mspencer712

@mspencer712@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s right. Even if you have to use a windows app that Linux compatibility layers don’t support, you can banish Windows 11 to a virtual machine.

  Oh, weird, even in a virtual machine it wants an account. Anyone know where I can find a bypass method? :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like innovations that improve moderation should be celebrated. (And then immediately cloned from new-Digg into new Fediverse features.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0 (Gift Article)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy. That’s what keeps them wealthy of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is moderation difficult? What makes it difficult?

  What happens to the “spirit of discovery and genuine community” when moderation fails?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ok to fear that someone else could get rich through trickery.

  It’s also ok to have hope that people learn from past mistakes and try to build something good.

  AI can generate slop, but it can also understand, categorize, filter, moderate. It can also be slow to adapt to new attacks, or be analyzed and manipulated.

  I can’t offer much help to people who need to decide right now if it’s good or bad. Predicting the future is a messy thing. But I choose to be cautiously optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spam Phone Calls Question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies share info about their customers sometimes. That shared info gets added to data products for marketing. Sometimes spammers buy or steal those data products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Srinkflation is actually enshifitation when you think about it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this, and I’m definitely going to use it when describing enshittification to relatives. Kudos, genuinely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a professional C# developer, and I switched to iPhone in 2020. Mostly I wanted a more controlled, curated App Store for increased confidence in a safe execution environment. I’ll pay the $100/yr for a developer account if I really need to build and run my own code.

  The lack of ad block options bugs me. I also don’t use iCloud.

  I have doubts about whether this question is asking or proselytizing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like this. Everything you’re saying is true, but this argument isn’t persuasive, it’s dehumanizing. Making people feel bad for disagreeing doesn’t convince them to stop disagreeing.

  A more enlightened perspective might be “this might be true or it might not be, so I’m keeping an open mind and waiting for more evidence to arrive in the future.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Judges can act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These systems all have disaster recovery plans. We can’t possibly know how competent their admins are or how up to date their backups are. But it’s not our job to know this. Debating details isn’t the point, and there’s zero amount of online discussion that will make the worry and anxiety go away. Just remember there are backups and be calm.

  Personally I know that media companies, who use their content to sell ads, will not protect me from this “worry and anxiety denial of service” that’s going on. They sell more ads when people doom scroll. So I have to protect myself. I want you to protect yourself as well.

  I try to recognize when there are things I can’t do anything about, but that I know good people are still working to protect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice needed for networking/architecting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you going to be hosting things for public use? Does it feel like you’re trying to figure out how to emulate what a big company does when hosting services? If so, I’ve been struggling with the same thing. I was recently pointed at NIST 800-207 describing a Zero Trust Architecture. It’s around 50 pages and from August 2020.

  Stuff like that, your security architecture, helps describe how you set everything up and what practices you make yourself follow.