TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess my point is federated services, at least prior to a world where they become mainstream, are only particularly good if

  1. You have a group of people all willing to use them together (IE Matrix, Friendster etc…), Join as a group don’t expect to find other specific individuals.

  2. If you do want to meet people, you are looking for pretty broad categories encompass millions. IE on lemmy you can certainly find an anime community, you won’t find an active jujitsu kaisen community.

  Anyway so my point on things like Dating, Linked In etc… those topics are likely to be the last to have a hope in the federation, because their services on their own, require users, but more importantly those users have to be localized (IE dating sites need, both a high volume of users, and those users need to be in close geographical proximity, and have some reasonable male to female ratio, and then have some level of common interests). A linked in needs… job seekers, and companies/head hunters. Of which you can’t expect companies to put in resources without a large userbase… and you can’t expect the userbase to grow without company usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there even really a function for linkedin without… well what it is? The last people to adopt new and open source tech are… corporate executives, and to my knowledge the whole point of linked in is, a psudo job hunting web page, with some social media pages as a secondary (of which people are only going to be posting “work hard” and “I work hard” kind of messages because… well they’d never post something that might make them less attractive to employers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has ICE negatively affecting the protection money income of US organised crime?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually I imagine the biggest thing of the “protection money” racket concept… to my understanding that requires being the most dangerous thing in the area. While the obvious concept of protection money is it’s to prevent the group you are paying from robbing you… it is kind of protection in the sense that a small time crook wants to rob stores in a mafia controlled area, the mob will go after him.

  I’d imagine an army sized groups breaking down doors etc… means paying the mob ain’t that good of a deal.

  Also I’d say… I’m pretty sure most organized crime, has their own code of morals. Ice thug may be outside many of their standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would TRUE capitalism have any problems?

  Well only a TRUE Scottsman could tell you how TRUE capitalism works.

  But OK so in short the gist of theory in capitalism.

  Free market ideas - IE capitalism with no government oversite. If a company makes shitty products, someone else will make a less shitty product and all consumers will switch, or if a company starts dumping toxic waste into the drinking water, people would figure it out and stop buying that product… Parts of it are kind of a pipe dream because, some products are inherantly expensive to get started in. Lets face it, Facebook, Windows etc… aren’t dominant because their products are the best, pretty sure you could poll their userbase and find abysmal satisfaction among them. Yet even a giant as big as google, can’t accomplish the resources needed to compete in those markets… let alone a startup out of nowhere.

  Now regulations obviously that’s where crony vs regulated comes up in discussion.

  Obviously to me the big part is, safety matters. First off the bat, information, consumers can’t even make decisions if they don’t know. If you are putting poison in food, or calling something healthy when it’s loaded with crap, consumers have to know that.

  Environmental is a bigger problem. Obviously requiring you to shield and not leak toxins into the drinking water… is a big problem, and it creates a huge problem, as the companys selling gas, or manufacturing chemicals etc… that spend less on safety are at a huge advantage in pricing to the consumer, who can’t tell why the more ethical companies are so expensive, only that they are more expensive. But the more safety that’s required, the higher the bar to entry is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have rights this is america *

  • Rights should be exercised at your own risk… Courts may change their rulings on them at any time, and not even the best lawyer on earth can revive after you’ve been shot in the head.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean DNS is always the issue… but then that’s kind of the double edged sword as well isn’t it?

  Conceptually 4 options come to mind.

  1. DNS as current - weakness domain name changes or DNS outages or poisoning

  2. IP address - Issues, migration etc… some instances may need to move services etc…

  3. SSL private/public keys - probably the strongest I’d imagine. only real weakness I can see is… 1. it has no ability to find a server, and I guess if a server is hacked and it’s private key is stolen, federated servers would not be able to spot the imposter.

  I do think 3 might be the strongest option. I don’t know anything on how lemmy etc… works. I’d imagine a strategy would be, When A and B federate with eachother, A records B’s Domain name, IP, and public key (and B gets A’s as well), if DNS goes down attempt recorded IP. If neither work wait for an incoming connection and if the new connections public key matches an existing public key, it assumes the identity.

  But as far as the user side I don’t really know. Obviously we can only match users as their domains. I can’t imagine how I could find you again with gammaray@sh.itjust.works when sh.itjust.works domain is unregistered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make the Wordpress media library be somewhere else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long time, but… wordpress is all sql isn’t it? Shouldn’t it just be, make a backup of the mysql database on the old server, install mysql and restore the database to the new server, and then point the word press servers configuration to the new database?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s kind of an honesty thing. The biggest thing is if they are lying to their customers there… also apparently lying about where it’s based (They are in Lithuania, which has manditory data retention laws), only using panama as a tax haven.

  Bottom line is, it’s about trust… They have a history of lying about a lot of small things, which then makes me think twice before trusting them with bigger things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean to me one of their huge red flags is their advertising. IE my big never using nord, was one of their commercials where basically it was voicing a guys vacuume, smart TV and Alexa, and vacume etc… talking about him behind his back. Which then the narrator is “Your devices are all talking about you behind your back, get nordvpn to protect yourself”.

  That and many more were just blatent misrepresentation of what a VPN can and can’t do. (point being, in the real world… everythings running https or some level of encryption. If your devices are compiling information, it’s via their connection to their services. Of which a vpn isn’t going to do jack to protect you from.

