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- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 6 days ago:
This is also far from my personal experience, you might not even realize what free software you’re depending on?
Your browser is most likely the most complex piece of software you interact with daily and it is most likely FOSS. The Linux kernel is FOSS and is incredibly robust. Most compiler suites, FOSS. Most programming languages, FOSS. These are all incredibly well written and robust tools. AOSP, kinda FOSS and the forks like Graphene are definitely FOSS. Hell even a lot of macOS programs are actually FOSS.
There is great paid and proprietary software out there, sure, but no it’s not the majority of top quality software in my personal experience and likely a lot of people’s experiences
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 week ago:
Sounds like you’re cherry picking both; I’ve seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.
- Comment on Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting 1 week ago:
Oh right, thanks
- Comment on Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting 1 week ago:
Am I misunderstanding something? Wouldn’t that just be 7! = 5040 possibilities?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
I have no skin in this game, but IPs are definitely not anonymous data. Also there is a lot of great info out there about de-anonymizing seemingly random data. Interestingly enough, this is essentially the Netflix prize dataset that was one of the more famous ones.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
Nobody is gonna be using a quantum computer to “crack email hashes” of Plex users in a few years… I’m not even sure there is a speedup to hash cracking with quantum computers.
But depending on the hashing algorithm used, it’s likely pretty easy to crack hashes of email addresses today with a normal computer. They’re not particularly high entropy.
- Comment on I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation 5 weeks ago:
I feel seen
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 3 months ago:
Lol I drove at least a mile with my Thinkpad on top of the car. Some dude next to me at a stop light honking and miming saved me. Got up to 40mph with it still on top though!
- Comment on Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform 3 months ago:
What’s the give away there? Not doubting just wondering
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 months ago:
Seriously wtf did I just try to read? It sounded like AI slop.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 months ago:
Tangentially related: this comment chain reminded me of the categorical imperative
- Comment on Advice for quick and easy pet can with remote access 3 months ago:
Honestly I wouldn’t even go so far as home assistant. Do you have any IP cameras or just USB webcams? If you have IP cameras all you need is the VPN and then just access them as if you’re at home. If you only have USB webcams, you’re going to have to stream the content and I believe
ffmpegis actually capable of taking/dev/videoXand serving it over HTTP somehow, but I don’t remember exactly how. I see some references to it in some quick searches though.Another thing to remember is that you’re going to be limited by your upload speed. If you’re not on fiber and in the US that’s likely going to be pretty bad, so set your resolution and the like accordingly.
- Comment on Advice for quick and easy pet can with remote access 3 months ago:
Sorry about your cat. We typically have a Rover stop in to check on our cats when we’re gone for a bit. It’s nice to get them some human interaction and they always send pictures and give updates.
I personally have a camera setup inside that just streams to HomeAssistant so we can check on them ourselves when we’re out just for the weekend. WireGuard is a very easy way to set up the access. I disconnect it when Rovers are stopping by though because I don’t want them to feel spied on.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 4 months ago:
Totally, the real issue is people not having total control over their own devices.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 4 months ago:
There are definitely good, non malicious reasons to have it as a separate app and that should actually be preferred. Off the top of my head:
- Separation of permissions - it only has the permissions it asks for instead of every permission messages has
- It can be disabled/removed without disabling messages
- it can be reused by other applications if that’s a desirable feature
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 7 months ago:
I almost never use Windows, but aren’t commands and variables in PowerShell case insensitive?
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 8 months ago:
Hm I always remember hearing this:
In a confidential memo to the Republican party, Luntz is credited with advising the Bush administration that the phrase “global warming” should be abandoned in favour of “climate change”, which he called a “less frightening” phrase than the former.