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- Comment on Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky. 17 hours ago:
Forgejo was too slow…
- Comment on As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure. 3 days ago:
Don’t we have enough clothes on the planet to clothe every person here? What the fuck do we need to produce anymore? Buy second hand and we should be set.
Also, how is surveillance going to help? Seems like a useless expense.
- Comment on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code. 1 week ago:
Is this the future of Rewrite in Rust? 🤣 I wonder how it’ll do with something like the linux kernel. It’s quite modular, so it could theoretically be pointed at the code, module by module, and put into a rust module with tests.
- Comment on New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter 1 week ago:
There have been multiple crystals like these. I hope they hit the market within the next decade - even if they are write-once. I’d like to have storage that holds data for decades so that I don’t have to worry about constantly backing up and swapping out disks.
- Comment on Apple strikes deal with Indonesia, secures future market access for iPhones. 1 week ago:
The 2017 regulation requires that 40% of smartphones sold in Indonesia use domestically sourced components. The policy is part of Indonesia’s push to boost domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on imports.
Europe, take note
- Comment on Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project 1 week ago:
Fuck off. Nobody really believes that, and of they do, they are clueless. Microsoft can be forced by the US government to turn over data on any client: that means on nearly any government on the planet. The EU better give up their US addiction before it gets terminal.
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 2 weeks ago:
His point of using IPv6 as proof of ossification is partially correct. The major problem with IPv6 is that it’s friggin unreadable to developers. 1::abdc:124 and a bunch of other things just make it difficult to read and parse.
It’s probably obvious that I have not come in contact with it much, but why weren’t dots used instead of colons? IP addresses with double the length or with hexadecimal characters would’ve been OK. Unless there’s a technical reason not to do so…
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 2 weeks ago:
But what happens to the pins Humane sold? Well, they are about to become ewaste.
Companies should be forced to pay for disposal in those cases.
- Comment on X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the Streisand effect, Musk!
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
As if you’re on morally higher ground by defending the actions of corporations trying to appease a madman…
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile Germany barely provides 5% of its population with fiber and probably less have access to VDSL. Romania, the Baltics and other countries are fast, but I doubt 10Gbs will be normal there even in 20 years.
- Comment on Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India? It’s complicated. 4 weeks ago:
Homegrown mapping solutions like… OpenStreetMap? Why are governments so concentrated on building private stuff instead of sharing the data?
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 4 weeks ago:
“We’re being censored!! Free speech is paramount!!” - immediately start censoring as soon as they get into power. What a surprise.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 4 weeks ago:
Has absolutely nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with fascism.
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 4 weeks ago:
“OpenAI”
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 4 weeks ago:
The models will be available for commercial, industrial, and public services.
“OpenEuroLLM”. Is this going to be another misnomer for a model that isn’t actually open? The quote doesn’t give me much hope. I bet they’ll have to use Anna’s Archive to train their AI too 🤫
- Comment on Taiwan issues public sector ban on DeepSeek, Japan eyes similar action. 4 weeks ago:
Could we issue a public sector ban on proprietary software please?
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 5 weeks ago:
🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
- Comment on AI research team claims to reproduce DeepSeek core technologies for $30 — relatively small R1-Zero model has remarkable problem-solving abilities 5 weeks ago:
Here we go. Soon we’ll have OpenAI-competitors running on thumb-drives. Stargate investors must be tumbling right about now.
- Comment on Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds 5 weeks ago:
Would lesbians be able to have boys if both gave their material? Women only have X sex chromosomes and men have both X and Y, so if I’m not mistaken two (or more) lesbians wouldn’t be able to conceive boys.
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 1 month ago:
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 1 month ago:
And nothing of value will have been lost. It’s pretty clear that people don’t care about surveillance or influence, or whatever. They just want to be popular and/or be distracted. Once Red Book bans them, sequesters them, or limits their access somehow, they’ll have to migrate again, and I bet the majority won’t pick a fediverse alternative.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 1 month ago:
Such a popcorn moment, honestly. I wonder where they’ll go to once Red Note blocks US Americans. They might be able to go back to tick tock if the US backpedals, but if not… is pixelfed or whatever fediverse alternative exists really ready to absorb 700M accounts?
- Comment on Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs 5 months ago:
A completely new OS meant to supplant Android and Windows but the apps are written in JS and extended Typescript? Not off to a good start…
- Comment on OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says 5 months ago:
Maybe they should be forced to build the power generation along with it? After all the lobbying these rich fucks do to pay less taxes, maybe they should be forced to fund their own utilities with no subsidies.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 5 months ago:
You’re still missing the fact that public chats can’t be adequately protected.
Depends what you mean by “adequately” 🤔 With perfect forward secrecy (which matrix and signal have), seeing past messages isn’t possible. Seizing the servers is also not very useful unless people are connecting directly to the server. Anonymous public chats running on overlay networks like I2P and TOR might not even need encryption (although I wouldn’t trust a server that didn’t).
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 5 months ago:
Are you talking about encryption at rest? Regardless, encryption by the server is worthless. It’s exactly why admins can delete content in chat rooms.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 5 months ago:
adomic wedgie
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 5 months ago:
Does anybody really use Telegram for “privacy”? People can’t seriously believe that thing is secure. Their FAQ indirectly states that group chats aren’t encrypted and explicitly states that “secret chats” are.
We support two layers of secure encryption. Server-client encryption is used in Cloud Chats (private and group chats), Secret Chats use an additional layer of client-client encryption. All data, regardless of type, is encrypted in the same way — be it text, media or files.
I have never recommended Telegram to anybody. It’s just like another facebook, AOL, ICQ, or whatever messenger. I actually don’t personally know a single telegram user who uses secret chats. They are quite useless. They don’t sync across devices.
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 5 months ago: