GoofSchmoofer
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It. 1 month ago:
These scams are effective because of a thing called Amygdala hijack which
“is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat.”
You can get any human to do dumb things if you can by-pass their logical brain and have them work off the lizard brain.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
I can see a future where the Internet is completely run by bots and AI to the point where no human actually uses the Internet anymore.
It’s like an island that gets overrun with rats - there are just too many to deal with so you leave.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
It sets both the technical requirements and recommended best practices for determining the validity of methods used to authenticate digital identities online. Organizations that interact with the federal government online are required to be in compliance
My argument is that if this document (and others) are requirements for companies shouldn’t there also be a more approachable document for people to use?
Sure, have the jargon filled document that those in the know can access, but without an additional not so jargon-y document you’ve just added a barrier to change. Maybe just an abstract of the rule changes on the front page without the jargon?
I don’t know, maybe it’s not a big deal to compliance officers but just seems to me (someone that isn’t a compliance officer) that obfuscating the required changes behind jargon and acronyms is going to slow adoption of the changes.
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 1 month ago:
LEMMiNO - doesn’t post videos often but it’s good stuff when he does
- Comment on Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs 2 months ago:
from the site: “Discover a world of immersive and customizable soundscapes that can enhance focus, relaxation, and sleep. Choose from noise generators, nature sounds and ambient music to create your perfect audio environment.”
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
This is what fucked Bernie Madoff.
If this person had gone to VC’s with a pitch for ‘AI listening model’ with the explanation that “Now musicians can up load their songs to streaming services and AI will listen to make sure their pitch and tonality is accurate and that the beat is correct.” or some bullshit like that. Then it would have been ‘legal’
- Comment on Can't beat the classics 2 months ago:
I remember watching this movie when I was around 12 years old. Had never heard of it before just started watching it and loved it. It’s It has become one of my top 3 favorite movies. It also introduced me to the world of the blues and some of the best blues musicians/singers.
I remember buying the soundtrack on CD and playing it over and over again. I think I was the only pre-teen that knew of Cab Calloway and could sing “hi-de-ho” .
wow, I was a weird kid
- Comment on On Bears 2 months ago:
Maybe, but really when you are in bear territory, and close to areas where bear congregate (rivers being one), just a few loud claps and a couple of loud “HEYS” is good enough to flush most bears.
- Comment on On Bears 2 months ago:
This video while long does a great job teaching you how to act in active bear territory.
The TLDW is: -
- In active bear territory carry bear spray and be ready to use it
- You can’t out run a bear don’t try
- bear bells don’t work
- playing dead makes it easier for the bear to maul you
- when hiking with a group and encounter a bear stand shoulder to shoulder wave your arms and prepare your bear spray
- let the bear decide how they want to leave the encounter (if they are not attacking you)
- outside of a momma bear, most “attacks” are bluffs but can be scary as shit.
- guns work but you better be a good and quick shot cuz bears run fucking fast
- Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet 3 months ago:
True. But the people advocating for these laws don’t want to deal with nuance and compromise on what it would take to have a society where you educate people on sex in a healthy and positive way. These prohibitionists see the world as either bad or good - nothing in between. Good (how ever they decide to define it) must win no compromises, and the weapon that they use is unfounded fear of the bad and it works.
- Comment on Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters? 4 months ago:
I think the four part series called The West by Ken Burns is shorter and probably better.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 4 months ago:
but now we have a scapegoat
- Comment on Ticketmaster breach, beaches in general 4 months ago:
I mean, if we genuinely had a significant amount of local, state and federal law makers that cared about protecting their constituents instead of whatever the fuck they are doing now, we could have some accountability.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 6 months ago:
To play off of your comment - taxes should be sold as a patriotic act. That through taxes we can make the lives of all citizens of this country better and that if you love this country you are willing to sacrifice a small % of your money to make that happen. Those people that are willing to sacrifice for their country are the true patriots.
On the other hand those people that complain about paying more, like some billionaires and millionaires, are the true takers. They used this country and it’s systems to build that success but are not willing to sacrifice anything to pay it back.
