Flatfire

joined 2 years ago
[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I've been utilizing Porkbun's API for that purpose with a periodic script that checks and updates my DNS

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly the idea of a Gamepass Centric handheld is one I'm surprised they didn't go for already. If they push it with just the Xbox styled front end, it'll probably be more appealing than the xbox itself

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Potential ketamine addiction aside, he's just gravitated toward where he sees more money and unfluence for himself. He wanted the prestige of being a leader in tech, so he used his influence and money to build SpaceX. Then he bullied his way into the ownership of Tesla, desperately wanting to appear as a genius to libertarian and liberal minds alike, but he's never been any less of an authoritarian. When Trump rose to power the first time, he sat and watched and along with the rest of the Silicon Valley Moguls, he began to move himself into positions of influence with populist politicians, borrowing the evangelical right's playbooks and throwing himself into the spotlight no matter the reason. He pivoted off his falsified image as some kind of American self-starter into MAGA rhetoric.

Musk doesn't have lofty ideals or any real focus on the betterment of society. I don't think he ever did. He just wanted to be a real life Tony Stark and command the influence that came with it. Now he doesn't need to, because he's got Trump in his back pocket and is mostly untouchable by any normal means.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

A government funded utility that utilizes regional GIS and aerial mapping would go a long way. Google's got the upper hand on directions and traffic reporting though, so that would take more time to make effective. A lot of that is genuinely due to the number of users that exist on the platform though. I think if you tried to implement similar location data analysis for government infrastructure, people would be up in arms at the idea, despite being perfectly happy to provide the same data to Google.

It's unfortunate that Google is as prevalent a default service as they are, but it's hard to ignore how good a service they offer, and how long the development period has been to get them there.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I wonder if this is at all related to the EU changes to eBook DRM standards, where the standard Kindle Adobe DRM isn't compliant

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bunchie, is that you?

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 months ago

Bonus security because you're clearly developing for legacy code.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Simple solution there is requiring certification in Canada under Canadian supervision.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I suppose the organization I'm in never made use of those. Wasn't even aware that they offered an alternative to power automate as a means to integrate with MS software lol

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You know, people gripe about it endlessly, but after they rewrote it to be more performant, most of my problems with it ended there. It's fine as a chat client. Calls work well, video hasn't been a problem, screen share quality is decent and you can even provide remote support through it in a pinch. It doesn't even consume 2GB+ of memory when sitting idle anymore.

As far as Electron apps go, Teams hasn't been terrible for a long time now.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

Jut to add, he was otherwise a part of OpenAI and contributed to their evolution until it threatened his own business model.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Well this is... disappointing. I picked up an A1 at the end of last year because it "just works", and I was tired of fighting my Ender 3 instead of actually printing with it. I'm extraordinarily happy with the quality of the printer itself, but I'll be refraining from updating the firmware I guess, as I don't allow it to use cloud services, and it lives on my LAN as the only means of management.

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