rekabis

@rekabis@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish the people who did this were known so that we could make their ignorance Internet famous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ANYTHING cloud-connected - your doorbell, your security system, even your f**king post-2006 car - is suspect.

  And is highly likely to be actually spying on you.

  I’ve been working with computers since 1982, on the Internet since 1988, on the Web since 1992, and in the IT industry since 1997. The proportion of average people who don’t realize how much of their stuff is exposing them, and by how much, is frankly astounding. It’s almost 100% of normies. Even IT people who have no clue is in the majority. And the security on this stuff that tracks you tends to be - except in rare circumstances - absolute dogshite. Sometimes it comes without any security at all, such as all devices sold having admin credentials baked in, or all remote-access credentials being identical and non-user-editable.

  This is why almost all of my stuff is hardlined, I have no IoT devices at all, and the wifi for my family’s devices is physically separate from everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to know when the iOS app is coming out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is working exactly as intended, which is the reason why it needs to be totally dismantled.

  Note: I said capitalism, and not the free market. The two are not the same thing. You could have a completely free market under socialism and even communism, as those are economic systems that ensure workers actually earn the value they produce. Neither system says anything about command economies - that’s an Authoritarian shtick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm in!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was never about the 2^nd amendment. It was all about restricting gun ownership for “the ideologically wrong people”.

  Just look at how they came down on the Black Panthers in the 60s, and how “stand your ground” laws work in wildly disproportionate ways for only white cis people.

  It’s a racist and bigoted strategy that has absolutely nothing to do with “rights”, except for the selective restriction of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I develop software for a PowerPC?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has its original hard drive which still works

  For reliability you should really switch to an IDE SSD.

  Yes, they do exist. OWC sells them, albeit in laptop HDD size, so you will need an IDE adapter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses want AI because it solves what they perceive as a problem: how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour.

  Remember: AI is meant for wealth to access labour without cost, not for labour to access wealth. It’s a golden gate meant to permanently separate the wealthy from what used to be the working class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roller kit I have, and really need to install (paper pick-up is hit or miss these days), and I really do need a new fuser, too. But yes. These things are tanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 4050 has got type 27x toners that - IIRC - used to be advertised for 20,000 sheets at 5% coverage.

  Obviously, if you print out a lot of night sky photos that’s not going to hold up, but I’m on my third toner cartridge across half a century and two degrees. So there is that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are PCL6 drivers considered “legacy”?

  I have a HP Laserjet 4N, a HP LaserJet 4050DTN, and a LaserJet 5000DTN, all of which work swimmingly on standard PCL6 drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel sorry that Queensland has to suffer such stupid, pro-genocide politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck. You.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is good remote desktop software?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like RustDesk. If you’re worried about connectivity, you can even run your own relay server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You stopped a bit short on your delete spree I guess.

  No, that was just the first two steps. Just on the “rip shit out” category, I typically churn through at least three separate tools, usually in this order:

  • Win10Privacy
  • Win11Debloat
  • Winslop

  I mean, sure, Windows can take as little as a half hour to “install”. But on a personal rig (which also includes my own workflow software and personal data shoehorned back into place), I take another 24-48 hours to gleefully beat it into submission and install secondary programs that bypass the warts it has acquired over the years.

  And as a benchmark, XP needed only about 6-8hrs of extra work to reach the same threshold of data migration, workflow software, and improved usability (I was an NT fanboy, IMO the primary improvement of XP over 2000 was the start menu).

  If we add up the AI push, the spyware/telemetry explosion, the recent attempts to force the use of a Microsoft Account as the default login, and the massive bloating and instability of Windows in general, it’s slowly becoming time for even non-technical, everyday users to move to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just rebuilt my Win 11 Pro Workstation setup (yes, it is the version for stupidly high core and thread counts), and one of the first things I did was to bodily eviscerate anything AI in the system. Right after gleefully ripping out all the telemetry and spyware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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,

  1. We have whitelisted our IP address, and if dynamic, keep that whitelist updated
  2. 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  Relevant example

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooo… he works multiple part-time jobs?

  Weird how a forced technique of the ultra-poor is showing up here.