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- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 1 hour ago:
Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts.
Of the Top 10 most profitable companies in the world 8 of them are American. Those 8 companies lost enough Market Capitalization in the last 24 hours to fund a mid-sized Country. “The Markets” are not fucking happy at all.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 1 hour ago:
Inflation from the Fed helicoptering money around was probably the most predicted thing that’s happened in the last 50 years. It should have surprised literally no one.
It’s also no surprise that it hasn’t gone away. That’s called deflation and every central banker on the planet would rather be eviscerated with a rusty spoon than allow deflation to happen.
- Comment on How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up. 7 hours ago:
Setting up a dual wan edge device with fail-over isn’t difficult, it’s the paying for two ISPs part that most people don’t want to do.
- Comment on Gulf states refuse to be launching pad for any US attacks against Iran 1 day ago:
If the chatter is to be believed the gathering B-2s are headed to Yemen to rain GBU-57s on the Houthi rebels underground bunkers. This would clearly demonstrate to Iran that their bunkers wouldn’t be reliable in a conflict with the United States.
Trump is an idiot though so who knows.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 day ago:
This pen / pencil thing has been corrected so many times for so many decades that it’s ludicrous people are still bringing it up.
scientificamerican.com/…/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spe…
Random bits of pencil lead floating around in a high tech environment is such a poor idea that even the Soviet’s quit using pencils once Fisher’s Space Pen was available. A pen which Fisher itself paid to develop and then sold to both NASA and the Soviet Space Program.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 2 days ago:
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
Syncthing
That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 1 week ago:
So I’m cruising through the rules surrounding Canada’s iZEV program and I can’t find any requirement that the vehicle be “delivered”, which is contrary to all of the media coverage. It’s even described on the official Transport Canada website as a “Point of Sale” program. Delivery at the time of sale doesn’t seem to be a requirement.
Further if you look at the process, another place this is referenced as a “Point of Sale or Lease” program, and the e-forms the end purchaser IS involved with this. A dealership can’t file a re-imbursement claim without the end purchaser being involved.
The number of vehicles does seem high but only in the context of individuals however the iZEV program allows for Fleet Sales and some entities could claim up to 50 vehicles under the program. Now all of a sudden what would need to be 8,000 individual sales could theoretically be as low as 160.
Add it all together and it seems believable that Tesla slammed a bunch of legitimate sales into the system at the last minute. After reviewing the process and the forms it seems a LESS believable that Tesla made up all of these sales as the documentation requirements mean they’d certainly be caught the minute anyone checked.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
I believe it’s a pump-n-dump ahead of the earnings call on April 23rd. Those results are not going to be good and I expect that that the big investors who are driving this will start selling off next week to cash in.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Not gonna lie, I don’t get the hate.
TEAMs was terrible going into the pandemic but it’s steadily gotten better, especially over the past 18 months. Reading down the comment chain though I’m in awe at the amount of problems that people are apparently still having with it!
TEAMs via app or browser on my Windows 10 box at work? Fine. TEAMs via app or browser on my Windows 11 Surface? Fine. TEAMs via app or browser on my wheezy HP laptop with Windows 11? Fine. TEAMs via browser (Firefox even!) on all three of my Linux systems? Also completely fine!
Hell I’ve got Creative T-60 USB-C speakers, a logi webcam, and Turtle Beach headphones hooked to a USB sharing KVM for two of those linux boxes and it still just works.
I must be the luckiest dumb-ass alive when it comes to MS TEAMs because at least for the last two years it just works.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
in-transparent
As a helpful FYI the word you were looking for there was “opaque”.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
Multiple countries in Europe are already working overtime to rat-fuck DNS. I’d prefer if euro-leadership remained blissfully unaware of the root DNS servers.
- Comment on I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling 1 week ago:
Jeff runs a Home Assistant setup which means he really should have known better. All of the major appliance companies are doing this and it started years ago.
- Comment on US retailers haggle with suppliers after Trump tariffs 1 week ago:
I would love to be able to buy directly from suppliers instead of being forced to shop at Walmart or Target (or Amazon).
You can. Nearly all of the “off brand” China produced stuff that’s sold at Walmart / Target / Amazon can be purchased online from Ebay, Aliexpress, Temu, etc. The “Name Brand” stuff can often be purchased at the manufacturers website for nearly the same cost as buying it from Amazon or Walmart.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
To use an extreme example, if I saw someone just spamming the hard-R I would want their comment immediately removed.
In the forum days those users would get attacked and / or blocked by other users. If they caused enough havoc for long enough then the mods / admins would step in. The expectation NOW is that the mods / admins will actively monitor every post and comment in order to remove disagreeable content before it can be seen. That’s quite the change over the last 20 years!
The funniest part is that this mirrors real life. If someone did that IRL, I would just leave.
“Mirror” is probably more apt than you realize. IRL you would leave but on the internet you want them to leave. I’m not blaming you or saying that you’re wrong, I’m just pointing out the difference.
