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Liam Mayfair

@ LiamMayfair @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • “Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic

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  • Yes they would, in theory, because those prosthetics she's wearing were NHS-funded. I can see the waitlist to get ones like those being pretty fucking long though but hey, what NHS waitlist is not pretty fuck long these days anyway

  • Pakistan claims it has ‘credible intelligence’ India will strike within 36 hours

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  • ITT people claiming this could be a WW3 starter. Even if India engaged Pakistan militarily, I fail to see how that would lead to anything larger than a localised conflict.

    Like, neither country is geopolitically significant enough for any major players to care at that level. Sure, India getting bogged down in war could affect supply chains around the world, but would any of the heavyweights like US, China, Russia or a semi-relevant NATO country think that would be worth their involvement? If Russia being on year 11 of their military invasion of a NATO-bordering country hasn't sparked a world war yet, I don't see how this would either.

  • Trump's Latest Tariff Hike Brings Additional China Rate To 145%

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  • I don't think he has a clue either.

  • Starmer under pressure from biggest backers to unpick Brexit after Trump tariffs

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  • Literally the only good thing that could come out of this shit show.

  • European stocks tank 6% at open as global tariff rout deepens

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  • I'm getting really fucking tired of living in interesting times. I've lived through 9/11, the 2008 crash, a first Trump term through COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and now a second Trump term through another financial crisis.

    Give me a fucking break.

  • How do I contact Google webhosting to turn in a site for being scammers and breaking their terms of service?

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  • A few weeks ago I helped one of my client's employees set up their brand new laptop, which came with Win11 installed, of course. They just need it for basic work stuff and there's no chance in hell anything other than Windows is a viable option here.

    We work remotely so I would help them get set up to a point where they could at least share their screen to me, or I could take over via remote access myself, to finish the installation process. I just needed to guide them through the steps "blind" for a short while. Easy peasy, right?

    So we go through the Windows 11 first time setup together. All seems to go ok until Windows asks them to log into their MS account or create one. No problem, we should be able to do that, right? Only that we can't. We're connected to the WiFi, etc., yet they get some generic ass error message like "Sorry, something went wrong" and that's that.

    Ok, so we can't log in with an online account. Let's try offline as a fallback! We set the username, password... "Sorry, something went wrong" again. We try to guess maybe it's the password, it doesn't match! Or it's not strong enough! So we try all these different things for ages. Again, we're getting no feedback whatsoever from Windows. Just "Something went wrong fuck you lol".

    I don't use Windows myself, I've been a Linux user for years now, I don't have any freaking clue how to remotely diagnose a vague issue that literally prevents them from getting the laptop to a functional state. So I Google the problem and the recommended answer is to run this magic "bypassnro" command. It will cut all the mandatory online account bullshit, move straight to a reliable offline account setup screen, and allow us to, you know, actually do work? And it worked!

    If I hadn't had that command at my disposal, that I was forced to use by Microsoft's broken ass setup UX, I would've probably spent twice or three times longer coaching my non-tech-savvy client through booting into fail safe mode and doing all kinds of arcane sysadmin shit that I don't even have to ever think about in Linux. All this just to get them into the desktop, on a brand new laptop.

    And Microsoft have now decided to take it away. Nice one.

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  • Happens to the best.

  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • Ah, good suggestion that! $6/mo sounds way more affordable than self-hosting from scratch for sure. I fully agree the really difficult (and valuable) part is the people you bring in and keep, not the tech.

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  • That's a fair point about the portability of their protocol. And yeah, you're right that they don't encrypt everything. I'd meant to say "they encrypt everything you can encrypt without making the email undeliverable" but my fingers decided to type something else.

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  • I've been using Tuta Mail for a few years now. No complaints. Most of the features you would expect. Lack of IMAP support is kinda disappointing but survivable. Their email security is very strong though — they encrypt every part of your email, including subject (some providers only encrypt the body). They're also rolling out post-quantum encryption of email data at rest, which tickles my crypto nerd side.

    They've still a loong way to go to match Proton's product suite though, as they only offer Email, Contacts and Calendar for now. They're working on Drive storage next, which is the main reason I currently use Proton.

  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • Of course. I have nothing against Fediverse server admins setting up a Patreon —ideally Liberapay— or something similar to receive donations to cover running costs. I have and continue to contribute financially to indie devs or server admins when I can.

    Not everyone will do that of course. But there again, running stuff at a small scale shouldn't be crazy expensive either. The operational costs of keeping a microblog or indie site running are little to none. I host my blog and all of my side projects for free in a cloud provider.

    Running a Fediverse server is more expensive. Last time I looked into what it would roughly cost to stand up a barebones stack to host a Mastodon server in a public cloud, it was like a hundred bucks a month. Not cheap but it may be big enough to house a couple thousand users. If at least 0.5% of your userbase donated some money to cover running costs, you might be ok.

    Alternatively, if you have a server lying around at home, loads of people self-host at home, which is a tad cheaper.

    I'm not saying a fully decentralised indie internet wouldn't have its shortcomings, of course. I'm just saying I'd happily take that over the current state of the web.

  • Tin can pull tabs: Do you shred your fingers to open them or do you use a spoon like a sensible person?

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  • Depends on the tab. Some are not soldered onto the can so I can work with that. For the ones that do, spoons it is.

  • IBM’s $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK

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  • IBM’s $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK

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  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • Bring them back! I for one would rather use a forum over a fucking Discord server any day of the week. At least forums are open, searchable and discoverable. Good luck finding the answer to a question you have that some poor sod like you may have also asked in a Discord server months or years ago.

  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • I'd say genuine. Genuine experiences. Sharing shit for sharing's sake. Not for better SEO. Not for profit. Just unadulterated human expression.

    That's how I envision using the internet for entertainment in the near future. I'll still use the shitty corporate sites when I must, for transactional browsing. I'm not going to pretend I can push Amazon, Microsoft, Google, online banking, etc. out of my life just like that.

    But I will actively seek authentic spaces. They will be a tad smaller than your average social network, Reddit, and whatnot. But I'm certain they're out there and more people will join me in this search and populate these small spaces as time goes on.

    Lemmy, Mastodon, the IndieWeb movement. The first steps. I hope to find more!

  • Which animal would you domesticate if you could pick one?

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  • Oh I listen to them every night, believe me. I don't mind it anymore. It is true though I've never been close enough to smell one.

  • Which animal would you domesticate if you could pick one?

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  • Foxes. They're like a cross between cats and dogs, with their cute fluffy tails.