Kushan
@Kushan@lemmy.world
Formerly /u/neoKushan on reddit
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 4 days ago:
I’d be surprised if it’s directly linked
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
Wait, What’s this about corned beef? I am Irish (as in actually from Ireland) and I have no idea what that has to do with St Patrick’s day?
- Comment on What happens when councils take control of buses? 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure Warrington’s bus service is owned by the council and it’s dire. Expensive, infrequent and the buses are old.
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 1 month ago:
It didn’t require using arcane commands just to sign up and log in. I love IRC and will always remember it fondly, but it wasn’t easy for a novice to use and that’s why things like slack and discord took off.
- Comment on What file format do you store your media in? 1 month ago:
Another recommendation for tdarr, set it up in January and let it transcode away, going to h265 for all my media - saved me over 40TB of space so far and I haven’t noticed a massive drop In quality or had any playback issues.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 3 months ago:
A former employer actually did send lawyers after me for a bad Glassdoor review. The dumb thing is that it wasn’t even my review.
This is beyond stupid.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 4 months ago:
I don’t think your second point is correct. You can still embed analytics on a static website. I believe you’re conflating it with your first point by assuming that scripts are disabled on the browser side, in which case it’s a bit of a redundant point.
I also think it’s a bit unrealistic in this day and age to run with scripts completely disabled. I know it sucks, but we need better ways of protecting our privacy and disabling all scripts is a bit of an extreme measure given so much of the modern web relies on it.
- Comment on How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider 4 months ago:
You can shove most services behind cloudflare’s CDN with a bit of jiggery pokery. I’ve used netlify + cloudflare’s free tiers to great success a few times now.
- Comment on Uncomplicated firewall rule set for a *arr stack. 4 months ago:
Yeah honestly either solution is a solid one
- Comment on Uncomplicated firewall rule set for a *arr stack. 4 months ago:
The guy above you gives great advice. Set up SWAG, then the only ports you’re exposing are 443.
Once you have that set up, look at adding something like authelia. This will give you 2FA on top of those apps meaning even if someone guesses the password and the URL to access them, they still won’t be able to.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike? 4 months ago:
I feel slightly obligated to buy it day one.
- Comment on What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games) 5 months ago:
I love this right up until the random rule gets applied, then it’s just frustrating.
- Comment on Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... 5 months ago:
Well it’s more like you’ll get the usable parts without a huge premium. The was a time when monitors faster than 60hz were premium but now it’s pretty common to see 120hz and beyond on even basic monitors.
There’s still diminishing returns as you go higher, but there’s definitely a noticeable difference between 60hz and 120hz, as well as a less noticeable but noticeable difference between 120hz and 240hz.240hz is becoming more standard now on regular high end monitors and beginning to trickle down too.
Beyond that in terms of response times, you might not notice a difference between 240hz and 360hz, but image clarity will be better because you’ll get less ghosting just from the virtue of the pixels changing so quickly, so it’s not entirely useless.
Part of the reason you’re seeing this is because they can. The panel technology (OLED in this case) is super fast due to it’s design, so it’s not too costly to add the necessary hardware to drive those speeds. For LCD tech, you do get to drive the panels faster and harder, that’s why older screens required shitty TN panels to get those refresh rates, but everything else has been around for a while.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The article seems to suggest this film is part of the Kelvin line.
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 5 months ago:
It sounds more like they’ve consolidated build pipeline and this obfuscation is part of it.
- Comment on UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show 5 months ago:
I’m one of these people! Costs me like £2 to fully charge my car overnight, absolutely love it
- Comment on Modders are gonna have a field day 5 months ago:
Several years ago I got an email about my rockstar account - someone had guessed the password and logged in, they were trying to change the email address. Luckily I’d managed to stop it in time and recovered the account.
Several years later, I decided to give GTA Online a go, I logged in and found I had billions in cash and loads of property and cars. I guess that they must have been nodding while using my account.
But I didn’t get banned so free stuff I guess?
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
Unfortunately that is not a workable solution to me, but I appreciate that it’s the best idea for most.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
I actually have a HP printer with instant ink. When it first launched it was great, there was a “free” tier that was like up to 10 pages free per month.
I don’t print a lot but like having a printer for the odd job so that was ideal for me. Now and again a new ink cartridge would arrive and I just didn’t think about it.
But they took away the free tier, so I’ve been on that £0.99 plan which is like 15 pages a month. I put up with it because it was convenient enough to not have to worry about ink, but I was still pissed off at the rug pull.
If they do raise the price in the UK, I’ll just sell the printer and buy a new one that does super cheap ink.
Any recommendations out there?
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 6 months ago:
This needs to be higher for visibility. The story of Google killing XMPP is a good one but it’s utterly bullshit. XMPP was a mess, Google didn’t kill it, it killed itself by having fucked ecosystem that didn’t do anything better than numerous proprietary standards at the time.
It’s not like XMPP was EVER dominant, nor was Google talk - even man messenger was more popular at the time and that’s also dead.
- Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip 6 months ago:
Hashing is “one way” and produces a fixed length output. It’s useful for things like knowing if data has been modified or in the case of passwords, it’s a way to store a value that lets you check a password is correct without storing the password itself.
You cannot “reverse” a hash by design.
Encryption is reversible, you need to be able to get the original data back.
We do use both together in various ways, wtf encrypt data to protect it and then hash the data to make sure it hasn’t been modified. They go hand in hand.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
You said that modern games were terrible cash grabs
I said:
Yes, good games exist today,
You seem intent on putting words in my mouth.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
Lol okay buddy, have yourself a nice day.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
You care enough to reply.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
Please highlight where I said all video games were good at a period of time.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
I am doing. What you’re saying is a non statement given the context of the discussion.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 6 months ago:
Maybe I’m a bit of a luddite but many of those “outdated” games have far better gameplay and stories than games today.
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 6 months ago:
This is absolutely Sonya fault. Sony owns the platform, Sony took the money, Sony signed the terms and agreements with Discovery that let them pull the content users paid for.
- Comment on Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff 7 months ago:
They were doomed the second yahoo touched them.