dhork
@dhork@lemmy.world
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 1 day ago:
How is Mint internationally?
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 1 day ago:
All my shit is in the Google ecosystem. I am fairly confident that Gmail is not going away anytime soon. However, I am more afraid that some obscure ToS violation will forcibly disconnect me from their ecosystem, and I will have to scramble to make sure all my contacts have my alternate info. I am doubly screwed, as a Google Fi customer. If we all get suddenly degoogled, I lose a phone number that I have had for over 20 years.
As good a deal that Fi is for me (I normally don’t use bandwidth unless I travel internationally), I may switch soon just to reduce my exposure to Google.
- Comment on Warcraft 1 & 2 Remastered Editions Now Available 3 days ago:
Fuck, I’m old.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information. 2 weeks ago:
Using your credentials is not hacking, but once he was canned he no longer had authorization to access those systems. Legally, there is probably no distinction between gaining access by actual hacking vs. using credentials that are no longer authorized.
So yes, their IT processes are deficient, but that doesn’t let the guy off the hook or mitigate his punishment.
- Comment on What do I put down on my resume? 2 weeks ago:
If I were hiring for a forklift operator, and someone was a good candidate who came with experience but their prior employer didn’t certify him properly, I would pay for the certification. $300 seems like noise compared with the general cost of onboarding a new employee. But it’s been a while since I worked in Manufacturing, and when I did the managers at that place were competent, so maybe my standards are too high.
- Comment on What do I put down on my resume? 2 weeks ago:
In that case, OP should just be honest about the status of his certification. If other employers hire from WalMart often, they know their practices. The new employer may even want to pay for the classes, if they know the candidate has done the job before and is likely to pass. But I don’t know how much it costs and whether a company would normally pay for that.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. In fact, in the US, it can be a crime for a doctor to aid someone in distress, if that person is a pregnant woman and helping them might harm the baby they are carrying.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 2 weeks ago:
Or is it simply cheaper to manufacture while being sold for the same price?
Yes, it’s mainly that. Most vendors don’t make their own power adaptors anyway, since there are strict requirements for power adaptors that are plugged into AC wall sockets in each country. The stuff inside the large brick is likely sourced from somewhere else, who has all those certifications worldwide. Note that it also uses standard AC power cable plugs. That large brick can be shipped worldwide by simply changing the AC cable it ships with.
The small GaN Brick is also outsourced, but since it is smaller it is probably more expensive to build. However, the AC plus is integrated into it, which means the seller has to stock physically separate units for each plug type.
As far as the price is concerned, this one shop is selling them all at around the same price, but I bet the MSRP on the Lenovo one is much higher, because of the brand. The parts inside the Lenovo one are probably cheaper.
- Comment on What do I put down on my resume? 2 weeks ago:
I am not allowed to carry these certifications outside Wal-Mart to use.
Says who? Will Walmart use a memory gun to erase your knowledge about which lever does what? If you find another job that uses those skills, they will do whatever they need to paperwork-wise to make you eligible.
Put it all down. Don’t use the word “certification” if it makes you feel better, but list all those things somewhere. Some people put a section with “relevant skills” at the end, you can list all the machinery you know how to use.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 2 weeks ago:
The article noted that the agents can’t use their personal devices while on duty but of course they can while they are off duty. It mentioned that one of the guards took a jog while off duty, but that jog was from the hotel the President was staying at.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
They also push their credit card with Chase. It has a $99 yearly fee, but gives you a free checked bag and lets you into Boarding Group 2 without needing extra status, which has an okay chance of having enough overhead for a carry-on. If you intend to fly United more than once in a year with a checked bag, but not enough to get status, it can make more sense to get the card.
It kind of sucks to have to play those games, but that’s Capitalism.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
Basic economy simply isn’t worth it. They nickel and dime you with all the BS fees. And the credit card thing is total bullshit, too. They do it because they want to make sure they have your card on file in order to sell you overpriced snack boxes and charge them to your seat.
