As a child of the 90s, I still remember the big emphasis in English-langauge media on the rise of Japan in the 80s. But even in the 90s, Japan was some sort of land of the future with next generation electronics and bullet trains.

And now we get articles about usage of fax still being prevalent and Japan finally getting rid of floppy disks in government workflows.

Would love to visit Japan for two months.

Is 5,000 mAh a big deal though? My Samsung A73 has 5,000 mAh and it’s from 2022.

I was wondering if my account for university from 15+ years ago is still in their system.

Neither the personal email address or the university email address have McGraw Hill listed as breach source in HIBP. I wonder if HIBP has added this breach to their systems…

It’s too much of a low hanging fruit for governmental overreach.

I would argue this framing is at the root cause of the such initiatives.

The government even in flawed democracies (and not only in democracies) is generally a representation of the attitude of the people. Governmental overreach stems from the behaviour and beliefs of the adult population.

If a median representation of the population supports oligarchs, you’ll get oligarch programs under the guise of “think about the children” initiatives. Polemics about “small government” aren’t going to help.

I stand by what I said. I will let people read my comment in this thread and our comments in this post (there are multiple threads that are relevant):

https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1952631/waterfox-to-integrate-brave-adblock-engine-with-search-ads-enabled-by-default

Let people make up their own minds.

Just curious, what exactly do you mean by SRA in context of this thread?

I don’t necessarily think joining some sort of community/mutual aid organization is a bad thing. Based on research of global protest movements (disclaimer: I am not well versed on this topic outside of my region, albeit there is a lot to cover in our region), generally the highest success rates are for mass scale movements where the regime starts to feel they are losing control. Security services rank and file start to wonder if the leadership are going to bail on them and whether it is worth it to risk their lives fighting their own fellow citizens.

One way to get to that point is a strong network of community organizations that are not subject to the regime political structures (I would include the US Democratic party in this category) or malign business community influence (definitely almost all large US corporations who are part of the oligarchic regime and also giant list of wannabe oligarch types).

The often cited number is 10% of the population engaging in regular protests (with the implication being that a much larger % of the working age population supports the goals of the protest movement). Although from memory, the researchers did say that a single % doesn’t really account for a given “situation on the ground”, more of a general trend. Which makes a lot of sense.

Violent resistance was cited as having mixed results for a variety of reasons and tended to have much more unpredictable and drawn out dynamics.

From my time living the US, I also didn’t find the local polemics around gun ownership to be convincing or productive (i.e. irrespective of your position on gun ownership, a reasonable argument can be made that in the US context there are other factors at play with respect to the perceptions around gun ownership).

Then there is the practical consideration. What has the US implementation of gun ownership achieved in terms of specifics?

At last a useful comment thread about the actual functionality in question.

While I am not moving back to reddit, Threadiverse is just terrible on any nuanced conversations on modern ML tools and approaches.

The tech is not the issue here. It has legitimate use cases and it is here to stay (this is not a blockchain pump and dump scheme ala Web 3.0). The issue here are American tech companies and broader support for crime/corruption in US society (as of today, doesn’t mean that this can’t/won’t change in 20-30 years). We need truly independent open source systems and tools.

I am aware OpenWebUI is based in San Francisco and Mozilla Foundation is based in the US. I am always on the lookout for alternatives.

Keep in mind that that there is a strong likelihood that XLE is a demagogue and is dedicated to shitting up any mozilla/Firefox/TB thread with lies and gross exaggerations that function as lies. XLE almost certainly does not use Firefox or Thunderbird (it wouldn’t make sense considering their posting history).

XLE claimed that “Firefox is bursting at the seams with ads.” This is clearly not true.

As an example they cited “sponsored search suggestions”, which to my mind isn’t a big deal and can easily be disabled. For the sake of transparency, I will note that I’ve never got them and it seems I can’t enable them even if I wanted to (likely due to my region?)

XLE also claimed that the on-hover sponsorship notice for the Firefox weather widget as an example of “Firefox bursting at the seam with ads.” I haven’t used the default new tab page in a decade plus, so maybe this impacts how I see things. From my perspective, an on-hover sponsorship notice for optional widgets is a misleading example for their claims.

