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smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux phones are more important now than ever.31·7 days agoHow exactly does Free, non-open-source software prevent that?
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Fediverse@lemmy.world•[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?English3·13 days agoPiefuckers
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play StoreEnglish22·17 days agoThis is about as useful as the assholes going “It’s not Pedophilia, it’s Hebephilia!”.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)English1·24 days agoRight? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.
In reality, they put a big “free beer” sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)English3·24 days agoYeah. I don’t have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me their content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.
Well… In my case it would be “calculate how much loss you’ve been making by growing your own veggies!”, lol.
(Container gardening and watering add up, but I am not complaining, I am not doing this to save/earn money)
I was SO confused until I checked the community.
Thought this was about literal, real-world vegatable gardens as a hobby.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demandedEnglish1·2 months agoAgain for Germany, it’s handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demandedEnglish7·2 months agoIn the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that’s become the standard for most countries.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto World News@lemmy.world•German politician steps down over swastika on ballotEnglish30·2 months agoIDK man. AfD are the ones raging against “political correctness” here. Dude decided to not be politically correct and label the Nazis Nazis.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharingEnglish14·2 months agoWhen we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.
Happens maybe four times a year.
(Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it’s a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto News@lemmy.world•Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt1·2 months agoFair. Though also, english isn’t my first language.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto News@lemmy.world•Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt31·2 months agoIt might, very very slightly go down. But the way you have to think about a media is this:
Put all 342 million Americans in a single line, sorted by net worth from west to east in increasing order. Find the person standing in the middle, i.e. person 171 million. That’s the median net worth.
Now remove the top 10 richest people, i.e.
behead the snakepolitely ask the 10 people standing easternmost to leave the line. Now to find the new median, go back to the original median person and move five to the left. That’s the new median.Most likely, you’d have a negligible amount of change. Maybe a couple of bucks.
ALso note that for this it does not matter just HOW rich the richest persons are.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto News@lemmy.world•Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt82·2 months ago192k
Median, not medium
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto World News@lemmy.world•Germany sees uptick in people living aloneEnglish71·2 months agoLol. Living alone does not make you lonely.
Honestly, I’m gappy for my fellow Germans that so many are able to live by themselves! It’s a good sign that fewer people need to share rent.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of RoboticsEnglish221·2 months agoIt’s a goddamn stochastic parrot, starting from zero on each invocation and spitting out something passing for coherence according to its training set.
“Not understanding what is happening” in regards to AI is NOT “we don’t jniw how it works mechanically” it’s “yeah there are so many parameters, it’s just not possible to make sense of / keep track of them all”.
There’s no awareness or thought.
smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealerEnglish42·2 months agoNow THAT is something I wouldn’t ever trust.
I hope forgejo’s federation efforts come along. Being able to host projects on my own instance, yet receive contributions without having to allow people to register on my instance, would give me the push to completely abandon Github.