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AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

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  • FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler

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  • For whatever reason I just could not for the life of me get FreeCAD to work at all.

    No matter what I wanted to do, it felt like it would always behave in a way I didn't expect, do nothing at all, not work like it did in tutorials, or flat out make a change that then became impossible to undo, or take me to a menu that I somehow just couldn't get out of.

    I don't know if it's just me, but I had to literally give up on FreeCAD after spending hours trying and failing to make even the simplest shapes, like a cube with an indent in the middle.

    It's good FreeCAD exists, but it needs a LOT of polish, especially for people who don't already have experience with tools like Fusion, and only have more rudimentary CAD experience with tools like the ones built into slicers, Tinkercad, or Onshape.

  • Leaving spotify, offline music options?

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  • Yeah it’s like any other music streaming app

    I’m thoroughly confused now

    What I mean is that if I don't have a connection to my home network where all my music is stored, but I want to access it locally on my phone, I am not going to open the Jellyfin app and individually download every single song in my library one-by-one just so I can listen to them on my phone.

    As far as I'm aware, Jellyfin doesn't have an option to simply "sync entire music library" to your phone offline, only download songs one-by-one when you want to download one in particular.

    Are you using the Jellyfin app (or something hooked up to your server) on your phone or nah?

    Jellyfin on my PC, an entirely separate Android app (Retro Music) on my phone because I prefer the UI.

    I use Syncthing to give both my home PC running Jellyfin and my phone with Retro Music the same music library without needing an internet connection between either to work.

    Sorry for the confusion, I think now I'm confused myself 💀

  • Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

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  • Unfortunately Anubis wouldn't stop the bots, it would just slow them down.

    Anubis just adds proof of work, AKA computation, to your requests. It's why your browser takes a second before it can access the site. It's nothing for things on your scale, but it's a fuck ton of time and money for large scraping operations accessing millions of links every day.

    For a bot submitting PRs though, it's not gonna be a meaningful hindrance unless the person is specifically running a bot designed to make thousands of PRs every day, which a lot of these aren't.

    Really unfortunate.

  • Keep Android Open

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  • Most of them aren't necessary to most people, but the main concern is features that should reasonably be part of the core Android experience being removed, or features that have no reason to be reliant on Google at all.

    For example, GrapheneOS can't support the detection of your phone being quickly ripped away from you to auto-lock the device, even though that should only require onboard sensors and processing, and it can't support the additional custom clocks for lock screen customization, because Google decided those would be built into the Google app then extended to Android after, rather than being built into AOSP.

    You can reasonably see a future where other functionality gets put into these proprietary blobs too. Maybe the launcher becomes proprietary and GrapheneOS has to use or develop a separate FOSS one that might not support all the same features. Maybe charging optimization gets locked behind proprietary code because Google claims it uses "special algorithms" to adjust how your phone charges. Maybe Private Space gets turned proprietary because Google claims it needs special security features.

    That's why it's particularly concerning, because in the future, Google could just decide that any number of features aren't part of AOSP anymore, and now GrapheneOS either has to give them up entirely, or make/find an alternative.

  • Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

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  • UPDATE: The article has now linked to the newly published study. It claims a maximum concentration of bisphenols of 351mg/kg, above the 10mg/kg limit proposed by ECHA, but they don't give any concrete numbers on how likely any of those bisphenols are to actually leech from the product into your body. The average sum of all bisphenols/sample was just 15. They note the parts not touching the skin often had more bisphenols than the parts actually touching the skin, with about 50% more of those areas than the non-skin-contacting ones being put in their "green" category, meaning it's fairly in compliance with most protective standards.

    Of the parts touching the skin, 68% were green, 21% yellow, and 11% red.

    And onto flame retardants, 100% of products with HFRs were green, and 84% with OPFRs were green.

    For pthalates, 87% were green, and less than 1% were red.

    Essentially, the TLDR is that most of the things they tested either met most standards, were very close to meeting them, or technically didn't meet standards but mostly just in areas that didn't even come in contact with the skin at all. AKA, it's mostly overblown.

    Original Post:No source linked by the article, no visible press releases that don't just pretend to be a real press release while citing the articles, no official blog posts, and the only official sounding mention of this that comes from a more direct source is a coalition on linkedin saying a person at a sub-group of the broader project was gonna talk with them about it.

    No stats, no numbers, just "they found it" in the headphones.

    You could find a chemical well under the safe limit in drinking water, and say "we found x in your water" and make a big scare of it when it's not a big deal.

    While I have no doubt BPA and its counterparts could be used in manufacturing of headphones, without any actual data, this is literally no better than when your uncle at Thanksgiving starts yapping about how the government found some data one time and that means you should never drink tap water again.

  • Keep Android Open

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  • GrapheneOS is currently unaffected, at least specifically regarding your freedom to install apps. They've stated this won't affect GrapheneOS.

    The main problem as pointed out by floofloof is that a lot of Android development is no longer part of AOSP, but separate proprietary implementations. For example, if you install stock Android, Google has a feature to recognize music playing around you and provide a list to you later. GrapheneOS lacks this feature, because it relies on proprietary code. Same goes for the features to find your device if it's lost, AI stuff, etc.

