bjorney
@bjorney@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 2 weeks ago:
Not an American, but basically decide how much risk you want to take on - then depending on that answer set aside money (0-40%) for safe investments - things like bonds (guaranteed returns) or potentially gold (lower volatility). The rest goes into a 80/20 (or 60/40, or 90/10, no one can say what’s best) split between domestic and international index funds. Things like the S&P500, Dow, and US whole market index, and then some into EU, Asia/Oceana, and emerging market index funds.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 3 weeks ago:
You seem content to entirely gloss over the issue, which isn’t the pros/cons of a particular writing style, it’s that the maintainer could have said ANY of the things you said, but he didn’t
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 3 weeks ago:
If I was the maintainer, I too would probably reject the PR because it didn’t remove the gender entirely.
Cool, but that isn’t what happened here. The PR was closed immediately because the maintainer considered using gender neutral pronouns “personal politics” - he had ample opportunity to clarify his stance, or simply comment ‘resubmit in passive voice’, but he didn’t. Clearly the problem wasn’t the active voice, it was the summary of the change, because when that exact same PR was re-submitted much later with a commit message of ‘Fix some minor ESL grammar issues’, it was accepted with no discussion
As an aside, I absolutely disagree with the use of passive voice. It’s more verbose, and harder for the reader to comprehend. It’s why every style guide (APA, Chicago, IEEE, etc) recommends sticking to active voice, especially in the context of ‘doing things’.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 3 weeks ago:
If goes against established norms here
What’s the established norm here. All people compiling software by source are male?
he said politically motivated changes aren’t welcome
What’s politically motivated about changing “he” to “they”. As you said, gender doesn’t apply here, so the neutral word is literally preferable.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I’m sure that PR would have been accepted instead /s
But you’re right, it doesn’t matter at all, the reasonable thing to do would have been for the guy to spend 3 seconds clicking the accept and merge button, or 6 seconds making your change. instead he wrote a comment stating that inclusive language has no place in his project
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 1 month ago:
and I’ve encountered zero bugs so far
This is my only complaint - it crashes a lot for me
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 2 months ago:
An absolute bastard of a workout will use up maybe 100 on top of that
An hour run burns like 600
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 2 months ago:
I run a half marathon 1-2 times a month, and the costco poutine (2000+ calories) really hits different when it’s guilt free
- Comment on Best Show Of 2024 Is A Non-Woke Patriotic Hit Everyone Must Watch 3 months ago:
Sounds pretty woke to me
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
Brain uses more wattage than a lightbulb, unless we are counting incandescent bulbs because it makes the stat seem more impressive.
- Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase 6 months ago:
The word ‘decipher’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m wondering if they socially engineered or just found it written somewhere in the house?
You can plausibly brute force up to 4, maybe 5 words of a seed phrase. It takes longer than a normal password because every seed phrase is technically valid, so the only way to know if your brute force is successful is to generate thousands of addresses at each of the different derivation paths you may expect funds to exist at.
The same seed phrase is used for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc, but each currency uses the seed phrase to generate addresses in a slightly different standard. Additionally, each wallet uses a slightly different variation of that. Within each wallet is a notion of accounts, and within each account you could have dozens of addresses. You need to generate each of those addresses, and scan each cryptocurrencies blockchain to see if those addresses have ever been used.
Realistically one of three things happened: his seed phrase was written down and they found it, it was password protected or on a drive with weak AES encryption and they cracked THAT instead, or finally, he used a hardware wallet and they exploited a firmware vulnerability to lift the PIN and transfer out funds and/or read the seed from the device