Comment on: "Pay us $0.99 every month for the rest of your life or your printer stops working" - Cory Doctorow on printer companies being fucking awful
I scrapped my home printer and just go to the library once a month to drop $1.80 on printing what I actually need printed in life, or the printshop if it's something lengthy; so much less stress, hassle and cost than drivers, ink and PC Load Letters.
2 09 Nov 2020 17:20 u/None in g/technology
"Pay us $0.99 every month for the rest of your life or your printer stops working" - Cory Doctorow on printer companies being fucking awful 📦
17 5 comments 09 Nov 2020 17:17 u/None (..) in g/technology
Comment on: Virgin Hyperloop completes its first test with actual passengers
I love this Potemkin village called hyperloop. Calling this a "first test" is utterly idiotic. The test did not even touch the surface of the actual technology needed for the project to become reality. If you call anything running through a tube a "test of hyperloop" then the world has been performing just that for well over a century. It's called metro/underground/tube. A meaningful test has to test major components, i.e. low-pressure environment in the tube, airlocks between tube segments, magnetic levitation and propulsion systems and achieve speed higher than 10 % of the target. This "test" did none of that as far as I can see. Basically all it tested is that wheels turn and it did not address anything unique and prerequisite to hyperloop. It's a total farce.
7 09 Nov 2020 12:51 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Justice Department Seizes $1 Billion of Bitcoin Tied to Silk Road Website
Free Ross Ulbricht.
6 09 Nov 2020 00:01 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People
Thanks. What a shitty article.
1 08 Nov 2020 14:42 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Google CEO Thinks AI Will Be More Profound Change Than Fire
Anyone else expecting a hellscape?
7 08 Nov 2020 12:12 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People
It detected 97% of COVID cases in a sample of 2,500 people who *all* had COVID. No mention of the rate of false positivity. Until proven otherwise, this is just an AI that says almost everyone is sick.
7 08 Nov 2020 12:09 u/None in g/technology
MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People 📦
6 6 comments 08 Nov 2020 11:55 u/None (..) in g/technology
Google CEO Thinks AI Will Be More Profound Change Than Fire 📦
9 7 comments 08 Nov 2020 11:54 u/None (..) in g/technology
Brain implant allows mind control of computers in first human trials 📦
6 1 comment 08 Nov 2020 11:52 u/None (..) in g/technology
Massachusetts voters pass a right-to-repair measure, giving them unprecedented access to their car data – TechCrunch 📦
5 1 comment 08 Nov 2020 11:51 u/None (..) in g/technology
FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies | ZDNet 📦
9 1 comment 08 Nov 2020 11:44 u/None (..) in g/technology
Walmart ends contract with robotics company Bossa Nova, report says 📦
4 0 comments 08 Nov 2020 11:42 u/None (..) in g/technology
49% Facebook Employees Don't Believe It Had Positive Impact On World 📦
24 4 comments 08 Nov 2020 11:33 u/None (..) in g/technology
Prop 24: New CA law makes data gathering harder for Facebook, Google - Business Insider 📦
14 0 comments 08 Nov 2020 11:32 u/None (..) in g/technology
Comment on: Raspberry Pi have been removed as they encourage infringement
This is Australia, so who cares about third world problems?
2 04 Nov 2020 20:26 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Raspberry Pi have been removed as they encourage infringement
This is an extremely low-quality post.
8 04 Nov 2020 17:26 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Raspberry Pi have been removed as they encourage infringement
Basically, "it can possibly be used to infringe copyright ergo it has to go". fucking bullshit
8 04 Nov 2020 17:26 u/None in g/technology
AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RDNA2 Starts At The High-End, Coming November 18th 📦
9 0 comments 03 Nov 2020 22:55 u/None (..) in g/technology
Comment on: A New Robot Dealer Service Makes Buying Drugs Easier Than Ever
I wonder (((who))) wrote the code???!
1 03 Nov 2020 21:59 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: A New Robot Dealer Service Makes Buying Drugs Easier Than Ever
Spoiler: there are no robots involved.
