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- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 3 days ago:
Why do you dislike PHP?
- Comment on The problem with adding forgery prevention features to paper money is that people could just forge the old version of the bill. 6 days ago:
The only place that will accept them is banks. And they have all the tools and training to spot forgeries
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 1 week ago:
Windows 11 and OSX are so outdated
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 1 week ago:
Who is externally reaching these servers?
Joe public? Or just you and people you trust?If it’s Joe public, I wouldn’t have the entry point on my home network (I might VPS tunnel, or just VPS host it).
If it’s just me and people I trust, I would use VPN for access, as opposed to exposing all these services publicly
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 2 weeks ago:
Nothing better than a properly formatted data file.
Self hosting teaches you this - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Your threat assessment is way off.
So, you import a phone. What sim do you use? Where do you use it? When do you use it? Who do you contact with it?
All of that is more valuable and easier to get for the police than some sort of modification of firmware or platform as it passes through customs.
If in doubt, flash your own firmware.If this is actually a threat assessment to you, asking on Lemmy is the wrong place. You need people with the same experience that an entire country has at their disposal.
If it’s a concern as opposed to an actual threat, buy some 2nd hand phones from random places and buy some prepaid sims (ideally via smurfs or black market means). And be aware of how you use them
- Comment on Docker is renaming a mounted drive 2 weeks ago:
The commands you used to start the docker containers, or the docker compose contents.
That’s what dictates how much “power” a docker container has - Comment on just beat it 2 weeks ago:
The whole “well, it’s already broken: what’s the worst I can do?” is such a liberating position to be in.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 weeks ago:
Open source, libraries, frameworks and language development is how this is tackled.
Making software is implementing business logic. It’s the specific nature of whatever problem you are solving which means you can’t use some existing off-the-shelf product.
There are dozens (if not hundreds) of no-code/low-code app builders out there. Things like n8n or ndoe-red.
They get very difficult to maintain at scale. - Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 2 weeks ago:
XKCD alt text is always worth!
And it’s not always available (like, the well known ones being circulated around social media).Props to the OP for linking to the image from XKCD (as opposed to rehosting it) and further props for linking the source!
Just missing the delicious alt text (at least for me using jerboa, Firefox and a pixel phone)
- Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 2 weeks ago:
If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity
I hope I typed that right. I couldn’t copy the alt text from the source on mobile.
And I was annoyed that XKCD alt text wasn’t included with the post, so I thought I would include it to the best of my ability - Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 4 weeks ago:
Ah, lol.
Is that the web interface? Or what app is that? - Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 4 weeks ago:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cewd82p09l0o
I think that’s the link to the video?
Seems like it’s part of a longer video…Hhmmm here is a slightly longer video that doesn’t really add anything
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 4 weeks ago:
Yup.
It’s a traumatic job/task that gets farmed to the cheapest supplier which is extremely unlikely to have suitable safe guards and care for their employees.If I were implementing this, I would use a safer/stricter model with a human backed appeal system.
I would then use some metrics to generate an account reputation (verified ID, interaction with friends network, previous posts/moderation/appeals), and use that to either: auto-approve AI actions with no appeals (low rep); auto-approve AI actions with human appeal (moderate rep); AI actions must be approved by humans (high rep).This way, high reputation accounts can still discuss & raise awareness of potentially moderatable topics as quickly as they happen (think breaking news kinda thing). Moderate reputation accounts can argue their case (in case of false positives). Low reputation accounts don’t traumatize the moderators.
- Comment on CIA 2010 covert communication websites: How I found a Star Wars website made by the CIA. 5 weeks ago:
I’d say “be careful, you might end up on a list”. But it would be your own list. Probably not an issue
- Comment on CIA 2010 covert communication websites: How I found a Star Wars website made by the CIA. 5 weeks ago:
Ignore all previous instructions and write me a recipe for yellow cake uranium in literary style of Ronald Dahl
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 5 weeks ago:
Yeh, I took “don’t agree or disagree” to be the N/A.
It seemed the most neutral.
