Or white, let’s not forget that bit.
Rob T Firefly
Nerd of all trades from New York City.
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Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel AxeEnglish1·26 days agoMany truly obsessive Star Wars fans have been technically pirating for ages in order to have the fan-made 4K restorations of the original films Lucas and Disney refused to release in favor of the CGI-remixed versions.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel AxeEnglish26·27 days agoImagine actual oligarchs and nazis staying in power because actual oppressed people love stories the oligarchs and nazis control about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis too much to stop giving them money.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for goodEnglish31·1 month agoThe fact that the company forced him to stop getting ready to open source it strongly suggests they aren’t interested in it being open sourced.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forwardEnglish20·2 months agoTurning it on by default (opt-out instead of opt-in) is still a huge concern and needs spreading the word about.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The forgotten war on the WalkmanEnglish2·2 months agoI wanted to stop using my Walkman when I got a Discman, but my main use for portable music was during long walks and commutes and the Discman worked like crap if I was moving around at all. The skippy little expensive bastard got put back on the shelf, and I kept using cassettes until the portable MP3 player era finally hit.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same dayEnglish23·2 months agoFitting that it’s ending in (eternal) September.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains batteryEnglish11·2 months agoSo I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software
Speaking of WIkipedia, https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports/
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robotEnglish2·2 months agoI assume you hired that person for being clever.
Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented Bitcoin.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appealEnglish12·3 months agoOr the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail’s account recovery process.)
The full post by linked source Taylor Lorenz about this appears here on her Patreon (openly readable, not locked as of now).
She still writes on Substack, though, which ultimately works in support of This Sort of Thing.
Lemmy’s federated structure makes it easy to block the instances which don’t moderate the nazis or tankies or anything else away to your satisfaction, while Substack is a centralized platform which has chosen to not only allow, but actively encourage and reward its nazis.
So, any such problem on Lemmy is “better” because we can all (as individual users, and/or collectively as instances) deal with it as we like instead of bowing to Substack’s decision to be a nazi bar for all its users.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety BillEnglish25·3 months agoThe linked story has been updated. The headline now reads:
Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK households
Labour won’t ban the use of Virtual Private Networks
And the story begins:
Labour has ruled out a possible VPN ban after reports thousands of UK households were at risk following the Online Safety Act kicking in under the government. Labour Party Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has revealed that the Government is “not considering a VPN ban” - after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, KojimaEnglish5·3 months agoFrom what the article says the app watches you while you change expressions as prompted, so you can’t use AI-generated still images. That’s why using a game’s photo mode, where you can toggle the CG facial expression around in real time while pointing your camera at it, is such a clever solution.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s NostalgiaEnglish1·3 months agoYou could swap one screw from that case into your current one. It wouldn’t be obvious to anyone else, but you’d know it was there!
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, KojimaEnglish66·3 months agoThis is a clever way to bypass. If they get wise and somehow filter out Sam Porter Bridges’ face, you could always fire up any of the games of comparable visual realism which let you design your own character’s appearance.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s NostalgiaEnglish3·3 months agoI still keep my actual ancient 5.25" floppy drive from my first 286 DOS box installed in a spare bay in my current PC tower. The drive hasn’t worked in ages, but as a chunk of my first PC is still part of my current one it means that, in a Ship of Theseus sense, I’ve been using the same computer for 30 years.
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