  • apple works on creep glasses

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  • The guy's just referencing them as a source, probably regarding just talk about what devices Apple is working on in general, nothing incredibly opinionated or biased. (probably this article)

    Zach Whittaker himself writes for TechCrunch.

  • Leaving spotify, offline music options?

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  • The Jellyfin app already supports local downloads.

    Isn't that just on a file-by-file basis though? I just assume most people won't have an easy way to tunnel into their home network if they're out to do streaming, and won't go through the effort of downloading songs one by one, so Syncthing is just a good middle ground to copy all your music between devices and be done with it imo.

  • Meta largely fails to protect kids from AI chatbots, per its own tests

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  • I hate Meta too, but:

    Unreleased Meta product

    the company says it was never launched, as a result of that testing.

    This isn't as bad as people are making it out to be.

    Sure, it's a problem Meta is releasing technology we know can be damaging and go off the rails, and yes, their chatbots have literally flirted with children before, but this specific instance isn't that bad given they just... didn't launch it after finding out it wasn't working as it should.

  • If you made $50,000 a year and donated 0.06%, you'd donate $30... that's it.

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  • Remember, the average person donates around 4% of their income every year.

    Nearly all of these billionaires, with more money than you'd ever have in a thousand lifetimes, haven't donated as much in their entire life as you will in just one year, as a percentage of their net worth.

  • Pretty solid offer.

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  • The funniest part is that afterwards, he told the ICE supporting guy to go fuck himself and the guy responded telling him it's against the school's code of conduct as if he'd care at ALL 😭

  • Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto

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  • Gotta keep those engagement numbers up.

  • Leaving spotify, offline music options?

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  • Jellyfin is just a good media player. Syncthing is a file syncing tool.

    What do you mean by "one or the other"?

  • Leaving spotify, offline music options?

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  • Jellyfin, then use Syncthing to sync it to any other device you want, whether that's your phone, or another PC/laptop.

    I have that exact system myself, and it works quite well. However, the main downside is that unless you're using a client that can support it somehow, your playlists won't sync, only the music files themselves, so if you make a playlist on your phone's music player, it wouldn't sync to your PC's Jellyfin instance, and vice versa.

  • Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

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  • For anyone who has a Ring camera, wants to get rid of it, but still wants a doorbell camera for security/convenience reasons, I'll point out that Ecobee has a fairly good rating on Mozilla's Privacy Not Included page where they review products for their privacy.

    E2EE transmission of video from the camera to your phone when streaming, on-device processing of video feeds, auto-deletes any cloud footage when people uninstall the app (so non-technical users who think uninstalling an app deletes their data will actually get that benefit), only saves clips when actual motion is detected, first line of their privacy policy is "Your personal information and data belong to you", and their subscription is 100% optional.

    Only real privacy concern is that if you choose to integrate yours with Alexa, it might get some data from that, but that's optional. The main downside is just that they only have a wired option for outdoor setups, but they do have an indoor one that doesn't require any kind of hookup directly into wires in your wall.

    As always though, if you have the technical ability to set something up yourself that runs only on your local network, do it.

  • How do I fix "This content isn't available. Try again later." On YouTube with their new ad-block blocking?

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    1. Disable Enhanced Tracking Protection in the little padlock (on the Firefox URL bar, not somewhere in uBlock Origin)
    2. If you've got a VPN, try disabling it. YouTube likes to be very heavy-handed with their blocking if I have my VPN on vs. not
    3. Clear your cache. For some reason this can help sometimes, idk why. Can be beneficial to sign out and in again, too. (try Firefox settings > Privacy & Security > Manage browsing data > search "youtube" and delete too.)
    4. Reload your uBlock filter lists in settings (un-select, then re-select)
    5. If you're not signed in, this'll make things a million times worse. YouTube, especially nowadays, loves to block clients without a login because they're often used by video downloaders, AI scrapers, etc.

    Other than that, there's not much else. Sometimes switching to a chromium-based browser helps too, but I doubt you want to have to entirely switch browsers any time you want to watch a YouTube video.

  • 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media

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  • I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group.

    Instagram intentionally targeted ads at teenagers specifically when they were identified as feeling low self worth or depressed. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/meta-whistleblower-sarah-wynn-williams-says-company-targeted-ads-at-teens-based-on-their-emotional-state/

    Instagram used this data to more effectively keep teens hooked on the app. For example, they'd show a girl who just deleted a selfie out of embarrassment more photos of attractive women, which she would then likely scroll through, attempting to internally figure out how she could become attractive like them. Coincidentally, the perfect time for Instagram to then serve an ad for a new skin cream, weight loss program, etc.

  • Sweethearts' New Valentine Candy Hearts Are Basically A Couple's To-Do List

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  • I bought them and saw the "Buy N Bulk" one and thought it was them advertising that they like sold them in big bulk bags now or something 😭

  • Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection

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  • Same.

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