rekabis

@rekabis@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, most definitely. Used it nearly every day.

  I have used the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase, and heritage, for nearly a third of a century, now.

  NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape -> Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

  I now hew more to alternates such as LibreWolf and Floorp, but I still run Firefox EME-Free as my default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the rest of NATO should eagerly take him up on his offer… sans the resignation. Because Ukraine needs Zelenskyy at this point.

  That alone would enrage Putin and his KGB puppet currently sitting in the Oval Office.

  And then the rest of NATO can go completely weapons-free at Russia and Belarus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does this not flagrantly violate the First Amendment?

  I mean, besides the fact that Trump has dismembered the rule of law and has rendered the constitution unenforceable and irrelevant - we should still be holding the government to account as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Canada might need these sooner rather than later.

  With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.

  And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.

  Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The rectum is considerably larger than your mouth, and can hold a lot more shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people were never meant to operate machinery of any kind, much less machines physically larger than they are.

  Like, don’t even let this person touch a lawnmower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then how about we simply eradicate all the Israeli invaders?

  It’s an exceedingly simple solution - if we remove the settlers that are killing off the native peoples and stealing their land, there would be no more conflict!

  Or are you more in favour of killing off the rightful Palestinian land owners instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider that causing harm.
  but I still don’t give moral consideration to plants in either case.

  So you are species bigot, and a hypocrite for refusing to take the ideology to it’s logical conclusion.

  Cool beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants scream when eaten:

  • sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-out-loud…
  • science.howstuffworks.com/…/plants-feel-pain.htm
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any that’s the hypocrisy of Vegans. Milk and honey are the only two animal-based food sources that don’t involve the killing of animals. And in the case of most cow breeds, milking is actually needed as they have been bred to produce far more milk than their calves drink. And with careful management of the hive, you can harvest a lot of honey from a mature hive without negatively affecting the hive itself - it just delays/defers new queen production and swarming, which is desirable anyhow - no beekeeper who has hives primarily for crop pollination wants to have hives swarming each and every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Lays Off Hundreds of Staff—to Replace Them With AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. That platform is gonna end up being a dumpster fire a lot quicker than it already is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hardly consider that pricing insane. Consumer TVs are massively subsidized by the smart tech built into them, in some cases by up to 60%. Considering the more robust construction (for commercial use) and lack of subsidization, I would consider those prices to be spot-on and rather reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of companies make display TVs that only display commercial content. You see them all the time displaying menus in fast food restaurants.

  These can also have all smart tech turned off because some companies also use them as digital whiteboards to display proprietary or confidential information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of capitalism. Because all content must drive quarterly profit ever-higher.

  Meanwhile, public broadcasting (PBS) is still putting out great content for families regardless of profitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I put that term in quotes, and was specific about default networking interfaces. I didn’t go into detail because that confuses a lot of people.

  Source: working with wireless networks professionally for pretty much the last quarter century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sailors on the ship then began finding the STINKY network and asking questions about it.

  Oh, c’mon. it is trivial to make an SSID “hidden” for any networking tech that you have administrative control over. That way, only those “in the know” will know the SSID name to type in, in order to access said wireless network. It would not be “discoverable” by standard wireless-connectivity gear such as the default wifi interface in mobile phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any brands protected by American law must be independently-owned, with full transfer of all branding, patents, trade secrets, intellectual assets and physical assets.

  So, for example, for even a single bottle of Perrier to be sold in America, it needs to have been made by a company registered with the brand name of Perrier, with exclusive use of that name within the country, independently owned and under zero control by Nestle, being manufactured using the exact same process with the exact same ingredients, and having control of the exact same patents and American-side infrastructure.

  America is such a large marketplace that it would be impossible to split a company like this. Patents alone would prevent this, forcing Nestle to divest themselves of each individual subsidiary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Separate the search engine from anything that stinks of advertising so it can return to what it’s supposed to do: return the most relevant results.

  Because even appending udm=14 only gets rid of promoted links and in-page advertising, it does f**k-all to correct manipulated search results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carebear countdown⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  where they help young adults and millennials deal with feelings of depression, disillusionment, and cynicism?

  You mean by eradicating the Parasite Class, dismantling vampire/vulture Capitalism, crashing the housing market by 75+%, and closing the wealth gap, thereby giving them a future that is not only affordable but also worth living and striving for?

