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nomadjoanne

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nomadjoanne ,

Tannenbaum is fucking asshole. Isn't he the idiot that told Torvalds "you certainly would have failed my class if you submitted your OS as a final project?"

The guy deserves no respect.

nomadjoanne ,

Thank goodness.

nomadjoanne ,

For this reason, we must still take a stand against this stuff.

nomadjoanne ,

It is not that simple. These are cat and mouse games. Whack a mole. Whatever you'd like to say.

nomadjoanne ,

I like Mastadon. Farwss drama than on Lemmy (or Twitter).

nomadjoanne ,

Yeah... I only use Debian server side. Despite it's flaws I'd say Ubuntu is the better desktop option if you don't want to go down the whole Arch route.

nomadjoanne ,

Mpv is better

nomadjoanne ,

shrugs idk. Vlc has more features. Not sure I'd call it easier.

nomadjoanne ,

Such beings do not deserve to use computers. We're talking about humans here, not our monkey ancestors.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

nomadjoanne ,

Yeah in the presentation of it was clearly idiotic. I often wonder how seriously these silicon valley people actually take themselves privately.

nomadjoanne ,

If power consumption isn't the be all end all concern for you, there is a lot to be said for the ability of x86 to boot into just about anything. You still don't get that with ARM.

nomadjoanne ,

Oh it depends on what you need it for. There's definitely some things socs are better for. No need to be up in arms about it.

nomadjoanne ,

Honestly I'd be truly thrilled if they were merely forced to open up iMessage. I'd be a huge quality of life improvent for people who don't want to daily drive an iPhone but have to keep in contact with Americans.

And for those living in the US with Androids.

nomadjoanne ,

I don't totally agree but you're definitely onto something there. I will absolutely never be simpathetic to that vision, but you're right that Apple knows their audience.

nomadjoanne ,

You sure about that? Isn't the hash stored on the secure element? I don't doubt some right high rolling actors can get in there but it doesn't sound that trivial.

nomadjoanne ,

Damn... We bow to you

nomadjoanne ,

Sure or a phone.

nomadjoanne ,

Their silicon is really good. I'd argue it is mostly because they have a node advantage but it is what it is.

But especially in the MacBook Air it can only really show off its stuff in the short-bursty workloads of casual users (and Geekbench). My four-year-old PC would pull ahead quite quickly on any task when you actually have to run it at load for a while.

nomadjoanne ,

You forgot teenage girls and (apparently) dumb women on Tinder, but yes.

nomadjoanne ,

Nextcloud notes. They'll sync as text filed between your devices. You can use markdown, and they have a mobile app.

nomadjoanne ,

(Setting aside how much I hate Apple for the moment)

A lot of these VR and mixed reality things are much neater in theory than in practice. I have tried the whole virtual-desktop-in-VR thing before and it just isn't really much more productive unless maybe you are really pressed for space. You can just get another monitor, not have to wear a giant gizmo on your head and be able to drink your coffee while you work without issue.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

nomadjoanne ,

Believe it or not Vodafone will charge you for air and sea usage quite a lot. So be careful if you use them.

nomadjoanne , (edited )

😂

nomadjoanne ,

What sort of irks me is what a mixed bag EU regulation is. Some is good (GDPR), not denying that. Some is annoying (you're going to be accepting cookies 100 times a day until you're dead thanks to them), and Whatsapp runs on all devices, so while interoperability nice, even as a free-software, Linux person I don't really care.

However, if you have to deal with friends or family in the US and you don't have an iPhone though, god help you. They don't care about this.

I guess my complaint is that EU regulation may seem legally elegant, but I think it is sometimes quite blind to the real situation on the ground.

It looks good on the books but we still, say, don't have a standard ARM boot process for smartphones that would help users not be dependent on whatever shitty ROM the OEM wants them to have. That would be life changing, but it will never even be talked about.

nomadjoanne ,

Mimimimimimimimimi

nomadjoanne ,

Obviously. But that is very difficult on mobile.

nomadjoanne ,

And yet we live in a world where consent spam is actually harder to deal with than tracking, if you're smart.

nomadjoanne ,

Right. That's a very different business model. I don't necessarily have an opinion about whether it would be better or worse. It is easier to look at our current problems and say it would be better. But, eh, I can block most trackers and be a leach off of websites that stay up by selling other people's data. shrug

nomadjoanne ,

Interesting. I'll check it out. I didn't know that.

(BTW from my understanding of the law sites cannot block functionality if you decline cookies. But it is rarely enforced)

nomadjoanne ,

Same to you, bud

nomadjoanne ,

I really only use for "oh damn, I known there's a great one-liner to do that in Python" sort of thing. It's usually right and of it isn't it'll be immediacy obvious and you can move on with your day. For anything more complex the gas lighting and subtle errors make it unusable.

nomadjoanne ,

Yeah, I don't think they read the article... Sovereignty only applies, well, in the bloc or nation.

nomadjoanne ,

Ugh... I mean, they could, but the fact is I guarentee you many members of the EU commission and parliament themselves use these products, and they are popular in the EU, just not as overwhelmingly so as in the US. Ultimately, that wouldn't really fly in a democracy and, as much as I may hate apple, for good reasons.

nomadjoanne ,

It doesn't, the poster just doesn't like Apple (neither do I) and those are apparently magic words for "stop this company I don't like."

nomadjoanne ,

They're fucking themselves. In the EU the EU, not the US, is sovereign. Apple has to follow EU rules, but again, only with the EU.

nomadjoanne ,

Yeah but the majority of bots out there are going after easy prey. Honestly, if you use public key authentication with ssh you should be fine, even if it is on port 22. But it does of course clog up access logs.

nomadjoanne ,

I think part of the problem is that laws in the developed world essentially make in extremely expensive to run one of these services if you have a lot of users per month.

Te heart of the issue is that at some point it becomes more useful for mega-corporations to have a cozy relationship with the government than with you. It used to be that if a service found that there was child porn on their service, the law simply required them to remove it and report it to the police. Very reasonable.

The thing is though, if that is all the compliance one needs to follow, then the creation of new firms and services is quite easy. Mega-corporations don't like this. They want to slow the creation of new services and firms because this slows the appearance of new competition. Hence they become pro-regulation, and, I'd argue, attempt to shift the entire culture towards paranoia and a demand for more regulation.

Perhaps the only defense is to stay small. Obviously don't allow any abusive or illegal content. But stay small so that you can skirt by without having to deal with compliance with the big-boy regulations.

nomadjoanne ,

I love how you're an asshole for no apparent reason. We both like this place and are on the same team, even if we disagree about some things.

But, in all seriousness, I really have the feeling that you are approaching this from the standpoint of a lawyer or someone on the marketing team of a large corporation. Of course a service like lemmy.world, or any of the larger instances, should consult with a lawyer at some point if they haven't already. But this is not a mega-corporation, and I don't think many people in Lemmy apart from you have any intention of running it like one.

Of course these services cost money to run and protect. No one is saying it's free. To give a similar example, some of the largest Invidious instances blow though several terabytes a day. So they are very much dependent on donations. We should all try and chip in if we are able.

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