remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 6 days ago:
Nobody said anything about taking a shower.
- Comment on WMD 2 weeks ago:
Japan seems to be having more success: futura-sciences.com/…/this-new-japanese-weapon-ca…
Still, the technical challenges are exactly the same. While I can’t find many more details, it being ship mounted is a significant step forward and it seems to imply that some of the more serious issues have been solved. (A demonstration is just a demonstration and anything other than it being able to hit a target ship is just speculation.)
- Comment on How does one country prepare to fight the other? With out spies? Like Iran is fortifying against a US strike. But how do they know what we will strike with and vice versa all thru history? 2 weeks ago:
The art of war is extremely complex and there is no way to cover everything in one Lemmy comment.
However, I can summarize: An attacker or defender simply needs to prevent the opposing side from being able to support a war.
While there are thousands of different things that can support war, it usually boils down to raw manpower, food/supplies, weapons, energy, logistics and communications. Failing to defend, or not having the capability to replenish/repair those things is usually a quick game-over as those items are highly dependent on the other. Anything that supports those key items is a target of the enemy, so those are the things that are stockpiled, fortified or should be rebuilt quickly.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 weeks ago:
000, 666 and 900-999 are invalid area numbers and any digit group of all zeros is also invalid. Thanks for playing!
- Comment on Single dose of DMT could help treat depression 2 weeks ago:
From the research papers I have read, psychedelics introduce a degree of neuroplasticity that allows psychotherapy to more effective. (I cannot speak to what types of psychotherapy would be more effective than another as I do not know or understand the differences.)
I attribute my use of psychedelics to helping me through my alcohol addiction. While it wasn’t guided therapy, it was still very controlled and allowed me to “rewrite” how I interpreted feelings and how I handled a variety of different situations. My hallucinations allowed my feelings to become more tangible and physical. I felt I had the opportunity to think differently about difficult parts of my life.
I suspect proper guidance is similar to what I did to myself: Have a person describe situations and the therapist proposes different ways to interpret those situations. The brain is able to physically form new pathways and sidestep old behaviors.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 weeks ago:
I am making a slightly different point and have a bias to this perspective: www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/…/19230.pdf
I am saying that an SSN can be part of a larger validation scheme, not the only key to the castle. Specifically for government sites, SSNs can be linked to IRS data to verify places of last residence. A person generally needs to verify multiple items that are referenced by the SSN before basic authentication can be established and set by the user. (This is part of the full Authentication, Authorization and Access Control triad.)
An SSN is just a broad level identifier. If you look at many laws around the release of SSNs, the redaction is usualyl in place to prevent the linking of different documents and other data points.
If I released my SSN in this chat, I could be fully doxxed in a matter of seconds. It’s mainly because there are many legal systems in place that use an SSN as a primary key, of sorts. (It’s a bit more than that, as SSNs can be duplicated in some circumstances.)
So to say, at a high level, an SSN is considered private is absolutely correct. However, it’s so easily referenced and obtainable it really isn’t fully private either.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 weeks ago:
SSNs are generally considered public information but how the SSN is linked to other information is usually the more difficult bit to find and it’s generally pay-walled. (Any jackass with a business license and a credit card can usually buy background check information for ‘hiring’.)
But no, it shouldn’t be solely used for authentication. That is just dumb. However, it can be used as part of a larger verification and validation scheme while building authentication/authorization profiles. In most systems that I have seen that use full or partial SSNs, it is always linked to several other identifiers that need to match.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 months ago:
Air, water, AIO, whatever. If it cools well, use it. I just prefer AIOs and there really isn’t any maintenance, was my main point. There are always tradeoffs between AIO, air or a proper water rig, so there is that. (Fans are crazy quiet these days, but when I made the switch, it was mainly for noise. I always run an overclock, so my fans were always hauling ass which probably isn’t needed now.)
Ultimately, I prefer AIOs for the way airflow is managed. It’s not better or worse than air in many instances, but I like working with a radiator rather than a chonky heatsink.
I cannot disagree though: zero maintenance is better than maybe-maintenance. Like I said, it’s about tradeoffs.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 months ago:
I have been exclusively using AIOs for years now. Generally, by the time they need maintenance, its already time for a major hardware update and rebuild anyway. That is, of course, if it is serviceable. This depends on the quality of the AIO you buy, TBH. I had a first-gen Corsair AIO start to get audible air bubbles on startup, but it’s long since been recycled.
I am sure other people have some kind of horror story about an AIO leaking or something, but in general, they don’t really need to be maintained if it actually is a sealed system.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 2 months ago:
You can interpret anything how you choose, kind of like we have to do with your grammar.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 2 months ago:
You are missing my point, but I also wasn’t clear enough. In proper context, we are saying the same thing.
