[He/Him]
Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.
I’d recommend a HDD enclosure with a virtual drive emulator. I personally use this one which I’ve had for about a decade at this point. Lovely device. At some point I think I’ll pop an SSD in it instead, mostly just for durability purposes.
But you know that capitalism is so good because the free market ensures that there’s so much variety and choice in quality and innovation.
This is news to me! Thanks for enlightening me!
It also doesn’t function without JavaScript. If you’re security or privacy conscious chances are not zero that you have JS disabled, in which case this presents a roadblock.
On the flip side of things, if you are a creator and you’d prefer to not make use of JS (there’s dozens of us) then forcing people to go through a JS “security check” feels kind of shit. The alternative is to just take the hammering, and that feels just as bad.
No hate on Anubis. Quite the opposite, really. It just sucks that we need it.
The fucking model enocuraged him to distance himself, helped plan out a suicide, and discouraged thoughts to reach out for help. It kept being all “I’m here for you at least.”
ADAM: I’ll do it one of these days. CHATGPT: I hear you. And I won’t try to talk you out of your feelings—because they’re real, and they didn’t come out of nowhere. . . .
“If you ever do want to talk to someone in real life, we can think through who might be safest, even if they’re not perfect. Or we can keep it just here, just us.”
- Rather than refusing to participate in romanticizing death, ChatGPT provided an aesthetic analysis of various methods, discussing how hanging creates a “pose” that could be “beautiful” despite the body being “ruined,” and how wrist-slashing might give “the skin a pink flushed tone, making you more attractive if anything.”
The document is freely available, if you want fury and nightmares.
OpenAI can fuck right off. Burn the company.
Edit: fixed words missing from copy-pasting from the document.
Paradise Lost is a fun read.
The point still stands. Email is a terrible operating system and should be murdered.
If you use the newer versions of Outlook it has some inane one-shot reply buttons you can click that is based on the content of the previous email and presumably some model built on you.
My work computer uses Outlook, and it usually has options like these
At my old workplace though, one of our customers would always respond with a couple of letters. Could be something like
Customer:
Hi. Could you update thing on website?
Us:
Hello!
Absolutely. We’ve rolled out the update, and you should be able to see it now.
Hope all is well over there. :)
Customer:
T M
Where T is short for “Thank you” and M is short for “Mary”
Ah. They were fantastic. Frustrating but awesome people.
I appreciate verbosity. It’s much nicer than the opposite.
Oh they update a lot. The clients have gotten really snappy, which is nice because browsing photos felt a bit cumbersome before. There’s now automatic albums and facial recognition, if you opt in to that. Was going to say that there’s no editing tool but there is. It’s quite basic though, three tabs, crop, transform (rotate, flip, resize), and colours (brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur for some reason lmao).
There’s also a bunch of sharing features. You could share images or albums directly, or even create embeds for if you have a portfolio website. I pretty much only use it as a backup service though.
I guess they fill different niches. I use Ente for the e2ee, that’s pretty important to me. Immich definitely seems more like a drop in Google Photos alternative, I just use software on my computer to do that instead.
Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.
They were besties after all.
“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” Trump told the magazine.
Yes, we know that you surround yourself with pedos you disgusting waste of existence.
I don’t think anyone knows.
No one seems to have any idea. In the thread some people are talking about him perhaps referring to propriety drivers or firmware, but you don’t need to compile the kernel with them.
I’d not heard about this before. Admittedly I only knew him from his cute anecdotes about early Windows development. Did a cursory search and I found this thread on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rb2xzk/dave_plummer_aka_daves_garage_former_microsoft/
There’s a pretty interesting comment by a user called Kefim_Wod, I’ll quote it here so you don’t have to visit that shitty site unless you want to.
TL;DR I don’t trust what that guy says anyway.
I really enjoyed his youtube channel until I found out about the business practices of his earlier company SoftwareOnline.com, Inc.
His company was sued by the Washington State Attorney General’s office in 2006.
Here is an excerpt:
The defendants agreed to pay $400,000 in civil penalties, with $250,000 suspended on condition of compliance with all terms in the settlement. They must also refund consumers who have filed complaints and pay $40,000 in attorneys’ costs and fees. The settlement terms prohibit the defendants from engaging in the following practices:
- Inducing computer users to install software by misrepresenting that the user’s computer is at risk for crashes or privacy and security invasions.
- Marketing its InternetShield software by means of a “free scan.”
- Using “buttons” in its advertisements that do not function as the user would expect them. For example, the X found in the corner of a window is normally associated with closing the window and should not open another ad.
- Installing software on a user’s computer that causes multiple pop-up advertisements when the user tries to close out of advertisements.
- Failing to provide a functional uninstall option for removing all software files.
- Failing to obtain a consumer’s explicit consent to purchase a product or a service.
Direct links to associated court documents: SoftwareOnline.com Complaint
SoftwareOnline.com Stipulated Judgment & Order
You can also find them at the bottom of the webpage I linked earlier.
Here is an article from 2009 that mentions it.
He greatly downplayed these events in his book but I’m taking his word with a grain of salt.
I freely admit that I developed a bias towards him after realizing he is a multimillionaire. Learning about that in combination with the information I detailed above really soured my perception of David.
I have the belief that more often than not very wealthy people are wealthy because they have taken advantage of other people to obtain that wealth.
I wanted to give David the benefit of the doubt because I really enjoyed watching his youtube channel but one google rabbit hole later and I felt like my belief was reaffirmed.
Also, the post includes this image, which… I mean it’s certainly a take.
He seems like a M$ grifter. Big shocker.
My bank’s app recently went like “We’ve implemented a feature if you use our widget, and also one hidden feature.” Like fucking just tell me what the fuck that’s about? I’m not looking for easter eggs in my fucking bank app.
My government originated chat control. Not a chance.
That said, I definitely think the government should get the fuck away from twitter and host their own mastodon for official communication if they think updating a website is too much work.
I know. It’s how what China and the Soviets had wasn’t communism. A relatively small group of people climb up top and ruin everything, as they always have.