neutron

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neutron ,

His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.

neutron ,

Puppy has saved my ass multiple times. Love that tiny dog.

Speaking of Tails, a security minded user can also try out Qubes as well. It uses virtualization to separate different contexts like Work, Personal, Social, etc. You can have your Work profile connect to your workplace VPN while your Personal profile is on a torified connection in parallel. It does have its drawbacks, however. You need more system resources, and anything that requires direct access to GPU like videogames is not officially supported.

neutron ,

So we'll have to say GNU/Linux/SystemD soon?

neutron ,

It's really awkward explaining this joke in other languages.

neutron ,

Perhaps the Silent Hill were the friends we made along the way.

As famine looms in Sudan, the hungry eat soil and leaves ( www.reuters.com )

Hassan said soldiers sometimes shared their food with the children in her family, but the relief was limited. She and the other adults began skipping meals, sometimes for two days straight, so the children could eat. Tree leaves boiled in water and sprinkled with spices became a part of their diet....

neutron ,

(Eat (soil and leaves)) vs (Eat soil) and (leaves)?

neutron ,

Japan is unlocked after NG+.
Korea (North and South) is sold separately as DLC.

neutron ,

It will major corporate and legislative backing to even attempt one. For many end users the desktop pc, if they ever have one, is yet another techie stuff they don't want to bother themselves with. You don't simply get them to install a new program, let alone an entirely new operating system. Some do make the leap, however.

neutron ,

Opening the command prompt in windows is considered 'hacking' these days. Using Ubuntu is a big leap.

neutron ,

There was a whole mess with that cruise ship docked in Japan being counted as a separate case so it didn't boost Japan's confirmed case numbers, probably to save face before the Olympics. Looking back now it was only mental gymnastics.

neutron ,

I put on my robe and wizard sombrero.

neutron ,

3rd party modifications to windows iso that basically amounts to trusting an internet stranger.

neutron ,

My bad. Sorry.

neutron ,

It creeped me how many youtube channels I watched suddenly started pushing it.

neutron ,

Cries in corporate systems, balls deep in Microsoft ecosystem.

All my personal devices are running Linux however.

neutron ,

Let's wait until 2050s.

neutron ,

No problems running on the AMD graphics?

neutron ,

Worst thing about this is that China gets to point fingers and claim racism while all East Asians abroad are lumped in with the CCP collaborators.

neutron ,

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

neutron ,

The Chinese logic is that they have enough domestic market to isolate themselves and shield from international pressure, economical or political. It's been working for them since their homegrown platforms like wechat and weibo are big enough to sustain themselves.

neutron ,

I never liked the normalization of sharing real names online. I always received weird looks for not doing this. The furthest I could do was using an initial.

neutron ,

I'm guessing there's a reduced pool of desktop pc users, thus Linux users are now slightly bigger in proportion? There has been big advances regarding Linux adoption, too.

neutron ,

I've made the switch over a decade ago. Ubuntu was the gateway drug. I have to use windows at work, but that's it.

neutron ,

Librewolf has AppImage on their webpage, too. Does it not fit your use case?

neutron ,

I assume there are more issues preventing them from simply relocating to another hosting?

With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)

Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

neutron ,

Social pressure is a real thing. I wonder just how many people in the US have iphones because of that dumb blue-green bubble stuff.

neutron ,

Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.

neutron ,

It's both a generational shift and education issue.

I grew up remembering the early days of going online. The only pc at home was shared by family, so I knew early on that covering my tracks (erasing browser history) was important. When Chrome came out and incognito mode became a thing, I instinctively knew that it was just a shortcut for a separate browser profile that does not share the main profiles cookies and history, that it didn't store activities on the local device. I knew that internet providers could still know what I acceded, and so on.

I can't ask for the same kind of awareness for people that grew up with smartphones, proprietary walled gardens and apps with most of the complexities hidden beneath pretty UI.

