a_fancy_kiwi
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- Comment on Sonequa Martin-Green felt 'kaleidoscope of emotions' over 'Discovery' ending 4 months ago:
Garbage show. SNW better. Remove my comment again, bitch.
- Comment on Sonequa Martin-Green felt 'kaleidoscope of emotions' over 'Discovery' ending 4 months ago:
Discovery walked so Strange New Worlds could run.
- Comment on Apple will avoid ban by selling latest Apple Watches without blood oxygen feature 5 months ago:
What’s your use case? The majority of people will be fine without it so I was just curious if you were doing something interesting with it
- Comment on RaspberryPi becoming unresponsive at random intervals 5 months ago:
I upgraded to the Pi4 but I use this case. It has a daughter board that lets me use an m.2 SATA SSD over USB.
- Comment on RaspberryPi becoming unresponsive at random intervals 5 months ago:
I’d bet $1 it’s the SD card. My 3B+ used to have the same problem. Been running pis off some sort of SSD ever since, no issues.
- Comment on Microsoft readies 'next-gen' AI-focused Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with Arm chips and design upgrades for 2024 5 months ago:
Microsoft is also working on the next Surface Laptop Studio…, which targets a similar late 2025 release window.
Fuuuuck
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 6 months ago:
II don’t know how to fix your problem but I am curious about it.
I assume you have an old iPhone tied to your iCloud account. What happens if you untie that phone and wait like a day (some iCloud stuff is weird and can take about 24 hours to update server side info)
- Comment on Fusion 360 increasing annual price by $190 USD 6 months ago:
Are you familiar with the watermark they are talking about? How does that express itself; does it show up on models or is it like metadata in a file?
- Comment on Fusion 360 increasing annual price by $190 USD 6 months ago:
As a hobbiest who’s relatively new to CAD, I wish I liked Shapr3D more than I do. I want to use it on my Mac but everything is multiple clicks away compared to other software and seemingly has fewer keyboard shortcuts to get around it :/
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 6 months ago:
Pretty sure you don’t need one. I’ll look into it later tonight and get back to you though
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 6 months ago:
For all of Apple’s faults, their Apple TV is pretty decent. A home screen with apps on them; no ads. It’s great
- Comment on Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal 6 months ago:
Anti-cheat is still a major issue. Even in a VM with GPU pass-through, anti-cheat will still prevent some popular games from running.
- Comment on Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says — Dozens join lawsuit alleging Apple AirTags are stalkers’ “weapon of choice.” 8 months ago:
The article has a report from at least one person claiming they can’t find the airtag even with the alerts.
There’s also videos on YouTube that show you how to remove the speaker so without the UWB chip, I could see scenarios where people genuinely can’t find them.
I’m not making the argument either way, just saying that a problem is there. Whether it’s Apple’s responsibility or not is up to the court
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts 8 months ago:
Shit. Good point. According to this blog at 1Password, Bluetooth can be used to have one device verify another for a service. So I guess if the public device has Bluetooth, it’s possible 🤷♂️
- Comment on Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts 8 months ago:
Not necessarily. I can’t imagine they’d want you to login to your iCloud or Google account on a public computer. It will probably work how Microsoft “Authenticator” works or how when you try logging in to iCloud or your Google account when you have 2FA turned on:
- Type in your username and click submit on the library computer
- The service on the computer tells you to look at your phone
- In the background, the service sent an encrypted challenge to your iCloud account
- All your devices receives a notification asking if that’s you trying to login
- You pull out your phone, click yes
- In the background, your phone decrypts the challenge and sends it back to the server
- The server verifies its you who is trying to login and logs you in on the library computer
No sharing of keys necessary
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
but I will not pay for YouTube.
I consider letting ads play or paying for a subscription ‘paying for YouTube’. So I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t?
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We obviously both agree that creators should be paid
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I think we can agree that YouTube should be paid something. They host the content, the replication, the back ups, and they provide a single location for viewers to aggregate which helps all creators find new viewers. That is expensive to do and is valuable for creators
Is it the amount of ads they play, the amount they charge for premium, the revenue split doesn’t give enough to creators, or something else?
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- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Point taken. I should have said something along the lines of:
probably continue to squeeze more and more revenue…
YouTube isn’t innocent in this but I think a lot of that censorship has been brought on by sociopolitical changes in the last ten years. The further extremes on each side have gotten louder and social platforms are being used to spread their ideas. YouTube is caught in the crossfire on that and instead of doing the right thing, they just censor everyone
- Comment on Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts 8 months ago:
Someone else correct me if I’m wrong but it works similar to PGP.
