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Blackmist ,

OK, but my raid leader is going to have to shout a lot louder than that if I'm going to hear him from the Netherlands.

Blackmist ,

The best tablet for kids is one with no fucking speakers.

Blackmist ,

I like the idea of Home Assistant. I just can't be arsed to set it up.

Blackmist ,

Haven't they done this since like Windows 8 or even 7? Thought it was pretty much mandatory already tbh.

Blackmist ,

We have to be real here, that nobody has ever really consented to being tracked in the way these giant sites do it. Nobody has looked at that form and gone "I'm perfectly OK with 1698 different advertising agencies knowing my real name and interests, every time I'm online"

They go "yeah, whatever, get that popup the fuck out of my face so I can read this fascinating article about some 19 year-old pop star's boob job".

Part of it should be legislation. Another part should be browsers rendering fingerprinting to be completely ineffective.

Blackmist ,

If only there were some sort of moniker you went by other than a SSN. That coupled with some sort of location data could narrow you down to, ooh, one person I suppose.

In the UK we have NI number, which is used by my employer, pension provider, the tax services, the benefits office, and that's pretty much it. It's not used as a general source of ID by corporations.

From an outside point of view, the US system looks crazy. And that's coming from somebody who's country has a TV license.

Blackmist ,

Depends if you're working for a good company or one trying to hire people in a third world country for a dollar a day.

Blackmist ,

Wot no Delphi?

Blackmist ,

8GB RAM is what my phone has.

Having that in a laptop shows what they think of people buying their kit. They think you're only buying it so you can type easier on Facebook.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, but if you have plenty of RAM on Android, there's a chance those apps you left in the background will still be running when you go back to them, rather than doing the usual Android thing of just restarting them.

Blackmist ,

Sorry but this article is just false and misleading.

The company currently has no ability to see what users might be doing when they switch away from its proprietary streaming platform. This is apparently a problem, in that Roku is missing monetization opportunities!

Now look here.

https://lemmy.world/post/9840946

Look at the logo in the bottom right.

Roku is already doing this and has been since last year. This is not a threat. It is a promise to shareholders and advertisers, and they have already fulfilled it.

Blackmist ,

  1. The article was written two days ago.

  2. It's a joke. A funny joke. Relax.

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

Blackmist ,

My wife had some Logitech headphones that for some godforsaken reason were operating in some voice only ultra low bitrate by default. I mean, they weren't fantastic even after I fixed that, but the quality was unbelievably low, like somebody making a phone call from the moon, and how she'd put up with it for nearly a year I'd no idea. I only found out after I noticed her swapping between a wired set for general use and wireless for Discord.

Blackmist ,

I spent an afternoon once playing Infinite Craft, which uses some sort of LLM behind the scenes to do it's combinations.

At one point I got 007, and found 007+007 = 0014.

The maths gets wild though, and because it's been trained on text, it has no idea when it comes to combinations of numbers it hasn't seen before. I spent ages trying to get it to 69420 and just couldn't, although I could get 42069.

Blackmist ,

They're something to add to your block list.

Blackmist ,

You're on lemmy.world

You can go to https://lemmy.world/settings click the blocks tab up top, and then add instances to block in there, in the box marked "Block instance".

I think lemmy.world has already defederated lemmygrad and hexbear, so you should just need to add lemmy.ml

Blackmist ,

Classic Big Dog propaganda.

Blackmist ,

Why prevent it, when you can just shrug your shoulders and rake in the money?

Blackmist ,

Yeah, I wanted to do this in Iceland a number of years back, and they needed a local bank account in order to open one.

My Icelandic father-in-law helpfully offered to put it on his own bank account, saying he'd just cancel it at the end of the month. This was acceptable. Gave him like £10 to pay for it.

Went back two years later. You'll never guess what he'd forgotten to do...

Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...

Blackmist ,

Come on now. If you really had to do your insurance company's job for them, you'd have to think of your own reason why they won't pay up.

Blackmist ,

I think the issue is more that people like propaganda and misinformation as long as they agree with it.

There just seems to be something about seeing your own opinions coming out of a man in a tie or printed in a large serif font that gives people the same feeling as a cat having its neck scratched.

And of course, once you hear one of your opinions come out of them, it's easier to agree with the other ones as well.

Blackmist ,

Read more files.

Blackmist ,

"Smash the looms" is the wrong idea.

"Eat the rich" might have some merit though.

Blackmist ,

Firefox has a reader mode built in. Works in mobile too. I assume it's very similar to this, it just cuts out an extra step.

Blackmist ,

I genuinely think Google's success is its own undoing.

If everybody had carried on making sites in the same way they did when Google came out, the results would still be good.

