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n3wjack

@n3wjack@mastodon.social

hardcore electronic music loving/producing geek software developing scuba diver :: knows how to :quit vim
tries to boost the fun stuff on the fedi

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secretgeek, to random
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The reason why Microsoft Recall attracts huge amounts of hate, while TimeSnapper.com has generally positive customer interactions comes down to 3 things:

Motive Weapon Opportunity.

I don’t have a motive to surveill the world, Microsoft have shareholders, middle managers etc.

Weapon - We both write software that could be used for harm. But we’re genuine about user’s informed ongoing consent, having filters etc.

Opportunity - we don’t have enough servers to spy on people. MS do.

n3wjack,
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@secretgeek Also, if I want to use TimeSnapper, I have to choose to do so, and install it myself.
Recall just comes with the OS and is (probably) activated by default.
Is it even turned off when it says it is? Who knows.

lritter, to random
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not sure if quiche or pizza

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n3wjack,
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@lritter I dub it... Quizza! 🎉🎉🎉

evacide, to random
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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

n3wjack,
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@evacide that feature has abuse written all over it. WTF.
They already had some sort of history feature in Win 10. Scared the crap out of me when I ran into it.
I guess it's one more thing to switch off on a Windows box.
It's starting to become a long list...

keefmarshall, to random
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I'm so sorry.. I can't resist. Still can't believe this.

You only have yourselves to blame.

n3wjack,
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@keefmarshall 🤣
Congratz!

kev, to random
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So I've just been doing some tidying in the garage and I found this old #Compaq #Netbook. I've put it on charge, but do we think it will boot, and what OS do we think it's running?

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n3wjack,
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@kev Some older Windows version probably. Windows 7?

n3wjack, to devops
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Lost a half day of work because the GitLab runner suddenly switched to sh instead of bash, and some obscure script lines in the YAML failed because of that. Yay for GitLab and having to do it all yourself.

dugglebutt, to random
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My parents are both dying of cancer right now. This is unquestionably the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life. I would never wish this upon my worst enemy (not that I have a lot). I cant sleep. I can’t eat. I want to smash my skull into a brick wall. But my family needs me now

n3wjack,
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@dugglebutt 😔
Take care man.

n3wjack, to random
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Is it bad fediquette to delete a toot when you find out that reply has pretty much been done 10x already and the person replied to it several times?

Because I might have just done that.

johann, to random French
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Kryptonite M18-WL ?

C'est cher mais ça a l'air sérieux.

n3wjack,
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@johann The question is. Why would Superman steal your bike, if he can just fly?
Also, driving a bike with a cape that long is just asking for an accident.

n3wjack, to random
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votes are in.
I ended up voting for EMPW BKTH & BLAH
Lots of good things in there though. My shortlist was 7 tunes I really liked also including BELT NEUT TASS & UDIL

@defaultmediatransmitter I consider putting Amens in cheating, because I can't resist that 😁

@socool when your track came up in my playlist while I was working, I was like: wait? what is this? this is nice, do I know this? Then it hit me it was yours. 😁 Lovely track. So nice.

n3wjack,
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@defaultmediatransmitter @socool

And for the last one, hi there
@fabi !

I'm not really into chiptune songs, but this slaps so hard I couldn't help but make a stank face to that chiptune/dubstep(?) crossbreed. 😁

sylvia_ritter, to art
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Tarot Card No. 58 is pre-released 💞 and was approved by the curious Focal Fossa. https://www.patreon.com/sylviaritter #art #mastoart #fediart

n3wjack,
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@sylvia_ritter close enough for ! 😁

n3wjack, to random
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If you want to gloat over some Google AI fuckups, this is a great article for you. 😂

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

joyo, to random
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I’m only just now learning about , recommendations pls.

n3wjack,
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@JoYo One of my go-to places for stomping 909s is the Rotterdam based PRSPCT label. For your gabber fix I would say check out releases from Deathmachine, the Worst of UK Hardcore compilation, and Outside Agency stuff. The Best of.. compilations are also a good entry point.

https://prspctrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worst-of-uk-hardcore-vol-3
https://prspctrecordings.bandcamp.com/

n3wjack,
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@JoYo I also share my musical finds on my blog on occasion, so feel free to check out my gabber section 😉
https://n3wjack.net/category/gabber/

n3wjack, to random
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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/

bittersweetdb, to random

OMG I'm done. Two bangers and something so sincere it makes me cry.

n3wjack,
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@bittersweetdb What's the deadline for sending in your vote?

vjousse, to vim French
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I'm about to update my book on but as I am now mostly using , I'm a little bit outdated about plugin management. What would you recommend instead of pathogen (for vim, not for neovim)?

n3wjack,
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@vjousse What did you end up using? I found out Vundle is broken today.
I'm probably going to switch to the plain vim package manager, instead of using something custom.
I don't know if neovim has the same thing built in?

n3wjack, to vim
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Is the plugin manager Vundle broken?
When I use :PluginSearch I get a bunch of errors now.

n3wjack, to random
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Is Bing down? DDG gives me errors, and bing.com doesn't seem to load. 😂

n3wjack,
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Wow. is still down.
Some serious outage, apparently.

secretgeek, to random
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Microsoft's "Recall" is similar to "TimeSnapper", that Atli and I have been developing and distributing for the past 17 years or so.

I'm fascinated by the reaction that Microsoft get, compared to what we receive at TimeSnapper.

People are naturally curious about performance impacts, and hope to keep all data local. But when "we" (TimeSnapper) say the data stays on your machine, customers just believe us.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is emphatically not trusted.

They earned that reputation.

n3wjack,
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@secretgeek MS has been trying to push everyone to the cloud by forcing you to use an MS account to log in to Windows (to sync your settings, remember) and use OneDrive to sync your data, etc.
And now they say they will spy on your Windows usage but keep it all nicely local? Yeah, right. 😉

n3wjack, to random
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Cool. Let's hope we can see this.

Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/if-you-can-see-the-big-dipper-youll-get-to-see-a-star-go-nova-soon/

n3wjack, to random
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WTF Logitech?

n3wjack,
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@reillypascal LogiOptions is kind of lame anyway. I only use it to set the speed of my mouse faster than Windows does. But now that it starts installing AI shit in the background, without mentioning it. That's really lame.

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