SpaceCadet

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to upgrade my Mint install every two years

  I know you’re joking around here, but you don’t have to upgrade every two years. You can use an LTS release instead, or, on the opposite of the spectrum, a rolling release.

  Release schedule and duration of support should always be factored into the decision of choosing a distro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

  I approve this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm

  I’m limited by the rate at which I can think of bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some basic info about USB⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yet all I needed is a “this side up” symbol …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your average Windows user calls tech support, they’ll get a simple answer

  They’ll get a simple answer alright. In fact, they’ll be lucky if they get any answer at all that is not reboot, retry, reinstall or some other cargo cult nonsense from some on-paper “MCSA” in a third world country.

  And sorry for going on a rant here, but Windows tech support forums are truly the shit tier of all tech support forums, because very few people actually have the skill to properly diagnose problems in Windows when something outside of the realm of expected behavior occurs. It’s all learned behaviorisms instead of understanding: reinstall your drivers! defrag your hard drive! run ipconfig /renew! clean your cache folder! delete your cookies! Never: “look in the system eventlog for an error event coming from this source, and tell me what the error code says”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the problem with “jargon” anyway? You can’t discuss technical things without using technical language.

  If you take a bunch of Windows nerds (yes they exist), and get them talking about group policies and registry edits and powershell cmdlets, you get the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But people whose life or personality doesn’t revolve around their computer should also be protected from user hostile and privacy invading practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  people not knowing shit about tech is not their fault

  I don’t agree with much else of what you are saying, but you are quite right here. We should indeed not throw people under the bus because they’re not tech savvy and only know how to use Windows. They need to be defended from all those horrible anti-human and privacy invading practices by Microsoft and other Big Tech companies as well, and we should keep fighting and pushing back on those companies pushing their anti-human features, regardless of whether an alternative exists.

  BUT, ultimately Linux is the answer, and people are not wrong for pointing that out. It’s the only user respecting alternative that is viable to use. It’s the only way to free yourself from the abusive relationship between you and Microsoft, because much like an abusive partner, Microsoft will never change. So if you’re tech savvy, and you would be able to switch to Linux but don’t, I have little sympathy for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah crap, was replying on an old tab that I hadn’t refreshed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah crap, was replying on an old tab that I hadn’t refreshed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many leaders in tech evil?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was much easier to “hide” sit back then unless you were in the know in the industry.

  It wasn’t hidden. Everybody knew back in the day what an evil piece of shit he was.

  It has just been forgotten about and many current adults weren’t old enough, or even around, in the heyday of his evil empire, so he has been able to whitewash his image. My 50 year old ass remembers though. Fuck Bill Gates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a breath dude

  Can you not please with the condescending language? Maybe you’re the one who should take a breath and read it calmly. Anyway, the guy above me asked, I gave an answer to cover all the bases.

  The default branch name of git isn’t that important to me either, I’ll manage with main or master. But at the same time it does irk me especially since this kind of language policing has become an industry wide trend, and it’s just a stupid thing done for stupid reasons. Am I still allowed to express why I find it stupid?

  it’s trivial to change

  It isn’t as trivial as you make it out. I’ve already encountered repos where there was both a main and a master branch, both with different commits, because some developer got confused, and it was a nice mess to untangle. But hey, let’s change some more stuff around for no good reason.

  If there’s any chance it helps maintain a hostile workplace/industry

  I can think of a lot of things that contribute to a hostile workplace, but the default branch name of git? Seriously? Even the people who pushed for this don’t actually believe that themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why care about Master at all?

  I’ve already explained all my reasons, but I’ll reiterate. To summarize I basically have five main issues with it

  1. The change was done in response to attempts at langauge policing and bullying by a vocal and militant minority. Giving into it is a form of appeasement.

  2. The change retroactively modifies a terminology that was already agreed upon. Like, if git sprung into existence today, not many people would have an issue with it if they would call it main or trunk or primary from the get go. But that’s not what happened. Git was released in 2005 and it used master terminology. As a consequence, many existing repositories also use master. Now when someone is working with branches, like doing merges or pull requests, they suddenly have to remember: oh in this repository it is main, but in that repository it is still master. Or they have go out of their way to modify decade old repositories, potentially breaking all kinds of behind the scenes CICD stuff. Or they have to go out of their way to revert the default on all systems that they’re working on back to master. In any case, this change is a source of errors and wasted effort for zero net good.

  3. It does no good in the real world other than making do-gooders feel good about themselves, and giving a capitalist entity some PR to appear more progressive than they are. We all still have masters, existing slaves are not freed, no historical wrongs of slavery or inequality are righted.

