herrvogel
@herrvogel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Migrating from Nextcloud AIO to Owncloud Infinite Scale: Good Idea? 3 days ago:
Podman has a built-in automatic update feature that monitors the source repo. Could be useful for you.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 4 weeks ago:
How does that work? Based on imei perhaps? Does spoofing that not do the trick?
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Yes. It could talk to another smart device and ask it to send its packages. You could be careful and connect none of the smart crap in your house to your network, but the smart fridge in your upstairs neighbor’s kitchen could still be helping with smuggling your data out. Or your devices could be connected to some unsecured network around.
In any case, the only surefire way to stop your data from getting smuggled out is to physically kill all the wireless connectivity capabilities of the device. Disconnect antennae, desolder chips, scrape out pcb traces. Otherwise you’re just hoping the firmware is not doing anything funny. Fortunately I think these are all hypotheticals that have not (yet) been observed in real smart home products.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 1 month ago:
The clue is in the name. The U stands for unidentified, which means you don’t know what it is, which does not in turn mean that it’s aliens. The only thing those videos proved was that someone’s camera recorded something weird. Prove that those weird things were actually aliens and not some obscure sensor glitch or weather phenomenon or a secret government tech demo, then we’ll freak out.
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 2 months ago:
You said no weapons, but no mention of armor.
Wrap me in some chain mail or kevlar or whatever, and set me loose. I will rain down an ungodly firestorm upon any number of squirrels. They’re gonna have to call the United Nations and get a binding resolution to keep me from destroying them. I will massacre them. I will fuck them up.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
Its niches are nowhere near as strong as reddit though. The only reason I can’t ditch reddit is small hobby subs and stuff like that. Their alternatives on lemmy are just not good enough, because of a hideous combination of lack of users and fragmentation.
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
Wait, don’t Bluetooth devices randomize their macs like wifi to hide their identities from unpaired devices?
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
They found a very interesting way of selling their hybrid cars as full on EVs. Their e-power stuff are small ICEs working as generators for electric motors that then drive the wheels. Apparently the fact that the wheels get all their power from an electric motor makes it definitely not a hybrid no sir, despite the fact the cars have tiny ass batteries and the single source of power for the whole system is the ICE. Also they somehow have worse fuel efficiency than many contemporary ICEs that cost quite a bit less. I don’t understand Nissan.
- Comment on Pizza 2 months ago:
Are you capacitance-shaming her?
- Comment on Pizza 2 months ago:
Correction: she’s 35 Farads.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
Yeah obviously made up for fake internet points. There’s no way there was a third toot, it’s just impossible. I don’t buy it.
- Comment on Rain on Other Worlds 3 months ago:
There are approximately two metric shit tons of planets. I assume scientists have better things to do with their time than to sit around and think of names to give to every single one of those.
- Comment on NASA Ping 3 months ago:
I know the frustration of trying to reprogram cheap Chinese esp32 knock offs that refuse to enter bootloader mode. Those nasa guys have to be some of the most patient people on earth. Up there with special education teachers.
- Comment on Gecko 3 months ago:
Different in what way? Does it regrow as an underdeveloped shadow of its former self?
- Comment on Before it's too late! 3 months ago:
He teaches to groan. NOTHING SEXUAL.
- Comment on What song would cause you to do this to yourself ? 3 months ago:
It’s the one where the dude brags about being filthy rich and wearing expensive clothes, I think.
- Comment on How are engine sounds in racing games played ? 4 months ago:
All sounds are short clicks that just repeat rapidly, if you think about it.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Tbh it never was. It was practically as weak as a password could get, even before becoming a meme.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Finally, a safe space to ask women how far they’re along.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 6 months ago:
First gen in-screen scanners were absolute trash. Borderline unusable. But the tech has improved quite a lot since the first ones. The one in my galaxy tab s9’s screen is fast and accurate.
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 7 months ago:
Legible text has long been solved. Plenty of diffusion models out there that can generate perfectly normal looking legible text. The words might be complete gibberish, but at least they’re legible gibberish.
- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 7 months ago:
He could just pick up the npc. Not like he’s never been shown to accelerate mere mortal fleshbags to relativistic speeds almost instantaneously.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 7 months ago:
We’re all heat engines on this blessed day if you broaden the definition enough.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 7 months ago:
Yeah but those heat engines don’t rely on spinning things inside a magnetic field. Heat on one side, less heat on the other side, and you have current. No motors.
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 7 months ago:
Trying to set up home assistant for my parents’ house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he’s completely unwilling to learn. Even after I’ve done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I’m guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.
- Comment on Suboptimal 8 months ago:
It also doesn’t look like an small furry rodent but nobody’s talking about that.
- Comment on literally me 8 months ago:
Normally that’s due to poor mixing work. I’m tenet’s case it was a deliberate choice by Nolan.
- Comment on Who would win? 8 months ago:
Tbh it was kinda fascinating to see how strong the tricks your mind can play on you can be. The guy was thoroughly convinced he’d been shot. He was all “my legs are numb” and shit. His brain told him he’d been hit by a bullet, and his body believed it without the force or the sound of a gunshot.
- Comment on Give me Options or give me death 9 months ago:
Have they given an explanation as to why that is? I mean why make it a fatal error that prevents compilation, when you could make it a warning and have the compiler simply skip it?
- Comment on Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months 9 months ago:
No need to look for a conspiracy, this sort of thing happens all the time to all sorts of companies. Maybe it’s a patent they want, maybe they want the talent, maybe they want the assets, maybe they want to remove a competitor… It’s really not that unusual.