RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116846057526381911
Great for "IT Professionals" without an Ethernet port? 😂 Yeah, okay, @system76 keep telling yourself that.
Wireless-only networking is a nonstarter. No, a USB-to-Ethernet adapter is not the same.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116840121327540309
This started nice and informative but then the 2nd half of the video devolves into shilling for GenAI. The dude even goes into how he used GenAI to "diagnose" a medical condition for himself. Absolute crazy talk. If you are not feeling well, seek professional medical advice!
This video and interview should have been cut in half. Sorry, Taylor, but I can't share this video with my friends and family.
There are reasonable ways that we can regulate GenAI that don't involve banning them outright. For example, how about holding them liable for their massive intellectual property (IP) theft? Or, how about holding them accountable for their delusions? Or, how about charging them their fair share for harming local utilities and environments?
GenAI enthusiasts contradictions:
- this technology needs proper human oversight
- this technology is great for people that don't know what they're doing
#AgeVerification #KidsAct #UsPol #GenAI #Regulation #Privacy #Censorship
RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116834256461427902
It has already been made abundantly clear that the Mastodon web developers struggle with basic web development. They've been unable to design a platform that can operate without requiring JavaScript for years. It's not surprising that they don't understand UX when they can't even develop a basic HTML/CSS frontend. "This site requires JavaScript" is a good indicator that the website/platform is designed poorly.
RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/116829800024264943
Instead of shaming individuals for wanting to live comfortably, let's focus on the corporations, ultra wealthy, and politicians too weak to implement effective solutions. Stopping or shaming individuals for installing AC in their homes should be near the bottom of the priority list.
Also, two things can be true: home AC usage consumes a lot of power and AI data centers are an increasing problem that we should stop now. However, I'll choose the lives of real humans over some data center. We don't need data centers and GenAI but we should value human life.
Just to be clear, I think JavaScript is fine for authenticated or more complex content. If I'm a user of a server, it seems acceptable that I should trust it and enable JavaScript.
However, if I am some random visitor to your instance and just trying to view a post or user profile, that should not require JavaScript.
The JavaScript ecosystem (e.g., npm) is rife with supply chain hacks. Plus, there are many poorly maintained Mastodon instances (e.g., mastodon.social, I think?). Although, I guess those poorly maintained instances are not pulling down the latest backdoored npm packages... Regardless, it is a security risk to require visitors run JavaScript from every instance they visit for simple content.
Does anyone have recommendations for a Mastodon fork that doesn't require visitors to enable JavaScript to view basic content? The JavaScript dependency is a security risk and user hostile. Visitors should not be required to enable JavaScript when simply visiting a Mastodon server. Plus, the recommendation to use a native app doesn't even work for all Mastodon/ActivityPub instances.
Also, the requirement for JavaScript makes the Mastodon development team seem incompetent. They can't even make a basic web site that doesn't require JavaScript. I could do that when I was in middle school.
>To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@merill/116526154572354011
I guess this tells us the state of Microsoft and Windows when Microsoft employees excitedly flee to MacOS.
If you're a web developer and your website requires JavaScript for basic functionality, you're incompetent and shouldn't be developing websites.
No, I'm not going to enable JavaScript for your random Fediverse/Lemmy service. I'm sick and tired of having to trust random websites to execute code on my system. You don't need more than HTML and CSS to display a rich website. There is no reason for the JavaScript dependency. It should provide extra functionality, not base functionality.
Also, this website appears to be using Cloudflare, which is protecting the folks DDoSing Ubuntu infrastructure right now. What a joke.
Yes, I know this was originally a ProPublica article. They're not on the Fediverse so I don't follow them or have the ability to boost their posts. Also, search results seem to be fine for their article. Only the article from Ars Technica appears to be impacted.
As @tasket has repeatedly stated, Mastodon needs a protocol handler. Opening an ActivityPub link from my messaging app shouldn't be handled by my browser, or another random app. Gah. This shouldn't be a problem in 2025.