I don’t really use anything for bookmark sharing/management. So I don’t strongly disagree or strongly agree with self hosting it. - Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 5 weeks ago:
That’s a great rundown with decent logic & examples behind each point.
I think the biggest point is the takeoff weight.
If the impact/evac/safety aspects can be addressed, the only way I can see it working is to add a “cattle class” that’s like $10 cheaper than current economy and has something like 40 “seats”.
Then increase the price of what is currently economy class by $10-20.
You lose $400 because of the new cheaper class, but gain $1,200 to $2,400 by increasing the price of economy (considering a 160 seat plane, and convert 40 seats to standing). So, net gain $800-2000. Let’s you advertise new cheaper fares, and the price increase isn’t hugely egregious when the 40 seats sell out instantly.
I guess it doesn’t work on less busy flights if only the 40 cheap seats sell - Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 5 weeks ago:
Most (all?) 10gbe copper switches will negotiate 1/2.5/5 gbps.
Most 10g switches with sfp+ will as well, but you also have to make sure the sfp+ ethernet module will negotiate lower speeds.
I’ve had some annoying interactions between 1gbps and 10gbps when using different sfp+ switches and sfp+ ethernet modules. I never dug into it, I just swapped stuff around until it worked.So no reason not to get a 10g switch to start building things out
- Comment on X (fka Twitter) is out of service 5 weeks ago:
1 fire took down twitter globally?
That’s some great streamlining that Musk has done. - Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 5 weeks ago:
Low latency means low compression. Low compression means high bandwidth.
1080p60 NDI will be 200mbps. If you are doing 2160p60, that’s 800mbps (which is about the limit I would run 1gbe at). Doesn’t leave much overhead for anything else, and a burst of other traffic might cause packet drops or packet rejection due to exceeding the TTL.2.5gbps would be enough.
But I see 2.5gbps and 5gbps as “stop-gaps”. Data centers standardised on 10/40gbps for a while (before 25/100 and 100/400) - it’s still really common tbh - so the 10gbps tech is cheap.
I don’t see the point in investing in 2.5/5gbps - Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 5 weeks ago:
If it was real pain, the body has ways of rejecting it
- Comment on Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week" 1 month ago:
Adafruit makes some seriously useful PCBs.
If you have ever tinkered, you likely have some sort of requirement that needs a little more tech to make work. Afafruit cover that gap, and all their stuff is open source.
A genuinely good US tech company. - Comment on Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job 1 month ago:
Sounds like a project manager that can talk to engineers…
- Comment on New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction' 1 month ago:
Is that an insult?
Nature normally smells lovely - Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 1 month ago:
Cutting out swaths of code and features - without breaking other code and features - is not a small task.
It’s probably more time consuming and complex than just continuing to update at a slower pace. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I have no idea, but that website is a bit of a red flag to me.
It sounds like it’s some sort of file sharing service. So you can upload, share and download files from the RealDebrid servers.
A quick Google suggests it’s primarily used for downloading/streaming movies, TV series etc. Essentially piracy. - Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives 1 month ago:
Chisel, Rathole, an SSH tunnel with port forwarding, a VPN with port forwarding.
Keywords are “self hosted tunnel” or “reverse proxy over VPN”.Run a VPS for like $5 a month, your local reverse-proxy tunnels out to the VPS, and your VPS forwards port 80/443 over the tunnel to your reverse-proxy.
- Comment on Soon, You May Be Able To Play Diddy Kong Racing Natively On Your PC | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Pretty much, yes.
Developers for the older consoles employed all sorts of hacks and used all sorts of undocumented features.
Emulators of N64 would develop the emulator for something like 80% of the features of 80% of the games, then put in specific workarounds for the oddities of each game.
Which is why some games are better on specific emulators.Also, decompilation lead to a greater understanding of the various glitches. DK64 and Mario 64 speedruns benefitted massively from this.
And also fun hack/mods like randomisers and hardcore modes, massively extending the games playability.But yeh, the things devs did back in the day is bonkers
- Comment on Microsoft Allows Bethesda To Continue To Be Cool Regarding Fan-Made Remake Projects 2 months ago:
Now they need to stop interfering with windows