CameronDev
@CameronDev@programming.dev
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Some (most?) UPSs have a way for them to communicate to the PC so that the PC can automatically cleanly shutdown. You should look into that if its available on your UPS.
- Comment on If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted 1 week ago:
Hah, I forgot about the bullseye. I have one of my brain, I was hoping to find a way to convert the images to a model so I could 3D print it, but didn’t find a good way to convert it sadly.
hopefully your scan shows nothing serious, and you get some cool pictures :)
- Comment on If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted 1 week ago:
I usually ask for silence for the same reason, better to try just close eyes and meditate/dissociate through it. Was your head inside the machine? Pretty claustrophobic either way, but head first is particularly not nice.
- Comment on Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world 1 week ago:
It really doesn’t matter what the “training” entails, because Amazon aren’t going to do it anyway. Its all lip service, and all voluntary, and all to pull the wool over the regulatory bodies eyes.
- Comment on Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world 1 week ago:
I guess sticking with the drug dealer metaphor, providing needles/spoons/lighters would be the equivalent.
- Comment on Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world 1 week ago:
Drug dealers pledge to ready Americans for a drug-dominated world.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ah, makes sense. I’d go with TikTok, as my cat can’t really hold attention for that long, but otherwise I see your point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Care to elaborate?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Whats your goal? Your current network works presumably, what are you trying to achieve by upgrading? Faster network? Reliability? Expansion options?
- Comment on TV crew discovers two missing shipwrecks off West Australian coast 2 weeks ago:
Too soon :(
- Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Integrated python scripts in excel sounds like a malware developers dream.
- Comment on looking for a fediverse website for hosting a guestbook 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Not OP but: Placemats.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
To a cell with an unusual amount of spare rope?