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JensSpahnpasta

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  • Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

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  • Does it? It was possible a while ago, but in the last years, we saw train tickets going to apps. There is no ticket machine at my local stop. There are areas where you can only park your car with an app. I need 2FA to get into my accounts. Restaurants have QR code menus. So going to protests or just living your life without a phone is getting harder

  • Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox

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  • You can do most of that without any fancy AI or machine learning: Since you already have your own domain, setup some mail redirects and filter all mails going into them into subfolders. I have a redirect for onlineshopping where all those order confirmation and delivery informations and unwanted newsletters go. I have another I use for creating accounts - all 2FA etc. are going there. And then I have the main mail for actual communication and another redirect for all those interesting substack newsletters and so on.

  • Is posting from #Mastodon to a #Lemmy community a good idea or will this just confuse everyone?

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  • Each community has its own culture and each Mastodon poster has his own style - there are communities on Lemmy where a typical Mastodon toot will fit perfectly and there are communities where it will not fit. So try to fit in with your posts into the community you are posting to and everything will be fine

  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • No, it doesn't. But that is totally something that should run locally on your own devices.

  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • I kind of makes sense to produce computers that are able to run local AI. People here hate AI, but there are a lot of tasks that make a lot of sense even on a laptop. It's great to produce tags and descriptions for your images. Google Photo has this - search for "horse" and you will get back all pictures of horses you have taken. And it totally makes sense to run stuff like this locally on your own computer without sending every picture you've taken to Trumpland.

    But I really do not trust Microsoft to build something like that. That would totally go against everything they have been doing for the last decade and would also devalue their billions they've put into OpenAI

  • The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

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  • A lollipop with electronic waste. Truly a feat of engineering!

  • Mixarr – a music discovery companion for Lidarr/Plex

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  • You might not like it, but AI can totally give you a recommendation of similar bands.

  • The MP3 Revolution: How a German Innovation Changed Music Forever

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  • I remember getting my first MP3s at a LAN party and it was revolutionary. You could just copy over music to your computer from other computers and they had quite the selection? Awesome! I totally filled my (tiny) hard disk to the brim and then listened the shit out of them with Winamp. I learned a while later that you could also rip CDs and that was also revolutionary. Then Napster, the first Discmens with MP3 support and so on - MP3s are awesome!

  • The most outlandish tech CEO quotes from 2025

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  • All of them - there might be a reason to want to get rich as fuck so that you can live comfortable and buy everything you want. I totally can understand that a superyacht in the Mediterranean can be awesome or that your private jet is more comfy than flying in a normal plane. But there is a limit: Just imagine being Elon Musk, being so rich that you could use a small part of your money to eradicate some illnesses or lift millions of people out of poverty and then spending your time shitposting on Twitter

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • You have a license for some crappy Win11 home version. You can't use it for the Enterprise versions, even if Microsoft is providing you with the ISO.

  • Linux Slicer

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  • Can anyone give any advice on either having it work or a Linux alternative with similar functionality?

    The neat thing about installing Linux is that there are live versions around. Go to the Linux Mint site and follow their instructions on creating a bootable USB stick. Boot from it and you'll have a working system directly on your computer. You can check if your hardware is compatible and you can also install software there. So if you have some doubts about Orca Slicer, just boot up a Linux and check it yourself on your own machine! It's really that awesome

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • Just imagine how many tutorials, documentations, videos and so on Microsoft has made obsolete by just moving the start menu from the lower left side to the middle. And yes, you totally can't expect users to find the new position on their own, some people are interesting

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • Which is, by the way, totally ok. If you buy an expensive computer and it is getting shipped with a garbage version of an OS that is something to complain about. It's also totally reasonable to complain that there is a garbage version at all. People shouldn't need to reinstall their brand new computers with pirated enterprise versions to escape the abuses of Microsoft. At least let us bitch about this here, dude!

  • FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - IT Notes

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  • I'm following my city on Mastodon and it does work as expected. You'll get a post in your timeline every 3 (?) hours. Which kind of works and not - if you're online at the right time, you will get the weather forecast. If not, that forecast will be buried by out by all those other activities.

  • Today in “Google Broke Email”

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  • I have this setup for "historical" purposes. Back in the day, freemailers gave you very little space. 20 MB or so. And if you wanted to mail several people, there were always two or three whose mailbox was full. That is something you're not seeing anymore and Gmail is the reason for that and that is also the reason why Gmail became so successful. Gmail gave you 1GB (?) of space and you never ran into those problems again.

    And it was a convenient way to switch accounts. Just setup Gmail to fetch everything from your old hotmail account and don't bother with checking that one every few weeks so that it doesn't get full and you might miss important mails.

  • How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

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  • Yes, I totally would expect that. That is how the UI does work currently: On Pixelfed and Mastodon, you can search for a user and follow that user. To a normal user, it looks like the user is a normal Pixelfed user. And yes, I expect to see all posts of a user I follow.

    You might disagree. But the biggest problem is that Pixelfed is not telling you that it is not showing you every post and doesn't give you the option to see every post. That is bad UI and should be fixed.

  • Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company

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  • That's ok - but why would you then want to discuss an article you don't want to read on the internet?

  • Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company

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  • What are you talking about? Just click on the link and read the article. Like, well, you should do with every link that gets submitted here in this community.

  • Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company

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  • Come on dude, please use your own brain. The article is not AI slop - it is an informed rant about an UI topic from someone who knows what they are talking about. Please read the fucking article before accusing it of being AI slop - I mean, your whole post is kind slop. Just writing "TL;DR" and then spitting wild accusations and pronouncing that something does not belong into the community after reading a misleading one-sentence summary is sloppy as fuck. You can do better, dude!