douglasg14b

@douglasg14b@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah this point?

  You’re own bloody country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the title calls this out… "Strategic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that the entire premise of this is to allow ai unfettered and unrestricted access to the creations of anyone without any repercussions.

  Solely to benefit those owners.

  Also guaranteed that this will be one of those situations where IP laws will be removed for everyone except those who stand benefit from this.

  So overall there is nothing actually good or winning about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re cool with it until you realize that they only want to do this to personally gain from it. And guaranteed will protect their own IP, and the IP of every large corporation.

  It’s just that you yourself and small businesses will no longer have the benefit of intellectual property. Megacorps can steal whatever they want with impunity since they are the only true holders of intellectual property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … Or both?

  Why make a false dichotomy out of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes because when are conversing in person you are conversing synchronously.

  Only one person talks at a time and for the most part only one major subject idea question or problem is considered at a time. You talk about one thing and then you move along and talk about another thing.

  This is not necessarily the case with written language. Where you have the benefit of talking about many things, changing subjects, and listing information out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of frustration from online discussions when the things you say are entirely missed or misinterpreted is a great example of this.

  Even mildly complex topics that touch anything politically charged or emotionally charged tend to be subject to groupthink dynamics in a format where group think is largely just a result of poor reading comprehension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is a sad State of affairs that reading comprehension is so bad that people can’t answer questions in written form.

  I mean it’s literally written down you can’t miss it.

  And to clarify this is more of me complaining because I’ve experienced this a lot. It’s most apparent in online discussions, where seemingly a majority of what you say gets completely skipped missed or misinterpreted and replies often focus on just a couple words of your statement instead of understanding sometimes even just a whole paragraph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For real I love it when I’m not at work having fun and living life even if it’s just boring and I’m at home just working on some house projects and riding my bike

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only committed to winning in that way if winning means that I am getting a cut of the company profits.

  I’m at my salary will reflect the profitability and growth of the company.

  Otherwise I’m just another wage slave that you’re trying to abuse, and take away my work is rights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case I run pfSense instead of my ISP provided router. This allows me to have my own DNS resolver, which I can then resolve various domains to internal addresses.

  All devices on my network point to my router for DNS allowing them to resolve internal addresses from all of these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good call out.

  There are a few things I do right now:

  1. All of my public DNS entries for the certs point at cloudflare, not my IP.
  2. My internal Network DNS resolver will resolve those domains to an internal address
  3. I drop all connections to those domains in cloudflare with rules
  4. In caddy, I drop all connections that come from a non-internal IP range for all internal services
  5. I use tailscale to avoid having to have routes from the Internet into my internal services for when I’m not at home.
  6. For externally accessible routes, I have entirely separate configurations that proxy access to them. And external DNS still points to cloudflare, which has very restrictive rules on allowable connections.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmoud Khalil's case different?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a US Person. Who has all the rights of a citizen sans voting and a few other specific things…

  Not kind now till citizens end up this way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just:

  1. Have my router setup with DNS for domains I want to direct locally, and point them to:
  2. Have a reverse proxy that has auto- certbot behavior (caddy) connected to the cloud flair API
  3. Navigation I do within my local network to these domains gives me real certificates.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they not learning from the U.S.??

  Your government can, and will, eventually turn against you. Under no circumstances should more power be given to it to compromise your privacy.

  Data from now will be used against you or your children 30, 50, 80 years from now by another fascist government. Don’t let that happen at an even broader scale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might not necessarily have to fork BitTorrent and instead if you have your own protocol for grouping and breaking the data into manageable chunks of a particular size and each one of those represents an actual full torrent. Then you won’t necessarily have to worry about completion levels on those torrents and you can rely on the protocol to do its thing.

  Instead of trying to modify the protocol modify the process that you wish to use protocol with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how tf do you warm up plates?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Options:

  1. Very Wet paper towel on the plate, microwave the plate for 30s
  2. Heat it up over a flame, a ways away (ie. Butane torch under it, but like 12" away)
  3. If you have a small countertop over or air fryer/toaster. Heat it up in there briefly
  4. If you’re making toast, place it on top of the toaster (not too long, it can still break).

  I heat my plates up alllll the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Delete Your 23andMe Data.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let this be a lesson to write down any fake data you enter into accounts.

  My keepass entries maintain all the fake form into for each account, makes it possible to move forward in instances just like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, that’s quite reasonable, though at some point you just move towards re-creating BitTorrent, which will be the actual effect you want.

  You could build an appliance on top of the protocol that enables the distributed storage, that might actually be pretty reasonable 🤔

  Ofc you will need your own protocols to break the data up into manageable parts, chunked in a same way, and make it capable of being removed from the network or at least made inaccessible for dmca claims. Things that is completely preventing the internet archive from being too much of a target from government entities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual volume of data is kind of insane for distribution. You start running into many scale problems.

  At ~70PB of storage, assumed redundant as well. And at ~$15/TB JUST for HDDs alone, you’re talking $2.1 million in just hard drives.

  Installation, hardware, and facility costs will at least pentuple that number, if we’re being crazy conservative. Making the cost to stand up an archive $10.5 million?

  ---

  During this process I found out that their finances are public and there is more reliable information out there:

  • $2/GB for permanent storage, overall ( $2000/TB)

  The cost to store the data and run the archive is a whopping $36mill/y at the moment.

  Which if you consider what they do is incredibly cheap. And easily fundable by even a small municipality never mind a large Nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are an individual and not a business then the IRS already knows what you have been paid as long as you have been paid by a business.

  It’s already reported.

  You can’t dodge your taxes unless you are wealthy or a large corporation, us peons are already under the thumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is it it will catch up to you if you owe taxes.

  When this country recovers, be that in 10 years, then virus will happily go after the tax dodgers of yesterdecade.

  That would be my worry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And funded by who?

  It’s nice to say that it should be decentralized, but who is funding the development of that? Are you donating to IA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always has been.

  Right beside the fact that their monetary model relies on user activity tracking. Yet they advertise privacy.

  A browser that had a seemingly unlimited budget for advertising before it even had users is suspicious as hell.

  I’ve never trusted brave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, though the numbers are depressing.

  A site like Reddit grows in its daily active users more than 15x (!!!) entire MAU base of Lemmy. “Reddit migrations” are barely a margin of error for them.

  This is excluding, liberal, assumption of bot counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy Ecuador!

  Wish I was joking…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better, it’s now a nice database of who companies and governments can go after when they want or need to!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky does federation-washing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What most people in this thread don’t realize is that what you’re seeing right here is the problem with federated services in this day and age.

  Federation protocols and systems just are not mature enough to scale.

  Yes you will essentially always have to abandon ship anytime any federated service scales up it’s user base. It will always be entirely unaffordable and unobtainable for randoms to host their own servers because the compute storage and networking requirements will far exceed what most can’t afford.

  As an aggregate federated services are always more expensive to host then centralized services. And that cost scales less efficiently than centralized services. Meaning that with linear user growth you get exponential cost growth, and the barrier for entry follows.

  Which means that all federated services have to have centralization in order to scale. In their current form.

  This is a really tough problem to solve and is going to take a lot of time and money to build good solutions for. Time and money that… You guessed it, is largely funded by profits not donations.

  And now we have looped back around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not mention the abysmal performance for servers. Making it largely infeasible to scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the business model works? They make money, they pay staff, and they are growing.

  I don’t know what you’re talking about, people have price sensitivity of course. You are projecting yours onto “everyone”, is it not a successful business?

  There’s a niche they cater to, if you are not that niche then you are not that niche. Doesn’t mean the niche doesn’t exist.