scorpionix
@scorpionix@feddit.de
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Suddenly? It’s been labeled Chinese spyware since day one.
- Comment on Dutch government scrambling to keep ASML in Netherlands 8 months ago:
Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.
- Comment on Germany says its officer’s ‘operational mistake’ during Singapore Airshow visit led to army leak | The Straits Times 8 months ago:
The internet is uncharted land for all of us.
Our previous chancellor in 2013. Still is today it seems.
- Comment on BT ‘has failed to invest enough in UK's full-fibre broadband’ 8 months ago:
Germany checking in: The chancellors wife at the time having ties to the copper industry doesn’t help either.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 8 months ago:
I strongly disagree. That’s like using MD5 and saying ‘It’s OK, we use SHA256 down the line’. Information encrypted with it might as well be in plain text.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 8 months ago:
Forget about biometrics, they are way too insecure.
Our cameras have reached a stage where we can replicate fingerprints from photos. ‘What you are’ is useless when we leave part of us everywhere. And furthermore, in parts of the world, authorities can force you to unlock your device with biometrics but not with passwords.
- Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters 8 months ago:
I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corne must be extremely off the grid!
To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.
- Comment on A promotional gift for a RTOS 9 months ago:
Jerboa? The link is malformed for me as well
- Comment on Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container 9 months ago:
AFAIK it won’t and should you still get a bottleneck you can limit the maximum resources a service may use.
- Comment on The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning 11 months ago:
Is the QR Code applied professionally to the surface, possibly behind some security feature such as glass or another surface finish? Is the menu on the table in the general style of the restaurant, or does it look off or entirely different? Is the QR code applied on top of something else, possible another QR code?
Don’t use apps which directly open QR codes. Any sensible app will tell what the information is before processing it.
And at last, the simplest and most efficient security measure of all: Commonsense. Don’t scan everything you come across. Restaurant menu? Sure. Some random poster out in the woods promising a quick buck, happy time or their like? Hard pass.
- Comment on The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning 11 months ago:
So the issue isn’t QR codes, but people being unable to recognize scammers additions to public infrastructure and the websites being scams. Basically, it’s the same principle as scammers sticking an additional device on top of cash machines.
No news here.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Na, she’s still a person.
- Comment on Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting 11 months ago:
Depends on the implementation: I liked Eve Onlines model where, yes, you had to pay the sub but your character would train skills even while offline.So at least to me there was less of this classical fear of missing out.
- Comment on I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS? 11 months ago:
It is not about the code line by line, but the functionality that OP created for their employer. And yes it is not clear-cut in the sense that in Oracle vs. Google it was AFAIK decided that the idea of the
toStringMethod does not fall under copyright. However, a software that fills a specific need for a company and is then re-implemented/released by an employee? You can bet your ass you are in for at least a lengthy battle in court. - Comment on I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS? 11 months ago:
Doesn’t matter if you write it in code or chisel it on a stone tablet. It is still the companies intellectual property.
Think of it this way: You film a movie which for whatever reason doesn’t get published. This doesn’t give you the permission to write a book containing the same story, just in writing. The story is still owned by the film studio. The same reason applies to published material: You are not allowed to write a Star Wars story without approval from Disney, the copyright holder. Fan fiction exists in a gray zone for exact this reason.
- Comment on I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS? 11 months ago:
Not a lawyer but from my understanding of intellectual property: You wrote it on company time, so it is the companies code. Publishing it without explicit approval would be copyright infringement.
- Comment on Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off 1 year ago:
How so?
- Comment on Has climate change influenced the types of plants you buy or grow? 1 year ago:
Yes/No. Given the opportunity I would like to grow more drought resistant trees like Mulberry. However, I do not own a property large enough to plant trees.
- Comment on Lasers Could Soon Power U.S. Military Bases—And Not Even Jamming Could Stop It 1 year ago:
** Pulls down visor **
Lonestar!``
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed 1 year ago:
Agreed. Seems like I am going to skip this generation or if I need a new Pi, buy a 4.
- Comment on What time do you have your daily stand up? 1 year ago:
09:00 at the start of the daily “Kernarbeitszeit”. I am not sure how to translate the term. A literal translation is “core working time”. Basically, my employer gives us the option to work between 06:00 to 18:00 with mandatory “presence” (working from home is possible) from 09:00 to 15:00.
- Comment on Big projects are ditching TypeScript… wtf? - The Code Report 1 year ago:
Because Browsers can’t run Typescript, they run JavaScript. That’s why the intermediate conversion step isneededd.
- Comment on Nextcloud alternatives 1 year ago:
In this setup the DB is not part of Nextcloud. Both are running in separate services aka containers, which can be administrated independently from each other.
- Comment on Big projects are ditching TypeScript… wtf? - The Code Report 1 year ago:
The issue with transpiling is that the code that’s running in production is not necessarily the one that’s been tested. A source map doesn’t fix that.
- Comment on Big projects are ditching TypeScript… wtf? - The Code Report 1 year ago:
I haven’t dealt with a larger JS/Node Project in a while, but I like this approach to using TS features in JS.