WhyJiffie

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a guy become his most confident around women?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we could also say: username checks out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it seems you don’t know it either what is a photo album.

  printing pictures does not solve the problem. the problem comes after printing them: you need to store them somewhere. and that’s what the album is for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and how unambiguous is it that those are AI generated content? is it like blurry colors on images, 6 fingers and 3 hands, or what do you recognize on them?

  I think I can identify generated images, but text… well I can’t even decide. Probably I just can’t so far, because I don’t remember any posts or comments that were suspicious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  while dissing someone for not wanting AI in forums, for “not knowing what are they talking about”. right, they didn’t specify what kind of AI they don’t want, but I think it comes from the context that they don’t want generative AIs, because that’s what affects them negatively regularly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see it, which is horrific considering that others do. can you show a few examples that you think is AI slop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  let me get this straight. you like AI because a model outperformed another? how is that a real argument for any kind of question? the topic was not about whether they evolve.

  that “black and white stance” is not really bad here, because it’s not actually black and white. their stance is against generative AI, not the kind you use for research. and guess what, forums are flooded by gen AI slop, the only kind of AI today that highly affects our forums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not found an answer to this part:

  I realized I just quoted the first 3 paragraphs of the post, so lets stay at the clarification.

  And to clarify what I don’t understand: each year flagship phone’s performance don’t seem to increase significantly. Regarding real world performance, not benchmarks.
  That’s why the question is why don’t they keep the previous chipset until more meaningful gains. As OP suggested, they could either lower the price, or have more profit. Users would not feel the difference, and there’s plenty of other things the manufacturer can improve or experiment with.

  If the concern is that people would say “ah it’s the same chipset!” and they wouldnt buy it, then the manufacturer could just replace that with another one that has roughly the same cost and performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they wanted answers about phone design practices, not cheaper phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the software that’s a bit bloated, but it’s (usually) removable (and you could always install a custom ROM)

  except if your government and all available banks practically restrict you from replacing the ROM, because then their apps refuse to work. you often can’t replace gov apps with the web browser because of the closed authentication system, and bank apps either because they routinely block mobile browsers, while the desktop view is unusable for most people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its like you are responding to a different question. you are speaking about cheap phones, while the question was about recent years flagship phones chipsets.

  what is that so large difference between this years flagship chip, and yesteryears flagship chip? and the difference between yezteryears and the one before that?
  is it really a large difference, like reviewers tell? it feels like comparing intel 12th gen and 13th gen CPUs and telling there is a large difference, the newer ones are so much better you need to get them IMMEDIATELY.

  again, the question is not about developments over a decade. bluetooth and gyroscope has been common for a decade now even in cheap phones.

  and I find it amazing how hard they are locking down our phones, like as if it was still owned by the manufacturer, rented by the user. google is doing the most of the work to enable countries to forcibly lock in citizens to malware infested systems of the factory. it couldn’t have happened without something like play “protect”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but dozens a minute increase in the dawn hours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nézzenek oda! magyarok az interneten! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think everything uses some kind of premade file index. Whenever I start up everything, it starts with indexing all my drives, one by one, churning them at 100% if I look at the task manager but everything even says so in the bottom left corner. it even stores hundreds of megabytes of that index in memory.

  what it actually does, as I know, is that instead of going through the slower filesystem APIs, it first scans the MFT with its admin rights, and then listens for any changes through the usn journal. so it does quite some work, because afaik both of these are publicly undocumented, and then it even implenents a very quick search for the index that even supports pattern matching

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  no offense taken, but given. really, what was that, man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  paying your own rent and having your own place

  slightly off topic, but this is a contradiction. if you are paying rent, that is not your own place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe, but it seems it would lower the sea level

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  probably from “a tiktok”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if you are not white, are you closer to being a rando, or to being (perceived as) an actual threat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people delete their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow.

  those need to be reported and banned, their replies mass deleted.

  Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway,

  Because we don’t have a proper (or any) system for subscribing to threads. but if I have saved a link for myself for future reference, it’ll be gone!

  I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if people start running instances that disobey deletions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm on the right track 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished

  let the downvotes pour!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm on the right track 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished

  let the downvotes pour!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  socks? and where are the slippers? or do you keep your fridge in the living room?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations, homosexual!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer the robotic announcer with the fake uplifting tone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations, homosexual!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  in my head it was the other robotic voice. I think it was used in both portal 1 and 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s an “important app” to you here?

  the app of my bank. it refuses to work if the operating system is not original. they charge you money for each login code and transaction approval code SMS they send, but if I had the app, scanning their QR code would impose no charge.
  they also recently ended the support of the new web interface for mobile browsers, to “protect against hackers”. WTH! and this is the biggest bank in the country by far according to statistics. the old site shuts down soon.

  the new webapp can still be used in a mobile browser if you enable desktop mode. but for how long? and it’ll be fine for me, I would use that anyway because I don’t want to install their app for other reasons. but lots of people don’t want to deal with a website that’s been designed for desktop PCs, on a small touch screen,because it’s hard to use, it’s hard to read, and if your thumbs are big maybe it’s not even possible to use it.

  for banking apps this is almost expected nowadays.

  then another friend of mine has the worked related apl I said above. it does the same: refuses to let you use it because the opersting system is not the original one, unmodified. and mind you that does not only mean that you can’t root it or can’t replace the ROM, that also means you cannot even uninstall a bunch of apps that do whatever in the background!

  I bet there is much more of these, but if I can I avoid installing anything new from the play store at all, so I don’t come across these apps. I live different technological lifestyle than most around me. most of my friends’ phones cannot be liberated or they are not interested in it because of the dangers, and honestly me neither in supporting an installation that may be unstable as is not rarely the case with lineage, so I rarely offer it. but sometimes I do and they like the idea, accepting that things like this may happen, and then it happens with yet another app I did not know about beforehand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If Google want to continue to claim Android is open source,

  do they want it? what’s the benefit for them?

  they have to allow for devices that forego any of this crap and boot vanilla non-Google-Services Android.

  Sorry but that has nothing to do with what restrictions an app imposes on the user. Currently they allow, and bunch of important apps still refuse to work.

  And if you’re privacy oriented enough, you will give up on apps that are not.

  as I said above, there are apps that you cannot refuse in this world in certain life situations. most of these apps are not about convenience.

  And given enough time somebody is going to work out how you fool a modified system into booting.

  as in: in half a decade somebody will reverse engineer the bootloader of a single phone model, so that other tech savvy people can have some privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run whatever you like in your Android phones. Jailbreaking iPhones is also possible. All these devices are just computers that can run anything within their hardware specs. Hacking some of these things may be against the Ts and Cs or even illegal. But technically possible. The restrictions are mote political, not technical.

  unless it verifies itself and refuses to boot a modified system. the logic for that can be in actual read only memory.

  but wait a minute. something like that is already happening with google safetynet! baking apps and more are literally refusing to work on non-google approved systems, including any single rom that is even just a little bit privacy oriented

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cant comment on dead platform, but did you register on instagram for this reason, or was that an old account? in the former case you don’t have one less accounts. but then one could also argue whether deleting one meta service account and registering another makes a difference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not progress, it is trend. in zero ways it is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  executable files can just as well downloaded from google drive. and if you didn’t disable autorun on the system that’s on you.