- Comment on Teens, with mixed feelings about their own phones, say their parents need to log off 8 months ago:
If I’m having a conversation with someone and they start looking at their phone while I’m talking, I just stop talking and stare at them. More than a few times I’ve been told “keep going I’m listening” I don’t, I just let them finish and only start talking again when the set the phone down.
It’s very passive aggressive but it does make the other person feel a bit uncomfortable.
- Comment on When on a diet, does you body have the same weight loss across the entire person including visceral fat? 10 months ago:
There is some research that shows that aerobic exercise can have a positive effect on visceral fat:
But it’s not all too straight forward
There are probably more studies that show both positive and inconclusive evidence for exercise and changes in visceral fat because that kinda how science is…
- Comment on Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value 10 months ago:
As others have said this purchase didn’t really fuck up his overall lifestyle.
Yet when the topic of raising taxes on these people comes up they all freak out, like if they have to pay an extra 20% on their wealth they will be living on the streets.
- Comment on Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED 10 months ago:
Yep. I think “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy is probably the closest to what a post-apocalyptic world would look like and that shit is bleak.
- Comment on Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED 10 months ago:
The few wealthy people I’ve met, not billionaires but $100+ millionaires, seem to have a limited skill set. They have “people” to do the work. I’ve always wondered how they would fair in a post-apocalyptic world?
Personally I’d rather have those people that can MacGuyver a solution out of rubber bands and mud.
All this to say that ol’ Zuck should probably hire some good ol’ boys/girls to do his work for him or he’s screwed.
- Comment on the Perks of ownership... 11 months ago:
to buy a tool you know you already own but you can’t find right now
That’s how I find the first tool.
It’s like a sacrifice of my time and money to the tool gods to show how invested I am in dealing with this problem on my own. They reward me with giving me back my old “lost” tool.
- Comment on What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body) 11 months ago:
Not taking away from the doctor and their experience and knowledge but fuck do nurses get the short end of the stick.
They do 95% of the work and rarely get the credit (or pay) they deserve.
- Comment on There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. 11 months ago:
I’ve posted this a few times but it fits here:
This country spent $8 Trillion on two wars over 20 years! That’s $400 billion each year.
This country could have paid for all the chemotherapy 80 times over
OR we could have paid for rebuilding/fixing this countries infrastructure for a 1/3 of that cost.
OR America could have built out a National high speed rail
Or many many other things.
instead we killed thousands of people and got what in return???
- Comment on It's all the same no matter what they say 11 months ago:
It used to be like that. Give money to the middle and lower class and have the wealth trickle up to the wealthy. But now the very wealthy can bypass that portion by just having some friends in politics. With that connection you can get tax cuts, infinite “get out of jail free” cards, subsidies for your businesses, etc.
The money still comes from the middle and lower class but now it’s just through giving our tax money directly to them. No need to build pesky businesses and have to deal with that headache. How gauche !
- Comment on Weird 🤔 1 year ago:
Hey @ElCanut@jlai.lu You’re a great person!
- Comment on How do you get an executable from a GitHub link? 1 year ago:
Thanks for all of your replies. I honestly thought I was going to get a bunch of “just Google it” answers but I appreciate all the help.
At least now I know more about GitHub and what to do
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- Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are 1 year ago:
I’ve noticed that as well. Its like YouTube is adding in extra ads for Roku et al. for their own profit…
- Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today? 1 year ago:
The total cost for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars was $8 Trillion over 20 years This country has the money it just doesn’t the leadership that wants to change. And why would they want to change? The way this country runs work$ well for them.
- Submitted 1 year ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? 1 year ago:
One problem is that a great deal of correct security advice contradicts “common knowledge” security practices. Password character classes – “must include capitals, lowercase, numbers, and symbols” – are a standard example. That idea got rooted in security requirements for banks and such, and it was a bad idea even then.
I don’t know a lot about computer security - but must include capitals, lowercase, numbers, etc seems like a good idea, why is it not?
