Jyek
@Jyek@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 4 days ago:
That’s what the last bit of my comment was about. Compression would need significant improvement before it were usable for most things people use the internet for.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 4 days ago:
For anyone reading this currently, it appears that regulation bans any form of encryption over HAM radio broadcasts. So I guess that’s one reason this won’t work.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 4 days ago:
This tech would be great if we had high power nodes all across the globe. But we do not. Maybe a cool idea could be encrypted data over FM radio. The radio stations already exist and are a dying business. Nonprofits could buy up radio stations and rebroadcast data broadly and only those with the encryption keys could decrypt. Cut the ISP out entirely. Like the difference between a local call and a long distance call.
Meshtastic communication would prioritize local hops where they are available and then where there are spans of area without nodes, they could hop across radio broadcasts.
Primary issue would be speed. Next to no bandwidth on a signal like that. Kbps not Mbps. Perhaps an incentive for much better compression as well.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 6 days ago:
A VPN does not stop location data for your physical device when looking at cellular data from the carrier. Your location can and is always triangulated using cell towers. VPNs only ever protect your IP address from being geolocated and encrypting the data downloaded and uploaded while connected. Bit streams are still sent and received from a physical place in the world before the VPN hides your traffic and that is recorded by the cell provider.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 6 days ago:
This is slightly false in an alarmist fashion. At least in the US, the police are not actively tracking anything without a subpoena to the cellular provider of the phone in question. They can look at the location data after the fact, using a court ordered subpoena. They can also use live location data in an emergency situation,also using a court ordered subpoena.
Cellular data from cell towers on cell networks are private property of the cellular provider companies. That’s not to say you are private while on them. Just that the police are not actively tracking your location through them without great effort for each individual they wish to track.
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 1 week ago:
No the average is much much higher than 10 out of 10 all because of Caleb.
- Comment on Attention K-Mart Shoppers 1 week ago:
Your mom told me last night that she wishes you would call her more.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
There’s another thing that frustrates me about Linux and its various philosophies. Should I be allowed to do what I want with my software? Or should the machine protect me from myself? It seems at conflict with itself to allow you to do stuff like delete system files without much more than a warning while also having protections in place as you describe. Windows tried doing this exact thing with S Mode and people get pissed about windows not allowing them to do whatever they want.
I fundamentally disagree that users should not be allowed to install whatever they want from wherever they want.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
Preface: I am a Linux user
The Linux desktop needs to not require users to dig through config files to enable features that both windows and Mac have working by default. Fingerprint sensors, audio interfaces, broken bootloaders that you have to fix yourself. Requiring people to ever use a command line even once will keep people on Windows as the dominant platform.
Every time I have to look at a Linux forum to figure out why something isn’t working and the answers are run these commands I am instantly reminded that this is the exact thing keeping Windows mainstream.
Driver support still isn’t perfect. Software support as well. Linux needs to ship out of the box running exe files in compatibility layers. Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web. If Linux wants to be the way people use computers, Linux needs to fit the mould that windows has built for the people who have used it for the last 40 years.
Doing anything differently is enough of a deterrent for 90% of computer users. And of those 90%, 75% of them will give up immediately trying to fix anything that doesn’t work and either call someone else or decide it’s broken and do nothing.
Linux is incredibly powerful and I believe it should be the way we run computers, but I get exactly why it isn’t.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 weeks ago:
Actually Firefox is continued development from Netscape Navigator which predates Internet Explorer. Firefox is the grand daddy of internet browsers in that way.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 weeks ago:
You can actually host your own firefox sync service. It’s kinda a pain to configure auth but it is entirely possible.
