helenslunch

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helenslunch ,

LibreTube is my favorite. GrayJay is also pretty cool for cross-platform video aggregation.

helenslunch ,

GrayJay is not free. It is just a paid app that you can use without paying.

helenslunch ,

You're somehow not familiar with speed limits?

Speed limits are not enforced on the vehicle. They're enforced on the driver.

helenslunch ,

Hidden from what? Or whom?

helenslunch ,

I mean Mastodon is Lemmy 🤷

helenslunch ,

I never see posts from Mastodon on Lemmy.

You can always tell because they do that annoying thing where they tag 13 fucking people completely unnecessarily.

helenslunch ,

Asus has been through one controversy after another and yet they still are somehow in business...

helenslunch ,

Download the Linux client? Run through Distrobox.

Google Photos/Gmail AI data removal

Hello, with the new AI features being added into Googles services I was thinking of maybe starting a thread about how to remove data from the affected services. I feel like simply deleting my photos from Google Photos most likely wouldn't be enough of a measure to ensure my images does not get affected or used in these AI...

helenslunch ,

The company was lucky enough to have a backup on another cloud

You just contradicted yourself in the next sentence...

steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord ( github.com )

I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it's a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It's a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord's API. The "installer" sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the script...

helenslunch ,

Steam chat is complete garbo

helenslunch ,

You missed the title. They already got crowdfunding. They're closing crowdfunding because they secured the remainder of the necessary investment from another source. Enough to begin production.

helenslunch ,

You should try actually reading the blog in your screenshot

The last day to invest in Aptera’s Regulation A offering will be June 30, 2024.

helenslunch ,

It's not "every so often", nor was it "for twenty years". It's twice, and the after first time they shut down entirely for 10 years or so.

helenslunch ,

I think the way they do electric motorbikes in some asian cities right now is very interesting

Interesting? Sure. What happens when it rains? What happens on 107*F days? You just show up to work sopping wet? They don't worry about their scooter being stolen?

Put 25MPH speed limits in the city and use micro-cars. Seems like the better option.

helenslunch ,

Your methodology of nitpicking all of comments that don't mesh with your extremely narrow vision of an optimal future is a GREAT way to advocate and make people want to conform to your ideas.

Your methodology of making shit up that never happened is a GREAT way to win an argument.

helenslunch ,

It's okay to be skeptical without choosing to mislead people about what's actually happening. I'm skeptical too. They advertised everywhere that they would ship their first car at the end of 2022. And then just...never mentioned it again. And now they're supposed to launch in 2025.

helenslunch ,

AFAIK it's just Samsung and Google. No one else cares.

helenslunch , (edited )

People think Apple is some sort of bastion of longevity because they have software support, but it's completely meaningless when they have almost zero hardware support.

helenslunch ,

We don't need native Linux ports. Valve already created Linux compatible DRM anti-cheat and I'd be surprised if they weren't pressuring publishers to use it at all.

I really don't know what more they can do, other than refusing to sell games that don't work on Linux, which would obviously hurt them very badly, considering that makes up ~2% of their customers.

helenslunch ,

Can you use single player without PSN?

helenslunch ,

Damn I was gonna buy a P9 just for this feature...

helenslunch ,

We can try to pretend like this will hurt OpenAI, just like we tried to pretend that killing the API would hurt Reddit, or that no one would buy their stock, or that it would plummet right after IPO, but none of that is reality.

Proton Annual Survey: Gentle reminder to kindly ask for a Linux Client for Drive, now. ( www.youtube.com )

The link right here goes to 40:02 of Proton' boss on the TLE channel about Linux support, where a Drive Client is deemed so difficult to achieve that they don't even have a roadmap for it. Nor is the word "Linux" featured anywhere on proton's pages about Drive....

helenslunch ,

Problem is the questions were incredibly generic. There are appropriate uses for AI. But, like, 95% of them are inappropriate.

helenslunch ,

Photoprism is straight trash next to Immich. Not to mention the required fee just to upload photos to YOUR cloud...

helenslunch ,

Why all the salt?

