theherk
@theherk@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
What? Map projections are not projected to manipulate you psychologically. They are projected to manipulate a three dimensional object onto a two dimensional surface.
- Comment on Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN 6 days ago:
You can install a wireguard spk from blackvoid - Wireguard SPK for your Synology NAS.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
Oh boy! Are you serious? Let me be more precise, in case. There aren’t actual projections that are better in all cases than the Mercator projection. There are maps that are better in given cases. ALL maps have trade offs. The one you shared, included. It certainly benefits from the humor of pointing out why this is an issue in the first place.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
I don’t believe that 99% figure for a second. Unless geography is removed from all curricula worldwide. Even still, that ignorance would not signify what this movement implies. It is a useful map; end of story. If the movement were, “We should increase public knowledge of geography and how projections work,” fine. But it isn’t.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
There aren’t better maps. Only maps with different tradeoffs. ALL 2d maps of spheres are disproportionate.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
This is such a garbage take. There is no way to “show our world as it truly is” in two dimensions. I’m all about showing other projects and orientations. Classrooms should have “upside down” maps and Albert maps for example. But we should also teach that each projection has benefits and drawbacks. I was taught that decades ago. Have we stopped?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
I love Zen.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 2 weeks ago:
Bonus points is you run a fork bomb in parallel and see how far you get. Throw an egg on your heat sink for fun.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
If that isn’t already shorthand for “whenever, wherever, whatever” it should be.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 3 weeks ago:
I don’t view it as simply compromised or not. How a password is compromised is relevant. The vast majority of issues aren’t somebody gaining access to your logged in machine. Passwords are nearly always compromised from a server mishandling data.
That means in most cases 2FA near a password is not likely to be an issue. I’m not saying I recommend it, but it does change the risk evaluation.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 4 weeks ago:
First I’m finding out a ligature exists. Awesome.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
Truffle Shuffle 🤮
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 4 weeks ago:
FWIW, Anthropic’s models do much better here and point out how problematic demographic assessment like this is and provide an answer without those. One of many indications that Anthropic has a much higher focus on safety and alignment than OpenAI. Not exactly superstars, but much better.
- Comment on Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod 4 weeks ago:
They should have used all caps. Then it would have listened. Oh wait…
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 5 weeks ago:
Peacock is NBC / Comcast. Colbert was on CBS / Paramount.
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 1 month ago:
Nix and Docker / container runtimes are completely different animals. Each is good at what they do, but those are vastly different things, with some overlap. If you want to share a kernel but use fewer resources than a VM, containers can do that. If you want to go further and completely isolate, you can use microvm’s like firecracker.
I don’t follow what is wrong with that. Maybe you mean it’s use where people use it specifically as a package manager. I agree with that, but even then it has its handy place.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome 1 month ago:
Also Servo is now under the Linux Foundation. Both this and Ladybird are very exciting.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 1 month ago:
I got a privacy update for Gmail tools too. It used to be to enable smart tools you needed to allow google to read your email. That does stuff like automatically add calendar events for flights and such.
Now you must also allow the email to be read by their AI services too. I can’t recall precisely how it was worded, but it was an easy decision to keep the “smart” features off.
I mean, I really just use Gmail as the email address I give to sign up for sites and such, but would be good just not to have it one day.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 month ago:
If only there were a word, literally defined as:
Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 1 month ago:
I hate that. I’m looking at you Healthline. I hate that it’s always so high in the results.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
Not liking Apple for ethical reasons is one thing, but thinking they don’t make good products surprises me. I think the current generation of MacBooks are some of the best computers ever sold.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
By denying access to resources in a primary region, one might force traffic to an alternate infrastructure with a different configuration. Or maybe by overwhelming hosts that distribute BGP configurations. By denying access to resources, sometimes you can be routed to resources with different security postures or different monitoring and alerting, thus not raising alarms. But these are just contrived examples.
Compromising devices is a wide field with many different tools and ideas, some of which are a bit off the wall and nearly all unexpected, necessarily.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Disabling network security and edge devices to change the properties of ingress can absolutely be a component of an attack plan.
Just like overwhelming a postal sorting center could prevent a parcel containing updated documentation from reaching the receiver needing that information.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Can be a component of it.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
AI is a superset of transformers which is then a superset of LLM’s. I think I’m making the same point as you, that in the broader sense “AI” can be useful.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 months ago:
It also helps with tons of complex tasks in the sciences like finding new protein folding algorithms.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 2 months ago:
Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.
- Comment on Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV 2 months ago:
What year is this?
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 2 months ago:
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.
Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 months ago: