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dojan , 7 days ago

Really? I seem to recall being shit out of luck when it couldn’t figure out my WiFi drivers and wanted me to connect via Ethernet instead.

dojan , 9 days ago

In non-Japanese cartoons as well. Jimmy Neutron is voiced by Debi Derryberry.

dojan , 12 days ago

Honestly I don't think most people know or even care.

dojan , 12 days ago

It’s giving three body.

dojan , 12 days ago

Countless ants.

dojan , 12 days ago

Good Roborock. Mine keeps thinking that my office desk are body scales.

dojan , 11 days ago

The golden gate bridge is so far away from me. I don't know what to do to cure depression. :(

dojan , 13 days ago

It's honestly quite strange that this sort of black box system is allowed to exist. How are governments around the world OK with a vast majority of the internet being filtered through a private company's lens without any sort of insight into how it works? That sounds skeevy as shit.

dojan , 13 days ago

I wish I could find an English source about the guy who got woken by police assaulting him in his bed because he'd sent private sexy photos of him and his boyfriend via Yahoo mail. It's definitely one of the things that "radicalised" me.

I've mentioned it before, and there are Swedish sources, but it's perhaps not suitable for a site in English.

dojan , 15 days ago

This is definitely something that has to be thought about in terms of UI/UX design. I recently developed a Outlook calendar-esque interface, and we've had on-and-off discussions for a couple of hours about how we best implement a way to "click" an empty spot in the calendar to create an event there.

I'm championing "we don't on mobile, but use double-click on desktop." I think I'm winning.

dojan , 15 days ago

Or Boeing. 😩

dojan , 16 days ago

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

Yikes. That sounds bad.

I'm a SysOps engineer at a fairly large online casino.

Okay all my sympathy is gone. Online casinos deserve to die.

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That said, my feelings towards economic vampires aside, the way the events unfolded is concerning to say the least. Cloudflare has been racking up evil-corp points quite rapidly in recent months.

dojan , 16 days ago

That's fair, this is one part of the story, and it's not like screenshots can't be doctored. Any screenshot taken from the web is ridiculously easy to manipulate.

dojan , 16 days ago

I'm honestly not surprised.

I used to hook up with a guy who was 100% convinced that he could game the system. It had something to do with break frequencies from various services and certain time windows for playing. He won sometimes, but he obviously didn't talk much about his losses. He wasn't a very happy person, and I think gambling offered an easy release.

That's my big issue with gambling. It's a business preying on addicts leaving many in financial ruin, and overall they do nothing for society at large. Here in Sweden it is regulated, but you honestly don't notice it. There are so many internet casinos vanishing and cropping up on an almost daily basis. If you turn on the radio the adverts are like 40% online casinos, 40% sex toy sites, and 20% various services, like tyre shifting, glass repairs, etc.

dojan , 16 days ago

That explains why they all seem so samey. E.g. online casinos never have any sort of physical presence like scratch cards or what have you, even though we have plenty of scratch cards.

dojan , 15 days ago

I'm really glad for you, that sounds amazing. I don't think you're the rule, though. I think you're the exception. I also feel like it wouldn't be unfeasible to have competitive/e-sports poker while still strictly regulating online casinos.

dojan , 16 days ago

"Use löpande backups" I mean isn't that built in? Could they just use something else? Like LibreOffice is a thing that exists.

dojan , 18 days ago

Yeah. My mother is getting phishing emails and genuinely believes that Nancy Pelosi is sending her emails asking for monetary support. We’re not even American. Like, not even the same continent.

Not everyone is as critical as they ought to be when reading stuff on the internet. It doesn’t help that LLMs have a tendency to state things confidently or matter-of-factly.

People not familiar with the tech will read it and take it at face value, ignoring the “this is AI generated and might be wrong” because that sounds too technological to some people that their brain doesn’t even process it.

dojan , 21 days ago

Is this an American thing? I don’t have copilot or browsers magically changing. Still strongly considering moving to Linux.

dojan , 21 days ago

It’s definitely not an accident. This is Cuntman’s goal.

dojan , 23 days ago

I asked my roomie who is into cutesy furry stuff. He grimaced and said that some thoughts are best left unshared.

Neither of us are very fond of the idea of human tails.

dojan , 23 days ago

His fursona is some sort of alien avian raptor thing made out of nitrogen or something.

I don’t have one as I’m only in it for the porn.

dojan , 22 days ago

No it’s from a game? I can’t recall what it’s called off the top of my head.

dojan , 22 days ago

Yeah! Thanks, that's the one!

dojan , 26 days ago

I think mixing tech and nudity is awesome! I love getting dickpics!

dojan , 26 days ago

It's using hashes, no?

dojan , 28 days ago

Fittingly this comic kind of reminds me of Peanuts.

dojan , 1 month ago

At least the name just means crayon.

dojan , 1 month ago

Oh someone has prompted it to use a casual tone. I did this with GPT and it spat out answers with a "HELLO FELLOW KIDS! 😎🔥🍆" tone.

dojan , 1 month ago

I swapped back to Firefox a couple of months ago. I am of the opinion that all browsers ought use the same engine, but Google shouldn't be given more of a chokehole on the web than they already have. It's troubling enough as it is.

