ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 4 days ago:
Georgia and Moldova both are struggling against Russian influences in their elections.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 weeks ago:
That’s not true. Infinite doesn’t mean “all”. There are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are 2. There’s a high statistical probability, sure, but it’s not necessarily 100%.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re being too pessimistic about IT security, particularly in the Financial sector. A lot of the security rules and audits aren’t even government-run, it’s the sector regulating itself. And trust me, they are pretty thorough and quite nitpicky about stuff.
The cost of failing an audit also often isn’t even a fine, it’s direct exclusion from a payment scheme. Basically, do it right or don’t do it at all. Given that that is a strict requirement for staying in business, most of these companies will have sufficiently invested in IT security.
Of course it’s not airtight, no system really is. But particularly in the financial sector most companies really do have their IT security in order.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
That’s not entirely true. In order to be allowed to keep processing transactions you have to adhere to strict rules which do get regularly audited. And then there’s the whole “customers will switch to another more reliable party in case of outages or security problems”. And trust me, I’ve seen first-hand that they do.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
Not Tesla though, it relies on cameras only.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t wanna miss “Nazi gets kicked in the balls and cries” tbh.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes it can be used for comedic effect though. Like with “Fr*nce”.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Would they? The XZ utils backdoor was only discovered by what can only be described as an insanely attentive developer who happened to be testing something unrelated and who happened to notice a small increase in the startup time of the library, and was curious enough to go and figure out why.
Open does not mean “can’t be backdoored”.
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 1 month ago:
You do get the advantage of easy and above all fast placement.
Not sure how this would work out. There’s pros and cons I suppose.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
This article was amended on 14 September 2023 to add an update to the subheading. As the Guardian reported on 12 September 2023, following the publication of this article, Walter Isaacson retracted the claim in his biography of Elon Musk that the SpaceX CEO had secretly told engineers to switch off Starlink coverage of the Crimean coast.
IIRC Musk didn’t switch it off, it wasn’t turned on in the first place and Musk refused to turn it on when the Ukrainian military reqeusted it.
Musk is a shithead but not for this reason.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
Sending a simple transaction like this costs a couple cents though, which they could in theory bill to the developer as well. Setting the threshold at 100 is probably more to accrue additional interest on Steams bank accounts.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 1 month ago:
For a month, we’d talk about aliens. Then, we’d talk about Trump or Musks latest shit takes about aliens.
- Comment on Top EU Court annuls a €1.49 billion fine on Google. 2 months ago:
It’s not always true that appeals must go to some “higher court”. In some countries appeals may end up before the same judge, or another judge from the same court.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
The US army does indeed, and they would be valid military targets. People working for the EPA, perhaps not so much. Hezbollah however is structured towards support for the militant arm, as the Lebanese government handles civilian tasks.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
And I’m sure Islamic State and the Taliban have non-combatant elements too.
I don’t mind Israel defending against militant groups that fire rockets into Israel. I do mind them carpet-bombing civilian populations. This pager-thing seems to have the hallmarks of an operation that manages to cripple Hezbollah with a minimal loss of life and even fairly low civilian casualties. I much prefer Israel do this over the alternatives.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
There’s thousands of Hezbollah militants as well. We don’t know yet exactly how targeted the attack was.
Regardless “only” 9 people died so far. Thousands were wounded, but that’s much better than land mines would’ve been. This attack was extraordinarily targeted, and despite there being civilians hurt, they’re likely to be less hurt than the militants and unlikely to be among the dead. Every civilian death is a tragedy, but Hezbollah and Israel are in an armed conflict. Some civilian deaths are unavoidable. I much prefer Israel do this than the indiscriminate bombing on Gaza.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
9/11 targeted and killed civilians. This attack largely struck Hezbollah militants, who are in open hostilities with Israel. Doing things this way is far better than the seemingly indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 2 months ago:
It’s less antisemitic though. Please don’t conflate Jewish people with Israel, it’s caused enough problems as it is.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 2 months ago:
Is it? The original artwork was fairly clickbaity imo.
- Comment on "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours 2 months ago:
Someone already figured out how to “unlock” the full thing.
- Comment on "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours 2 months ago:
Larian are now the proud owners of the “Daddy Halsin” mod. Truly an asset to their IP!
- Comment on Palestinian girl killed by Israeli sniper in West Bank was looking out the window, father says 2 months ago:
Looking out of windows is clearly a terrorist act.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
It’s slightly cheaper for developers to put their games on there. But that sucks as a business model, because game prices aren’t any lower so for the end user it doesn’t matter. And on features, Epic just loses every matchup against Steam.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
There are enough sensors in cars to detect a rythmic motion. It doesn’t need cameras for that.
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
Wikipedia. Google Maps. The store of knowledge available from search engines. I use those all the time. You want to cut them off from that?
That’s a bit overdramatic. Most kids have a laptop for schoolwork these days. I personally didn’t get a smartphone until I started university, got a Samsung S7 then. I had no issues accessing any of those sources. These days I have a comp sci masters degree, so it definitely didn’t “stunt” me in any way.
I read and certainly write way more text than I did in the pre-Internet era. Do you want kids reading and writing less?
Kids reading and writing skills appear to have been declining ever since the rise of the smartphone, so I doubt they’re reading anything of sufficient quality to hone those skills a bit.
Schools here have recently mostly banned smartphones, and the kids seem happier for it and their grades and concentration in school is improving. Sound like positives to me.
- Comment on Aaaaah 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s what I meant, thanks for clarifying though.
- Comment on Aaaaah 2 months ago:
Yeah magnesium is another common one that can cause cramps.
- Comment on Aaaaah 2 months ago:
You likely have a potassium deficit. I had cramps all the time until I took vitamin supplements that contain potassium. No more cramps.
Of course you can also just eat healthier and get potassium that way. Supplements aren’t necessarily the solution for you.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Seconded, Divinity is great!
- Comment on European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects 2 months ago:
Even sadder:
The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside.