TootSweet

@TootSweet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thankfully, Trump Is Still Alive. Unfortunately, So Is His Misguided Crypto Project⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I kindof hate the slogan “they go low, we go high” (from Hillary’s campaign.)

  But this is an example of the “good” side of that slogan. The political left(-of-what-passes-for-center-in-the-U.S.-now-a-days) isn’t given to publicly calling for assassinations of the opposition party. It’s not even given (and, yes, there are exceptions) to calling privately for assassinations of the opposition. And that’s a good thing.

  It means the left(-of-U.S.-center) hasn’t turned into the fascist-dictatorship-trying-to-happen that the right has. It’s not the left(-of-U.S.-center) calling for civil war and pandering to creeps who chant “blood and soil” while carrying tiki torches around the capital.

  The day left(-of-U.S.-center) news sources delight in assassinations even of opposition as dangerously unhinged and power hungry as Trump because that sentiment started with snide remarks like yours is the day we have to worry that maybe the Democrats are sliding into their own brand of fascism.

  Don’t get me wrong. I’m for radical support of LGBT rights, womens’ autonomy in matters of personal health, universal free healthcare, and most other “liberal” causes. (I also identify as well left and libertarian-ward of the Democratic party and would love to see “to each according to need” be our modus operandi. I’m also for direct action.) I don’t fault the Democrats for being “too radical” by a long shot. (More likely, the Democrats will continue to be far too willing to let the Republicans control the narrative and cheat their way to political power. And that’s the bad side of “they go low, we go high”) And I don’t believe it’s very likely that the Democrats will slide into widespread advocacy for political violence like the Republicans have much more so already.

  But taking delight in assassination attempts and wishing they’d been successful – even those directed at Cheeto-flavored Hitler himself – isn’t helpful.

  All that said, I get it. I’m pissed at the U.S.'s descent toward fascism, too. But wishing him assassinated isn’t going to change anything for the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they play a part in commercial DDOS protection?

  Absolutely! As well as mitigating other types of threats. “Web Application Firewalls” (don’t be fooled, they’re not like regular firewalls really) are a type of transparent web proxy that watch requests for anything that “looks like” a SQL injection or XSS payload. Transparent web proxies may also do things like caching or even “honeypot” functionality that may shunt likely bot traffic to a fake version of the website to prevent scraping of real site content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooo. This is a good one.

  A computer can have more than one network interface, right? (Like, you can be plugged into ethernet at home but also connected to the WIFI of the coffee shop across the street.)

  A VPN gives you a whole new network device (“virtual ethernet card” if you will) that works as if that card was connected to some LAN somewhere else. Typically, you’d forward “all” of your computer’s/smartphone’s/etc traffic through the VPN so that your computer “thinks it’s on that remote LAN” rather than on your home WIFI or whatever.

  Proxies… well the term can mean a few different things in different contexts, really. But generally you’re not forwarding “all” traffic through them, just HTTP traffic (and usually only a subset of all HTTP traffic) or just traffic that is specifically told to be forwarded through them.

  An opaque web proxy is one that you can point your browser (or other HTTP interface) to. It won’t handle protocols other than HTTP. And when you want to use an opaque web proxy, your HTTP client has to know how to do that. (Whereas with VPN’s, it’s your operating system, not your individual applications, that need to know how to forward through it.)

  A transparent web proxy can be something you (and your apps and OS) don’t know you’re even using. When you point your browser or app to a Lemmy instance, it’s almost certain that the domain is pointed not at an application server that actually runs the Lemmy code, but rather at a transparent web proxy that does stuff on the instance-owner’s end like preventing spamming or whatever. This type of proxy is sometimes called a “reverse web proxy” and can also only work with HTTP.

  A SOCKS proxy, like an opaque web proxy, requires applications to know how to use it. (Ok, technically that’s not 100% true. It’s possible in some cases to have a transparent proxy of some sort forward through a SOCKS proxy in a way that the application doesn’t know SOCKS is involved. There are also some cool OS-level hacks that can force an app to go through a SOCKS proxy without the app knowing anything about SOCKS. But if you’re doing those things, you’re a hacker.) And with a SOCKS proxy, your computer doesn’t “think” it’s connected to a whole different LAN. Individual applications know that they’re forwarding through SOCKS. SOCKS supports more protocols than just HTTP. Probably all TCP-based protocols, but I don’t think it has any support for UDP. So you won’t be torrenting through SOCKS.

  That’s all I can think to say at the moment. There are special-purpose proxies for things like security auditing (like Burp Suite, for instance.) But I’m guessing that’s not the sort of thing you’re asking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot think of any other methods

  Exactly. What you’re describing isn’t “AI.” It’s “magic.” And “AI” can’t do with OP wants either.

  No “AI” solution we have any reason to expect we’ll be able to create in anything approaching the foreseeable future is going to be able to do anything remotely like this without ridiculous amounts of both false positives and false negatives.

  By false positives in this case, I mean things like not coming back from the cool little slideshows until a minute past the end of the commercial break or obscuring important details of the show having falsely “concluded” that it’s a logo or some such.

  And I would have assumed “without a lot of false positives” would have gone without saying. If OP is comfortable with lots of non-ad content blocked/obscured along with the ads, then I’ve got a 100% guaranteed zero-false-negatives solution that’ll fit OP’s requirements without involving a speck of “AI” involved that OP can implement right now: turn the TV off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A pet pieve of mine is people randomly sticking the term “AI” into description of some tech.

  You want ad blocking. (Which is based.) But you don’t want “AI”. If this can be done in a way that doesn’t qualify as “AI”, that would satisfy you, yes?

  And using the term “AI” that way makes it clear you haven’t really thought through what you really even want in that feature. (Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that, especially in a showerthoughts community, but it’s still kindof a “slaps me in the face” kind of thing.)