I worded that sentence carefully, as to your point, I don’t actually want to tell people to go to Reddit. However, each platform is unique in its own way. If someone wants the Reddit experience, that is the only place they are going to find it. Reddit content is generally curated algorithmically while Lemmy content is not. It’s could be the same articles on the same day, but two different experiences.
OP was referring to reposting content for someone who seemed to be looking for the same volume of content that is on Reddit that is heavily sorted, unless I missed something. I was just saying that this platform doesn’t really support that kind of thing in a constructive way. The articles and the presentation combined make the platform “content”.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 2 months ago:
Something similar has been done before and it was really easy to spot. I won’t get into the details, but it was really trashy. There are other communities that try to copy Reddit already and I block most of them.
Communities driven by one persons posts or by a cluster of bots generally suck. Yes, communities must start with only one person, but if nobody else likes the idea and the community doesn’t drive participation from Lemmy as a whole, it’s simply noise.
Post content that you like, in communities that matter to you. If you like a particular strain of content, start a new community. People will join or they won’t. Read the room and continue driving the community, or don’t.
Automated posts have their place, but most people can spot it fairly quick. It generally doesn’t drive participation as much as organic posts.
Bluntly though, if you want Reddit content, go to Reddit. Lemmy isn’t Reddit and that is what people generally like about it.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 2 months ago:
The ones I have been in do. Dunno if it is a standard feature though.
- Comment on The Lioness does not... 2 months ago:
I have one highschool GPA.
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 2 months ago:
1.03672557568?
- Comment on China's troll army: From teachers to riders, all fake 2 months ago:
So they basically just copied .ml…
- Comment on hl shirt 2 months ago:
Sick! That would be a fun show. I was able to catch (probably) one of the last Sasha and Digweed shows that are probably ever going to happen and it was a good throwback to younger times.
Seeing artists now that I listened to during the birth of the rave music scene, now that I can afford it, is amazing. Unfortunately, it reminds me of how old I am. The last Sasha and Digweed show was packed full of people my age and it was exactly like an old-school wearhouse party. (The after-party even went to 6-7AM.)
(I didn’t take them) But we even had random people basically just shoving free pills (supposedly molly) at us too. Chances are it wasn’t malicious, bit more of a “spread the love” vibe.
- Comment on hl shirt 2 months ago:
It’s the logo for Aphex Twin, an iconic electronic music producer.
- Comment on The ugly side of corn 2 months ago:
Corn smut (Ustilago maydis), on the other hand, is supposed to be tasty.
- Comment on North Carolina (NC) is just built different 2 months ago:
The south can be really tribal like that. Once someone gets hooked on the southern baptist group-think schtick, independent thought is near impossible. I ain’t saying that is the case for all people, but if Bojangles being a sponsor of NASCAR is important to your life and belief structure, odds are fairly high that someone else is making decisions for you.
- Comment on North Carolina (NC) is just built different 2 months ago:
I am from NC, believe it or not. People can identify with whatever they want, but it’s kinda silly when they are identifying with a company that really isn’t southern any more.
It’s kinda like how people are dedicated to their home NFL team when none of the players are from that area. It confuses me, s’all.
- Comment on North Carolina (NC) is just built different 2 months ago:
Totally had me fooled with the truck that is driving backwards dumping spice out of its front.
Bojangles was founded in NC but the company has been shuffled through so many investment firms now, it’s basically just a brand with zero soul.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 2 months ago:
I think you two just said the same thing.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 3 months ago:
The one where the the front fell off?
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 3 months ago:
no need to seriously adapt to their environment.
Yeah, cats make everyone and everything adapt to their environment. You have to completely go outside the environment to avoid their influence.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 3 months ago:
The media (Blu-ray, dvd, whatever…) didn’t matter so much. Adding depth fields to existing media works, but it isn’t exactly perfect. The tech should be much better now, but it took a fuck ton of manual labor to convert films to be compatible with 3D. Back when 3D TVs were being pushed, studios had to film movies in 3D as well, which took more time and more equipment.
Here is an old pic I took during the conversion of Titanic into 3D since it wasn’t filmed in 3D from the start. Each frame needed to have depth fields mapped, by hand, in a room filled with jr level staff: Image
- Comment on Americans be like: 3 months ago:
I personally watch he hell out of PBS shows and have since I was a kid. (Space Time on YouTube is probably at the top of my list now.) My first thought about PBS was, “PBS has a web site?”.
- Comment on Stretch marks 3 months ago:
Well, that was poetic.
- Comment on How to test if the internet is working as expected.. 3 months ago:
The bit rate sucks ass, but there does appear to be a connection.
- Comment on Corn 3 months ago:
What about CornHub?
