grudan

@grudan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no Black Friday - Brett Scott on cultural malware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys leave the search bar on the taskbar?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t freetube use invidious api?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we haven’t even gotten into the reliability. The have dead times where no output is created that nuclear doesn’t suffer from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a couple people are saying that, but I can’t find any information on how it’s implemented for providers. Regardless, not having an account is one less avenue for my information to be leaked. I do worry more about the doctor’s security practices (2FA, password complexity, password rotation, etc…) than my own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you explain how wind and solar get cheaper over time? Especially wind, those blades have to be replaced fairly often and they are expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some things can be potentially embarrassing so your information could still be used against you by cyber gangs for money, so even though it’s no monetary impact for companies, the information still has a value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to hope that my data won’t be released to companies like mychart without my consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No I get you. I just had a different problem with the same platforms that I wanted to voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health management platforms have to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m taking a stance against these platforms by always declining to ever create an account on them when the doctor’s office asks. Having medical data accessible like this is just asking for an attack, followed by a leak. And then I can only assume insurance companies buy these leaked databases and adjust rates accordingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Title felt misleading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think when you start looking at how expensive other forms of green energy are (like wind) long term, nuclear looks really good. Short term, yeah it’s expensive, but we need long term solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill | A DOJ win in Google's ad tech monopoly trial could benefit everyone, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt prices go down, but they may go up slower and it’s a win for small business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tor anonymity infiltrated: Law enforcement monitors servers successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow what a crappy article, the blog post should be what is posted instead. Not even a mention of out of date software in the article. This is clearly not a Tor issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to tell my actual internet speed usage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the easiest would be to downgrade to the 350mbps plan and see if you can even tell there is a difference. If you do a lot of downloading of large files (Linux isos and steam games) those will go slower. Anecdotally, I’m a software developer who works from home and I have never felt an upgrade from my 300mpbs plan to be necessary, but I don’t download a ton of large files very often and this decision obviously takes into account my personal income and expenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will shove ads in your face even when you pause videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The nice thing about FreeTube and Invidious is that they don’t use the YouTube API and the most YouTube can do (at the moment) is issue takedown requests. You can just self-host invidious (which I believe FreeTube uses). The code is unlikely to be taken down as YouTube-dl has successfully fought off those takedown requests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will shove ads in your face even when you pause videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just downloaded FreeTube today after seeing that.