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- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 7 hours ago:
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate it.
Have a happy new year!
You too!
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 11 hours ago:
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. Often times if I see an interesting question in the comments, I am glad for it, because that was the insight I needed to want to read the article and answer it.
Just reading comments without the article? I have no issue with that at all, and do that myself.
For me that isn’t annoying unless the commenter is getting something wrong that is talked about in the article, and doubles down on it.
How do you, as the commenter yourself, know you aren’t getting something wrong without reading the article?
I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic
How do you know what the general topic is without reading the article?
If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.
Maybe disrespectful is too strong a term. Let me amend that; I lose respect for the poster when they’re asking a question that is answered in the article. I sometimes write off engaging with them further in that thread because they’re clearly not even doing the most basic of tasks to be a part of the conversation.
But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article!
I’ll do this too on occasionally, if I can clearly tell we’re not discussion the article topic, but its a gamble on my part and if someone smacks me down because it is article topical, I fully own that and apologize knowing its my fault.
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 14 hours ago:
I get where you’re going here and I do the same as far as reading, but before I post I make it a point to actually read the article. Otherwise I may be forming and asking questions clearly already addressed or are completely divorced from the actual topic because I lack the articles context.
I feel it is part of the mutual respect with other posters to not waste their time asking questions already answered (in the article) or derailing the conversation because I don’t know what conversation I’m in.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 14 hours ago:
Nowadays, iOS sees just as many vulnerabilities as every other popular OS.
I’m no Apple fanboy but Apple security is more than the OS. Since they also produce all of the hardware, it means they can do things at the hardware level and either make available or restrict things to the OS that Windows cannot do because Microsoft doesn’t control all the hardware makers.
I’m posting this in Asahi Linux on an M2 powered Macbook. Its been an interesting experience learning not only the benefits of this as a hardware platform, but also its limitations from the FOSS point of view.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 1 day ago:
We have 4lbs of honey baked ham to go through. I’m eating a lot of ham.
- Comment on Estonia Issues Shoot-to-Kill Warning Over Russia’s ‘Little Green Men’ 3 days ago:
I don’t think Estonia will have empty “red lines” like Russia does.
- Comment on Estonia Issues Shoot-to-Kill Warning Over Russia’s ‘Little Green Men’ 3 days ago:
Sure, but the powers in Tallinn have to make this statement first to head off a diplomatic crisis. If Estonia had just started shooting Russians it would have been a much harder position diplomatically. There’s no room for Russia to claim “we accidentally stepped on your territory” because Estonia has now made the statement publicly what the consequences for Russian soldiers is that do that. Any Russian soldiers that do that (or their commanders) now have a full understanding they’ll be shot.
When the first shooting actually occurs, Russia can’t present any kind of credible complaint about “you shot our soldiers that were just lost!”. That would show incompetence on the part of Russian commanders, which is something Russian’s are even more loathed to admit.
- Comment on Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform 3 days ago:
So, off to ebay I went! I saw a number of really cheap ones marked “BLOCKED BY AMAZON”; I decided not to go for these since theoretically they might have been stolen. In the end, I went for £7 Kindle 4 “non-touch”.
A few days later, it turned up. And I discovered why it might have been so cheap: its stuck in some sort of unquittable demo mode:
This makes me wonder the unit might have been stolen from a retail demo display.
Still, the content of the article is wonderful. I really like the author’s marriage of both the hardware and software aspects. I had no idea that an RS-232 interface was exposed off 3 soldier pads inside the unit. That certainly makes it a great place to start, but as the author shows a lot more knowledge (that the author had) was necessary.
A really interesting read!
- Comment on Estonia Issues Shoot-to-Kill Warning Over Russia’s ‘Little Green Men’ 4 days ago:
“Let me put it bluntly: If the little green men ever cross our border, we will shoot them. Those will be the consequences; there’s no arguing about it. If Russia isn’t sure we’ll actually react, they might test us,” Tsahkna said, as reported by another Polish outlet, Onet.
This is the way to communicate to Russia.
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 5 days ago:
While those are cool, none of them help an average person, except maybe the trains, and definitely not in the US lol.
mRNA vaccines largely ended the most widespread global pandemic in human history just 5 years ago.
Cars were perfect in 05
Climate change would disagree.
Electric cars existed before gasoline cars… And you know what still doesn’t exist? A repairable, mostly analog electric car thats affordable. Doesn’t exist.
What’s stopping you from buying a used 2012 Nissan Leaf for about $6k? Or how about a 2014 BMW i3 for about the same price? Neither of those are Cell network connected or touchscreen heavy cars.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 5 days ago:
After you finish the last of the 3 novels, make sure you seek out the additional short stories. They fill in some nice gaps in the before, during, and after.
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 5 days ago:
For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).
I was thinking about this topic just a few days ago. I have another theory. Yes, yacht ownership is a method of communication, but they’re not trying to communicate with the common people, but instead indicating to each other of their level of wealth so they can find equal peers or greater peers to associate with, or greater to avoid.
A rich person with $10M net worth has almost nothing in common with a rich person with a $1B net worth.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 6 days ago:
On the downside, Energy Dome’s facility takes up about twice as much land as a comparable capacity lithium-ion battery would. And the domes themselves, which are about the height of a sports stadium at their apex, and longer, might stand out on a landscape and draw some NIMBY pushback.
This is surprisingly good! I would have figured it would have taken far more than twice the land than a Lithium battery solution.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 6 days ago:
yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.
So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.
First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.
So you’re comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 6 days ago:
I was thinking about much larger scale bubbles in “unwanted” geological depressions such as old open pit mines or rock quarries. The depression in the ground might offer more protection allowing it to scale up higher in volume.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 6 days ago:
Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.
