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deadalus commented on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/DavideNL
herewulf · 6 months ago
This is a good chance to suggest viable alternatives? TIA.
deadalus · 6 months ago
Youtube Alternatives :

https://odysee.com

Bitchute

Rumble

deadalus commented on Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards   ollama.com/blog/amd-previ... · Posted by u/tosh
deadalus · 2 years ago
I wish AMD did well in the Stable Diffusion front because AMD is never greedy on VRAM. The 4060Ti 16GB(minimum required for Stable Diffusion in 2024) starts at $450.

AMD with ROCm is decent on Linux but pretty bad on Windows.

deadalus commented on Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days   reuters.com/technology/sp... · Posted by u/DaveFlater
deadalus · 2 years ago
Astronauts age slower and grow taller in space.
deadalus commented on Google Drive files suddenly disappeared   support.google.com/drive/... · Posted by u/vedlin
deadalus · 2 years ago
I will always remember the automatic removal of the Christchurch shooting video from users' personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, with no prior warnings or explanations provided.
deadalus commented on Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes   bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
qup · 2 years ago
Lifehack: use another search engine and at least avoid the search query lists
deadalus · 2 years ago
I use Bing for porn. For reverse image search, I use Yandex. And for researching psychedelics and conspiracy(censored) topics - I use Brave Search.

I use Google only for vanilla search that shows I am a good citizen(navigation, online shopping, general research on movies and sports...etc). I don't want my search Identity to be fully profiled by Google. Police(and other bad actors like a hostile government) are more likely to access my data on Google than on other lesser know search engine.

deadalus commented on Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Hooke
gus_massa · 2 years ago
I think the first is quite clear. I mande a version in https://imgur.com/a/y1i3Tzv IANAA [1] I'm not sure if the nose is painted or is just a dark spot in the rock that I'm over interpreting.

[1] You can interpret is as "I am not an Archeologist" or "I am not an Artist". Both are correct.

deadalus · 2 years ago
I have never seen a more cute deer.

I wish all ancient drawings had such a version so we can easily interpret what they are talking about in the article. Early cave drawings are very hard to decipher.

deadalus commented on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)   jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-... · Posted by u/lolinder
freedomben · 2 years ago
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince answered this directly on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Most relevant piece but the whole comment is worth a read:

> Archive.is’s authoritative DNS servers return bad results to 1.1.1.1 when we query them. I’ve proposed we just fix it on our end but our team, quite rightly, said that too would violate the integrity of DNS and the privacy and security promises we made to our users when we launched the service.

> The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.

Honestly it's that type of thing (the frankness, the presence on HN, willingness to participate, the principled stand on privacy) that got me into Cloudflare products. I now generate hundreds per month in revenue for them and that will likely be thousands in the next year or two. His time/effort on HN directly led to customer acquisition and revenue.

That said I do worry about the incentives Cloudflare has to their big customers. CF is a great tool for site owners, but like any tool has the potential to be a great evil (against the user) if the principles ever wane. It's already being used by a lot of sites to make life a living hell for people behind a VPN. As a site owner I absolutely get it: practically zero of my legitimate traffic comes from VPNs (our main demographic tend to skew older and much less technical than the average consumer), but all of the automated attacks against me do. Balancing freedom and rights is hard, but I deeply appreciate the thoughtfulness and principles that CF has displayed over the years.

deadalus · 2 years ago
Cloudflare banned 8chan without a legal requirement to do so. They banned it based on moral reasons.

Dead Comment

deadalus commented on Strong Solar Flare Erupts from Sun on Jun 20, 2023   blogs.nasa.gov/solarcycle... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
deadalus · 2 years ago
Wow, so the sun can spin! I never knew that.

https://www.space.com/does-the-sun-rotate

u/deadalus

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