DreamlandLividity
@DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 day ago:
Encrypted. Was a whole thing to recover the keys from a damaged board, only to find old videos and photos from previous dives.
Apparently they were streaming the video to the inside of the sub, so it wasn’t saved to that card.
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 2 weeks ago:
🤣
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
I want a lot of things that I can’t have. They can want it, but the system doesn’t have to allow it or can discourage it.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know in what context this parable is used in the book, but this does not explain the need for growth in reality. It does not even show why you would need growth in the parable. No matter how many chickens or how much wheat the village produces, there still wouldn’t be more tokens.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
Well, partially maybe. In the past, investors were happy with dividends instead of growth. There are extra factors making growth be preferable over dividends.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
I think your are confusing company growth and prices growing, mixing them together.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
no. You can pay interest out of your profits. And many businesses don’t have significant loans.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
There are many answers to this.
First, this is not a general capitalism thing. It is more the specific flavor we have.
The original idea of capital investment is that when you need investment for your company (e.g. to buy better machines, expand production, etc.) you let people invest (by buying shares) and then give them a portion of the profits gained from that investment (in the form of dividends).
However, most companies have figured out that if they don’t pay dividends but re-invest the money, shareholders are still happy because their shares get more valuable as the company grows and they get to grow the company, which is good for CEO paychecks.
There are also things like economies of scale (if you produce million units of something per year, it is almost always cheaper per unit than if you produce ten per year). So if you don’t grow, your competitor that does grow could sell cheaper than you and put you out of business.
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 2 weeks ago:
Care to elaborate?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
So what is the case for most users? Are normal android phones getting compromised often enough it is an issue?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was the one mentioning QubesOS. Since I they it and didn’t last a week because of how bad the user experience was. I am not a CIA spy, I am looking for a balance of security and usability and android is amazing at that. Sure, some things could be more secure. Sure, I can’t do some things because GrapheneOS can’t be rooted. But the balance is excelent.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
Well, yes. But then again, I would trust my GrapheneOS phone not getting compromised over 3 linux devices.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
The security I am talking about has nothing to do with being locked down. Linux could easily implement the same, but it probably never will, because it requires a bit of central management and vision.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
I am not saying android is perfect, but too granular is also bad. I have better things to do then tweaking SELinux policies.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
Not for me, no. I love the sandboxing and permissions of android (GrapheneOS). Honestly, desktop OSs should learn from it. Also, android is a lot easier to use, especially on small form factor devices.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
Your phone has likely much better security for your banking apps than your computer, unless you run really niche setup like QubesOS.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 3 weeks ago:
Trepang2 still has you killing guards like a monster, but adds a fear mechanic to the enemies. Makes you really realize you are a monster.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 3 weeks ago:
If this is really just 4th instance this year, then it would be significantly cheaper to just reimburse the ~120k then to do what you are suggesting.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 3 weeks ago:
And I don’t get the mindset of large company should do things for free. Valve is using the 30% to run stem workshop, make games playable on steam, creating the steam framework for games, and more. If they invest massive effort into some analysis stuff, either they increases prices or cut something else they are doing.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 3 weeks ago:
Well, I just disagree with you. They are a distribution company, not a security company. I don’t see this as their job and I am not willing to pay more for games to have some far from perfect behavior scanning.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 3 weeks ago:
There are so many ways to bypass what you describe, in addition to it not working for games with kernel anti-cheat etc.
The real issue is all desktop OSes deciding everything should be allowed to access everything. Why is a game able to access your crypto wallet by default, without any permission required? This has been solved on phones for years.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 4 weeks ago:
Again, yes and no. While you are right pretty much every larger website will use a cache server in some way (at least in form of a CDN), cache servers really don’t help you in any way for things like a customer canceling their subscription, which is what this post is about. That is all back-end work. Yes, those are probably those app specifics you mention but glossing over them misses the point why solving this is not as easy as enabling auto-scaleing.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 4 weeks ago:
That entirely depends on your application. What you described is one possible approach, that will only work in specific circumstances.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 4 weeks ago:
I am not sure what you are trying to say?
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 4 weeks ago:
If your page is just static, e.g. no login, no interaction, everyone always sees the same thing then it scales easily. Scaling means you copy the site to more servers. Now imagine a user adds a comment. Now you need to add the comment to every copy of your site, so a comment creates more work the more servers you use. And this is where scaling becomes a complex science, that you need to manually prepare for as a software developer.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but it is a lot more conspicuous. If someone sees you picking a lock, they may report you. If they see you using a key, they will likely think nothing of it.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 4 weeks ago:
PSA: Don’t ever upload photos of your keys. A key is just a PIN, where the height of each tooth is a digit of the PIN. So if you share a photo of your key, you are sharing the PIN and anyone can create a copy of your key.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I thought it actually may be a rare Reddit W for 2 minutes, until I saw reddit admins will grant exceptions. So likely, mods that push reddits agendas will stay while the uncooperative onse will have to go.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 weeks ago:
Sure. But there is only so much effort countering this baseless fear mongering deserves, and this study may already more than that.
The fear mongering doesn’t end. Violent movies cause violent behavior. Not hey don’t. Violent movies cause violent behavior. No they don’t, actually research show gamers are less aggressive. Now it’s sexualized games that cause issues. And every time, they don’t even really care about the research anyway.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know anything about other STEM fields or other countries, but where I live, most sw engineering courses don’t have above 5%.
But yeah, dismiss reality with the “dog whistles”! “All the dog whistles!” And then act surprised when no one outside your echo chamber takes you seriously.