Background info:\
- Your device generates two keys, a private key and a public key
- The public key can be given to anyone and the private key stays with you
- The public key is used to encrypt data and the private key is used to decrypt it
Usage:\
- You sign up for a service with your email and click submit
- In the background, a private key is generated and stored in iCloud Keychain, Google Passwords, or a 3rd party password manager (so all your devices can access it). A public key is also generated and given to the service
- Now you try and login. You enter your email and click login
- In the background, the server encrypts a challenge, token, or some piece of data and sends it to your device
- Your device decrypts that piece of data
- At this point, your device either sends the decrypted data back to the server in exchange for an access token or maybe you decrypted the access token (not sure exactly how that will work)
- Now you are logged in
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
To add to your comment, I don’t understand the hate for YouTube. People go on their and post entire how to videos on all sorts of topics. I’ve learned how to code, how to use Linux, how to install flooring, how to 3D model using Fusion360, how some electronics work, how to fix my broken down car, etc. Because of the creators, YouTube has been such a valuable source of information that it’s almost offensive when I hear other people complaining about having to watch ads or pay for premium. There’s no paywall for the info, it’s accessible to anyone with an internet connection. There’s a lot of low quality clickbait on YouTube but if you avoid it, YouTube is amazing
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 8 months ago:
This is definitely a personal preference thing but I think if you want to search the web, you go to the web browser. And if you want to search for a folder or file on the system, windows search should fulfill that purpose.
At the very least, it should be a toggle. The current implementation of Windows search feels like it’s only there to force people to use Edge
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 8 months ago:
I could probably tolerate Windows 11 if:
- the start menu search didn’t search the web and just searched my system.
- the widget panel wasn’t just a wrapper for their shitty news aggregator that seems to only gather celebrity news
- If I have windows pro, I don’t want notifications to use Edge or see TikTok, Amazon, Candycrush, etc. in the start menu (I know they aren’t downloaded but what “pro” wants any of that shit)
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 8 months ago:
I clearly don’t know enough about reverse ssh connections.
My understanding is that you tell the VPS to connect to your computer, a shell pops up on your end, and commands run in it will control the VPS. It helps get around firewalls and makes it less obvious to defenders that an attacker has control of a box because it’s not an inbound connection, it’s an outbound connection.
What’s your workflow? So you ssh into the VPS and maybe use Tmux or Screen to connect to a terminal session, that session is connected to your home machine but instead of sending commands back to the VPS, it sends commands to your home computer?
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 8 months ago:
But ultimately, it turns out I like interesting technical problems, learning things, and buying stuff I don’t need off the internet - more than chatting to people I don’t know.
This is exactly why I’ve never taken a legitimate look into the hobby.
received images directly from the amateur station on the ISS
This concept makes sense but I always assumed ham radio was just about audio. That’s pretty cool
So now I’m more into Linux and self-hosting
You probably know about this already but just in case, since you have an interest in radio and you have experience with antennas, you might have a cool project that could benefit from LoRa. There’s a few open source projects that incorporate the tech to make sensors for crops or messaging friends at festivals when cell towers are overloaded
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: "Raspberry Pi 5: Everything you need to know" 8 months ago:
I’m more confused than anything.
I didn’t have a lot of money as a teenager. My family had 1 computer we all shared. I couldn’t tinker with it, what if I broke it? Cheap Pis were the gateway to my lifelong computer hobby. Because of that hobby, I was able to get a job where part of my role is full-stack web dev. I don’t know what I would be doing now if I didn’t have access to cheap Pis when I was younger.
Especially in this economy, those prices just make me sad :/
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: "Raspberry Pi 5: Everything you need to know" 8 months ago:
Pi 5 w/ 8GB - $80 Pi 5 Case - $10 Pi 5 Charger - ~$8* UHS1 Micro SD - $5**
Total - $103
That’s pretty steep. I can get a Beelink with an N95, 8 GB of memory, and 256 GB of storage on Amazon, right now, for $127. Comes with intel quick sync, I can upgrade the RAM later if I want, and the SSD isn’t going to corrupt anytime I sneeze.
The Pi Pico and Pi Zero 2 W are still great but their high end Pis don’t make sense anymore.
- based off pi 4 charger ** based off Microcenter website
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 8 months ago:
Just curious, why have the reverse ssh connection to a VPS?
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 8 months ago:
What do you do with your ham radio? I mean, besides the enjoyment of getting licensed and learning how to use one, what do you do with it?
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 8 months ago:
How do you like your Omada gear? Any reason you went with their stuff over Ubiquiti?
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 8 months ago:
I have one pi (rpi 4b) that I still use. I have it in an Argon One V2 case for the daughter board that lets me boot from an M.2 SATA SSD. I got tired of the corrupted SD cards. It’s actually reliable now.
Anyway, I mainly only use it because in the event of a power outage, as soon as power is restored, it automatically turns on. If I’m not home, I can SSH back into my network and send a WoL packet to my actual server to turn it back on.
The pi also runs:
- Scrypted so I can view my ring cameras in the Apple Home app and so I get the “someone is at the door” notifications on my Apple TV
- Pi-Hole
- Pi-VPN