MrMcGasion

@MrMcGasion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Fed chair says he will not resign even if pressured by Trump as interest rate cut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the stated goals of Project 2025 is dismantling the Federal Reserve, they won’t need to bother with “accidents” if they just shut the whole thing down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Syncthing-Fork (on F-Droid) for the extra features it has. I wonder if that developer will be able to continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s part of it. Unions also made a difference for a while, until the propaganda machine convinced a bunch of people that Unions were bad. When in reality, Unions are a benefit to everyone, they protect workers from bad bosses, and historically they also protected bosses from getting the shit beat out of them by their employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the media print rags to riches stories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had someone tell me that they’d rather live in an economic system “like we have in America” where people have a chance at rags to riches, than a system “like Germany, where the social safety net means the average person doesn’t have a chance at making it big.”

  If anyone ever tells you wealthy people are intelligent, don’t believe them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who exactly is running the country? Certainly appears to be Jill Biden — and not Joe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably okay. Even if Jill is running everything, it wouldn’t be the first time in American history that a First Lady was unofficially running the country. In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a major stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body and left him bedridden for months. His wife Edith took over most of his responsibilities and it was kept secret from the public until after Wilson’s death a few years after his term ended.

  I’ll grant you that Joe is in bad shape, but having spent some time as a caregiver for a stroke victim who lost similar function as Wilson did, Joe is easily in better shape than that.

  I will admit that just because something has happened before and been fine, doesn’t mean it’s something we should just be okay with. But First Ladies have always had significant influence over the president, and to me, I’d rather trust Jill to run things than Joe at this point (and I voted for him).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yelp files lawsuit against Google⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So more like Judas and Goliath then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a nicer Acer monitor that I replaced with a similar Samsung model about a year ago. I still kinda miss the Acer. Both were 32" curved LCD and 1440p. The Acer had a much more uniform curve to it, and the Samsung has a bunch of firmware issues that sometimes can only be worked around by unplugging it and power cycling it that way. The only reason I “upgraded” was the Samsung had better support for PS5 and scaling 4K inputs down to the native 1440p without artifacts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can do anything.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but can we get Sony to re-release Morbius in theaters one more time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commentary on Shapeways bankruptcy, details in post.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember ordering some samples from them when they were a newer company, and how cool it was when they added metal as a material option. Sad to see them go. Seems like much more of another company ruined by going public than a failure of their business model. I guess the silver lining is that they simply went under rather than morphing into a worst possible version of what they were trying to squeeze every penny in the pursuit of infinite growth (or maybe they tried that for a while and it failed too, I’ll admit I haven’t been paying attention to the scene for the last several years).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just so you’re aware, Match owns OkCupid now, as well as Tinder, Hinge, Plenty of Fish and a bunch of other smaller dating sites. I don’t think they’ve all been ruined as much as Match yet, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My T-Mobile plan still throttles YouTube (and some other video streaming sites) to prevent HD video playback unless I buy a HD video day pass or upgrade my unlimited plan to an even more unlimited plan. I don’t mind too much on my phone, since on a small screen 480p is mostly good enough, but I frequently use a VPN on my tablet to bypass the throttle since depending on the content, 480p can look pretty rough on the larger screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Law Allowing Religion into Science Classrooms Is Dangerous for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar upbringing, but was also guided to go to a Christian University and it took me much longer than it should have to realize that what I was taught about Science and “Evolution” were lies, and how much of the evidence for Creation/Intelligent Design was dubious.

  And yeah, with as beneficial as deprograming myself has been for my own personal growth, it’s not easy or fun - or how I expected to spend my 30s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, yes more tabs = more RAM used, but Firefox does have a neat trick compared to Chrome that helps lower memory usage for those of us with hundreds of tabs. When you launch Chrome with a bunch of tabs open from a previous session, it actually loads them all into RAM at launch, with Firefox, it doesn’t actually load the pages of tabs from previous sessions, until you switch to them. The page titles and icons get loaded into RAM, obviously, but if you have lots of old tabs that you almost never open, the memory usage impact of lots of tabs is minimized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, there’s also plenty of people who think that just because they have a large vehicle, that they’re immune to the snow. Obviously there’s a quantity of snow that trucks are more necessary for, but I’ll admit to feeling a bit smug when I see ditches full of abandoned trucks and SUVs, as I drive by in my little front wheel drive sedan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine holding on to a large, metal pipe (like a hand rail on stairs) and someone on the other end, hitting the pipe with their hand, not a big “clung”, but like they swung past it, and barely nicked the pipe with the tips of their fingers as their arm swung by. Combine that vibration with a breathy, hollowness that kinda warbles as the rubber ball contracts and expands due to the impact. The whole sound only lasts about a second - unless you were the one that got hit in the head, in which case there’s a high pitched ringing in your ears for a bit as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's not talk about operation⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “So everyone could see what happened,” is the best reason I could get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's not talk about operation⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard that Judas went and hanged himself over the edge of a cliff, and then the rope snapped (because Judas apparently couldn’t handle hanging himself properly), and he fell into the field, where his guts spilled out.

