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7heo , 3 months ago to Privacy in Fastmail vs Proton Mail

Be careful with mailbox.org and their "your contract period ends soon" email. It actually means "pay us or your data will be irrevocably deleted under 60 days". The mail sounds inconspicuous enough, is rather verbose, and even contains the phrasing "you may silently ignore this email". And you will not be getting a single warning before your data is entirely, irremediably deleted.

And even if you only wait 30 days, not 60, your account gets deleted (but not your emails), so you lose any and all ways of contacting their support (rescuing your emails after that gets much trickier). Speaking of which, make sure you use a widespread browser on a computer to use their support platform: otherwise you will get a visual confirmation that a ticket was created, but none will ever be.

TL;DR: mailbox.org good, but (A) make absolutely sure you always have up to date local backups, and (B) beware of the unexpected caveats and the clumsy, confusing wording.

7heo , 3 months ago to Technology in French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL

And now you know why French companies are literally pegging users with total impunity. Seldom anyone sues companies in France, and when people do, most of the time it ends up ruining their lives with a giant slapp suit.

ISPs especially, since there are only 4 for the entire country, and consequently, they have enormous resources at their disposal.

To make matters worse, the French judicial system is extremely dated, has no understanding of technological matters, and is slower than the Deutsche Bahn processing a broken engine situation.

This is a far cry from Germany, where there are dozen of ISPs per land or even major city, and where lawsuits can happen over the course of months.

When you think of French administrations, think of people who are playing pretend-beamter, but who have neither the tools nor the skills (save for maybe 10% of them who have to manage literally everything by themselves with a stupidly low salary). No accountability, no expectations, and no barrier of entry aside from the "luck of the draw" ended up creating a system where too many people tried forever to work there, only to be paid better than welfare and do less work (let's be honest, being on welfare is no walk in the park, the state will fuck you up if you keep refusing to take underpaid, exhausting labour "offers").

7heo , 3 months ago to Technology in Will Gamers Nexus feature Adata's 10% DDR5 temp improvement?

I mean I also don't really care about the temperature of my ram unless it prevents it from working. RAM overclocking isn't that useful, and unstable ram sucks ass.

However, it doesn't matter what the component is: the original difference over ambient is the amount of heat that operating the component generated. The difference after cooling is essentially the amount of heat that the specific cooling solution was able to handle. No matter the component. And dividing the latter by the former gives out the amount of cooling the cooling solution provided, relative to the amount of heat operating the component generated. This works for any component and any cooling solution. Cooling it further than ambient can be desirable for some use cases, that's why chillers exist, and that will essentially give out a percentage over 100.

7heo , 3 months ago to Technology in Gaza becomes Israel's testing ground for military robots

"Becomes". (For those still on twitter - shame on you! - here is an even older "news" about the IDF using robots in Gaza).

7heo , 3 months ago to Technology in Will Gamers Nexus feature Adata's 10% DDR5 temp improvement?

I would argue that what makes sense when considering temperature percentages wrt dissipation, is the difference between old and new, divided by the difference between the system at rest and the old temperature.

Which is then a ratio of offsets, rather than a ratio of one offset and a difference with an arbitrarily defined origin.

In this case, it is fair to assume the temperature at rest of the system around 292K, or 19C.

Which would give: (78.5C - 70C) / (78.5C - 19C) = 14.29%, or (351.65K - 343.15K) / (351.65K - 292.15K) = 14.29%.

7heo , 3 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade?

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7heo , 4 months ago to 196 in rule

Just remember that if anyone asks, act irritated that you were called in on your day off because the guy who was supposed to do it fell sick, then catch yourself and say "anyway, no time to chat, I got a quota to meet" before grumbling about how you should have listened to your mother.

This is absolute gold.

7heo , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Memes in Excitement to Disinterest in 30 Seconds

"It's so edgy you could cut him out of the movie and it wouldn't make any difference"

7heo , 4 months ago to Memes in Excitement to Disinterest in 30 Seconds

Yeah, this utterly spoiled 52 years old baby sees method acting as an excuse to indulge in his worst and most childish excesses. It is nothing short of a miracle that no one ever asked him to play Ted Bundy. And the depiction would have been a real life Zapp Brannigan playing his character like Chris Kattan played Jed Mosely in "How I met your mother", but unironically. 😐

7heo , 4 months ago to Memes in Excitement to Disinterest in 30 Seconds

He is the absolute opposite of Heath Ledger: one of the worst, arguably the worst, method actors, the worst "Joker" interpretation ever, a pretentious tone deaf asshole, and alive. What a shame.

7heo , 4 months ago to Technology in Nvidia's AI customers are scared to be seen courting other AI chipmakers for fear of retaliatory shipment delays, says rival firm

I wonder who this riva^(md)l is.

7heo , 4 months ago to Technology in Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress

That is because you got the wrong dick. You need to buy the Lenovo® Certified© Dick™ from Lenovo® directly for double the price, or, naturally, your hardware won't POST.

Alternatively, you can firmware disable the non-lenovo dick in the UEFI options, so that the laptop boots, fOr YoUr SeCuRiTeH.

7heo , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Memes in My friends never got Vine but all love TikTok

I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?

Data mining was the missing ingredient for its sustainability (in the case it is "free" and centralised. The other two options are "paid", and "federated".)

Once the system is sustainable that way, and the owners get greedy, they then add addiction inducing elements to the platform, designed by psychiatrists and psychologists.

That is why it is popular.

7heo , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal

The annoying part is that the only use of "AI" I have so far, is "translating reddit post titles to understandable English". Once they train their "AI" on whatever is there, I probably won't be able to understand the "translation" anymore... Sucks. 😬

7heo , 4 months ago to Privacy in How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?

I would have work sign a legal discharge that from the moment I use the technology, none of the recordings or transcription of me can be used to incriminate me in case of an alleged malpractice.

In fact, since both are generated or can be generated in a way that both sounds very assertive but also can be adding incredibly wild mistakes, in a potentially life and death situation, they legally recognise potentially nullifying my work, and taking the entire legal responsibility for it.

As you can see in the most recent example involving Air Canada, a policy has been invented out of thin air. Such policy is costing the company. In the case of a doctor, if the administration of the wrong sedative, the wrong medication, or if the wrong diagnosis was communicated to the patient, etc; all that could have serious consequences.

All sounding (using your phrasings, etc) like you, being extremely assertive, etc.

A human doing that job will know not to derive from the recording. An AI? "antihistaminic" and "anti asthmatic" aren't too far off, and that is just one example off of the top of my head.