Also, there is no reason that Mastodon should require JavaScript just to view a post or user timeline. It should be capable of a completely static experience. This would resolve the problem of my web browser opening an ActivityPub page on some random server that is immediately telling me that I must let it run code on my system. 💩
It should be clear that I'm not trying to be an apologist for Bambu Lab. Before I send my feedback (i.e., complaints) to Bambu Lab, I want to make sure I can separate facts from FUD/speculation.
I also think anyone stating people should have "known better" or "got what they deserved" are morons. Anyone that follows tech, auto manufacturing, etc will know the industry will follow the bad apples. [I think I have the facts slightly wrong in this example]Samsung changed from being "being brave" in less than a year (or two tops). So, acting smug about owning a Prusa, Creality, or a printer from another manufacturer is shortsighted.
This thread has some helpful context and links to a Reddit post.
https://fosstodon.org/@vordenken/113848481381929885
I'm pausing my usage of my printer and will hold off on the firmware update.
I still don't see anything clear on if this change requires Internet connectivity or if the authentication and authorization can be performed locally on device/LAN without Internet connectivity.
I overall agree that this is a bad direction.
I think that adding security around printer controls is good. But, I don't understand why it was done in a way that blocks third-party tools. This screams "security through obscurity" and DRM. Both are more security theater than actual security. There has to be a better AAA option that also supports third-party software.
Can someone please explain to me why requiring authentication and authorization to control Bambu Labs printers is a bad thing? We see SCADA and other industrial devices getting wrecked all of the time for trusting all input and commands.
Is it because the authorization is performed by the Bambu Labs cloud and not on the device?
Are they forbidding or blocking custom firmware that can maintain third-party software support?
Can someone please explain to me why requiring authentication and authorization to control Bambu Labs printers is a bad thing? We see SCADA and other industrial devices getting wrecked all of the time for trusting all input and commands.
Is it because the authorization is performed by the Bambu Labs cloud and not on the device?
Are they forbidding or blocking custom firmware that can maintain third-party software support?
Edit: these are cropped screenshots from Duolingo. No other edits.
Does anyone know where Windows 10 stores a user's taskbar configuration? To be clear, I want the taskbar not the start config.
Documentation seems to indicate that start menu and taskbar information should be exportable with "Export-StartLayout" but that appears to be a lie.
Documentation also indicates that the start layout should be located under "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell" but that only contains a default layout XML file. There is no file containing my customized taskbar. So, this also appears to be a lie in Microsoft documentation.
A search for "taskbar" in the registry didn't seem fruitful, either, but I am admittedly hungry at this point and kind of skimmed that search.
I'd rather not have to manually write the XML file. Is that the only option?
If you want to find and replace all caps text in Microsoft 365 Word, the replace function ignores replacement text capitalization and forces all caps.
So, if you have a placeholder "ABC" and want to replace it with "Something" the result will be "SOMETHING".
Am I crazy thinking this is broken behavior? I don't have the text font set to be all caps and I'm not using the match case search toggle.
If you use an all lowercase placeholder, replacement text capitalization is respected. So, "abc" is replaced with "Something".
The salt in the wound is that I can't just change these placeholders, either. Trying to replace the "ABC"s with "abc" just results in "ABC".
If you're going to do a multi-post thread, it is extremely annoying to hide the content with whatever it is (content warnings?) that requires the reader to expand the text. Having to click "see more" a dozen times is frustrating. Even for topics that I find interesting, I've stopped reading them after three or four posts in the thread.
Mastodon and other ActivityPub services support long text posts. Instance admins can even raise the post limit to tens of thousands of characters. So, you can post long, hidden content.
I'm mostly just shouting into the void because people should use this service as they want. But, I've seen several long threads recently that had every single post compressed. I just gave up on reading them and I'm not sure people consider the negative experience for readers. Maybe I need to use a different client or I'm missing a setting, too.