3 03 Nov 2020 03:42 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Raspberry Pi 400 - A complete PC built into a keyboard for $70
These look cool. I want one with 8gb of ram though
4 03 Nov 2020 03:12 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Raspberry Pi 400 - A complete PC built into a keyboard for $70
Saw somebody post this earlier today (possibly you?) and actually not only clicked through but looked up and bookmarked local retailers just in case I find myself wanting to add to my collection of weird machines :)
4 03 Nov 2020 02:27 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: AMD is working on AI-powered supersampling, NVIDIA DLSS alternative
Meh. I'd always take real resolution over fake resolution, regardless of how good it is.
1 01 Nov 2020 07:42 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: 10+ Companies Driving the Future of Healthcare Software Technology
Or you can just go with proven solutions by Cerner, Epic, Allscripts
1 31 Oct 2020 15:14 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: AMD: Simply GENIUS
They're fucking their own product line trying to keep Radeon from eating their lunch.
2 31 Oct 2020 03:16 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: AMD: Simply GENIUS
Intel status: Fucked Nvidia status: Shitting pants
1 31 Oct 2020 03:10 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: What is the best privacy keyboard for Android?
I've heard good things about Fleksy. I have been using it. It's not bad.
4 29 Oct 2020 21:03 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: How Will Some New Startups Help To Solve The Grid Storage Problem?
The grid storage problem is not solvable with current level of battery technology. No amount of engineering and connecting AA-sized batteries together will work at the scale required. A major breakthrough in battery technology (or a whole different concept) are required. Marginal improvements are not enough as we need to increase energy density of batteries 10-100x to make this work. Until then it's just an expensive gimmick.
3 29 Oct 2020 16:03 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: 6G - Explained! - Mrwhosetheboss
So we've already made the anti5g crowd obsolete. Good
2 29 Oct 2020 01:54 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Expensify’s CEO explains how he made the decision to tell all his customers to vote for Biden
I love how they out themselves. It makes choosing businesses easier.
4 28 Oct 2020 20:47 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: iPhone 13 With 1TB of Storage Might Be Arriving Next Year, Hints Tipster
Didn't Apple unveil new iPhones like last month or so? It makes no sense to add another one a month later.
1 28 Oct 2020 14:39 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: iPhone 13 With 1TB of Storage Might Be Arriving Next Year, Hints Tipster
that is crazy storage for a phone.. lots of music and video i guess
2 28 Oct 2020 14:35 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet - The New York Times
It's to late. People don't say "search engine" but "Google" now so they will be continue to use Google and don't talk about browser, it's literary the same shi*...
3 28 Oct 2020 04:38 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
...You can also do that with youtube-dl.
1 27 Oct 2020 03:44 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: A different type of VPN question 🤔
It's been a while since I fucked with Opera but I'm pretty sure they offer a built-in VPN. There are also Chrome / Firefox extensions to change your IP for streaming reasons. Another option would be to download Tor and use it for browsing while not connected to a VPN. It depends on how much privacy you're looking for I suppose.
2 27 Oct 2020 00:48 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
ytmp3.cc you can downlod to mp three
1 27 Oct 2020 00:43 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
Find me one that has one (1) upside that youtube-dl doesn't.
1 26 Oct 2020 21:41 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: When did technology stop being helpful
Around the time of the 2nd gen ipod. When they took away the physical click wheel. Mostly downhill after that. Web 3.0 with private companies aggressively monetizing user generated content was a huge catalyst for spam and fuckery. Bootstrap made 80% of all websites look the same, all most all of it low effort content. At least with GeoCities people would customize their shit lol.
3 26 Oct 2020 16:40 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: When did technology stop being helpful
The internet pre-web I'd say was still a valuable piece of technology that was used productively, but the Web suddenly made a major facet of the modern world all about feeding porn addictions, stalking your ex on social media, ranting about political events thirty seconds after they happened instead of reading a newspaper thus triaging your rage, streaming movies because we're insomniacs and sending dick pics.
2 26 Oct 2020 15:39 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
And Jami supports conferance calls too!
