phx

@phx@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if any caucasianswanna experience a taste of racism/discrimination, just head down to certain areas of Richmond, BC Canada

  • Signage only in Chinese (violates language laws)

  • Restaurants that won’t even acknowledge your presence (if non Chinese)

  • Realtors that won’t show you housing (if non Chinese)

  But if course nobody will do anything because to address the issue said seem… racist.

  And that’s the funny thing. Because people at the top of the racist pyramid generally share the same skin color, ethnicity and/or pants-contents as you, you get to be grouped in as “the oppressor”. Even if you share a lot more in common with victims of the same system, complaints are met with decision and ignored.

  That’s because it’s easier to divide and conquer by skin and gender to hide the real class war that exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok… well we are discussing the fictive ability to speak with somebody who is dead. I’m assuming that whatever necromancy/chronomancy is involved included some sort of translation.

  Hell, if it’s necromancy then the only thing we might get out of poor Leo is a “cerveeeeeeelli” before he lunges across the table :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d go for Leonardo. The others - while I understand things at a basic level - I’d likely not be able to understand most of their fields.

  Maybe Tesla but I’m not sure if the conversation would end up centered around some of the neat science stuff I could grasp or pigeons with laser-eyes …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as ones who actually did things there I’m not sure that Hawking would have even been physically capable at a point where he was famous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did they get the ages from then? It seems to me most Disney movies explicitly don’t mention age in any sort of direct manner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure Alice would even qualify as a Disney Princess, unless there’s some lineage I’m unaware of. She’s already one of the few without some sort of romantic subplot.

  Mulan… Aristocracy with a royal award maybe, but not really royalty either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. It was more my thought that a low power over could produce sufficient results while requiring less resources. Something that can run on a desktop computer could still produce a database with reams of believable garbage that would take a lot of resources from the attacking AI to sort through, or otherwise corrupt its own harvested cache

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was my thought. Don’t reject them, that’s obvious and they’ll work around it. Feed them shit data - but not too obviously shit - and they’ll not only swallow it but eventually build up to levels where it compromises them.

  I’ve suggested the same for plain old non-AI data stealing. Make the data useless to them and cost more work to separate good from bad, and they’ll eventually either sod off or die.

  A low power AI actually seems like a good way to generate a ton of believable - but bad - data that can be used to fight the bad AI’s. It doesn’t need to be done real-time either as datasets can be generated in advance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  New product idea. A smart toilet which measures each load for weight, scent output, liquidity, girth, and length (compensating for water volume and pre-TP) before you flush.

  Forget competing with friends for Fitbit steps. It’ll be “Suzy had one that required the poo knife, but Bobby’s toilet called 9-1-1 for him so I think he wins”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  some permissions can be set per app. I’m not sure battery level is one of those and I have apps (i.e. homeassistant) which can read thatwithout me actually having explicitly allowed it. Usually it’s stuff one pictures/files, location, camera or health data that are restricted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I played that biach in poker and she cleaned me out. Pay sure she had her little animal friends informing on my card.

  Fair my ass…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not talking about with Steam customers though, but rather with the religious idiots who have decided to crusade against porn, feel emboldened by recent age-ID bills and are now pursuing the “MasterCard funds filth” angle.

  I’m kinda wondering what the ratio of anti-porn religious knobs is you gamers. There’s a lot of religious folk but many of them also enjoy porn so …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hygiene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s horrible but kinda hilarious too. Wondering how the hell they tracked that one down.

  “Well this one had bits of corn and bean in it but only Bob had that today for lunch and I’m positive I saw him bolting for the men’s room, so mayyybe…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hygiene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a cheaper, tap-cold only version (mainly because that’s the easiest to install without running new plumbing or electrical in that particular location). Honestly the cold water isn’t so bad. It can even numb things up if you’ve been dehydrated and launched a particularly stressful cannonball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heaven⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was supposed to be a pineapple?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read plenty of books, and I’m not really a huge Potter fan but it happens that my kids were re watching the old movies.

  Still, Umbridge stands in my mind as one a great example of somebody who assists evil by hamstringing good and chipping away at hope, all while stating “this is for your own good” mentality.

  It’s one of the few TV characters that actually made me angry because she’s so believable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s the Umbridge to his Voldemort

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh… you can’t just “expose a LAN network to the Internet” in this manner. Local subnets aren’t routable over the Internet, so you can’t just enter 192.168.2.3 and end up on somebody else’s private LAN.

  geeksforgeeks.org/…/non-routable-address-space/

  They would have needed to either have all their internal devices being assigned public IP’s or had NAT+firewall rules explicitly routing ports from their outside address(es) to the inside ones. The former is unlikely as normally ISPs don’t allocate that many to a given client, or at least not by DHCP. the latter would require a specific configuration mapping the outside addresses/ports to inside devices, likely on a per device+port basis.

  Either your story is missing key details or you’ve misunderstood/made-up something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The storage facility concept is kinda close, if you count it as “a storage facility beside a major intersection in a big facility, with the locker doors left open despite meant the warning at the front desk not to do so”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how about when a link is shared on Lemmy or Reddit or FB? Do the latter strip out the identifiers, or does that one person’s reshared post associate them with the clicks of thousands of others?

  For web links, they’d also be able to find the source from the referrer tags etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you even watch the video

  Did you even read the comment? I said “in front of” (as in perpendicular to) not “into”.

  That is EXACTLY what this car was trying to do. Take a second to read things properly before you comment maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stopping might have still been a better result than turning in front of incoming traffic though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can actually already do this to an extent. Make certain bookings from a different country by VPN and it will affect your price (for the same flight/hotel/etc). I tried this a year ago and it made a difference!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And figured out parallax a long time ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And no competition. I’m pretty sure that they can shave some of the price off from that massive jump that came with COVID due to [checks list] “supply chain issues” and yet never went back down after…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the idea behind a phone with a camera is that your can immediately upload what you’ve got in case some thug with a badge takes your device and smashes it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I get a photo of the bag on you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not the only one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan for my first homeserver⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan for my first homeserver⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.

  Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)

  Vaultwarden is Excellent.

  Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles

  Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.

  HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.

  If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin over the internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also use a router that can run wireguard/openvpn and have that run the tunnel back to home for you. I’ve got a portable GL-Inet router with OpenWRT that I use for this when I’m on the road