  4. It’s a misguided change in this case because the word master in this context doesn’t even have a relationship to slavery. Just like a master degree you may hold, or a master key or a master recording of your favorite album have no bearing on slavery. Note that there are no “slave” branches in git.

  5. Finally, in the case of git, master is simply more accurate than main because it carries a nuance (derivativeness) that main does not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no need for master terminology there

  Nobody said there is a need, you could call it foo or bar and it would still work. It just that master more accurately describes what it is. Main for example does not describe a derivative relationship, master does.

  Also, master in this context is totally unrelated to slavery so I could also just as easily say that there was no need to replace the existing terminology either. It doesn’t solve any real world problems of historic or currently existing slavery, and it doesn’t make anyone’s life better. The only reasons why it was done were appeasement and virtue signalling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it not the main working branch

  No it is not. On large distributed projects for which git was designed, you typically don’t directly work on main/master but you create a working branch to do your changes, and when they are ready you merge them to main/master.

  There are many types of git workflows, but main/master usually contains the code that is deployed to production or the latest stable release and not some work in progress.

  When you start a new project, do you open a new branch or create a whole new repository?

  You have to define “project” for that.

  • Is your project a change to existing code -> new branch, merge to main/master when done
  • Is your project something new that stands entirely on its own? -> new repository
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen ‘Active / Passive’ used, that seems alright

  That’s not always an accurate description though.

  Consider a redundant two node database system where the second node holds a mirrored copy of the first node. Typically, one node, let’s call it node1, will accept reads and writes from clients and the other node, let’s say node2, will only accept reads from clients but will also implement all writes it receives from node2. That’s how they stay in sync.

  In this scenario node2 is not “passive”. It does perform work: it serves reads to clients, and it performs writes, but only the writes received from node1. You could say that node2 slavishly follows what node1 dictates and that node1 is authorative. Master/slave more accurately describes this than active/passive.

  There’s plenty of alternative terms to use without borrowing terminology from sexual roleplay.

  Do I have news for you …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  master over main

  That one is the most stupid one too, because master in git doesn’t even refer to a master/slave relationship. It refers to a different meaning of the word master, namely “an original from which copies can be made”, as in master recording or master key. And that’s how it’s used in git: any new branches are derived from master. Main just does not have the same nuance, because it does not imply a relationship between the branches, just that it’s somehow more important than the others.

  But of course, the real reason it was changed is because it’s easier to give in to the crazies who demand this than to fight them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Female Dating Strategy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think being interested in your own weird little niches is wonderful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the question is rather forward for a girl you just met at a party, but at the same time I think someone’s youtube recommendations would be a good indicator of some obvious red flags that someone may want to consciously hide from a prospective partner. For example, if someone’s feed is full of alt right/joe rogan/incel crap, or for women, full of FDS crap, you’re damn right I’m gonna judge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $100 though … a Chromecast used to be like $35.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google bankrolls Firefox basically.

  bloomberg.com/…/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always fork firefox

  You could fork Chromium too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pentium 2 and 3 had rudimentary protection. They would simply shutdown if they got too hot. Pentium 4 was the first one that would throttle down clock speeds.

  Anything before that didn’t have any protection as far as I’m aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. It was just last year that some of the Ryzen 7000 models were burning themselves

  I think he was referring to “back-in-the-day” when Athlons, unlike the competing Pentium 3 and 4 CPUs of the day, didn’t have any thermal protections and would literally go up in smoke if you ran them without cooling.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRn8ri9tKf8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does that graph show Epyc (server) and Threadripper (workstation) processors in the upper right corner, but not the equivalent Xeons? If you take those away, it would paint a different picture.

  Also, a price/performance graph does not say much about which is the superior technology. Intel has been struggling to keep up with AMD technologically the past years, and has been upping power targets and thermal limits to do so … which is one of the reasons why we are here points at headline.

  I do hope they get their act together, because we an AMD monopoly would just be as bad as an Intel monopoly. We need the competition, and a healthy x86 market, lest proprietary ARM based computers take over the market (Apple M-chips, Snapdragon laptops,…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, but that’s already mentioned in the article. Thought I’d give people the exact userpref, so they can modify their custom user.js if they have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To disable:

  user_pref("dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled", false);
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just booted up a Windows 2000 VM to check … it’s there in the disk management tool. It looks a bit weird with the drive icon in Explorer, but ok.

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I believe that was introduced as far back as Windows 2000. It never really caught on though.