Bit they didn't. There's gold in them thar hills, and now SEO and generated bullshit are a way to make money, while Google's algorithms seem easy to game if you have the resources to do so.

There's like a hundred large companies doing this, and if you blocked all their sites in the Google results it'd give results similar to Kagi and other flavour of the month search engines.

Blackmist ,

Doesn't even get cold in England any more. I've worn long trousers like twice in the last 4 years, and both times were for funerals.

Blackmist ,

Do postman shorts last longer than other types of shorts? Is there a special shop they get them from?

I keep wearing massive holes in the crotches of mine. It's only my undercrackers that stop my plums dangling out.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

Blackmist ,

Broadcast TV decoding would be the major limit, but I don't watch that anyway. Monitors also have fewer HDMI ports than TVs.

But not all smart TVs are awful like Roku. My LG OLED is fine for example.

Blackmist ,

Late Stage Capitalism: Using a microscopic laser, we are able to burn our advertiser logos directly into our customer's retinas, so they will see them even as they sleep.

Shareholders: 👏 👏 👏

Blackmist ,

You should probably plan on that anyway. I've already seen screenshots of ads popping up over DVDs, offering to sell you what you're already watching.

This isn't a threat from Roku. This is a promise to their real customers, the glorious advertisers.

Blackmist ,

I'm sure this got posted before and the most likely reason was that it was downloading some sort of update and failing to apply it repeatedly.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, but that's on you.

It's not like you can use a hacked app to give you free money, unless they're doing something completely absurd like relying on client side security.

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

Blackmist ,

I mean we "invent" pixels anyway for pretty much all digital photography based on Bayer filters.

But the answer is linear interpolation. That's where we draw the line. We have to be able to point to a line of code and say where the data came from, rather than a giant blob of image data that could contain anything.

Blackmist ,

An amazing year for rich people.

Nice to see them get something, just 225 years in a row.

Blackmist ,

I have a simple rule. If I install an app and it shows me any notification I don't want to see, I immediately block it from having permission to do that.

Blackmist ,

Only downside is it's in a Siberian gulag.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, most websites do fingerprinting. I doubt Firefox is immune to it either. In fact, it probably makes it worse since there's so few people using it.

https://amiunique.org/fingerprint shows me as being unique in both browsers, and that's without even taking into account IP address which narrows you down to people on your connection anyway. Only a VPN will hide that.

They don't need cookies to track your visits. Yet apparently they still need to ask if you want to share data with 2184 trusted data partners every time you visit without them, so maybe they can pack that the fuck in.

Blackmist ,

Have to get rid of the "no drugs" rules then.

If it's a choice between heroin and a roof, then one of them they can do without. The roof isn't going to win.

Blackmist ,

Last time I tried it, it was a nightmare on Windows as well.

I have an HDR monitor and I turned that off because it looked awful. Nex Machina was completely unplayable even then, as it detected it anyway and shows a completely washed out picture.

Only consoles and set top boxes seem to support it properly. It looks really good when it works.

Blackmist ,

Nah, it looked shit on my TV as well, and that's an LG OLED. Everything just a lot darker than normal, and only the actual HDR content looks right. The settings for SDR were next to useless.

It looked OK in a full screen game I did get working (one of the recent Tomb Raiders), but such a mess outside it, and it even corrupted the screen when trying to play full screen videos, leading to full system crashes.

The monitor isn't super bright for HDR content, but the issues go well beyond just that.

Blackmist ,

If it all worked for you out of the box and you're happy with it, then great.

But your experience was not my experience.

Blackmist ,

It might be fixed in W11. I wouldn't know. They won't let me upgrade to it even if I wanted to.

Blackmist ,

Enjoy your Tux Racer, mate.

Blackmist ,

Well yes, but at the same time if you had to pay a few bucks a month for Lemmy or it only worked on a special app, would you be on it?

Blackmist ,

OK. And how many other people would be here for you to talk to?

Blackmist ,

I think there's definitely room to have an open source Discord alternative.

IRC with history and images

Voice/video chat

Wiki hosting

Have a client and website that can link right to them and you're away. But again, it's going to cost something to run it, be it hosting fees or a small server in somebody's house along with bandwidth. And Discord doesn't unless you count privacy, which most people don't.

Blackmist ,

Deffo waiting for lots of people to be on it before turning up that dial.

Seems to be the standard silicon valley business model these days. The old "drug dealer outside school giving away free samples to get you hooked" we all heard about but never saw.

Blackmist ,

Does it also do temporary passes so you don't have to give full access to people who only want to play alongside you once?

One issue I had with the Discord web client was the lack of push to talk. Anyone who raided with a Darth Vader will relate. I presume Mumble would be similar. You don't really want to give a browser full key logging access. Useful for listening in though.

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