You don’t get the “s” until you have the “https”. Your DNS request which turns www.TheWebsiteYouDoNotWantKnown.com into its IP address happens before you have the “s” in “https”. By default, that request is sent in plaintext, and frequently by default, to your internet service provider. So an outside monitor may not be able to see the contents of the website once you establish your https connection, they likely know that you went there and have a good idea how long you stayed on it.
While its also possible to encrypt the DNS request with DoH or DoT, its not on by default and requires the user to take configuration actions in their browser. If they’re looking at VPNs for the first time, they likely don’t know this and are sending their DNS requests in the clear.
- Comment on DIY 1 week ago:
Everything is “sold separately” these days. The make kit doesn’t even come with the Spear of Longinus?
- Comment on Every Christmas I make sure to include a special message from Santa's little helpers. 1 week ago:
Its 2025. Write it in Mandarin for more authenticity. However, in another 10 or 15 years English will be applicable again though.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Maybe MS couldn’t stuff enough ads into the old Start Menu requiring a re-write to allow for more ad space. /s
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10.
Sadly not true. Microsoft removed the Start button in a version of Windows before. It was in Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012 for some godforsaken reason) with the cursed “metro” interface. MS did it for the same stupid reason they’re citing here “tablet and touchscreen users”. The uproar caused MS to release Windows 8.1 a year later where they returned the Start button.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
Sure, it can happen. The anecdote sounds ludicrous to me: gatekeeping someone with that much experience over checking a box like that.
This is surprisingly common in many industries. It was one of the reasons I went back and got a degree as a working adult. It worked and I was able to land jobs that had that requirement which was a springboard into higher earning work. It was so strange the first time it happened. I got a call from a old coworker I hadn’t seen or heard from in about 12 years. He was a boss then looking to hire for a lucrative position. We talked for a bit to catch up, he said I had the skills he wanted then almost as an afterthought he said “Oh, uh, do you have a Bachelors degree?” and I said, for the first time in an employment situation “yes”. His response was “okay, sounds good. Show up on Monday, you’ve got the job”. That was it. Without being able to say “yes” there I would not have gotten that job. In the years since, received that same question and gave the same answer in a number of jobs after than each with increasing salary and benefits.
Also, no one asks when you got the degree. Everyone always assumes you got it after high school as is done traditionally.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
I’m currently getting my degree in my 30s to increase my earning potential as well.
I did what you’re doing now at the same age. I can tell you from the other side that it worked out very well for me. It was worth it for both the personal sense of accomplishment as well as the professional success. Keep at it! You’ve got this!
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
My state has free non-credit tuition at state schools for senior citizens. Part of my retirement plan is going back for more classes in whatever I find interesting.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
Going back to school when you’re employed means debt, earning way less or nothing during your bachelor or master, stress, opportunities you’re not aware of because you’re simply not at your workplace anymore
Don’t quit your day job. Do school in your non-work hours. This is how I did it. I stayed professionally employed and I went back at 30 years old. I did school for about 3 years part-time to get a 2-year Associates degree. Because I went with Community College and did only 1 or 2 classes per term, I never had to take on debt.
I used that Associates degree and got a better paying job that also came with a tuition reimbursement program. It paid 75% of books and tuition up to a certain dollar figure per year (IRS limit). Again, because I was going to school part-time in my off-hours, I simply never exceeded that IRS limit to extra the maximum reimbursement. I finished by Bachelors degree before turning 40. Again, I graduated with zero debt because I kept my professional employment and used the tuition reimbursement benefit. With that Bachelors degree I was able to get an even better job which lead to significant pay raises in the years that passed.
So, I disagree with your original premise that going back to school as a working adult has to means unemployment, debt, and loss of income. I’m not going to say what I did was easy, but what I did a little while ago is also still possible today. I have a close friend that is a year older than me that got his Associates around the same time I did using the same “keep your day job, do school partime” method, but he didn’t start his Bachelors when I did. However, he did so later. He graduates, getting his Bachelors, in two months from now!
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Everything I just read in that article confirms that moving to Linux (with OSX secondary) was the right choice.
Another area Microsoft focused on was improving the taskbar experience on smaller screens and touch devices.
This is Windows 8 and “metro” interface all over again. Its forcing users to bend to small devices touch screen users. Microsoft, look at your own history and see how well that worked out for you.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 2 weeks ago:
I’m imagining code snippets that would actually download ads into applications people are writing. This would target those that copy/paste’d code without having any concept of what the code in question does.
- Comment on Fun Otter Fact 2 weeks ago:
This is a bit of a misnomer. While North American River otters have zero knowledge on field-effect devices, they have a good grasp of junction devices such as transistors. It would not be surprising to anyone that knows otters that they can be bi-polar.
- Comment on Just spent the last 21 months in prison. What did I miss in the world of the Internet? 2 weeks ago:
So something that would be helpful would be some kind of “re-entry program”? Something that says “hey its X date now. These days here’s what’s available to you and what is expected of you generally as any random person, as a worker, as a member of a family”. Something like that or something else?
I would guess the length of incarceration would also change the content of it too. Folks that have been outside society longer will need more guidance to get up-to-date.
- Comment on Just spent the last 21 months in prison. What did I miss in the world of the Internet? 2 weeks ago:
21 months ago, so since about March 09, 2024?
I started to write things out and its all bad news. I’m struggling to come up with anything good that has happened since then. Hmm, the movie Wicked (the first one) was pretty good. So, I guess thats about all the good news.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 3 weeks ago:
Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.
I was willing to give a shot to something like the Metaverse, but the instant I heard it was a Facebook/Meta project I had zero interest and hoped it would die. This was my same experience with Occulus. These are both technologies I want for a cyberpunk future, but Facebook cannot be the one to control them.