overkill anyway - already have zfs snapshots going to an external drive in another room and restic backups to b2. But the threat model is some combination of losing b2 (credit card fail or my own incompetence) plus housefire/robbery/electrical surge taking out everything. Also, if I get hit by a bus and my CC is cancelled, a box of transparrently readable discs are significantly safer bet for my survivors than my note about how to get the data off the NAS/backup drive. They could leave it 5+ years and come back to it no problem.

  on Is there any tape media backup system that works through USB? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• I have wondered about how to manage a 100 spool of DVDs as long term cold storage of the most important data. Would need some way of splitting the data up automatically and building a straightforward burning workflow, with redundancy incase a disk is destroyed, and a way to find a given file.

  Seems like a lot of work for 400-ish Gb, but 1. Its very cheap, 2. Archival disks could last a lot longer in cold storage than anything else affordable, and 3. Anyone could recover it in the future because DVD drives have been manufactured by the billion and are still being put in some office PCs. 100gb blurays are also an option but that means sourcing a burner and at least a few drives capable of reading them to store alongside.

  Edit: at first blush, plain files to make recouvery easier plus par2 files scattered across enough disks to be able to lose a whole disk or have many damaged disks seems like the right format. Some sort of index would need to be built and left on every/most disks or maybe printed on paper. Its mainly the workflow to do it that would be a PITA. Then maybe vacuum seal the spool with some moisture and oxygen absorbers and put in a lightproof container. Good for decades later? Maybe.

  on Is there any tape media backup system that works through USB? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• I just restored from some 20 year old dvds and they had visible yellowing at the edges and lost data at the end. A few videos were unrecouverable, not many.

  on Is there any tape media backup system that works through USB? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• It has been almost a trope that every time the discussion of them buying up the used market and cutting them up to scan, some apologist comes along and says that these books are mass produced garbage and not rare.

  on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Use a gell cell lead acid battery (the kind that go in regular UPSs). No fire hazzard, ans bonus, they can survive freezing temperatures just fine if outdoors. Downside is replacing a cheap battery every 3 years.

  on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Wouldnt productivity have two knobs? Efficiency and energy/effort input?

  Also efficiency sometimes goes against “right”? If you need resiliancy you then “right” migh include redundancy. In software, that could also be guardrails like memory safety that necissarily take some extra abstraction to implement and a processing penalty?

  on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Case in point: Alberta. As a landlocked province, they have been struggling to get oil and gas to markets, being limited by the pipelines other provinces or the US is willing to build. Now, the vast, vast majority of the planned ai datacentres in Canada are in Alberta, with insane sweetheart deals from government.

  They found a way to get paid to burn gas within their borders and are going whole hog.

  on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• For a while, I thought their end-game was simply to get “too big to fail” before the bubble burst and get that bailout. But you are right - they either overshot or have some other idea in mind because now they are too big to bailout.

  on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• Awesome. Thank you for the detailed answer.

  on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Aug 2026

• I am just about to start experimenting with opencloud.eu. It is another developer revolt fork of Opencloud (this time their infinite scale project) so it is supposed to be a lightweight single binary that uses a real filesystem and no database at all. Lacks all the add ons of nextcloud, buy I am tired of maintaining it.

  Anyone try it?

  on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Aug 2026

• The web client is full featured.

  on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Aug 2026

• Hopefully they get access back and someone learns enough to at least apend a few grand on some cold storage tapes.

  on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• Heck its pbs. They should have publically archived it so anyone could keep a copy. At least the old stuff.

  on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• That sounds like the vast majority of “app” developers.

  These things are a casino market.

  on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• You are conflating micropayments (sufficient to pay creators) with gateway monetization, which would need to be small enough you could still use the internet (lets say thousands of pages a month) but high eough to dissuade scraper bot operators. I am not sure such a price exists. Maybe for some bot operators, but the various AI companies have more money than all regular internet users.

  on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• In other words - car usage expands to the limit because human nature is to use the resource until it gets inconvenient. The gas expands to fill the container.

  on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• Overlay networks are also feasable.

  on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• The term was useful back when we used coal gas. It stopped being useful 100 years ago.

  on SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026