You can make up your own mind and read our conversation here: https://piefed.social/comment/10831188

P.S. I am not saying you shouldn’t cancel your donation. I’ve donated to Mozilla Foundation before and cancelled, so I would be a hypocrite for defending donations to MF.

I also have a more hard-line position on MF; they’ve turned into a shitty, corrupt American tech company imitation. All open source foundations based in the US are suspect by definition (including Linux foundation, Debian foundation etc.) as US society is in a state where it is extremely unlikely that crime and corruption will be addressed in the next 20 years (I’ve lived in the US for several years, as well as other countries across NA, Europe and Asia).

But that doesn’t mean you should trust an individual like XLE, who muddies the water with bombastic BS, while at the same time defending Brave; an American criminal gang that was caught re-writing referral URLs for their own financial benefit.

It’s definitively a worthy upgrade, I am just a little bit annoyed that I will have to spend $600+ on a CPU alone. One that is 2 generation behind (soon 3) and one that has zero improvements since the OG version was released in 2022.

But even if I re-use all current components that I can, 2x32 GB DD5 RAM goes for around $800 where I live and then I have to get a new motherboard which would be around $350 and only then can we discuss the cost of a new CPU (not to mention the $500 cost of a 4 TB SSD; an upgrade that makes sense when moving to a new platform).

P.S. I actually do use all the CPU, RAM and storage. Strategy games and video editing/encoding/ML upscaling hobbies can bring any system to it’s knees. For reference, on a 5800X/3080, a challenging (but not highly challenging) ~10 min source can take about 8 hours to upscale in a 3 pass process, 8 hours for a final 2-pass HEVC encode on the “very slow” preset and can require several hundred GB on the SSD for WIP Pro Res HQ files.

First world problems, I know, they become even more “first world” considering where I live.

American “freedom” themed polemics are such farce in every way imaginable.

Oh wow! I am definitely getting one as I don’t see the option to move off my AM4 build for several years and I am often CPU-limited. I do wish they made some updates or offered 5900X3D variants.

It’s going to cost (at best) closer to $600 where I live and it’s going to feel strange to spend $600+ on a CPU from 2022, but I don’t see a better path if you are on AM4.

While on one hand I sort of understand the need to focus on features that are relevant to the majority, you can’t remove features from your devices. Even letting people permanently shut down updates to stay on the last version that supports these features (and having a permanently accessible rollback, if not an the ability to officially load your own firmware) is must.

Anything less than that is basically crime.

They would never buy a PC company as a direct expansion play (way too low margins).

The implied strategy seems to be to push their N1 ARM CPU and have full control over the product.

That would have been true of any upgrade to the WPA algorithm, WPA2 was released in the mid 2000s.

Although I didn’t know it was mandatory for WiFi 7. At the end of the day you should be able to pick if you want to run WPA2 or WPA3.

The memory shortage is the perfect moment for Chinese DRAM manufacturers to enter the market in a big way. The big 3 are colluding and avoiding any significant expansion of manufacturing capacity to keep supply tight.

I have multiple books from the Kindle store, but I’ve never used a Kindle.

Why does Amazon even need to have a sunset date (or perhaps how is it they can even define one?). Or do these 2010-2025 era Kindle device still get updates for tings like DRM?

The Amazon store stops working, you can still move either EPUB or the AZW files via USB, can you not?

The big one for using storage space is 4K video and various video enhancements like ML based Slow Motion (5 min of footage can take 7-8 GB easily).

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Reviews.55.0.html

Notebookcheck often does reviews of miniPCs, while they don’t have a dedicated toggly for miniPC (at least on this page), you can filter by brand which should get you pretty close.

https://liliputing.com/

Liliputing covers mini-PCs, but reviews are rather rare.

Why not get either a DIY Raspberry Pi type media player/server or if you need other streaming subscriptions a licensed Android TV box.

Very, I am assuming this a native app and not some web crap.

Although the UI/UX definitely needs work.