RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 4 days 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 week ago:
It’s rather disappointingly proprietary.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 3 weeks 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 month ago:
hopefully vencord will add an adblocker.
- Comment on “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 1 month ago:
Don’t remind them, they’ll replace it with a new UI with ads and bing AI.
- Comment on AMD, Intel, absent from China’s list of approved CPUs 1 month ago:
Not really surprising considering the IME[0] is usually considered to be a NSA backdoor.
[0] which has a privilege level of -3, compared to the kernel which is only privilege level 0.
- Comment on Are we giving away too much online? | LSE Research 1 month ago:
I blame facebook partly. Before them trying to force everyone, most people didn’t use their real name online.
- Comment on “You a—holes”: Court docs reveal Epic CEO’s anger at Steam’s 30% fees 1 month ago:
Valve COO Scott Lynch simply offered up a sardonic “You mad bro?”
Both these people seem terrible.
- Comment on AliExpress is first online marketplace to face DSA investigation by EU 1 month ago:
the Commission says it suspects the marketplace of breaching DSA rules in areas linked to … content moderation
I was worried these laws would end up with the EU trying to be the internet police, guess I was right.
- Comment on AI model recommended Black defendents 'be sentenced to death' 2 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems 2 months ago:
Be a real shame if they leaked the windows source code.
- Comment on Boris Johnson considered ‘raid’ on vaccine plant in the Netherlands 5 months ago:
Yeah, to be fair to Johnson, he wasn’t any more insane than the EU leadership, admittedly that isn’t a very high bar…
- Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rightsleftfootforward.org ↗Submitted 5 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Thoughts on preemtively defederating from alien.top? 5 months ago:
I usually just go to lemmyverse.net and either search for a specific topic, or sort communities by new.
- Comment on Thoughts on preemtively defederating from alien.top? 5 months ago:
Why do so many people use “all”? it doesn’t seem logical.
Just subscribe to the communities your interested in like you did on reddit.
- Comment on UK equality watchdog faces review after new complaint over trans stance 5 months ago:
The UN human rights council, that currently has famously pro LGBTQ+ members like checks notes the UAE.
- Comment on Britain detects first human case of flu strain similar to pig virus 5 months ago:
Swine flu then?
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 5 months ago:
A weird fact is this also applies to intellectual property like copyright, including those of dissolved companies.