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- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 5 days ago:
I do not weld but could see myself making this mistake without having been informed.
I use brake clean as a basic cleaner for a lot of things in my garage as it does a pretty good job and also evaporates quickly without leaving a residue.
The story tracks my general experiences pretty well
I would guess this mistake is much more common as brake clean is used as a general cleaner by a lot of people
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
I mean, if we are going to capitalism with a straight face we have to start being the whole bitch.
He owned it, Lamborghini wanted it… that made it a valuable asset that he held that Lamborghini should have paid for
- Comment on That's interesting 1 week ago:
So easy a caveman can do it; but not a tech bro.
All bad jokes aside, I can’t imagine a problem I had in raising my kids in the first 2 years that I think AI would’ve helped with.
Most things like that would’ve been lab reports and diagnosis from doctors which even Google searches just kind of caused more harm than good for me (harm being worry)
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 5 weeks ago:
Modern fridges last less than 7 years.
I like smart devices and IoT but I hate that for normal people this has been diluted down to cameras and screens on everything with no consideration about privacy or boundaries.
- Comment on What a fun jacket! And a steal at $99! I can’t wait to wear this in public! 5 weeks ago:
Bottom rocker is territory.
Nomads naturally are not claiming anything but MCs will go to war over that bottom rocker as well.
I think the Hells Angels war with the Mongols started over this sort of conflict
- Comment on I still remember in school when you got used text books that other previous years of classes had used. Still remember a history book that had porno captions on every picture 5 weeks ago:
Damn, I am sad now… kids don’t get the joy of a properly defaced text book anymore :(
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 2 months ago:
Local models are actually pretty great! They are not great at everything… but for what most people are using LLMs for they do a fine job.
Thats from llama3.1:8b and the answer is decent, it took about 20seconds to generate my answer and used no more power than if I were to play a video game for the same amount of time.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 months ago:
Most of these things are pretty secure out of the box.
Even without fail2ban disabling root login and only allowing SSH key authentication makes those scripts just a waste of time for the attacker. That game is a low effort attempt to just get the low hanging fruit for botnets though.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 months ago:
Yes, My home network setup is a bit complicated but I am using Pfsense so I have things on separate vlans with internal firewall rules to reduce risks.
All traffic in on port 443 is routed from Cloudflare to an NginX reverse proxy which decides how to connect back into my network for things
Years ago I would just run a server on the network with 443, 80 and 22 exposed directly to the world and never had any major issues. (Other than the normal automated attacks trying to gain shell access over SSH)
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 months ago:
I got 1gbps internet (symmetrical) and a raspberry pi cluster… running my own Wordpress never made more sense… AND that botch should scale!
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 2 months ago:
nintendopowerindex.lulufamilia.com
It’s not pretty and it’s rife with issues.
BUT this will let you search any game from the first issue to around 1996 and will tell you which issues it appears in
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 2 months ago:
It boots right up. No loading screens!
- Comment on OpenAI Boosts Secondary Share Sale to $10.3B, Presents Offer to Employees on Wednesday 9/3 3 months ago:
All I hear is NFTs
- Comment on ICEBlock - See Something, Tap Something 5 months ago:
I have been on the other side of the equation professionally speaking.
I think we mostly agree.
The auditors were certainly not malicious, they can simply only see what they can observe.
Appealing to authority without explaining the caveats is risky to do and disingenuous to people who need to take security very seriously right now.
The app model in general has meant that we have given up tremendous amounts of privacy and security in general for the sake of connivence.
If I were the developer of this app I would’ve approached things from the inception with the question of “How do I get people to trust me who absolutely should not trust me?”
That said, it is always easier to tear down than it is to build.
If I were an at risk individual I would likely opt to use the app myself assuming I could share general location instead of specific location. In areas like LA there is likely a lot of data flowing in that would not help a malicious actor if the location is not specific.
- Comment on ICEBlock - See Something, Tap Something 5 months ago:
When you do business with companies in certain industries not only is your software audited but your entire development process, business processes and staff are audited.
