Bitrot
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- Comment on Parallel computing with 64,000 processors, in 1986: The Connection Machine CM-1(1986) 4 months ago:
A while ago I read this really good essay about working with Richard Feynman on the Connection Machine: longnow.org/…/richard-feynman-connection-machine/
- Comment on iOS 18 will let you hide and lock apps 5 months ago:
Guided Access locks you into a single app.
This hides and prevents opening specific apps, the rest of the phone is still accessible. It’s much more convenient as something you would configure and keep on all the time.
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 6 months ago:
No, but only because Pompeii has that too.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 7 months ago:
I think they’re taking about accidental incidents like this one, but that is also a very interesting find.
- Comment on Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future) 7 months ago:
Those things were “added later” to create iOS and Android, they aren’t from scratch systems. iOS especially shares a large portion of its code base with macOS (much of which is open source).
- Comment on The Superior Lemmy Experience 8 months ago:
We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 9 months ago:
Typically such a switch would have a ridge on the “on” side to remove that confusion, if they didn’t label it outright. Pity if they neglected that too.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 9 months ago:
What stuff? Snap? The official flatpak? The official deb repository?
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 9 months ago:
Discover only removes it from ten sites.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 9 months ago:
They are talking about the password lookup: haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
But, it’s the same deal. You have to trust they are actually doing what they say. Mozilla uses haveibeenpwned for their basic Monitor service too.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 9 months ago:
No. If your name is Dave Jones they have to look around those broker sites for Dave Jones. If those sites were using hashes then they could use hashes too.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It is. DeleteMe also has DIY guides.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Especially Experian, who can apparently make money like an arms dealer by selling data and also offering to remove data.
- Comment on how long is the current era of inflation going to last? 9 months ago:
Yes, that is adjusted for inflation. They raised prices beyond what was necessary to account for increased costs and had record high profit margins, so you had companies like ConAgra foods reporting profits 60% higher than the same quarter the year before, and people accepted it because of the pandemic and stimulus packages (“Biden dumped money in the economy!”) and labor shortages. It made a great scapegoat. Those loans existed before the pandemic, they really don’t account for what happened.
You can find a lot of information about greedflation.
- Comment on When the server breaks, who do we contact? 9 months ago:
Mastodon’s certificate had expired.
- Comment on how long is the current era of inflation going to last? 9 months ago:
If it was just devalued currency the corporations would also be dealing with a devalued currency and not recording record profits.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Yes, that one became such a trope it made it all the way to SNL and I doubt Google paid for the advertising.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Like the people walking around malls and driving their Tesla with one on? I think those are completely organic. I think for a little while there will be a subset of people who see them as a status symbol and want the attention.
- Comment on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain 9 months ago:
It’s such a shitty situation. ICANN is not going to sell .home or .corp as they found a crapton of traffic when they checked for it, but IETF never finished an RFC for them - however people easily stumble into the draft RFC that lists what they were thinking of, and assume stuff like .lan is good to go too. They’re only safe by policy, but unsanctioned.
.home.arpa is safe, per RFC, but user unfriendly to normal people. There are a few others but none a corporation would realistically use. I’ve used . internal for lab testing stuff for ages, so this is extra good news for me I guess.
Really I wish they’d have just reserved the most common ones rather than getting caught in some bureaucratic black hole.
- Comment on Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel? 9 months ago:
For the next four decades they’ll be asking everyone if they made this post
- Comment on Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel? 9 months ago:
They didn’t ignore his mother, they argued that she hadn’t been in the US for enough time. For a birth abroad with one citizen parent, between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, the U.S. citizen parent must have been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for 10 years prior to the person’s birth, at least five of which were after the age of 14. After 1986 it became 5 years / 2 years after 14.
She was 18 when she gave birth to Barack. He was born in Hawaii so it didn’t matter.
At one point some people tried to argue John McCain wasnt eligible either as he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which was made no difference.
- Comment on Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel? 9 months ago:
Converts are also eligible.
- Comment on Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel? 9 months ago:
Birthright Israel offers trips to converts too, as long as you are in the age limits.
The law of return also allows converts to obtain citizenship.
In both cases you would have to be a practicing member of the community.
- Comment on How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life? 9 months ago:
Just the complexity of all the things that happen in the world and individual lives when I’m not looking is enough to do that for me. Like, if I smashed in the door of any random house I would find new and different furniture and random strangers doing whatever it is they’re doing at that time of day because everybody is living individual lives. Sure, I could be hallucinating that too, but really I do not think I am creative enough. I’ve also worked in multiple positions that had more opportunity than most to peer behind the curtains into people’s private lives to the point where I easily accept that life is happening all over the place.
The shared simulation is much more plausible to me than me existing in an individual universe. I don’t really think it’s true either but that’s more of a bias.
- Comment on About Kbin - why don't Kbin instances automatically grab updates if a magazine from another instance is out-of-date? 9 months ago:
I don’t think it’s usually out of date that’s the issue, but rather history. Generally activitypub instances don’t get historical data, they get data from the point someone subscribes, so you may be missing old threads and comments on your local instance that exist on the hosting instance. If nobody is subscribed your instance may not be grabbing new content though.
- Comment on How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable? 9 months ago:
A straight copy will result in very large wav or aiff files, so there is usually the extra step of encoding it into a smaller compressed format. Lossless compression like FLAC allows for an exact reproduction of the original data, while lossy like mp3 will be an approximation with even smaller file sizes.
- Comment on How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable? 9 months ago:
The pigment also degrades over time, eventually data will become inaccessible.
- Comment on Joplin alternative needed 10 months ago:
Simplenote, Notesnook, Obsidian.
Obsidian sync isn’t free, and it’s easy to violate their license if you mix work and personal notes.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 10 months ago:
This is straight out of the book Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Love the idea.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 10 months ago:
That is fascinating! And different than I’ve heard described elsewhere by either the “non-visual” or “non-verbal” thinkers. I think I am pretty generic, when I think of a stapler I literally see a red swingline stapler floating in a void like in a 3d modeling program (that stapler specifically due to the movie Office Space, and therefore I also own one).