rekabis
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- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 days ago:
Dammit. I’ve had an LG plasma for the last 15, and it looks like I’ll have to get that Sony well before I’m ready for it.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 6 days ago:
Why… why would hard drives be going up in price?? AI does not use spinning platters of rust, like, at all.
- Comment on Why isn't using a key file the most common way to log into self-hosted servers? 6 days ago:
For many places, it’s operational inertia. If you’ve had a hosting account at the same place since 1998, you’re bound to still have username/password access to services like FTP even though other (and better) options exist.
And then there is the issue of sole control. Many greybeards like myself still run traditional username/password auth on services because,
- We have whitelisted our IP address, and if dynamic, keep that whitelist updated
- That outside of said whitelisting, the service is a quasi-honeypot meant to protect the machine as a whole. Any connection made from outside the address space of my ISP, by anyone else, is by default considered malicious, and is banned instantly as a precaution. They don’t even get the opportunity to attempt a login; merely connecting to said service is sufficient evidence of hostile intent.
So while my setup is not ideal, it is ideal for myself. if I had anyone else as co-admin, or even clients, things would get stupidly complicated very quickly. But since it’s just me…
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 6 days ago:
REPRESENT.
Even in Canada I grew up with non-American time, thanks to German parents, and knew of AM/PM only via analog clocks and use outside of the home. I remember confusing the heck out of an elementary school teacher by giving an afternoon/evening time in proper units. She had to do the math (calculators still being hella rare in those days) to convert out of PM in order to see if I was correct or not.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 week ago:
…The fuck?
Is Tim Sweeney legitimately outing himself as a pedophile? Does the Parasite Class really feel so comfortable and immune from consequences that they can openly advocate for pedophilia?
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 2 weeks ago:
I mean, when the crime is going to happen regardless…
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
My statement has two interpretations, yours is the one that most people just don’t cotton onto.
Honestly, “running away” is the best possible solution in most any conflict. And when the bullets are flying, you want your opponent to duck and cover just long enough for you to skedaddle and get out of range or into an escape route out of the fire line. Hell, in that circumstance blanks would be sufficient to get that job done.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
I have always been of the opinion that if you cannot solve a violent/dangerous situation with six or less bullets, it is vanishingly unlikely that anything will materially change in your favour if you had more.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 weeks ago:
Why buy a new car? It would be cheaper to build your own car at this point.
Edison Motors (in British Columbia, Canada) can do a full EV conversion on any pre-1995 vehicle (few complex electronics that require futzing with) for $15k-$50k CAD depending on the type of vehicle and its power requirements.
Pick up a late-80s Type II VW Jetta and it’s likely to be at that lower end.
Pick up a late-70s dent side Ford F-350 dually, and it’s likely to be closer to that upper end.
Still, you’re looking at half to a quarter of what a new vehicle costs.
- Comment on No contest 3 weeks ago:
Technically the Falcon is much more like an 18-wheeler than a van. It is a cargo pusher/hauler, by design.
But still, the comparison is apt.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 4 weeks ago:
But to truly beat the house you need to find that one ATM which has a transaction flaw where you can withdraw your entire balance but the withdrawal does not get recorded anywhere, and for extra measure nothing about the transaction gets recorded so they don’t even know it was you who accessed that ATM.
Fun fact: there have been a few such cases of ATM flaws in the last few decades, either time-limited to a specific period (the hour after midnight, for example) or transaction-limited to a specific type.
- Comment on better look at it 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes.
If there was an atmosphere to carry the sound, the sun would be screaming at us at just over 100db.
For reference, sounds at 85db can start causing hearing damage after only 8hrs of exposure.
- Comment on better look at it 5 weeks ago:
It’s not that we’re not allowed to look at it, it’s that we have oodles of evidence on how severely damaged our vision becomes when we do look directly at it without sufficient protection, and anyone with two functional neurons to rub together isn’t going to be doing any looking unless they are wearing the appropriate vision protection.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 5 weeks ago:
Have you ever heard Scottish person speak?
Like, seriously nards-deep into full Scottish brogue? It’s like a language that bears zero resemblance to the English language.
