Sir Arthur V Quackington @ ocassionallyaduck @lemmy.world

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This. Running Home Assistant on literally anything stronger than a raspberryPi means you can automate damn near anything. And yea, it might be a pain in the ass to setup, but once it's done it basically runs itself.

And it's infinitely, overwhelmingly better than than asking Google or Alexa to do any of it.

I have a bunch of wireless light switches all over the house, it's stupidly convenient once you stop thinking they have to be stuck in thy wall.

"Playstation is a drug"

It's edgy marketing. You're not wrong it's also clearly sexualizing her, but they're pushing a console like a party drug.

On the one hand, it's a very dated ad, on the other I really wish marketing companies would do weird shit like this more. Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

Even this method is overreach: who control the database?

Journalist have a scoop on a US violation of civil rights? Well not if it is important to the CIA who slipped the PDF that was their evidence into the hash pool and had his phone silently rat him out as the one reporting.

This hands ungodly power to those running that database. It's blind, and it "only flags the bad things". Which we all agree CSAM is bad, but I can easily ruin someone inconvenient to me if I was in that position by just ensuring some of his personal and unique photo get into the hash. It's a one way process, so everyone would just believe definitively that this radical MLK guy is a horrible pedo because we got some images off his phone in a diner.

True, but my thinking would be that I wouldn't want to promote total anonymity when the whole thrust of what I was saying was to attach cost, burden, and some kind of identity if possible.

Pay me ten bucks from PayPal.

I don't care about your PayPal info but I at least know you're "real" enough to pass basic PayPal setup screening nowadays. That kind of thing.

Yes, but my point was more so that crypto bros swim in that water too, and my thinking was more so to discourage assholes rather than attain 100% immutable anonymity.

Communities can eventually become insular and crappy, that isn't anything new. I haven't ever used/heard of metafilter , but I believe you.

Not a problem unique to lefties or hardcore MAGA folks. It's just community management for free by volunteers eventually means you have some echo chambering. The site/community manager can steer the mod policies, but without leadership you get fiefdoms. Look at some subreddits that speed run this process.

Nope. Imo the point is to avoid cryptobro bots and the like, not invite them.

Plus crypto is volatile and you'd have to manage it a lot more to keep it pegged at "expensive enough"

And even then, you won't discourage a troll who just happens to have an absurd stash of coins without pricing out legitimate users. A bot farmer with 50k in bitcoin would drop a few hundredths of a coin just to make your day worse.

Honestly to avoid the immense botspam coming for small orgs, you need either a literal army of volunteers, or some kind of "realID" type check to verify they're human, and I hate that concept immensely as well.

Giant if, but if you could do a one way cryptographic check against an ID to verify its legitimate, without sending anything off the server elsewhere, then a forum could bind your current username to a state issued ID, at least until it's reissued. And then you could at least reasonably think these users are human.

But who wants to give that info to a stranger online. Even if the hash is unique to the site based on their own seed, the average person doesn't understand that, and it feels like handing over your actual privacy.

Setting aside that PCs don't have NFC readers as a standard feature as well.

Everything I think would be effectivd boils down though to needing to know that something exists in meatspace on the other end, and being able to use that to manage your bans. At least 10bux is just money, and not your ID.

Not speaking for other places, but America is not made for bikes or pedestrians. It is actively hostile to them in the best cases, and filled with explicit murderous intent in others.

Drivers will actually, actively, try to hit you for daring to take to the roads. And you have to take the road because we have sparse or missing pedestrian sidewalks.

I wouldn't wish biking 3 miles in most American cities on anyone used to a properly designed nation.

This is a beautiful thing. I love MST3K, I might just join it.

I advocate for two things, oddly things I never would have in earlier internet:

• Paid forums. A one time payment for registration.
• Strict rules and quick bans. But allow offenders to buy back in. Permaban for serious offenses. .

