stoy
@stoy@lemmy.zip
- Comment on I can see the confusion tbh 1 week ago:
If I were the techer I would make any test have 68 possible points, just to annoy immature people…
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
I am currently in the final phase of building my first own built NAS.
(I have an oooooold Intel NAS, that I don’t really use anymore…)
I need to populate the case with storage drives, I need to add an Intel GPU, a 10gbit NIC, and possibly add an HBA to add two SSDs for VM storage.
Currently I have a:
- Jonsbo N4 case
- Asrock B550m Pro4
- AMD Ryzen 4600G
- 32GB RAM
- Kingston boot SSD
- Corsair SF750 PSU
I am running TrueNAS on it, that was just installed to make sure that it is working, but I am planning on running it going forward, as I am mostly looking to run the server as a filserver.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 weeks ago:
I am making a joke, not an argument.
This is a a shitposting community, stop taking it so seriously.
This is also just a meme, sure a meme that is accurate, but a meme none the less, it is not an article about climate change (which I have never held any doubt is real), if it had been and been posted in a serious community, I would not have made this joke.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 weeks ago:
They absolutely did, but they posted it in a shitpost community
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 weeks ago:
No sir, that is clearly a comment, sir
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 weeks ago:
Nope, we are in summer here, I guarantee it will be colder in the winter
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Spite is as good a reason as anything
- Comment on What if a billionaire wants to help you? 2 weeks ago:
They would have their people set up a trust fund for you, or they would have their people transfer the money to you.
This is not a problem you need to consider in this situation
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 3 weeks ago:
Stories posted on AskReddit when people are being asked about their jobs.
I don’t really use reddit at home anymore so I don’t have any exact links.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 3 weeks ago:
Based on the stories I have read some people are quite rude about asking for it.
Being able to deny rude people their request is a power play that customer service people can enjoy using.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 weeks ago:
I really can’t wait untill this AI chatbot shit dies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Man here, I just doublechecked my blocks, and sure enough, respectfully blocked.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 5 weeks ago:
Yeah?
This is what happens when system complexity grows unconstrained.
We may look at a piece of software and say, “right, this software is secure!”, but the clock has already started ticking toward the next vulnerability found.
This does not make the field of computing flawed, but rather the systems we run computing on is flawed.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 5 weeks ago:
That has not really anything to do with “computing”, which can be done regardless of what network is used or even without a network.
This also does not really affect weather or not cloud computing is flawed or not, since you can access the cloud without wireless connections.
This all being said, wireless networking is a big security problem, we have just collectively decided that the convenience is worth it.
- Comment on Zelensky hopes US will buy up to $30 billion worth of Ukrainian drones 5 weeks ago:
At best they will buy some for a testing program, reverse engineer the tech and develop new US models with very similar capabillities.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 5 weeks ago:
What? Computing in general is not flawed.
Cloud computing from a data security standpoint has some huge and I would say, unacceptable, flaws though.
- Comment on Do you think GOG might be the next? 5 weeks ago:
When my bank provides me with a realistic European alternative to MC or Visa, I will gladly take that!
- Comment on Do you think GOG might be the next? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t actually understand why payment processors are whining about what people buy using their service.
It’s not like people will go
“Ew, MasterCard, people buy porn with that payment processor, I don’t want a card like that!”
- Comment on When this post is 10 minutes old it's time to start!!! 5 weeks ago:
I was out driving an hour ago, and as the responsible driver I am I waited to check lemmy until I was sitting on the toilet at home.
So, no honk from me!
- Comment on So that's how they filmed it 1 month ago:
If this is real, that is damn cool!
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
I have said it before and I’ll say it again.
Adblockers are a critical part of any modern computer’s security suit, and everyone should use them.
I won’t even consider removing mine unless the owners of a site with ads take full responsibility for any dammage to my computer coming from visiting their site with out an adblocker.
This is due to the fact that ads can be hijacked and infect your computer with malware just by accessing the site.
I have also experienced my browser being hijacked by clicking a link that was compromized, it redirected my browser in a loop, then opened a javascript password popup box that took all focus from the browser window and refused to go away, while the page below displayed a message that I needed to call tech support.
It was very annoying to resolve, Firefox would by default restore any pages that was open in a tab if the browser crashed, and since the password prompt was stealing focus from the browser window, I had to kill it through the Task manager, which restored the page on start up…
I had to create a new profile, then it it solved it
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 1 month ago:
Yeap, CCs are mostly BS.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 1 month ago:
Some poop releases methane, a much worse greenhouse gas than Co2.
Fun fact, when striking oil, you often encounter methane pockets as well, the gas is commonly just burned in a giant flare, this is mainly done for safety, to prevent gas from accumulating on the ground and risking an explosion, but also far reduce the greenhouse effect of the gas.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 month ago:
The main problem with NK is the lack of trust and respect between them and the rest of the world, they don’t respect the rules of other nations (look at the NK kidnappings of Japanese citizens), this makes it very difficult to deal with them.