2 26 Oct 2020 09:33 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
Zoom’s a shitty call service anyways, just use Discord or MS Teams
10 26 Oct 2020 05:22 u/None in g/technology
Which Windows laptop manufacturer has the simplest naming scheme? 📦
2 1 comment 26 Oct 2020 04:10 u/None (self.technology) in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
Alright then, suit yourself
1 26 Oct 2020 03:41 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: DOJ Moves To Break Up Google; ‘Most Important Antitrust Case In A Generation’ | The Daily Wire
Use Pale Moon; it has some obvious problems with such a small dev team but it's a firefox fork of before Mozilla was pozzed.
1 26 Oct 2020 00:57 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
How about no?
2 26 Oct 2020 00:40 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
there’s a shit ton of youtube downloaders out there use those instead
2 25 Oct 2020 17:17 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: youtube-dl is dead, or is it?
there’s a shit ton of youtube downloaders use those instead
1 25 Oct 2020 17:17 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: [Disclose] BREAKING - Twitter is **temporarily throttling how you retweet** posts. The changes will be in place until "at least" the end of election week, to "help prevent abuse and the spread of misinformation."
Can't wait till that site dies.
1 23 Oct 2020 16:39 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: AMD Radeon RX 6900XT to feature Navi 21 XTX GPU with 80 CUs
400w monster incoming. Wonder if it will be water cooled or not?
2 23 Oct 2020 04:24 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: 11 reasons why Quibi crashed and burned in less than a year
Because it was a stupid fucking idea for starters.
6 23 Oct 2020 02:00 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Google's Head of Global Analysis: "Platforms are influencing you in a way you didn't sign up for"
Huge problem, needs to be addressed asap.
4 21 Oct 2020 20:08 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? - Stack Overflow
Thanks. Now I hate CSS ever so slightly more. What a steaming pile of garbage.
5 21 Oct 2020 10:10 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: New York Post story goes massive on social media despite crackdowns
*because of
1 20 Oct 2020 21:02 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: New York Post story goes massive on social media despite crackdowns
Shot themselves in the foot, huh Just like all the "refugees welcome" banner holding blonde women who get culturally enriched 😁
0 20 Oct 2020 21:02 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: DOJ Moves To Break Up Google; ‘Most Important Antitrust Case In A Generation’ | The Daily Wire
Welcome to the crazy state of America.
3 20 Oct 2020 14:49 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: DOJ Moves To Break Up Google; ‘Most Important Antitrust Case In A Generation’ | The Daily Wire
Murdering twatter, facebook and google would be the best move in technology since the internet.
29 20 Oct 2020 14:11 u/None in g/technology
Anyone Here With Deep Knowledge Of Broadband Access Concentrators? 📦
1 0 comments 19 Oct 2020 22:23 u/None (self.technology) in g/technology
Comment on: The EU is investigating Instagram for allegedly exposing the contact data of up to 5 million underage users
Well they're fucked. EU doesn't play around when it comes to the data protection act. Only recently Salesforce was hit with a 10 billion dollar lawsuit.
3 19 Oct 2020 18:50 u/None in g/technology
How to set up your own image hosting server - Tutorial by a Voat user 📦
3 0 comments 19 Oct 2020 17:14 u/None (..) in g/technology
SoloLearn - Free, social-media style site to learn to code 📦
4 0 comments 18 Oct 2020 17:44 u/None (self.technology) in g/technology
Comment on: Nokia secures $14.1m NASA funding to roll out 4G on the Moon
i didnt heard that name in years. the nokia 3301 was acually cool tho.
3 17 Oct 2020 20:11 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator
This really makes me avoid creating stuff to show the world going down the tunnel of open source...Its easy to copy and paste and steal... Open source is cool but its free work and anything valuable in this society has a dollar sign...
