ReluctantMuskrat
@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 2 months ago:
I takes abject poverty to lose weight though. Carbs are cheap and highly addicting. Poverty often brings a high bmi but poor nutrition.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
I mean if you really care about security you’re not using wifi… you’re going hard wired. Wifi can be messed up by your neighbors unintentionally and then there goes your tampering alarm. Tampering alarms are good when the system isn’t fragile.
No security installer is going to suggest wifi if someone’s genuinely concerned about security.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 5 months ago:
Just looked at the apples permission settings on my phone… set to only allow location while being used.
Like you I don’t see much use for the app, though the notifications can be handy if you want to know when a load us finished and you can’t hear it’s beeps. I work out of my basement with my washer upstairs so that can be the case with me. But still rare that I ever use it.
- Comment on Unicode tricks in pull requests: Do review tools warn us? 6 months ago:
Had no trouble here on mobile.
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 6 months ago:
Battery life. I worked an entire day - 8 hours - on my M1 Pro unplugged. You simply can’t get that with anything but Apple silicon.
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 6 months ago:
The Apple M processors really are game changers. Not only are they fast but generate little heat and sip power. I’m a software developer and use an M1 Pro for work. When I went on the road with it the first time I forgot to get out the charger and plug it in when I setup at a table. Realized it at lunch and shocked I still had plenty of battery left it unplugged. I worked the entire 8 hour day on battery. You won’t find an Intel or AMD processor that’ll do that.
I still have my home-built AMD 5950x PC with Windows that I use for gaming and personal projects. I have Linux Mint on my home server. If I was in the market for a laptop that I was going to be using a lot away from my home desk, I’d get a Mac laptop just for the incredible battery life and performance. Apple takes advantage of people for what they charge for memory and storage but the Apple silicon is quality.
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 6 months ago:
Nope. Soldered directly onto the motherboard now and no expansion.
- Comment on a classic issue... 6 months ago:
It’s still a crap-ton of calories, at least the way I eat it. I’ve proven you can gain weight on keto. It’s harder but snacking on PB all day is one way to get enough calories to do it.
- Comment on ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity 6 months ago:
It’s a problem for adults too. Circulating an AI generated nude of a female coworker is likely to be just as harmful as a real picture. Just as objectifying, humiliating and hurtful. Neighbors or other “friends” doing it could be just as bad.
It’s sexual harassment even if fake.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 6 months ago:
Seems available to me but I’m not paying $2/month to use it. I’d buy it but I’m not creating a perpetual subscription.
- Comment on NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company's code 7 months ago:
Even if they didn’t ask him to do it, if he instantly produced a truckload of code they knew where it came from and that it was illegally obtained.
- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 7 months ago:
My issues with LG TVs is they’re 1) still missing support for the ESPN app which is a big deal if you’re into sports and 2) only allow casting to them from a white-list of sites. So your can’t just stream anything from Chrome on your computer and cast to the TV. If the website isn’t white-listed, you’re out of luck.
I’ve also had issues with pihole interfering with the TV too. Not a pihole expert though so I’m trying to figure out how to work around it.
- Comment on Airlines will make a record $118 billion in extra fees this year—their websites are designed to get you to pay 7 months ago:
What fees do you find waived and for what airline? I haven’t noticed TicketMaster-like convenience fees with the ones I fly
- Comment on What does a PhD mean? 7 months ago:
You might be surprised to learn it doesn’t actually suggest a PhD I’d the only way to expand human knowledge.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’d love to know the percentage of the population who thinks this is hideous. Why women do this to their lips is beyond comprehension for me. Presumably it’s to make themselves more attractive but I’ve never heard anyone that thinks it is more attractive.
Body dismorphia that compounds itself is sad to see in action.
- Comment on 'The government's not going to save them': Suze Orman just warned of a looming financial 'pandemic' — says Americans have no one else to rely on 7 months ago:
Our debt situation is partly to blame on the voters too. Republicans have been continuously cutting taxes - especially on the rich - and we’re constantly struggling with the debt ceiling, but the only concern is getting it increased… never raising taxes to pay for it. Most voters seem ok with that.
