Mechanize

@Mechanize@feddit.it

I did nothing and I’m all out of ideas!

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Mechanize,

Reading the title I thought it was a Kitten + Shadowsun meme.

I miss TTS :(

Mechanize,

I assume the thing is a representation of some software, so bloated it can barely be considered functional

When you want to get more understanding about the comic you can try and check the site, there are descriptions for each image, in this case:

DescriptionMage examines a large bloated creature that can barely move. Fossangel appears behind her. Fossangel: “You know why they let it get this far?” Mage: “Why?” Fossangel: “No, I’m asking.” https://analognowhere.com/_/crmmlo

Mechanize,

This is one of the cutest, more adorable, murder-bird I’ve seen in a while~

Understanding instead of road rage

So on my ride home today I’m in the left lane in moderate traffic on a 40mph 4-lane road with a center turn lane. As usual I’m trying to stay just left of the SUV in front of me so I can see the traffic ahead and give myself an escape route in case someone comes flying up from behind. The SUV however, I’m assuming thought...

Mechanize,

Did she tell you why she was doing it or did she only give you some platitudes and thanks?

Because a lot of people are not used to be talked to, and even if they are all rage inside the car, they get scared quite fast when someone fully geared on a motorbike knocks on their window - and tbh I think it is pretty understandable.

Still, good on you, I usually just let them go and change road - when feasible. There’s no need to waste a good riding day with some knucklehead.

Mechanize,

Not as scary as a look as the one from the angry burrowing owl you met before… but up there! Haha

Mechanize,

Probably when you installed the second linux you overwrote the boot loader instead of adding a new UEFI entry point.

But I’ve never had a Mac, so take this with a pinch of salt, and honestly considering things can change based on what, in which order, and how you installed things… it could be something else.

Mechanize,

Non so se è una nuova vittima del Privacy Shield, ma in generale se usi dns cloudflare or altri che non condividono alcune informazioni, allora non funziona.

The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.

Fonte

Quando passi da una VPN di solito usi i loro DNS.

Mechanize,

Interessante.
Son dovuto andare a cercare se fosse davvero una pagina di blocco vera della polizia postale, ed a quanto pare è così. Ma non sembra esista una lista dei domini bloccati per verificarne l’attendibilità - anche se IMHO è onestamente capibile ed accettabile il fatto che non vengano elencati in giro, data la natura sensibile.

Però comunque niente privacy shield, ma direttamente azione di PS.

Quindi se usi DNS di cloudflare oppure di qualche ISP italiano verrai nel primo caso bloccato dal sito e nel secondo reindirizzato a questo avviso.

Mechanize, (edited )

Considering you are not using the Flatpak anymore it is, indeed, strange. The only reasons I can think of are: your network manager is using the wrong network interface to route your traffic ( if you go on an ip checking site like for example ipinfo do you see yours or the VPN’s IP?) or that you have WebRTC enabled and the broadcaster is getting your real ip through that.

For the first case it can get pretty complicated, but it is probably an error during the installation of the VPN app or you set up multiple network managers and it gets confused on which one to configure. You should also enable the Advanced Kill Switch in the configuration.

For the second case you could try adding something like the Disable WebRTC add-on for firefox and check if it works. Remember to enable it for Private Windows too.

The last thing I can think of is that you allowed the broadcaster to get your real geolocation (in firefox it should be a small icon on the left of the address bar), or you are leaking some kind of information somewhere: there are a bunch of site that check for ip leak, but I don’t know if that goes too deep for you.
If you want to check anyway the first two results from DDG are browserleaks and ipleak. Mullvad offered one too but it is currently down.

EDIT: If you enable the Advanced Kill Switch, and the app is working correctly, internet will not work while you are not connected to a VPN server or until you disable the switch again, so pay attention to that.

Mechanize,

On the contrary, in my opinion if they are clearly labelled as a joke, they are a great way for people who don’t understand them to ask why and, in the process, being a little more informed on what not to do and what it’s dangerous.

Especially because there’s really no risk of emulation in this case.

Mechanize,

Currently they have direct shipping for some EU’s members (Germany, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium) Source

And I think the shipment costs are currently already in the price for the laptop Source

But I’ve not bought one so I don’t have direct experience

Mechanize,

Linus is an investor in the framework company: Source on the framework forums that links to the video on youtube

spoilerWhy not directly link to the video? Because I don’t want to! :P

Mechanize,

Unfortunately, in general, people tend to just read, vote, and then forget about it without checking back: that’s why I always try to add some source or ways to verify what I post.

And - in this specific case - probably some people just like LTT, I assume.

Mechanize,

That’s a signature look of superiority if I ever saw one! Love it!

Mechanize,

Remember to crush the spirit stone too~

Mechanize,

Probably, but I want to point out that the - arguably - most important, intelligent and charismatic character in all of Star Trek lore is an Irish too.

SpoilerO’Brien is the only major Star Trek character described as both ethnically Irish and born in Ireland; Colm Meaney, the actor who portrays him, is Irish.

Mechanize, (edited )

Per chi non lo sapesse, l’app è anche presente su F-Droid, dove è sempre gratuita: link

Il codice sorgente dovrebbe esser su codeberg (link) per chi volesse compilarla da solo o avere maggiori informazioni.

Credo non vi siano differenze fra le due versioni, eccetto il fatto che per partecipare alle Beta bisogna avere la versione Google Play. Ma potrei sbagliare.

