WhyJiffie

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they shouldn’t seek a global ban on it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  good luck cancelling commands after rebinding Ctrl+C. it sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t. Ctrl+C/V is acting differently in the terminal for a reason.

  most terminals have bindings for Ctrl+Shift+C/V, though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not half of that is true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah. but in my experience, people just have a hard time using it. especially when they only need it rarely and don’t have the need to learn it. and it doesn’t help that it’s redesigned every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its just as usable with KDE, but depending on distro you might need to install the server part yourself.

  but also these are LAN only solutions, and VPN. for actual remote access you have to forward ports but I wouldn’t do that for risky things like that. Instead use rustdesk, but even teamviewer would be a better idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  rustdesk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not really a problem. it stays unlocked, and for when she occasionally needs to log in again it will be printed on a paper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL that a single ’ is a feet. but what’s a "?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it was a real hero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  at least? wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the motherboard nowadays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is given votes, not received

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  an automatic ATM machine, no less!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.