Dempf
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- Comment on Lemmy.zip Updated to 0.19.6 1 week ago:
Based admin.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Even with a free forum host, it’s difficult to keep things running for a long time.
Awhile back I was unsatisfied with how quickly my (new) furniture was degrading, and found a furniture forum run by a guy in the biz. So much knowledge on there about different furniture and how to actually find quality stuff that will last decades.
The owner retired this week, and he had been paying for an IT contract to do basic maintenance / upgrades on the forum (I think he started on a free host, but as it got bigger he eventually had to move it). He needed IT help basically to apply security patches and do upgrades. He’s stated that he no longer plans to pay for the maintenance contract. I’m guessing the forum will disappear soon.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update September 2024 2 months ago:
Most based admin possible.
- Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet 3 months ago:
It was already settled long ago by the Supreme Court, but evangelicals are trying to use private action as a way around it, and I bet they’re hoping that one of several current lawsuits makes its way up to our new and corrupt court.
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Friday 19th July 10:00 UTC 4 months ago:
Based admin.
- Comment on The FTC is investigating PC manufacturers who scare you away from your right to repair 4 months ago:
Remember that the burden is on them to show it. But the reality is that when they bring up irrelevant shit like that and try to say that your issue isn’t covered under warranty, it will be on you to “remind” them of that burden, and tell them that what they are trying to do is absolutely fucking illegal under Magnusson-Moss.
- Comment on Games that stuck with you 4 months ago:
I loved The Longest Journey series. Beautiful games. Not without flaws, but beautiful and thoughtfully written.
- Comment on Work from home 4 months ago:
For me it is a convenience thing – I spend a lot of time working from home and sometimes it’s nice to just be able to grab my phone and join a meeting while I’m sitting on the couch or w/e without needing to go over to my home office room. My team almost never does anything outside of work hours, so it’s not like I’m getting pinged or anything. In the rare situation where I get some notifications from a chat channel outside of working hours (usually someone in a different time zone) then I can just turn off work apps in Android and it goes away.
- Comment on Is it weird that I enjoy imagining being a witness/victim of various tragedies? 5 months ago:
Yours is the best take.
My guilty pleasure is the Air Crash Investigation series, or more recently Mentour Pilot on YouTube. It scratches both itches in my brain – the logic / engineer side, and the morbid curiosity & fascination with disaster.
The Roy thing is maybe pushing a little into weird. But if this sort of thing wasn’t normal then there wouldn’t be whole shows, subreddits, etc dedicated to disasters.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
I was there in 2017 or 2018 and set up a Shadowsocks server before I went with whatever the latest mitigations were that I could find at the time. My server wasn’t completely blocked, but ended up getting throttled to hell after a few days.
- Comment on Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas 6 months ago:
Rail also has a sort of hidden economic benefit in that once you overcome the network effect, it boosts economics on a larger scale. Some people in China thought it was crazy for the government to build high speed rail at the speed and scale that they did, and that it would never compete with flights, etc. And yes, the line all the way out to Xinjiang is not profitable and subsidized by other lines. But the overall benefit to the Chinese economy by connecting all the major cities together can’t be underestimated.
- Comment on gonads 6 months ago:
They need to do way instain nematodes> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back? it was on the news this mroing a nematode in ar who had kill her three gonads . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots"
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 6 months ago:
Now that it’s happening, I don’t quite know how to feel.
I certainly don’t feel sorry for Tiktok though.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Mod Tools 7 months ago:
Absolutely based admin.
- Comment on Server upgrade completed 7 months ago:
Super based admin.
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
I use talking points like these a fair amount with Republicans. Try to get them to think back to when they were leaders in environmental policy. Get back to their roots of environmental stewardship. It seems to have moved the needle slightly.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 8 months ago:
Yeah wireguard is really nice, but it drains my battery pretty quick on Android.
- Comment on The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ 8 months ago:
Yeah, we were shocked. We’d ask some basic questions from their resume like “which tool do you prefer, a or b and why?” Mostly just trying to coax out some jargon that you’d really only know if you actually ever used the tool. We would get a long pause and then a wordy response basically just summarizing things. It sounded exactly like how chatgpt would respond.
- Comment on The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ 8 months ago:
I’ve seen this on the hiring side as well, with applicants giving responses directly from chatgpt.
Soon hiring will just be LLM talking to LLM.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
Yeah I got permabanned too.
I still post there occasionally. I made 4 new Reddit accounts from behind 7 proxies, but they all got banned due to browser fingerprinting. But I wised up and now the 5th one’s still not banned even though I access it from my home IP. I really try my best not to give such a hostile company more content, but there’s still a few local subs and specific content that isn’t big enough yet on Lemmy.