  That sounds absolutely wonderful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s normally 14C indoors at night.

  I live in Canada, and I am massively heat intolerant. I also suffer from hyperhydrosis, where any temp over 26℃ eventually makes me look like a drowned rat. Like, literally. You put me in a room at 28-30℃ and within about 10 minutes of not moving a muscle my entire face is beading off sweat like someone just dumped a bucket of water over my head, and my shirt is soaked right through.

  14℃ is the lower limit for shorts-and-t-shirt temps for me, and represents the ideal shirt-and-tie office temp. It’s also the best temp for heavy physical labour with my shirt off, as sweat can actually have a chance of evaporating faster than I produce it, especially with some sort of a brisk wind. Sweater or business jacket temps start at 6-8℃, and it is only with a cold, super-moist wind that I throw on any kind of a winter jacket above 4℃.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is better for my network, an extender or another router?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His router is tri-band though meaning it has 2 5ghz transceivers.

  Unfortunately, for many models - like the Linksys WRT 3200ACM - that second antenna (technically the third one) doesn’t function at all without the manufacturer’s firmware. It’s a dead stick with any third-party firmware, and is 100% software-enabled.

  I have found this fact to be reliable whether it is DD-WRT or OpenWRT, and across several different manufacturers including Asus and D-Link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes the built-in database easier to attack than a separate one?

  For performance reasons, early versions weren’t even encrypted, and later versions were encrypted with easily-cracked encryption. Most malware broke the encryption on the password DB using the user’s own hardware resources before it was even uploaded to the mothership. And not everyone has skookum GPUs, so that bit was particularly damning.

  Modern password managers like BitWarden can be configured with truly crazy levels of encryption, such that it would be very difficult for even nation-states to break into a backed-up or offline vault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use ButWarden myself for a login-only subset of my KeePass content. I absolutely recommend it every chance I get, but some people prefer 1Password because reasons. And 1Password is pretty much the best closed-source option out there, which is why I do so… anything to give people options that keep them away from clusterf**ks like LastPass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have that as an offline DB. Holds 100% of all creds that can go offline (no 2FA, unfortunately) and a bunch of extra stuff that most other managers aren’t flexible enough to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No-one should be using any password manager built into any browser, neither Chromium-based nor Firefox-based. Browser password databases are almost trivially easy for malware to harvest.

  Go with something external, BitWarden or 1Password, or if you are entirely within the Apple ecosystem their new password system built into iOS 18 is apparently really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. As much as I love to be accurate and pedantic, even I don’t touch this subject with a dirty barge pole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the aims of Project 2025, this may end up being illegal within the next four years.

  Best to pass this info on to any pre-menopausal women that you know of out there. Having tubes tied still allows eggs to be harvested, it just prevents the sperm from reaching said egg outside of a test tube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Find a pair of vehicle radiators that are as close to a box fan in size as possible.
  2. Zip tie them to either side of the box fan. As the fan blows: it will draw air in through the “second radiator” and blow it out through the “first radiator”.
  3. Hook the out of the first radiator to the in of the second using flexible hoses. Cheap garden hoses might even fit.
  4. Hook other hoses to the in of the first radiator and the out of the second.
  5. Run water on through the first radiator, out of the second. This makes the most efficient heat transfer possible.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hardly an electrician and even I know to have some sort of a cutoff switch that can isolate the home if I want to power it separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of your body’s mass does not have a human genome, it represents other living things existing in symbiosis with your body. And your digestive tract is nearly 100% reliant on these microbiota to break down food and provide it to the small intestine. If you don’t have the right mix/balance or you have too many of the wrong species, you can suffer extremely deleterious health effects. If you have none at all, you starve pretty quickly regardless of how much food you eat.

  Fun facts:

  1. Almost all of your excrement that isn’t visible remnants of unchewed food are the remains of gut bacteria that died.
  2. Scientists have recently confirmed that your appendix acts as a “safe room” for your good, beneficial gut biome to retreat to when the rest of the intestinal tract is suffering from catastrophic environmental issues or another bug is running rampant and dominating in a destructive manner. Once things calm down, the intestines are re-colonized by good bacteria from the appendix.