Because we're all completely fed up with having shitty AI jammed down our throats. It's nothing but a shitty marketing buzzword.

AI has its place, but it is abundantly obvious to anyone who has seen or experienced these characters that this ain't it...

helenslunch ,

Then start it in experimental games. There's no reason to have garbage AI in production games in order to improve it. Make it functional, then deploy it...

Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves ( arstechnica.com )

I just said this the other day. Bloody finally! I'm actually a massive fan of Teslas. They're pretty cars and technologically, they're at the top of the pack, but they shouldn't be allowed to advertise SAE level 2 as Full Self Driving.

helenslunch ,

Only about 10 years late...

helenslunch ,

Man they're really getting after it for Android 15...

helenslunch ,

How would it then report such behavior to Google, without internet?

It doesn't

In a demo, the tech giant simulated a scam call involving a fraudster impersonating a bank. A pop-up message appeared, encouraging the user to hang up.

If it notifies the end user, what good does that do?

You can't see why it might be helpful for a user to know that they're speaking to a scammer?

helenslunch ,

Can't really get behind her on this one. Assuming it works the way Google says it does, it couldn't be used for any of those things she's concerned about.

If it doesn't work that way, well then your entire device is compromised to begin with, because Google controls the entire operating system.

helenslunch ,

There's no recording taking place...

helenslunch ,

Google doesn't actually provide the Phone app

Yes they do. Anyone can download the Google Phone app.

helenslunch ,

I mean that's fair, but the answer from Google is yes.

helenslunch ,

If it doesn't work that way, well then your entire device is compromised to begin with, because Google controls the entire operating system.

helenslunch ,

What difference does that make?

helenslunch ,

Just like they apologized last year...

helenslunch ,

FLauncher

Thank you for that

helenslunch ,

Framasoft is more like Google than they'd like to admit.

helenslunch ,
  1. Exploit cheap/slave labor
  2. ????
  3. Massive profits
helenslunch ,

Is there a Smoked UMAF?

Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...

helenslunch ,

If you copy a song or a movie or a game, literally no one loses anything.

You're depriving the creator of that content from compensation for their work. You know this, you just don't care.

helenslunch ,

For that to be the case, you would have to already be planning to purchase the good, and then decide to pirate it instead.

The mental gymnastics you people go through to justify theft is honestly just astonishing, that you're able to delude yourself in this way. It's fascinating from a psychological perspective.

it still requires absurd mental gymnastics to reframe not paying someone money as stealing money from that person.

I agree. No one said that though. You're not stealing money, you're stealing intellectual property. Something someone, or more likely multiple or hundreds of someones dedicated time and money to create, with the expectation of compensation from it's consumer.

it places the onus for fairly compensating artists on the audience instead of the industry.

It places it on the consumer. You know, the person who benefits from the project's creation?

Which is why I mentioned direct donation:

LOL oh please, go on, where are you submitting your "donations" to? Does Brad Pitt have a Patreon page now?

It must be so nice to live in a fictional utopia where everyone is fairly compensated and no one tries to take from others, which is, ironically, exactly what you're doing.

helenslunch ,

I don't, and I find the concept an affront to human creativity

I'm shocked that you don't respect human creativity...

Brad Pitt doesn't need donations.

And I'm shocked that you're now moving the goalposts.

J/K I've heard this same bullshit justifications 38472893 times and am completely unsurprised. Goodbye.

helenslunch ,

I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service

I don't think so. It'll be more like Android, "free" and full of invasive telemetry which is then used to serve you more and more ads.

helenslunch , (edited )

Can't really see any reason to use Thunderbird when every mail service has a web client that looks and works better...

helenslunch ,

If you want to game, my advice would be not to bother with Nvidia GPUs. Even the ones that advertise support for it often have lots of weird issues. In my case, this includes Bazzite.

helenslunch ,

I have hundreds of email addresses and they all come to the same inbox. 🤷

helenslunch ,

How do they get the data in the archive in the first place then?

I'm not sure what you mean. They get it from Steam. Once again, publicly available information.

that hole needs to be closed.

You can close it by making your profile private. But they've already archived that info.

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