Auzy

Auzy , 6 days ago

I hope you need a 500mb driver to use it too with an installer that pops up every reboot, even if you press cancel.

Otherwise, it's clear that it fails at being a mouse

Auzy , 16 days ago

And the biggest badasses I know also drive some of the crappiest cars and such too.

When more hilariously, here in Australia, I do a lot of hiking and such, and the badasses these days tend to be women. There's a lot of macho guys who talk big, but I've done some scary hikes with elderly women and a woman with Parkinson's.

The guys and women i.know who do the most crazy stuff also tend to be the most friendly people

Auzy , 20 days ago

This isn't necessarily good

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-drops-court-action-against-musks-x-over-church-stabbing-posts-2024-06-05/

This article doesn't say what X was being sued for.

Musk should have removed that regardless. He's simply leaving it up because it's profitable for him. This is actually a win for him because it means he doesn't get any responsibility of moderation.

Auzy , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

What if its Child porn or revenge porn?

Or a video of your wife being tortured or raped? Suddenly its not ok? What happens if the family of the victims don't want it up? They don't want to be reminded of that shit. You say this only because it doesn't affect you in this case and it's not your family

it DOES affect me because I'm in Australia, and we don't want copycat dickheads. We don't want school shooting 5x a week, and we don't want organisations like the NRA coming to australia and using this shit as an excuse for everyone to arm themselves. The worlds worst extremists dickheads love pushing videos like this because it helps their agenda.

There's no incentive for Elon to take any of this stuff down either.. It profits him. It's funny that people like Elon have a cry about people tracking his plane and gets what he wants and everyone calls him a nutjob.. But, then he profits from stuff that has REAL consequences that affects everyone, and he is defended.

What about the US where Trump used inflamatory language on social media which led to an attempt to the overthrow of the government.

Lets not pretend, this is about freedom of speech. This is explicitly because its not profitable to censor posts. Elon can pretend like he's the good guy in this case and keep all the people who want it to be kept up, and all the people who want it down. Why do you think X seems to be the preferred platform for bigots and nazi's? It would be good if we could see how much profit they were generating for him

There needs to be some international rules about some of this stuff. I'm not saying blanket ban for everything, but, there should at least be rules where people are harmed, torture, or violence is encouraged

Auzy , 20 days ago

It's NOT a slippery slope. You just define the bounds lol

International laws already exist for a lot of things

Again, if its your family, suddenly people like you care.

It's like freedom to carry guns in the US.. That is working out SO WELL, and the NRA will argue that once you take away guns, it's a slippery slope, the government will control you, etc. None of that happens.

The slippery slope argument doesn't really work well, and throughout the years, people have used it to argue against everything from seat belts, to restrictions on kids toys

Auzy , 29 days ago

He's 1/3 Hitler 2/3rds dictator

The kind of people who actively vote for him probably aren't the most charitable people

Auzy , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

This was one of those toxic questions designed to cause people to argue. That's really its ONLY purpose. It really only has 2 answers, and both can be interpreted as toxic.

My 2 cents though, here in Australia, you'll occasionally get a question about staying safe when hiking as women.

You'll have a huge majority of women saying its safe to hike in Australia, and then 1 or 2 women encouraging women to bring knives or weapons. The ones who claim this then get a huge negative response by both women and guys pointing out it makes things more dangerous for everyone and that nobody needs them.

As a male guide also, I've actually found it difficult to find other guys to hike with, but it is incredibly trivial for me to find women to join me (in fact, doing one this upcoming weekend).

So, interpret that as you will, but, honestly, the people who are incredibly invested in either of these answers, in my opinion, nobody would want to hike with regardless (bears, other women or men), so the answer doesn't affect them.

Auzy , 1 month ago

Here in Melbourne Australia, honestly, VicPol are fairly good and give us all a lot of leeway (they genuinely seem to want to keep us safe).

I know its not the same elsewhere though, but in general, the people here mainly complain about the police because

1. The complainer is an asshole, or genuinely do a lot of dodgy stuff and deserve it. Generally Meth heads, or shitty disrespectful drivers
2. The only other complaint I've seen is that they don't solve someone's problem (like recovering stolen bikes). But, that sometimes isn't easy and can't really blame VicPol

Auzy , 2 months ago

Can we talk about the enshittifation of Lemmy. Where everyone seems to be calling everything enshittified?

