Jason2357

@Jason2357@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If a boomer was buying a house 30 years ago, they were between 32 and 50 years old. They were not buying starter homes 30 years ago. They already had equity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The software distro was intended for any type of ham radio, so it does ft8 and just about everything else. Not intended for just V/UHF. Im guessing the author just name-dropped the one mode that people have heard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are nation states just straight up intercepting and storing signal data on their networks in hopes that it can be decrypted in the future. 20 year old messages will still be useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heres everyone’s daily reminder that the luddites were not anti-technology.

  They were the high-skilled tech workers of their time! They were concerned with the power and wealth concentration that came with industrialists that used automation and abused low skilled labour to make obscene profits. They even proposed plans to phase in the new tech in a humane way before turning to the (ultimately failure of a) strategy to target and destroy specific machines.

  Groups like the EFF and tech labour unions have more of a connection with the luddites than people who get together the bust their own iphones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headscale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely! I should have said both the dns and certificate are subdomain wildcards. Thanks for clarifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headscale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to a reverse proxy with mandatory TLS and some IP filtering, I have headscale running on a sub domain (subdomain dns is a wildcard). The main domain is a different, static web page, so anyone scanning IPs for headscale wont see its a headscale machines unless they can guess the subdomain. I figure that might be useful in case theres a zero day that pops up. It just looks like a regular web server to drive-by script kiddies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just created a specific folder for it, then in Subscription management, click the little gear beside the folder heading and play with the purge settings for that folder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yunohost for sure. And start simple. One service

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of the electric latch is to save the frameless window panes. It can lower the window slightly in the instant before it opens, to break the seal and avoid torsion on the glass.

  Now, frameless windows are stupid and not necessary, so theres that. One dumb idea propagates another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Floccus is so neat. Way more than just Mozilla’s sync.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we have like 3 decades at most of this kind of tech, and really only a couple of generations modern capitalism, so it’s a bit tough to say “always” about anything. It would be more accurate, historically, to say that the monarchy always wins - but especially in that case - past performance does not guarantee future gains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People expanded to places with resources that they could live in, or bring back home. There are no resources that we know of in space that are not more easily accessed on Earth, and living out there would require a material investment from Earth that would be devastating.

  Most of the Earth is currently empty of humans, while space is colder than Antarctica, and less accessible than both the top of Everest and the bottom of the Mariana trench. You could build a city in any of those 3 places easier than even low-earth-orbit and any other celestial body would be thousands of times harder still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no job from those times you couldn’t do today while literally living better than they did. Quit your job, give away everything you own and go live in a tent in the woods harvesting mushrooms: Your life would still be better than theirs because you would still have access to some emergency healthcare, foodbanks when you are starving, and be protected from marauding pillagers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even being a king of that time would be a brutal life in a lot of ways. Death all around and a piss-poor chance of surviving any given year with every bit of your body intact and functional, extremely limited dietary variety, and the smell. Oh god the smell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, camping and campfires are nice. They are nice because they are temporary and by choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is very much glorifying the past, and probably the future. Medieval peasants would dream of sitting in a warm cubicle, well fed, while scrolling lemmy, if they could imagine it. Space colonization is probably impossible too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier switches were primarily about cost-savings, so Microsoft would just swoop in with discounts and backroom deal$, or offer discounts to anyone considering copy-catting, isolating the early-adopters.

  This case is not about cost but data sovereignty, and it’s also a smaller switch (keeping the Windows OS), so we can have hopes for better success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would generally keep sync and backup separate, but if you are using a cow filesystem like zfs on your unraid machine, it could take reliable snapshots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Restic is amazing. I use it to push to backblaze b2. I have a lot of redundant data (eg tar files of systems that are only slightly different) and it de-duplicates the data to an incredible degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a firehose folder on freshrss that has its own rotation rules such that posts are only retained for a couple days and are then deleted. It is also excluded from the “main” feed listing. Works great for news sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Open source” was literally invented to make Free software palatable to capitol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly a tough question. Use Lemmy, okay, but would you send financial contributions to said Tankie? I wouldn’t, and I would judge someone that did. I don’t think anyone can be expected to evaluate the moral virtues of the developer for every technology they use. That’s a supply chain nightmare. But, given the small number of people we directly sponsor, maybe then it’s appropriate to have some standards?

  As a non-US citizen, I actually consider /any/ American company that has not moved to be complicit in fascism. At the same time, I havn’t completely stopped patronizing American companies, so I’m not living up to my own standard. I suspect everyone is a little hypocritical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the article they mention videos with literal AI watermarks being passed around as if they were real. The targets want to believe they are true and will ignore anyone debunking them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Lemmy, or any other fediverse social network, ever got that big, you would be guaranteed there would be plenty of splinters of de-federation in the network. There would be small networks totally isolated from the mainstream cluster, and others that only federate parts of it. You could choose to hang out in some counter-cultural bubble, or choose a curated connection to the biggest networks, if you didn’t want to engage in them fully. The trick would be finding “your people,” but the tech works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the article really makes the point that it doesn’t matter. The videos can LITERALLY have a watermark on them from the AI software, and people just dgaf. The battle is lost before it begins.

  As with things like quotes and claims that could always be fake, it’s back to the old journalistic practices of verifying sources with a second source. But that means being ignorant of things that were not being investigated by journalists, which creates a different filter bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Web is Going to Die⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t at all. It’s just text content. They could have put all the links at the end as a menu I guess, but it doesnt even have that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Web is Going to Die⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Impossible? gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right after COVID, they used largely unnecessary back-to-work orders to trim the workforce. That was nice for them, as they don’t pay severance if you quit over back-to-work.

  Now that is exhausted, they can still use AI as cover for hiring less and laying off workforce to avoid spooking investors into realizing they are contracting.

  Also remember that tech companies tend to be evaluated based on insane growth predictions, so anything less than that can spook investors and crash their stock price. They are desperate for cover. Same reason they make lots of fake job postings they will never actually hire for. It’s all a shell game for the stock price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said. Works great until it doesn’t. In hindsight, Gmail has been extremely reliable for most people, but that wasn’t true for some other Google services. I do think a lot of people have probably lost their email because of their password management skills though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s probably the least-problem of my points. Really more of an issue for poor VPN providers, which people will end up with due to 3.