It’s not unreasonable to question a closed source application for something like this as one version was audited, but what about the next?
How do we know their dev process hasn’t been compromised? Or the person building app wasn’t compromised? Or that the entire thing was not compromised from the start?
Likewise, an audit without full access to code isn’t useless, but hiding behavior from an audit and for a certain period of time would be straight forward. How do you know there is not a dormant command and control system in the app that will cause it to behave in a malicious manner after a set amount of time or after a specific push notification is received?
I am not saying this is present, just that Audits like this are only able to catch what they can observe and the existence of an audit does not mean to blindly trust something
Having the App be open source would be a big step towards providing the transparency needed to address these concerns users would not have to trust anyone and can confirm the builds on the app stores match what is on their Git.
I am not pointing this out to jump on the “Don’t use this app” bandwagon. I am pointing it out to say that there are reasons to be skeptical of these sorts of things in our current political climate.
Remember Sabu and LulzSec
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
All a matter of preference.
I would say the most important think to do is to pick a switch you think would be fun and then just pick the coolest looking keyboard that matches it.
The Keychron keyboards are a great starting point; They are pretty cheap so if you are unsure you won’t be too upset if you want to later try a bigger or smaller layout.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Just worth pointing out, changing water source in Flint Michigan and not adding corrosion inhibitors seemed to do an excellent job for a short period.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 6 months ago:
At least in my state they can only really confirm or deny that you worked for them.
That’s only in an official capacity. People can say whatever they want if it is a backdoor reference.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 7 months ago:
I would ask what value chromebooks add to education?
We are not teaching kids to do anything with them other than consume Google and Adobe services.
It’s no better than schools were when I was in school where we used windows and mainly learned to consume Microsoft products.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 7 months ago:
Chromebooks are absolute garbage.
Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the "sticking scissors into a USB port with some regularity)
Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though… it gets red hot and melts eventually
- Comment on Flipper Zero maker unveils ‘Busy Bar,’ a new ADHD productivity tool 8 months ago:
Packaging is everything and this could be neat…
Everything the flipper zero does can be achieved with an ESP32 and CC1101 which runs around $10 yet the flipper is a $200 device
Packaging is everything… my flipper kicks ass
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 8 months ago:
Uncle Tony on you tube likened air travel to jail… and I can’t shake it… I feel like a prisoner everytime I fly and HATE IT
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 8 months ago:
Cell != Battery
Battery = MANY Cells
I am not correcting you just hate the headline.
If you made a battery with 666(667 if we round up) of these you could supply 2ma of power at 3v for 50 years!
I don’t have sizes available so assuming 2032 sized batteries… If you stacked them that would be over 2meters tall.
With further advancement these could be viable
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 8 months ago:
A lot more than that. 2ma
Smaller packages may be more efficient.
Analog circuits are weird though
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 8 months ago:
Elizabeth Holmes only got in trouble for lying to people who should’ve done their “due diligence”
The patients / families of the patients that Theranos lied to and mislead never got justice.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 8 months ago:
5 all day every day… .5mm would be more betta though
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Yeah it is awful for intermittent printing; you will not get as many prints as you expect but it WILL still print (after you run a couple of maintenance cycles to flush out the dry ink)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
it was Louis Rossman and recently was within the past month; That said its currently being discussed Image
I don’t really like Louis Rossman much but most of his critiques of companies not treating consumers correctly are typically correct
Personally speaking though removing old firmware from site and adding a genuine cartridge check are the first steps you would take to begin limiting users.
EcoTank I like because Epson can literally NOT confirm if the ink is genuine or not (if you REALLY were determined you could even get Magenta into the Cyan tank and it would still squirt ink out… although incorrectly of course)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The printer I am liking right now isn’t laser but comes out to be about the same cost to print as laser.
It’s the Epson EcoTank. The print quality is pretty good for things where a laser printer is the wrong tool and the refills are relatively reasonable… and Shaq promotes it!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Brother has pulled some shit recently…
