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BloodyIron··on Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats
Because that's not their business model. How is that not obvious?
BloodyIron··on Asahi Linux on M3
Their Silicon was written to be OS agnostic, Apple's was not.
BloodyIron··on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
Didn't they literally just give you and example of those who do?
BloodyIron··on Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
Clients sue other business partners all the time, that doesn't mean they stop working together. There's lots of examples of this.
BloodyIron··on Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
I'm a fan of audiobookshelf. Don't let the name fool you, it does a lot! I use it for podcasts, audio books, & ebooks. It's great!
BloodyIron··on Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
Ceph muahaha
BloodyIron··on Juggling for Blind People
Putting aside that it seems to not work at all on my phone... how is a BLIND PERSON supposed to READ THE TEXT for how this works? This of course assumes blindness is binary (which I _personally_ know it is not).
BloodyIron··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Did someone forget to consult with the MPAA and the RIAA on this one? This is a joke of an outcome. $3k per book. How much was it per song for Napster?
BloodyIron··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Quotas?
BloodyIron··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
YAY!
BloodyIron··on Advertise in ChatGPT
As someone who is struggling with SEO for my business due to AI in the last 1-2 years, I'm quite displeased to see this. I'm sure this is going to ruin website SEO even more than it already has been.
BloodyIron··on Perfection is not over-engineering
Well I sell various IT systems as products. For example, turnkey TrueNAS systems that were built on refurbished hardware that I/my business personally validated for reliability, and various other metrics. We don't make the hardware, nor the software, but we combine them, validate it does what is expected, and from my perspective that's fair to consider it a "product". How does that line up for you?
BloodyIron··on Perfection is not over-engineering
So is a screwdriver a tool or a product?

I think you're getting caught up on nomenclature and limited sample sizes.

BloodyIron··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
How did you market it? I'm trying to get into my own production stuff and I don't want to participate in the parasitic Amazon or overcrowded Etsy ecosystems. Looks like you're doing sales through your own website, which I want to do myself. But I haven't yet figured out how to bring legit traffic to my own website. I don't have money to throw at advertising and that's a minefield of fake traffic anyways. Any advice to share please?
BloodyIron··on Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
Anyone that cares about privacy and uses Instagram won't care about this. It's not a good thing for Meta to do this but the last two+ decades has demonstrated people prefer to be ignorant and accept whatever comes. Let them eat cake and rot. I tire of being called paranoid because I know how all this can be abused.
BloodyIron··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Samba has never been about file sharing over the internet. The project has been about cleanroom-reverse-engineering specific MS technology. To start it was NT4 authentication domains, then printing services, along the way SMBv1 (commonly incorrectly called CIFS btw), then SMBv2 v3.x, and then in 2012 Samba Active Directory.

In no way has it ever been about a functional alternative to something like Nextcloud. It's been about services primarily for LAN functionality, not stuff that should be going over the internet (mostly for security reasons).

So your expectations really don't align with what Samba has ever been about.

Source: I professionally support Samba for businesses.

BloodyIron··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
I'm sorry Google, I'm afraid I can't do that.
BloodyIron··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Google will incur serious lawsuits if they remove that accessibility aspect.
BloodyIron··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Any chance for something 100% self-hostable? hcaptcha and friendlycaptcha last I checked require interfacing with their services.
BloodyIron··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Nextcloud, Samba serving SMB isn't really equivalent.
BloodyIron··on Brain scans reveal how to enters a psychedelic-like trance without drugs
I... I think I might be able to do that too..
BloodyIron··on The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS
I'm a fan of Concrete CMS. No plans to switch away, and yes I am working with AI.
BloodyIron··on OpenAI raises $122B
Inflation is a hell of a drug.
BloodyIron··on Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
YouTube recommendations are very well tuned for me. You need to mark videos "not interested" and downvote stuff you don't actually like, as well as stopping videos when you've decided you're not interested. This and other aspects WILL improve your recommended feed. So if your recommended feed sucks, well that's on you there bud, you can influence it completely.
BloodyIron··on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ahh yes the downvotes for pointing out that something is achievable by putting in the effort to improve. I see Reddit is spilling over here.
BloodyIron··on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs
We'll see how the future unfolds. Until then, I have plenty of other things to do. And I bet you do too :P
BloodyIron··on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs
I was giving a similar, but tangibly different, example of enshitification. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 translation to be a relevant example.
BloodyIron··on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Yes you can. I do it every day. Get better at driving.
BloodyIron··on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
You open the trunk and put it in. And leave enough room behind your vehicle to do that, which is available in _every_ parking spot.
BloodyIron··on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Thanks for recording me without my consent just because I walked past your car parked. /s
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