Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Aug. 19 new beans starting today 16 hours ago:
Don’t buy it. It got famous for being the best coffee because the civits only ate the best coffee berries, but now they put them in cages and force feed them.
- Comment on AI applied to hardening systems might cause US intelligence agencies to lose a large portion of their surveillance capabilities. 4 days ago:
Especially as more programs are written with AI. Using AI to check it’s own work will likely lead to vulnerabilities missed that can continue to be used.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I have too (uBlock Origin)! On chrome as I’m not allowed Firefox. But when I flick through the chrome store, almost all extensions are blocked. It’s like it was a deliberate decision to let us have it, which is considering the maturity of the organisation in other ways.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 6 days ago:
There isn’t much from memory. It’s a great way to support them, but in terms what you get from it I think it’s basically just automatic cloud backups, access to cloud speech to text and text to speech, and if you need it, a URL to access your Home Assistant when you’re away from home.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 6 days ago:
Oh I’m using Home Assistant Cloud as I worked out day 1 there’s no chance of it recognising my voice. I would like to switch to local processing when it gets good enough though.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 6 days ago:
It does all the basics. Can play music via jellyfin, spotify or any of the supported Music Assistant sources (preferably plug in better speakers). Can set timers. I have it announce various reminders (put the recycling/rubbish bin out, etc).
One thing it can do that I don’t think other smart speakers can is proactive things. When the room gets cold, I have it say “It’s getting cold in here, would you like to turn on the heating?”, then it listens for a response and you can reply yes/no.
I’ve also been playing with connecting it with frigate events, such as “I can see Grandma on the doorbell camera”, or “I can see your Ariya on the driveway camera”.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It has been many, many years since I played it, but I seem to recall Max Payne 3 was fine but cutscene heavy. More of a movie than a game haha.
Steam say 85% positive reviews, and the negative ones are split 50/50 between saying too many cutscenes and saying fuck you Rockstar for your shitty unnecessary launcher.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 1 week ago:
No, but if you want a voice assistant that you can tinker with but without expectations, I’ve been enjoying the Home Assistant Voice Preview (preview here refers to it not being consumer ready, a beta or similar).
It does need a Home Assistant setup first, it’s not a stand alone speaker.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
However no one who uses adblock should be using Facebook either
If you ask me for help with your computer, whether you’re my mother, mother in law, or uncle, if I had to open your browser at some point then I’m gonna install uBlock Origin. It’s unfortunately the price you have to pay for my help.
What I’m getting at is I’ve installed it on many people’s computers even if they are regular Facebook users.
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
I can tell I’m on Lemmy because of how many ISO 8601 comments I had to scroll past to find this comment.
- Comment on Based arguments for solar 2 weeks ago:
My governments arguments against solar: we need to build a billion dollar storage facility for natural gas because hydo doesn’t work in dry years and solar is too unreliable.
Me: you’re saying we need gas because solar is unreliable
Government: correct, the sun isn’t always shining
Me: and hydro has dry years
Government: yes, sometimes it’s just sunny all the time so there’s no rain for the hydo lakes
Me: 🤦
- Comment on Anon accepts a prestigious job 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, data entry isn’t mentally demanding in the same way as some jobs, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t demanding. You’re expected to enter at or above a particular speed, and it can be boring which is a different kind of mentality demanding.
- Comment on The only one country 2 weeks ago:
Hey NZ is major now, don’t take that away from us!
- Comment on Ate there more galaxies in the universe, than stars that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, or with a telescope? 4 weeks ago:
To add on to your “with telescope” numbers, the number you can see with the naked eye is surprisingly small. If you are out on a clear night, you can pretty much only see stars within the milky way, and even then you’re talking the ballpark of 5000. If you’re naming them and counting them on all sides of the earth (not just those visible from your one location) you can double that if you have great eyes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s probably highly dependent on what you want to do with your life. Are you trying to become an archeologist professor? Work in IT? Run a pub?
- Comment on Is there really no poll function on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
There’s really no poll feature. Piefed has polls but Lemmy doesn’t.
