Tanoh

@Tanoh@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only issue I see is that the 8 chars required is very short and easy to brute force. You would hope that people would go for the recommended instead, but doubt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request to lemmy: can you please allow non-latin letters as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also the risk of homograph attacks. The link below is for domain name encoding via IDN, but the same applies to usernames. You could easily impersonate another user by having chars that look similar.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And ethernet port!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recruiters can’t see the difference! (Ok, not all but a worrying high percentage)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is still just a “trust us” deal. They say they have deleted it, and all you can do is trust them. They could possibly get into legal troubles if it was shown they were lying, but that could be easily avoided as well.

  GDPR is ok, but much of it is based on good actors doing what they should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a better, but still not perfect, way to define it would be “This person wants to do X, but can’t support him/her/itself doing it.”

  Of course, if you are already rich it doesn’t matter and then it is a bad metric (one of the reasons it isn’t perfect.) However, I think it is a better way to define it. Someone writing a few books as a hobby and then stops are not a failed writer, but someone that wants to be a writer but just can’t support it is.

  Basically I think the intent matters, but that is impossible to measure (and people lie about it). So being able to do it as a profession is an ok metric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …and when they don’t pay Discord under the table. Discord wouldn’t be unique if this was the case either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where you are getting those numbers from. Most put chrome in around 78%, edge at 10% and then everything else. And all chrome re-skins are just that, google still controls it. There is a reason one of the biggest software companies in the world just gave up their own browser engine and runs a competitor’s with some face paint.

  Google are in a far better position to push something like this through than Microsoft ever where, due to their near monopoly on searches. Any site not using it would be more or less dead. Just going from number 1 to 2 on a google search can mean a huge drop in traffic, and then imagine not even being on it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  now it is mostly written for web browsers (between which there are no longer any significant differences in terms of standards compatibility).

  At this point I think it is just a matter of time until Google (most likely due to their near monopoly with Chrome), will push for some new standard that they own and control and must be used everywhere. For some handwaving combination of security and protect the kids, etc. And google are in a great position to make it happen, don’t support it? Oh noes, your site is no longer listed in google searches.

  And that will be the end of the open web, you can only use one browser that totally controls what you can and cannot do. Ad blocking is just the start, saving websites or images? Nah. We don’t allow that. Copy the url? No, you need to use this share button that has embedded tracking links in it, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also means that they can freeze separately

  Pretty good summary of Microsoft’s “innovations” the last decade or so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a GPG signature? Does it help us stay protected against deep fakes misinformation, and if so, how?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GPG signatures are set by the sender to prove the message is originating from the sender and is unchanged. It’s signed with the private key and verified with the public key.

  A bit of a nitpick, but important to keep in mind. The GPG signatures shows that someone that has access to the private key sent that message. If I somehow gets a hold of a copy of your key, I can send messages that seems to originate from you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just the ads, and you can’t turn them off. Ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also bluetooth fucking sucks for lack of a better phrase.

  9/10 times it connects fine, but then every now and then it just refuses. “What? No I don’t exist” and then you have to either restart bluetooth and/or the device, and then it magically works again.

  Also, I quite often get stuttering with it. Not sure if it is my phone or headphones or both at fault, but I would like having an audio jack when I am sitting at the desk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got super tired of google a few months ago. “Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu.”

  So I started using bing instead, I wouldn’t say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.

  Quite annoying how they keep pushing for “AI” all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For every year that passes Silicon Valley slides further and further from comedy to documentary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨domain name with your own name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe it is a feeble attempt to annoy people that sign up with foo+service@somewhere.com and then sort it into different inboxes (of course you can filter on other things but + is built into gmail). You can also use it to see who sold your info when you get spam on that adress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is About to Remake the PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it has the hallmarks of a classic hype cycle.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

  We are probably at around the peak of the hype cycle now. I am preparing the popcorns for when the next phase hits.