@grue@lemmy.world
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- on ah, so that's why touch typing is important in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 7m ago
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on Overkill, really in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2h ago
Plot twist: it’s actually a whole SoC packaged to look like a single transistor, with the pins being for +V, ground, and a 1-Wire data bus.
I don’t know that such a thing exists, but these days I bet it could.
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on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5h ago
It’s funny how few people realize that etymology.
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on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5h ago
This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.
I say that about Windows users who jump through hoops to try to disable the spying and they get mad at me, LOL.
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on it's time in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1d ago
I have two of the degrees in that list, and yet I still don’t feel safe from AI.
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on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 4d ago
Google is on track to require every Android app developer, whether on the Play Store, F-Droid, or anywhere else, to register with them. Come 2027, that means handing over legal identification and signing key evidence before an app can run on any certified device.
When is some country’s government finally going to grow a pair and block this shit on the grounds of antitrust law?
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on dating tips in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Recompiling the kernel is a privilege, not an obligation!
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on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input in c/games@lemmy.world · 5d ago
People will play this like “Fucking hey! I aced that bike segment first time!” all proud of their gaming skills when the reality is you did absolutely nothing, my brother.
I wonder if actually trying makes it more difficult. Does it actually let you crash into stuff and miss jumps, or does it just override your mistakes even harder?
- on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5d ago
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on Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law. Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
What do you mean, “wait for?” We’re already in one!
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on Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
I look forward to having Grace Hopper chips remanufactured onto ATX boards in half a decade or so, but it’s still cold comfort that we can’t have affordable hardware today.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
I’ve got eight of them and am not using them all, but sometimes I worry I should’ve gotten more when I had the chance, just in case.
I miss the '90s, when you could count on new tech to get better instead of worse.
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on Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
I just saw a video yesterday on hacking old bitcoin mining GPUs to unlock their RAM and PCI bandwidth and whatnot for general-purpose use. Desperation is the mother of invention, after all.
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on Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
The problem isn’t that it can’t be done, it’s that the manufacturing cost vs. labor cost in the US stops it from making economic sense. They do repair and reuse electronics in places like China (that’s where those modified GPUs with extra RAM and cheap desktop motherboards with old Xeon CPUs on them you find on EBay and Aliexpress come from, for example), but that’s because the technicians doing the work get paid a lot less than skilled people would be willing to accept here.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Sonoff S31 (and I think this might have been the guide I used to flash them), but I think they’ve been discontinued and the replacement model might be more locked-down.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
I mean, you can – that’s what consumer protection regulations are for. It’s why people can’t sell themselves into slavery even I’d they’re stupid enough to want to, for example.
We could do things like, say, entirely outlawing closed-source software in smart home tech, if our government weren’t usurped by oligarchs.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Honestly, if I were running a PC off it I’d go to the trouble of rewiring to bypass the switch.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
The key benefit of smart home tech isn’t to control stuff with an app instead of a switch, it’s to automate it so you don’t have to do anything at all.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
My smart plugs were carefully chosen so that I could immediately flash them with ESPHome, but that’s because I am not normal. It shouldn’t have to be that way.
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on How "secure" is your setup? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
I’ve tried to use ZeroTier because Tailscale still has centralized servers for starting the connection, but had trouble getting it to work. Maybe I should stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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on How "secure" is your setup? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
My stuff is only accessible from my LAN (because I haven’t figured out how to set up a tunnel or reverse proxy yet).
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on Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
The bad very much outweighs any good that these cameras are alleged to help with. Fucking traffic violations?
Okay, maybe tracking a murderer etc. might be a good use of the system, but the ratio of that happening, and what they are being used for is ridiculous.
I reject the notion that mass surveillance has any valid use whatsoever, even including tracking murderers. The mere existence of the system has chilling effects on the non-criminal citizenry that makes it absolutely categorically unacceptable regardless of what alleged benefits it tries to claim.
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on OC: How I Removed the Mic Component from 2 Remotes in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Sep 2026
No, I’m saying that what we really need is regulation, not technological workarounds.
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on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
But why won’t any other country do it either? Or are these ads only displaying to US IP addresses?
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on OC: How I Removed the Mic Component from 2 Remotes in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
This is why technological workarounds are not a substitute for consumer protection regulation.
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on Question - Retro Handhelds in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
What is “1G1R”?
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on OC: How I Removed the Mic Component from 2 Remotes in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
My hot take: if you can’t trust the microphone in the device, you can’t trust the device and shouldn’t be using it at all to begin with.
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on I am asked for Gmail in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
Are you going to do it for something as small as opinions about data collection companies?
That is not a small thing; that is a very large thing! Society is being destroyed in large part because of that!
Fuck compromising with people who support this shit. It is good to be as obstinate as possible in that situation!
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on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
“Monopoly fucks up the entire market, news at 11.”
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on Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
I own a few web apps and each of them have proper configurable cookie settings (including the banner).
Configurable cookie settings are not “proper.” Unconfigurable eschewing of not-strictly-functional cookies is “proper.”
