BlueBockser @ BlueBockser @programming.dev

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Sounds like a "no true Scotsman" argument tbh

I'm skeptical given how confident many recent AI models are at making wrong claims. Fact checking seems to be a rather poor use case for current AI models IMO.

cringe-worthy

Says the person who is licensing their Lemmy comments.

+1 for restic. I've been using it for four years now and have never encountered an issue, including during my yearly restore practice run.

As far as B2 bucket encryption is concerned, I wouldn't trust it as far as I can throw it. Quite honestly, it could just be a fancy checkbox on their website without any actual encryption, and we wouldn't be able to tell. Either way, a compromise of Backblaze would put your data at risk.

The link doesn't explain what Taler is, you then also have to click through to the home page. How hard can it be to add literally a single sentence like

Taler is a payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.

Giving some real 1984 vibes

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

investment gamble

FTFY

There are quite a few mature projects in 0.x that would cause a LOT of pain if they actually applied semver

Depending on how one defines the "initial development" phase, those projects are actually conforming to semver spec:

Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

After looking at the site and trying to determine what to download to get Debian with non-free (I’m unfortunately working with an NVIDIA card)

FWIW, Debian 12 now includes non-free firmware in the installation media by default and will install whatever is necessary.

I agree that the Debian website has its weaknesses, but beyond finding the right installer (usually netinst ISO a.k.a small installation image on https://www.debian.org/distrib/) there isn't much of a learning curve. I started out with Ubuntu too, but finally decided that enough was enough when snap started breaking my stuff on desktop.

From personal experience, headphone jacks have been more susceptible to wearing out than USB-C.

• The connection became so loose that the plug would slip out on its own.
• The jack would (I assume) partially lose contact, resulting in missing frequencies in the audio and crackling if I rotate the plug.

Both of these can be partially remedied by cleaning the port, but after six years with my old phone even that didn't work anymore. The USB-C port still did, however.

I guess the snarky headline might've been a bit too much for some people

True, but in this case it might be a good option until the corresponding Fossify app is available.

I'm not arguing about the fines themselves, those can indeed be scaled by revenue. I also agree that many fines should be higher to prevent companies from merely seeing them as an operating cost.

However, my point is that company revenue can't be used 1:1 to pay off fines. That doesn't take into account that revenue also has to cover all other operating expenses and taxes. As an example, the article states that Meta would take roughly 5½ days to pay off its fines, but taking the 23.42% profit margin into account a more realistic answer is 23½ days.

Revenue is the wrong metric for this type of comparison. Last I heard even big tech didn't have a profit margin of 100%.

Thanks, didn't know about those deals!

+1 for own domain and some email hosting service. That also makes it pretty easy to switch providers because you can simply point your MX records etc. somewhere else - no need to change the actual email address.

I can also recommend mailbox.org as an alternative to mxroute, they're even a little cheaper at $3/month (mxroute is $49/year at minimum).

unknown transit time

So I guess it's better to be stuck in a traffic jam together because there's one car per person?

Idk man that sounds pretty communist to me

It’s perfectly clear that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and if you support that, I’m sorry but you’re absolutely evil.

This "you're either for Palestine or a genocide supporter" mindset is half the reason this conflict still exists, the other half is the "you're either for Israel or a terrorist supporter" mindset. I'm sure it feels great to have a one-dimensional world view, but not everyone is either for or against one side.

All I was asking for is a source for your claim that Israel is spreading misinformation and that said misinformation is allowed to proliferate. The one source you provided is inadequate because it doesn't have any proof of Israeli lies, it just says that Israeli-provided proof is inconclusive. Let alone your claim that the alleged misinformation is not removed...

We're done here, clearly there's no good faith discussion to be had.

You evidently had enough time to post elsewhere, so it's not unreasonable to think you might've read my reply already.

How is the WP article showing misinformation? It basically boils down to "Israel alleged something and provided some evidence, but we think it's not conclusive". It does not show that Israel knowingly lied about anything, which is what you're insinuating.