  That said, the person I heard that from is one of the Christian pastors I’m related to, whose only real claim to knowledge on the subject was a one-week “Bible tour” of Israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With all the discounts they offer it is, but technically Incogni is 12.98/month. And with as many YouTube sponsor spots as they buy, I’d imagine they’re just trying to get as many people signed up as they can, and will stop offering as many discounts once they’ve burned through their investor cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minisforum MS-01 announced. 2x10g sfp, 2x2.5gbe, pci slot, 3xm2 slots. 2xUSB4 40g. What do we think?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a similar setup. Even for hard drives and slower SSDs on a NAS, 10g has been beneficial. 2.5 gig would probably be sufficient for most of what I do, but even a few years ago when I bought my used mellanox sfp+ cards on eBay it was basically just as cheap to go full 10g (although 2.5 gig Ethernet ports are a bit more common to find built-in these days, so depending on your hardware, that might be a cheaper place to start). But even from a network congestion standpoint, having my own private link to my NAS is really nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you monitor your servers / VPS:es?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve dabbled with some monitoring tools in the past, but never really stuck with anything proper for very long. I usually notice issues myself. I self-host my own custom new-tab page that I use across all my devices and between that, Nextcloud clients, and my home-assistant reverse proxy on the same vps, when I do have unexpected downtime, I usually notice within a few minutes.

  Other than that I run fail2ban, and have my vps configured to send me a text message/notification whenever someone successfully logs in to a shell via ssh, just in case.

  Based on the logs over the years, most bots that try to login try with usernames like admin or root, I have root login disabled for ssh, and the one account that can be used over ssh has a non-obvious username that would also have to be guessed before an attacker could even try passwords, and fail2ban does a good job of blocking ips that fail after a few tries.

  If I used containers, I would probably want a way to monitor them, but I personally dislike containers (for myself, I’m not here to “yuck” anyone’s “yum”) and deliberately avoid them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you get references from ChatGPT or have any way to verify the information it gives? Admittedly at this point, Google results are often full of AI-written articles too, but at least there are hints that a site might be a content-mill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but he only has the one digger, so the fiber would all end up in hyperloop-sized tunnels, it’d be like the Underminer from the Incredibles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proper HDD clear process?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just doing a single pass all the same like zeroes, often still leaves the original data recoverable. Doing passes of random data and then zeroing it lowers the chance that the original data can be recovered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who used to do web design when there were around 5 different rendering engines, I found having multiple browsers to design for was often a good thing. You could easily build something that worked 90% of the time on the primary testing browser, and hit a wall trying to fix the remaining bugs, but then testing in a different browser would reveal something obviously broken with your solution, and once you fixed that, would fix some of the minor quirks you were having a hard time solving in the primary testing browser. 5 was probably too many engines, and I’m thrilled to see Trident (IE) in the grave where it always belonged. But if you aren’t testing in multiple browsers, you’re making your life harder, not easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PipeWire 1.0 Release⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t actually a huge release where you would need to wait. They’ve just finally decided that it’s time to finally call a release 1.0, instead of staying at the 0.3.xx (which has had ~85 releases in that series over the last 3+ years).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also arguably a bigger problem for the bad publishers like Activision, who have been trashing their own reputations for so long that even if they buy a huge “World Premiere” ad spot at the Game Awards, once I see it’s an Activision game, my brain just automatically turns off any interest I might have had in a game, because I know that even if the trailer makes it look interesting, it will ultimately probably be a disappointment due to greedy management. There are plenty of good indie games to play, and if and when Activision does publish a good game, I’m much more likely to believe word of mouth of the people I trust, than the recommendations of publishers, who are generally just out to push a $90 deluxe edition preorder of whatever is coming out next week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unless you need the GPIO or the lower power consumption of a Pi, mini PCs are better for 90% of the projects people use single board computers for. Plus you usually get upgradable ram, and more-resilient storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, also I think there is something about the human connection and communicating personal ideas and feelings that just isn’t there with AI generated art. I could see a case for an argument that a lot of music today is recorded by artists who didn’t write that music, and that they are expressing their own feelings through their performance of someone else’s creation. And is it really all that different if an AI wrote something that resonated with an artist who ultimately performed it? Which for a good chunk of pop-culture regurgitations may be completely valid. But in my opinion, the best art, communicates emotion, which an experience unique to biology, AI might be able to approximate it, and sure there’s a human prompting the AI who might genuinely have those feelings, but there’s a hollowness to it that I struggle to ignore. But maybe I’m just getting older and will be yelling at clouds before long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But its the only thing I want!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Jesse, we need to cook, but I’ve been hit in the head and I forgot the process. Jesse! What do you mean you can’t tell me? This is important Jesse!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nominees for Game of The Year at TGA 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a zoomer, and I loved Spider-Man, didn’t play BG3, but I still think BG3 should win. My Spider-Man 2 experience was too buggy for me to consider it for GOTY, the story was great, and if they had delayed the game until next year, I probably would have considered it a contender then.

  BG3 was an event though, I’m not really into RPGs but it felt like that game was everywhere like Animal Crossing: New Horizons was in 2020.