Once I had to buy a poor lady some crackers because she was on the last leg of a flight from Asia and hasn’t eaten anything, but the stewardess couldn’t take her money unless she had set up her CC ahead of time.
I fly United often enough for work that I have some status, so I’m one of the entitied snobs who board first and hog all the overhead space.
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, everything you wrote about excess mortality in rural vs urban areas is 100% correct. But the Census aimed to enumerate everyone living in the country as of April 1, 2020, and it hit NYC really hard right at the start. So the fact that the rest of the country eventually caught up with the mortality rate didn’t help NY State in the Census at all.
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 3 weeks ago:
COVID has already had an impact on the election. The census date was April 1, 2020. In March of 2020, COVID had started to severely hit NYC but was only ramping up in other areas. NY ended up losing a congressional seat in that census, by only 89 people. There’s no doubt that COVID’s timing screwed up NY State’s congressional map, and contributed to the slim Republican majority in this year’s census.
- Comment on All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication 3 weeks ago:
There are such things as L1 switches, they are not really switches in the Ethernet sense but rather more like crossbar switches. They can selectively connect all traffic from two arbitrary ports together, and then change that on the fly, without a waiting change. Applications that are obsessed with getting the lowest possible latency might opt for those.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Roman Catholic doctrine opposes both, but the bishops don’t go around threatening to withhold religious services for politicians who allow the death penalty like they do with pro-choice politicians…
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 1 month ago:
Trust me, we have tried. The problem is that l, while the PayPal account was never verified to that email address, somehow a foreign number is attached to it. Every time we have tried to use that email with the account, the verification ping goes to that number, even though the email is unverified. We haven’t found a way to tell PayPal to disassociate that number, because we never had any account attached to it to begin with.
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 1 month ago:
What is someone squatted on your email, starting an unverified account attached to your email address with their phone number, but the fuckers at PayPal won’t do a thing about it?
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 1 month ago:
Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi’s private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key.
If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi (or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access). Even if that person wasn’t actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.
Unless it’s Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
How about a nice game of Chess?
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Just don’t hook it up to your wifi. Don’t use any of its included apps. If you must stream get a separate device to do it.
- Comment on China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia. 1 month ago:
Is our plan to pollute everything with AI first, so the Chinese bots are trained by our bots?
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
If you run BGP, yes. You can always just build up huge-ass fixed routing tables that are impossible to maintain once you get more than a handful of networks…
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
The way forward is to stop looking at those as “features of the keyboard and mouse that I purchased” and consider them as “unlockables” where you have to pay again by handing over your personal info. Then stop buying their stuff, because it’s absurd to have to pay twice.
I prefer my keyboards and mice as dumb as possible. Preferably with cables, so I never have to worry about charging them.
- Comment on Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly 1 month ago:
It’s so smart it knew it didn’t want to support Putin and sabotaged itself
- Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 1 month ago:
The big problem is that it trivially easy to make new tokens, and give them the appearance of a market with fake liquidity. I know people think Smart Contracts are a real innovation, but 99.999999% of the time they are just used to make more crappy tokens.
Crypto advocates say it’s security comes from the network effect of all the nodes working on extending the blockchain, but that security is of little value if it enables scams on higher layers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just say it’s for AI and you’ll have scores of people here defending you
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 1 month ago:
I was gonna reply that Hermain Cain was probably the “Black Donald Trump”, but I looked it up and Cain actually had success in his business ventures. He also was only married once.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
NYT says this switch to pagers has been recent, after the Oct 7 attacks last year, when Hezbollah suspected that Israel was spying on the cell network, and using it to locate targets for strikes. So all these pagers got distributed to Hezbollah-affiliated people in short order . This system doesn’t use commercial networks, and has been called a “closed” network by the NYT.
If all that is true, then that means anyone with one of these closed-network pagers got it from being involved with Hezbollah in the first place.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
It was, until the mods got rid of it