So trust and respect needs to be built up from the ground up.
As it stands now, even small lifted sanctions should be expected to be exploited by NK.
To start work to handle NK, the world could start by involving NK in talks, generic talks, acknowledging their existence outside of just conflicts and mandatory communications.
Talking will lead to better understanding which we can use to slowly try and lift some sanctions, and working from that angle.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 1 month ago:
Hehe, I was really sad when it happened, but it was more than a decade ago (:
I then ran a Nokia 300/Nokia E72 combo doe a while, and then a Nokia E72 for a few years untill I got an iPhone 5S
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 1 month ago:
I used my first paycheck to buy myself an E7, less than a year later it was stolen ):
It was a gorgeous phone but DAMN slippery!
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 1 month ago:
The 5800 was a nice phone, but for me the king of Symbian phones was the E7, I am still pissed mine got stolen ):
Loved the fold out keyboard, it made the phone absolutely amazing, I remember running Putty Touch on my E7, sshing into a friend’s server to access irssi
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 month ago:
CSVs are a common format to share data
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 month ago:
I fell asleep a few times while writing the pervious comment, so if it seems cut off, that is why.
Now, there are a few more things to talk about.
- What is more likely with regards to real change, military action by a foreign power, political collapse, or a gradual change?
- What will have to be done after thing have changed?
Lets start with 1 first:
I think we can rule out direct military action by a foreign power, any action will see Seoul in SK destroyed within a day, and even Japan is at a high risk here.
Political collapse is possible, but not realistic to happen in the current situation, remember that the government has an extreme level of control over the media in NK, this includes extreme control over the smartphones sold in NK, everything you do is monitored, any photo you take with the camera is cryptographically signed on the device so the government knows the origin of any photo spread around in NK, you can see more here: youtu.be/czJaA0S2AjE . With this level of control of the media, the regime will probably not fall soon.
Gradual change is the most probable, but will take a long time, people in SK do send baloons with USB sticks containing SK media, so people in NK are somewhat aware of life in SK. But as I noted earlier this will take a long time.
Ok lets move on to number 2, what would happen after a collapse of the NK government.
The most probable thing is that China will come and run NK as a kind of colony, NK lacks a LOT of modern infrastructure, and the citizens will be at extreme risk of exploitation.
Whoever colonized NK would face the daunting challenge of integrating 26 million people into a modern society, meanwhile other groups will try to exploit the cheap labour NK citizens can provide.
Bringing NK citizens into modern society with zero oversight will end in disaster, look at Albania as a warning, there was little knowledge of financial scams in the times after communism and several pyramid schemes was established and later collapsed, wiping out 50% of the GDP of Albania at the time and contributed in large parts to the 1997 Albanian rebellion.
Teaching the NK citizens about the dangers and advantages of modern society will take a long time, it will involve a lot of shattered illusions, plenty of people will want to go back their old ways, other’s will want to go full steam ahead, making their own paths without help.
This is just a small taste of the issues to come…
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 month ago:
Ah, the old question about what to do about North Korea, it occupies the minds of many, there are some answers, many lead to more questions, and so on.
The stakes are increadibly high, so we have to tread very carefully.
Let’s bring up a few key facts.
- NK is a totalitarian state with a huge personality cult surrounding the Kim family.
- NK is supported by both China and Russia, they both have a highly vested interest in keeping the status quo.
- NK is located within artillery range of SK’s capital city, Seoul.
- NK’s society is vastly different from all of it’s neighbours, even the language used in NK is noticably different from the language spoken in SK.
- NK has nuclear weapons.
- NK does not have a problem ignoring the normal rules of diplomacy.
Now, you ask what other countries can do to help the people of NK, that is a hugely complicated question, which in general is mostly answered with an answer no one really wants to hear:
Support the current regime
For any proper aid to get into NK you need the support of the regime, and they will take the credit for the aid.
I saw a documentary of a film crew following a team of surgeons travelling to NK to help people who had lost their sight, it was a simple operation, preformed and funded by foreign organizations, the regime had only allowed the team access.
The operation took maybe a few min per patient, they replaced a lens in the eyes of the patient, and as soon as the patient was done, they rushed to the portraits of the leaders of NK, got on their knees and thanked them deeply for their graciousness of restoring their eyesight.
This is the kind of society NK is, everything is tied to the leader.
This is the starting point, and you have 26 million people to deal with…
Ok, say that a world power decide that they have had enough with the Kim family and this is worth going to war over.
What can we expect?
Regardless of what countries are involved, Seoul WILL be bombarded.
So now the attacker is hated both in NK and SK as well as probably a lot of other countries.
NK will use their nukes, and possibly other WMD they have.
Then comes China…
China loves NK as a buffer against the west, so they would and have deployed the PLA to save NK.