Auzy , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Lemmy has gotten to the point everything is getting classed as enshittification or whatever

It's actually getting crappy being here

Like the whole section about macos. Apple constantly screws developers, and somehow, the author has seemed to blame Valve lol. There's a lot of reason lots of people don't develop for Mac, and they're mostly valid rather than political

Or GitHub. In the real world, developers don't have any issues. Only in Lemmy, where people are even focusing on stupid things, so a barely visible unobtrusive sentence on a table mentions copilot lol

Auzy , 2 months ago

Every time I hear someone say AI, I know for sure they have no idea what they're talking about and are about to grift people

Auzy , 3 months ago

These people are too stupid to use a computer and don't want to look after their kids (they're too lazy to monitor them when they're on the computer).

This law is intended to shift blame for bad parenting.

I guarantee these same people are the ones blaming teachers for their dumb kids

Auzy , 3 months ago

Except it's not.

Here in Australia we have preferential voting which is much better, but Biden and Trump are not the same.

Honestly, this is just the current strategy that right wingers seem to have switched to

Trump is a total psychopath who only cares about himself. He's a criminal. The fact they're trying hard to indict Biden, have for months but have found nothing should be a strong indicator he's not (his son might be, but that has nothing to do with Biden, since unlike Trump's kids, he wasn't part of government).

Trump made it clear he would cause a insurrection months before it happened, and now he's backed into a corner, what do you think will happen if he becomes president? He's made it clear that he will act like a dictator

Seriously, if you guys vote Trump, it will f*** everyone. They're not the same

Auzy , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I wonder how many adults here saw porn as a kid? If we're being honest, probably the majority. Kids don't find youporn unless they're looking for it.

There is a highly effective way of preventing kids accessing porn, by being a parent and watching them (ie, put the computer in a public area) and also installing porn blockers in parallel. That's the solution.

The problem with laws like this, is that they're easy to abuse and they're created by people who don't understand technology either (so they're happy to make tech less useful, or they'd even ban some of it entirely if they could be to level the playing field).

It's more important to keep kids away from unsolicited porn specifically and creeps, and that can be some simply by requiring a site warning and monitoring them online

Auzy , 3 months ago

You're still buying Nintendo hardware.

Honestly, I stopped using Nintendo because of all the joycon issues, the fact they've been mainly just remaking the same games for 30 years and they screwed Wii u customers. You need to re buy the same games again.

On Wii u, not sure if this changed, but if you broke the main controller, you basically couldn't replace it.

They have a better rep than Microsoft and Sony , but I'm not convinced they deserve it

No idea why anyone would buy anything except a steamdeck these days

Auzy , 3 months ago

Why bother with either? I've already played 3000 versions of mario cart and super mario. I can probably skip the latest ones

Auzy , 3 months ago

The Brother laser printers are awesome honestly. I own one too. Very cheap, and cheap enough to operate. If I want color, I go get it professionally printed (and professional photo printing STILL costs less than inkjets and their cartridges)

Auzy , 4 months ago

Here in Australia we have Meetup groups which request mandatory donations for hikers too.

Always by the worst guides. Surely the tax office and legal system (when people get injured) can't outsmart such actual genius lol

Auzy , 4 months ago

Honestly, I feel like you guys are just nit picking now lol

That's the least intrusive ad I've ever seen

Auzy , 4 months ago

So far you guys have complained about something I can't replicate, and nobody actually tested except for me.

And then a feature which has no real impact on real developers, just people stealing code

Now you're complaining about this. Seriously, it's just nitpicking.

I didn't hear anyone complain when Firefox added pocket support and VPN options into their config.

Again, really not a big deal at all.. There's a reason no real developers are complaining about this stuff..

Also why doesn't it have any place here? It's a service GitHub offers related directly to development. And it needed a big red square around it so anyone even knew what op was referring to.

Next thing we know you guys will be complaining that the submenu contains links to their other services like issues and such (someone actually complained about GitHub offering too many features last thread... And they got upvoted for it simply because they claimed Microsoft was using features to extinguish other services or whatever).

The first guy complaining in the first thread didn't even have much source code commits on GitHub (and it seemed like it was a free account). But was making a huge deal about everything

If you're genuinely upset, write about it on the front page of your repos. But, I suspect the people complaining barely use GitHub anyway honestly

Auzy , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Sure mate.

It's like covid where we got told we're all going to die from the vaccine and there will be super cancers or whatever.

Years later, and it hasn't happened.

Firefox made Google their starting page decades ago. They profit from it, have things gotten worse? No.... Better stop using Firefox and move to edge. But, based on your comment, they should have by now

This is literally a tiny non intrusive text just mentioning a service they offer. Everyone would be confused unless it didn't have that red square

Are vendors no longer even allowed to link to their own services now? Because in another thread, Microsoft literally got accused of this because they offered things like issue tracking in GitHub. It's apparently fine for other vendors to do this though.

May I recommend you complain about this on the front page of the github repos you own if you actually believe it's a big deal?

