sir_reginald

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Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago

yeah the guy is insufferable and always trying to promote their own business.

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims 'There is no lawful way to use Yuzu' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'm donating to yuzu now. Fuck off Nintendo.

Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Linux on ARM has existed for longer than MacOS on ARM. Do you want to know the problem? That the hardware manufacturer, Apple, didn't provide any kind of support for it. Asahi is a community project developed by volunteers.

When Linux is supported by the manufacturer, it works like a charm, both ARM and amd64. If you need an ARM example, linux in Raspberry Pis have been running flawlessly for years.

Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

what's the obsession with ARM? it's just cool right now because Apple did it. But amd64 is just fine.

Leah Rowe, the creator of Libreboot, stole my work. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are countless patches that are never merged for one reason or another, sometimes just because the maintainer doesn't like the implementation even if it works, so they implement it themselves.

If no code was used, no credit is necessary. She did credit you for testing, which a lot of projects don't bother crediting. So take that and continue with your life.

Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

so nothing most users would use. It sounds more practical for kids.

Leah Rowe, the creator of Libreboot, stole my work. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

okay, still, she didn't steal anything from you. She didn't use your patch, that's all that happened. That's not stealing.

Leah Rowe, the creator of Libreboot, stole my work. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

no, because Leah didn't use any OP's code. Leah simply rewrote the patch because it wasn't working. OP is just mad because he was expecting to get it to work and be merged into the project, but Leah did it first.

Leah Rowe, the creator of Libreboot, stole my work. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Reading Leah's comments, you've been credited for what you did, testing. Your patch didn't work, she didn't use it and wrote a solution herself.

Nothing was stolen because she didn't use your patch.

Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

yeah, I know she's a singer but I don't like pop and I hadn't read so much of her til now. I guess that people that like pop music might have heard of her more

Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

why is this girl suddenly everywhere? I hadn't heard of her for the last 5 years, and since this week I've seen her daily.

Facebook at 20: Four ways the app changed the world in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

That UI is way better than the new one. Ironic

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Instant Messengers Analysis and Comparison (privacy.awiki.org)
 

The table is quite big (190+ lines of hand-written HTML) and it doesn't fit on mobile phone screens unless you zoom out. It should be fine on desktop. It also specifies the criteria followed and has analysis of some of the IMs in the table (not close to all of them, I hope to add more analysis in the future).

Counter-arguments are always welcome. Sources and additional information too. Note that the typical privacy recommendation (Signal) is not recommended here. It does not meet our criteria, being centralized and requiring a phone number. I don't want to hate on Signal since it's doing a decent job spreading the importance of E2EE, however we can not recommend it for the given reasons.

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Why do you hate Microsoft? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sir_reginald@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I'm helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we've created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we're gathering sources for each of these topics.

Microsoft is a huge corporation with a big influence on media and although if you dig enough you can find useful sources, they've also made an extremely good job at hiding bad press from search engines.

We've scrolled through Hacker News, other links aggregators and sites like TechRights and we've found a good amount of articles against Microsoft. But we're sure there has to be more. So that's kinda why we're asking.

Bullet points for the sections we've thought of (suggestions are welcome too):

* The Microsoft Monopoly
		* Microsoft and the web
				* Internet Explorer
				* Microsoft Edge
		* Microsoft Windows Monopoly
		* Microsoft and the Governments
				* Education
				* Healthcare
		* Microsoft Gaming Empire
* Windows Backdoors (not sure where this section belongs)
		* Work with the NSA
* Microsoft loves Open Source (microsoft infiltration in foss)
		* Microsoft and the OSI
		* Github
				* Github Copilot
		* VSCode
		* War on GPL
		* Microsoft loves Linux and BSD?
		* Embrace, extend, extinguish
* Our lord, Bill Gates
		* The media empire
				* Twitter censorship
		* Bill Gates the philanthropist
				* Big Pharma
		* Bill and Jeffrey Epstein

Edit: typos and removed the pun "Kill Bill Gates" because it seemed inappropriate.

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The Privacy Raccoon - Digital self-defense against mass surveillance (privacy.awiki.org)
 

For transparency sake, I'm the new maintainer of this website. Just wanted to share it here. I was thinking of creating a community for it, but I don't know if it is worth it.

I hope someone find it useful. If you want to contribute, collaborate or just share your opinion, you're more than welcome! The repository for the website is here https://codeberg.org/ThePrivacyRaccoon/website

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