  And the term “AI” is so imprecise anyway.

  And particular kinds of “AI” are such a bubble right now. And that’s why everybody is sticking the word “AI” into random contexts for no fucking reason. But it’s also just gimmick at best and a huge scam at worst.

  And “AI” is inevitably bad about false positives and such.

  I’d really rather see the word “magic” than “AI” in this context. Because at least that admits that this is an idle wish and not something you think actual real-world adult humans should be seeking venture capital to do.

  I’m sorry for taking this out on you specifically. You’re definitely not the first person I’ve seen do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This took me a great deal of strength to publicly acknowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water fat and paying water to the dead. You wouldn’t last a day in the deep desert. SMDH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's are just as revolutionary as Automated Assembly Lines were.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “work”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elasticsearch is open source, again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet! Now let’s all go commence scowling at Redis until they do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just speaking from their history. Like when they embraced Java, built their own JVM, shipped it with Windows, and then forked the Java language by adding Windows-specific APIs to Microsoft Java and not adding the Java 1.2 features to Microsoft Java. Or the whole “Windows tax” thing. Or “Open Core.”

  And, who knows. Maybe they’re either nicer now or less competent at that kind of evil. But if so, that’s a relatively new thing. Their history as a company is full of (not-so-)“secretly planning to control the world”. And they have never really faced any consequences for their anti-trust violations. And if they didn’t want people to hold grudges, maybe they should have thought of that before fucking everyone over as thoroughly as they possibly could.

  I guess you could say Microsoft was perfecting the art of enshittification before it became such a pervasive thing. Plus, I largely blame Gates personally for the rise of the institution of proprietary software, which is also complete BS.

  Mind you, I don’t blame you for working for Microsoft or anything. No ethical consumption (or employment) under capitalism and all that. And it’s not like I’m not doing evil things on a regular basis as an employee where I work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft gives the Wine team infectious mononucleosis. Got it.

  But seriously, Microsoft is nobody’s friend and shouldn’t be trusted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A broken clock is right twice a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking to people about how 97% of climate scientists agree on climate change can shift misconceptions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, my first thought at this title was “only 97%?” I kindof wonder what’s up with the other 3%. Maybe just weird outliers. Kindof like Michael Behe who is actually a bona fide biochemist but he also advocates for intelligent design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a rather wacky one: Star Tropics. A sequel to Zoda’s Revenge would just blow my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  👏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some ways to see the back of your head without others' help?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Two mirrors.
  • Take a photo or video holding your smartphone behind your head pointed at you.
  • I suppose if you needed to see it in roughly realtime, you could figure some way to live-stream your smartphone camera to a screen in front of you.

  The only other ideas that are coming to me are joke answers like “bend over backwards and lay the back of your head on the bed of a photocopier” or “visit a hall of mirrors.”

  What’s your purpose for doing so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never store gerbils up your ass, we went over this!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  JD Vance’s fetish is broader than we knew previously. Gaming Chair BDSM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic 🌱⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That IQ testing site has us sharing free publicity for them. And there are folks in this very thread admitting to have gone to the site and started taking the test. Probably none of that free PR would have happened had the site reported in a way that made the tweeter think twice about whether that result was brag-worthy or not.

  Seems to me the way it reports its results is in fact working very well. (For Truetest.pro .)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely this is just criti-hype. Whether it is or not, AI is a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI PCs made up 14% of quarterly personal computer shipments, Canalys says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. So an “AI PC” is a computer with neural network acceleration features in the CPU? Are these features completely useless for non-“AI™” use? (Like I can use my graphics card to search for large prime numbers or Folding@Home or whatever. Are there uses specifically for “AI PCs” other than misinformation generators and plagerism laundering?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  NSFW

  There once was a man from Nantucket. Whose cock was so long he could suck it. He said with a grin While wiping his chin “If my ear was a cunt I would fuck it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shitty. I found out Thursday I have raccoons in my attic and dealing with that has been a nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sun, it burns.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get in the car:

  • -10hp
  • -10hp
  • -10hp …

  Until the AC finally starts to blow cold air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean group infiltrated 100-plus companies with imposter IT pros: CrowdStrike report⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if I had just fucked over the world to the tune of $1 billion, I’d probably be deflecting attion to threats other than me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropped a paperclip on my laptop and it landed like this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s still a very unlikely way to land. Even if it hit very close to directly upright, you’d think it’d be much more likely that it’d fall flat against the surface of the laptop. But not as unlikelycompletely impossible as if there wasn’t a magnet right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This hand-crampingly tiny GBA clone has a 0.85-inch screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this, a Gameboy for ants?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New adapter just dropped 🔥⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! Is that useful for a serious use like scientific study of the content of cigarette smoke, or just a joke about smoking seven cigarettes at once?

  (I bet there’s more description on the Printables page, but Printables login-walls “NSFW” items, and I’m not going to the trouble of registering for a Printables account.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for being honest about being pro-tax-evasion and pro-money-laundering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One bank issues unbacked tokens

  1. The Taler protocol has bank auditors built-in.
  2. Your hypothetical would just as much apply to existing debit cards.
  3. Unbacked tokens. You mean like Tether? (Let alone Luna.)

  Also, it promotes taxation which automatically makes it a cult & scam?

  The fuck? How does Taler “promote taxation?”

  Fuckin’ Libertarians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TEAR OFF YOUR SKIN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. “Diphenhydramine.” Benadryl. Recreational use is a thing. (At higher dosages, it’s a deleriant.)

  Really scary drug. And I’m not just talking about the bad trips. It’ll fuck you up good for life. Really fucks up your nerves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TEAR OFF YOUR SKIN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DPH vibes.