Static_Rocket
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- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
I assumed from the start that they were purposefully holding back promo codes, or scraping them from users and holding the affected sites ransom (in a sense). “We’ll stop serving this cupon if you become a member.” Scummy, but ultimately still slightly beneficial to the end user, a Robbin Hood crime. (Ignoring the people who work with genuinely good companies to get discount codes for things like student projects. Unrecognized casualties.)
It’s the affiliate link stealing that’s become the source of outcry. That was more stealthy and essentially flipped the script. Now everyone publicly in support of it is being burned.
If you were never involved in it, it really is just funny to see how quickly a corporate Robin Hood figure can flip sides. It’s not like we haven’t seen numerous examples before, some of them literally taking the namesake.
- Comment on Will any UPS work with Linux? 1 month ago:
- Comment on How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) 2 months ago:
Well, that diagram brings up an interesting point. In fediverse if the host dies the federated content can still live on (theoretically, I haven’t checked to see if they cull content from dead hosts) but ATProto would dictate that the host is missing and therefore all content associated with the host is now immediately 404.
- Comment on Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security? 3 months ago:
I could appreciate a client certification that is optional, like a list of approved clients on their website or something along those lines.
It should not be enforced by killing the client. I like security, but I enjoy software freedom more.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 3 months ago:
Not sure about the Eco tank line, but the smart tank line botched the IPP interface. Ink level reporting is always wrong and printer status is regularly wrong. Exposed settings are limited to push people to the app.
- Comment on Google Is ‘Thinking Through’ How to Make the Pixel Watch Repairable 4 months ago:
We’ll have a timeline for this by next quarter
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 4 months ago:
Was actually considering buying premium now that I use YouTube for music more than Spotify, but then the ad stuff happened and now this. Going to avoid it out of principle now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Sounds like it would specifically be APRS if he was. Neat protocol. Unfortunately no encrypted traffic was allowed last time I looked into it.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 5 months ago:
I want the statistic on how many Google employees themselves use ad blockers now. It’s basically a necessity.
- Comment on Why don't cell phones have BIOS? 5 months ago:
Because ARM was built to be cheap.
BIOS nowadays is basically a bootloader shim in EEPROM. The majority of the ARM ecosystem wanted flexible and cheap devices. This promoted the use of a small ROM loader burned into the device and a removal of basically all EEPROM from the SoC.
The flexibility came back through the use of a secondary bootloader layer normally stored in the devices primary storage. Most manufacturers use u-boot or coreboot on an SD card or eMMC. Android standardized this as part of their partitioning scheme. All devices have a dedicated bootloader partition housing the secondary bootloader and any additional boot artifacts.
Then phones became wildly expensive and invalidated most of this.
- Comment on AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA 5 months ago:
This is a short term loss for a potential long term improvement. By eliminating dependency on translation APIs they can force the use of more open solutions like oneAPI which is even getting buy-in from companies like Imagination.
Keeping cuda alive is a bad idea.
- Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds 5 months ago:
TFIDF and some light rules should work well and be significantly faster.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | July 2024 Update - New iOS App, Full Page Copy, User Administration and more... 🚀 6 months ago:
Yo, they added full page copies now? Gotta give it a spin again
- Comment on Chips could harvest their own energy using a newly-created alloy 6 months ago:
Data centers will probably be the only practical application. Consumer electronics will probably barely produce enough energy to power the regulator and tie-in circuit just to feed back into the pwm driver for fans nowadays.
- Comment on USB-C cables can talk 6 months ago:
100% some internet funeral aesthetics
- Comment on Thought's on this Raspberry Pi Rival? board handled 20 open Chrome tabs and 4K video playback smoothly ,board has Rockchip 8-core ARM processor, 32 GB of RAM, Mali G610 GPU, competing with top OOPS. 6 months ago:
Lol, changing the country of origin doesn’t constitute innovation from a consumer standpoint…
Now if this was using 5nm or chiplit or any of the other buzzwords of the day it could be marketed as innovative in the modern sense of the word.
Realistically there is no innovation left for ARM platforms. You all use the same core schematic. You only control data flow and peripheral IP as a manufacturer, unless you feel like building your own core from the spec (nobody really does that anymore as ARM has been desperately trying to standardize everything). The most “innovation” I’ve seen has come from stubbornness around keeping legacy bus architecture around instead of adopting AXI (even when all the IP you are trying to use already uses AXI and you keep having to make translation hardware).
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 6 months ago:
Fuck it. Gun it at the brick wall. Jerry’s rigging up an emergency break as we speak. Don’t mind that the last piece to said break may be missing.
- Comment on Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options? 8 months ago:
To me on the security side of things caddy has a feature I have yet to see anywhere else: default reverse proxy headers.
Got something you want to lock down remote js loading on unless it explicitly requests an override? Default the variable to a locked value. The application can override it with it’s own header as necessary.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 8 months ago:
Good video going over practical pros and cons currently:
- Comment on Traefik 3.0 GA Has Landed: Here's How to Migrate 8 months ago:
I wish nginx had the concept of default header values for reverse proxies…
I mean, you can kind of do it with macros but man…
- Comment on Docker or podman? 10 months ago:
It depends on what you want. Do you want containers that don’t blow away your firewall? Podman is nice, but docker can be configured a little to avoid this. Want things that autostart and don’t have issues with entry points that attempt to play with permissions/users? Docker or podman as root is necessary. Want reasonable compose support? Podman now needs a daemon/socket. Want to make build containers and not deal with permission/user remapping at all? Podman is really nice.
Do not attempt to use podman-compose. That app is dead.
- Comment on Banana Pi's $31 BPI-WiFi 6 router runs a fork of OpenWrt - Liliputing 10 months ago:
They have been around for a little while now. Had one in college ~4 years ago. Upstream kernel support was a little rough but spec wise they were impressive alternatives to the RPi 3B
- Comment on Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry 10 months ago:
Friendlyjordies watchers knowing it would be abc that advocates for this…
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 11 months ago:
openbenchmarking.org
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 11 months ago:
Part of the problem is the game of telephone drops the cell chemistry related to the method almost immediately leading to general consumers applying it as a blanket rule for all batteries
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 11 months ago:
Yep. Battery chemistry is a real pain in the ass. Every few years someone spins a wheel and determines the next big thing that everyone needs to do to prevent batteries from dying early. For a while people were told full cycles were healthy for avoiding cell memory. Now more sporadic cycles are being peddled.
Use the device as you need it. If you complete a full cycle, cool; if not, that’s fine. Just don’t let the damn thing completely die and don’t keep it permanently on charge. Those are the common things most people do on accident that can really screw up a cell.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 11 months ago:
I wish more distro’s packaged librewolf. I know there’s an appimage and such but I prefer native tested packages where possible.
- Comment on Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits 11 months ago:
The most useful quote to those familiar with the linux boot process:
“An attacker would need to be able to coerce a system into booting from HTTP if it’s not already doing so, and either be in a position to run the HTTP server in question or MITM traffic to it,” Matthew Garrett, a security developer and one of the original shim authors, wrote in an online interview. “An attacker (physically present or who has already compromised root on the system) could use this to subvert secure boot (add a new boot entry to a server they control, compromise shim, execute arbitrary code).”
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 11 months ago:
Something akin to haveibeenpwned.com password hash partial match? Can that even be done with this data?
- Comment on Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses 11 months ago:
I’m still trying to figure out good nftables rules for ipv6 prefix delegation…