It's even worse when it comes to the general population - this isn't the 90s where college students and tech minded people made up the internet users, this isn't the early 2000s where people still had to use a desktop PC to access the web, with its components more or less open to tinker.

neutron ,

I used Davmail which acts as a bridge to access Outlook from Thunderbird. There is a thunderbird plugin, but it was paid so I backed out.

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )

Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....

neutron ,

I'm sure corporations like this would give you free Internet if they could collect and sell all your data.

Already a thing. I see them advertised everywhere for prepaid plans and people go 'omg Facebook/Whatsapp/Instagram/TikTok for free!!1!'.

neutron ,

It can become really messy if one family member deletes a picture by accident and everyone complains. I'd use Syncthing for machines I personally manage.

You may be offered a free premium Telegram subscription – but please don’t accept ( archive.is )

Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?...

neutron ,

Deltachat is a clever idea that I wish it became more widespread.

neutron ,

Nah, just call it retro.

neutron ,

Out of the loop for this one. Is Affinity a software for graphics editing, which was regarded as an alternative to Adobe, but it now acquired by a big corp?

neutron ,

There's no easy solution. Some are evicted from their homes with crushing debt, some have safety nets to depend on, some want to end their homeless situation as soon as possible, some, however, are content with eating discarded food and begging for cash to buy alcohol. Not everyone is a hopeless drug addict or a temporarily inconvenienced millionaires, and this is not even mixing charity into the problem.

My guess is whoever thought on implementing AI into this probably consider this a problem that can be made easy by offloading all our human problems into a black box. It isn't going to be that way.

otl , to Privacy
@otl@hachyderm.io avatar

Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

@privacy

neutron ,

Worst of both worlds, the one-upping bootlicking culture, the fear of missing out on job prospects fueled by economic anxiety, with corporate enshittification liberally sprinkled in, all combined into one giant pile of turd.

And I say this as I'm also guilty of having an account on it. I also want to get rid of it, but can't afford to risk my chances while looking for better jobs. Fuck all this.

neutron ,

Assuming that directors post was real, I am sure she wanted to properly grieve for her husband and have enough time to heal and provide for her children, to tie loose ends and close that chapter of her life in privacy.

But all she had was a sanitized corporate billboard where all she knew was to unconsciously make her post into a self congratulatory advertisement, of a heroic single mother sacrificing her mental health for her work.

It's all tragic.

neutron ,

Android not having proper permissions back from KitKat era caused a lot of contact lists being leaked like rainwater. I'm still jaded at Google for that one.

neutron ,

That radio DJ speaking in the middle of the song you're recording.

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The Kazaa gamble.

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Whatever your thoughts on cryptocurrency might be, this is borderline gambling addiction.

neutron ,

This is why I dread working with anything 'too consumer friendly'.

Wasn't it a few years ago that scientists working on human genes renamed something because excel was chaging it every time?

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Let's not mix NFTs into this.

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Some sort of reputation system with incentives to avoid low effort posts or spam perhaps?

neutron ,

Speaking of which, a mechanism to manage posts from instances your account has previously migrated away from.

neutron ,

While we are speaking of it, please let users choose between languages (original and target) independently of system locale.

Sometimes I encounter social media posts auto translated (probably through Google translate) but languages detection is messed up. And the best part is there isn't a menu to choose.

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to Asklemmy
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What should I add to my '90s website?

So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.

Some of the most important elements are already in place.

Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!

In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.

(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)

You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/

There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I'm looking for suggestions.

The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?

Second, it's just not going to be complete without a guestbook.

Third, any webring suggestions?

Fourth, what's the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?

Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I've added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.

@asklemmy

neutron ,

Use of marquees is a violation of the Geneva convention. You monster.

neutron ,

I get depressed whenever I read about those salaries. I get paid the bare minimum to pay the bills. I will never have the life those people have - not that I care about luxury, but simply not having to worry about basic necessities.

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