RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on ONLYOFFICE suspends Nextcloud partnership over unapproved 'Euro-Office' fork 18 hours ago:
They seem to have a questionable interpretation of the AGPL isitreallyfoss.com/projects/onlyoffice/
Considering the specific clause they cite allows
Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it
A logo isn’t attribution, and even if it was there’s no way it could be considered reasonable to require it if they don’t allow you to use it.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Example #42069 of why relying on vision alone for navigation is a terrible idea. At these speeds a $5 ultrasonic SONAR would’ve prevented this.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 4 months ago:
Guess they refused to add NSA backdoors
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 5 months ago:
Thanks for being the first person to actually explain that rather than just downvoting.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 5 months ago:
That was literally the first time I’ve heard of him.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 5 months ago:
The guy who electrocuted his dog?
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 5 months ago:
To be fair that sounds exactly like something an organic redditor would say.
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 11 months ago:
Craigslist, but worse
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 11 months ago:
They’re shovels not spades though. They shovel shit.
- Comment on What really happens inside a dating app. 1 year ago:
Also, retention is a terrible metric for a dating app. The “perfect” dating app would have a 0% retention rate since the first person you meet would be your “ideal partner”.
It’s tantamount to measuring a hospital’s performance by it’s retention rate.
- Comment on What really happens inside a dating app. 1 year ago:
don’t tell me to remove paying features
The founder of OkCupid disagrees with them
- Comment on Researchers say they had a ‘100% attack success rate’ on jailbreak attempts against Chinese AI DeepSeek 1 year ago:
Compared to other frontier models, DeepSeek R1 lacks robust guardrails
Oh no, it’s easy to make the ai running on my computer do what I want it to do, the horror.
- Comment on Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names. 1 year ago:
Then they changed Turkey.
- Comment on Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit 1 year ago:
You know things are bad when Zuckerberg is looking like the good guy.
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 1 year ago:
The EU really hates the poor.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 year ago:
I was going to disagree, because manufacturers often set a very short and arbitrary EOL, but looking at the amazon price history this doesn’t seem to have been sold new since around 2013.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 year ago:
Always is.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 1 year ago:
How can it be that bad?
I’ve used zoom’s ai transcriptions, for far less mission critical stuff, and it’s generally fine (I still wouldn’t trust it for medical purposes)
- Comment on Meta Oversight Board okays calls for violence against Venezuelan ‘colectivos’ 1 year ago:
permitted ‘statements expressing a hope that violent actors will be killed,’
I guess they’ll allow Americans to say they hope their police are killed then, right?
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 1 year ago:
You can thank Torvalds for supporting TiVoization.
- Comment on YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos 1 year ago:
Great, now the AI is going to have permanent youtube clickbait face.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 1 year ago:
the only way to stop a bad guy with porn is with a good guy with porn.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 1 year ago:
VPN companies
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 1 year ago:
Mozilla is notoriously pro censorship, they blocked dissenter a while ago.
- Comment on Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries 1 year ago:
Skeet shooting with prizes?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 year ago:
I don’t know if he’s been taken out of context, but bluesky is supposed to have opt-out moderation, and the ability to opt-in to multiple moderation servers (a little like adlists in ublock et al), which doesn’t seem like a terrible idea, but it sounds like they’ve gone further and completely removed stuff, because in reality it isn’t decentralised at all.
- Comment on Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect 1 year ago:
It’s rather disappointingly proprietary.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 1 year ago:
In the years before the smartphone took over all entry-level photography, there used to be a thing called a “point-and-shoot camera.” This was a purpose-built device that only took photos
Don’t do this to me
- Comment on Discord is adding adverts "in the coming week" 1 year ago:
hopefully vencord will add an adblocker.
- Comment on “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 2 years ago:
Don’t remind them, they’ll replace it with a new UI with ads and bing AI.