- Comment on Actual theft 5 weeks ago:
Lenses distort features at different focal lengths without any filtering. An extreme example is fish eye lenses on action cameras.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 5 weeks ago:
It’s more like the MSP IT style of business. There are clients that consult you for your experience or that you spend a contracted amount of time with and then you bill them for your time as a service. You aren’t an employee of theirs.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 month ago:
Your source says the same thing I said… The word soccer comes from abbreviating “association”. As in association football.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 month ago:
That’s not true… Soccer is what some of the english called it and that was an abbreviation of association football. It has always been football and for a short time in one place it was soccer in england and then it was football again everywhere. It came to the US as soccer and never changed. But it was always football.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
No absolutely not. You invite their account to access a designated device or multiple devices on your tailscale network.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
Tailscale actually uses wire guard as well. It can also be used as an exit node for mullvad so you can use tailscale as your full stack vpn solution.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
Don’t port forward Jellyfin. That’s terribly insecure. Just install tailscale or similar and invite the people you wish to allow access.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 month ago:
If you follow the standard 5 day business week, that is 70 hours worked for every 50 hours not worked. Account for 8 hours of sleep a night and you have 2 hours a day to commute to your job. Literally zero time for any other needs. And that’s ONLY if you are generous enough to give everyone the weekend to recharge.
For a 7 day work week with no days off, allowing for 8 hours of sleep per day and 2 hours of commute time, that is 4 hours a day to do anything else. I also would assume that part of the day would still be considered off hours for lunch. As well. Call it 3 hours a day for anything not work related.
This man should be hanged for even suggesting this as a reasonable productivity schedule for any living being.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
“a lot”, not “alot”. This is an alot! Image
- Comment on Amazing 1 month ago:
Well God forbid anyone do anything other than the way the British do it. 🙄
- Comment on Amazing 1 month ago:
Speaking that date format is usually reserved for holidays and special occasions in the US. I.e. 4th of July. You also see that data format written out on things like R.S.V.P invitations to weddings and formal gatherings. Not much else.
- Comment on Amazing 1 month ago:
Want some help? It’s intuitive to say month date year out loud. So that’s how we write it down too. Today is November 24th 2025 (11/24/25)
Here’s another point about the US date system I quite enjoy, the number go in order of lowest maximum integer to greatest maximum integer. The highest the month can go is 12 which is smaller than 31 which is smaller than theoretically infinite. But that’s probably not why we do it. I just like that thought.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 1 month ago:
I would think unique means you appear as a never before seen individual and not one they can identify from their fingerprint history. If you fingerprint twice and both are unique, you are secure.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
All instances of combat in Dishonored are completely optional in Dishonored. It’s actually one of the built in challenges of the game that you are rewarded for. Beating the game with out ever being seen is called Ghost and beating it with zero kills is called Pacifist.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
How other people chose to use the scripture is not within my control. I just wanted to point out the context. I also pointed out in my OP that I am a former member of the church.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
It’s funny, it is in fact up for debate which texts are divinely inspired as all the major churches have different canonizations around the world. Lots of crossover obviously, but plenty of questions about what should and shouldn’t be in the Bible.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
That’s not at all what that person said. Also I may be wrong but I think that person is making a joke.
I didn’t say the book of Timothy was not Divine Inspiration. I said Divine Inspiration is not God taking over the body of a man to write his thoughts down for us. Instead, Divine Inspiration is more akin to teaching that have God’s stamp of approval.
If you want an interesting topic to search around though, look into canonization of scripture. Churches all around the world have different books that are regarded as canon and divinely inspired. The Bible is not as straightforward as any church would have you believe.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
You’re missing my point entirely and focusing on one sentence. What I’m saying is that these letters were alleged to be intended for Timothy from Paul and when taken in context, provide a good few recommendations on how to conduct a ministry.
This specific passage is not a directive to all churches at all times or even to all women in all places. This passage is specific to the area of Ephesus where culturally, people fuck a lot. It’s what they do and they are proud about it. Timothy was sent there to help a church which had struggled with the cultural sexuality and Paul says more or less “Those people are all horny, let’s not put women in front of them and risk tempting them sexually.” It was not to say “all women should hide away and shut up.” Like it might seem outside of the passages context.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
The Torah is just the first 5 books of the old testament.
