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RobotToaster
RobotToaster @ RobotToaster @mander.xyz
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Mozilla wants users to take part in a survey about browser features

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  • Which of the following attributes would you most want your new browser to have, and which would you want least?

    Twice as slow as your current browser

    Is that a joke?

    • Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads

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  • Are they still using LBRY? Or did they switch to a different protocol?

    • My doctor has pictures of dogs on the feedback form

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    • What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help đŸ„Č)

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  • Most open source projects rely on volunteers, and few technical writers volunteer.

    • Out of curiosity why is BeeHaw defederated from shitjustworks?

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  • They're defederated from virtually everyone. They may as well just use phpbb at this point.

    • Mastodon's fundraiser for Kamala Harris needs fediversal support to reach it's 500,000$ goal

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    • What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says?

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  • Buy better quality bulbs with drivers that don't burn out.

    Where can you buy those? No clue now, the one guy I knew making good ones got arrested.

    • What isn't illegal but should be?

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  • Rent seeking and usury (the charging of interest)

    • Disability activist was granted Freedom of the City - then couldn’t get on the stage

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  • It honestly seems worse.

    It's pretty easy to get a ramp built, fixing stupid is much harder.

    • What's the cutest animal that you'd be terrified to get close to?

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  • hippopotamus

    • My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?

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  • Yup, kernel level "anti-cheat" is a rootkit spyware that "pinky swears" it's only spying for a good reason.

    • Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

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  • One of the biggest rules in IT is always have a backup.

    A cashless society has no backup.

    • Is there a way to make it so that your devices (sd cards, USBs, phones, laptops) etc can't be copied without knowing the password ?

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  • There are USB flash drives that self destruct after the wrong password is entered too many times.

    • What makes CrowdStrike so ubiquous that their error created such catastrophe?

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  • A lot of companies install it for compliance checkboxing.

    • Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR

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  • Oh dear, how sad, never mind

    • An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.

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  • An algorithm is never to blame, some pencil necked desk jockey decided the criteria to get help that was used to create the algorithm, the blame is entirely on them.

    That said, I doubt it would make any difference if a human was in the loop. An algorithm is still al algorithm, even if it's applied by a human. We usually just call that a "policy" though. People have been murdered by the paper sea for decades before we started calling it "algorithms".

    • If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes?

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  • I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body.

    • Many Tanks

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  • That's how the Spanish Ichquisition gets you.

    • Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

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    • ‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa VĂ©liz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity

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  • Privacy is part of the reason I got back into film photography, my photos can't be spied on if they never touch a computer.