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 8 months ago:
Even the older Mode C/S transponders broadcast altitude, and passive radar could probably get you position. As I understand it, ADS-B doesn’t add a ton that wasn’t already available, but it does eliminate the need for radar, and includes ICAO hex codes that make it easier to uniquely identify an aircraft.
To shoot down a plane flying at 33,000 feet you’d need a surface-to-air missile system and a few missiles. Looks like the system used to shoot down MH17 cost ballpark of $100m, possibly more. Missiles are around $200k each.
You get target tracking and missile control radar included for free in your mobile SAM. At that point ADS-B is probably redundant, though I guess it could help you track the plane before it enters your airspace.
Though, really, where an airplane is going is usually not a secret. In most cases a flight plan will be filled (unless VFR). And there are other sources for near-realtime and realtime flight path information, including directly from the FAA.
You could also hire spotters with binoculars just to confirm that the plane is headed towards your mobile SAM.
Or, once the flight plan is filled and the departure time is confirmed, just stand outside the airport with a shoulder mounted missile launcher.
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 8 months ago:
I mean everyone can already get their hands on it: www.adsbexchange.com
The exceptions to ADS-B requirements include military aircraft. Awhile back a friend and I were in the Nevada desert and some F-35s buzzed past us at only a few hundred feet. I was curious about the flight so I checked ADS-B exchange, and sure enough there was no trace of it. Friend got a cool picture though.
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 8 months ago:
The other bit of this is that Taylor Swift sent a C&D letter to Jack Sweeney who is the guy who has been publishing flight paths of various celebrities. Sweeney obtains this data publicly because since 2020 all aircraft (with few exceptions) are required to use ADS-B transponders. The ADS-B system has numerous safety benefits compared to previous systems, but a side effect is that every aircraft now constantly broadcasts its position, velocity, and altitude information, and anybody who wants to can build a ground station capable of receiving this information.
Generally, threatening legal action against somebody who isn’t doing anything wrong or illegal is considered a dick move, and puts Taylor Swift in the same category as Elon Musk (who has also previously threatened legal action against Jack Sweeney). So we are proceeding to make fun of her without remorse, as it was her decision in the first place to fly privately, which is very bad for the environment.
Instead of threatening to sue the guy who’s breaking no laws and publishing information that is already public, she could just consider another mode of transit if privacy is that important to her. But in the meantime we will enjoy the memes
- Comment on Sometimes things do go your way 9 months ago:
Time to compile it myself.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
Legally they can’t force you to show your receipt. But refusing to show it could constitute probable cause for employees to detain you while they sort things out(shopkeeper’s privilege). Detaining you could constitute false imprisonment, though Colorado courts recently ruled Walmart not liable in that regard. The store could also choose to ban you.
- Comment on Task failed successfully 10 months ago:
Sure, I have an idea. How about we talk about beans…
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 10 months ago:
ACLU v Ashcroft and ACLU v Reno are really interesting to read, if you haven’t already.
Part of the conclusion of the court at that time was (at least regarding the CDA):
In order to deny minors access to potentially harmful speech, the CDA effectively suppresses a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive and to address to one another. That burden on adult speech is unacceptable if less restrictive alternatives would be at least as effective in achieving the legitimate purpose that the statute was enacted to serve
In ACLU vs. Ashcroft, the court ruled that less restrictive measures like Internet filters should be used, rather than the law in question (COPA).
I kind of think an argument exists that a system like what you mentioned with cryptographic keys could be a “less restrictive measures” given today’s technology. But I think we should still be careful, and keep in mind that nearly all pornography (with the exception of obscenity – a very narrowly defined category) is speech that enjoys strong protections under the First Amendment. So any decisions around restricting this free speech, regardless of our good intentions in protecting our children, can have unintended negative consequences around first amendment speech in general.
I assume the goal is not actually to keep kids from watching porn but rather to have a chilling effect on it
Probably a safe assumption, though I hesitate to overly ascribe malice. Still, it’s difficult to tend towards other conclusions when the state of Utah has declared pornography a public health crisis, for example. In my mind, children are just a means to an end. One part of the Free Speech Coalition’s arguments in Utah was around the impossibility of actually implementing age verification as no system actually exists in Utah to enforce that. Utah’s law essentially ducks the first amendment by outsourcing enforcement to private action rather than government action. Scary stuff.
- Comment on Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing 10 months ago:
And what about phones with a removable battery? Would be real nice to keep a couple spares instead of a big power brick I have to charge it from.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 10 months ago:
I have been happy to get outside my bubble a little bit. But at the same time, many of the Marxists here seem to be in their own bubble.
- Comment on Do we own our posts? 11 months ago:
They were too busy getting shit to just work.