It might have even been there for months lol

Auzy , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Most developers don't overreact about a service advertising it's own services on a service, using non intrusive text which nobody would have noticed without a red square around it.

The hilarious thing is I could go to any open source project and put a dozen red squares.

The fact that no actual projects on GitHub are getting angry about this should suggest it's an overreaction

People including myself tried this strategy for Linux before.. It's still not year of the Linux desktop

Auzy , 4 months ago

You're possibly right.. I don't use pocket.. But it doesn't get in the way for me.. But, firefox also has ads for their own VPN now too. But, I guess my point is, it really isn't that intrusive.

It definitely isn't intrusive in the way that Windows 11 hijacks your chrome tabs into Edge, and takes over on reboot (I hate apple, but I literally went out and bought a mac a week after tolerating that)

Auzy , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I drive a Jeep (the unlimited though, so the large one). Good..

I want to see a trend towards smaller 4wd's and other cars. And I seem to be the only larger car that can park within the lines too. And the height of my car is low compared to the people with Rangers or Dodge Ram's (and it is rare to see any of those actually towing anything). In my case, I run a hiking group, so really need a 4wd, but will probably be looking at something more economical and smaller, like a jimny

I was hit by a car once when I was on my scooter, and I was lucky it was by a small car..

And I feel larger cars like me should pay extra (and I agree with some comments saying to charge per additional weight). We have a toxic culture here where people are moving towards big cars just to impress others (along with the toxic nonsense that comes along with it), and this is the only way the culture will change

Auzy , 5 months ago

Actually, I had this exact issue a year ago, had a rage fit, and bought a Mac. I hate Apple, but this was going way too far

Auzy , 5 months ago

i used to think that, but I cringe at myself. I'm not sure what other managers there are being paid, and in the CEO's defence, she was at Mozilla since the beginning, even through their bad times, pre-firefox days, and through their chrome days.

That being said, if its 6.9m dollars though, that is getting a bit high..

Auzy , 5 months ago

Egh.. More bad info. Seems to be prolific here on Lemmy

And yeah, definitely not Tor (I happen to know the TPLink KASA HS100 protocol too). The chip running on them wouldn't even have sufficient resources to run tor more likely lol

Plus, as others have said, port 123 is NTP

Auzy , 5 months ago

This is a TPLink KASA plug. I wouldn't touch their routers but their smart home equipment actually isn't bad..

Auzy , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

How do you know it is? Dpi is often wrong about both protocol. And size

123 isn't the normal protocol though, so let's assume it is malicious (I will admit I could be wrong here). Packet dumps is the way to prove it. If op posts packet dumps, that would be useful (as I could be wrong, the normal protocol is a different port generally though).

Also, important to note that if they're uk hs100 plugs, they have different firmware too.. The UK ones have one of the protocols shut off

Auzy , 5 months ago

Dpi on these cheap routers sometimes often doesn't even calculate the data downloaded correctly. Ie, we can't even rely on the 100mb figure

Auzy , 5 months ago

Very cheap, and I find if you leave your beard too long before shaving, hair doesn't get caught either (it can't really)

Auzy , 5 months ago

Here in Australia, it's because they can't afford anything more than an apartment or to rent one, so have nowhere to park for free

Auzy , 5 months ago

A lot of these points seem a bit wrong, and are simply talking points

• Viruses.. Windows has UAC, its the same as Sudo. In fact, Xorg has some serious unfixable security issues apparently (Wayland fixes them). Malware like https://therecord.media/malware-found-in-npm-package-with-millions-of-weekly-downloads is the future.. Most users get malware because they install it..
• Safer files? Tell that to the BTRFS RAID guys.. MacOS actually handles this the best these days imho due to time machine (which does incremental backups). A lot of Linux Distro's don't even ship with an easy to use backup system, or anything as nice as Time Machine. Microsoft is literally at the point it is auto-recovering the OS when a fault happens.
• Fast and smooth? Apple beat Linux and Microsoft with accelerated desktop stuff by ages. Also, on my NUC 11 Enthusiast, I couldn't even get the ARC working.. Accellerated video is still somewhat iffy in some scenarios on Linux it seems.
• Flexability? Yeah.. Too much flexibility. We've got so many distro's which are basically just copies of other ones. And I'm still looking for an easy, low risk alternative to Magnet in MacOS (which kills PowerToys FancyZones or the KDE Tiling stuff)

That being said, if there was GOOD android integration baked in, and Android App store baked in, it would actually make a huge difference I think. Because thats the competition..

Waydroid still has some major issues unfortunately.

This would bring in lots of high quality apps (including ones missing like Whatsapp or Messenger), and ultimately do what Steam for Linux did for Linux Gaming.