Jason2357
@Jason2357@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
The small kobo kinda fits in a jean pocket, easily in cargo shorts or inside jacket pocket. Only comfortable for reading novels though. I prefer a little bigger even if it isnt pocket size.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
EInk gets expensive fast as the size gets bigger. At 10” its hard not to just use an lcd and bigger battery.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 days ago:
Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 days ago:
That would still pressure the browser teams to work on memory optimizations.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 days ago:
Yeah, this could spell the end for local installs of Microsoft office. Gdocs and o365 for everyone. Not sure if thats a win or loss.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 days ago:
Im really surprised Microsoft hasn’t already come out with a chrome-os like neutered version of windows specifically for this.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 days ago:
Most everything on the desktop is going to be light on ram except the web browser and electron apps (i.e. web browsers). Games use a lot too, but thats less of an issue because you don’t tend to multitask as much with games. Using onetab or some other way of limiting browser tabs severely helpa a lot.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 days ago:
Same here. Modern 32 gb machine from work is a slot. 2 minutes from wake to actually working, can be 10 seconds just to use the start menu sometimes. Older thinkpad with 16gb and linux/cosmic desktop - wakes almost instantly and perfectly snappy for most things.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
The company was literally founded on the principal of “thanks for all the free software I learned on, from this point forward, everyone needs to pay (me) for everything and sharing is bad”. Sort of paraphrased from Bill Gates email to the hobbyists. Then it got big by selling vapourware based on nepotism and then nearly stealing a product to fill the order. Then they got their fingers into legislators and it got worse for everyone.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
You literally wrote 2000 in the first line.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
XP was the first consumer OS with the NT kernel which was far far more reliable than win32 in the previous ones. I remember people bragging that they could leave their computer running and it wouldn’t crash -and that seemed crazy. I used windows 2000 for many years as a stripped down XP, but not many people got it. I think the interface peaked around 95, but the kernel was terribly unreliable.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
Having played around with it recently, I have to say the ui was pretty bad (try it: www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.11/ ) Go to Windows 95 and you get all the basic desktop ui principals that modern desktops use.
- Comment on Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. 6 days ago:
Corporate AI criticism always ends up being AI boosterism. This is just a way to laugh at “early” AI’s mistakes while implying that it will get good any day now.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
It’s not like it NEEDS it for anything.
I see this take online a lot, but in person, everywhere I go people play netflix and whatever directly on their TV. I think there might just be a huge divide in perspective between those with and without game consoles of some sort always connected to their TV.
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 1 week ago:
Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
This absolutely. Anyone who actually wants open registration will be configuring their own SSO or whatever backend. The default should be safe for testing and/or hobbyists.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
To anyone afraid of the above conclusion, a dedicated $5 VPS with automatic snapshots get you a long way.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
Any time you have a server willing to process random data uploaded from randos, just expect it to be compromised eventually and prepare for the eventuality by isolating it, backing it up religiously, and setting up good monitoring of some sort. Doesnt matter if its a forge, a wiki, or like nextcloud or whatever. It will happen.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
We also have COW filesystems now. If you need large datasets in different places, used by different projects, etc, just copy them and use BTRFS or ZFS or whatever. It wont take any space and be safer. Git also has multiple ways of connecting external data artifacts. Git should by default reject symlinks.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
Theres a HUGE difference between hosting it essentially read-only to the world, vs allowing account creation, uploading, and processing unknown files by the server.
I have thought of blocking access to the commit history pages at the reverse proxy to cut off 99% of the traffic from bots. If anyone wants to look at the history, its just a git clone away.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
You can git pull a repo to your machine, make your changes and then use git to submit a patch via email. Its not pretty, but it works. Hopefully federation is built soon and you will be able to submit a pull request from your own forge.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
While good, network security isnt the issue. Its running a web service with open registration allowing randos to upload content that gets processed by the server.
Throw this up on a dedicated $5 VPS and you still have a problem. The default should be manual registration by admins.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
Its coming: codeberg.org/…/FederationRoadmap.md
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 4 weeks ago:
Its always code forges and wikis that are effected by this because the scrapers spider down into every commit or edit in your entire history, then come back the next day and check every “page” again to see if any changed. Consider just blocking pages that are commit history at your reverse proxy.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 weeks ago:
Uuhh, beyond the fucked up publishing system, your advisor was a self destructive dick. It was his job to pay that. His lab and career benefit and hes the one that gets funding for research operations.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 weeks ago:
And a few years later rich folk start mass downloading the same databases to train LLM models using the exact same methods to sell access to those. No FBI.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 weeks ago:
If you are doing stuff in Linux that requires the terminal, you were probably making edits to the registry in Windows or pasting in wild powershell lines from online guides.
No need for 98% of the user base to ever touch the terminal. Open whatever software store comes with your distro, click install next to whatever you want.
The only exception to that is that sometimes, when a trusted person is supporting you through something, giving them a line to paste into a terminal might be quicker than walking them through all the clicks of a gui. Sometimes.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 5 weeks ago:
Someone always chimes into these discussions with the experience of being DDOSed and Cloudflare being the only option to prevent it.
Sounds a lot like a protection racket to me.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 5 weeks ago:
Except, if you chose the wrong 1 of that 10 and your company is the only one down for a day, you get fire-bombed. If “TEH INTERNETS ARE DOWN” and your website is down for a day, no one even calls you.
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 5 weeks ago:
Probably better to use them for their screen, firewalled off from everything except whatever is providing a dashboard or info display (e.g., homeassistant).