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- Comment on Defend your cheese 3 weeks ago:
Ngl it’s in the weird uncanny valley for me too, I’m not sure what is going on.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
This is true! There is no accounting for sentimentality.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
There are certainly better investment options. You don’t see Jeff Bezos sinking his fortune into Rolexi
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
I mean that’s just kinda the way it is in the US / Canada. Though I hear Canada has even higher prices for less service.
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for sharing this traumatic experience from your past. ಥ_ಥ
- Comment on My favorite 4 weeks ago:
I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write this out. I definitely had stereotypes about NJ being less than pleasant based on all the memes, but I realize I should probably reconsider that. A wine -> casino -> boardwalk tour sounds like it could be fun (I have no idea of the geography so no clue if this is possible).
- Comment on My favorite 4 weeks ago:
I thought that’s genuinely how they did it at high end restaurants to make sure you have a perfectly portioned bit of pasta cooked to the right doneness. I swear I’ve seen this method on Hell’s Kitchen.
Granted, I may be thinking about something else vs what you’re talking about but still.
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m in the US and those “free” phone contracts over 3 years are objectively terrible deals when you look at the total cost of $100–120/mo or more with the “free” phone on one of the big three vs buying it outright and paying $25/mo (ish) with an MVNO.
Even if you assume a total cost of $100 at Verizon with the “free” phone—which I believe is a super low estimate—and you assume $45 at Visible (shameless referral plug)—which is their most expensive tier—you’re coming out at $1980 less in contracts over 3 years which could buy you (virtually) any phone you want and then some.
- Comment on Teef stonks 📈 2 months ago:
This is a screenshot from the Morning Brew newsletter. They’re honestly pretty great, love these stock hot takes.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 months ago:
Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.
For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!
For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
I know that… I was taking liberties to take hydroelectric power to its furthest logical extension by saying that the sun is evaporating (boiling) the water, it goes through the water cycle, it is deposited atop mountains or further upriver, and it then flows back down through the hydroelectric stations.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
One could even argue that hydro power is just boiling water, letting it condense, and then letting it spin a turbine
- Comment on WILD 2 months ago:
I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true
- Comment on Anyone self-hosting ActualBudget? (with connection to bank) 2 months ago:
It doesn’t help our friends in the EU, but I’m hopeful that the CFPB’s “Open Banking” rules might actually make it possible to do this with an open source product with OAuth and common APIs rather than these aggregators that are just web scraping your bank.
- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 2 months ago:
I’ve heard others recommend Low End Box before but I have no experience, so do some due diligence before selecting any of these!
- Comment on Where to start as a beginner 2 months ago:
I started with the 2020 tutorial from these guys. They’ve updated it a few times through the years so I can’t speak to how good the new version is, but I’m sure it’s probably plenty to get started.
smarthomebeginner.com/traefik-v3-docker-compose-g…
After I followed this guide, I’ve deviated significantly as I learned and started to do my own thing. It’s a great place to start and learn the basics of containerized applications and once you have that then you can host most things that are dockerized. All I need to do now to start up a new service is pull up the README on Docker Hub (or better yet, if LinuxServer.io has a container that does what I want to do, on their website), figure out what I want to do with the variables and any setup that needs to happen, and then I add it to my .yml and start it up!
I’ve got it all tracked now on GitHub so I can see what I’ve changed and when and if something were to go wrong I could revert back to a known-good configuration.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 3 months ago:
I think the reason why regular store bought gizmos won’t let you decrypt it is because content can require HDCP to make sure you don’t gain access to the data. If there were a device at Best Buy that just bypassed this, I think the DMCA and rights holders would come down hard on the seller.
I’ve heard of gizmos from shadier places may be able to decrypt the data but it’s likely because they’re acting outside of the law.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 3 months ago:
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months ago:
In general, use numerals to express numbers 10 and above, and use words to express numbers zero through nine.
Example given:
students were in the third, sixth, eighth, 10th, and 12th grades
Your example does not follow the style guide and is an example of when to use digits
Percentages 50% 75%–80%
If you’re a professional writer, you should be following the style guide and this is explicitly spelled out by the APA.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps 3 months ago:
Direct from the Cloudflare Blog
I find their write ups to be fascinating.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 3 months ago:
Edit: seems I was wrong about the escape mechanism for helium, it seems the primary mechanism is polar wind escape.
Also, hydrogen can also apparently escape from the Earth.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 3 months ago:
At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco, and was guillotined despite appeals to spare his life in recognition of his contributions to science. A year and a half later, he was exonerated by the French government.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 3 months ago:
I mean too much Helium isn’t a problem. It’s one of the few (only?) elements that will just disappear if you don’t do anything with it.
It’s light enough that it rises to the very tip top of the earth’s atmosphere and is then stripped away by solar radiation. That’s why is a depleting natural resource, not because it’s burned or used or anything, but because it just escapes.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
unless you’re sending megabytes of text or something
That’s exactly what someone malicious would do though, either in a single password submission or DOS via the password maximum repeatedly. IMO there is no functional security difference between a 64 and a 256 character password, so the NIST 64 character max is reasonable.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
You can also just run it when you need it rather than having to add an extension. Just add a bookmarklet with the code here and just click it when you encounter a problematic website.
It’ll reduce your attack surface while still getting the job done.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 3 months ago:
What is the first name of your first best friend?
eoY&Z9m4LNRDY!Gzdd%q98LYiBi8Nq
Oh old eoY&Z9m4LNRDY!Gzdd%q98LYiBi8Nq and I go way back! I met eoY&Z9m4LNRDY!Gzdd%q98LYiBi8Nq in Pre-K and we’ve been inseparable ever since.
It is quite annoying if they’re a service that makes you read aloud your security questions to phone reps to prove your identity. One of my retirement accounts requires that and I have to sigh and read out the full string. I’ve changed it since to an all lowercase, 20 digit string as a compromise.
- Comment on There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there 4 months ago:
Luckily, we can mathematically prove this with the Intermediate Value Theorem!
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 4 months ago:
Definitely RuneScape that did it for me
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 4 months ago:
Tbf my work Dell Latitude 5440 has a USB A with a SS5, an A with a SS5 and charging indicator, a C with a thunderbolt indicator, and a C with a battery and a thunderbolt indicator.
So at least some of their laptops do in fact have the indicators similar-ish enough to what the infographic shows.
- Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? 4 months ago:
Here’s the stats for mastodon.world and Lemmy.world
(And a few other fediverse sites)