Why? Because if it costs you $10 or 15 to re-activate after screwing around, you're much more likely to read the room and not fuck around too much with others. It encourages users to point out bad behavior, and mods to act decisively. If the mods or management totally suck, then it can go sour, but that's true of any community.

In this case though it can at least partially help to offset costs from shitty users, and keep bots at bay by making them cost a registration fee.

I don't love it as a "solution", but when Facebook was small, people behaved better. But now people post the most unhinged shit ever under their full legal name, so no amount of daylight is going to put the proverbial trolls back in their cages. Just gotta lock them out of civil spaces.

You wanna talk about Honda engine tuning here with us? Don't be a fucking asshole, or get banned.

You wanna chat with fans of 50s cinema and the rise of modern camera film technique? Do it without brining up woke/trump/biden/Covid or get out.

I like that we have free stuff like lemmy and reddit for now, but bots are getting far, far worse.

No.

But one day I will get so desperatly poor that taking out someone in siphoning wealth from the country and ending them might seem like a fitting end.

If we don't change things anyways.

According to Qualcomm it would. It's extremely Early days in this, but the claims from MS and Qualcomm indicate ARM x86 emulation being quite good, faster in some cases. MS is throwing a lot of weight behind their "Prism" x86 to ARM instruction mapper/translator. And without adding much in the way of power draw.

I'm not gonna pretend you can believe marketing bullshit, but there is definitely at least some real development happening here. And if you paired the newest Qualcomm chips with a chip like the Tegra, you could have some amazingly battery life.

So it's no guarentee, but it's a huge development happening that at the very is going to shake things up even if it doesn't make a direct impact in the end.

I think people are discounting the recent Qualcomm developments too much here. Their pairing of their new Snapdragon Elite chip with Windows, but also targeting high level desktop performance means it is likely to be a very viable contender for any future handheld, especially if paired with a Radeon mobile or Tegra.

Try Firefox

Or Floorp if you're experimental.

Fuck chrome and chromium.

There's a difference between software release windows, and "iOS 19 is going to be a fully conscious AI being named Siri, and will work on all your existing iOS devices, and your phone will be rentable as a second employable being that could earn you passive income or even work your job for you!"

Elon's lies are a magnitude removed from the simple announcements other companies know.

Elon musk claims a lot of things

Why does anyone let him manipulate stocks like this by reporting on his insane ranting?

This. Anyone can view content online.

Training a visual model off those images requires feeding those images into a model, and that is not the terms under which you originally viewed them.

It's why OpenAI is currently facing tons of lawsuits it may legitimately lose in court.

Probably not though, they can just settle and pay a fee. Deep pockets.

This is kind of true but misses the fact that RCS was intended to be a carrier standard, and carriers weren't going to fucking do it.

So after almost a decade of carriers docking around, Google fires a shot across the bow and just implements their own version, using their jive backend as a "bypass" of sorts. But like any closed platform, it only works with the same clients.

They can't open up their server without some basic agreements so they try to get Samsung inboard. That is a mess of red tape. So they roll out RCS to all messenger clients on newer Android builds and stupidly call it chats or something. When they separately run a product called Google chat.

Anyways, that's how we got here. Each company needs to have a RCS relay server now because carriers couldn't be assed to do their fucking jobs, and now the Apple RCS server will pass your messages to the Google RCS server using a standard... So dumb.

Its still superior to SMS and is now at least baked into every new android device and on by default, but since it is not using actual radio waves SMS is still going to be possible in areas where data isn't. So SMS will continue to limp along and exist, because fuck carriers.

I hope he wins, and the fine makes Microsoft's eyes water. Everyone need to slow the fuck down with this, and they won't until there are real painful consequences.

MS can drop billions on game company acquisitions like it's no big deal? Cool, give this guy 1 billion dollars for randomly singling him out and automated-accusing him of sex crimes.

Maybe then all the tech bros might pause for 3 seconds before they keep feeding shit into their models illegally.