Deebster

@Deebster@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call me...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I think of when I hear The name Daddy Longlegs. Wikipedia tells me that they’re called “Jenny long legs” in Scotland and Pilib an Gheataire (“Skinny Philip”) in Irish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some images are broken⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another example is on this comment: infosec.pub/comment/17573592

  The image is infosec.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2F… (Image) and instead of an image it says {“code”:“validate-width”,“msg”:“Too wide”}

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that the little extra work to have separate services is a small price to pay to have the kind of top notch user experience that you can only get with a dedicated tool.

  Besides, it’s cool to have a load of different services. Most self-hosters seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next thing to install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A great read, thanks. I think you have posted this as a full post to this sub (perhaps repost it on a quiet day).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But we’re talking about Lego, which is from Denmark. Correcting the quote is at expanse of the joke/relevance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just bought the Legendary Edition on Steam for now much at all, cheers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not e-ink though, which was one of the defining features of a Pebble (and why the battery life was so good). Also, the Pebble guy is back with some new Pebbles: repebble.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don’t want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whereas I just assumed it was suggesting that the parent comment also was in the awful social skills group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a more beautiful looking game than I expect from retro graphics. A good write up, thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3121: Kite Incident⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think OP means it’s above on a map, i.e. north, like how the Mediterranean is above Africa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that PSU is larger than necessary for running a PC with a single graphics card - I haven’t done the maths but it’s probably comfortably under 850W (a common PSU size).

  The memory is huge but fractionally “slow” at CL32 - I’d say 32GB of CAS latency 30 memory would make more sense (or even CL28). With such premium kit, you might even be able to use DDR5-6400 (running at 1:1 mode).

  It’s a huge price though - a really good PC should cost about a half of that (or even a third depending on your local prices), those components are in the “money’s no object” end of the range. It does match what you asked for, so if you don’t mind the price it’s a solid build using all of the latest and greatest speeds and versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a utopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I say accept, I don’t mean live in denial, I mean acquiesce. I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.

  I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I’m on cameras, but I’m not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming this is a young group, and they’ve grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.

  I’ve met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We spoke with one of the founders of DICE about their first game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was Pinball Dreams from the thumbnail, I loved that game! I played it to death on the Amiga. And Pinball Fantasies too, but I don’t recognise the name Pinball Illusions.

  We knew that the game was going to be cracked, given that we ourselves did some cracking and distributing of cracked copies. So was not really a big thing, but we did put in some crack detections that altered some of the scoring and ball physics in later games, that was never fixed by the crackers so they played worse than if you owned the original game.

  That’s quite funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks after sex with thousands of videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the BBC reworded this title, I assume so that my fellow readers don’t also get confused about this woman that had sex with thousands… of videos‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I’m from it’s spelt centring, but I think Randall’s referring to “doanate”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When tech hardware becomes paperweights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses like having an app on your phone because they can update it to fix bugs, add features, track your activity and send you notifications/ads when they have something new to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of this is paving the cowpath - the animated PNG stuff is 20 years old and e.g. Firefox has had support since March 2007.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.

  * surely that’s easy, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the [ and ]() around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: arstechnica.com/…/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudfl…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems reasonable given that space the atmosphere is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Randall is alive! I kept thinking my bot had broken as it’s so rare for him to miss an upload.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look, I just really don't like working with soil in my apartment [DWC with Caladium, Tradescantia, Hawaiian "Ti"]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of hydro since watering plants is a bit of a dark art (your plant is unhealthy often means you’re watering too much or not enough).

  I had to look up DWC (Deep Water Culture) and the page was talking about fast growth as one of the benefits. If you’re not growing crops, I can see that being bit undesirable - have you noticed high growth levels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP’s link is just an incomplete summary of the real article

  That source post has this Bluesky quote:

  Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored and verified

  Also, that it would have been heavily flagged by users was probably part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3104: Tukey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of Charles Babbage’s response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:

  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  I’ve been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.