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UK tightens scrutiny of all Indian spice imports amid contamination allegations (www.reuters.com)

Britain's food watchdog has applied extra control measures on all spice imports from India, it said on Wednesday, becoming the first to ramp up scrutiny of all Indian spices after contamination allegations against two brands sparked concerns among global food regulators....

hitmyspot ,

I wonder if given there are known issues with their customs system, if companies will exploit that with dodgy foods and products.

hitmyspot ,

Its community based so his opinion could be ignored, unlike when he's on a board and his opinion was ignored.

hitmyspot ,

To do so, there would need to be a centralized or federated list of all accounts. If it was centralized it would be against federation principles. If it was federated, then anyone who sets up a server would potentially have access to all email addresses. Perhaps,more in the style of email, like @user but that would likely lead to more confusion as people would put their email and it is essentially the same information.

I do agree that log in as the opening page is not a great experience. Helping people to find an instance should be easier to filter. Rather than a list by popularity, let them know choosing by interest or location can help find relevant content and have easy to use clickable filters to do so.

hitmyspot ,

The domain for my email is gmail.com not Aussie zone. I also cannot log in to gmail on the hotmail (outlook? )site. Perhaps you are interpreting their request to not use username and site name and instead use email, to instead use a long form Lemmy username?

That could work, but I don't know that it adds any extra layer of simplicity, but maybe that's what they meant. My interpretation is that they are saying to link your account to your email address, as that's what most other services do. Without knowing which instance you register with, there would need to be a registry. Perhaps this could be hashed in some way, but it would still be effectively public facing as any instance would need access.

hitmyspot ,

After the expiry of the copyright i assume.

hitmyspot ,

I'm surprised they made 440m. However, investing in r+d is not unusual. This amount is not a huge investment for them based in overall revenue.

hitmyspot ,

It would be nice to have options. Log in with a new log In. Use your existing log in and join accounts. Use your existing log In and sandbox them.

Ring customers get $5.6 million in privacy breach settlement (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

The Federal Trade Commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to Ring users whose private video feeds were accessed without consent by Amazon employees and contractors, or had their accounts and devices hacked because of insufficient security protections.

hitmyspot ,

Its a pity that copyrighted material, that artists sell, so want to be seen, for a fee, is fined at $10000 per breach for piracy. But when its peoples privacy that they don't want public viewing, its a pittance.

hitmyspot ,

Is it still ludicrously overpriced? Like worth more than the combined value of other companies with more profit, more sales and bigger market share? All while other companies are catching up in tech with better build quality, better marketing and no poisonous head?

hitmyspot ,

Why would children's writers be treated differently? If it was some utopia of workers rights, most righters would migrate there over time.

Everyone should unionise. Even in companies ornjobs that are currently fine. Its how they stay that way and supports other workers in the same union. Better standards benefit everyone.

hitmyspot ,

Ifnots effectively a back up of existing media, why to you want raid 1?

hitmyspot ,

How disgusting. It would probably cost them less than the profits off wheelchair using customers, but they don’t care one iota. Even Ryanair and easy jet can accomodate and that’s much harder than a train.

hitmyspot ,

I've heard of people having success.eiyh setting up an account for the family pet and friending their kids and friends before they are old enough to understand the concept of sharing online.allows you to keep tabs on them unobtrusively and can obviously deactivate or defined as appropriate when they age.

Hopefully though, I stead, you'll teach them how to use privacy controls to not allow you to see, when they are old enough that it's appropriate.

hitmyspot ,

Then a custom rom, like graphene is allows you to de google your phone. Although google have embedded themselves deeply into android, the pixels are quite open about unlocking boot loader etc.

hitmyspot ,

The problem is Microsoft have abused it. Now they claim an update is for security, but instead it just reverts settings to promote their other products.

hitmyspot ,

Yes, but trust is required of users are not going to boot out. If it's not opt out, that's a risk in intself.

hitmyspot ,

Interesting that most of the top Mastodon instances are fed rested whereas most other software, they are defederated. I wonder if it is due to how they work. Madrid in can have discussion but it's less focused on that. Lenny has more voting and so more likely to have a consensus that shows all views agreement not just the volume. So, Madrid in would be more susceptible to bad actors simplifying their view, yet the same is possible on all.

hitmyspot ,

While self hosted will obviously be better, you have to balance that with simplicity for non tech users.

We use the paid app tinybeans. Doing it now, I'd consider hosting a stability photos folder.

hitmyspot , (edited )

With a police file number and her address and possibly name being used, she might be able to get the company to give her the ip address. Its not a privacy breach of she's the customer.

Then that ip address can be matched to an isp to find the user, police would need to do that. Talking to her current lawyer would help.

Edit: :up to ip

hitmyspot ,

Why does a company that has already achieved it's success need investment? When company potential is how we value society, this is an inevitable end result.

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber (www.theverge.com)

Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days wandering the earth and saying things like Twitter should be a protocol and not...

hitmyspot ,

Tor.

hitmyspot ,

Nah, they'll just add a chat app. Then destroy it.

hitmyspot ,

I agree it's ridiculous, but from their perspective, they provided a service and it is not their fault either. This is why allowing companies to get involved in private sales is bad. They will always want a cut. Unfortunately, private ticket sales is scalpers and scams.

Tickets are one thing that could actually be a nft.and benefit from it!

hitmyspot ,

Yes, but the buyer is who they want to come back for more.

hitmyspot ,

It doesn’t make him wrong.

Just like we can now uss LLM to create letters or emails with a tone, it’s not going to be a big leap to allow it to do similar with coding. It’s quite exciting, really. Lots of people have ideas for websites or apps but no technical knowledge to do it. AI may allow it, just like it allows non artists to create art.

hitmyspot ,

It can't tell yet when the output is ridiculous or incorrect for non coding, but it will get there. Same for coding. It will continue to grow in complexity and ability.

