WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on how things become science 2 weeks ago:
tbh I don’t get how it’s output isn’t already filled with brand names
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 2 weeks ago:
I think we are mostly charged by the minute, and some plans have a certain amount of free minutes and messages, but I don’t know if that also applies to foreign calls. nowadays I rarely use phone calls though, so I may not be completely up to date
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 2 weeks ago:
I would love to use JMP chat, but they only give a canadian or usa phone number. I guess that would be very expensive for others to call, besides being very unusual
- Comment on In this modern world of AI, with devices everywhere having microphones, is it even safe to satirically joke and banter with a friend anymore? 2 weeks ago:
But lets assume that your microphone is recording everything you say to some llm, and everyone else too. imagine the shitshow it must be to sort all that data, considering how unreliable llm are. There is no way to know for sure what the original meaning and intention of words is without actual human confirming it. there would be so much constantly going on that even with decent automation it would be nightmare to manage, i think.
filtering for interesting words in a transcription would go a long way. I’m not convinced they would need an LLM for this. keyword based targeted advertising was a thing for quite a fewyears before LLMs became widespread.
I have occasionally tried to investigate if my phone is listening even though it doesnt indicate so, but i havent noticed anything that would point to that.
I have friends of all ages who are not really technically adept, and not caring much about privacy either, but who tell me from time to time that it’s like facebook is listening, because of some ad they saw on there. I still don’t have any clue how are they pulling that off, and I hear it too much to accept it being a coincidence.
but I don’t use facebook, I refuse to use their apps, my phone is clean from google too, while theirs is littered with every garbage in addition to the factory bloat, so I can’t do much to figure it out
- Comment on What is a good alternative Android app to Micro$oft Lens (to scan and concatenate images as pdf)? 2 weeks ago:
also on fdroid: f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 4 weeks ago:
TIL that a single ’ is a feet. but what’s a "?
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 4 weeks ago:
well, poettering’s new company amutable is pretty suspicious in its intentions
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 4 weeks ago:
thats cool until you find out the reason for that is he founded a company that’s goal is to turn desktop into locked down android.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 5 weeks ago:
well in that case, why do we eat dessert when we do?
because that’s when you are home and maybe not in a hurry. says a lot.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 1 month ago:
it will lose support for windows 10 before that happens
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 2 months ago:
why did you disable that for it? genuinely interested
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 2 months ago:
guess what, you don’t need to install 2 foss apps into separate android accounts for that
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 2 months ago:
it just seems like they have no clue how to use their phone. or they created dozens of android user accounts, one for each app they use, which does not make any sense but really thwarts using the clipboard
- Comment on I got a DMCA notice for having a fork of GPL 3.0 code 2 months ago:
if it is signed by a key used in public repos of the commiter, or otherwise known to possess the key, that is proof, yes
- Comment on I got a DMCA notice for having a fork of GPL 3.0 code 2 months ago:
if it is signed by a key used in public repos of the commiter, or otherwise known to possess the key, that is proof, yes
- Comment on I got a DMCA notice for having a fork of GPL 3.0 code 2 months ago:
the commiter name in the repo is not ironclad proof, anyone can upload commits to their repo in Linus Torvalds’ name. but github probably has the capabilities to find out who was the original uploader of the commit, or what was the upstream repo of a fork
- Comment on Fucking Google, websites and permissions shit... 3 months ago:
recommend trying Jitsi to your therapist. the main advantage of it to me is that it’s not made by big tech, who may be snooping in on the session. I love it, it has all the features and more
oh and also firefox. jitsi and firefox.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 months ago:
it was a real hero
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 months ago:
at least? wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the motherboard nowadays?
- Comment on People like this 3 months ago:
this is given votes, not received
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 months ago:
an automatic ATM machine, no less!
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 months ago:
Pokemon Birth and every time you take a photo of a new newborn baby with the app, and send your genetic samples for verification, you have a chance to collect a rare pokemon
- Comment on Is this message supported by World admins? Is there any chance at all this slipped past their control? 3 months ago:
At that point, Lemmy instance owners should just convert to a Piefed or Mbin instance if they were to feel that strongly.
some are trying to do that, but afaik it’s complicated to do that without data loss.
- Comment on Is this message supported by World admins? Is there any chance at all this slipped past their control? 3 months ago:
and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.
is that genuinely what you think?
most people who disagree with that banner do so because it makes unknowing people to give money to the main devs, who hold a hostile and deceptive agenda.
the banner can be easily disabled with a short custom stylesheet. Implementing that shouldn’t be a big burden for small instances, even less so for lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch? 4 months ago:
Your basic home or business user only needs an unmanaged switch, good enough.
I always say vlans are useful in any environments
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 5 months ago:
what’s RoW?
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 5 months ago:
I think there’s some linux command to query the installed keys, but here I have only found the command for listing all the installed mok keys: wiki.archlinux.org/title/…/Secure_Boot
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 5 months ago:
I can boot into Windows through the BIOS using only the MS-signed bootloader instead of GRUB or any chain loader, and Windows itself considers Secure Boot to be enabled successfully.
I assume that’s because your motherboard still has the microsoft keys installed besides the MOK keys, and it verified the bootloader with that. thats why it accepts the ms signed bootloader. as I know not all motherboards allow removing it, and there are a few buggy ones that get hard bricked if you do that.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 5 months ago:
Microsoft provides SB shims for some linux distributions, so it wouldn’t mean locking out all linux players.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 5 months ago:
right, you can look at it that way too. but what the consumers see (and feel) is that the game tells what kind of software you can have, even when that is not related to the game. and that’s what’s not usual.
this is less obvious on windows, because it’s not that common to be modified by users in a way that matters here, as the checks are kind of loose, but on android it’s quite different, and windows is likely to get the same treatment, which is the reason why valve is pouring so much money into linux