EDIT: Al momento di questo post la versione F-Droid sembra esser indietro qualche patch (2.13.0 invece di 2.13.3), che è abbastanza tipico per la piattaforma. Changelog

Mechanize,

Because, as pointed in the page, Servo is being developed as a(n embeddable) Rendering Engine, not as a full blown end user Browser.
Its alternatives are not Chrome, Safari or Firefox, but Webkit, Blink and Gecko

There’s an example GUI called Servoshell, but it is more of a testing ground and example on how to embed the engine in an app than a serious alternative to anything currently in the market.

Already this kind of work is difficult and daunting. Adding to it a full GUI would make it completely impossible for the current size and financial backing Servo has.

Big words aside it just means that Servo wants to be only one of the parts that compose a real browser: the one that takes HTML, Javascript, WASM and translates them into the things you see on your monitor. All the user facing functionality are left to the devs of the app that embed it.

Mechanize,

As a small addendum this - honestly amazing - post was the spark for the whole couple thing: Happy Thanksgiving! 23 Nov 2017

And to be precise, it was because of this image:

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/cf457787-befd-4842-9f14-498e2e4ec7bd.webp

Mechanize,

“One of the core requirements here, and this is really important, is for users for this to be opt-in,” says Brouwer. “I can choose whether or not I want to participate in being open to exchanging messages with third parties. This is important, because it could be a big source of spam and scams.”

Let me translate this for you: “We will make users hop on the most cumbersome, frustrating and inefficient way we can think of to enable interoperability. And making it defaulted to off will mean people using other apps will need to find other channels to ask for it to be enabled on our users’ end, making it worthless.

And don’t forget: we will put a bunch of scary warnings, and only allow to go all in, with no middle ground or granularity!”

Great stuff, thank you. I can’t wait.

“We don’t believe interop chats and WhatsApp chats can evolve at the same pace,” he says, claiming it is “harder to evolve an open network” compared to a closed one.

Ah, so they are going for the Apple’s approach with iMessage and Android sms. Cool, cool.

I hope my corporate-to-common translator is broken, because this does just sound bad.

Mechanize,

as an unwilling Whatsapp user the ability to migrate without having to convince all my social circles to do anything but check a checkbox sounds like a huge step forward.

That’s the point. I feel it will not be a “simple checkbox”, and they will make it the most obnoxious process they can using the Best Dark Patterns the industry has to offer.

Already the general public is not interested in the alternatives or the concept of interoperability - wanting something that Just Works™ - putting in front even the smallest step (and some scary text!) will make the percentage of willing people become even lower.
And that’s not all. As it is portraited in the article by the Threema’s spokeperson it is pretty clear that Meta will just try to make the maintenance of the communication layer as cumbersome as they can - both technically and bureaucratically.
They are explicitly the ones keeping the reins of the standard, the features, the security model, the exchanged data and who, how and when will be approved.

So from one side if they make it hard and scary enough to tank the use rate, they will have the excuse of not being there enough people to give priority to fix it or add features, and from the other side if maintaining the interoperability will be difficult and time consuming enough, the people and businesses from the alternatives or wrappers will not have the incentive to do or keep doing it for the long haul. As we can already see in the article.

Is it better than nothing? Sure, probably. Will it be a slow cooking, easy to break, easy to get excluded from, just bare minimum to comply to the letter but not the spirit of the law? I feel that’s a pretty good bet to make.

Let’s be clear: I will be extremely happy if all the red flags and warning bells that I saw in the article will just end up being figments of my imagination. But yes, I’m very pessimistic - maybe even too much - when I see these kind of corporate speech and keywords.

Mechanize,

I feel there’s some kind of miscommunication going on here.

Probably I’m not understanding what you are putting forward, but to be clear: They are not doing this because they want to. They are doing it because they are forced to do it by the DMA.
It’s true that allegedly they were working on some kind of interoperability layer already. For years now. But no evidence of it being more than lip service to avoid being regulated has ever surfaced - as far as I know.

Which would have been in line with your “Do Nothing”.

Mechanize,

Let’s go with a great classic:

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/052d4936-aeb7-4e41-b749-6957af9e256c.webp

PromptMade in ComfyUI Model: SDXL Yamer’s Anime
vae: sdxl_vae.safetensors Prompt:

  • Positive: Masterpiece, A sad anthropomorphic sloth working in a cubicle, tie and shirt, elegant trousers, employee, frowning- Negative: text, watermarkSeed: 217690652583363Empty Latent 1216 x 832, clip_scale 2.0 KSampler: 22 steps, 6.5 cfg; euler, normal Overall a pretty vanilla generation.
Mechanize,

Yeah, but don’t forget that they poked him with a sword! A special sword!

That must mean something!

French MPs want to amend EU's copyright rules to cover generative AI (www.euractiv.com)

"How to identify original works by artists? How to attribute works generated by AI intermediaries? How to remunerate authors whose works have been used? How to manage opt-outs for artists who refuse their content to be used by AI? These are the questions that require a review of the copyright directive in light of generative...

Mechanize,

I like the idea of 24 years plus the possibility of an extension with a fee, or proof of activity, for another 12 years if the owner is a person.

If, at any point, the rights are sold, passed, or the owner is not a person (but for example a corporation or association) it should last 12 years from that time with an extension of 6, so the ability to sell your idea or give it to your spawns for a soft landing is not destroyed, but it can not be abused.

To further avoid abuse if it has already been extended before being sold it should last only 6 years without possibility of extension. So at most it would be 42 years for active and valuable things.

EDIT: To clarify, if it gets sold multiple times, the “timer” shouldn’t be reset but keep ticking down from the date of the first transaction, or it would open the door to accounting shenanigans just to keep it alive and locked.

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