Dave

Dave , 6 months ago

Yeah, private and anonymous are two different things. Google and facebook still know which websites you visit (even if you use neither, because the websites you visit use their tools). There are Bluetooth trackers in the restaurants and shops you visit. Your phone reports back everywhere you go. It knows who you hang out with (and where). Your credit card transaction history tells them what you spend money on, even more so if you use google pay or apple wallet. Your car reports in on your whereabouts. Your TV is listening in for keywords to send to advertisers, and your ISP tracks every site you visit.

They know exactly what you do, and how to make you buy what they want. But for the most part if they can’t link the data to your name then you are anonymous.

Lemmy is anonymous (no one knows your name unless you tell them), but it is not private (everyone can see your posts).

Dave , 6 months ago

Haha you skimmed and got things wrong (where the right answer is in my post history) but I don’t think you have countered my point - which was that this info is anonymous. You know (or could have with better attention to detail) details about me, but they are anonymous details, you couldn’t use them to identify me but it’s plenty to target ads.

Your counterpoints about VPNs and dumb TVs etc are not actually counterpoints to my post, because my point was that deleting social media makes you anonymous but not private.

And “they” is corporates. Governments for sure have much more detail about you and for the most part it’s not anonymous. Not in a nefarious way, just in an “if you think about it” way. In my country, between the tax department, the health department, the education department, the transport department (driver licences), the internal affairs department (birth, marriage, citizenship, passport information), police, immigration (border movements), and many other departments with records, the government can for sure get a large amount of info about an individual that is neither anonymous nor private. Plus, the government knows to a much better level what info is real.

Dave , 6 months ago

Haha if you think I’m worried about “the man” then you’ve misinterpreted my post.

Dave , 7 months ago

Long story short, after the recent election we have a centre right, further right, and a populist party in a coalition government. It took them 6 weeks to finalise their coalition agreements and now they have stated their intend to roll back pretty much anything that the previous (centre-left, single party) government brought in.

However, use of Māori in the public service is not new, it has been around for decades. But recently some departments have started using their Māori name as their main name and the English name as a secondary name (instead of the other way around), so all the old white guys are confused and angry.

Dave , 7 months ago

Welcome! Please complete your setup by placing this on your wall: xkcd.com/327

Dave , 7 months ago

Personally I run Pi-hole as a DNS server, and add the domain as a custom DNS entry. Then in the Tailscale settings, you can set the DNS server (there is a Tailscale help page for setting up Pi-hole with Tailscale).

Dave , 7 months ago

I’d guess it’s not that the solution doesn’t exist, but that Nextcloud is one of the most popular self-hosted service. since so many people are already using it, it’s all they know of.

Dave , 7 months ago

As someone who knows nothing about canals (or what they are even used for), anyone want to explain why they are used, why they are dumb, and what we should do instead?

Dave , 7 months ago

Are there not enough areas of the US that get rainfall suitable for growing the needed food?

Dave , 7 months ago

I was in traffic on the weekend that was doing about half the speed limit, and passed a car that had been pulled over. I thought they must have done something pretty impressive to manage that.

Dave , 7 months ago

It could just be a GUID. The community’s host instance assigns a GUID (which by definition is unique in all GUIDs) and then when sending the post or comment out to federate to other servers it includes the GUID for the other instances to use.

Dave , 7 months ago

every instance would have to check with every other instance to ensure that the ID’s are unique.

No they wouldn’t, that’s the point of a GUID - they are globally unique.

However, I’ve changed my mind. For the nice-URL factor, having @instance is better and provides extra info.

Dave , 7 months ago

GUIDs are globally unique because of maths and clocks not because of checking. When you generate a GUID you can be confident no GUID the same has ever been generated using that algorithm, ever, anywhere, and you don’t have to check.

However, someone pointed out you could run a malicious instance that copies GUIDs from other instances and federates them out to deliberately cause issues, so this idea is out.

Dave , 7 months ago

Wait, can I sign a PDF contract using Firefox?

Dave , 7 months ago

Ah, I see I can draw on it, then copy paste to the rest of the document. Awesome, I’ll use that next time!

Dave , 7 months ago

When Google advertises that if you raise your hand in real life then Google Meet will mark you as having your hand raised, this reality just got a little bit closer.

Dave , 7 months ago

Can I introduce you to Star Trek?

In The Orville (Seth MacFarlane Star Trek-like show) they actually have a brief discussion about how if that technology was plonked into a world like we have today, it would not be used to make life better for everyone. It would be capitalised on.

Imagine if you could create food at no cost. You think everyone is getting fed, or do you think one company is going to have massive profit margins selling food that it costs nothing to produce?

Dave , 7 months ago

I think it was a 30 second part of the last episode in season 3, I watched it (for the first time) recently so remember it.

I guess it depends who develops it. If Apple invent it then you can be sure they aren’t selling them to anyone else, it will just be secretly used to print iPhones and no one else will have access to one, so no piracy of iPhones.

If a third party company invents it then starts trying to sell them to other companies, then maybe that outcome will be better.

