rekabis

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).

  Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.

  We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to see Europe ban/block the API endpoints that AI communicates over.

  Then ban all Meta endpoints if/when meta moves AI communication onto the same endpoints as non-AI communication.

  European laws are not perfect, but they at least make an effort to put the needs of the people ahead of corporations and the Parasite Class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would gladly send a dik pic of my own, provided she appreciates diminutive mammalian ruminants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is fine. The people running it are not⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Markup pro tip: to have multiple separate lines appear as a single block quote, have the separating new lines have a quote signifier as well.

  so this

  is one giant

  block quote

  despite the newlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is fine. The people running it are not⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase and heritage, since the release of NCSA Mosaic.

  That was 32 years ago. And holy f**ck, that dates me.

  Sure, I dabbled around with others. There was the original Opera, back when Netscape cratered and the only other real option was IE. Opera’s tab behaviours made me install Tab Mix Plus for FF, and I still find that extension to be the second-most critical extension FF has, right after UBlock Origin.

  And lately I took a shine to Vivaldi, but I have been weaning myself off of it once I realized that the Manifest v2 shutdown was unavoidable for it as well.

  And the only reason why I even have Chromium is as a sandbox for any Google services I access and as a “naked” web browser for those websites who implement malware and spyware in the name of “website security”.

  And of course, I also run forks, such as Librewolf and others, also with the appropriate anti-malware and anti-spyware add-ins. It can be useful having multiple web browsers up at once.

  But my main will always be Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Read the comment more carefully… while IT was most certainly not at their posts, this implementation team was actively monitoring the rollout and witnessing the carnage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never said it had to be you.

  But a threat to do exactly that would have likely called IT’s bluff long before the four-month mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And in those four months, did no-one think of firing up WireShark to see what was floating across that network during that time period?

  Seems like someone dropped the debug/analysis ball…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the UK is now officially pro-genocide?

  Good to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how the Streisand Effect works. They just made this app the hottest thing out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Allowing men’s issues to even be addressed risks giving legitimacy to the fact that they even exist. And if they exist, men can no longer be that evil monolith that exists only to be torn down and used as the cause for whatever is wrong with the world.

  After all, the zero-sum game must be properly reinforced with an appropriate evil that cannot be allowed to have any weaknesses or redeeming attributes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re conflating syncing with backing up

  Every syncing service I know of offers versioning. Some offer a high degree of versioning customization (retention, etc.) with their paid tiers, making said sync indistinguishable from a hot backup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Punishing the poor for the crime of poverty.

  How typically conservative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine if a carmaker sold a premium vehicle with a polished metal and glass exterior that you had to protect under a vinyl wrap to keep it from rusting and chipping under normal use… they’d be a laughing stock!

  tesla cybertruck wanders into chat, spots comment, slinks quietly back out with a red face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would likely go case-less if it wasn’t for my dry hands, and the occasional need to have my phone sit on my leg (while I am sitting) so I can go hands-free with it.

  My problem is that any phone without a case (and about 99.999% of cases out there) has the phone being as slippery as an enraged hagfish. It literally leaps out of my hands with most operations, which is why I need a case – to grip it effectively.

  And now with my iPhone 15 pro max, I have been in a desperate search for any case which is sticky enough. As in: with the phone in the case, place it face-up on your open palm without gripping it and tilt your palm 30-45°. If it slides off, the case is too slippery. I’ve had sticky cases before, but it seems that everyone suddenly stopped making them some time after the iPhone X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A mirror of Anna’s Archive.

  Information is meant to be free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …And it’s bound to be stupidly expensive.

  Wish I could afford 20 of them, but not without winning the Powerball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but you’d already be hard pressed to read the data off a deck of punch cards or reel of magnetic tape

  Even something like a 3¼″ floppy is getting hard to find a drive for, because not many USB drives were made, and non-USB drives need a motherboard with floppy compatibility. Which would be more than a decade old by this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And I self-host precisely because of the money I save using surplussed hardware. I have a symmetrical 1Gb SOHO fibre connection from my ISP, so I can host whatever the hell I want, I just need to stand it up. And a beefy older system with oodles of RAM is perfect for spinning up VMs of various platforms for various tasks. This saves me craploads of money over even a single VM on cloud platforms like Vultr. Plus, even if I were to support a “heavy” service sufficiently in demand to warrant its own iron, it still costs me less than a year’s worth of hosting to obtain a decent platform for that service to run on all by it’s lonesome.

  My only cloud costs end up being those services which are distributed for redundancy and geographical distance, such as DNS and caching CDNs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposure might cause suffocation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is identical to the pic, and comes in various different sizes: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/…/85791225.EJUG5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, those prices. Like, I wouldn’t be able to afford any package at even 10% the going rate.

  Anything available for the lone operator running a handful of Internet-addressable servers behind a single symmetrical SOHO connection? As in, anything for the other 95% of us that don’t have mountains of cash to burn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have high technology because we don’t have anything else to leverage.

  I suspect a world with strong magic is liable to leverage that to the exclusion of technology.

  A now-ended iseki story on Reddit’s HFY subreddit called “Wait, is this just GATE?” Asks the question of what would happen if a universe of only technology and no magic (ours) made contact with a universe of pretty much only magic and almost no technology beyond that found in the Middle Ages. It contains some tropes (used mainly as comedic relief or irony) and plenty of references to current magical-universe plot elements from games and novels, but is a surprisingly fresh and compelling examination of the cross-universe idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all of them. Sabatier (with the elephant mark) made a Bec Oiseau with a straight blade. It was marketed with that knife-type name in Canada, specifically through Lee Valley, for a good two-plus decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is one knife I find absolutely essential that is missing:

  Bec Oiseau. Sometimes also known as a sheep’s foot knife.

  It’s a paring knife, but one where the blade is absolutely straight and it’s the spine that curves over near the tip. It works far better than any curved paring knife at cutting apart small items in the hand, like fruits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is possible to be pro-Palestinian and anti-Hamas at the same time.

  Similarly, it is possible to be pro-Jewish and anti-Israel at the same time.

  They key is to be in favour of, and supporting, the innocent civilians that are not wielding hate and bigotry, and in direct and vociferous opposition to the power structures on BOTH sides that have looked true evil in the eye and said, “hold my beer and watch this”.

  I am as anti-Hamas as I am anti-Israel. Both power/political structures are among the most reprehensibly evil orgs on the planet at this time.

  I stand with the innocent civilians; with THE PEOPLE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends if I have my shower directly before going to bed. If so, it’s 20, otherwise 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew of an African-American named Le-a.

  Not spoken as “ley-ah”, but as “ledasha”.

  Because you are supposed to say the dash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • get a sniper rifle
  • train to take out targets at a large distance
  • know where and when ICE will be, especially where they will muster before one of their “raids”
  • in many cases, there will be little to no difference between ICE and LEO. Both are putting on brown shirts and violently attacking their own communities.

  Fascism can only be perpetuated when fascists do not fear being killed. If you are not with them, they will gladly kill you – it’s time you took steps to protect yourself and your community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s gone even further off the rez: “Tariff supporters are socialists”.

  Like, no. It’s the exact opposite.