Theoriginalthon

@Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the biggest steps I’m going to assume are having a satellite dish, knowing where to point it, knowing what to send, then hope that someone is listening. Much easier for a hooligan to throw a rock at someone or find a can of spray paint

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably hiding somewhere in the ribbon. I had the mispleaure of using word and outlook the other day, on someone else’s computer. Somehow I managed to save as an odt, somehow managed to attach end send it, only for the iPad not to be able to open the odt. Just said fuck it and went back to my lunix machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just call it what it is fraud and a criminal organisation. Someone in the government or civil service authorised the payment for the goods after delivery. It’s not about returning the money it’s about sending a message, reclaim what you can an jail everyone involved. If this was anyone else for smaller amount of money and not linked to the government it would have happened already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed it was like cream separating from milk, only wax from honey, but to be fair I have never really thought about it much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in hospital for a week with that once upon a time, would not recommend 1/10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a doctor here, if it’s warm to touch it’s an infection, draw a line around it in pen with a time and day, then In a couple of hours do it again. If it gets bigger, starts leaking puss or fluid got see a like now.

  Source: had a couple of skin infections before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also kind of squished on some racking, and with it been a 4u rack case full of HDD it’s quite heavy. If you have made it this far in to the garage, you not only have done well but passed the beer collection and numerous cordless power tools. It also has a sign saying beware of the leopard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Door lock and house alarm, also mines at the back of the garage with plenty of more easily stealable things in front of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yin yang⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For further maths at A level we started with about 10 people, one “normal” maths class and one statistics class later, we had dropped to 3 people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Filling a Gap in the Market: Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Farm to table or farm to anus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s all stupid people and marketing people understand more=better cheaper=better. I think it’s why ev adoption has been so poor, questions I get asked are what’s the range like? Doesn’t it take forever to charge? And aren’t they really expensive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could but you know there is nsfw content right here on Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I host myself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends what you mean by “security”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I host myself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of interest what are you using? I was postfix/courier for a long time, with a must migrate to dovecot 10 years ago. Finally migrated this year and the performance difference is noticeable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like that time they tried to ban torrent sites, sure a few will fall, however more or more will rise up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not guns that are the problem, it’s bullets, just ban selling bullets, let everyone keep there guns, problem will sort itself in a year or 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Industry first to use this specific part in this specific way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote Learning Accidentally Introduced a New Danger for LGBTQ Students⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as the kids are the school find this out I guarantee every single one of them will write queer or trans on the laptop, the system will get flooded and they will have to stop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried been a spambot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf are all these rules that I didn’t agree to when getting a bank card?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They hooked a raspberry pi up to the network switch. At this point i think they fucked up security pretty bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to nationalise

  Step 1, be the government Step 2, create a new bill or whatever Step 3, walk in to the water companies Step 4, fuck the shareholders and give them nothing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if you have been around long enough you might remember the Hitachi (IBM) deathstars wizardprang.wordpress.com/…/the-last-deathstar/

  I see Hitachi and think no fucking way, where as Seagate I used to see as an always yes. Now I just stick the disks in a zfs array and call it done

  What I’m really waiting for is large capacity ssds with sata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Ubuntu since 7.04, it’s all Linux underneath just with a slightly different look

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a font/typeface designing program that is available for Windows or Linux that supports creation of variable fonts and OpenType features?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fontforge and inkscape? I’ve never gone deep in to it before, but an inkscape wiki page does reference export to font forge as an svg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The traditional way is man pages and howto guides, which contain loads of information. You can get man pages in terminal or html (but I can remember how).

  Next up is online tutorials like you are using, however with complicated setups, like a full mail server, the info gets very specific and can often go out of date.

  Then we have readthedocs, which are the project specific instructions which tend to be very good.

  How ever my personal favourite is the arch wiki, you’ll need to know how to change commands to Debian based systems, but it does give a lot of info and insight that is up to date.

  For moving from Goole photos look at photoprism, immich and nextcloud, there are others, but these are the ones that made my short list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were plasma based weapons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Urban backgrounds n=4 and gas stations n=8

  are you fucking kidding me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The guy at work was mentioning immigrants and hotels today, I use him as a baseline as to what the sheep in society are thinking. He’s now actually blaming the previous conservative government and labour for the mess we are in., instead of just the labour government. It’ll be interesting if I hear about this tomorrow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you recommend to fix this home network issue.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others have, I also run unifi access points, run a dedicated network cable to each one and you should be sorted, bit of work but totally worth it in the long run. I think a couple of the pro models have dual network ports so you could in theory daisy chain one from the other, never tried it.