That said, Firefox not supporting basic things like selectively turning off JS for websites, or vertical tabs without using wonky and inelegant third party extensions (and ui-chrome editing!) is honestly ridiculous.

dojan , 1 month ago

You still need an extension to automatically open specific sites in their own containers. I genuinely don't get why.

dojan , 1 month ago

Stackoverflow counts as professional now? Wasn't the general perception that it's an incredibly toxic space?

dojan , 1 month ago

I wonder how much of a bottom line they actually have given how cheap their service is.

dojan , 1 month ago

Oh wow, I had no idea Nord could go that cheap. To me €5 a month felt really inexpensive.

dojan , 1 month ago

Cheers. Network related stuff isn't my forte so I really have no idea about the costs. I just figured that the moment you start adding a decent amount of users the costs will go up, and €5 seems like a really fair price.

dojan , 1 month ago

Economy of scale?

dojan , 1 month ago

One decided to spontaneously hike and fell off a cliff. One was in an unfortunate drunk driving accident. One got hit by an Airbus engine. etc. etc.

dojan , 1 month ago

I mean these kinds of "AI companions" are grifts anyway. They won't take off because they are a solution looking for a problem. They aren't as affordable as the entry level HomePod/Amazon Pod/Google Home units, so they can't be bought as a "why not, and it's a speaker anyway" type thing. They don't have any secondary functionality you don't already have in your phone.

And if that's not enough, you can bet your cute arse on that Apple and Google are both working on bringing LLM functions into their assistants, basically making these units obsolete.

The moment that these companies decide that they can't afford to pay for servers and API subscriptions anymore, the service will die and you'll end up with a colourful brick. Don't buy these things, they're unfinished and will die within a year or two.

dojan , 1 month ago

That wouldn't surprise me. I think there's a Siri shortcut for integrating with ChatGPT. It's not the most elegant of solutions but it works well enough.
I'm quite sure that this year we'll see whatever Google and Apple has cooked up in terms of machine learning integration into the operating systems. Likely a flagship feature of the new Pixel phones, and definitely a significant Siri update on iPhone, probably along with some gimmicky feature to sell the new 16 Pros.

At that point, who is going to care about these devices?

dojan , 1 month ago

Then in a year or so you can use the resulting high quality soil for your garden!

Humans don't really compost down into anything better or worse than any other animal. Caitlin Doughty has a few videos on the subject. Honestly it looks pretty comfy, I wouldn't mind getting composted.

dojan , 1 month ago

I don't know if you're serious or not. Here's the exact timestamp where it is discussed, and the source for the claim that humans make alright but unspectacular compost is Dr. Lynne Carpenter-Boggs of WSU.

It's worth noting that Caitlin Doughty is a certified mortician, and the person she's interviewing, Katrina Spade, is the driving force behind that particular human composting facility. They both, together with a slew of other people, have campaigned to make human composting legal in New York and California.

So it's not some weird troll BS, these are professionals discussing their work, which at least for Katrina is human composting, and Caitlin, dead bodies in general.

dojan , 1 month ago

Because the quality of compost that human bodies make isn't the main topic covered. The first video is a general discussion on human composting, as well as a bit of an interview of Katrina Spade, and a walkthrough of the process. The second video is a discussion/update on where human composting as an alternative way to dispose of bodies currently is in terms of legality in the U.S.

I shared the videos because Caitlin Doughty is a fun person, and the work she does is important and a lot of her videos are very interesting. I shared the videos because I thought that others might benefit also.

dojan , 1 month ago

On iOS, for SOS, Medical ID, and "slide to power off" you hold power and a volume button. That also disables biometric ID.

dojan , 1 month ago

Can’t. We’re too busy working. 💀

dojan , 1 month ago

I hadn't even thought about that. Thank you.

dojan , 1 month ago

I feel this, to an extent. I rather like the guy, I like what he stands for (for the most part, I don't agree with his stance on at-will employment), but I don't generally watch his videos for the same reason; angry preaching to the choir. I already agree, it's mostly a waste of my time to watch.

dojan , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There's a Swedish article about it on SVT, the Swedish national news media outlet. It's actually strangely long for being on SVT, I think there's some anti-competition laws that prevent them from doing journalism with too much detail.

I believe the original source is this article from Kontext Press.

Edit: I ought mention that I tried, but I struggled to find any articles about in English.

For some additional context though; the American organisation that tipped off the police here in Sweden was the NCMEC, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

The police examined the boyfriend whom they'd described as "not prepubescent", to ensure that he has the same birthmark that appeared in the pictures.

The prosecutor that signed off on the decision to raid this man's home, Titti Malmros has resigned.

Also this gem, which is from the Kontext Press article.

If a police officer commits misconduct while masked, how do you then investigate it?
Well, it's not really possible if one cannot establish who has done what, says prosecutor Lena Kastlund

Were all the officers present questioned?
No, they were not, because you cannot question them if you don't know who is suspected. You can't interrogate someone without informing them of the suspicion, and you can't question everyone who is suspected either. We have very high standards of evidence, so that no innocent person is suspected.

Can't they be heard as witnesses then?
Not if they later could become suspects.

Then is there any possibility of redress against officers who are masked?
There's always a possibility, but there may be difficulties. Plus, there are other officers present who may have heard things. We always try to do as much as possible.

Do you think that everything that could have been done has been done in this case?
Yes, that's my opinion at least. I stand by my decision and believe I've done what can be done.

I can't help but read this as; it's perfectly okay to break into a person's home in the middle of the night, assault them, and take them away from their home without informing them of where they're going or why, but you can't possibly accuse a police officer of misconduct; that requires a lot of proof which is magically unobtainable.

dojan , 1 month ago

I concur with this. Any Chromium based browser is still under the chokehold of Google. A great example is Manifest V3 being forced on all Chromium browsers. Honestly, Google controlling such a significant browser marketshare should be a worry to more peoople. To a lot of people they are people's access to the internet, via Google Search, and they also control people's window to the internet, via Chromium.

In short; Google by and large is the internet, meaning they can do whatever hell they please and there's not much in the way to stop them.