As evil as Graham Lineham is, I do need to post the parody of these forwarders that was in The IT Crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.

If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.

They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.

At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…

Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?

Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.

That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.

It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.

We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.

It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.

It’s not the competitive pricing that is the issue, it the forced upgrade cycle and invasive user policies.

(Except for system admin costs and Mail/File Hosting) a Linux-based solution is literally Free. I would assume that Mail and File hosting for Governmental Entities should be hosted in-house anyway.

Duplo is the right proportion.

Fabuland scale would have been ideal for the 4+.

Honestly, Fabuland is overdue for a relaunch. Minidolls were successful, another scale would not only add realism to models and could also rejuvenate stale product licences (like Starwars).

Technic Scale Figs would also be pretty cool, although not all technic models are at the same scale.

The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.

The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).

TIL. I will do it the correct way from now on.

The best solution is DuckDuckGo. You can use DDG as your primary search engine and when it (or Bing, which is its backend) fails to find what you want, you can add “g!” to your search to look it up in Google.

What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.

I received the G500 Professional. It now sits in its own shelf, next to the ACTROS and the ZETROS.

I’ve still got my eyes out for the 8110 UniMOG.

I’m thinking of getting another G300 because it has a lot of pieces that i need for a MOC I have planned.

I got that for my mother and my niece.

Mum had fun building it and has decided to start a collection of the botanicals and replacing her cheap plastic houseplants with them.

Back in the old days, we had mini-USB-B , USB-A, USB-3.0 A, USB-B, USB-3.0-B, micro-USB3.0, and a dozen other semi-proprietary mini-USB-B form factors.

Before that we had all the D-Sub variants like DB-25 and DE-9 for both Serial and Parallel data transfer, DB13W3 and DE-15 for Video signal and dozens of other variants for all sorts of proprietary data formats

I was referring to the EU laws that are making USB-C charging mandatory.

The solution is a legislated minimum standard or quality.

I’m surprised that the original legislation did not provide this guarantee.

The problem is that there is no certification of new good cables. There is no guarantee that the replacement cable may be just as defective as the one you are recycling.

One good thing about the MFA program was the proprietary chip guaranteed a minimum standard of quality. Unfortunately it also resulted in a minimum cost.

#NotTheOnion Microsoft will make millions of computers obsolete and will generate thousands of tonnes of eWaste on International eWaste Day.

“Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE’s 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day [1] (you cannot make these things up!)”

I am inferring a difference between an algorithm that is based on simple rules, and an algorithm that is constantly being dishonestly modified for commercial, political and financial benefit.

The fact that comments are prioritised by simple rules, an not by some sort of monolithic ALGORITHM, keeps the discussion dynamic.

Honestly, I think is the whole ”First Post” mindset.

When you post a reply on Mastodon, it is more intimate, the only people who see it are the original tooter and anyone who actively seeks more commentary. It is a dialogue between two people, or multiple dialogues between one person and many others.

Lemmy is more like a forum, where everyone can see all comments, right underneath the original post. It is more like an open-table discussion.

It is not that Lemmy is more social, it is just less personal.