CameronDev
@CameronDev@programming.dev
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 1 day ago:
On the other hand, the U16 social media was rammed through, and looks to be expanded to include search engines, with little patience or care.
- Comment on Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem 1 day ago:
A properly designed quota (mandatory minimum ratio, mandatory minimum qualifications, meaningful penalties, etc) should in theory drive up pay and treatment (increase pay to lure them in, improve treatment to prevent them walking).
But that is pretty unlikely to happen.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 days ago:
Yeah, but lots more tooling and libraries for Python. Its just one more attack surface 🤷
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 days ago:
Definitely, but sandboxes can be escaped, and you can’t protect everything via sandbox. Apparently its all cloud anyway, but if it were local and sandboxed, there are still exploits like rowhammer and spectre that may cause further risks.
Its taken years to get browser sandboxes to where they are, and even they get broken every so often.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 days ago:
Still sounds like you’d be shipping your data to the cloud, where it can be exfilled from there.
Would potentially be a great phishing tool, just need to trick someone into putting sensitive data into a precooked excel file, and it gets exfilled.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 days ago:
Could result in some very cursed codebases.
“We dont use git, we just update the excel spreadsheet”
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 days ago:
Integrated python scripts in excel sounds like a malware developers dream.
- Comment on looking for a fediverse website for hosting a guestbook 6 days ago:
If you go down the “Little Free Library” + Lemmy community route, you can easily attach NFC stickers to the books, that point to a thread.
You can buy a bunch of NFC stickers for a few dollars and program them with your phone (make sure you write protect them once written). Alternatively, you could print QR codes onto stickers.
Would be pretty cool, please share the community when you have it setup.
- Comment on looking for a fediverse website for hosting a guestbook 6 days ago:
How are you going to weather protect the books?
You could easily create QR code (or NFC tags) that linked to a post in a lemmy community.
As for posting opinions without a login, that is a little harder to pull off. Firstly, anonymous internet opinions are usually garbage, so you wouldnt want it to be truely anonymous. You’d be wading through spam in no time.
If there was a way to encode creds into the QR code, such that it autologged into an account, that would be kinda cool, and it might last a little while until the creds were leaked.
A basic (no-auth) guestbook site could be knocked up fairly easily by anyone (give me a week or so and I’ll give you something if you want, you’ll have to host it though), but getting the auth part right is nontrivial.
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 1 week ago:
Not OP but: Placemats.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 1 week ago:
Probably best to get a count of both, and I’ll check back in a week. :)
They are very intense tools, certainly gives me the sweats when I have to use mine.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 1 week ago:
How many fingers do you have? :)
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 weeks ago:
I think (and it was a few years ago, and I could be imagining things) that the land was originally farm land. When it was sold off and subdivided into the suburb, the owner added that clause for some reason. Maybe to piss off a local brick company 🤷.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 weeks ago:
Google tells me I need 800-1200c, my oven might not cut it. Maybe I can just put it directly in a fire? Can’t have fires in my area though.
If I ever work it out, I’ll be sure to post it.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 weeks ago:
Have shovel, sunlight not so much atm. I assumed it would need a kiln and molds?
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 weeks ago:
I absolutely want to do that, but for now lack the tools/skills.
It was in the copy of the title, and our conveyancer told us before we settled. We were devastated of course, our planned business to revolutionise the brick industry was ruined.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on entirely on local laws. My house has an interesting quirk written into the title where I cannot dig up clay in order to make bricks. No idea how that’s enforced, but its there.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
Thats hot. And I am going to assume this is canon from now on.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
Ok furry artists, you know what to do, I wanna see the filthiest Visa x MasterCard art you can dream off. Payment process me baby
- Comment on Epstein accomplice Maxwell moved to minimum security Texas prison 3 weeks ago:
To a cell with an unusual amount of spare rope?
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 3 weeks ago:
According to that map, the place I was visiting to see aurora was a yellow region, but it was definitely dark enough to see the milkyway and the aurora itself by naked eye. If the rest of the map is similar, then there are still plenty of “dark enough” skies.
Would love for more though of course. Better light regulations are long overdue everywhere.
- Comment on Elevators might just be Teleporters in disguise 4 weeks ago:
There are a lot of transparent elevators. But perhaps those are real elevators, and the others are transporters.
- Comment on Listening to stuff on your phone with bluetooth headphones has a fringe benefit of letting you know when you forgot your phone somewhere 4 weeks ago:
At a minimum, would be nice if the speed got limited to 10mph or something, so you can drive it off the road safely.
- Comment on Listening to stuff on your phone with bluetooth headphones has a fringe benefit of letting you know when you forgot your phone somewhere 4 weeks ago:
My mate had the same issue with his car keys. On the roof, he shut the boot, it slid down and jammed between the boot and the window.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have keyless go, and couldn’t open the car either, so we were quite stuck. Ended up using a coat hanger to pull it out luckily.
- Comment on Listening to stuff on your phone with bluetooth headphones has a fringe benefit of letting you know when you forgot your phone somewhere 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but not always.
I was messing around in the garage, and put my phone down in the little gap below the windscreen wipers on my car. I forgot it there, hopped in the car, it paired, and away I went. Fortunately I habitually check my pockets, and I noticed it about 3 kms down the road, and before I got on the freeway.
- Comment on If i stain or spill a drink on a shirt, can i just wash it in the bath with generic soap and let it soak rinse and dry to get the same thing as a whole load of laundry? 4 weeks ago:
More or less yes, but getting it dry will take longer.
businessinsider.com/…/how-to-wash-clothes-in-sink…
Soaking the stain in water asap (before it dries) will go a long way.
- Comment on YSK about opnxng.com, a site hosting public services focused on privacy 5 weeks ago:
Privacy policies are only as good as your ability to legally enforce them. And without a name or address, you’ll struggle to do that against a github account.
Cloudflare may know their identity, but thats still a gamble.
- Comment on YSK about opnxng.com, a site hosting public services focused on privacy 5 weeks ago:
The simple answer is self-host (or dont host it online at all) if you really care about keeping your data safe. Otherwise, use a provider with a published name and address, and if they leak your data, use the legal system to resolve it.
- Comment on YSK about opnxng.com, a site hosting public services focused on privacy 5 weeks ago:
With no published owner information, YS consider it a honeypot.
- Comment on Question about traffic using Cloudflare tunnel 5 weeks ago:
As you’ve described it, and from what I have read, its very similar to how tailscale negotiates its connections.
Does seem to be unique to Plex though.