It will get there, eventually. I don't think it will be writing complex code any time soon, but I can see it being aware of all the libraries and foss that a person cannot be across.

I would foresee learning to code as similar to learning to do accounting manually. Yes, you'll still need to understand it to be a coder, but for the average person that can't code, it will do a good enough job, like we use accounting software now for taxes or budgets that would have been professionally done before. For complex stuff, it will be human done, or human reviewed, or professional coders giving more technical instructions for ai. For simple coding, like you might write a python script now, for some trivial task, ai will do it.

hitmyspot ,

I don't disagree with your point. I think that is where we are heading. How we interact with computers will change. We're already moving away from keyboard typing and clicks, to gestures and voice or image recognition.

We likely won't even call it coding. Hey Google, I've downloaded all the episodes for the current season of Pimp My PC, can you rename the files by my naming convention and drop them into jellyfin. The AI will know to write a python script to do so. I expect it to be invisible to the user.

So, yes, it is just a different instruction set. But that's all computers are. Data in, data out.

hitmyspot ,

Aor Canada already tried that and lost. They had to refund the customer as the chatbot gave incorrect information.

hitmyspot ,

I want a robot to fill and empty the dishwasher.

hitmyspot ,

It used to work years ago. It's not a technology problem. They changed their policy around location based reminders. One of the reasons I'm degoogling. I got rid of apple products too when they got rid of Google maps in favour of apple maps. Forcing a poorer product on users shows contempt for users.

hitmyspot ,

It wasn't the app. It was the idea that rather than continue to default to a good app, they would default to their own poorer product, attempting to force it on consumers. I knew it would only get worse from there. No regrets. It's just unfortunate that android continues to be further locked down too. It used to be more open and customisable.

hitmyspot ,

It's a pity they don't offer the option to 'supercharge' to 100, so you get extended battery life when desired, when you know you will need it. Say, going camping, or plan to use the phone a lot for whatever reason.

hitmyspot ,

Yes, they could call it spinal batt.

hitmyspot ,

Auto save on by default is not an unreasonable request. If they just wanted to request it, this is not the place. However, is hey wanted to vent and discuss, so this seems like the place.

hitmyspot ,

I like auto save, but it should never be needed and should never overwrote the user saved file. For recovery purposes only.

In this case, it sounds like an os crash, which is not libre office fault, but libre office having auto save by default would have saved it.

I think they have taken the wrong approach. Helping daughter but they write it and learn to type faster. Also a learning experience for software in general and auto save.

Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)

Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports::Walmart is in talks to buy smart-television manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a move that could bolster its advertising business and give it control of more than a fifth of the U.S. television market.

hitmyspot ,

Wait until the software updates to be basically an Amazon device.

hitmyspot ,

Not stamping him down would pose the bigger risk long term then.

hitmyspot ,

Yes, but shipping it back to be destroyed instead would be more wasteful, with the same end result.

It would be better to repair, but where repairs cost more than replacement, the only way to force them to repair is with regulations, as otherwise they do what costs less.

I much prefer that they require you to break it and give a new one. From a consumer perspective it's a better outcome. From an environmental perspective, it's slightly better than ship back and destroy. The ideal is repair which has less waste and solves the problem for the consumer.

hitmyspot ,

Even if some of the employees were terrorists, it's not like the work of the agency was. Terrorists, worldwide, I'm sure, have day jobs. The point was to hurt palestinians needing aid, nothing else.

hitmyspot ,

Odd coming from an oppressive regime, but whatever.

hitmyspot ,

I worry that it’s a bit chicken and egg. I’ve a psvr and psvr2, for reference. Without millions of users, the market for a range of quality apps is poor. Then, of those quality apps, only a few will be truly great, even less revolutionary enough to sell a $3500 headset for one.

hitmyspot ,

Me too, but that assumes devs that have the time and access to do so. If it’s not mass market, they may not. In a way, hopefully it means that all vr has to use the same apis/design language eventually rather than a a new set of competing systems. Obviously, with seeing how the phone market went, none of the big companies will allow that to happen if they can avoid it.

hitmyspot ,

That already existed on psvr 4 years ago and I think take up was minimal. Again, it could be something that apple can popularise, now the technology is better, but it won’t be ground breaking.

hitmyspot ,

Yes, but many millions of the kind of people that would be interested already have a ps5. For those that don't, it's still cheaper to buy both twice over.

It's designed for vr, not at, so the video pass through is sufficient rather than great. It's still a huge step up and hopefully, so is the apple headset.

hitmyspot ,

Yes but the question is whether this can be mass market enough and is refined enough.

hitmyspot ,

As tails is loaded via USB drive and your phone can act as a USB drive,.is it possible for your phone to have tails saved and show it when connected as a USB? It would be handy if you had it and other OS available wherever you went by just plugging in your phone.

hitmyspot ,

It's a shame that it needs to be a smart decide, and can't just act as a dumb device with an iso.

Perhaps a future build of android will allow it/emulate it/spoof it for this purpose.

What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?

I'm wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I'm not sure which device to use. I'm thinking a raspberry pi but I'm not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems...

hitmyspot ,

I use a Synology nas. It also runs pihole, and is my back up for photos and videos etc. as well as my network file server and can be my VPN as needed when using public hot spots.

I'm not currently running the arrs on it too, but I plan to. They are already set up on my PC, so next time i need to change anything, I'll load them on the nas. None are particularly resource intensive, but need more than a pi.

I recommend looking at what your overall needs are. Will you do any more than serving locally. Do the other features of a nas appeal? For me, running a 24/7 laptop is more inefficient and I don't have a spare, like you. A nas was pretty cheap with other features I use.

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