rekabis

@rekabis@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants scream when eaten:

  • sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-out-loud…
  • science.howstuffworks.com/…/plants-feel-pain.htm
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… am strangely ambivalent and conflicted about soup.

  I recognize logically and rationally that it should be lower or to the left, but would personally place it higher or to the right.

  Maybe smack dab in the centre gives us the worst of both options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculus made easy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calculus was never an issue for me. I could do double-integral calculus in my head clear into my forties. I’ve just gotten rusty since then, likely with a spot of practice I could pull off that party trick again.

  No, the only part of math that ever struck fear into my heart was trigonometry. Sin, cos, tan, that kind of stuff. For some reason I have never been able to grok, on a fundamental level, the basics of trig. I understand things on a high/intellectual level, just not on an instinctual level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to take pride in that I could fully set up, configure, secure, minimally provision (with software) and neuter the more egregious aspects of Vista/7/8/8.1 within a 16hr time frame.

  With Windows 10 this increased to 20 hours, and with my own Windows 11 install I am currently clocking in at 24hrs - three whole work days. The last day of which is spent in the Registry and doing multiple reboots to ensure the new UI fuckery has been appropriately castrated.

  I have a handful of programs, both current and vintage, that are either inadequately or completely unable to be serviced by Wine. With that said, I am now down to only two rigs on Windows, the remainder being various flavours of Linux or BSD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are in the middle of a frame-off gut of a home, as I currently am, much of this is trivial to implement.

  Even my parent’s 1978 home, with it’s drop ceiling in the basement, would not make most of this all that much more difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why hardlining is still by far the best option available.

  1. Hardlined cameras need to be physically accessed and the cables snipped in order to disrupt them, and most cameras offering hardlining now feed Ethernet through their bases, providing additional protection.
  2. Most sub-20 camera systems can run for up to an hour or two on a 500VA UPS, and up to a week or more with PowerWall backups, defeating intentional power outages.
  3. A fully airgapped system can defeat any sort of direct Internet intrusion.
  4. Shielded Ethernet can help protect from crosstalk attacks provided they are correctly grounded with the appropriate switches.
  5. Hardware auth between cameras and the DVR can help defend against direct attacks via an unplugged cable or an open wall jack, in that only approved hardware can make the needed connections with either end.
  6. Encrypted communications between cameras and DVR can enhance the security of data across the wire.
  7. A brace of identical dummy cameras - similarly powered, if they have external indicators - alongside real ones will waste the time and effort of attackers who conduct physical attacks, while keeping recording-infrastructure needs to a minimum.
  8. Bonus if identical but “dark” Ethernet is similarly spoofed throughout the building, as not only will it confuse physical attackers, but it’ll also be already in-place for future communications-infrastructure improvements.
  9. DVR needs to be in a secured location, ideally fireproof. In combination with № 7 and № 8, a dummy DVR (with live screens showing actual content) can exist elsewhere to distract any physical attackers.

  Sure, this list isn’t 100% coverage, but it gets you nearly there with a minimum of effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this as a delightful and very apropos revenge against how they treated Azer Koçulu for his use of kik as a package name.

  Any truly fair system would have a “you used it legitimately first, you can have it” system.

  You want to centralize control, and kick small devs in the teeth? Enjoy the fallout, f**kers.