thirteene

@thirteene@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, thank you for that write up. Would you mind sharing your opinion on 1x on trump and 6x justices simultaneously? At that point it’s a coup or a culling, but it’s a very loaded gun I don’t want to hand to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can prevent downtime by mirroring your container repository and keeping a cold stack in a different cloud service. We wrote an loe, decided the extra maintenance wasn’t worth the effort to plan for provider failures. But then providers only sign contracts if you are in their cloud and you end up doing it anyways.

  Unfortunately most victims aren’t using best practices let alone industry standards. The author definitely learned the wrong lesson though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just the latest offenders, but please look at the size of this database: www.bishop-accountability.org/accused/

  A common way of manipulating people is to deny them parts of being human. Be wary of any organization that tries to control your food or sex. Fasting and abstinence are massive red flags that the organization is toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you get your MBA? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc they have a script to help try to probe for details in case the call is under duress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got hit with a really weird edge case and just barely resolved a 2 day 911 to recover. During this time we likely spent at least 10 million and that’s not even the primary incident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because websites interpret those characters differently because of how coding requires using the physical qwerty keyboard. Essentially “>” gets used as a compator operator in programming languages, which means that it’s used as a tool to instructs the computer how to do things. When we need to display the symbol, we use “>” as an “escaped character” which basically means treat it as the symbol, not the instruction set. Often search engines will use a very powerful tool called a regular expression which looks like this for phone numbers: ^(\d{3})\s\d{3}-\d{4}

  And each character represents something, ^ means start with. \d means digit { means 3 of whatever’s in front of me }. Breaking apart the search parameters is pretty complex and it needs to happen FAST, so at a certain point the developers just throw away things that can be a security concern like special characters like &^|`"'* specially for how to maliciously attack the search engine.

  For other characters: www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Llms hit memory exhaustion between prompts, each “slide” is an individual generation which is why it feels so discontinuous. This will be really exciting after a couple breakthroughs though, especially when it can reference old generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a play by monopolys. They create a large platform (often free to start), integrate it with a bunch of other stuff, then charge you to use it. They can use the invested cost to leverage anyone on the platform, because it’s often an expensive lengthy process to halt processes. The ruling is essentially stating that Microsoft either needs to allow non Microsoft accounts to chat on teams or allow you to remove your word subscription without affecting your email. Both of those are good things for consumers, but Microsoft wants to hold all of the cards on all sides, and start offering bundles like cable companies. All just to limit your options and squeeze you when they want more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blow dart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They really only work on small flies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work with Linux for a living and am finding the transition frustrating myself. It feels like every new is just revealing more stuff I have to configure before it works, then usually get hit with the backend of the solution as well. Be sure to check /var/log/anythingrelevant for the system reboots for logs. My display driver kept crashing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironing is really only required for “dress up” clothing, casual cotton clothing is generally presentable if you wash, machine dry and fold/hang while still warm. You will have a crease and it will resolve itself in a few hours. Polyester blends also come in several utility blends like the stain free, moisture dispersing and wrinkle resistant. I’m realizing reading this thread that some people iron all of their clothing, but in my home we typically only iron our formal occasion attire (rare).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 0 sympathy for the studios/distributors but they also did not pay the licensing fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day one and done⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  USA calls them “take and bakes”. Few fast food chains specialize in it like Papa Murphy’s, but grocery store delis regularly stock them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  COVID hit and they released “play safe” features like remote raids and increased spawn radius. Then they started enshitification and striped features, raised prices, started starving players of resources and new features were pay gated. It’s still mildly popular but you need to join discord groups to raid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40-year-old delivers for DoorDash to help pay down her $100,000 student loan debt—on top of her full-time job⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I took out a 31k loan, I’ve currently paid 40k against it and still owe 20k. Exact scenario. Turns out 17yo me didn’t know what major I wanted and I had to defer until I had a new plan. The current system is predatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leak your identity twice in 20 days and get denied a refund and get stuck in a multi-year plan. Yup they are great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  prnewswire.com/…/nordvpn-verifies-its-no-logs-cla… cnet.com/…/nordvpn-passes-third-independent-no-lo…

  That will likely change with any pressure though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my.nordaccount.com/legal/terms-of-service/ It’s only two pages you should at least skim over the absolutely no guarantees, no refunds past 30 days, no refunds without needing support to “diagnose” your issue first.

  Tickets are 3 day wait times, most of the updates are “do you know your account number” despite being in the ticket. The branded application is insanely unstable, since using ovpn client it’s been somewhat stable but the android client causes problems with Bluetooth on my pixel. They built in multiple layers of kill switch automation INTO the product, they can’t seem to figure out static ips. Honestly they are just incompetent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I detest nordvpn they do have a 0 logs policy that has been validated. Don’t give them money under any circumstance, but this isn’t accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also have a seamless transition, multiple varieties of the fade or a tapered cut. High end barbers also shave art into side of the head. Lots of different options, but generally people do fades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly recommend looking up a guide from a hair cutting chain. From the sounds of it you want a crewcut ~20mm 3/4", “blend the sides” so that it transitions well, they might ask what size to buzz the side, you can just say “shorter than the top”. Crew cut will give you the longest time between haircuts as well, take notes of the actual length or clip size so you can be more precise next time. www.greatclips.com/lookbook/crew-haircut

  I’ll also drop this in case it helps: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ADHD, OCD and other neuro atypicals often need reminders or an action item that needs to be cleared. The features can be used by an infinite set of one offs, starting a load remotely before driving home from work, sometimes you are just under a time crunch. The burden of responsibility here is product enshitification not making us fear features, not someone wanting to utilize a feature rich product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can flash a pi and have a standalone individual instance. Computing power is growing, scaling grows too. We don’t have an option for stuff like AI today, but I could host my own Lemmy instance that only supports my household for $30. Site hugs can still happen but there are still solutions; seeding partitions is one way to resolve that, reposting requires rehosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I’m not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the aliens are as amused / shocked by what goes on in Florida as we are⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the theory that aliens avoid earth because they think we consume oxygen by choice which is poisonous to life so that we can generate biological fire. Seems improbable but it’s fun to think we are excluded for appearing insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The horizontal display is meant to reflect our natural vision which is also a horizontal aspect ratio. There are niche scenarios like skyscrapers but the vast majority of the time it’s correct to stay horizontal and frame the shot properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Debit Cards are great.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image This is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of user count they have promised support for windows 10 until October 2025. Windows 11 has more ads and data harvesting.