2 17 Oct 2020 05:03 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Chrome update hides full URL, displays only domain name
Member AOL Keywords or whatever? Companies used to give the website address and then the AOL keyword that you could enter instead if you had AOL. It was always kind of laughable. "Please visit our website at FrostedFlakes.com! (AOL Keyword: FrostedFlakes)"
3 16 Oct 2020 23:21 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent
I'm all for this. When I started working in big tech I loved the idea of going into the city every day. After COVID, rioting, blocking traffic and police retiring I have no desire to step into the city again. If the past is any indication we'll see this more and more. I don't know what it is about big tech but once something becomes "trendy" companies can't wait to jump on the bandwagon and brag about it.
3 16 Oct 2020 19:58 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Zoom to start first phase of E2E encryption rollout next week
"You have to be crazy not to be paranoid." We now use Jitsi.
1 16 Oct 2020 16:18 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: XFX China allegedly sells 'almost all' available Radeon RX stock to mining farms
Assume they're always sold out of any future gfx cards and don't bother consider XFX when buying cards, no more problem. Or be a bitch and please please mr, can I get some 30xx ill suck your dick mang.
0 16 Oct 2020 15:32 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
Ubports have this project now and it's pretty good with Pinephone. Pinephone is pretty close to become a daily phone with 100% Linux (Ubuntu but different distributions is available and works).
1 16 Oct 2020 14:10 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: FreeDNS - A free DNS service that does not redirect you, and doesn't "misconfigure" certain domains such as archive.is
It's not "malicious config", it is intentional to protect client privacy. I don't think they forward client IP to anyone at all - it is just archive that is butthurt and spoils the answers. The only exception here seems to be Archive but I agree with the sentiment. Fuck them.
1 15 Oct 2020 02:12 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: FreeDNS - A free DNS service that does not redirect you, and doesn't "misconfigure" certain domains such as archive.is
Because they do not forward client IP to archive, archive cannot serve their site from geo location that matches the client so archive poisons the answer instead.
1 15 Oct 2020 01:48 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: FreeDNS - A free DNS service that does not redirect you, and doesn't "misconfigure" certain domains such as archive.is
DNS issues with archive.is are due to archive fucking with DNS requests. It's not a fault of Cloudflare/Google/etc because they are receiving poisoned answers from archive.
1 15 Oct 2020 01:29 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Lenovo announces ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise with AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
If I have to hire the services of a lawyer and an IT consultancy to adequately navigate the cookie pop-up, I just leave.
2 14 Oct 2020 21:34 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US - The Verge
cant be showing child porn for free now can we
15 14 Oct 2020 13:11 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US - The Verge
Good, that trash deserves to die
8 14 Oct 2020 12:58 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: SSH Honeypot in 4 Minutes
Neat solution using SSH banner, extra points for originality. I prefer more elaborate honey pots that harvest attackers' commands for analysis but they are more difficult to setup and manage. This is certainly a decent solution for most people.
2 14 Oct 2020 09:06 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: United States, Six Other Nations Ask Tech Companies To Build Backdoors To Encrypted Communications
It's hilarious that they keep trying this
3 14 Oct 2020 04:04 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: iPhone 12 does not come with power charger or earbuds in the box
How long before they start charging extra to include the power button?
3 13 Oct 2020 22:58 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: This Irish startup secures €2.35M to visualise virally infected cells in great detail | Silicon Canals
+TheIrishQuestion
1 12 Oct 2020 14:08 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook's nudity-spotting AI mistook a photo of some onions for 'sexually suggestive' content
I dont understand why anyone uses facebook at all, for anything.
1 12 Oct 2020 07:30 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook responsible for 94% of 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms
This is surprising to me. Your average person doesn't feel safe on Facebook in general these days and these geniuses used it for one of the most fucked up things you can do online? When I read the headline I assumed it was going to be a bunch of pics posted publicly from attention-starved moms who have to share every single aspect of their lives (like pics of their kids in tubs). Nope... the article makes it clear that "abuse" is a factor. I miss some of the people I only kept in contact with through Facebook but I don't miss Facebook at all. Perhaps they should stop paying interns to ban Trump supporters and start paying people to put an end to this shit.
3 12 Oct 2020 01:38 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook's nudity-spotting AI mistook a photo of some onions for 'sexually suggestive' content
To be fair, this DOES look like something Zuckerberg would masturbate to.
