ReluctantMuskrat
@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
The boosting of propaganda and the identification, tracking and exploitation of government targets.
People in key government positions are still people like us and they love social media too. Having an app on their phone doing data mining can identify people of interest and then collect data, target and compromise them. Even without the app on a government issued phone they can identify key people using their personal phones and then target them for more sophisticated surveillance.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 4 weeks ago:
That brought a legit chuckle!
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
This guy has ALL the pride!
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
Nuclear safety and penny-pinchers don’t make good bedfellows.
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
I wonder if those prior medical terms had precise definitions. Obese is BMI >= 30 and morbidly obese is >= 40. BMI itself has some issues but works ok as a general assessment for most people.
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
Jammer also keeps people from getting a notification that someone has come into view on the camera. An away homeowner who sees a person coming through their front door can call the police. With no notification you don’t know until you get home and they’re long gone.
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 7 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 9 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 10 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? 11 months ago:
Had no trouble here on mobile.
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 11 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 11 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 11 months ago:
Nope. Soldered directly onto the motherboard now and no expansion.
- Comment on a classic issue... 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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? 11 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] 1 year 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 1 year 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? 1 year 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 1 year ago:
Man I love how horrible this is!
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year 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 1 year 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. 1 year 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. 1 year ago:
And always use a transaction so you’re required to commit to make it permanent. See an unexpected result? Rollback.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year 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 1 year 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.