deafboy

@deafboy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course security comes with layers, and if you’re not comfortable hosting services publically, use a VPN.

  However, 3 simple rules go a long way:

  1. Treat any machine or service on a local network as if they were publically accesible. That will prevent you from accidentally leaving the auth off, or leaving the weak/default passwords in place.

  2. Install services in a way that they are easy to patch. For example, prefer phpmyadmin from debian repo instead of just copy pasting the latest official release in the www folder. If you absolutely need the latest release, try a container maintained by a reasonable adult. (No offense to the handful of kids I’ve known providing a solid code, knowledge and bugreports for the general public!)

  3. Use unattended-upgrades, or an alternative auto update mechanism on rhel based distros, if you don’t want to become a fulltime sysadmin. The increased security is absolutely worth the very occasional breakage.

  4. You and your hardware are your worst enemies. There are tons of giudes on what a proper backup should look like, but don’t let that discourage you. Some backup is always better than NO backup. Even if it’s just a copy of critical files on an external usb drive. You can always go crazy later, and use snapshotting abilities of your filesystem (btrfs, zfs), build a separate backupserver, move it to a different physical location… sky really is the limit here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Being mainstream is exactly what I liked about reddit. It was the reincarnation of usenet. It has attracted all kinds of people doing all kinds of thing. Are you interested in swastika knitting? Piano jumping? Bathsponge sculpting? You can sure as hell find at least 2 other guys already doing it there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common printing questions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to go with the brain…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  simply used AI tools

  Therefor, made with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To appease the artists worried about “fake” art somehow replacing the "real"art, while the big social somehow profits. They just didn’t think leopards would eat THEIR faces…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I enjoy imagining being a witness/victim of various tragedies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any relation to this guy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing worse than unskipable ads are the waiting screens (press a button to continue) in front of the loading screens.

  I mean, the machine is capable of billions of operations per second. Why is it waiting for ME to push a button?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have this, but suspect it’s bricked after I’ve pressed the “do not press” button on the side. (i’m a filthy button pusher) If anybody has some firmware dumps or at least documentation, I’d appreciate it.

  Never managed to use the brainwaves, but it was sensitive to the facial muscle movement. Good enough to play pong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taking portraits with Iphone's FaceID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty amazing… that apple allows access to the sensors, and provides an option to mirror the screen over HDMI! Given how touchy feely they were about openning the NFC stack, this is truly unbelievable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are people still talking about the block feature? You can’t block people on decentralized platforms. Period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the only way to a revolution is making lives more miserable, is the revolution even worthy? Something, something, accelerationism…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The best way to do on-device AI would still be a standard SoC. We tend to forget that these mass produced mobile SoCs are modern miracles for the price, despite the crapy software and firmware support from the vendors.

  No small startup is going to revolutionize this space unless some kind of new physics is discovered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily, the patch won’t install for me, because the default size of the recovery partition is too low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused by this revelation. What did everybody think the box was?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What we call intelligence is largely a genetic trait. Otherwise I’d be able to have this conversation with my dog.

  I think the main point is, if the genetic predisposition to what we call intelligence does not positively affect the reproduction rate, the process of evolution could phase it out at any time. The “goal” of evolution is adaptation in order to reproduce. The intelligence is not THE strategy to adapt, its A strategy. It could be replaced by something else, like faster reproduction rate, or the ability to survive in harsh environment without a need for clothes, housing, and medicine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  13 years, and there’s still no feature parity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the world is your oyster… Can’t wait for yout chief automated officer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy Makes Changes to Core Management Team, Wants to Grow Alan Wake and Control into Larger Franchises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they will just milk it until it no longer resembles a cow. Understood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they managed to do it without us obsessing about their CEO several times a day? I refuse to believe that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We had that. It wasn’t a future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for the men of culture…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience has been opposite. Ubuntu just works. On windows, you have to always fuck around with some 3rd party drivers, and using wierd hacks to even use unsigned drivers at all, be it a RTL-SDR, Android in debug mode, or a USB attached bitcoin miner…

  The logitech wireless mouse works instantly on Ububtu based distros. On windows, it has to install the driver, causing a sizable delay before it’s usable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The start menu behaves the same way on 10, and server 2016, 2019. I usually have to try several times before the start menu even opens. It’s a pain to work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You also choose an English (international) as your language, to avoid the preinstalled crapware in the start menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powerful X-class solar flare slams Earth, triggering radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s an EVERYONE problem, clearly SOMBODY is doing something, so I can safely ignore it. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s population to fall for first time since the Black Death⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People were popping out 10 kids under the feudal rule, living in a hut made out of mud. Today, we live better than the aristocracy did back then. What changed is the attitude. We no longer want to see half of our kids die of hunger, or a preventable disease. And not only that, we prefer them to have a better life than ourselves. People actively choosing whether to have children based on the circumstances have my fullest respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s population to fall for first time since the Black Death⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no one needs more than one children

  So… this is how it ends. Some predicted a virus, a climate change related natural disaster or an asteroid. But what finally got us, was some bad math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Responding to ShotSpotter, Police Shoot at Child Lighting Fireworks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was clicking the link convinced that the issue is not the tool, but the “experts” reacting to it. But 20k fucking false alarms a year?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Jewish settlers who want to build homes in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine doing an interview such as this, and then just letting those people go. The self control needed, to stare into the faces of pure evil, and saying “thank you for your time, goodbye”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voting compulsory for 16 and 17-year-olds in Belgium, court rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adults who fail to turn up at polling stations at least four times in a 15-year period risk losing their right to vote.

  This sounds like it’s made up by some teenagers. No, we’re not mad you didn’t show up. In fact, you’re not even invited!