Dave , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Hmm you make a good point. I was assuming Apple would just claim a sort of trade secret, I hadn’t thought that governments may seize it.

The other thing is that technology doesn’t really go nothing->machine that replicates anything

Most likely it will start with a machine that can 3d print edible apples from shelf stable source material or something like that. Then someone improves it to be able to do any fruit from the same source material. Then someone improves it so if you feed in a range of different source materials (say, a bunch of metals, glass, and plastic) you can print usable electronics or something. Then someone improves it so it can do the same thing but with one mix of materials instead of separate ones. And so one and so one until you can make almost anything.

At the print 3d apples stage, it will probably get sold to the army for supply rations. Then the maker will look for other places to sell it, then when technology advances people will get updated versions. There probably wouldn’t be a benefit to a company hiding it because at any point the difference from the publically available one is not that big.

If you look back at any major invention, lightbulb, radio, etc. You find that in fact these things predated their supposed invention, there was just some small change that made it commercially viable from the previous version.

Dave , 7 months ago

Unfortunately the Star Trek future had some pretty nasty stuff happen between now and hundreds of years in the future when most of it is set. Pretty sure we are only a few decades away from a global nuclear war in the Star Trek timeline.

Dave , 7 months ago

Would the person feel anything? Presumably the electricity would flow through the metal as path of least resistance?

Dave , 7 months ago

Daniel Tiger

Dave , 7 months ago

Dodging bullets or bending reality are typical signs.

Dave , 7 months ago

1. Microsoft partnership with OpenAI
2. Microsoft hires brain of OpenAI
3. OpenAI employees threaten to quit - and then do
4. OpenAI value tumbles
5. Microsoft buys open AI for the IP

Dave , 7 months ago

Actually, Firefox counters with uBlock Origin and Google’s slowdown misses.

Dave , 7 months ago

Lemmy posts also show they are edited.

Though I never wrote that I fixed a typo on reddit either. Only stating the edit if it was adding info or changing something.

Dave , 7 months ago

I fix spelling mistakes once someone replied because that’s when I come back and see my comment again and notice the spelling mistake.

Dave , 7 months ago

Have you looked at things like Photoprism that have an open source free base product and then a modified license covering the subscription features?

Dave , 7 months ago

Not me! Haven’t seen it yet.

But now you’ve set expectations low I’ll probably enjoy it more than I would have otherwise, so thanks!

Dave , 7 months ago

Aw man, how am I supposed to look forward to episode 10 now that I have higher expectations instead of getting a pleasant surprise?

Dave , 7 months ago

Aw, it’s kind of you to say that.

Dave , 7 months ago

Isn’t this only on the as yet unreleased version 0.19?

Asking as someone with a 165GB picts cache…

Dave , 7 months ago

Christmas things stay in December but I’ll buy hot cross buns any time of the year, if I can find them.

Dave , 7 months ago

Yeah but my mother in law makes some beautifully potent aged eggnog and so storebought just isn’t on my shopping list even at christmas.

Dave , 7 months ago

This looks delicious! Like an ad, except using a real burger.

Dave , 7 months ago

OP, please do this. If you are dealing with other people’s photos professionally, a home server is in no way adequate storage for that except as part of a proper backup policy (3, 2, 1 or something else with redundancy).

Dave , 7 months ago

You’re already using cloudflare, so check out cloudflare tunnels. You install their software on your server which makes an outbound connection, bypassing the need for open ports or a public IP. Note this only does http traffic.

Another option is tail scale, which won’t make your site public but will let you access it remotely on devices you have their software/app on.

Dave , 7 months ago

This page says (at the very bottom):

Tailscale can route its packets peer-to-peer over IPv4 or IPv6, with and without NAT, multi-layer NAT, or CGNAT in the path.

Dave , 7 months ago

Is firefox on iOS a webkit wrapper? www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/…/ios/

Dave , 7 months ago

F-Droid for iOS?

Dave , 7 months ago

Huh, interesting! (also 👎)

Dave , 7 months ago

Is the answer no?! A bear shits just outside the woods? This changes everything!

Dave , 7 months ago

How do I get these German memes?

Dave , 7 months ago

Hmm not on my instance. I’ll have to join lemmy.world to get the sweet memes apparently.

Dave , 7 months ago

Perfect! Thanks 😄

Dave , 7 months ago

Yeah thanks, after posting that I noticed someone else had linked the community.

BTW you link communities starting with a ! then starting to write the name, and lemmy should start autocompleting. It ends up like this: !ich_iel

Dave OP , 7 months ago

I agree, the physical part probably is more rewarding for the kids but misses out on statistics and scope creep and all the fun stuff for you.

Haha I’m glad someone gets me 😆

You deserve a reward for being a good parent, and teaching your children responsibility!

Really I’m just desperately trying to find the right bribe so they do what they are asked the first time (or at least by the third), since it’s the same every day…

Dave , 7 months ago

Sure! It’s on the decentralised chat platform Matrix, which has heaps of lemmy stuff. If you need further instructions, feel free to ask 🙂

matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world