Honestly, these comments say more about you than they do about me.
I'm Australian. I don't have any connection to Germany, I've never even been to Europe. Yet you're making assumptions about me because I joined a German server? Pot kettle black mate.
It's quite simply not possible for me to care any less about whether or not you think I'm bigoted.
Just because I'm bigoted does not mean that China does not have an established culture of manufacturing cheap trash that poor people want to buy.
Sure, I'm bigoted because every cheap thing I've ever purchased was of a lower quality than every expensive thing. Do you really believe that everyone who buys a car manufactured in Japan for twice the price of a car manufactured in China is a victim of marketing, and you're the only one who really understands the reality? That's arrogance.
Ooh boy. Lets look at resale values of Chinese vehicles vs... pretty much anywhere.
On build quality alone, I just wouldn't buy anything manufactured in the US or China, full stop.
I hate Tesla as much as the next guy but this sounds very odd.
It's hard to believe that it's possible to sell a car in 2024 that doesn't apply the brakes when you press your foot on the brakes.
I'll never call it X.
It's twitter. Perhaps xitter if you must. On mastodon it's universally referred to as "the other place" which is acceptable.
I think this is kind of reductive.
I mean it's a nice narrative and sounds like what we want to hear but is it really true? Trump has had his metaphoric pants pulled down a bunch of times but he has more influence than ever.
I don't think there's any simple 3 sentence explanation. Trump is a symptom of a complex array of interconnected problems.
Nonsense. Your metaphor is not analogous.
Sophisticated tech firms do extensive analysis with reference groups, A/B testing, et cetera.
Guaranteed, they've found that they get better engagement with their product through these AI results.
This might shock you but a group of 14 year olds complaining on Lemmy is not an indicative sample of opinions.
My point is, it seems like moat people disagree with you given that search providers put this stuff in their results.
Obviously I pay for a search engine. The advertising funded web is shit.
That's true, but I think people still appreciate it... like it's accurate enough, enough of the time, for people to find it helpful.
Ugh. Do you really want that though? They do have a store don't they? Just no one wants to use it.
Debian has had a browseable catalog since forever but it's still waaay better to just go to a third party's website and see how they say to install whatever thing.
I feel like most commenters here would think "no one wants the stupid ai response", but obviously some people like it or they wouldn't do it. I think if your searches are more general kind of "can I catch chicken pox from chickens" type questions it might be helpful ?
Dude. When you're looking at whatever search just right click in the url bar and there will be an option to add that search engine. Then in settings you can make it your default if you wish.
The reason I don't use SearXNG is because the public instances always seem to be slow and or broken.
This is a really valid point, especially because it's not only faster but dramatically cheaper.
The thing is, summaries which are pretty terrible might be costly. If decision makers are relying on these summaries and they're inaccurate, then the consequences might be immeasurable.
Suppose you're considering 2 cars, one is very cheap but on one random day per month it just won't start, the other is 5x the price but will work every day. If you really need the car to get to work, then the one that randomly doesn't start might be worse than no car at all.
Fan & thermostat for cabinet cooling
I want to put some devices like NVR, modem, router, et cetera in a closet.
I'm having an electrician install a 240v AC power socket in the closet.
I'd like to cut a hole in the top of the closet through to the ceiling cavity for an exhaust fan.
I'm hoping to decommission my home server so I'd like to avoid having to run exhaust fans from a computer / PC power supply.
With all that in mind, I'm looking for one or more devices that will allow me to run two PWM case fans with thermostat from 240v.
unverified email
I was invited to sign up this morning.
I attempted to do so. When I try to sign in I see an "unverified email" toast error. I haven't received an email asking me to verify.
IP Block Lists & Docker Networking
Just wondered if any one is using block lists for their docker containers.
IPSum publishes a great list of IPs worth blocking.
The thing is, I know docker networking interacts with iptables in a complex way such that the iptables INPUT chain is ignored.
The docker docs say you can put custom rules in DOCKER-USER chain, but my iptables knowledge isn't great and I think I'm more likely to mess something up than to have any success.
The thing is, I'm sure that this is something loads of other people have encountered, and I'm sure there must be an easier way.
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety.
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
Whats on in Perth - Easter Edition
In Perth for Easter weekend.
What are some cool things to do / places to visit?
Install MicroG on rooted Galaxy S20+
If anyone could point me to some information or guide about this I'd really appreciate that.
I think the official com.android.gsm and friends need to be uninstalled first. I've tried that with adb, console reports "success", Google Play Services is no longer listed in Settings > Apps.
But... if I try to install MicroG via Fdroid or Droid-ify it goes through the install process, there's no error, but MicroG Core is not shown as "installed". If I try to install the apk with adb it says the currently installed version is newer than the one I'm trying to install?
microg.org seems to just assume you know how to install.
I read something about signature spoofing but I thought that was only for older devices.
Any insights / suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Edit: I think this is the answer: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-degoogle-any-device-and-install-microg.4058743/
rsync.net's warrant canary
rsync.net Warrant Canary
Existing and proposed laws, especially as relate to the US Patriot Act, etc., provide for secret warrants, searches and seizures of data, such as library records.
Some such laws provide for criminal penalties for revealing the warrant, search or seizure, disallowing the disclosure of events that would materially affect the users of a service such as rsync.net.
rsync.net and its principals and employees will in fact comply with such warrants and their provisions for secrecy.
rsync.net will also make available, weekly, a "warrant canary" in the form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following:
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a declaration that, up to that point, no warrants have been served, nor have any searches or seizures taken place
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a cut and paste headline from a major news source, establishing date
Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page.
The current message is here:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256
2024-01-08
No warrants have ever been served to rsync.net, or rsync.net principals or employees. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on rsync.net assets, including:
ALL San Diego locations ALL Denver locations ALL Zurich locations ALL Hong Kong locations ALL Fremont locations
( from http://www.reuters.com )
Biden administration to unveil contractor rule set to upend gig economy
Moon lander problem threatens mission after Vulcan rocket makes successful debut
Beckenbauer revolutionised game and became icon of German sporting success)
Spurs 115, Cavaliers 117 Hawks 110, Magic 117
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iEYEAREIAAYFAmWceF8ACgkQBzwoLX1vgGyjAgCffCEAilX5M6WY4SnxLJOF5J5f rSYAn14WCiZKbj+fKaqEpj4ThDWEOysB =256H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
https://www.rsync.net/resources/pubkey.txt
Notes:
This scheme is not infallible. Although signing the declaration makes it impossible for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force to coerce rsync.net to produce false declarations. The news clip in the signed message serves to demonstrate that that update could not have been created prior to that date. It shows that a series of these updates were not created in advance and posted on this page.
Organise Google Takeout Files
I downloaded all my photos with google takeout.
The folder structure is an absolute mess.
It would be nice to organise them into YYYY/MM folders but I haven't been able to think of an easy way to do that.
I note that all images seem to have sidecar files ? Like matching json files. I've never encountered these before and not really aware of any command line tools that support them. It's just another challenge as regards writing a script to re-organise files.
Any insights much appreciated.
Gerbera v2.0.0
We are happy to announce that Gerbera Media Server 2.0.0 is now available. This release is a new major release and contains two noteworthy changes. The JavaScript integration has be overhauled to s...
Gerbera is a UPnP media server. I've used it (and it's predecessor mediatomb) for many years. Rock solid. Works well with VLC.