theherk
@theherk@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Friends don’t let friends surf unprotected.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 2 weeks ago:
Pretty smart really. Good shelf life, easy prep, calorie dense.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
Yes. That’s just what I want. An extension sending all ads served to me to a central location, so my fingerprint can be very easily indexed and stored on a definitely never hacked, leaked, or sold database.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 3 weeks ago:
“1kW within 1hr” isn’t power. That’s energy.
“nice steady energy”? You mean nice steady power, right?
“The second is like hell hole, tons of energy but still only a little bit of power.” No. They are both precisely the same energy.
“So if you toasted a toast, that was a lot of power delivered quickly.” No. That is a lot of energy delivered quickly.
I typically wouldn’t be pedantic about this, except that this is precisely the point the video is making. These two unit types are often confused.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 3 weeks ago:
Ohh ee ohh!
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
I actually think their comments when it first went open source are pretty compelling. I don’t disagree with you and I’m interested to see how zedless fares, but new projects of this scale are tough to do well and quickly. I’m pretty happy with their current approach.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
I prefer Gitlab CICD but there are many. Actions had a lot of potential. Then Microsoft bought GitHub and just slapped the Actions label on their CI. If you pull off the mask, it is just Azure devops.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
Might check out Zed. Relatively new editor from the folks behind Atom and treesitter. Extremely fast with an excellent interface and vim mode. The second best vim mode behind Neovim.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
I get what you’re saying, but in that case the google.com interface isn’t a search engine; nor the load balancers and proxies between it and the search application backend. And then, maybe those don’t count because there is some special sauce in database procedures that are the real workhorses.
Pedantry all the way down.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
DDG has been superb for me for a few years now often returning results I prefer over Google. I’m really pleased with it.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
There are at least two projects trying. Ladybird is one and will make a splash next year. In addition, since the Servo project was adopted by the Linux Foundation it is again under active development.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 month ago:
My mistake. I didn’t look far enough into it. But the accusation was made without context so I didn’t know. I’m not trying to defend him.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 month ago:
I don’t know. But rather than just accepting the assertion, I did a cursory search. This turned up and I perused it. I didn’t see anything damning and thought maybe somebody could clarify. I am absolutely not trying to defend anybody, but I didn’t spend much time on it. Sorry folks.
Maybe he is a bad guy. Truly, I didn’t know.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 month ago:
Is he though? I didn’t know anything about this, but it doesn’t sound as bad with context.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 months ago:
Absolutist… ish
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
Not sure FlyingSquid is aware of life outside Lemmy. They’re addicted to the lotus flowers here.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 months ago:
I love the number of people coming out of the woodwork with “obviously” ex post facto. Like everybody could just intuit how this operated, both in the affiliate stuffing and the deal agreements. It is difficult to show the latter.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 5 months ago:
Curves being what they are, these numbers don’t mean much. Yes twitter has more users but if bsky crosses some threshold, their user count can begin to catch up quickly.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 5 months ago:
It could affect those things. But like I agreed with before, it should be handled carefully and this is a big reason. I distinguish simply between Facebook for example and ma’s blog. One tries to make money by gathering data and targeting advertising to people intentionally addicted to a platform. The other is, you know… a blog.
If the law outlawed the online exchange of ideas, I too would be among its biggest opponents but that is probably a strawman.
As far as me parenting? Sure. With the benefit of hindsight, I’m not sure I was fit either, but I did my best.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 5 months ago:
I agree that it is unprecedented and should be handled thoughtfully. Nevertheless a corporate website is not a social construct. There is no talk of banning socialization. Maybe you thought they meant social networks in the traditional sense (social group connections) but they are referring to websites. So cigarettes is a perfectly suitable analogy, which is why I can understand your dismissal.
So let me just clarify. Norwegian parents are bad, even though kids here are doing pretty well when compared globally. Regulating how young people interact with the world never works and is bad. So, underage drinking should be allowed, smoking, driving at 8, no age of consent? And parents can just talk to their kids to fix all the problems that happen, including psychological manipulation for financial gain? And anybody that has issues or is taken advantage of just has bad parents? Those who think society has a role to play are just virtue signaling?
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 5 months ago:
Interesting. Not going to debate much further with you, but I’m always a bit envious when I run into other parents who claim they have 100% control over their kids. I don’t. My child is grown now, but I absolutely did not. They were their own person, that no matter how much I talked to them had their own life and struggles.
And prohibition does work in some cases. See, cigarettes. Smoking has been in the fall for a long time especially among the young.
But I’m glad your kid will never have any problems ever and if they do that you admit it could have been solved by you talking to them.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 5 months ago:
We don’t have to accept corporations selling ads that target young people and using algorithms to take advantage of them.
And Norwegian parents are doing what many are doing; caring for their kids to the best of their abilities. That oil money has provided good social services and these teens do have access to healthcare, including mental, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t teenagers still. They necessarily require some independence. That’s growing up, so you can’t just parent around every problem. Hence restricting some things, like cigarettes and alcohol for example.
I don’t see this much differently. It is a hazardous drug that warrants some consideration. Enforcement is fraught but that doesn’t mean we should just sit on our hands and accept it as is.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 5 months ago:
That wasn’t clear to me, but it is a pretty funny point.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 5 months ago:
Unless it doesn’t make money.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 months ago:
Light switch rave!
- Comment on draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024 5 months ago:
Well, there are many of us that do care about software freedom. If you don’t, I hope your software is as good as your understanding of open source.
- Comment on People who use firefox how do you see what website you visit on a specific date? (say on september 12) for me it just shows like this 6 months ago:
Unless one shares a computer user with somebody, the privacy concerns of local history are nothing compared to connected features. There are many reasons people might use a browser other than chrome. Everybody disabling history is a strange assumption.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 6 months ago:
Fair enough. If you do run MacOS, I highly recommend UTM for running guest OS’s. It uses qemu and I have really found it to be even nicer than parallels.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 6 months ago:
If you don’t plan to upgrade even after security updates end, what’s keeping you there now?