Don’t delude yourself into thinking your goddamned malicious compliance is “proper!”
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on Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
Laws don’t care about technical ‘gotchas’. If the law says tracking is illegal, it’s illegal whether it relies on cookies, fingerprinting, magic pixie dust, or literally any other applied phlebotinum you could possibly think of. It simply does not matter what the means are if the intent is to track.
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on Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner! in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 10 Sep 2026
If tracking is made illegal, only criminals will track you.
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on I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’: An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Sorry, I guess? I don’t use LinkedIn and I wrote it myself. I just talk like that.
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on I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’: An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Saying that AI changed it is burying the lede. The real story here is that one of those political grassroots lobbying services is using AI to forcibly invert the message of people who try to use it to send opposing messages. That’s way more deliberate and nefarious.
This isn’t bad autocorrect; this is intentional subversion.
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on Anti-fa email provider Autistici/Inventati is planning shutdown. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Tuta and Proton’s political circumstances are very different from Autistici/Inventati’s.
theintercept.com/…/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-rep…
cyberinsider.com/tuta-refutes-allegations-of-it-b…
Maybe they’re politically-neutral or maybe one or both are sabotaged somehow, but either way, they aren’t explicitly anti-fascist.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
LG’s Windows drivers were doing that. LG deserves the blame and can’t be trusted, but ditto for Windows itself.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
The fucked up part is that “expertise” is assumed to be exclusively found in the industry being regulated. Bill Gates is a respected industry expert, but RMS is just some dumbfuck nobody because he’s not “in the industry”.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Unconscionable bunk. It’s illegal anyway, just like how you can’t sign a contract to sell yourself into slavery.
If the courts won’t enforce it, vigilantes should.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
That just sounds like a good way to destroy index funds.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Go look up “tivoization”. GPLv2 isn’t enough to protect you from this shit.
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on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.
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on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Yep. When I say “I use Keepass” what I actually mean is “I use KeepassXC, Macpass, KeepassDX, etc. depending on which OS I’m on at the time” and AFAIK none of those are actually made by the original Keepass developer.
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on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
No, he shouldn’t have switched to Bitwarden. Why the fuck do people keep recommending cloud shit instead of Keepass?
I don’t know where this weird trope of thinking Keepass is somehow obsolete or inferior came from, because it isn’t.
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on Sexytime Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Okay, it’s even more confusing than I realized.
I would’ve said that “O-Scale” in the US refers to both the 1:48 rolling stock and the 1.25" track used with it (but that you could also call the track “O gauge” if you want), while “O-Gauge” in the UK refers to both the 1.43.5 rolling stock and the 32 mm track used with it (which happens to be only 0.25 mm different to the US track).
Now that I’ve looked it up, though, apparently there’s a third European standard involving 1:45 stock on a 32 mm track. And of course, there’s 0-27 gauge (which is almost the same as O and mostly compatible with it but not quite), and apparently several other variants. It’s a real mess.
Happily, I think other scales like G, HO, and N don’t have nearly as much of that sort of problem.
Edit: never mind, I just read en.wikipedia.org/…/Rail_transport_modelling_scale… and it’s a clusterfuck everywhere.
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on Sexytime Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
I think the names for the sizes are mostly the same, but different sizes are common in different countries.
Also, IIRC there’s an “O-gauge” and an “O-scale” and they aren’t the same.
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on British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
FYI, I never disagreed with you on the morality of it to begin with. In fact, that’s why I didn’t address that point: I had no objections to it.
Now, seriously, for the last fucking time, knock it off with your needlessly combative attitude! You’re the only one here acting in bad faith!
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on British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
I don’t know why you’re so desperate to keep changing the topic, I’m just trying to keep it on what I was originally saying and you’re not so I’m done.
I am sick and tired of your ridiculous false accusations.
Here’s what you actually wrote:
Sweden shouldn’t be allowed to do that, just like Trump shouldn’t be allowed to remove people who’ve been living in the US for 24 years.
I replied to the second half of that, the bullshit comparison between Sweden and Trump. You then posted a series of confused objections to things I didn’t claim while insinuating bad faith on my part, but at no point were we ever talking about the thing you apparently think we were talking about!
Don’t pretend “just like Trump” wasn’t your topic.
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on British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
Do you just lack reading comprehension skills or something? Why do you keep assuming random shit I didn’t say?
Of fucking course Brexit has something to do with it; it’s why he doesn’t have an automatic right to live in Sweden indefinitely. But that is not the same as being the reason his non-automatic application to stay failed three times. Clear now?
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on British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
You literally called it a leopards eating faces situation
If he didn’t oppose Brexit.
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on British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
So wait, is he being kicked out because Britain voted for Brexit or because of something he did? You’re not even keeping your story straight.
What do you mean, “my story?” I’m not The Guardian! They’re the ones claiming he’s being kicked out because of Brexit while leaving out the reasons why Swedish immigration authorities ruled against him three times.
Must be Australian, too.