4 12 Oct 2020 01:22 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: A.I. Is Making it Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How.
Jew York Times. Didn't listen. Times -> semiT
1 11 Oct 2020 18:37 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: The growing momentum towards curbing Big Tech Landmark report provides a road map for future legislative action
its gone behind a paywall for me too. ugh. should have archived it. didn't realize this was in place
1 11 Oct 2020 16:10 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
Yeah this was honestly the last time I was excited for a phone too. I gotta agree with kek here... My phone is 5 gen behind now and I don't feel like I'm missing ANYTHING.
3 11 Oct 2020 14:59 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: The growing momentum towards curbing Big Tech Landmark report provides a road map for future legislative action
Weird , I read it without issue
1 11 Oct 2020 14:57 u/None in g/technology
The growing momentum towards curbing Big Tech Landmark report provides a road map for future legislative action 📦
10 4 comments 11 Oct 2020 14:06 u/None (..) in g/technology
Comment on: Proud Boys Website, Online Store Dropped by Web Host
More virtue signalng laziness. This is weaponized activism and the method is to misrepresent political opponents and then attack them based on misrepresentation. Antifa is a hate group. The Proud Boys (which accept members regardless od ethnicity, color, etc) are the answer.
2 11 Oct 2020 12:54 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
They did, because they solved a problem we no longer have (to squeeze a mechanical keyboard and a display into a small form factor). Mechanical keyboards are long gone and the advantage of a flip construction is not there anymore.
2 11 Oct 2020 12:33 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Strict NDAs reveal how Facebook controls messaging
Can we get a copy paste? I'm not sure why you would post a paywalled link no one can read.
2 11 Oct 2020 12:33 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Fauci Says Social Media Fuels the Spread of Disinformation, Has Impacted Pandemic 'More Negatively Than Positively'
This guy has been wrong on every important virus since HIV. How the fuck does he still have a career in national government? It’s all so sad and stupid. The damage this guy has done to the country is both immeasurable and unrepairable.
1 11 Oct 2020 12:14 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
Problems with durability and mechanical failures are inherent property of the "technology", not something that can be worked out. Moving parts are prone to breaking over time, certainly more so compared to non-moving parts anyway. Useless gimmick and market success are orthogonal metrics. Things can be both at once.
1 11 Oct 2020 11:58 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
User data collection, tracking, ad targeting etc. Also, how else would you raise a whole generation of incompetent programmers who rely on a 8GB framework just to print "hello world"?
7 11 Oct 2020 11:24 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
Foldable phones are a useless gimmick. Remember, we already had those about 1.5 decades ago. Re-introducing mechanical elements with all their problems and disadvantages is no way forward, it's leaping backwards.
5 11 Oct 2020 11:22 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
At that point, why not cut the charge at 80 and restart at 40 for even more battery longevity?
3 11 Oct 2020 08:45 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
Still irrelevant for most of the users, even if grandma gets the 120hz phone screen do you think she'll even notice?
15 11 Oct 2020 08:44 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’, report shows
Well, duh. But I'm sure all the ad companies of major OEMs are trying to figure out how to get more people to buy smart phones every year.
4 11 Oct 2020 04:26 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: FBI sent a team to 'exploit' Portland protesters' phones
Good for the FBI
1 11 Oct 2020 03:59 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Proud Boys Website, Online Store Dropped by Web Host
I think the Proud Boys simp for a class of international billionaires who hate them
0 11 Oct 2020 03:15 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: NVIDIA limits GeForce RTX 3090/3080 Founders Edition US sales to BestBuy
Well on the bright side I might ACTUALLY be able to get one locally now lol...
1 11 Oct 2020 03:02 u/None in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook to temporarily halt all political ads in U.S. after polls close Nov. 3
Facebook should just back the fuck out of politics. When I was on Facebook I wanted to see what old friends were up to and videos of cats acting like assholes. I don't need some woke pricks telling me how I should think, feel or vote. I just wanted to stay in touch.
5 08 Oct 2020 03:02 u/None in g/technology