baronvonj
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baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion DollarsEnglish
181·8 days agoThere’s nothing as permanent as a temporary fix.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•The 5-Minute Rule: Why Your 'Toilet Scroll' Is Increasing Your Haemorrhoid Risk By 46%English
3·8 days agoBut only the toilet has an open hole in the middle for your butt to hang down through, and you’re usually not spending any time trying to push out a turd on any seat that’s not a toilet.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the special headphones that some people wear?English
11·19 days agocould just be plain old ear muffs, for noise reduction.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDriveEnglish
2·19 days agotook me too long to figure out to read it as re-styling rather than resty-ling.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay packageEnglish
7·1 month agoI replaced Pixel launcher with Lawnchair. Very similar UX but let’s you do things like set the search bar to just open your default browser.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternativeEnglish
3·1 month agocould you not just get a data-only SIM?
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the arguments *against* ending Daylight Savings Time in the USA?English
6·1 month agoThe sun set earlier,
It didn’t. You just go up earlier and pretended.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the arguments *against* ending Daylight Savings Time in the USA?English
2·1 month agoWe did year round DST in the 70s and it resulted in kids being hit by cars on the way to school in the winter.
Heart attacks and strokes are more frequent after DST starts
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the arguments *against* ending Daylight Savings Time in the USA?English
2·1 month agoNo they enacted permanent DST in the 70s. OP is asking for arguments against ending DST. The backlash against permanent DST in the 70s was because kids going to school in the early morning darkness were being hit y cars.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the arguments *against* ending Daylight Savings Time in the USA?English
6·1 month agoWe already tried year-round DST in the 70s. It didn’t last through the first year because kids were getting hit by cars on the way to school in the early morning darkness.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web siteEnglish
2·2 months agoIf it’s open source it can be verified that it’s not storing the data.
And I 100% agree that software scanning an ID is an overall bad way to verify. With a CC# validation at least that shows up on my statement, but if my kid is sneaky enough to get mine out of my wallet I have no way of knowing.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web siteEnglish
4·2 months agoI feel like #1 and #2 are problems whether its client side or server side. As for #3 I would lean in the direction of there being a one-time check with no persistent knowledge. Like when you flash your ID to the bartender to order a drink. A client app that scans the ID and returns the answer to the requestor.
But I don’t think there is any way to reliably implement this sort of thing. I think it should really just be left to parental control and monitoring.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web siteEnglish
6·2 months agoSome kind of cryptographic signing of the executable could probably help with that.
Ultimately I don’t believe there can ever be a foolproof solution and the emphasis should be on client-side parental controls.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web siteEnglish
264·2 months agoThis goes in a better direction than web sites doing it themselves, I think. The government put out an open source tool that runs locally and the browser just gets a yay/nay return code from it.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this yearEnglish
3·2 months agoI just bought a few WD drives direct, but their web site has a problem with validating virtual credit card numbers. I’m the few days it took to resolve it the price went up. Fortunately since I had the support ticket I was able to get refunded the difference.
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•The creator of systemd wants to bring SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation to LinuxEnglish
13·2 months agoWhat if it was just an off the cuff joke?
baronvonj@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episodeEnglish
9·2 months agoYou know Russ, I’ve been known to fuck myself.


Got ourselves a real fnorgby here.