hollyhoppet wrote on August 20, 2022 at 6:36 PM

Reply to Playing a Janet Jackson song would crash some old laptops by voxpoplar

absolutely fascinating

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on July 25, 2022 at 10:04 PM

Reply to After five years in prison for a Ponzi scheme and a lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry, Martin Shkreli announces his new venture: a web3 drug discovery platform by hollyhoppet

Oh okay, so it's the exact same as folding@home except it awards you their blockchain money, $MSI.

I assume you can then exchange $MSI for MSI brand computer internals?

musou wrote on June 1, 2022 at 7:45 PM

Reply to On TikTok, people are fuelling surveillance culture by Moonside

the cultural shift towards ubiquitous CCTV in the 90s and then the rise of cell phone cameras in the 00s paved the way for this new cultural norm of "if you're in public you consent to being filmed", and i absolutely hate it. whenever i'm in a public place i'm worried i will end up in a video like this and not even know it. i know i have a tendency to stick out, in a way that some people like to ridicule, i just thought i had largely left the need to worry about that behind when i finished high school.

neku wrote on June 1, 2022 at 8:04 AM

Reply to On TikTok, people are fuelling surveillance culture by Moonside

I think conflating surreptitiously taking videos of strangers with surveillance sort of normalises it in a way that makes me uncomfortable. Like, I don't like having security cameras everywhere, but those ostensibly are to investigate crime etc etc. These are just creepshots for zoomers

designed to fit a surveillance aesthetic

What, pray tell, is the surveillance aesthetic

twovests wrote on June 1, 2022 at 3:50 AM

Reply to On TikTok, people are fuelling surveillance culture by Moonside

This is horrible, but I also hope these discussions gets us talking about all the other surveillance people perpetuate. Like, downloading apps which wardrive on your phone for wifi networks, giving apps ALL the data of your contacts, cameras on ordering kiosks (???), etc being pretty horrible AND widely accepted.

Seirdy OP wrote on April 23, 2022 at 8:56 PM

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Odilia Screen Reader by Seirdy

Yeah, orca isn't too bad tbh; it's just not really great.

It's better than, say, VoiceOver for iOS but that's not exactly a high bar.

On top of that, Chromium and derivatives (including Electron) have really flaky support for the necessary accessibility APIs. You're pretty much limited to GTK, Qt, and Firefox or WebKit2GTK for a good experience.

You know, I used to be on the "webshit bad" train and I still kind of am, but Qt is literally the only alternative to webapps when it comes to making cross-platform internationalized GUIs with good accessibility. Hopefully Odilia's addon and scripting support could improve that situation.

hollyhoppet wrote on April 23, 2022 at 4:51 PM

Reply to Odilia Screen Reader by Seirdy

Welcome. Also yeah I've heard the linux screen reader situation leaves much to be desired lol

voxpoplar wrote on March 22, 2022 at 3:13 PM

Reply to comment by devtesla in The New Internet We can Expect, Not the One We Want by LG836

Oh lol I stopped before I got there. People starved in the Holodomor because people just didn't feel like farming when they didn't get paid enough, not because of any type of state mismanagement, and famously under capitalism farm labourers are extremely well compensated.

devtesla wrote on March 22, 2022 at 2:07 PM

Reply to The New Internet We can Expect, Not the One We Want by LG836

weird annoying article, don't think anything they think is going to happen will come to pass!

devtesla wrote on March 22, 2022 at 2:06 PM

Reply to comment by voxpoplar in The New Internet We can Expect, Not the One We Want by LG836

The line about communism leading to starvation too was also ?????

voxpoplar wrote on March 22, 2022 at 2:03 PM (edited on March 22, 2022 at 2:04 PM)

Reply to The New Internet We can Expect, Not the One We Want by LG836

This was fairly interesting up until the "if you don't want to deal with Nazis you don't understand freedom of speech" bit and then the misogyny in the next paragraph.

Moonside wrote on February 25, 2022 at 10:06 PM

Reply to comment by ellynu in password manager update by devtesla

This has the appearance of not having written any tests whatsoever! Amateur hours.

ellynu wrote on February 25, 2022 at 12:09 AM

Reply to password manager update by devtesla

lmao its with solana too, look at this https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/931685123454279700/946559336266731570/unknown.png?width=378&height=513

devtesla OP wrote on February 23, 2022 at 11:42 PM

Reply to comment by twovests in password manager update by devtesla

not sure, but it looks like all my items are there when I go offline

twovests wrote on February 23, 2022 at 10:14 PM

Reply to password manager update by devtesla

Oh what the fuck. Literally 40 minutes ago I got a friend to get onto 1password (family) to take advantage of the Valentines Day deal. And now I find out about this.

When I chose a password manager, I discounted Bitwarden because I wanted one I'd never have to fluff around with. I want something "foolproof" if it's going to be so sensitive. LastPass had too many dings on its record, so 1P it was for me.

Does Bitwarden have good offline for modifying items yet? The cryptocoin partnershit would be the dealbreaker if it weren't for this.

neku wrote on February 23, 2022 at 10:10 PM

Reply to password manager update by devtesla

since lastpass shit the bed i moved to bitwarden and it's good! i've never actually noticed the little number on the browser extension icon lol.

the only thing that annoys me about bitwarden is that its android firefox integration is kinda funky and for some websites you have to refresh or open and close the more options/kebab menu to get the autofill popup to appear. other than that 10/10 good software i like free things

emma wrote on February 14, 2022 at 8:08 PM

Reply to comment by cute_spider_ni_srsly in Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a Bullshit 'Poverty Trap' by Moonside

https://twitter.com/girlfromblupo/status/982156453396996096

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on February 14, 2022 at 6:09 PM

Reply to Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a Bullshit 'Poverty Trap' by Moonside

I watched the entire video and YouTube still recommends it to me daily. I kind of wonder if someone at YT decided to give that video ten thousand algorithm points just for the sake of humanity.