- Comment on What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash? 7 months ago:
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a great shell and scripting language. It’s object-oriented nature, native support for virtually every text format (csv, json, xml) and great libraries for others (yaml, excel), awesome regex and web/rest services support… it’s hard to beat and works on virtually every platform.
Too few people in the Linux community will even look at it though since it has MS name on it.
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
Man I love how horrible this is!
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 8 months ago:
My guess is these became common with the telegraph. Since messages were expensive and the sender paid by the letter, abbreviations where commonly used to keep messages short.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
Still doesn’t give you the espn games, and an ESPN+ subscription won’t even give you all the games they broadcast.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 8 months ago:
Can prevent a restore, whereas doing the update with auto commit guarantees a restore on (mostly) every error you make
Exactly. Restores often result in system downtime and may take hours and involve lots of people. The backup might not have the latest data either, and restoring to a single table you screwed up may not be feasible or come with risk of inconsistent data being loaded. Even if you just created the backup before your statement, what about the transaction coming in while you’re working and after you realize your error? Can you restore without impacting those?
You want to avoid all of that if possible. If you’re mucking with data that you’ll have to restore if you mess up, production or not, you should be working with an open transaction. As you said… if you see an unexpected number of rows updated, easy to rollback. And you can run queries after you’ve modified the data to confirm your table contains data as you expect now. Something surprising… rollback and re-think what you’re doing. Better to never touch a backup and not shoot yourself in the foot and your data in the face all due to a stupid, easily preventable mistake.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 8 months ago:
And always use a transaction so you’re required to commit to make it permanent. See an unexpected result? Rollback.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
And part of his problem might be who he’s chosing to date. Bad partner choices aren’t necessarily going to give you helpful feedback.
- Comment on Fully Charged in Just 6 Minutes – Groundbreaking Technique Could Revolutionize EV Charging 9 months ago:
Have you rented a car for a week? It’s prohibitedly expensive for most people, especially if it needs to be big enough for the family and a week vacation. I’m considering getting an EV, but it’s only because we’ll have my wife’s gas powered SUV to use for our longer trips, which are 1-4 times a year. That not an unusual need, and one that make exclusive EVs a no-go for a lot of people. Hybrids are an option of course.
- Comment on FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers 9 months ago:
Communicating what happened and how they would do that is an interesting problem. Knowing which machines are infected is simple because they were contacting the control servers regularly. Knowing where the machines are and who they belong to is not. I suspect it would a lot of work and expense to discover the physical addresses of all the machines to communicate officially outside of leaving something on their computer, and writing software to leave some kind of official “calling card” behind that would inform the user what happened is neither trivial and would likely also upsetting to people. Most would assume the message itself is some kind of scam or mal-ware itself. I’d personally still want to know, especially since I might have the actual mal-ware on backups or other infected machines that are offline, but I’m not altogether surprised if they chose not to inform the users at all.
- Comment on FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers 9 months ago:
The intentions and the specifics of the granted warrant does matter. It’s like someone placed a bunch of remotely controlled booby-traps in homes across the city. Law enforcement discovers the booby-traps and knows all the homes involved, and that the threat is real and imminent. Granting a warrant allowing law enforcement to remove the traps before someone is injured is not unreasonable.
The scope of the warrant is very specific… they can enter the property to remove the threat, and for no other purpose. That would not be unreasonable and nobody is going to complain that LE wasn’t acting in everyone’s best interest, even if residents didn’t consent to having the booby-trap removed. Nobody wants it and it poses a continuous threat while present. Removing it asap is the right thing to do.
- Comment on FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers 9 months ago:
They uninstalled a malicious bot-net from people’s machines that they never consented to either. The bot-net posed a serious and persistent threat to essentially everyone on the internet.
While having law enforcement writing code to run on people’s machines unwittingly is definitely extreme and absolutely should be heavily scrutinized, leaving the bot-net active is not a better option. And in this case law enforcement has been public about their actions so there’s plenty of opportunity for what happened to be reviewed.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 9 months ago:
PowerToys is alive and well, and updated regularly. More features now too.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Legal immigrants have rights and must be paid legal wages. Illegal immigrants will work for less, have no rights and won’t sue you.