I agree that all forums require some level of moderation in order to keep from turning into total troll-fests however there’s a wide chasm between moderating someone because they won’t stop posting racial slurs and moderating someone because they’re going against the grain / hivemind.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
The fact that most internet discussion happens in extremely censored places is bad.
Many people, including a large chunk of Lemmy, are perfectly fine with censored discussions. They honestly want it that way…as long as the discussion is censored such that it agrees with their opinion.
I want the rest of the world to change and this is another tool to help towards that end, not merely an escape.
It’s extremely difficult to free people from things that they want.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
What are we going to do about it?
Do nothing, nothing about it. The great hordes of the unwashed have ruined every single place they’ve showed up starting in the early 90s. They don’t want to be saved from the commercialization that has taken over the internet, to the contrary they thrive on it and are willing to put up with nearly anything to attract and keep it.
If most of Reddit shifted over to Lemmy it would get commercialized into a smoking crater. As soon as there’s enough regular people using a thing the companies and venture capitalists will show up and at that point the game is over.
The best of the internet has always been built by and populated with people who don’t fit into a box. It’s that internet people keep trying to bring back but you can’t hold the castle once it’s being assaulted by the normies.
So the solution is to do nothing. Let the normies stay in their palaces of commercialization and corruption. We don’t need them and we don’t them.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
As to what we do about it?
Nothing. We do nothing about it. I’ve literally watched this happen over and over and over and over since the early 90s. $Place on the internet gets popular and is then ruined by the hordes of normies and the commercialization they attract. It’s even worse now with rise of influencers, troll farms, online advertising agencies, and power users.
The normie users add almost nothing to the online experience and they take so very much.
So the wisest move is to do nothing and let the flotsam and turds of the internet wash up in harbors like Reddit.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
I think old school internet folks are underestimating just how much of a grip Big Tech has on users’ attention.l, and their devices.
With all sincerity this is fine. Seriously, let’s leave it this way.
As someone who was already around when Eternal September happened the Internet was never for normies and inviting them into the space has destroyed it. Everything that attracts the attention of normies ends up ruined; MySpace, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Slashdot and so very many more…they are all trashed because when they attracted enough users the commercialization started.
So maybe lets just leave the Fediverse for those “in the know” as long as we can.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
In some ways yes in other ways no. The urge to hivemind and purity test everything is definitely the same however the ability to move to another instance and get away from a group of power tripping mods is different.
Lemmy is essentially a collection of 2000s era forums that have agreed to share user accounts.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
It’s difficult to imagine a group of people voluntarily amassing and then using the resources necessary for “AI” absent the desire to cash in on their investment.
I mean Dmitry Pospelov was arguing for AI control in the Soviet Union clear back in the 70s.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
and try to slam your site with like 200+ requests per second
Your solution would do nothing to stop the crawlers that are operating 10ish rps. There’s ones out there operating at a mere 2rps but when multiple companies are doing it at the same time 24x7x365 it adds up.
Some incredibly talented people have been battling this since last year and your solution has been tried multiple times. It’s not effective in all instances and can require a LOT of manual intervention and SysAdmin time.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
PoW uses a lot of electricity on the client side so environmentally it’s a poor solution, especially at scale.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
There are residential IP providers that provide services to scrapers, etc. that involves them having thousands of IPs available from the same IP ranges as real users.
Now that makes sense. I hadn’t considered rogue ISPs.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
Sure, network blocking like this has been a thing for decades but it still requires ongoing manual intervention which is what these SysAdmins are complaining about.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
fail2ban
I’m familiar with f2b. I even have several clients licensed with the commercial version but it doesn’t fit this use case as there’s no logon failure for it to work with.
I automatically ban any IP that comes from outside the US because there’s literally no reason for anyone outside the US to make requests to my infra.
I have systems setup with geo-blocking but it’s of limited use due to the prevalence of VPNs.
also, use a WAF on a NAT to expose your apps.
This isn’t a solution either because a WAF has no way to know what traffic is bad so it doesn’t know what to block.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
PoW has the advantage of being anonymous but I don’t like it as solution for the simple fact that it uses more electricity. It’s just not a very green solution.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 week ago:
Unsigned traffic = drop. Signed traffic that becomes an annoyance = drop. If signed traffic becomes more than an annoyance then you know who to report to the authorities and even in Brazil there’s authorities.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
What will happen is that politicians will see this as another reason to push for everyone having their ID associated with their Internet traffic.
Yes, because like or not that’s the only possible solution. If all traffic was required to be signed and the signatures were tied to an entity then you could refuse unsigned traffic and if signed traffic was causing problems you’d know who it was and have recourse.
I don’t like this solution but it’s the only way forward that I can see.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
what would be the solution?
Simple, not allowing anonymous activity. If everything was required to be crypto-graphically signed in such a way that it was tied to a known entity then this could be directly addressed. It’s essentially the same problem that e-mail has with SPAM and not allowing anonymous traffic would mostly solve that problem as well.
Of course many internet users would (rightfully) fight that solution tooth and nail.