  Also a lot of shady things still within there, 2019 they had a major data breach, Many complaints on their service auto renewing.

  you can get a summary of a lot of parts of it with windscribe.com/vpnmap

  (site catalogs data breaches, complaints etc… with VPN services).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah sorry I phrased that bad, I meant to be listing smaller browsers that are also chromium. Point I was going at was most all the niche browsers are also chromium based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Big mystery to me, where the hell is opera getting so much money to shove in front of every youtube channel out there. It seems to be one of those things that every creator starts recomending at the same time… which automatically makes me cringe because, well obviously almost everything that has a huge influencer push, is complete garbage (air up, honey. nordvpn etc…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like googles just used it’s monopoly so strongly to make everything be chromium.

  Looking at stats counter.

  Chrome - 75.45, edge 9.55, safari 5.37, firefox 4.32, opera 2.13, brave 1.17.

  so… in short of their listings, 88.9% are chrome based… safari being the largest non chrome based browser. Firefox being the only other one with enough userbase to even get on the list.

  My only guess is that google’s made their services a big enough pain or enough favoratism that even microsoft decided they didn’t want to try and work around it.

  To which I also have to note, how few browsers aren’t chromium… IE Brave, Vivaldi etc…

  I’ve started using zen browser myself, but I find it kind of odd that there’s so few firefox based browsers… which is something that I’ve found kind of baffling… considering I haven’t really found any negatives in using zen for about a year… Google’s always been, a huge threat to preventing adblockers etc… for years, is it just a lack of ideas of what to add to firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree on that… Especially the leaders. Schumer and Jeffries have proven again and again that they find progressives a bigger threat than republicans. However we have seen it is possible to get progressives past them and into power. Aside from violent revolution I don’t see anything else that represents a way forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we can fully agree, democrats are republican light. The bottom line is most democrats are opposed to rational policies like, removing ICE, DHS, Regulating AI etc… All politicians who are for any of those things, are democrats, no politicians who are for those things are republicans, and the system does not allow 3rd parties. Point is the only strategy within voting… is.

  Primary all centrist/moderate democrats with someone that actually stands with the majority of people. Support those primary candidates as best as possible, and then vote for whoever the democratic nominee is, as I still would hold that the worse democrat is still currently better than the best republican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s 2 sides. Analog fails in more gradual forms. Digital obviously has the advantage of… replicating massively over large distances very quickly… IE your document could be backed up to a remote server as often as you save it. Versioning can exist so, you can have every change every update… differences between the file at 3:33 and 3:34 pm.

  True on the gist that, a single corruption can’t hit a whole typed document usually, IE your 20th keystroke on a typewriter can’t randomly damage the first 19 characters.

  I would say though digital excels in being able to be replicated, and versioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I first heard of the term "nuclear family", I thought it was referring to the fact that 20 century families had to deal with the constant fear of losing their family to a nuclear bomb.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But all homophobes are secretly Lindsay Graham

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the looks of it… a forbes article rewritten in AI to be an affiliate link to be reused as an ad link for proton mail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  was my thought exactly, from everything i understand… bee’s are just prostitutes. They let flowers nut on them… to gather the food they need to feed their families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe a company that tried that… would be a pile of flames, rubble and pitchforks in minutes.

  You want to get some computer experts to agree on the best language, and IDE to start with, or do we need to include every one… then deciding the order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to vote?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  agreed that’s human nature at it’s core. Reddits tried for years to push the “Upvote things that bring good discussion, downvote things that don’t”. But yeah humans always will be humans, I don’t see a time when a majority will ever follow that understanding, though I try my best to still follow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they don’t bother with just photos, I’m sure there’s some guy that’s replaced the one that died in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the reason they are using terms like “employment”… Next step: We’ve now managed to include AIs and automated robots in jobs numbers! Now we can report 700% employment, while everyone starves away hoping for a chance at a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO I don’t see why you get a second human involved. Store the database in an encrypted form… save a copy to some cloud service. Why count on another human for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc… I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage… with say the little mermaid etc…

  Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc… IE things aren’t terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn’t going to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field… gets put in and nobody questions it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.

  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

  I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc…

  I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god… but it explicitly says “in heaven” and doesn’t give any kind of “except of me”.

  Actually something kind of funny to me, it says “in heaven”, “on earth” or “in the waters below earth”. Assuming christian theology… the biggest exception that comes to my mind… is things that are in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only problem is when dealing with things like, what happens when a cop demands to bury all videos of his police brutality scandal etc… Bottom line 90% of time when the pressure hits enough, the words don’t do it justice. Especially when the cops release the report using past exonorative tense etc… to describe things in way that downplay and obfuscate what happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VTT Virtual Tabletop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long since switched to foundry, but I used to use

  www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/

  It’s not web based, but the clients are available for linux mac and windows,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid sexy raft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… did this scientists great grandchildren invent reality TV?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s true, but I think it’s in the phrasing, they describe it as a shortage of human made content. the bigger issue to note is the lack of ability to identify human made content. IE you give it reddit and our e-mails, there’s plenty of human made content on there… but nobody knows what percentage of it is actually bots or AIs.