theherk
@theherk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 5 days ago:
The golden age of having to hear from stupid people.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 1 week ago:
I find multi account containers to be the best workflow ergonomics when it comes to separating logins and sessions. I think having the same bookmarks, theme, etc. is actually nice. But I’m sure many really enjoy profile swapping.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but fuck this dumb law first and foremost.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 weeks ago:
I get that. And believies can’t be based on reason. They’re just there. But it does generally require the ignoring of facts about the world around us. Like the same thing happens after death as before birth. You deal with loss by grieving. I don’t think they’re stupid, just regularly ignoring the simple answers to those questions.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 weeks ago:
It kind of is to some extent. Believing stories like this requires a certain degree of ignorance.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 weeks ago:
If I recall correctly it was a part of how Feel Good Inc. was made. That is tangential at best, I realize, but still a fun story.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
I agree. But you phrased it positively, and for that you must pay with digital schmeckles.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
It is risky to say anything positive about Apple here, true or not.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 3 weeks ago:
Candidly, I did not expect it so soon.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 4 weeks ago:
Chromium is a browser. WebKit is an engine. Maybe you meant Blink?
- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 1 month ago:
Here is a pretty good write up on it. They aren’t that different but generally I think mkv is preferred in high quality since it can handle more tracks and more codecs.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 1 month ago:
Worth mentioning you are a okay not to update.
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 1 month ago:
They aren’t; it isn’t languishing at all. It is being actively developed. Check out the commit log.
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 1 month ago:
They also abandoned it. It has been picked up by the Linux Foundation though, which is exciting.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Truffle Shuffle 🤮
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 2 months 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 2 months ago:
They should have used all caps. Then it would have listened. Oh wait…
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 2 months 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 3 months 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.