Although TBH, have a pretty readheaded lass talk to me in Scottish, and fuck me she could read the phone book and I wouldn’t give a shit I’d just be sitting there catching flies trying to soak it all in.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Sooo… he works multiple part-time jobs?
Weird how a forced technique of the ultra-poor is showing up here.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 1 month ago:
And this is why I will never own a vehicle manufactured after 2006.
I have just too little control with newer vehicles, be it having to auth with the mothership with every repair I do at home just to get it to start up, or even failing to start up in the first place when the mothership could not be contacted.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
I start off with Win10Privacy (which also cleans 11) and then follow up with Win11Debloat. The two work pretty well.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
And Microsoft is stuffing AI straight into Windows.
Betchya dollars to fines that this will happen a lot more frequently as normal users begin to try to use Copilot.
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 1 month ago:
That’s what I am saving up for, actually. The numbers of surplussed high-end compute just in my sparsely populated region could probably let me open my own datacentre.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 1 month ago:
I am sometimes forced to wear size 11 shoes, despite having 9½ feet, because so few manufacturers put out 9½ size shoes in an EEEE (quintuple wide) or oversized EEE (quadruple wide) width.
At least a size 11 in a W (wide) is comfortable enough for me, and most shoes come in at least a wide.
I think out of all the shoes I have ever bought, only two styles in 40 years have been wide enough to allow me to wear a 9½. I recently found that second style in a work boot that was being surplussed and no longer being produced, with the marketing that it was wide enough for any foot. Once I confirmed the comfort, I immediately bought three more pairs for a lifetime supply. That brand was Terra. Highly recommend, they’re fucking awesome work boots.
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 1 month ago:
OpenBSD does not have a docker engine. Can this be installed without docker?
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 months ago:
There is only
ownershipparasites and labour.FTFY. You’re welcome.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…
Oh.
Oh, Myyyyyy…
- Comment on Learning to drive 2 months ago:
Yes,because dad cool, mom uncool.
Funny sexism from the 50s.
Or maybe mom responsible adult, dad irresponsible man-child?
It’s the funny anti-male gender bigotry of this century.
And I don’t think great-grandpa could make a meme like this, so your characterization is probably going to be the much less likely source.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 months ago:
Just don’t take away passwords + TOTP 2FA for those of us who are actually using it correctly.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 2 months ago:
The FBI is probably going nuts here because someone inadvertently archived the Epstein files and everyone at HQ is panicking. They need to purge it for the Internet before someone discovers that archived content, and so they’re using CP as an excuse.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 months ago:
everyone can see the AI BS right out in the open
To me it is four things in particular:
- How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, from software developers to radiologists.
- How AI use shuts down critical thinking, and makes users more stupid. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been clearly demonstrated by MRI scans of the prefrontal cortex.
- How AI use makes the user slower. This is the only user point that is not 100%, as only less than 2% of the most senior and skilled users show a slight increase in work completed… after more than 12 months of using AI. Projections have been made on the other 98%, and over 90% of them will never work faster with AI than without it, regardless of training or experience.
- The gratuitous hallucinations, which are only increasing in scope and severity with every AI generation. It arises entirely from the constraints the AI are rewarded with - providing no answer is weighted just as negatively as a wrong answer - and anywhere from 60-80% of all responses are hallucinatory in some fashion, depending on the current model.
In prior generations, any industry with such performance would be laughed clear out of the boardroom.
But because capitalism is desperately seeking a solution to what they perceive as a problem - how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour - AI is being adopted hand-over-fist.
After all, the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
Both platforms have problems, and some of those problems are big ones, but Google’s actions with the Play Store makes Apple’s shenanigans look like that of a choir boy or Boy Scout:
howtogeek.com/how-google-tracks-and-scans-everyth…
I have no clue how this doesn’t creep everyone right TF out.
And saying “I have nothing to hide” is the answer of cultivated ignorance:
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 months ago:
This looks small enough to be installed within the wheel hub itself. Imagine a car with four motors, one inside each wheel. The entire floor pan could just be one thin battery, and everything above it could be passenger and storage space.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
The irony being that putting all of a user’s eggs in one basket makes things far riskier for the user, and not less.