esaru
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- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 6 days ago:
It’s not helpful because it’s not discussing content but attacking a person’s character. This leads to emotions running high rather than letting your readoning win the argument.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 6 days ago:
There should an option to say “I read it and I don’t want it” that makes the dot disappear.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 1 week ago:
When there’s a post about privacy issues, expect alternatives with more privacy be mentioned. It’s just that there are so many moments that big corporations violate user’s privacy nowadays, so people who escaped that mention an option with privacy in mind. Just don’t blame those people for the many privacy issues that corporations create.
- Comment on [May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors 2 weeks ago:
120 hz dynamically allocated, which means when you read text or do office work you save energy on a lower frame rate, and when you need higher frame rates for scrolling, movie or gaming it automatocally increases it up to 120 hz. 120 hz on a 4 k display is something you can’t get from other brands. I have to uprade my Lenovo X1 Carbon just to get more RAM, but would have to downgrade the display as Lenovo doesn’t offer good display options jn their Laptops anymore. I’m not going to sacrifice my eye sight to save Lenovo production costs. Fortunately, there is Frameworks now with their user orientated approach. And I won’t have to throw away a perfectly working high quality display and keyboard just to upgrade RAM, CPU, or ports, as all components can be swapped and independently upgraded on a Frameworks.
- Comment on [May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors 2 weeks ago:
Well, I guess 9 hours of battery life for office work is enough for most use cases.
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 2 weeks ago:
There’s no way anyone in Europe can use a bank account without a banking app. As I said, even if you log-in on a browser on a laptop, authentication still requires you grab your phone and use the banking app to authorize the log-in from that laptop once in a while, or any transaction.
Unfortunately, the solution you propose is technically too advanced for most people, including me. Is using GrapheneOS with its sandbox feature good enough of a protection?
- Comment on Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great idea. Can we not apply a license to that social content that forces AI models trained on it to be open source?
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 2 weeks ago:
How do you acces your bank account without an app that requieres Google Play Services running? I can install bank apps via Aurora, but almost all of them won’t run without Google’s Software.
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 3 weeks ago:
It reads like a piece of comedy, except that it’s real.
- Comment on Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows 5 weeks ago:
I stopped buying their phones when they started trying to get control over the hardware I paid for, preventing me from installing the Operating System of my choice. I switched to Google Pixel phones and installed GrapheneOS via its one-click installation. Since then I’m enjoying a clean simple interface with no advertisement, no background telemetry, and a long battery life.
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- Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training 1 month ago:
AI training to suggest emoji reactions? Really? 😂
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 1 month ago:
I think this has an effect most people don’t think of: Media will just lose it’s value as a trusted source for information. We’ll just lose the ability of broadcasting media as anything could be faked. Humanity is back to “word of mouth”, I guess.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 months ago:
I don’t get how a software can be in alpha or beta version and by the developers be called ready for production environments. It doesn’t make sense by itself. In some way it’s not an honest way of communication, telling us two contrary things at the same time.
Alpha versions are actually quite severe. It means that features can be removed or added breaking the whole system. It means not providing an upgrade path for database changes. It means new bugs will be introduced by new features. Beta normally means a feature freeze but still not considered stable enough for production, due to bugs and security issues. RC, a “release candidate” is almost ready but you give it a bit more of testing time to make sure no critical bugs are left. And after that you get the version that is safe for productive use.
They are far away from a productive version, but telling us to use their development version as such.
- Comment on Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals 2 months ago:
Keyboards for typing Chinese can work completely without Internet connection. There’s one in the F-Droid store: Guileless Bopomofo.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 months ago:
Beta and moreso Alpha are tags that indicate a software is not ready for use in production environment, because it is either not secure or stable enough. Otherwise it wouldn’t need to be tagged as Alpha or Beta.
- Comment on Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 2 months ago:
I can only advice to try out a color E ink eReader in person. Their screen is usually low contrast and dark, to a degree that you need to use it with backlight by default, which kinda defeats the use of an E ink eReader.
- Comment on 'xz utils' Software Backdoor Uncovered in Years-Long Hacking Plot 2 months ago:
I guess even QubesOS would have been affected by this?
- Comment on Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 2 months ago:
Time to find interests that don’t depend on a company taking advantage of your consumption habits.
- Comment on 'xz utils' Software Backdoor Uncovered in Years-Long Hacking Plot 2 months ago:
I wonder if the intention could be purely financial as well: Once the backdoor is in, you can sell it for millions to a company which sells the service of breaking into systems. Or it was such a company itself that pushed the backdoor into the code.
- Comment on VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year 5 months ago:
Ask anyone who works in IT and they’ll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.
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