You could make a poll by asking a question then reading people’s answers, or by linking a poll website.
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 5 weeks ago:
What was that thing where a website could create a sort of borderless window with a hot chick or cute character in it simply by visiting the website. And you couldn’t close it because it was borderless with no buttons.
- Comment on Adding a Sever 1 month ago:
Haha don’t worry, it can be confusing! There are a lot of different mobile apps too (see lemmyapps.com and filter by your phone type) but it sounds like you’re trying to add a second account. You can only log in to your account on the instance you signed up to it with, then you search for the communities you want to follow.
Some apps let you log in to multiple accounts at once, in which case you could sign up for a new account at fedinsfw then log in to that account in your app, then you’d have two accounts you can switch between.
- Comment on Adding a Sever 1 month ago:
Lemmy doesn’t have a way to add a server to my knowledge, and subscribing to a community is done by clicking a button on the community page on the default lemmy website. It looks like Lemmy.today uses a themed version of the default website so I fuess you’re using a mobile app?
- Comment on Adding a Sever 1 month ago:
So your account is on lemmy.today. What are you trying to do when you say you can’t add the server fedinsfw?
You should probably be using your lemmy.today account to subscribe to specific communities on fedinsfw.
It kind of sounds like you might be trying to log in to fedinsfw with your lemmy.today account? It doesn’t work like that, you should log in to lemmy.today and then subscribe to fedinsfw communities.
It’s also pretty important what you’re using to access Lemmy. There are a dozen or more actively developed apps and at least 4 or 5 different website interfaces. It’s confusing but important to know exactly what steps you took (which website you went to, which app you opened, which buttons you clicked) to get to where you got stuck due to all the options.
- Comment on Be careful: The Fixupxer App on F-droid edit your URL to make it redirect to adware/malware. 1 month ago:
They are pretty open about it here. It redirects and I wonder if there was an issue with the domain, looking at archive.org it seems it used to redirect to embedez.com so maybe they lost the domain or got hacked? It doeesn’t seem intentional anyway.
Oh but also in my link above, apparently it’s 100% vibe coded so maybe don’t use it anyway.
- Comment on How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl? 1 month ago:
People are being a bit rough with all the downvotes, your partner might not just yell out directions, but you can (and should) ask, in which case they are very likely to answer.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 1 month ago:
My 6 year old: how do you make people
Me: well, when there’s a mum and a dad…
6 year old: no, where did the first person come from?
Me: oh god can I just tell you about the birds and the bees I at least have a chance of properly explaining that one
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 1 month ago:
Whatever you do, don’t send any money back if they say they sent too much.
- Comment on More than 300,000 pupils estimated absent after England World Cup win 1 month ago:
Not sure what the general thought is around here, but I see no issue with taking a single day off school for a rare opportunity to spend quality time with your family watching your national team in a world cup match, if they generally have high attendance.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 month ago:
If you look closely, you’ll see that syrup is structural. That’s why it’s in the fridge.
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 month ago:
Luanti is a voxel game engine, but servers can run different games and mods, picking from an extensive selection.
Despite this, the BFG 9000 does not appear to be available in a mod at all!
- Comment on No, you don't want to know more about KATE's spellchecker, you want to genAI slopify your writing! 1 month ago:
That’s the default. It never forces them on you, but there is a UI option for a quick answer. Both the UI option and the “?” shortcut are disabled with the option in settings.
- Comment on No, you don't want to know more about KATE's spellchecker, you want to genAI slopify your writing! 1 month ago:
I think they might have changed it. Now they just have the setting to disable quick answers. If you turn on that setting then “?” won’t do anything.
- Comment on Another one… 2 months ago:
Haha I got it straight away, it was a super popular song when I was younger, and the line in the meme “Despite all my rage” clearly identifies it. But I can imagine it would be easy to miss the window. Be born a few years later. Be from a country that doesn’t commonly have American rock bands at the top of the charts. Or just not being into rock or having time to listen to the radio at that point in time.
Then you have to also know who Nicolas Cage is. And also be on lemmy enough to understand how people think.
Ok I can see how this could be pretty obscure.